HST 344 - US Workingwomen & The Modern City, 1870-1940

Min Units: 3
Max Units: 3
This class examines the lives of adventurous young workingwomen who dared to venture away from the confines of family, village, and respectability and to seek out the outer edges of their world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We will focus on workingwomen as they journeyed from the countryside of the American South and Midwest and made their way into the nation’s industrializing cities. In exploring their lives, we consider the freedoms, pleasures, and forms of resistance and mutalism. We will also consider the shifting historical fortunes of these young women first among contemporary observers and then among generations of historians. (U) Occasionally