HIST 115 - REBELLIOUS WOMEN IN MODERN AMERICA

    Recent Professors
    Shayla Jacobs
    Recent Semesters
    Fall 2026
    Class Size
    Not published
    Difficulty
    6.5Demandingout of 10
    Credits
    3
    Fall 2026 Sections
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    Transfers To
    UC and CSUCal-GETC Area 4 · Cal-GETC Area 3B · IGETC Area 3B · IGETC Area 4 · CSU GE Area D6 · CSU GE Area D4 · CSU GE Area C2 · CSU GE Area D
    Description
    HIST 115 investigates the legal, economic, political and social issues surrounding the dramatic transformation of gender relations incontemporarysociety.Topicsincludedare women's private lives, public, and political roles, and the public policy that has affected women's lives. The course focuses on leaders of the Women's Movement in the United States who worked to change laws, open doors to new occupations, and create and influence new institutions, as well as old ones. Using biography, primary sources documents, and socio-historical studies, the course focuses on women in the 1940s, then moves forward into the Women's Movement of the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and the conservative react ions to the movement in the 1980s and 1990s.