3-3-0

This course focuses on the experience of women from colonial times to the adoption of the 19th Amendment in 1920. Drawing on the growing literature on Women's History and recent scholarship on gender, sexuality, and race, students will explore the conditions and challenges women faced during the Revolutionary Era through to the nineteenth century. The course will examine changing perceptions of gender, women's roles in the public and private spheres, female education and work experience, and the impacts of the Revolution, Civil War, and World War I on women. Slavery and women's demand for the franchise will also be discussed.