This course will study the history of movements for gender equity in the U.S. A chronological approach will be taken, beginning in the 19 th century with “the woman question,” continuing with the suffragettes who achieved the vote for women in 1920, to “second wave” feminism that unfolded alongside the civil rights movement and the sexual revolution of the late 1960s, to “third wave” feminism and up until the current moment. By the 1990s, the shortcomings of these previous “waves” of feminism—centrally, their unquestioned centering of middle-class, heterosexual, cisgender white women—were exposed and the shift began to an intersectional analysis of the ways that gender identity is entwined with race, ethnicity, class, age, citizenship status, religion, sexuality, and more.