HIST 3235 Women's Causes, Women's Voices
Looks at women's experience (in their own words) from the mid-19th Century to the mid-20th Century in the U.S. and Europe. The examination of female experience in family life, economic life, and public life provides the framework for looking at the changing role of woman and for developing an understanding of how women contributed to reforming their society. Women joined organizations and organized themselves to address the problems that they experienced and to widen their roles in the family and society. Women advocated reforms in prisons, changes in marriage laws, and improvements in working conditions.