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Gender, Race, and the Construction of the American West

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited StatesWGS.640
Free, no sign-up neededFall 2014English
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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.

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