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Negotiating a Changing World: 1920-1950
- Individualizado
- Acesso livre
- Certificado pago
- 10 sequências
- Intermediate Level
Detalhes do curso
Programa de Estudos
- 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
Pré-requisito
Instrutores
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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