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Negotiating a Changing World: 1920-1950
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English
20 h
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- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 10 Sequences
- Intermediate Level
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Syllabus
- How the the passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which formally established women’s right to vote, impacted women's political participation and created competing understandings of equality in the 1920s
- How the emergence of two different groups of feminists (equality feminists and social feminists) came about
- How the laws of coverture, domesticity, and citizenship continued to constrain women's independence in the early 20th Century
- How protective labor legislation sealed women's positions in a segmented labor force
- How Depression-era unemployment impacted masculine identities, family life, and marriage
- How women played a critical role in strikes to improve working conditions
- How attitudes about married women and women with children in the workforce changed from the Great Depression to World War II
- How women experienced discrimination based on gender and race while working in military industries and serving in the military
- How efforts to return women to the home after the War supported men's reentry into the workforce and the idea of the American standard of living
Prerequisite
None.
Instructors
Alice Kessler-Harris
R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History Emerita
Columbia University
Nick Juravich
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Women's History
New-York Historical Society
Columbia University Center for Teaching and Learning
New-York Historical Society
Intelligent Television
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Columbia University is a private university located in Morningside Heights, in the north-western part of the borough of Manhattan, in New York (United States). Its origins lie in King's College, founded in 1754 by King George II of Great Britain. It is one of the oldest institutions of higher learning in the United States and is part of the Ivy League group of eight of the country's oldest, most famous, most prestigious and most elitist universities.
Columbia is one of the most selective and prestigious universities in the world. The admission rate was 5.1% in 2019, comparable to Harvard and Stanford. Ranked first in the United States for research, it is sixth in the world (fourth in the United States) in the CUWR ranking of the world's top 1,000 universities and eighth in the Shanghai University Rankings.
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