Course Catalog - 2003-2004

     

WGST 417 - WOMEN IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH

Long Title:
Department: *Women and Gender Studies*
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: WOMEN IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH ***** Exploration of how slavery and its legacies affected relationships among women and between women and men, what forces and issues brought southern women together and what held them apart, and how race affected the construction of gender. Includes women's lives in the South from the mature slave system of the 1830's through the civil rights movements of the 1960's.