Seeking Women’s Rights: Colonial Period to the Civil War

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Seeking Women’s Rights: Colonial Period to the Civil War

About this course

Learn about the emergence of women's history and its impact on the study of history as a whole. Then, examine the experiences of women in Colonial America. We will learn the ways that women struggled to loosen the constraints of family by proclaiming that they, like men, possessed individual rights.

Skills you'll gain

gender equality advocacy social movements individual rights colonial america historical narratives women's history civil war

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