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Sobre o conteúdo
As we see American women coming into positions of economic and political influence, we start to wonder: why now? The Women Have Always Worked MOOC, offered in four parts, explores the history of women in America and introduces students to historians’ work to uncover the place of women and gender in America’s past. Part two of this series departs from the Civil War, examining how gender shaped women's work outside the home in the late 19th century and how gender influenced the shape of the labor force. We will explore simultaneous efforts to affirm domesticity and provide women with paths to independence during this period, and will uncover how the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution impacted women’s political organizing and participation.
The lives of women in the garment industry at the turn of the 20th century, and their involvement in unions, consumer's leagues, and coalitions, take center stage as we work to understand how women made efforts to improve the lives of industrial workers. Using an Intersectional approach, we demonstrate how women with different interests and identities formed alliances around legal and social causes in the early 20th Century, and how this culminated in women's fight for the vote in the early 20th century.
Pré-requisito
Recommended for those with an undergraduate level interest in history, labor, and gender.
Programa de estudos
- How ideas of independent womanhood emerged in the age of industrialization
- How the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution impacted women's political organizing and participation
- How women worked to gain legal independence
- How women endeavored to improve the lives of industrial workers
- The ways in which women's labor organizing efforts impacted trade unions, protective labor legislation, and regulation of capital
- How married and unmarried women conceptualized their public roles as women, mothers, daughters, and political actors in the early 20th Century
- What the generational and racial tensions were around strategies and arguments for women's suffrage
- How feminism arose as a word, concept and movement
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
Criador do conteúdo
A Universidade de Columbia é uma universidade privada situada em Morningside Heights, na parte noroeste do bairro de Manhattan, em Nova Iorque (Estados Unidos). As suas origens remontam ao King's College, fundado em 1754 pelo rei Jorge II da Grã-Bretanha. É uma das mais antigas instituições de ensino superior dos Estados Unidos e faz parte do grupo Ivy League, que reúne oito das mais antigas, mais famosas, mais prestigiadas e mais elitistas universidades do país.
Columbia é uma das universidades mais selectivas e prestigiadas do mundo. A taxa de admissão foi de 5,1% em 2019, comparável à de Harvard e Stanford. Classificada em primeiro lugar nos Estados Unidos em matéria de investigação, é a sexta no mundo (quarta nos Estados Unidos) no ranking CUWR das 1000 melhores universidades do mundo e a oitava no Shanghai University Rankings.
Plataforma
EdX est une plateforme d'apprentissage en ligne (dite FLOT ou MOOC). Elle héberge et met gratuitement à disposition des cours en ligne de niveau universitaire à travers le monde entier. Elle mène également des recherches sur l'apprentissage en ligne et la façon dont les utilisateurs utilisent celle-ci. Elle est à but non lucratif et la plateforme utilise un logiciel open source.
EdX a été fondée par le Massachusetts Institute of Technology et par l'université Harvard en mai 2012. En 2014, environ 50 écoles, associations et organisations internationales offrent ou projettent d'offrir des cours sur EdX. En juillet 2014, elle avait plus de 2,5 millions d'utilisateurs suivant plus de 200 cours en ligne.
Les deux universités américaines qui financent la plateforme ont investi 60 millions USD dans son développement. La plateforme France Université Numérique utilise la technologie openedX, supportée par Google.
