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HIST 285
US Gender History to 1877

Credit:  3 hours.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for a
Hist&Philosoph Perspect course.

(HIST 272) Traces the experiences of North American women and men from the earliest encounters between Europeans and Native Americans; examines gender systems in the colonies, under slavery, during industrialization and westward expansion; assesses impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on gender roles; considers gendered division of labor in factories and domestic environments and construction of gender ideologies. Same as GWS 285.