Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: WOMEN AND THE U.S. WELFARE STATE: SEXUAL POLITICS AND AMERICAN POVERTY ***** This seminar in the history of women and welfare focuses our attention on women's contributions to the growth of the welfare state and investigates how welfare has been shaped by understandings of gender, race, and class. Comparing American programs for social provision to to similar programs developed in other countries, and tracking the growth of the American welfare state through women's efforts to address the problems of poverty and need in a variety of different contexts, the course will link women's history to the history of the state. ***** Limited enrollment. ***** Also offered as HIST 468.