In Louise Tilly and Patricia Gurrin, eds., Women and Politics in the Twentieth Century . In developing this field, the student should come away with a sense of broad sweep of events, the ability to teach a solid and engaging survey course, and the intellectual agility to engage with colleagues in conversations about nineteenth-century topics. Each student will construct the field in consultation with the professor, clustering readings around five or six subfields. These might include gender, sexuality, family, work, class, race, ethnicity, social movements, popular culture, and the social history of politics. Comparative Gender Selected aspects of the history of women and gender in the US to be studied in light of comparable developments in at least one other region of the world.
Students are to consult with appropriate faculty for each region they choose.
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