This course explores the many roles and contributions of women in American history beginning with the Gilded Age and ending in the post-feminist contemporary period. Among the topics that will be discussed, students will examine women’s critical contributions to such important historical movements as Suffrage, Temperance, Settlement House, Progressivism, and the Feminist Movement itself. The course will conclude with an examination on how individualism, material culture, and self-interest have transformed feminism between 1980 and the present and with reflection about other changes in the place that women now occupy in American society.