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2012-2013 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog 
    
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2012-2013 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

WGS 209 - Women’s History in the United States: Colonial to the Present

3 credits C, D
Survey of the history of women - black and white, native and immigrant, rich and poor - in the U.S. from colonial times to the present. Among the topics to be discussed are: women’s role in agrarian vs. industrial society; women and the family; women in the labor movement; female friendships and organizations; the frontier experience; women’s suffrage; sex and sex roles; and the birth and growth of the feminist movement. Cross-listed as HST 207.