New Women and Activism from America to Asia

Seminar, three hours. Designed for College Honors students. Spanning of academic disciplines and regional boundaries by looking at women's movements in U.S. and East Asia in early 20th century, with examination of how issues of women's rights, labor rights, and race/nation identities united and divided women across classes and national borders. Examination of suffrage movement in 1913 New York and parallel movements in East Asia (Japan, Korea, China) that adopted and adapted some of these same ideas to their own unique historical circumstances. Use of highly successful Reacting to Past historical role-playing game titled Greenwich Village, 1913: Suffrage, Labor, and New Woman. P/NP or letter grading.

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Jennifer Jung-Kim
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24S 23S 22S 21S 20S 18F 17F 16F 15F 15S