Sex & Gender In American History
In this course, we will consider the ways sex and gender have shaped U. S. history from the colonial period until now. Because gender roles and sexuality are socially constructed, they change over time. We will track these shifts. We will spend much of our time investigating the creative ways women have negotiated political, social, and economic constraints imposed by rigid gender roles, but we will also scrutinize the ways men are similarly empowered and limited by expectations to be masculine.