AMH 2090 — History of Women in the United States
This course explores the history of women’s experience in American Society. The focus will be to examine the construc- tion of womanhood throughout United States history and the experience of gender, ethnicity, class and sexual orientation from/upon women’s experiences. Students will study the con- tribution of various individual women and groups of women in creating the modern United States, and will analyze social, political, economic and cultural forces affecting women to both join and resist movements for social change from pre-contact to the present. skills are required.