Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: U.S. WOMEN'S HISTORY II: CIVIL WAR TO THE PRESENT ***** DISTRIBUTION COURSE GROUP 2 ***** Continuation of WGST 234. This survey of American women's history examines the ways that diverse groups of women-including black, Asian-American, Chicana, native American, and white women of the elite, middle, and working classes- have experienced, forged, and clashed in the related projects of defining American culture, democracy, and freedom. Readings emphasize women's engagement in organized struggles for economic, political, and social justice including suffrage, anti-lynching, welfare, birth control, and the modern civil rights and feminist movements. Offered with additional work as WGST 382. ***** Also offered as HIST 242.