你将学到什么
How we account for the rise of the women's history as an academic field
How the relationship between race, class, and gender has impacted the kinds of work that different women do
What institutions and practices governed gender dynamics in Colonial America
The ways in which women shaped and participated in the American Revolution, and what the American Revolution meant for American women
How the ideologies of separate spheres and domesticity originated
How women began their involvement in political activity and moral reform campaigns and how the rise of an independent movement for women's rights in the United States came about
How the shift to women's work as paid work influenced family life, power relationships within the family, and the ability for women to organize politically
课程概况
As we see American women coming into positions of economic and political influence, we start to wonder: why now? The Women Have Always Worked MOOC, offered in four parts, explores the history of women in America and introduces students to historians’ work to uncover the place of women and gender in America’s past. After a brief survey of the emergence of women’s history as an academic field and its impact on the study of history as a whole, we will begin course one with a look at the experiences of women in Colonial America. We will explore the lives of enslaved women, of indentured servants, and of the rural housewife. We will learn the ways that women struggled to loosen the constraints of family by proclaiming that they, like men, possessed individual rights.
As this course progresses through the emergence of an industrial era, we will follow women from the home into the workplace, and explore how this shift influenced family life, power relationships within the family, and the ability for women to organize politically. Together we will examine the customs, cultures, and ideologies that governed women’s lives in Colonial America and the early 19th Century.
预备知识
Recommended for those with an undergraduate level interest in history, labor, and gender.
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