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Seeking Women’s Rights: Colonial Period to the Civil War
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 10 Sequences
- Intermediate Level
Course details
Syllabus
- How we account for the rise of the women's history as an academic field
- How the relationship between race, class, and gender has impacted the kinds of work that different women do
- What institutions and practices governed gender dynamics in Colonial America
- The ways in which women shaped and participated in the American Revolution, and what the American Revolution meant for American women
- How the ideologies of separate spheres and domesticity originated
- How women began their involvement in political activity and moral reform campaigns and how the rise of an independent movement for women's rights in the United States came about
- How the shift to women's work as paid work influenced family life, power relationships within the family, and the ability for women to organize politically
Prerequisite
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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