2024-2025 Catalog

HST-275 Women in 20th-Century Europe

Examines the changing place of women in European society since 1900. Topics include: womens suffrage and the political advances of the 1920s and 1930s; the revolution in sexual mores, birth control, and the rise of companionate marriage; women and the consumer economy; the anti-woman policies of Fascist Italy and Germany under National Socialism; liberation of women and retrenchment in the Soviet Union; World War II; feminism, sexual liberation, and womens political engagement since the 1960s; and, throughout the twentieth century, womens continuing negotiation of work and family responsibilities.

Credits

4

Offered

Ocasionally