WMST 231 American Women and Suffrage
This course examines women and their participation and leadership in American suffrage movements, with particular attention to women's creative choices in navigating an oppressive gender system, which denied them the vote prior to 1920. Focus will be on the lives of 19th & 20th century American women, as they experienced the intersectionality of race, class, and gender during the struggle for women's suffrage, beginning in 1848 with the Declaration of Sentiments presented at the first American women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, and ending with the ratification of the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920. This course will examine how women responded with innovative strategies for living lives of meaning, individually and in familial and community relationships. This course looks more deeply into one aspect of WMST 227 Women in American History: 1880 to the Present.
Prerequisite
Eligible to enroll in
ENGL 121
Hours Weekly
1