Politics of Gender in the United States Course Reading Schedule
Please note that all readings can be found online on our course page.
October 2- No readings due
October 9-“Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis”; “Remember the
Ladies”
October 16-“The Domestication of Politics: Women and American Political Society,
1780-1920”; “The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820-1860”; New York Women’s
Property Act 1848
October 23-“To Catch the Vision of Freedom: Reconstructing Southern Black
Women’s Political History, 1865-1880”; Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments;
“Ain’t I A Woman?”
October 30- Excerpt: Memoirs of a Southern Woman "Within the Lines,"
and a Genealogical Record; “Reconstruction and the Meaning of Freedom”
November 6- “Woman wants bread, not the Ballot”; Women’s Centennial Agenda;
“The Objective Value of Social Settlements”
November 13- “Lynch Law in America”; “Do You Know?”; 19th Amendment; Equal
Rights Amendment
November 20- Excerpt from My Fight for Birth Control; “The New Woman:
Changing Views of Women in the 1920s”
November 27- Test 1. No readings due.
December 4- “When You Supervise a Woman- The 1940s Instructional Manual”;
Rosie the Riveter: Women Working during World War II- Jacqueline F. Nelson;
Rosie the Riveter: Women Working during World War II- Mourine Merrow
December 11- Excerpt: The Feminine Mystique
December 18-“Beyond the Feminine Mystique: An Assessment of Postwar Mass
Culture 1946-1958;” “Why I Want a Wife”
January 8- “Two, Four, Six, Eight, We Don’t Want to Integrate: White Student
Attitudes Towards the University of Georgia Desegregation;” Excerpt: A Taste of
Power; “Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female”
January 15- Roe v. Wade Summary; “If Men Could Menstruate”; “The Vagina on
Trial”
January 22- Excerpt: Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
January 29- “The Number One Question About Feminism”