FALL SEMESTER 2004

HISTORY 697D: SYLLABUS

GRADUATE TOPICS COURSE: WOMEN AND GENDER IN US HISTORY

 

Professor Joyce Avrech Berkman

Office: Herter Hall 605

Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2:45-4:15 PM and by appointment

Office Phone: 545-6759

Home Address: 66 Cottage Street, Amherst, MA 01002

Home Phone: 549-0659 and 549-0089

Email: jberkman@history.umass.edu

 

 

 

“To ignore women is not simply to ignore a significant subgroup within the social structure.  It is to misunderstand and distort the entire organization of that society.” Carroll Smith Rosenberg

 

“…the most dramatic shift in my own thinking came through asking questions about HOW hierarchies such as those of gender are constructed and legitimized.” Joan Wallach Scott

 

 

 

Course Objectives:

1.       To deepen understanding of the array of influences and their interconnections that shape women’s experience and consciousness and behavior.

2.       To gain insights into the relationships between WHAT we know and HOW we know, including the values that we and other scholars bring to a question.

3.       To grapple with the some of the major scholarly debates within the field of women’s history.

 

The following readings offer a balance between groundbreaking essays and books, in effect what now serves as canonical scholarship, and the most recent scholarship on a topic. A one semester course can not possibly cover all the major topics in the field of US women and gender history.  My choices of topics varies from semester to semester. Similarly, the lists of required and recommended readings are not exhaustive of the major works for a given topic. They constitute a selection of some of the most important scholarship for that topic. Finally, this syllabus is open to adjustments. As I discover class interests and needs, I may revise sections.  Please feel easy about getting in touch with me and arranging appointments. I look very much forward to coming to know each of you outside the class.

 

 

 

SCHEDULE:

 

9/8   CHARTING OUR COURSE: INTRODUCTION

Handout: Laurel Ulrich, "A Pail of Cream" from "Round Table on Self and Subject," JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY 89, 1(June 2002): 17-53

 

 

 

 

PLEASE NOTE: Since this is a graduate course, background in US women's history at the undergraduate level or in another graduate course is essential. If you have not had a survey course in US women's history or taken such a course some time ago, you will benefit from the following two texts. I expect each of you to be familiar with its relevant documents and essays as they bear on each week's discussion.

Basic Survey Texts in US Women's History

1.       Nancy Woloch, WOMEN AND THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, 3rd. edition, McGraw Hill, 2000

2.       Linda Kerber and Jane Sherron De Hart edited WOMEN’S AMERICA: REFOCUSING THE PAST, 6th edition, Oxford, 2003

You are also invited to attend my lectures in History 388 during the fall and History 389 during the spring.

 

Although I will be assigning particular writing in women's history theory, methods, and historiography, for a general introduction to feminist and gender theory the following readings are useful. They are not required.

Recommended for Theory

1.       Judy Wajeman, "Reflections on Gender and Technology Studies: In What State is the Art?", SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE, 30, 3(June 2000): 447-464.

2.       "Openings on the Body: A Critical Introduction" in Janet Price and Margrit Shildrick edited FEMINIST THEORY AND THE BODY: A READER, 1-20.

3.       Linda McDowell, GENDER IDENTITY AND PLACE: FEMINIST GEOGRAPHIES, 1999

4.    Rosemarie Tong, FEMINIST THOUGHT: A MORE COMPREHENSIVE INTRODUCTION, 1998

 

9/15 NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN:

CATEGORIES OF ANALYSIS

          

List A Required:

1. Kathleen M. Brown,  GOOD WIVES, NASTY WENCHES AND ANXIOUS PATRIARCHS: GENDER, RACE AND POWER IN COLONIAL VIRGINIA, 1996

2. Evelyn Brooks Higgenbotham, “African-American Women’s History and the Metalanguage of Race” SIGNS 17, 2(Winter, 1992).

3. Joan Wallach Scott, “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis” AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, 91, 5(December 1986), also printed in various volumes of Scott has written or edited, e.g.GENDER AND THE POLITICS OF HISTORY, 1988 and FEMINISM AND HISTORY, 1996.

 

List B Required:

1.       Louis Montrose, “The Work of Gender in the Discourse of Discovery,” REPRESENTATIONS  33 (Winter 1991): 1-41

2.       Richard C. Trexler, "Making the American Berdache: Choice or Constraint?" JOURNAL OF SOCIAL HISTORY, 35, 3 (Spring 2002), 613-633.

3.       Nancy Cott et. al. "Considering the State of U.S. Women's History," JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S HISTORY, 15, 1 (Spring 2003): 145-163.

4.       Stephanie Wood, “Sexual Violation in the Conquest of the Americas,” and Gordon Sayre, “Native American Sexuality in the Eyes of the Beholders, 1535-1710,” in SEX AND SEXUALITY IN EARLY AMERICA, ed. Merril D. Smith , 1998

 

Recommended:

1.       Theda Perdue, CHEROKEE WOMEN: GENDER, CULTURE AND CHANGE, 1700-1835, 1998

2.       Carol Devens, SEPARATE CONFRONTATIONS: INDIAN WOMEN AND CHRISTIAN MISSIONS, 1630-1900, 1992

3.       Nancy Shoemaker, ed., NEGOTIATORS OF CHANGE: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN, 1995

4.       Laura Klein and Lillian Ackerman eds., WOMEN AND POWER IN NATIVE NORTH AMERICA, 1995

5.       Karen Anderson, CHAIN HER BY ONE FOOT: THE SUBJUGATION OF NATIVE WOMEN IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY NEW FRANCE, 1991

6.       Ramon Gutierrez, WHEN JESUS CAME, THE CORN MOTHER WENT AWAY: MARRIAGE, SEXUALITY AND POWER IN NEW MEXICO, 1500-1846, 1991

7.       Gretchen L. Green, “Gender and the Longhouse: Iroquois Women in a Changing Culture” and Eirlys M. Barker, “Princesses, Wives, and Wenches: White Perceptions of Southeastern Indian Women to 1770”  in WOMEN AND FREEDOM IN EARLY AMERICA, ed. Larry D. Eldridge, 1997

8.       Nancy Shoemaker, “How Indians Got to be Red” in AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW 102 (June 1997): 625-644.

9.       Mary C. Wright "The Woman's Lodge: Constructing Gender on the Nineteenth-Century Pacific Northwest Plateau," FRONTIERS, 24, 1: 1-18.

10.   John Demos,  THE UNREDEEMED CAPTIVE: A FAMILY STORY FROM EARLY AMERICA, 1995

11.   Kathyrn Z. Derounian-Stodala, ed. WOMEN'S INDIAN CAPTIVITY NARRATIVES, 1998

 

 

9/22   COLONIAL EUROPEAN WOMEN'S  LIFE AND LABOR IN NEW ENGLAND:TYPES OF EVIDENCE/MODES OF NARRATIVE

 

List A Required:

1.       Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, GOOD WIVES, 1980, 1991: Read Introduction, one of the three Parts, and Afterword

2.       Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A MIDWIFE’S TALE, 1990: Read Introduction and select two chapters for close study.

3.       Marla Miller, "Gender, Artisanry, and Craft Tradition in Early New England: The View through the Eye of a Needle," WILLIAM AND MARY QUARTERLY, LX, 4 (October, 2003): 743-776

 

List B Required:

1.       Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, “Wheels, Looms, and the Gender Division of Labor: Eighteenth-Century New England,” WILLIAM AND MARY QUARTERLY, LV,1 (January, 1998)

2.       Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, “Of Pins and Needles: Sources in Early American Women’s History” in JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY 77(1990): 200-07

3.       Carole Shammas, "The Domestic Environment in Early Modern England and America," JOURNAL OF SOCIAL HISTORY 31 (1980): 3-24

4.       Laurel Thatcher Ulrich,THE AGE OF HOMESPUN, 2001

 

Recommended:

1.       If possible, see the video of A MIDWIFE'S TALE, available through Umass AIMS and some video stores. See related series of responses, including one by Marla Miller, in "Dialogue: Paradigm Shift Books: A MIDWIFE'S TALE by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich" JOURNAL OF WOMEN' S HISTORY 14, 3 (Autumn, 2002): 133-161.

2.       Mary Beth Norton, LIBERTY’S DAUGHTERS: THE REVOLUTIONARY EXPERIENCE OF   AMERICAN WOMEN, 1750-1800, 1980 (Read Colonial Era)

3.       Paula A. Treckel, “TO COMFORT THE HEART”: WOMEN IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA, 1996

4.       Linda K. Kerber, WOMEN OF THE REPUBLIC: INTELLECT AND IDEOLOGY IN REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA, 1980 (Read Colonial Era)

5.       Joan R. Gundersen, TO BE USEFUL TO THE WORLD: WOMEN IN REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA, 1996

6.       Carol Berkin, FIRST GENERATIONS: WOMEN IN COLONIAL AMERICA, 1998

7.        Mary Beth Norton, FOUNDING MOTHERS AND FATHERS: GENDERED POWER AND THE FORMING OF AMERICAN SOCIETY, 1996

 

9/29 SEX, RELIGION, LAW: DISOBEDIENT AND DISSIDENT COLONIAL WOMEN/LEGAL RECORDS

 

List A Required:

1.       Sandra F. VanBurkleo, "BELONGING TO THE WORLD" WOMEN'S RIGHTS AND AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL CULTURE, 2001, Part One, chapter one

2.       Review the excerpt Mary Beth Norton, "Searchers again Assembled," in Kerber and DeHart, eds., WOMEN'S AMERICA, 6th ed. or read section on Thomasina Hall in her FOUNDING MOTHERS AND FATHERS: GENDERED POWER AND THE FORMING OF AMERICAN SOCIETY, 1996

4.       Aaron Spencer Fogleman, "Jesus Is Female: The Moravian Challenge in the German Communities of British North America," WILLIAM AND MARY QUARTERLY, LX, 2 (April 2003): 295-332

5.       Catherine Brekus, STRANGERS AND PILGRIMS: FEMALE PREACHING IN AMERICA, 1740-1845,1998: read Introduction and Chapters that treat First Great Awakening.

 

List B Required:

1.       Else Hambleton, DAUGHTERS OF EVE: PREGNANT BRIDES AND UNWED MOTHERS IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ESSEX COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS, 2004

2.       Else Hambleton, "The Regulation of Sex in Seventeenth Century Massachusetts: The Quarterly Court of Essex County vs. Priscilla Willson and Mr. Samuel Appleton," in  SEX AND SEXUALITY IN EARLY AMERICA, ed. Merril D. Smith, 1998.

3.       Cornelia Hughes Dayton, “Taking the Trade: Abortion and Gender Relations in an Eighteenth-Century New England Village,”WILLIAM AND MARY QUARTERLY, 48 (1991): 19-49

4.       Cornelia Hughes Dayton, WOMEN BEFORE THE BAR: GENDER, LAW AND SOCIETY IN CONNECTICUT, 1639-1789, 1995

5.       Janet Moore Lindman and Michele L. Tarter, eds., A CENTRE OF WONDERS: THE BODY IN EARLY AMERICA, 2001

6.       Susan Klepp, "Colds, Worms, and Hysteria: Menstrual Regulation in Eighteenth-Century America," REGULATING MENSTRUATION, eds. Etienne van de Walle and Elisha Renne. 2001

7.       Jean Marie Lutes, "Negotiating Theology and Gynecology: Anne Bradstreet's Representation of the Female Body, " SIGNS 22, 2(Winter, 1997): 309-340

8.       Irene Quenzler Brown and Richard D. Brown, THE HANGING OF EPHRAIM WHEELER: A STORY OF RAPE, INCEST, AND JUSTICE IN EARLY AMERICA, 2003

9.       Ruth Bloch, GENDER AND MORALITY IN ANGO-AMERICAN CULTURE, 1650-1800. 2003

10.   If you’re interested in the topic of witches and witchhunting, a copious body of scholarship awaits you.

**The most recent work on this subject that I heartily recommend is Mary Beth Norton, IN THE DEVIL'S SNARE: THE SALEM WITCHCRAFT CRISIS OF 1690, 2002

 

Recommended:

1.       Sharon Block and Kathleen M. Brown, "Clio in Search of Eros: Redefining Sexualities in Early America," WILLIAM AND MARY QUARTERLY LX,2(April 2003): 5-12 (The entire issue is useful.)

2.       Ruth H. Bloch, "Changing Conceptions of Sexuality and Romance in Eighteenth-Century America, " THE WILLIAM AND MARY QUARTERLY, LX, 1 (January 2003)

3.       Merril D. Smith,  ed., SEX AND SEXUALITY IN EARLY AMERICA, 1998

4.       Merril D. Smith, ed. SEX WITHOUT CONSENT, 2001

5.       Sharon Block, "Rape and Race in Colonial Newspapers, 1728-1776" JOURNALISM HISTORY 27 (Winter, 2001-2002): 146-155.

 

10/6 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: FEMALE CITIZENSHIP AND NATIONAL IDENTITY

 

List A Required:

1.       Linda K. Kerber, “The Paradox of Women’s Citizenship in the Early Republic: The case of Martin vs. Massachusetts, 1805,” AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, 97(April 1992): 349-378.

2.       Linda K. Kerber, “A Constitutional Right to be Treated Like American Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship,” in US HISTORY AS WOMEN’S HISTORY: NEW FEMINIST ESSAYS, eds. Linda K. Kerber, Alice Kessler Harris, Kathryn Kish Sklar, 1995

3.       Linda K. Kerber, “`May all our Citizens be Soldiers, and all our Soldiers Citizens’: The Ambiguities of Female Citizenship in the New Nation” in ARMS AT REST, eds., Joan R. Challinor and Robert L. Beisma, 1987

4.       Joan Gundersen, “Independence, Citizenship, and the American Revolution,”SIGNS 13 (Autumn 1987)

5.       VanBurkleo, Part One, chapter Two.

 

List B Required:

1.       Ronald Hoffman and Peter Albert, eds., WOMEN IN THE AGE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONS, 1989

2.       Linda K. Kerber, WOMEN OF THE REPUBLIC, 1980 (read chapters on the Revolution and Aftermath)

3.       Mary Beth Norton, LIBERTY'S DAUGHTERS , 1980(read chapters on the Revolution and Aftermath)

 

Recommended:

1.       Carol Pateman, THE SEXUAL CONTRACT, 1988

2.       Joan Hoff, LAW, GENDER, AND INJUSTICE: A LEGAL HISTORY OF WOMEN, 1991

3.       Linda K. Kerber, NO CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO BE LADIES: WOMEN AND THE OBLIGATIONS OF CITIZENSHIP, 1998

4.       Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray, “Gender Slurs in Boston’s Partisan Press during the 1840s,: JOURNAL OF AMERICAN STUDIES, 34, 3(2000): 413-446 (exemplary  footnotes)

10/13 **IN LIEU OF 11/24, THANKSGIVING EVE, LET’S MEET THIS WEEK AND IGNORE THE UNIVERSITY’S DECISION TO HOLD MONDAY CLASSES ON  WEDNESDAY**

 

 CONCEPTUALIZING THE FEMALE BODY: MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVES ON FEMALE NATURE, 1800-1920

 

List A Required:

1.       Cynthia Russett, SEXUAL SCIENCE, 1989

2.       Linda Gordon, THE MORAL PROPERTY OF WOMEN: A HISTORY OF BIRTH CONTROL POLITICS IN AMERICA, Introduction, Parts One and Two

 

List B Required: (plus several titles that address female friendship and intimacy)

1.       Regina Morantz-Sanchez, “Negotiating Power at the bedside: Historical Perspectives on Nineteenth-century Patients and Their Gynecologists,”FEMINIST STUDIES 26, 2(Summer 2000): 287-309 (See useful historical discussion in footnotes)

2.       Carroll Smith Rosenberg, “Puberty to Menopause: The Cycle of Femininity in Nineteenth-Century America,”FEMINIST STUDIES 1(1973):58-72

3.       Simone Weil Davis, "Loose Lips Sink Ships," FEMINIST STUDIES 28, 1(Spring 2002): 7-35 (this essay treats a contemporary surgery, but the cultural assumptions that underpin this surgery trace back to the nineteenth century.

4.       Stephen Robertson, "Signs, Marks, and Private Parts: Doctors, Legal Discourses and Evidence of Rape in the United Sates, 1823-1930,"JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY, 8, 3(January 1998): 345-388

5.       Leila J. Rupp, “`Imagine My Surprise’: Women’s Relationships in Historical Perspective” FRONTIERS: A JOURNAL OF WOMEN’S STUDIES, 5, 3(Fall 1980): 61-70, reprinted in WOMEN AND HEALTH IN AMERICA, ed. Judith Walzer Leavitt, 1984.

6.       Lillian Faderman, ODD GIRLS AND TWILIGHT LOVERS,  1992, Introduction and first two chapters

7.       Lillian Faderman, TO BELIEVE IN WOMEN: WHAT LESBIANS HAVE DONE FOR AMERICA-- A HISTORY, 1999

8.       Carroll Smith Rosenberg, “The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations Between Women in Nineteenth-Century America” SIGNS 1 (1975): 1-30

9.       Nancy Cott, THE BONDS OF WOMANHOOD, 1977, 1997

10.   Blanche Cook, “Female Support Networks and Political Activism:Lillian Wald, Crystal Eastman, Emma Goldman, in A HERITAGE OF HER OWN, eds. Nancy Cott and Elizabeth Pleck, 1979: 412-444.

 

Recommended:

1.       Stephen Robertson, “Signs, Marks, and Private Parts: Doctors, Legal Discourses and Evidence of Rape in the United States, 1823-1930” JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY, 8,3 (January 1998):345-388

2.       Regina Morantz-Sanchez, SYMPATHY AND SCIENCE: WOMEN PHYSICIANS IN AMERICAN MEDICINE, 1985

3.       Janet Farell Brodie, CONTRACEPTION AND ABORTION IN 19TH CENTURY AMERICA, 1994

4.       James Mohr, ABORTION IN AMERICA: THE ORIGINS AND EVOLUTION OF NATIONAL POLICY, 1978

5.       Londa Schiebinger, NATURE’S BODY, 1998

6.       Evelyn Fox Keller, REFLECTIONS ON GENDER AND SCIENCE, 1985

7.       John and Robin Haller Jr. PHYSICIAN AND SEXUALITY IN VICTORIAN AMERICA, 1974

8.       Andrea Tone, DEVICES AND DESIRES: A HISTORY OF CONTRACEPTIVES IN AMERICA, 2001

 

10/2O ANTEBELLUM AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN' S LIVES/AUTOBIOGRAPHY

 

List A Required:

1.       Jacqueline Jones, LABOR OF LOVE, LABOR OF SORROW, 2nd edition, 1985 (1995 reprint includes Epilogue): Introduction and chapter one

2.       Harriet A. Jacobs, INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL ed. Jean Fagan Yellin (read only this edition), 2000. Pay close attention to Yellin's theories and methods of analyzing autobiography.

 

List B Required:

3.       Nell Painter, SOJOURNER TRUTH, A LIFE, A SYMBOL, 1996

4.       Jean Humez, HARRIET TUBMAN, 2003

5.       Jean Fagan Yellin, HARRIET JACOBS, 2004

 

Recommended:

1.       Deborah White, AR’N’T I A WOMAN?1985

2.       James O. Horton, FREE PEOPLE OF COLOR, 1993

3.       William Andrews, ed., SISTERS OF THE SPIRIT, 1996

4.       A.G. Barthelemy, ed., COLLECTED BLACK WOMEN’S NARRATIVES, 1988

5.       R. Billington, ed., THE JOURNAL OF CHARLOTTE FORTEN

6.       Elizabeth Fox Genovese, WITHIN THE PLANTATION HOUSEHOLD, 1988

7.       Suzanne Lebsock, THE FREE WOMEN OF PETERSBURG…1985

8.       Brenda Stevenson, LIFE IN BLACK AND WHITE…1996

9.       Marilyn Richardson, ed., MARIA W. STEWART, AMERICA’S FIRST BLACK WOMAN POLITICAL WRITER, 1987

10.   Jean McMahon Humez, ed., GIFTS OF POWER: THE WRITINGS OF REBECCA JACKSON, BLACK VISIONARY, SHAKER ELDRESS, 1981

11.   Ella Forbes, AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN DURING THE CIVIL WAR, 1998.

12.   For excellent historical fiction see: Toni Morrison, BELOVED, Shirley Ann Williams, DESSA ROSE, Margaret Walker, JUBILEE.

 

Recommended for the study of Autobiography:

1.        Jill Conway, WHEN MEMORY SPEAKS, 1998

2.        Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson, eds., WOMEN, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, THEORY: A READER, 1998: Introduction

3.        Hazel Carby, RECONSTRUCTING WOMANHOOD, 1987, chapters one and two.

4.        Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, “Open Secrets: Memory, Imagination, and the Refashioning of Southern Identity,” AMERICAN QUARTERLY, 50 (March 1998) and her “`You Must Remember This’:Autobiography as Social Critique,” JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY 85 (September 1998): 439-65.

5.        Margo Culley, ed., AMERICAN WOMEN’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY: FEA(S)TS OF MEMORY, 1992, Chapter one

6.        Martine Watson Brownley and Allison B. Kimmich, eds., WOMEN AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY, 1999, chapter one and thirteen.

 

 

Recommended for the study of Biography

1.       Paula Backscheider, REFLECTIONS ON BIOGRAPHY, 1999

2.       Elizabeth Young-Bruehl, SUBJECT TO BIOGRAPHY…1998

 

10/27   AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES: RECONSTRUCTION TO 1930/WHAT IS THE MEANING OF EMANCIPATION?

 

List A Required:

1.       Jacqueline Jones, LABOR OF LOVE, LABOR OF SORROW (see above) chs.2-5

2.       Tera Hunter, `TO JOY MY FREEDOM: SOUTHERN BLACK WOMEN’S LIVES AND LABORS AFTER THE CIVIL WAR, 1997 and “Symposium on Tera Hunter …” LABOR HISTORY, 39, 2 (May 1998): 169-187

 

List B Required:

1.       Karin L. Zipf, “Reconstructing `Free Woman’: African American Women, Apprenticeship, and Custody Rights during Reconstruction,” JOURNAL OF WOMEN’S HISTORY, 12, 1 (Spring 2000): 8-31

2.       Carol Lasser, “Slavery, Gender and the Meaning of Freedom” GENDER AND HISTORY 13, 1(April 2001):161-166, fine example of a thematic review of scholarship.

3.       Else Barkley Brown, “Womanist Consciousness: Maggie Lena Walker and the Independent Order of Saint Luke” SIGNS 14, 3 (Spring 1989): 610-33

 

Recommended:

1.       Laura F. Edwards, GENDERED STRIFE AND CONFUSION: THE POLITICAL CULTURE OF RECONSTRUCTION, 1997

2.       Ida B.Wells, CRUSADE FOR JUSTICE, 1970 reprint

3.       Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, GENDER AND JIM CROW: WOMEN AND THE POLITICS OF WHITE SUPREMACY IN NORTH CAROLINA, 1896-1920, 1996

4.       Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, RIGHTEOUS DISCONTENT: THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT IN THE BLACK BAPTIST CHURCH, 1993

5.       Linda O. McMurry, TO KEEP THE WATERS TROUBLED: THE LIFE OF IDA B. WELLS, 1999.

6.       Patricia Schechter, IDA B. WELLS-BARNETT AND AMERICAN REFORM, 1880-1930, 2001

7.       Kevin K. Gaines, UPLIFTING THE RACE: BLACK LEADERSHIP, POLITICS, AND CULTURE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, 1996

8.       Deborah Gray White, TOO HEAVY A LOAD: BLACK WOMEN IN DEFENSE OF THEMSELVES, 1894-1994, 1999.

9.       Joyce A. Hanson, MARY MCCLEOD BETHUNE: BLACK WOMEN'S POLITICAL ACTIVISM, 2003.

10.   Darlene Clark Hine, HINE SIGHT: BLACK WOMEN AND THE RECONSTRUCTION OF AMERICAN HISTORY, 1984

 

 

11/3  WOMEN AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT:

 

**Chronologically this topic is out of order, but since as part of our department's special fall series on BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION I've facilitated a reading of Alice Childress' play WINE IN THE WILDERNESS for this month, I would like our class to consider the civil rights movement ahead of the public reading of this play**.

 

List A Required:

1.       Alice Childress' play WINE IN THE WILDERNESS, 1969 in James Hatch and Victoria Sullivan, ed., PLAYS BY AND ABOUT WOMEN, attendance at reading is optional

2.       Vicki Crawford et. al, eds, WOMEN AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, 1990 (select one chapter)

3.       David Garrow ed., THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT AND THE WOMAN WHO STARTED IT: THE MEMOIR OF JO ANN GIBSON ROBINSON, 1987

 

List B Required:

1.       Anne Moody, GROWING UP IN MISSISSIPPI, 1968

2.       Gail S. Murray ed., THROWING OFF THE CLOAK OF PRIVILEGE: WHITE SOUTH WOMEN ACTIVISTS IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS ERA, 2004

3.       Anne Braden, THE WALL BETWEEN, 2nd ed., 1999

4.       Constance Curry et. al. DEEP IN OUR HEARTS: NINE WHITE WOMEN IN THE FREEDOM MOVEMENT, 2000

5.       Cynthia Stokes Brown, REFUSING RACISM, 2002

6.       Cynthia Stokes Brown, READY FROM WITHIN: SEPTIMA CLARK AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, 1990

7.       Judith Rollins, ALL IS NEVER SAID: THE NARRATIVE OF ODETTE HARPER HINES

8.       Bettye Collier-Thomas and V.P. Franklin, SISTERNS IN THE STRUGGLE: AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS-BLACK POWER MOVEMENT, 2001

9.       Barbara Ransby, ELLA BAKER AND THE BLACK FREEDOM MOVEMENT, 2003

 

Recommended:

1.       Besides Higgenbotham, see for black feminist theory, e.g. Patricia Hill Collins, BLACK FEMINIST THOUGHT, and various works by bell Hooks, such as AIN'T I A WOMAN: BLACK WOMEN AND FEMINISM,  Angela Davis, such as  WOMEN, RACE AND CLASS, and Audre Lorde,  SISTER OUTSIDER, and Adrien K. Wing, ed. CRITICAL RACE FEMINISM: A READER

2.       Vicki Crawford, "Race, Class, Gender, and Culture: Black Women's Activism in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement," JOURNAL OF MISSISSIPPI HISTORY 58 (Spring 1996): 1021.

3.       Cynthia Fleming, SOON WE WILL NOT CRY: THE LIBERATION OF RUBY DORIS SMITH ROBINSON, 1998

4.       Chang Kai Lee, FOR FREEDOM'S SAKE: THE LIFE OF FANNIE LOU HAMER.

5.       Belinda Robnett, HOW LONG? HOW LONG? AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN IN THE STRUGGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS, 1997

6.       See several autobiographies by Pauli Murray

7.       Shirley Chisholm, UNBOUGHT AND UNBOSSED

8.       Mary King, FREEDOM SONG

9.       Deborah Schultz, GOING SOUTH: JEWISH WOMEN IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, 2001

 

11/10THE ORIGINS AND NATURE OF WOMEN'S MOVEMENT/WOMEN'S REFORM ACTIVISM, SUFFRAGE AND FEMINIST MOVEMENTS, 1776-1930

 

List A Required:

1.       Nancy Cott, THE GROUNDING OF MODERN FEMINISM, 1987

2.       Karen Offen, “Defining Feminism” SIGNS, 14, 1(Autumn, 1988): 119-57 and “Commentary and Reply”, SIGNS 15, 1 (Autumn, 1989): 195-209

3.       VanBurkleo, Part Two (all) and Part Three, chapters 8 and 9

4.       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, 2 (Summer 2001): 9-33.

 

List B Required:

1.       Catherine A. Brekus, STRANGERS AND PILGRIMS: FEMALE PREACHING IN AMERICA, 1740-1845, 1998, read chapters from American Revolution to conclusion

2.       Judith Wellman, "The Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention: A Study of Social Networks, JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S HISTORY, 3, 1(Spring 1991): 9-37

3.       Suzanne Lebsock, "Woman Suffrage and White Supremacy: A Virginia Case Study, VISIBLE WOMEN: NEW ESSAYS IN AMERICAN ACTIVISM, eds. Nancy Hewitt and Suzanne Lebsock, 1993: 62-100

4.       Jesse F. Battan, "`You cannot fix the scarlet letter on my breast!': Women Reading and Writing and Reshaping Sexual Culture of Victorian America," JOURNAL OF SOCIAL HISTORY, 37, 3(Spring 2004): 601-624

5.       Beverly Schwartzberg, "`Lots of them did that'": Desertion, Bigamy, and Marital Fluidity in Late Nineteenth Century America,"JOURNAL OF SOCIAL HISTORY 37, 3 (Spring 2004): 573-600

6.       Read one of the following studies of Victoria Woodhull:

  1. Barbara Goldsmith, OTHER POWERS: THE AGE OF SUFFRAGE, SPIRITUALISM, AND THE SCANDALOUS VICTORIA WOODHULL, 1998
  2. Mary Gabriel, NOTORIOUS VICTORIA, 1998
  3. Lois Beachy Underhill, THE WOMAN WHO RAN FOR PRESIDENT, 1995
  4. Altina Waller, THE REVEREND BEECHER AND MRS. TILTON: SEX AND CLASS IN VICTORIAN AMERICA, 1982

 

Recommended:

 

1.       Nancy Isenberg, SEX AND CITIZENSHIP IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA, 1998

2.       Candace Lewis Bredbenner, A NATIONALITY OF HER OWN: WOMEN, MARRIAGE AND THE LAW OF CITIZENSHIP, 1998

3.       Anne M. Boylan, THE ORIGINS OF WOMEN'S ACTIVISM: New York and Boston, 1797-1840, 2002

4.       Dolores Hayden, THE GRAND DOMESTIC REVOLUTION, 1983

5.       Mari Jo Buhle, WOMEN AND AMERICAN SOCIALISM, 1870-1920, 1985

6.       Rebecca Edwards, ANGELS IN THE MACHINERY: GENDER IN AMERICAN PARTY POLITICS FROM THE CIVIL WAR TO THE PROGRESSIVE ERA, 1997

7.       Sandra Adkickes. TO BE YOUNG WAS VERY HEAVEN: WOMEN IN NEW YORK BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR, 1997

8.       Joanne Passet, SEX RADICALS AND THE QUEST FOR FEMALE EQUALITY, 2003

9.       John C. Spurlock: FREE LOVE: MARRIAGE AND MIDDLE-CLASS RADICALISM IN AMERICA, 1825-1865, 1988

10.   Ann Braude, RADICAL SPIRITS: SPIRITUALISM AND WOMEN'S RIGHTS IN NINETEENTH CNETURY AMERICA, 1989

11.   Hendrik Hartog, MAN AND WIFE IN AMERICAN HISTORY: LEGAL HISTORY, 2000

12.   Nancy Cott, PUBLIC VOWS: A HISTORY OF MARRIAGE AND THE NATION, 2000

13.   Sylvia Hoffert, WHEN HENS CROW: THE WOMEN'S RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA

14.   Judith Wellman, THE BIRTH OF AMERICAN FEMINISM, 2004

15.   Louise Michele Newman, WHITE WOMEN’S RIGHTS: THE RACIAL ORIGINS OF FEMINISM IN THE UNITED STATES, 1999

16.   Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN IN THE STRUGGLE FOR THE VOTE, 1850-1920, 1998

17.   Susan E. Marshall, SPLINTERED SISTERHOOD: GENDER AND CLASS IN THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST WOMAN SUFFRAGE, 1997.

18.   Jean H. Baker, ed. VOTES FOR WOMEN: THE STRUGGLE FOR SUFFRAGE REVISITED, 2002

 reading), 2000

19.   Ann Gordon et. al., eds., AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN AND THE VOTE, 1999

 

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List A Required