Gender, Race, and the Construction of the American West
WGS.640 · Women's and Gender Studies · Graduate · Fall 2014
Prof. Karen V Hansen, Prof. Marilynn S Johnson, Prof. Lois Rudnick
<p>This course explores how gender shaped the historical experiences and cultural productions in the North American West during the time it was being explored, settled, and imagined. The North American West of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries provides a fascinating case study of the shifting meanings of gender, race, citizenship, and power in border societies. As the site of migration, settlement, and displacement, it spawned contests over land, labor disputes, inter-ethnic con…
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Prof. Karen V Hansen, Prof. Marilynn S Johnson, Prof. Lois Rudnick. WGS.640 Gender, Race, and the Construction of the American West. Fall 2014. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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