WGSS 367: Subjects of Desire

Cross Listed
Credits 3
Attributes
Alternate Year,
Diversity Domestic,
Gender=Thematic,
Social Sciences,
Upper-Level,
US=Geographic,
WGSS History

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.

Prerequisites

HIST 121 or HIST 122, and Sophomore Standing or above