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In this elective, we will explore changes and continuities in women's work throughout 19th- and 20th-century America, defining work not just as paid labor but also as childbirth, childrearing, and unpaid domestic chores. Readings will focus on the experiences of individual women workers, the ways that sex-segregated labor has been socially and economically undervalued, and the norms affecting occupational boundaries.

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This course will explore aspects of the African American past during the 19th and 20th centuries through both the memoirs left by these men and women and biographical accounts written by historians. The interplay between the individual and the larger social, political, and religious setting is one point of emphasis. Assignments in the course include an occasional short essay, and a major term paper developed in consultation with the professor. So background in African American history is desireable.

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