Course Outline:**

Week 1: January 22

Introduction to the course and each other; sex, gender and history

Week 2: January 27-29

Women’s History: What’s the difference?

Reading for discussion 1/27: Susan Glaspell, Trifles (Print out from http://itech.fgcu.edu/faculty/wohlpart/alra/glaspell.htm)

American Indian tribal society and gender

Recommended Reading: Woloch, chapter 1

Week 3: February 3-5

The impact of conquest

Reading for discussion 2/3: Green, "The Pocahontas Perplex," and Jensen, "Native American Women and Agriculture: A Seneca Case Study." Download and print from Library Electronic Reserve --  http://eres.lib.csufresno.edu/

Library Workshop 2/5: Meet in Library Electronic Classroom #2204 (2-3:15) or #2041 (3:30-4:45)

Week 4: February 10-12

Colonial families in the north; witchcraft trials

Documentary: A Midwife’s Tale (88 min)

Recommended Reading: Woloch, chapter 2

"All men are created equal:" Women and the American Revolution

Recommended Reading: Woloch, chapter 3

Week 5: February 17-19

Industrialization and gender

The Cult of Domesticity

Reading for discussion 2/19: 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/

Week 6: February 24-26

Women and the institution of slavery in the south

Reading for discussion: Ar’n’t I a Woman, chapters 1-2 (2/24), chapters 3-5 (2/26)

Week 7: March 2-4

Female moral reform, abolition and the 19th-century "woman movement"

Reading for discussion 3/2: "The Declaration of Sentiments" (Print out from www.womensrightsfriendsforever.org/declaration1848.html)

Class and gender in Victorian America

Reading for discussion 3/4: The Murder of Helen Jewitt, chapters 1, 2, 4, 6,

Recommended Reading: Woloch, chapter 4

Week 8: March 9-11

Sexuality and prostitution

Reading for discussion 3/9: The Murder of Helen Jewitt, chapters 8, pp.225-229, 12-16, epilogue

Women and the Civil War

Reading for discussion 3/11: Ar’n’t I a Woman, chapter 6

Week 9: March 16-18

1st Midterm due March 16

The New Woman: North, South, East, West

Ida B. Wells (documentary)

Gender, class, race and progressivism

Recommended Reading: Woloch, chapter 5

Reading for discussion 3/18: The Yellow Wallpaper (Print out from www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/wallpaper.html)

Week 10: March 23-25

Female immigrants

Working-class cultures

Reading for discussion 3/23: Delinquent Daughters, chapters 1-3

Reading for discussion 3/25: Delinquent Daughters, chapters 4-6

Recommended Reading: Woloch, chapter 6

Week 11: March 30-April 1

Achieving suffrage: feminism’s first wave

Flappers and Fashion in the 1920s: It (72 minutes, 1927)

Recommended Reading: Woloch, chapters 7-8

Research paper proposal due April 1

Week 12: April 6-8

Spring Break

Week 13: April 13-15

Women, work & leisure in the 1920s and the Depression

Women and the New Deal labor movement

Recommended Reading for discussion 4/13: Skyscraper Souls

Reading for discussion 4/15: Cannery Women, Cannery Lives

Recommended Reading: Woloch, chapter 9

Week 14: April 20-22

Gender and diverse experiences of war

Post-war America: reshaping the domestic ideal

Recommended Reading: Woloch, chapter 10

Week 15: April 27-29

2nd Midterm Due April 27

Civil rights and second wave feminism

Individual meetings to discuss research papers

Week 16: May 4-6

Individual meetings to discuss research papers

Second wave documents discussion

Reading for discussion 5/6: the chapter of your choice from Baxandall and Gordon

Recommended Reading: Woloch, chapter 10, pp. 350-355

Week 17: May 11

Women and community activism

Reading for discussion 5/11: 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 May 17

 


 

**Please note:

Topics, assignments and due dates are subject to change at discretion of professor.

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