The history of women and gender in the United, States from the colonial period to the present,, with a focus on the 19th and 20th centuries as, influenced by class, race, and region. Topics, include the transformation of a household economy, to an industrial economy; the influence of slavery, and emancipation on the experience of women, bound, and free; women's movement into low-paid "women's, work" and their designation as the primary, consumers in a consumer society; women's, involvement in social reform; changing notions of, women's (and men's) sexuality; the conflicted, history of women's suffrage; the relationship, between ideologies of gender and imperialism;, suburbanization and the "feminine mystique"; and, the rights revolutions of the 20th century.
- Teacher: Reiko Hillyer