HIS 15 — Global Women Leaders: Past, Present, and Future
Quarter: Winter
Instructor(s): Margo Horn
Date(s): Jan 16—Feb 20
Class Recording Available: No
Class Meeting Day: Thursdays
Grade Restriction: No letter grade
Class Meeting Time: 7:00—8:50 pm (PT)
Tuition: $345
Refund Deadline: Jan 18
Unit(s): 1
Status: Open
Quarter: Winter
Day: Thursdays
Duration: 6 weeks
Time: 7:00—8:50 pm (PT)
Date(s): Jan 16—Feb 20
Unit(s): 1
Tuition: $345
Refund Deadline: Jan 18
Instructor(s): Margo Horn
Grade Restriction: No letter grade
Recording Available: No
Status: Open
This is a decisive moment in the history of global women leaders. What conditions led women to emerge as political leaders across the globe in the 20th century, allowing them to make distinctive contributions as heads of state and government as well as political activists?
This course introduces students to global women’s history and focuses on a series of pathbreaking women leaders in the 20th century. We will begin the course with an overview of the history of patriarchy around the world and then consider the growth of feminist politics. We will then look at movements for women’s self-determination that emerged in the 19th and 20th centuries—movements that set the stage for women to become national political leaders and activists in the 20th and 21st centuries. Finally, we will focus on a series of global women leaders who have made a mark on their time—Eleanor Roosevelt, Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher, Benazir Bhutto, Angela Merkel, Hillary Clinton, and Kamala Harris. Along the way, as we explore their biographies and historical impact, we will consider the distinctive contribution women leaders are making to our world.
This course introduces students to global women’s history and focuses on a series of pathbreaking women leaders in the 20th century. We will begin the course with an overview of the history of patriarchy around the world and then consider the growth of feminist politics. We will then look at movements for women’s self-determination that emerged in the 19th and 20th centuries—movements that set the stage for women to become national political leaders and activists in the 20th and 21st centuries. Finally, we will focus on a series of global women leaders who have made a mark on their time—Eleanor Roosevelt, Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher, Benazir Bhutto, Angela Merkel, Hillary Clinton, and Kamala Harris. Along the way, as we explore their biographies and historical impact, we will consider the distinctive contribution women leaders are making to our world.
Stanford Continuing Studies has lowered the tuition for this course as part of our mission to increase access to education related to gender equality and women's rights.
MARGO HORN
Former Lecturer, Department of History, Stanford
Margo Horn specializes in the history of women, the history of family, and the social history of medicine and psychiatry. Her research concerns the history of women physicians in the US, the history of single women in 20th-century America, and the history of women and mental illness in America during the same period. She is the author of Before It's Too Late: The Child Guidance Movement in the United States, 1922–1945. She received an MA and a PhD from Tufts. Textbooks for this course:
(Required) Estelle Freedman, No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women (ISBN 978-0345450531)