Manor to offer course on women in America (12/31/78)

Manor to offer course on women in America

JENKINTOWN, Pa. - Manor Junior College will present a three-credit course in the spring semester, that will provide a historical framework in which the role and identity of women in America can be understood.

Aptly titled Women in America, the course will be taught by Sister Mary Cecilia Jurasinski, OSBM, and Linda Morante, with a unique approach that combines both the history and English departments to provide the true historical influences of women along with the insights gained by literature of the day.

The course will emphasize the question: Can women in America discover their true identity through a study of the role women have played historically in American society? This course will also illustrate the traditional male viewpoints of authors when they portray women in novels and short stories. A further study investigates and compares the female perceptions in their novels and short stories during the same periods.

Each student will be asked to interview five women of various ages, national origins and religious affiliations.

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