REVISED
WSS 260 /HIS
259 History of Women & Social Change
Instructor:� Laurie Kozakiewicz, Office: Ten Broeck 308-1
Spring 2004, University at
Albany
Office Hours Tues/Thurs
11:30 � 12:30
This course introduces
students to the political, economic, social, and cultural forces that shaped
the lives of women in America from the Colonial Period to the present.� It also looks at women�s impact on the
growth and development of the United States.�
Attention will be given to the ways in which race and gender have
influenced women�s status.� The first
half of the course takes a roughly chronological approach to the analysis of
women and American society.� The second
half of the course spends more time on special topics, including family, work,
cultural attitudes, policy issues, and women�s organized activism.� Course requirements include a mid-term
examination and a final, two written assignments and one oral presentation
(described below).
Required
Texts.
Students are expected to have all texts.� Tests, class discussions, and writing assignments are based on them.
Main Texts:
Evans, Sara.� Born for Liberty a History of Women in America, 1997 edition.
Kerber, Linda and Sharon De Hart.� Women�s America 6th Edition 2004.
Additional Texts:
--White, Deborah Gray, Ar�n�t I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South
--Friedan, Betty.� The Feminine Mystique, 2001 edition.
E
Reserves:� �Some
of the reading is available only in this format.� Use Link from University Libraries web page for E Reserves.� Look the course up by my name and/or course
number.� Password for accessing the
material is Suffrage.
Other
internet materials:� Some of the reading
is available via links embedded in the syllabus.� The URL address for the syllabus on line is https://www.albany.edu/faculty/lk0550
Course
requirements include attendance at all class lectures, completion of all
written assignments, participation in class discussions, and completion of a
mid-term and final examination.�
Portions
of the course will be in lecture form.�
Students are responsible for all information presented in class.� Students are expected to attend all sessions
and take notes.� I do not share my notes
or make copies for students.
Students
will be put into groups and assigned responsibility for leading the class once
during the semester.� Groups and
specific day assignments will be made at the first class.� On their assigned day, the group will review
that day�s assigned material with the class and facilitate a discussion of the
readings.� Some time will be available
during the first two classes for groups to begin planning their
presentations.� I encourage students to
meet outside of class to prepare as well.
Part
of your grade will be based my evaluation of your participation in discussions
of the assigned reading.� Completing
assigned reading gives you some up-front familiarity with the day�s topic.� I encourage you to ask questions and offer
comments during the lectures.� In
addition, there will be at least two class sessions devoted specifically to
discussing the additional texts.� You
will also write papers on those books.�
I hope for thoughtful comments that contribute to lively, stimulating
discussions on those days.�
The
course grade for each student will be determined as follows.� The midterm exam will be 25% of the total
course grade; the final will be 25% of the total course grade; each writing
assignments will be 15% of the total course grade (total 30%); the oral group
presentation will be 15% of the total course grade.� Finally class participation, including attendance, will be 5% of
the total course grade.�
Cheating
will have serious consequences.�
Cheating on a specific assignment/test will, at minimum, result in a
failing grade for that assignment.�
Repeated cheating will result in an �E� for the course.�
Plagiarizing will have serious consequences.�
Plagiarizing is the use of the words or ideas of someone else as if they
were your own.� The way to avoid
accusations of plagiarism is to ALWAYS cite properly.� Both direct quotes and paraphrasing require full and proper
citation.� Please see me if you have any
questions about whether what you are doing may be violating these rules.� Plagiarism on a specific assignment will
result, at minimum, in a failing grade for the assignment.� Repeated plagiarism will result in an �E�
for the course.
Attendance does matter.� The course is structured so that you cannot do well without being here.� I will monitor attendance.� I reserve the right to factor a student�s attendance record into the determination of the final course grade.� Be courteous.� If necessary, I will ask a disruptive student to leave the class.� Anyone asked to leave will need to speak with me privately before returning.
Class Session Outline
1/22����������� Introduction:� Class Requirements & Themes for the Course
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1/27����������� America�s
Earliest Women � Settlement through the Colonial Era 1607-1773
����������� Reading: Kerber & De Hart: Ulrich p 45; Norton p. 69; Trial of Anne Hutchinson p. 79; Karlsen p. 83
����������� Evans: Chapters 1 & 2
1/29���� Women and the Birth of the American Nation: Revolutionary Mothers
����������� Reading: Kerber & De Hart:� Documents: supporting the Revolution p. 114 & 115 & 117; Kerber p. 119
����������������������� �� Evans: Chapter 3
2/3����������� Woman�s
Lives Under the New Nation 1783-1850: Redefining Public & Private Lives By
Gender
����������� Reading: Kerber & De Hart:� Boyston p. 153; Rosenberg p. 168
�������������� �������� ���Evans Chapter 4
�����������������������
2/5����������� Exploring Women�s Quest for Economic and Legal Rights in the 19th Century
����������� Reading:� Kerber & De Hart: Document: working conditions in the early factory p. 165; Documents: Documents: Married Women�s Property Act� p. 217; Pascoe p. 275
����������� ����������� Essay: Thomas Dublin �Women
Workers in the Lowell Mills�
�����������
2/10����������� Exploring
the Impact of Race on Women�s Lives in the New Nation
����������� Reading:� Kerber & De Hart:� Documents: Testimony of Slave Women p. 132; Block p. 135
����������� Paper
Due on Ar�n�t I a Woman
2/12����������� Exploring Women�s Public Activism in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries
����������� Essay:
Steven Buechler �The Origins of the Women�s Rights Movement�
Essay:Paula Baker �White
Women�s �Separate Sphere� and their Political Role�
����������� Website: Oberlin Women and Antebellum Social Movements, Abstract
2/19����������� America Divided: 1848-1870; Early Women�s Rights Movement
����������� Reading:� Kerber & De Hart: Documents Claiming Rights I Grimke p. 193; Documents: Claiming Rights II Declaration of Sentiments p. 198; Wellman p. 200; Documents: After the Civil War p. 247-251; Document: Women�s Centennial Agenda p. 265
����������� �� �������� ����Evans: Chapter 5
����������� Essay
Catharine Beecher & Harriet Beecher Stowe �Why Women Should Not Seek the
Vote�
2/24���� Women as Reformers, Gilded Age and Progressive Era 1880-1920
����������� Reading:� Kerber & De Hart: Sklar p. 327; Document: Protecting Women Wage Workers p. 340 & 342
����������������������� ��� Evans: Chapter 6
����������� Website:� The Juvenile Court Law in Iowa, 1904, Abstract
2/26���� Women as Reformers Continued: divided by class, race, geography
����������� Reading:� Kerber & De Hart: Schechter p.
268; Gilmore p. 286
����������� Essay: Eileen Boris �Black and White
Women Bring the Power of Motherhood to Politics�
Document: Mary Church
Terrell �Club Work of Colored Women� & �Lynching from a Negroes point of
view��
3/2������ The Fight for Suffrage: 1890-1920
Reading: Kerber & De Hart: Dubois p. 358; Documents: Dimensions of Citizenship I pp 365 & 367
����������� �� Evans: Chapter 7 section on �New Life in the Suffrage Movement� to the end
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: �The Yellow Wallpaper� Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Free Online Library
Website: Lobbying for Passage of the National Suffrage Amendment, Abstract
3/4����������� Suffrage continued & review for mid-term����
3/9������ MID-TERM EXAMINATION
3/11���� Across the Great Divide: women, politics & the struggle for legal & economic equality 1920s & 1930s
����������� Reading:� Kerber & De Hart: Cott p. 379; Jones p. 429; Kessler-Harris p. 435
Reading:� Evans:� Chapters 8 & 9
����������� Website:� Equal Rights Debate in the 1920s, Abstract
3/16���� The Modern Woman (20th ), changing images of sexuality; consumerism and sexuality
����������� Reading:� Kerber & De Hart: Brumberg p. 390; Bordo p. 660
����������������������� ���� Evans: Chapter 7 Beginning to section �New Life in the Suffrage Movement�
Essay Maxine Craig
Introduction to Ain�t I a Beauty Queen
����������� Reading:� No More Miss America!
3/23���� Film �Killing Us Softly�
�����������
3/25���� The
Modern Woman�s quest for sexual independence
����������� Reading:� Kerber & De Hart:� Mohr p. 183; Documents: Dimensions of Citizenship I, Sanger p. 370; Regan p. 423
����������� Website: Mary Ware Dennett's Congressional Lobbying Efforts for Contraception, Abstract
3/30���� Limits
and Opportunities:� Women and War
����������� Reading: Kerber & De Hart:� Matsumoto p 459; Milkmann p. 466
����������������������� �� Evans:� Chapter 10
����������� Essay:
Varlerie Matsumoto �Japanese American Women During World War II�
4/1������ Images
of Women in Cold War America
����������� Reading:� Kerber & De Hart: Swerdlow p. 500; Douglas p. 569
����������������������� ��� Evans:� Chapter 11
����������� Essay:� Donna Penn �The Meanings of Lesbianism in
Postwar America�
Essay: �From Rosie to
Lucy�
4/13���� Gender and Civil Rights
����������� Film �Fannie Lou Hamer�
Reading:� Kerber & De Hart: Payne p. 532; Documents: Dimensions of Citizenship II, Murray p. 537 & Civil Rights Act p. 550
����������������������� ��� Evans: 263-273
����������� Double Jeopardy
4/15���� Moving Towards a Revitalized Feminism
����������� Discussion:
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
����������� Paper
Due
4/20����������� Feminism Reborn
����������� Film �Step by Step�
����������� Reading:� Kerber & De Hart: Documents: Making the Personal Political, Chavez p. 583 & Combahee Collective p. 586 & Schafly p. 593; De Hart p. 598
����������������������� ��� Evans: Chapter 12
����������� Essay:
Joanne Meyerowitz �Competing Images of Women in Postwar Mass Culture�
NOW Statement of Purpose- 1966
4/22����������� Exploring
Women�s Quest for Legal Rights in the 20th Century: Jury Service,
Military Service
����������� Reading:� Kerber & De Hart: Documents: Dimensions of Citizenship II: Hoyt v. Florida p. 546; Documents: Dimensions of Citizenship III: ERA p. 624 & Frontiero v. Richardson p. 628; Documents: Dimensions of Citizenship IV: 1st American Women p. 637 & Rostker v. Goldberg p. 641; Francke p. 647
����������� Essay: Kate O�Beirne �An Army of
Jessicas�
4/27����������� Exploring
Contentious Issues:� Abortion; Welfare;
domestic violence
����������� Reading:� Kerber & De Hart: Bailey p. 560; Documents: Dimensions of Citizenship III: Roe v Wade p. 630; Documents: Dimensions of Citizenshiop IV: Meritor v. Vinson p. 643 & Violence Against Women Act p. 646; Lakoff p. 670; Adair p. 677;
����������� Website: The 1994 Violence Against Women Act, Abstract
4/29����������� Exploring Contentious Issues: Affirmative Action
����������� Reading: Kerber & De Hart: Cahn p. 508; Documents: Dimensions of Citizenship: Title IX p. 625; Documents: the Changing Workplace: 657 & 660
Too Strong for a WomanThe Five Words That Created Title IX
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5/4������ Women at the Millenium: Assessing Progress politically
����������� Film �Running Mate�
����������� Reading: Kerber & De Hart:� De Hart p. 691
����������������������� �� Evans: Chapter 13
����������� Website:� Center for American Women and Politics