History 146 - Women and Gender Relations in the United States

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University of California-Irvine

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An examination of changes in gender relations and in the conditions of women's lives from the 1700s on. Emphasis on race and class, cultural images of women and men, sexuality, economic power, and political and legal status. 146D Sex in the U.S. to 1860 (4). Perspectives on sexual behavior in colonial and U.S. history to c. 1860. Mainstream and non-mainstream sexual practices, beliefs, identities. Asks why various ideas of sexual behavior developed and how they related to religious, racial, ethnic, political, cultural belief systems. ( VII) 146E Gender in Nineteenth-Century America (4). A social and cultural history of women's lives in nineteenth-century America, examining how racial, sexual, class identities were constructed by women themselves and by their surrounding culture. Topics include slavery, anti-slavery movement, domesticity, experience of the Civil War. ( VII) 146F American Women to 1820 (4). (VII) 146G United States Women: 1820-1980 (4). (VII) 146H Topics in Women and Gender Relations in the United States (4). May be repeated for credit as topics vary. Formerly History 146C. ( VII)

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3.00

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Lecture

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www.uci.edu/

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(949) 824-5011

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Quarter

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