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Zakiya R. Adair
WOMEN 283
Seattle Campus
Includes units on American, European, and Third World women that examine centers of women's activities, women's place in male-dominated spheres (politics), women's impact on culture (health, arts), and the effect of larger changes on women's lives (technology, colonization). Offered: jointly with HIST 283; A.
Class description
This course is designed to provide students with an introduction to the field of women’s history and will explore the different ways in which feminist historians have re-conceptualized women’s history. We will also explore women’s experience outside of traditional historical periodization. The purpose of this course is to provide a more complex understanding of traditional categories of historical interpretation. An additional purpose will also be to problematize feminist historians’ approaches to women’s experience. Specifically this course will use a multi-racial rather than uni-racial approach to women’s experience in and throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Student learning goals
General method of instruction
In class lectures, discussion
Recommended preparation
There is a heavy reading load for this class, as such students should be prepared to spend between 1-2 hours a night on course material.
Class assignments and grading
In class quizzes, exams, group presentations, term paper
