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Wage Work for Women Citizens: 1870-1920

What you'll learn

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  • How ideas of independent womanhood emerged in the age of industrialization
  • How the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution impacted women's political organizing and participation
  • How women worked to gain legal independence
  • How women endeavored to improve the lives of industrial workers
  • The ways in which women's labor organizing efforts impacted trade unions, protective labor legislation, and regulation of capital
  • How married and unmarried women conceptualized their public roles as women, mothers, daughters, and political actors in the early 20th Century
  • What the generational and racial tensions were around strategies and arguments for women's suffrage
  • How feminism arose as a word, concept and movement

Offered By:  ColumbiaX

Course Duration:  10 weeks

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