Emphasizes how communication creates gender and power roles and how communicative patterns reflect, sustain, and alter social conceptions of gender. Fulfills Cultural Diversity Requirement. Emphasis on works that emphasize themes relevant to women's lives in novel, short story, memoir, and poetry. Writing by Toni Morrison, Barbara Kingsolver, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Sarah Orne Jewett, Cathi Hanauer, Anne Sexton, Gertrude Stein, Helena Viramontes, Rita Mae Brown, and others. Students' writing assignments might include autobigraphical writing.
Course also comprises notions of self-discovery.
Implications for health education practice as well as opportunities for future research are emphasized. The purpose of this course is first to gain an understanding of the role of women in U. S. history from the colonial period to the present. We will discuss the problem of establishing standards by which we can measure women's position in American society and their achievements in American history. We will assess women's contributions to American life and will discuss how they affected change and how historical events influenced them. We will investigate the ways in which geographic location, class, ethnicity, race, urbanization, technology, and war have affected the political, social, economic, and intellectual lives of American women.