HIST 452
Women in America, 1620-1865 Spring 2014
Division II
Cross-listed WGSS 452
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This course will explore the diversity of American women’s experiences from the colonial era through the Civil War. We will pay particular attention to the roles women filled–as slaves, nuns, housewives, mothers, and workers, as well as depictions of women as witches, paragons of virtue, and urban consumers. In our reading of historiography and primary texts we will analyze the ways in which literacy and artistic culture as well as geopolitical events shaped women’s lives. As we study works of history, we will also read modern works of feminist and race theory to further our understanding of connections between ideology and practice, between narrative and argument.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 15
Expected: 10-15
Class#: 3754
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: a research paper (20-25 pages), based on reading and analysis of a set of primary sources, a literature review, class participation, and an informal reading journal
Prerequisites: none
Enrollment Preferences: advanced History majors and to Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies majors
Distributions: Division II
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
HIST 452 Division II WGSS 452 Division II
Attributes: HIST Group F Electives - U.S. + Canada
HIST Group G Electives - Global History

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