Course Outline:**
Week 1: August 24-26
Introduction to the course and each other; sex, gender and history
Women’s History: What’s the difference?
Reading for discussion 8/26: Susan Glaspell, Trifles. Print out from http://itech.fgcu.edu/faculty/wohlpart/alra/glaspell.htm and bring to class.
Week 2: August 31-September 2
American Indian tribal society and gender
Recommended Reading: Woloch, chapter 1
The impact of conquest
Reading for discussion 9/2: Green, "The Pocahontas Perplex" and Jensen, "Native American Women and Agriculture: A Seneca Case Study." Download and print out from Library Electronic Reserve -- http://eres.lib.csufresno.edu/
Week 3: September 7-9
Colonial families in the north; witchcraft trials
Documentary: A Midwife’s Tale (88 min)
"All men are created equal:" Women and the American Revolution
Recommended Reading: Woloch, chapter 2
Week 4: September 14-16
Industrialization and gender
9/16 - Library Research Workshop: Meet in Library Electronic Classroom #2204
Week 5: September 21-23
The Cult of Domesticity
Reading for discussion 9/21: print out an article from Godey’s Lady’s Book found at www.uvm.edu/~hag/godey/godeytitle.html or www.history.rochester.edu/godeys/
Recommended Reading: Woloch, chapter 3
Women and the institution of slavery in the south
Reading for discussion 9/23: Ar’n’t I a Woman, chapters 1-2
Recommended Reading: Woloch, chapter 4
Week 6: September 28-30
Women and the institution of slavery in the south
Reading for discussion 9/28: Ar’n’t I a Woman, chapters 3-5
Female moral reform, abolition and the 19th-century "woman movement"
Reading for discussion 9/30: "The Declaration of Sentiments" (Print out from www.womensrightsfriendsforever.org/declaration1848.html)
Week 7: October 5-7
Class and gender in Victorian America
Reading for discussion 10/5: The Murder of Helen Jewitt, chapters 1, 2, 4, 6,
Sexuality and prostitution
Reading for discussion 10/7: The Murder of Helen Jewitt, chapters 8, pp.225-229, 12-16, epilogue
Recommended Reading: Woloch, chapter 5
Week 8: October 12-14
Women and the Civil War
Recommended Reading 10/12: Ar’n’t I a Woman, chapter 6
1st Midterm (essays and terms) October 14
The New Woman
Ida B. Wells (documentary)
Week 9: October 19-21
Gender, class, race and progressivism
Reading for discussion 10/19: The Yellow Wallpaper (Print out from www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/wallpaper.html)
Recommended Reading: Woloch, chapter 6
Female immigrants and their communities
Reading for discussion 10/21: Delinquent Daughters, chapters 1-3
Week 10: October 26-28
Working-class cultures: gender & the rise of commercial amusements
Reading for discussion 10/26: Delinquent Daughters, chapters 4-6
Achieving suffrage: feminism’s first wave
Documentary (excerpt): One Woman, One Vote
Recommended Reading: Woloch, chapter 7
Week 11: November 2-4
Flappers and Fashion in the 1920s: It (72 minutes, 1927)
Research paper proposal due November 2
Women, work & leisure in the 1920s and the Depression
Recommended Reading: Woloch, chapter 8
Week 12: November 9-11
Women and the New Deal labor movement
Reading for discussion 11/9: Cannery Women, Cannery Lives
Gender and diverse experiences of war
Recommended Reading: Woloch, chapter 9
Week 13: November 16-18
2nd Midterm (essays) due November 16
Post-war America: reshaping the domestic ideal
Recommended Reading: Woloch, chapter 10
Individual meetings to discuss research papers
Week 14: November 23-25
Civil rights and second wave feminism
Thanksgiving Break
Week 15: November 30-December 2
Second wave documents discussion
Reading for discussion 11/30: the chapter of your choice from Baxandall and Gordon
Recommended Reading: Woloch, chapter 10
Individual meetings to discuss research papers
Week 16: December 7
2nd Midterm (essays) due December 7
Women and community activism
Reading for discussion 12/7: Mary Pardo, "Creating Community: Mexican American Women in Eastside Los Angeles"; Sharon Bays, "Work, Politics, and Coalition Building: Hmong Women’s Activism in a Central California Town." (Download and print out from Library Electronic Reserve -- http://eres.lib.csufresno.edu/
Recommended Reading: Woloch, chapter 11
Research papers due December 16 at our finals class meeting
**Please note:
Topics, assignments and due dates are subject to change at discretion of professor.
Students with disabilities will be accommodated per University policies in the University Catalog and Schedule of Courses. For further information, contact Services to Students with Disabilities in Madden Library 1049 (278-2811).
Assignment grades and final course grade are subject to University policies in the University Catalog and Schedule of Courses regarding cheating and plagiarism. For detailed explanations of these policies, see "Legal Notices on Cheating and Plagiarism" in the Schedule of Courses, and "Policies and Regulations" in the Catalog.