America: Land for the White, Land for the Man
       
Treatment of women in America has always been poor, but it started somewhere:

- Eugenics and the treatment of minorities, especially in the prison system
- Eugenics: the science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics
- Birth control was outlawed, abortions unsafe


What does this have to do with this class?
- All this stuff is occurring during the realism, modernism, and postmodernism periods  
- How did it effect each era? What does the style of writing at the time say about all that was going on? Let's give more info...