A survey of U.S. social history from 1607 to the present, focusing on the historical contours of female/male sex roles and the family. Topics include marriage, the family, child rearing, work, education, sexuality and gynecology, and reproduction. Analyzes the effects of war, racism, slavery, immigration, industrialization and consumerism, along with abolitionism, temperance, feminism, civil rights and other social protest movements.
WGSS 367: Subjects of Desire
Cross Listed
Program
Attributes
Alternate Year,
Diversity Domestic,
Gender=Thematic,
Social Sciences,
Upper-Level,
US=Geographic,
WGSS History