HI 305 Women in History
Begins with an overview of the status of women in the Federal period and concludes with twentieth century developments in the women’s rights movement. Emphasis on the background and accomplishments of the Seneca Falls Convention; the suffrage movement of the nineteenth century and its fruition in the early twentieth century; the status of women during the years between 1920 and 1960; and a study of the history of women during the 1970s through the present.