Seeking Women’s Rights: Colonial Period to the Civ

What you'll learn

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  • How we account for the rise of the women's history as an academic field
  • How the relationship between race, class, and gender has impacted the kinds of work that different women do
  • What institutions and practices governed gender dynamics in Colonial America
  • The ways in which women shaped and participated in the American Revolution, and what the American Revolution meant for American women
  • How the ideologies of separate spheres and domesticity originated
  • How women began their involvement in political activity and moral reform campaigns and how the rise of an independent movement for women's rights in the United States came about
  • How the shift to women's work as paid work influenced family life, power relationships within the family, and the ability for women to organize politically

Offered By:  ColumbiaX

Course Duration:  10 weeks

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