History 697I: Topics in US Women's and Gender History
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Fall 2010
444 Herter Hall
Laura Lovett
635 Herter Hall
545-6778
Office Hours TBA, and By Appt (typically available the hour before class)
This course will focus on selected topics in U. S. women's and gender history from the colonial era to the present. Our focus will be on how interpretations of women's experience have been influenced by changing conceptions of race, ethnicity, sexuality, family, class, religion, region, immigration, economics, and politics. We will consider and compare the lives of Native American women, African American women, Asian American women, Latina women, and European American women from the colonial period through industrialization and into the twentieth century. We will give special consideration to different forms of women's political participation, to the influence of different conceptions of masculinity and femininity on political and cultural discourse, and to changing scientific constructions of body norms, ability and disability, reproduction, race, and eugenics, womanhood and motherhood, heterosexuality and homosexuality.
Evaluation:
Reading Reponses: (30%)
Write a 2-3 page response to each week's reading. The first half of your response should carefully summarize the main arguments of the week's reading, while the second half of you response should offer your critical appraisal of those arguments, their presentation, and their evidential support. Because you have a limited amount of space, you cannot discuss everything assigned for each week. Please focus your response of the argument or theme that you find most significant or interesting. Your responses should be submitted through the assignment link on our course Spark page by 9am on Wednesday. (If you do not have access to Spark, please email your response to me.) Your first response is due on September 15th for the reading on Women and the Writing of History reading assigned for that day. Your responses will be graded on three-point scale with 3 being highest and 1 lowest. Your responses will be released to the class after our class meeting for review or comment. If you must miss class, this will allow you to get a glimpse of the discussion that you missed and to participate in some capacity.
Discussion Facilitator and Weekly Participation (30%)
The success of this seminar depends on your active engagement and participation every week. The response papers should help you organize your thoughts before coming to class. Please be ready to share your reflections.
Each week one of us will act as the discussion facilitator. Facilitators will begin the seminar with a short (5 minutes or so) presentation that provides an overview of the week's reading, what they consider to be the central issues raised in the reading, and 2 or 3 questions to launch class discussion. Each week, we will have a historiographical essay to help situate the reading. These essays should make facilitating an intellectually engaging discussion possible. The facilitator's role is to get us started and to keep us going, not carry the conversation. If you have any questions about how to facilitate a seminar discussion or about your week's reading, please meet with me. A sign-up sheet for discussions will be circulated at our first meeting. The schedule will be posted on our class website.
Historiography Paper (40%)
Write a 12-15 page historiography paper on a topic of your choice related to U.S. Women's and Gender history. I will distribute a list of emerging areas in this field that do not appear on this syllabus. You may want to consider one of these areas or propose an area that you think is new and emerging or not included on our syllabus. This paper is intended to allow you to extend and sharpen your skills of historiographical analysis. Your paper should discuss the most important works related to your area and critically analyze how the scholarship you are considering has developed over time. Please consider how and why the questions, methodologies, sources, and interpretations in your chosen area have changed over time? Among the starting points for historiographical considerations are review essays published in the journals such as the Journal of American History, American Historical Reviews, Reviews in American History, the Journal of Women's History, Signs, Gender and History, Women's Review of Books, etc.
If you have a documented disability that may affect your performance in the class, please speak to the instructor as soon as possible so that appropriate arrangements can be made.
Texts: (available at Food For Thought Books and On Reserve in the UMASS Library -3 day reserve so contact the class if you need it.)
* Kathleen Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches & Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia (UNC Press, 1996).
* Susan J. Kleinberg, Eileen Boris and Vicki Ruiz, Eds., The Practice of U.S. Women's History: Narratives, Intersections, and Dialogues (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2007).
Additional reading will be determined by the seminar.
Reading: You are expected to do the assigned reading in advance of each class. Chapters, Articles, and Excerpts are posted on Spark in teh Reading Folder.
Course Website: https://spark.oit.umass.edu
Schedule (subject to change)
Reading:
* Nicholas Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn, Half the Sky (excerpts handed out and posted).
* Alice Kessler-Harris, "Do We Still Need Women's History?," The Chronicle Review December 7, 2007.
FIRST ASSIGNMENT: WE will make the syllabus. Below are some general topics (organized chronologically). They show what I've taught before but they should only be a starting point. Please peruse The Practice of Women's History, the Research Database, "America: History and Life" and the JAH, AHR and JWH to get a sense of what you might like to propose. WE can always use my syllabus as a fall-back but I would prefer to have you help shape our reading this semester.
9/15 Women and the Writing of History:
In class: The History of the Woman Suffrage Movement, 1889, Susan Brownell Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Matilda Joslyn Gage and Ida Husted Harper
* Gerda Lerner, "Placing Women in History," Feminist Studies 3 (1975) 5-14.
* Rayna Green, "The Pocahontas Perplex," Massachusetts Review 27 (1975).
* Julie Des Jardins, Women and the Historical Enterprise in America: Gender, Race, and the Politics of Memory, 1880-1945, Introduction (DesJardins1)
* Susan J. Kleinberg, Eileen Boris and Vicki Ruiz, "Introductions," in The Practice of U.S. Women's History: Narratives, Intersections, and Dialogues
Recommended resources: OVERVIEWS: Bonnie Smith, The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice.
Nina Baym, American Women Writers and the Work of History, 1790-1860.
Julie Des Jardins, Women and the Historical Enterprise in America: Gender, Race, and the Politics of Memory, 1880-1945
,Ellen Fitzpatrick, History's Memory: writing America's Past 1880-1980. Historiography:
- Nancy Hewitt, Ed., A Companion to American Women's History
- "The Future of Women's History: Considering the State of U.S. Women's History." Journal of Women's History 15 (Spring 2003): 145-171.
- TOPICS: Nancy Cott (ed), A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard OR Cott, "Two Beards: Coauthorship and the Concept of Civilization," American Quarterly 42 (1990).
Angie Debo, And Still the Waters: The Betrayal of the Five Civilized Tribes (1940), Gerda Lerner, Fireweed: A Political Autobiography.
Reading:
* Kathleen Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches & Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia
* Jennifer Morgan, "'Some Could Suckle Over Their Shoulder'," The William And Mary Quarterly 54 (1997) 167-192.
* Ann Stoler, "Tense and Tender Ties: The Politics of Comparison in North American History and (Post) Colonial Studies," Haunted by Empire (Duke University Press, 2006), 23-67.
* Gail MacLeitch, "'Your Women Are of No Small Consequence': Native American Women, Gender, and Early American History," in The Practice of U.S. Women's History: Narratives, Intersections, and Dialogues
Recommended Reading:
- Karen Anderson, Chain Her by One Foot: The Subjugation of Native Women in Seventeenth Century New France
- Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum, Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft
- Richard Buel and Joy Buel, The Way of Duty: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America
- Nancy F. Cott, The Bonds of Womanhood: 'Woman's Sphere' in New England, 1780-1835
- Cornelia Dayton. Women Before the Bar: Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789.
- John Demos, The Unredeemed Captive
- Carol Groneman and Mary Beth Norton, eds."To Toil the Livelong Day": America's Women at Work, 1780-1980.
- Ramon Gutierrez, When Jesus Came, the Corm Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846
- Ronald Hoffman and Albert, Peter, eds. Women in the Age of the American Revolution.
- Carol F. Karlsen, The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England
- Linda Kerber, Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America
- Mary Beth Norton, Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800
- Joan Gunderson, To Be Useful in the World: Women in Revolutionary America
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Good Wives
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwives Tale
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, The Age of Homespun
- Sandra VanBurkleo. "Belonging to the World": Women's rights and American constitutional culture.
Reading:
* Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwives Tale
* Jeanne Boydston, "The Pastoralization of Housework," Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic (Oxford 1991).
* Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, "The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in Nineteenth-Century America," Signs 1 (1975), 1-30.
Recommended Reading:
- Jeanne Boydston, et al., The Limits of Sisterhood: The Beecher Sisters on Women's Rights and Woman's Sphere.
- Frances Cogan, All-American Girl: The Ideal of Womanhood in Mid-Nineteenth Century America
- Nancy Cott, The Bonds of Womanhood: 'Woman's Sphere' in New England, 1780-1835
- Carl Degler, At Odds: Women and the Family from the Revolution to the Present.
- Ann Douglas, The Feminization of American Culture
- Dolores Hayden, The Grand Domestic Revolution
- Nancy Hewitt, "Taking the True Woman Hostage," Journal of Women's History 14 (2002) 156-162.
- Mary Kelley, Private Woman, Public Stage: Literary Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century America
- William Leach, True Love and Perfect Union
- Gerda Lerner, "The Lady and the Mill Girl: Changes in the Status of Women in the Age of Jackson," Mid-Continental American Studies Journal 10 (1969) 5-15.
- Mary Ryan, Cradle of the Middleclass
- Martha Saxton, Being Good
- Laura Shapiro, Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century
- Kathryn Kish Sklar, Catharine Beecher
- Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America
Reading:
* Lori Ginzburg, Women and the Work of Benevolence: Morality , Politics, and Class in the Nineteenth Century United States.
* Elizabeth Clapp, "The Woman Suffrage Movement, 1848-1920," in The Practice of U.S. Women's History: Narratives, Intersections, and Dialogues
Recommended Reading:
- Ellen DuBois, Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women's Movement in America, 1848-1869
- Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, "Discontented Black Feminists: Prelude and Postscript to the Passage of the Nineteenth Amendment." In Decades of Discontent: The Women's Movement, 1920-1940, eds. Lois Scharf and Joan M. Jensen.
- Jean Baker, Ed., Votes For Women: The Struggle for Suffrage Revisited
- Ann Gordon, Joyce Berkman, et al.Ed., African American Women and the Vote, 1837-1965
- Mary Jo Buhle and Paul Buhle, Eds., The Concise History of Woman Suffrage: Selections from the Classic Work of Stanton, Antony, Gage, and Harper.
- Nancy Cott, The Grounding of Modern Feminism
- Barbara Epstein, The Politics of Domesticity: Women, Evangelism, and Temperance in Nineteenth Century America.
- Eleanor Flexner, Century of Struggle: The Women's Rights movement in the United States (1959).
- Allison Schneider, Suffragists in an Imperial Age: U.S. Expansion and the Woman Question, 1870-1929
- Aileen Kraditor, Ed., Up from the Pedestal: Selected Writings in the History of American Feminism.
- Cheris Kramarea and Ann Russo, Eds., The Radical Women's Press of the 1850s.
- Sylvia Hoffert, When Hens Crow: The Women's Rights Movement in Antebellum America.
- Kristin Hoganson, "'As Badly Off as the Filipinos': U.S. Women's Suffragists and the Imperial Issue at the Turn of the Century," Journal of Women's History 13 (2001), 9-33.
- Susan Marshall, Splintered Sisterhood: Gender and Class in the Campaign against Woman Suffrage
- Alice Rossi, Ed., The Feminist Papers.
- Marjorie Spruill Wheeler, New Women of the New South: The Leaders of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the Southern States.
- Rosalynn Terborg-Penn, African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920.
Reading:
* Martha Hodes, White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth Century South.
* Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, "African-American Women's History and the Metalanguage of Race." Signs 17 (Winter 1992): 251-274.
* Susan Grant, "To Bind Up the Nation's Wounds: Women and the American Civil War," in The Practice of U.S. Women's History: Narratives, Intersections, and Dialogues
Recommended Reading:
- Victoria Bynum, Unruly Women: The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South
- Catherine Clinton, The Plantation Mistress
- Elizabeth Fox-Genovese. Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South.
- Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor
- Herbert Gutman, The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925
- Deborah Gray White, Aren't I A Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South
- Jacqueline Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow
- Suzanne Lebsock, The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town.
- Stephanie McCurry, Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country
- Sally McMillen, Southern Women: Black and White in the Old South.
- Tiya Miles, Ties that Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom
- Patricia Morton, Ed., Discovering Women in Slavery: Emancipating Perspectives on the American Past.
- Celia Naylor, "More at Home with the Indians": African-American Slaves and Freedpeople in the Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, 1838-1907
- Julie Saville, The Work of Reconstruction: From Slave to Wage Laborer in South Carolina,1860-1870
- Dorothy Sterling, Ed., We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century.
- Jean Fagan Yellin, Women and Sisters: The Antislavery Feminists in American Culture.
Primaries:
- Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- Gerda Lerner, Ed., Black Women in White America: A Documentary History.
10/20
Reading:
* Glenda Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow
* Gail Bederman, ""The White Man's Civilization on Trial": Ida B. Wells, Representations of Lynching, and Northern Middle-Class Manhood," in Manliness and Civilization (University of North Carolina Press, 1995), pp. 45-76.
* Laura Briggs, "Gender and Imperialism," in The Practice of U.S. Women's History: Narratives, Intersections, and Dialogues
Recommended Reading:
- Angela Davis, Women, Race, and Class
- Kevin Gaines, Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century.
- Paula Giddings, Where and When I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America.
- Joyce Hanson, Mary McCleod Bethune: Black Women's Political Activism.
- Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church 1880-1920.
- Kristin Hoganson. Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars
- Tera Hunter. To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labor After the Civil War.
- Linda Kerber. No Constitutional Right to be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship.
- Carol Lasser, "Slavery, Gender, and the Meaning of Freedom," Gender and History 13 (2001) 161-166.
- Cynthia Neverdon-Morton, Afro-American Women of the South and the Advancement of the Race, 1895-1925.
- Louise Newman. White Women's Rights: The Racial Origins of Feminism in the United States
- Deborah Gray White, Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994.
- Karin Zipf, "Reconstructing ÔFree Woman': African American Women, Apprenticeship, and Custody Rights during Reconstruction," Journal of Women's History 12 (2000), 8-31.
Reading:
* Laura Briggs, Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and US Imperialism in Puerto Rico
* Joan W. Scott, "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis," American Historical Review 91 (December 1986): 1053-1075.
* Amy Kaplan, "Manifest Domesticity," American Literature 70 (1998) 581-606.
Recommended Reading:
- T.J. Boisseau, "White Queens at the Chicago World's Fair, 1893: New Womanhood in the Service of Class, Race, and Nation" Gender and History, 12, April 2000.
- Hoganson, Kristin L.,"As Badly off as the Filipinos": U.S. Women's Suffragists and the Imperial Issue at the Turn of the Twentieth Century," Journal of Women's History 13 (2001), pp. 9-33.
- Catherine Lutz and Jane Collins, Reading National Geographic. The University of Chicago Press. 1993.
- Mari Yoshihara. Embracing the East: White Women and American Orientalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Cynthia Enloe, Bananas, Beaches, and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics. Univ. of California Press. 1989.
11/3
Reading:
* Anzia Yezierska, Bread Givers (Persea Books; 3rd edition, 2003)
* Amy Kaplan, "Manifest Domesticity," American Literature 70 (1998) 581-606.
* Donna Gabaccia and Vicki Ruiz, "Migrations and Destinations: Reflections on the Histories of U.S. Immigrant Women," in The Practice of U.S. Women's History: Narratives, Intersections, and Dialogues
Optional: (one of the following)
* Nan Enstead, Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure
* Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements.
* Annelise Orleck, Common Sense and a Little Fire
* Martha Gardner, The Qualities of a Citizen
* Laura Shaprio, Perfection Salad.
11/24
POSSIBLE TOPICS:
* Nancy Cott, The Grounding of Modern Feminism (Yale 1987), 3-10.
Recommended Reading:
- Katherine M. B. Osburn, Southern Ute Women: Autonomy and Assimilation on the Reservation, 1887-1934.
- Woodsum, Jo Ann. "Gender and Sexuality in Native American Societies: A Bibliography." American Indian Quarterly 19 (Fall 1995): 527-54.
Eugenics Then and Now: Meet with Banu Subramaniam
* Alex Stern, Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America, (University of California Press, 2005).
* Vicki Ruiz, "Morena/o, Blanca/o, y CafŽ con Leche: Racial Constructions in Chicana/o Historiography," in The Practice of U.S. Women's History: Narratives, Intersections, and Dialogues
Reading:
* Elaine Tyler May, America and the Pill
* Rebecca Kluchin, Fit to Be Tied.
Kathy Moran-Hajo, Birth Control on Main Street: Organized Clinics in the United States, 1916-1939
Recommended Reading:
Linda Gordon, The Moral Property of Women
Johanna Schoen, Choice and Coersion: Birth Control, Sterilization and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare
- Ellen Chesler, Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America.
- Adele Clarke, Disciplining Reproduction
- Janet Golden, A Social History of Wet Nursing in America: From Breast to Bottle.
- Elena Gutierrez, Loretta Ross, Marlene Gerber Fried, and Jael Silliman, Undivided Rights: Women Of Color Organize For Reproductive Justice
- Carol Joffe, Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion Before and After Roe v. Wade.
- Judith Walzer Leavitt, Brought to Bed: Child-bearing in America, 1750-1950
- Kristin Luker, Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood
- Carol Maxwell, Pro-Life Activists in America: Meaning, Motivation, and Direct Action.
- Elaine Tyler May, Barren in the Promised Land
- Michele Mitchell, Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny after Reconstruction
- Leslie Reagan, When Abortion was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973
- James Reed, From Private Vice to Public Virtue: The Birth Control Movement and American Society Since 1830.
- Philip Reilly, The Surgical Solution" A History of Involuntary Sterilization.
- Dorothy Roberts, Killing the Black Body
- Laurie Schrage, "From reproductive Rights to reproductive Barbie: Post-Porn Modernism and Abortion," Feminist Studies 18 (2002), 61-93.
- Ricki Solinger, Wake Up Little Susie
- Ricki Solinger, Ed., Abortion Wars: A Half Century of Struggle, 1950-2000.
- Alexandra Stern, Eugenic Nation
Primaries:
- Margaret Sanger, The Pivot of Civilization (1922)
Reading:
* Annelise Orleck, Storming Caesar's Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty
á Alice Kessler-Harris, "Questions of Equity," in In Pursuit of Equity.
Recommended Reading:
- Mimi Abramovitz, Regulating the Lives of Women. Social Welfare policy From Colonial Times to the Present.
- Mari Jo Buhle , Women and American Socialism, 1870-1920.
- Hazel Carby, "Policing the Black Woman's Body in an Urban Context," Critical Inquiry 4 (l992), 738-55.
- Jill Quadango, The Color of Welfare.
Mina Carson, Settlement Folk: The Evolution of Social Welfare Ideology in the American Settlement Movement, 1883-1930.
- Linda Gordon, Pitied But Not Entitled
- Linda Gordon, ed. Women, The State, and Welfare.
- Seth Koven and Sonya Michel, eds. Mothers of a New World.
- Regina G. Kunzel, Fallen Women, Problem Girls Unmarried Mothers and the Professionalization of Social Work, l890-l945
- Molly Ladd-Taylor, Mother-Work
- Wauneema Lubiano, "Black Ladies, Welfare Queens, and State Minstrels: Ideological War by Narrative Means," in Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power.
- Gwendolyn Mink, The Wages of Motherhood: Inequality in the Welfare State, 1917-1942.
- Premilla Nadason, "Expanding the Boundaries of the Women's Movement: Black Feminism and the Struggle for Welfare Rights," Feminist Studies 28 (2002) 269-301.
- Annelise Orleck, Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965.
- Ann S. Orloff, "Gender in Early U.S. Social Policy," Journal of Policy History (Fall 1991)
- Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements.
- Wendy Sarvasy, "Beyond the Difference Versus Equality Policy Debate:Post-Suffrage Feminism, Citizenship, and the Quest for a Feminist Welfare State," Signs (Winter 1992).
- Theda Skocpol, Protecting Mothers and Soldiers
- Dorothy Roberts, Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare
Reading:
* Constance
Curry, Joan C. Browning, and Dorothy Dawson Burlage, Deep in Our
Hearts: Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement (University of Georgia
Press,
2002).
* J. Anthony Lukas, "Sue" in Don't Shoot We Are Your Children (Random House, 1968, excerpt)
* Winifred Breines, "Introduction," in The Trouble Between Us: An Uneasy History of White and Black Women in the Feminist Movement (Oxford University Press, 2006).
* Mary Ellen Curtain, " Strong People and Strong Leaders: African American Women and the Modern Black Freedom Struggle," in The Practice of U.S. Women's History: Narratives, Intersections, and Dialogues
Reading:
* Kennedy, Elizabeth Lapovsky and Madeline D. Davis, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold : The History of a Lesbian Community
* Leisa Meyer, "Interrupting Norms and Constructing Deviances: Competing Frameworks in the Histories of Sexualities in the United States," in The Practice of U.S. Women's History: Narratives, Intersections, and Dialogues
Recommended Reading:
- Martin Duberman, Martha Vicinus, & George Chauncey, Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past
- D'Emilio, John, and Estelle B. Freedman. Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America.
- Lillian Faderman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers
- Katz, Jonathan Ned, The Invention of Heterosexuality
- Rachel P. Maines, The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction
- Joanne Meyerowitz, How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States.
- Russo, Vito, The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies.
- Sharon Ullman, Sex Seen: The Emergence of Modern Sexuality in America
- Jennifer Terry, An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society
- Jennifer Terry and Jacqueline Urla, Deviant Bodies: Critical Perspectives on Difference in Science and Popular Culture
Reading:
* Jacqueline Castledine, Breaking the Waves.
* Anne Valk, Radical Sisters: Second-Wave Feminism and Black Liberation in Washington, D.C. (University of Illinois Press, 2008).
* Mary P. Ryan, "Where Does Sex Divide?" in Mysteries of Sex (UNC Press, 2006).
* Benita Roth, Separate Roads to Feminism: Black, Chicana, and White Feminist Movements in America's Second Wave
* Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
Recommended Reading:
- Vicki Crawford, Jacqueline Anne Rouse, and Barbara Woods, eds. Women in the Civil Rights Movement: trailblazers and torchbearers, 1941-1965.
- Sara Evans, Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left
- Estele Freedman, No Turning Back: the history of feminism and the future of women.
- Jane Gerhard, Desiring Revolution: second-wave feminism and the rewriting of American sexual thought, 1920 to 1982.
- Linda Gordon and Susan Reverby, Dear Sisters: Dispatches from the Women's Liberation Movement.
- Elaine Tyler May, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War
- Joanne Meyerowitz, Ed., Not June Cleaver.
- Sandra Morgan, Into Our Hands: The Women's Health Movement in the United States, 1969-1990.
- Ruth Rosen, The World Split Open
- Rosalind Rosenberg, Divided Lives: American Women in the 20th Century
- Nancy Whitier, Feminist generations: The Persistence of the Radical Women's Movement
- Jessica Weiss, To Have and to Hold
Primary:
- Friedan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique.
Reading:
* Natasha Zaretsky, No Direction Home: The American Family and the Fear of National Decline, 1968-1980
Recommended Reading:
- Christina Klein, "Family Ties and Political Obligation: The Discourse of Adoption and the Cold War Commitment to Asia," in Cold War Constructions: The Political Culture of United States Imperialism, 1945 - 1966, ed. by Christian Appy. The University of Massachusetts Press. 2000.
- Elaine Tyler May, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era. Basic Books, 1999.
Sex, Race and Urban Experiences
Recommended Reading:
- Cohen, Patricia Cline. The Murder of Helen Jewett: the Life and Death of Prostitute in Nineteenth Century New York.
- Halttunen, Karen. Murder Most Foul: The Killer and the America Gothic Imagination.
- Alexa B. Henderson and Eugene Walker. Sweet Auburn: The Thriving Hub of Black Atlanta, 1900-1960
- Karen Leong, The China Mystique: Pearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong, Mayling Soong, and the Transformation of American Orientalism
- Mary P. Ryan, Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in American Cities During the 19th Century
- Nayan Shah, Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown
- Judy Wu, Dr. Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime Celebrity
Education
Recommended Reading:
- Evelyn Brooks Barnett, "Nannie Burroughs and the Education of Black Women," in Sharon Harley and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, eds., The Afro-American Woman.
- Willystine Goodsell, The Education of Women: Its Social Background and Its Problems.
- Lynn Gordon, Gender and Higher Education in the Progressive Era
- Beverly Guy-Sheftall and Jo Moore Stewart, Spelman: A Centennial Celebration, 1881-1981.
- Sherrie Inness, "'It Is Pluck But Is It Sense?': Athletic Student Culture in Progressive Era Girls' College Fiction." Journal of Popular Culture 27, no. 1 (1993): 99-123.
- Polly Welts Kaufman, Woman Teachers on the Frontier
- Mary Odem, Delinquent Daughters
- Patricia Palmieri, "Patterns of Achievement of Single Academic Women at Wellesley College 1880-1920," Frontiers 5 (1980) 63-67.
- Anne Firor Scott, "The Ever-Widening Circle: The Diffusing of Feminist Values from the Troy Female Seminary," History of Education Quarterly 19 (1979), 3-25.
- Barbara Solomon, In the Company of Educated Women
- Martha Verbrugge, Able-Bodied Womanhood: Personal Health and Social Change in Nineteenth Century Boston
- Maris Vinovskis and Richard Bernard, "The Female Schoolteacher in Antebellum Massachusetts," Journal of Social History 10 (1977), 332-345.
Primaries:
- Clarke, Edward H. Sex in Education: A Fair Chance for the Girls. Boston: James R. Osgood and Co., 1873
- Hollingsworth, Leta. "Variability as Related to Sex Differences in Achievement: A Critique." American Journal of Sociology 19 (1913-1914): 510-530.
Recommended Reading:
- Elizabeth Ewen, Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars.
- Donna Gabaccia, From The Other Side: Women, Gender, and Immigrant life in the U.S., 1820-1990
- Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Issei, Nissei, War Bride: Thee Gnerations of Japanese American Women in Domestic Service.
- Susan Glenn, Daughters of the Shtetl: Life and labor in the Immigrant Generation.
- Huping Ling. Surviving on the Gold Mountain: A History of Chinese American Women and their Lives.
- Emma Perez, The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History.
- Vicki Ruiz, From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America
- Evelyn Shakir, Bint Arab: Arab and Arab American Women in the United States.
- Suzanne Sinke, Dutch Immigrant Women in the United States, 1880–1920.
- Judy Yung. Unbound Voices: a documentary history of Chinese women in San Francisco.
Primary:
- Anzia Yezierska, The Bread Givers
Recommended Reading:
- Susan Armitage, "Through Women's Eyes: A New View of the West," in Armitage and Jameson, The Women's West
- Sarah Deutsch, No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class, and Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic Frontier in the American Southwest, 1880-1940
- Elizabeth Jameson, "Toward a Multi-Cultural History of Women in the Western United States," Signs (1988).
- Peggy Pascoe, "Western Women at the Cultural Crossroads," in Limerick, Milner, and Rankin, Trails: Toward a New Western History .
- Ant—nia I. Casta–eda, "Women of Color and the Rewriting of Western History: The Discourse, Politics, and Decolonization of History," in Pacific Historical Review (1992).
- Susan Johnson, "'A Memory Sweet to Soldiers': The Significance of Gender," in Milner, A New Significance: Re-Envisioning the History of the American West.
- Vera Norwood, Made from This Earth: American Women and Nature.
- Lillian Schlissel, Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey
Science and Women
- Recommended: Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- Dorothy Roberts, Race and the New Bio-citizen: What's the Use of Race? Modern Governance and the Biology of Difference
- Linda Lear: Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature
- Giovanna di Chiro,