Senior Seminar: Women in Politics

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The struggles of the nineteenth century feminists, the suffrage amendment movement and the contemporary women's movement as political action. Urban women as vanguard of the mid-twentieth century and Third Wave American women's movement. Cross-cultural, cross-national comparisons of the concerns that mobilize women, their attainment of political power, and the impact of their activities on public policy. Open to seniors or others by permission of the Department Chair.