History 27:
Course # 71726
Women in History
Fall 2008
W. 6:30-9:30
Instr. Krishna Jones
Holt 415
Email: kjones@deltacollege.edu
Catalog Description: This course is a review of the history of women in America covering the
period from 1600 to the present. The emphasis of the course is on a multicultural and multi-class
approach, examining the problems of women of various ethnicities, races and classes in America.
The formation of gender roles is discussed along with an analysis of women's political and
economic status across the period. The course will analyze women's struggle for equal rights, the
impact of women's participation in significant events in American history, and regional and
cultural differences in the way women are treated in society. Emphasis will be on the California
state and local governments, their operations and how women have politically participated in
California. (UC, CSU)
Required Text: Woloch, Nancy. Women and the American Experience: A Concise History.
Requirements and Grading Criteria
Writing Assignment
Quiz
Paper Project
Final
TOTAL
10X15
2X75
1X100
1X100
150
150
100
100
500
Plagiarism and Cheating
“Plagiarism: Deliberately presenting work, words, ideas, theories, etc. derived in whole or in
part from a source external to the student as though they are the student’s own efforts. Examples
of plagiarism include, but are not limited to the following: a. Failing to use proper citations as
acknowledgement of the true source of information included in a paper, written or oral
examination, or any other academic exercise. . .” (Taken from the “Standards of Conduct:
Academic Dishonesty.”) Any student caught cheating or plagiarizing will automatically fail the
course. If you are uncertain about citing a source it is always best to use a citation. If you have
specific questions please contact me.
Attendance Policy
You must attend the first three class sessions; failure to do so will result in an automatic drop
from the course. After the fourth class session it is the student’s responsibility to drop. I do not
grant “W”s for any reason unless you contact me with a viable reason during the semester. If
you have special circumstances or issues please see me. It is your responsibility to drop the
course for any other reason. If you miss a class it is your responsibility to get notes from another
student, not from me. Plan ahead.
Courtesy
Please turn cell phones off before coming to class. Do not answer phones or text message during
class. Do not talk during lecture. Questions and comments are encouraged, however any
“hateful” language/views will not be tolerated. If any of these are a reoccurring problem I will
ask you to leave.
Week Of
Lecture Topic
Reading Assignments/Due Dates
Aug. 20
First Women in North America
Colonial experience
Read Chapter 1
Read Ch. 2
Aug. 27
Colonies and Slavery
Mary Jemison due
Sept. 3
Revolution Era
Read: Ch. 3
Anne Bradstreet due
Sept. 10
Reform Era and Pre-Civil War
Read: Ch. 4
Paper Topic
Abigail Adams due
Sept. 17
Civil War and Aftermath
Read: Ch. 5—“Civil War and Women’s
Work” & “The Black Experience”
Mary Ballou due
Quiz One
Sept. 24
Industry, Expansion and Reform
Read: Ch. 7—“An Independent Suffrage
Movement”
Ch. 5—“Immigrants, Cities, and
Working Girls”
Ch.6—“Clubwomen and Crusaders”
Sojourner Truth due
Oct. 1
Early 20th Century
Read: Ch. 5--“Women in Industry”
“The Union Experience”
Read Ch. 7
Mother Jones due
Annotated Bibliography due
Oct. 8
Suffrage, Birth Control and WWI
Mary Church Terrell due
Oct. 15
Roaring Twenties & Depression
Read: Ch. 8
Read Ch. 9—“Depression Families”
“Working Women”
“Women’s New Deal”
Emma Goldman Due
Quiz Two
Oct. 22
World War II and Propaganda
Read: Ch. 9
Emma Tenayuca due
Oct. 29
Red Scare and Social Inequality
Read Ch. 10—“Suburban Housewives”
“Mixed Signals”
“Black Women in Postwar America”
War Interview #10 Due
Nov. 5
Civil Rights and the Courts
Johnnie Tillmon due
Nov. 12
1960s: Social Change
Read Ch. 10—“Civil Rights and Women’s
Liberation”
Hayden & King due
Quiz Three
Nov. 19
1960s: the Movements
Read Ch. 10 “Legitimizing Feminism”
Gloria Anzaldua due
Nov. 26
Feminism and the 1970s
Read Ch. 11
Final Paper due
Dec. 3
1980s -1990s
Gloria Steinem due
Dec. 10
FINAL
SYLLABUS SUBJECT TO CHANGE
Study guide
History 27
Corn woman
“Three Sisters”
Pueblo women
Katsina (Kachina)
European Contact
Indentured Servants
Creoles
Feme sole
Dower Right
Puritan birth ritual
Salem Witchcraft
Quaker women
Mary Johnson
Peculiar Institution
Urban Slavery
Phyllis Wheatley
Leisure Class
Father’s legacy to his Daughter
Mestiza
Mercy Otis Warren
“Molly Pitchers”
Deborah Sampson Gannett
Culper Ring
Ladies Assoc. of Philadelphia
Handsome Lake’s prophecy Women’s Sphere
Willard
Catherine Beecher
Harriet Beecher Stowe
2nd Great Awakening
Abolition
Lucretia Mott
Harriet Tubman
Sojourner Truth
Moon Huts
Seneca Women & Power
“Now-wife”
Feme Covert
Anne Hutchinson
Middle Passage
Slave Quarter Production
Katy Ferguson
Sarah Osborn
Household Patriots
Lydia Darraugh
Republican Motherhood
Lowell Textile Mill Emma
Mrs. E.D.E.N. Southworth
N.Y. Moral Reform Society
Grimke Sisters
Mother Ann Lee
Oneida Community
Mormon Polygamy
Declaration of Sentiments
Myrtilla Miner
Frontier Marriage practice
slave marriage ceremony
Bloomers
Trail of Tears
Sanitary Commission
Clara Barton
Dorthea Dix
Little Women
Freedman’s Bureau
Lucy Stone
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
Washerwomen Strike
La Tules
Teresa Urrea
Lucia Parsons
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Hull House
Knights of Labor
Sarah Winnemucca
Voluntary Motherhood
free love movement
Female College
Domestic Reformers
Gibson Girl
W.T.U.L
Shirtwaist Strike
Clara Lemlich
Triangle fire
Asian Immigration
Xue Jinqin
footbinding
Anti-suffrage movement
N.A.W.S.A.
Carrie Chapman Catt
National Women’s Party
Alice Paul
19th Amendment
Ida B. Wells
N.A.C.W.
Mary Church Terrell
Margaret Sanger
League of Women Voters
The Flapper
Anti-lynching Crusaders
Zora Neale Hurston
National Recovery Act
Housewife Leagues
Harris Bill
Cal San Strike
Eleanor Roosevelt
Frances Perkins
Mary Mcleod Bethune
Rosie the Riveter
Ruth Muskrat Bronson
WASP
Lanham Act
Japanese Internment Camps
Nisei
Executive order 9066
Planned Parenthood
Cult of Domesticity
Red Scare
Luisa Moreno
“Good Housewife” guide
Daughter’s of Bilitis
Montgomery Bus boycott
Rosa Parks
Jo Ann Robinson
Brown v. Board of Ed.
Pauli Murray
Little Rock Nine
Women Strike for Peace
Dolores Huerta
Johnnie Tillmon
Nat. Council of Negro Women
Ella Baker
SNCC
Diane Nash
Angela Davis
Fannie Lou Hamer
MFDP
Pres. Commission on Women
Betty Friedan
Feminine Mystique
NOW
Miss America Protest
FSM & Joan Baez
Blow Outs
Grape Boycott
Native Am. Feminism
strike For Equality
Shirley Chisholm
Ms. Magazine
Roe v. Wade
STOP ERA
Pro-Family movement
“burning Bed”
Chicana Welfare Rights Org. Nine to Five
National Women’s conference
Sandra Day O’Connor
Geraldine Ferraro
MALC
“Backlash” of Feminism “Feminization of Poverty”
Persian Gulf War
Emily’s List
Anita Hill
Women’s Action Coalition
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Guerilla Girls
Third Wave
Quizzes
Quizzes are based upon the study guide and are given the first fifteen minutes of class. There are
three scheduled, however you will only be graded on two. Therefore you can miss a quiz, or
take all three and the lowest score will be dropped.
Writing Assignments
Each assignment must be typed, double spaced and one to two pages in length. The assignment
should not be a summary of the sources. You want to evaluate the importance of the document.
Listed below are the reading assignments that the writing assignments are based upon.
Here is a breakdown of points.
You only need to do ten assignments, however you may do more and take the top ten
scores.
1. Mary Jemison
http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bdorsey1/41docs/47-jem.html
2. Anne Bradstreet—Spiritual Autobiography in a letter to her children
http://www.mith2.umd.edu/eada/html/display.php?docs=bradstreet_tomydearchildren.xml&action=show
3. Abigail Adams—Remember the Ladies
http://www.uwm.edu/~margo/141/remember.htm
4. Mary Ballou--This muddy place---gold rush
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6512
5.. Sojourner Truth “Ain’t I a Woman?”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/sojtruth2.html
6. Mother Jones—Civilization in Southern Mills
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/jones/MJ-article.html
7. Mary Church Terrell—On the Progress of Colored Women
http://www.expo98.msu.edu/people/Terrell.htm
8. Emma Goldman—Marriage and Love
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/goldman/aando/marriageandlove.html
9. Emma Tenayuca—Pecan Strike in Texas
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,931073,00.html
10. What did you do in the war Grandma? Interview
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/Grandma.html
11. Johnnie Tillmon Women on Welfare
http://www3.niu.edu/~td0raf1/history468/feb1202.htm
12. Casey Hayden & Mary King Feminism and the Civil Rights Movement
http://www2.wwnorton.com/college/history/archive/resources/documents/ch34_02.htm
13. Borderlands Gloria Anzaldua
http://www.uwm.edu/~gjay/Multicult/anzaldua.htm
14. ‘Women Are Never Front-Runners’ Gloria Steinem
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/opinion/08steinem.html?ex=1215493200&en=07809ff6a3077b3b&
ei=5087&excamp=GGOPgloriasteinemoped&WT.srch=1&WT.mc_ev=click&WT.mc_id=OP-S-E-GGNA-S-gloria_steinem_op_ed
Below is a list of questions that you can use to bring critical analysis into your writing and
thinking. Always question.
1.
What is the purpose of the piece being written? Or why did the author write the piece?
2.
Who is the intended audience for the piece?
3.
Compare the information with what you already know either about the era or the event.
4.
Assess the value or importance of the piece. What does it contribute to history if anything?
5.
What is your evaluation of the piece? Do you think it is an accurate account of the topic/era?
6.
What does this piece reveal about the time in which it was written?
7.
Provide examples from the author’s work that reflects attitudes within society at the time.
8.
What is your theory about the subject? If you were to write a response to a text do you agree or disagree
with the author? Use factual evidence in supporting your theory.
Paper Project
The assignment due dates are listed in the syllabus. The Project includes turning in a paper
topic, annotated bibliography, rough draft and the final draft of the paper. No biographies are
accepted. The paper must reflect the topic of the class. The paper must meet the following
criteria:
1. Proper Citation-Turabian www.libs.uga.edu/ref/turabian.html
2. Analysis, critique or commentary of your topic.
Paper project breakdown (a final paper will not be accepted if any of these
are missing)
Paper topic-- 20 points
Annotated Bibliography-- 30 points
Final Draft-- 50 points
Paper Topic
Topic must reflect class, no biographies will be accepted. Topic of paper must be typed doublespaced and have a brief summary of your interest in this topic. Roughly ½-1 page in length.
Annotated bibliography
An annotated bibliography is a list of citations to books, articles, documents and a variety of
other sources. Each citation is followed by a brief descriptive and evaluative paragraph—the
annotation. The purpose of the annotation is to inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy and
quality of the source cited. You will need 1 book, one journal/magazine article and one of
your choice.
THE PROCESS
Creating an annotated bibliography calls for the application of a variety of intellectual skills:
concise exposition, succinct analysis and informed research.
First, locate and record citations to books, journals, and/or other sources than may contain useful
information and ideas on your topic ie. book, journal article, newspaper, internet, video or
interview. Briefly examine and review the actual item. Next choose those works that provide a
variety of perspectives on your topic.
Cite the book, article or other relevant document using Turabian or Chicago citation style. You
can find information on proper citation on the library'
Write a concise annotation that summarizes the central theme and scope of the book or article.
Include one or more sentences that evaluate the authority or background of the author, compare
and contrast this work with another you have cited and explain how this work illuminated your
topic.
EXAMPLE
Topic: African-American Feminism
Hill-Collins, Patricia. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the
Politics of Empowerment. New York: Routledge, Chapman, and Hall, Inc., 1991.
Black Feminist Thought incorporates a variety of themes that are seminal to the discussion of
African-Americans and Feminism. Hill-Collins’ Book is divided into three sections: “The
Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought,” “Core Themes in Black Feminist Thought” and
“Black Feminism and epistemology.” In the first section the author outlines the politics of black
feminism and also defines it. In “Core Themes” she describes the fictitious role that AfricanAmerican women have been forced to play throughout history and the real role of African
American women. For example, she reviews the role of the “Black Mammy” and the AfricanAmerican female’s actual role as a mother and a sexual being. Lastly she develops the idea or
belief of a feminist ideology that is strictly for the African American female. The author has
written a variety of articles dealing with this topic and directed the African-American Center at
Tufts University.
Paper writing Instructions
The paper is designed to enable you to develop more thoroughly your analytical skills. You need
at least three sources (from your annotated bibliography) The paper must be 6-8 pages in length,
typed, double-spaced, 12 size, in a readable font with footnotes. Refer to either the website
noted (www.libs.uga.edu/ref/turabian.html) or Kate Turabian’s A Manual for Writers of Term
Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, look for the chapter concerning notes. (ask librarian for copy)
Do not use MLA. The paper is worth 100 points.
Here is a breakdown of points:
Citations—15 points
Analysis, Interpretation, Commentary—30 points
Grammar/Readability/Organization—5 points
The paper should not be a summary of the sources. You want to evaluate the importance of the
topic. Write a commentary, analysis, or interpretation of it. In other words write an essay that
expresses your understanding of the significance, ramifications, or value of the topic.
The final paper will be handed in with your paper topic, annotated bibliography, and rough draft
as well.
If you have questions or concerns do not hesitate to ask.
Guide to Footnotes
 Open up your word document
 Once you have typed in the information that needs a citation, either a paraphrase or direct
quote, directly after the information click on insert top of page
 Scroll down to either footnote/endnote click on it
 It will then proceed to ask for a number, type it in; begin with #1 and continue throughout
paper. 1
 Your citation # will automatically appear and you will be moved to the end of your page
 At this point type in the information according to your Turabian Guide
 Once you have cited a source you do not have to fully cite again; provide author’s last
name and page number2
Hints for citations/footnotes:
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If you did not know the information before reading a book or an article you need to use a footnote
A footnote is needed even if you paraphrase (in your own words) a source
It is the norm for each paragraph to have at least one footnote
It is not unusual for a paper of this size to have anywhere from 10 to 20 footnotes.
If in doubt use a footnote
Patricia Hill-Collins. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of
Empowerment (New York, Routledge, Chapman and Hall, Inc. 1991 ), 35.
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Hill-Collins, 42.