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Apr 25, 2024
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CORE 003 SC - Domestic Life and Political Activism in the 19th-century U.S.
This course explores how Americans mobilized home and domesticity for political ends during the 19th century. We will read writers who conceived of home as a space for transformative political change, including women of color for whom home was a space of resistance and Transcendentalists who founded the experimental Brook Farm Community. We will also learn about archival research into 19thC home life and how historians, literary critics, and other scholars study forms of domestic activism that left traces not in published writing but rather in diaries, commonplace books, and material objects. Students will put this knowledge to practice through research on 19thC items from Denison’s archives and by exploring ways this 19thC past points to opportunities for everyday activism in the present.
Course Credit: 1.0
Offered: Occasionally
Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
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