HIST& 215 - Women in US History

• Social Sciences Distribution Requirement

1. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the key people, events and ideas relating to the history of women in the United States.
2. Consider how women fit into the larger developments and events of American History.
3. Explore historical attitudes regarding women’s roles and the relationship between these attitudes and the realities of women’s life experiences and work.
4. Develop an awareness of the diversity of women’s attitudes and experiences in American history.
5. SOCIAL SCIENCES: Apply concepts from the social sciences to analyze individual or social phenomena, processes, events, conflicts, or issues.

1. Colonial women and families. The traditions and experiences of Native American women, slave women and European colonists.
2. Women in the early American Republic, 1776 - 1820 2.1. women in the Revolution. The doctrine of separate spheres. Republican motherhood and education
3. 19th Century Reform Movements. Abolition, temperance, and other reform movements. The first feminists–Seneca Falls 1848. Women’s experience of the Civil War. Progressivism and prohibition. 
4. Women’s work in the 19th century. The Lowell Mill girls and early labor movement. Women in industry. Urbanization–an expansion of “women’s work”. Women’s work in the home.
5. An Expanding Country. Pioneer women and westward expansion. Experiences of immigrant women and families. 
6. The Right to Vote. Women’s work in World War I. Passage of the 19th Amendment–then what. Changing social norms–the New Woman and the flapper. 
7. Depression and War. Women and families in hard times. Rosie the Riveter and WWII. 
8. The Second Women’s Movement. Post-war suburbia: back to the home. 1963: The Feminine Mystique. Changing social mores. Impact of Title Nine on women’s athletics. 
9. Recent Battle and Achievements. Anti-feminism. Sexual harrassment. Equal pay for equal work.