First
Paper Assignment
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Wallpaper extra credit
Jacobs
discussion sheet
Peiss
discussion sheet
Second
Paper Assignment
Final
Exam
Articles are available as a packet from Copy Maven on Main Street in Newark, and are also on reserve at the library.
Additional Resources:
Movie of the week! We will often view documentary films related
to women’s history.
Related Web Sites: The syllabus includes links to some excellent
web sites related to women’s history topics that provide sources of additional
information. Some links will be required reading.
Course Requirements:
1) Attendance: Students are expected to attend class
and to participate in class discussion. More than two unexcused absences
will be cause for reduction of a student’s grade. In accordance with
University policy, any student who misses the first three classes of the
semester may be dropped.
2) Two Analytical Essays: Each student will write two
5-7 page analytical essays based on the course readings. Guidelines
will be handed out in class. (Each essay counts toward 25% of final grade.)
3) Quizzes: There will be short quizzes given in class
based on the readings and films. (I will drop the lowest quiz score, and
the quizzes together will count for 25% of final grade.)
4) Exam: There will be a take-home final exam that will
consist of essays and short answer/identification questions intended to
test both students’ basic knowledge and ability to grapple with the course
themes synthetically. The exam will be distributed one week in advance.
(The final exam counts toward 25% of final grade.)
5) Class participation: Your active participation in class
discussion will be evaluated as part of your grade. Each student
is expected to come to class prepared to discuss assigned readings and
films. (20%)
Tuesday August 28
Course introduction; background to colonization; sources and historical
methodology
Movie of the Week! "A Midwife’s Tale"
Related Website: www.DoHistory.com
Tuesday September 4
Women in Colonial America: Household Economy and Religion
Readings:
Woloch, 1-51
Ulrich, “Ways of Her Household” (Reserve)
Tuesday September 11
Women of the Republic: Nation and Home
Readings:
Woloch, 52-102
Kerber, “The Republican Mother” (Reserve)
Smith-Rosenberg “Female World of Love and Ritual” (Reserve)
Tuesday September 18
Women’s Economy: Industrialization and Domesticity
Readings:
Woloch, 103-158
Stansell, “Women, Children, and Uses of the Streets: Class and Gender
Conflict in NYC, 1850-1860” (Reserve)
Blewett, “Sexual Division of Labor and the Artisan Tradition” (Reserve)
White, “Female Slaves: Sex Roles and Status in the Antebellum Plantation
South” (Reserve)
Related website: Lowell National Historic Park http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/pwwmh/
Tuesday September 25
Female Slavery
Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Click here for the discussion
sheet that accompanies this reading.
Related Websites: Harriet Jacobs http://www.drizzle.com/~tmercer/Jacobs/index.html
Abolition http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart3.html
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam005.html
Tuesday October 2
Women’s 19th Century Political World: Suffrage and Anti-Slavery
First Analytical Paper Due Click
here for assignment
Readings:
Woloch, 159-208
Wellman, “Seneca Falls: A Study of Social Networks” (Reserve)
Related website: Legacy 98 (Seneca Falls Convention) http://www.legacy98.org/
Woman’s rights movement http://womhist.binghamton.edu/links/projlink.htm
Stanton/Anthony Papers http://ecssba.rutgers.edu/
Biographies of Suffragists http://www.rochester.edu/SBA/biographies.html
Movie of the Week! "Not For Ourselves Alone"
Tuesday October 9
Women’s labor in the new industrial order – Class matters
Readings:
Woloch, 209-259
Related website: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire
Tuesday October 16
Reading: Peiss, Cheap Amusements
Click here for Peiss
Reading Guide
Tuesday October 23
Women’s Institutions and Organizations, 1860-1920: Progressive Women
and Radicals
Readings:
Woloch, 260-288; 292-296; 302-306
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
Sklar, “Hull House in the 1890s: A Community of Women Reformers” (Reserve)
Cook, “Female Support Networks and Political Activism: Lillian Wald,
Crystal Eastman, Emma Goldman” (Reserve)
Related Websites:
Hull House site http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/hull_house.html
Emma Goldman Papers http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/goldman
Lilian Wald and the Henry Street Settlement http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/pwwmh/ny31.htm
Movie of the Week! The Women of Hull House
Tuesday October 30
Feminism and Suffrage, 1860-1920
Readings:
Woloch, 314-369 (skip 355-360)
Cott, “Equal Rights and Economic Roles” (Reserve)
Brown, “Womanist Consciousness: Maggie Lena Walker and the Independent
Order of Saint Luke” (Reserve)
Related Websites:
Votes for Women site: http:///memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html
Women Suffrage & 19th Amendment: www.nara.gov/education/teaching/woman/home.html
Suffragist Oral History Project: library.berkeley.edu/BANC/ROHO/ohonline/suffragists.html
Tuesday November 6
Women’s New Deal and World War Two
Readings:
Woloch, 370-401; 406-413; 418-426; 450-457; 471-491
Rodrique, “The Black Community and the Birth-Control Movement” (Reserve)
Tuesday November 13
Civil Rights and Identity Politics
Woloch 492-549
Selections from Women and the Civil Rights Movement (Reserve)
Related Websites:
Anne Moody http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/moody_anne/
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/AnneMoody.html
Tuesday November 20
Wartime and Postwar America: Households in Popular Culture
Readings:
Woloch, 507-549
Susan Douglas, chapters 2 and 6 from Where the Girls Are: Growing Up
Female with Mass Media (Reserve)
Movie of the Week! Bits from “Ask Any Girl” starring Shirley Maclaine
Tuesday November 27
The Failure of the New ERA
Readings:
Kessler-Harris, “Equal Employment Opportunity Commission vs. Sears,
Roebuck and Company: A Personal Account” (reserve)
Barbara Ehrenreich, “Doing it For Ourselves: Can Feminism Survive Class
Polarization?” (reserve)
Related Websites:
Center for the American Woman and Politics www-rci.Rutgers.edu/~cawp
National Organization for Women www.now.org
National Committee on Pay Equity www.feminist.com/fairpay.htm
Gender Equity in Sports www.arcade.uiowa.edu/proj.ge/
Feminist Majority Foundation www.feminist.org
Women Watch (UN Activities on Women) www.un.org/womenwatch
Tuesday December 4
TBA
Important Dates To Remember:
Tuesday October 9: First Analytical Paper Due
Tuesday November 27: Second Analytical Paper Due
Final Exam Due