UCLA Teaching Women’s History Workshop Schedule
Friday, February 6, 2013, 6 pm, dinner, home of Carole Srole, 6512 Whitworth Drive, LA, 323-9316343(E off La Cienaga; N of Pico and S of Olympic).
On Saturday morning, please bring your own caffeine; lunch in Bunche brought in.
Saturday, February 7, 2013, 9 am - 4 pm, discussion, UCLA History Department Conference Room,
6 floor, Bunche Hall. Please arrive on time.
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Morning Session:
Discussion Leaders, Karen Lystra and Peggy Renner.
Tiya Miles, Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom (Berkeley and
L.A.: University of California Press, 2005).
Afternoon Session: Women and the New Right:
Discussion Leader, Carole Srole (Citations for the readings follow. All are--or soon will be-available on our website.)
Moreton, Bethany. To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 2009, Chapter 7: Servants Unto Servants, 100-124.
Dubow, Sara. Ourselves Unborn: A History of the Fetus in Modern America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
OPTIONAL: Chapter 4 “Defending Fetal Rights, 1970s-1990s,” 112-152: This chapter discusses court cases and
other debates which pressured pregnant women to protect the fetus: for religion reasons (7th Day Adventists),
alcohol, and cocaine. These are not necessarily products of the New Right, but still useful for a new sensibility.
READ: Chapter 5 “Debating Fetal Pain, 1984-2006,” 153-183.
Rose, Melody. “Pro-Life, Pro-Woman? Frame Extension in the American Antiabortion Movement,” Journal of Women, Politics
and Policy 32: 1 (2011): 1-27.
Schreiber, Ronnee. Righting Feminism: Conservative Women and American Politics. New York: Oxford University Press,
2008, Chapter 5, “Finding Common Ground: Constructing Mothers’ Interests,” 78-95. Schreiber contrasted two conservative
women’s organizations, the libertarian IWF (Independent Women’s Forum) and the CWA (Conservative Women for America).
This chapter, however, looks at arena where they agreed.
2 Primary Sources from Focus on the Family, 2014.
1 Primary Source from Concerned Women for America, 2014.
OPTIONAL: The Silent Scream, 1984 (27 mins) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gON-8PP6zgQ
OPTIONAL: Embryo of Humans and animals: http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/embryo/embryoflash.html
Questions
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How have you taught about the rise of the New Right? What primary and secondary sources have you used? What
themes do your sources demonstrate? (Be prepared to discuss these.)
Using these readings as well as what you know: How have the ideas of the New Right differed from feminist views and
practices? How have the ideas of the New Right overlapped with feminist views and practices? To what extent have
conservative women embraced the values and practices typical of the larger society? To what extent did they develop
unique views and practices?
How does studying these conservative women help us rethink U.S. womanhood since the 1970s? To what extent have
conservative women responded to tensions in feminism and in women’s lives?
Questions for students on The Silent Scream: How does the film try to convince viewers to oppose abortion? What’s
the role of the speaker, choice of language, visuals and models?
Dinner at Carole’s: When you sign up and send the money for the event, please truly figure out
whether you think you are going to make it. I always call and email Carole with the numbers about
two weeks out and then closer to the date. Carole really needs to know the numbers of people
who are actually coming. It’s no harm, no foul about coming or not, but none of us likes to waste
food or make more work for Carole who has done this lovely meal for us for so many years so
brilliantly.
Deadline: please respond and pay by January 26, 2015.
To register for workshop: respond to this email and snail mail a check for $60 ($30 for dinner only), to
“Teaching Workshop on Women’s History” to
Mary Rothschild
380 W. Carmen St.
Tempe, AZ 85283
My phone number is 480-839-4397 and my cell is 360-531-2838.
I’m so looking forward to seeing many of you this February! It’s a testimony to the extraordinary women
who began and continue this tradition and the thrill of doing women’s history that we are still meeting.
Cheers to us! Mary
As usual, if you know of someone who is teaching women’s history in our region who is not on this list,
please forward this on and invite them to come. And also, If you no longer wish to remain on this list,
please email me at maryloganrothschild@gmail.com and I will take you off the email list.
Dr. Mary Logan Rothschild
Professor Emerita
Women and Gender Studies
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona 85287-3404