Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: WOMEN, POLITICS, & POLITICAL HISTORY ***** Although women were not given the vote until the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, women have a long history of involvement with politics, partisanship, and parties. Since the nation's founding women have petitioned legislatures, lobbied government officials, campaigned for Democratic and Republican candidates, formed women's auxiliaries to the regular parties, and voted in municipal and school elections. In the post-suffrage decades women pioneered the single-issue, non-partisan approach to political reform and challenged the centrality of parties to American political life even as they rose to positions of prominence with those same parties. This course introduces students to a growing body of literature on women and politics that is changing our understanding of American political life. ***** Also offered as HIST 551.