[HIST BC 2567x] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (62 pages long!)

• School: Barnard College
• Department: History
• Course: HIST BC 2567x
• Professor: premillanadasen

Document Summary

Is suffrage a good indicator of equality: elsa barkley brown - argued that suffrage wasn"t as important a turning point as we"d assume. / how gender informs and influences political power. Important to think about power - who has the power to define and who is being defined. / broader set of issues: ex: discourse around police violence in an incarcerated state - black male experience that excludes black women. It"s an interesting time to study women"s history: woman closer to becoming president than any other woman in american history, some groups of women have made enormous strides - elizabeth warren, nancy. We have women who are impt corporate leaders - marissa mayer, Lawyers, doctors, academics, news anchors: wealth and success of a certain group of women does tell us something about the progress of feminism - women were routinely excluded from higher education, employment very recently.