In an effort to keep pace with refined global approaches to history, this class examines the roles women played in revolutions in the modern world.  Because there are so many venues of women's participation, we will remain focused on a few political and social revolutions of the twentieth century.  Our discussion will center around how women have forwarded and / or challenged the goals of these revolutions, how images of women were appropriated and how revolutions become gendered.  At all points we are searching for a comparative approach so as to reformulate the notion of revolution to better suit a global history.