I had to take a course like that. And you know what? No matter how much they tried to make the housewife of the 50s look like a victim, (poor thing, trapped in the home, bored, watching tv) no matter how hair-raising they tried to make the consequences of rebellion look (dirty looks, disrespect, men sneering at them, lower wages) the words "machine gun" and "death penalty" and "flogging" just never come up. Even Gloria Steinem, try though she might, was unable to make the torture of high-heeled shoes comparable to having your hand chopped right off.
You must have missed the delightful series of lectures by Alice Walker about the prevalence of clitorectomy in the American South, when masses of American women had their little pinkies chopped off because Southern men couldn't fulfill their needs.
Well, I understand that a person can't sit in on every lecture.....