Readings for the spring semester:

Primary:

Kate Chopin, The Awakening and Selected Stories
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland
Nella Larsen, Quicksand and Passing
Agnes Smedley, Daughter of Earth: A Novel
Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
The Angela Y. Davis Reader by Joy James (Editor), Angela Yvonne Davis
Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina

Secondary:

Helen Horowitz, Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America
Glenda Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920
Nan Enstad, Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure
Joanne Meyerowitz, Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945-1960
Jane F. Gerhard, Desiring Revolution
Sara Evans, Tidal Wave: How Women Changed America at Century's End
Susan J. Douglas, Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female With the Mass Media

Week One (Jan. 21)

Helen Horowitz, Rereading Sex; Intro & Section IV; Section III highly recommended.
Kate Chopin, The Awakening & "The Story of an Hour."

Week Two (Jan. 28)

Glenda Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920

Week Three (Feb. 4)

Nan Enstad, Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure

--Choose option for Essay 1 & email me about what you've chosen--

Week Four (Feb. 11)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland
Gail Bederman, chapter on Gilman, in Manliness & Civilization (on reserve for my FYS class).

Week Five (Feb. 18)

Nella Larsen, Quicksand and Passing

Essay 1 Due Friday Feb. 20th, by 4 pm
See Assignments Page

Week Six (Feb. 25)

Agnes Smedley, Daughter of Earth: A Novel

Week Seven (Mar. 3)

Joanne Meyerowitz, Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945-1960

Week Eight (Mar. 10)

--Choose option for Essay 2 & email me about what you've chosen--

Jane F. Gerhard, Desiring Revolution

Spring Break!!

Week Nine (Mar. 31)

Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Reading TBA by Sonia Arora

Essay 2 Due Friday, April 2nd, by 4 pm
See Assignments Page

Week Ten (Apr. 7)

Susan J. Douglas, Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female With the Mass Media

Week Eleven (Apr. 14)

Sara Evans, Tidal Wave: How Women Changed America at Century's End

Week Twelve (Apr. 21)

The Angela Y. Davis Reader by Joy James (Editor), Angela Yvonne Davis (Excerpts TBA)

Week Thirteen (Apr. 28)

Films:

Thelma and Louise (1991) Ridley Scott
and
Mi Vida Loca (1994) Allison Anders

(Supplementary reading? TBA by Kirsten Springer)

Conference Papers Due, Monday morning (May 3rd)
Please hand deliver, if at all possible.

Week Fourteen (May 5)

Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina

Oral Exhibitions

Week Fifteen (May 12)

Transgender Movement Study, TBA by RoxanneXWinston

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Fall Readings--

Primary Sources:

Caroline Kirkland, A New Home, Who'll Follow?
Bell Gale Chevigny, The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life & Writings
Frances Ann Kemble, Journal of a Residence on a Georgia Plantation
Fanny Fern, Ruth Hall and Other Writings
Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Rebecca Harding Davis, Life in the Iron Mills
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, The Silent Partner

Secondary Sources:

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
Jeanne Boydston, Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic
Albert Hurtado, Intimate Frontiers: Sex, Gender, and Culture in Old California
Christine Stansell, City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South
Barbara Goldsmith, Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull
Laura Edwards, Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction

Week One (Sep. 10)

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812, (entire).

Week Two (Sep. 17)

Jeanne Boydston, Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic (entire)

Essay #1 Due, Friday Sep. 26th
See Assignments Page

Week Three (Sep. 24)

Albert Hurtado, Intimate Frontiers: Sex, Gender, and Culture in Old California (entire).

Week Four (Oct. 1)

Caroline Kirkland, A New Home, Who'll Follow?

By this point, please choose--and send a record of your choice to me via email-- a text for Essay 2.

Week Five (Oct. 8)

Christine Stansell, City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860

Week Six (Oct. 15)

Frances Ann Kemble, Journal of a Residence on a Georgia Plantation

Week Seven (Oct. 22)

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South

Essay #2 Due, Friday Oct. 24th
See Assignments Page

Week Eight (Oct. 29)

Bell Gale Chevigny, The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life & Writings

Week Nine (Nov. 5)

Fanny Fern, Ruth Hall and Other Writings

Week Ten (Nov. 12)

Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Week Eleven (Nov. 19)

Rebecca Harding Davis, Life in the Iron Mills

Essay #3 Due, Friday Nov. 21st
See Assignments Page

Thanksgiving

Conference Draft Due Monday, by noon, Nov. 24th. Turn in by hand NOT via email.

Week Twelve (Dec. 3)

Graduate Students Conference Paper Deadline, Dec. 1st

Barbara Goldsmith, Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull

Week Thirteen (Dec. 10)

Laura Edwards, Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction (Intro and chapters 3-5).

Conference Paper Due Monday, Dec. 12th, noon. Turn in by hand.

Week Fourteen (Dec. 17)

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, The Silent Partner

Oral Exhibitions