Women,Family & Sex in Early US

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The course will survey women’s experiences in the United States from pre-European contact through the era of Reconstruction. Topics include Indigenous women, witchcraft, ideas about women’s domestic place, the origins of American feminism in the antislavery movement, religion and reform, slavery and emancipation, sexuality and reproduction, work, women and the law, immigration, the frontier experience, and the impact of the Civil War on American women. Offered every other year.