American Women's History

Catalog description

This course uses gender and sexuality as a category of analysis to delve into American history between the sixteenth century and the present. We will ask how gender and sexuality were conceptualized and constructed throughout American history to explore large historical themes and individuals’ daily lives. Using an intersectional approach, the course begins with the convergence of Africans, Europeans, and Indigenous peoples, through the violence surrounding the nation’s founding, the expansion of the nation-state and slavery, the Civil War and its reverberations, the US in the world, the Civil Rights Movement, Roe vs Wade, and concludes in the present moment.