Hidden from History: American Herstory
This course is specifically designed to teach you to think critically, analytically, and contextually about women’s lives since the arrival of Europeans on the North American continent. It is intended to introduce you to the methodology of women’s history in addition to exploring the too-often hidden and forgotten gender dimensions of many aspects of the American past. Both continuity and change in women’s lives will be explored from a wide variety of topics including Native American women, African-American women, immigrant women, the family, class, politics, reform movements, religion, sexuality, and the interplay between real and expected social values. Because I believe strongly in letting women tell their own stories you will have many opportunities to “hear women’s voices” through letters, diaries, journals, and autobiographies.