Focuses on the interaction of economics and ideology, relationships between production, reproduction, and sexuality in defining women's status, development of female culture and feminism, and the role of race, class, and ethnicity in shaping women's experience. Relations between foreign policy and domestic issues emphasized. Not offered, 2000-01. The role of the President and attitudes of the Supreme Court are traced in some detail. Not offered, 2000-01.
Assignments stress primary sources as well as scholarly studies, films, and recordings.
This course examines variations and commonalities in the experiences of those who have voluntarily emigrated to the United States since the mid19th century. The focus of the course is on the lives of immigrants themselves, but it also examines U.S. immigration from the standpoint of those already settled in the United States and from the standpoint of popular culture and public policy. Option of doing some reading in French and Spanish. Option of doing some reading in French or German. Offered in alternate years.