WEEK |
TOPIC |
READING |
WORK DUE |
#1
1/26/2011 |
Introduction to Class & to Women’s History
|
Sklar, Women's Rights, First Third |
Reading |
#2
2/2 |
The World of Seneca Falls
|
Sklar, Women's Rights, Second Third |
Reading |
#3
2/9 |
Western Women
Southern Women |
Sklar, Women's Rights, Second Third |
Reading
Characters |
#4
2/16 |
Women, Labor, & Unionization:
Women & Labor
|
Nan Enstad, Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure, first third |
Reading
|
#5
2/23 |
From Seneca Falls to Organized Womanhood & Reform in the Progressive Era, 1880-1920
Temperance, Club Movement
Suffrage, & Settlement House Movement |
Nan Enstad, Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure, second third |
Reading
Characters
Paper Proposal Due
Reading Quiz #1 (moved from Wk 4)
|
#6
3/2 |
Mothers & Daughters in the 1920s:
Tradition v. Modern Life
WWI |
Nan Enstad, Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure, final third |
Reading
Characters
|
#7
3/9 |
Political Women in the 1920s |
Study Reading/ MT Prep |
Reading
Reading Quiz #2
|
#8
3/16 |
Midterm Week |
|
MT Exam #1 |
#9
3/23
|
A "Mother’s Wage": The Great
Depression
Women, Wages, & Labor
Family Lives of Women in the Great
Depression
Women & National Reform: The New
Deal |
Ladd-Taylor, Mother Work, all |
Reading
Characters
|
#10
3/30
(3/31 Thursday Chavez Day) |
From Wonder Woman to June Cleaver:
1940s & 1950sThose 1950s
Women in the Military
Employment: From Living Wages to Unemployment
Suburban Expansion
Family Economy
|
Moody, Coming of Age in Mississippi, first half |
Reading
Characters |
#11
4/6 |
Spring Break |
Spring Break |
No Class |
#12
4/13 |
Women, Fifties, & the Labor Force
1950s Women's Lives: Ideal or
Constricting?
"Modern" Pressures: Women, Addictions, & the 20th Century |
Moody, Coming of Age in Mississippi |
Reading
Characters |
#13
4/20 |
Women, family Life, & Labor in the 1960s
Mothers & Daughters
Fertility, The Pill, & the Medical
Establishment
Women & Wage Labor
Education & Organization |
Baxandall, Dear Sisters, first half |
Reading
Reading Quiz #3
Papers Due by 4/20 (or earlier) |
#14
4/27 |
The Civil Rights Movement & "Women's
\Liberation," 1960s-1970s
Civil Rights Movement & New Left
Women's Movement
Women & National Reform
"Women's Liberation:" Ideal or
Constricting?
Women and Violence in the 20th Century |
Baxandall, Dear Sisters, second half |
Reading
Characters
|
#15
5/4 |
A Handmaid's Tale?
From Schafly to Goldwater: Women's Roles in the Construction of the New Right
Students Ideas and Conclusions about Women and the New Right and Current State of Women's Status and Rights in the U.S.
|
McGirr,Suburban Warriors, first half
|
Reading
Reading Quiz #4
|
#16
5/11 |
A Frontier of Challenges:
Women & Mass Media in 20th Century & Review
|
McGirr,Suburban Warriors, first half |
Reading
Characters
|
#17
5/18 |
NO CLASS |
FINALS WEEK |
Midterm #2 |
