Same as HIS 256. Discussions of capitalism, patriarchy, feminism, and socialism for understanding women's oppression. Teaching techniques, working in a collective, nonhierarchical education, and relating theory to everyday life. Our examination will also include selected works by African women. Third World women's studies.
Topics vary depending upon professor's specific field of study.
One aim is to establish theoretical and methodological differences between cultural studies and traditional empirical approaches to the study of media. This course traces the changes in women's work in the home, in the family, and in the labor force in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Focusing on the experience of working class women in the labor force, it explores the impact of urbanization and industrialization on women in different ethnic and racial communities, their experiences and conflicts with unions, and their contributions to labor struggles. An examination of the role of the African American woman as playwright, actor, producer, critic, and theater professional. Will explore black women's social and cultural history from the early twentieth century to the present.