History (WGST) 370: Women in
Fall 2007, Prof. Pam Pennock
http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~ppennock/370schedule.htm
BFL = Sara Evans, Born for
RR = Required Readings
in Resources folder in
CourseTools (.pdf files)
MAW = Susan Ware, Modern American Women: A Documentary
History
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Date |
Topic & Reading
assignment |
Writing/discussion
assignment |
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S 9 |
Introduction: Syllabus The Nature of History and
Sources Using
Primary Sources (link here) |
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S 11 |
Important Themes in
Women’s History Cultural Contact and
Colonial BFL: Introduction, Ch 1, & Ch 2 |
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S 13 |
Colonial Film: A Midwife’s Tale (begin) |
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S 18 |
Film: A Midwife’s Tale continued Martha Ballard’s Diary website: First, follow the link ‘Martha Ballard’s
Diary’, then link to ‘Decoding the Diary’
-- read this page. Next, link to ‘Some Stories & Themes
in the Diary’, and choose one theme to browse through. |
Think about the film's
documentary style. In what ways is the use of dramatic re-creation an
effective method to share Martha's diary? How might a more traditional
documentary, with third-person narration and no re-creations, have been
different? How would reading the diary be different? |
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S 20 |
The American Revolution
and New Republic BFL: Ch 3 Be prepared to discuss the
roles different kinds of women played in this period. |
Short essay on Midwife’s Tale film due today. Topic: To a historian,
what is the value of knowing Martha Ballard’s life – of studying her diary?
What can we learn? Are there any
limits? 1 ½ to 2 pages typed, 12 pt.
font, double-spaced, 1” margins. Write in well-organized paragraphs. |
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S 25 |
The American Revolution
and New Republic cont. On-line primary documents: Abigail and John Adams correspondence, 1776 Esther Reed
“Sentiments of an American Woman” Sarah Osborn, recollections of a camp follower Judith Sargent Murray, from the
Gleaner, 1798 |
Be prepared for small group discussion
of the 4 documents assigned for today. Also be prepared to discuss
the legacies of the Revolution for different kinds of women. What changed,
what didn’t change? |
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S 27 |
Impact of Slavery Ar’n’t I a Woman? (entire book) |
Homework on Ar’n’t I a Woman due. (Link here to see the assignment) Small group discussion based
on homework. |
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O 2 |
Antebellum Work &
Reform BFL: Ch 4, Ch 5 pp. 93-112 only RR: Catherine
Beecher, 1841 (the following 2 docs are in 1 .pdf
file:) A Letter to the Liberator,
1836; S. Grimke, Reply to Clergy, 1837 Optional: Stanton-Anthony
letters Online: Maria Stewart, abolitionist, 1831 |
Book Review of Ar’n’t I a Woman due today. Link here for guidelines. |
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O 4 |
Antebellum Work &
Reform continued Civil War BFL: Ch 5 pp. 112-118 RR: (the following 4 docs are in one .pdf file)
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Document discussion Link here to see which document you
have been assigned. |
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O 9 |
Reconstruction BFL: Ch 6 pp. 119-125 RR:
E. C. Stanton, “Who Are Our
Friends?” 1868 Trans-Mississippi West BFL: review pp. 106-7 MAW: Buffalobird
Woman’s Story (pp. 51-2) RR: - - A.M. Green’s Frontier Life - Sadie Martin’s Desert Life - Life in Hispanic - S. Winnemucca, Life Among Piutes Optional: Sarah Winnemucca
bio |
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O 11 |
Trans-Mississippi West cont. Midterm Review |
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O 16 |
Midterm Exam |
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O 18 |
Working-Class Women in
the Industrial North, 1870s-1910s BFL: Ch 6
pp. 130-138, Ch 7, 156-160 MAW: Ch 1
Intro (pp. 3-4) Ch
2 Intro (pp. 28-29) Ch 3 Intro (pp. 47- 49) Bertha Palmer (pp. 7-11) Anzia Yezierka (pp. 20-22) The Harsh Conditions of Domestic (pp.
52-56) Female Perspectives on Great Mig. (pp.
56-59) Agnes Nestor (pp. 59-62) Working Women Write the Jewish (pp.
62-65) Photo Essay (pp. 66-73) Film: Triangle Shirtwaist
Factory Fire |
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O 23 |
Middle-Class Women and
Progressive Reform BFL: pp.
125-130, 138-143, 145-152, 162-164 MAW: Anna J. Cooper (pp. 11-14) Ida B. Wells (pp. 14-17) Jane Addams (pp. 34-37) Mamie Garvin Fields (pp.
40-43) Mary Ritter Beard (pp. 43-46) RR: Robins, WTUL Purpose Gilmore,
“Diplomats to the White Community” Online: Jane
Addams Advocates Civic Housekeeping, 1906 Optional: The Urban Experience in Chicago:
Hull House and Its Neighborhoods |
(link to see assignment) Discussion Questions: - What motivated Progressive (reform-minded)
women? - What types of issues
concerned them; what kinds of reforms did they advocate? - What were similarities and differences
between white and black women’s organizing during the Prog. Era? |
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O 25 |
Progressive Reform continued Radical Women and Rebel
Girls BFL: Ch 7
pp. 160-162, revisit p. 164 Online: Sanger, The Woman Rebel, 1915 MAW: Chapter 4,
All Optional websites: |
Discussion: What kinds of ideas are
represented in the documents, and why were they considered radical at the
time? |
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O 30 |
The Suffrage Movement BFL: Ch 7,
pp. 152-156, 164-173 MAW: Chapter 5, All Online: J. Addams,
Why Women Should Vote Optional websites: Election
of 1912 ( woman’s suffrage pages); National Woman’s
Party photos |
Document discussion - What were main arguments for women’s
suffrage? Against? Who tended to
advocate suffrage? Who tended to oppose? |
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N 1 |
Modern Women in the 1920s BFL: Ch 8 MAW: Chapter
6, All RR: Fass, “Sex and Youth in Jazz Age” Online:Magazine
Advertisements |
Homework: Make 2 lists (8 points) 1.
Ways
women were “liberated” in this era 2. Ways women were still
limited Discussion Questions: - Did achieving suffrage work the way
suffrage advocates intended? - Why were women split over the ERA? - What happened to female reform movements
in the 20s, and why? |
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N 6 |
The Great Depression and
New Deal in the 1930s BFL: Ch 9 MAW: Chapter
7, All Online: Social
Security authors |
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N 8 |
World War II BFL: Ch 10,
pp.219-234, 239-241 Film: The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter |
Discussion: how does the
film match up with your reading? (what is the same, and what is left out?) |
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N 13 |
1950s and early 1960s BFL: Ch 10,
pp. 234-9, Ch 11, Ch 12 pp. 263-269 MAW: Women Strike for Peace, pp. 217-220 Online: Friedan, Feminine
Mystique, Ch 1 - Governor
Adlai Stevenson’s Speech to Smith College women, 1955 RR: - Feminine Mystique, Sexual Sell
chapter - J. Meyerowitz, “Beyond the
Feminine Mystique” - W. Breines, “The Other
Fifties” - (optional) Farnham and
Lundberg, Modern Woman |
Be prepared to discuss Betty
Friedan’s Feminine Mystique and the Adlai Stevenson document in
particular |
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N 15 |
1950s cont. Civil Rights BFL: Ch 11,
pp. 259-260, Ch 12, pp. 270-273 MAW: Rosa
Parks & V. F. Durr, pp. 220-226 RR: Septima
Clark |
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N 20 |
Second Wave Feminism Lecture outline BFL: Ch 12
pp. 273-285 MAW: pp.
235-7 Founding NOW, pp. 237-240 Robin Morgan, pp. 240-243 Pat Mainardi, pp. 243-246 RR: Morgan,
Goodbye to All That Susan Griffin, Rape Optional: Sara Evans’ personal account Online: A
Kind of Memo by Casey Hayden &
Mary King 1965 Anne
Koedt, Myth of Vaginal Orgasm |
Document Analysis & Discussion Assignment (link here to see) Make sure to pay attention
to when the document was created (e.g. mid 60s, late 60s, early 70s?)
and whether it seems to represent liberal feminism or radical feminism. |
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Thanksgiving break |
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N 27 |
Film: Passing the Torch RR: N.
MacLean, “History of Working Women and Affirmative Action” |
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N 29 |
Second Wave Feminism
& the 1970s BFL: Ch 13 MAW: Kate
Shanley, pp. 246—9 Black Feminism, pp. 249-257 Michele Wallace, pp. 257-262 P. Schlafly, pp. 264-267 J. Tillmon, pp. 286-289 RR: Roe v.
Wade Chicana Consciousness Milkulski, Working class feminism Online: |
Document discussion (link here to see
which documents you’ve been assigned) |
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D 4 |
Film: Hilary’s Class |
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D 6 |
1980s & 1990s BFL: Ch 14 MAW: Ch 11 & Ch 13 |
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D 11 |
Class cancelled |
Final Paper Due by Dec. 17 |
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D 13 |
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Second
Exam (link here for study guide) |
