DR. JENRETTE—HIST 715
SEMINAR IN WOMEN’S HISTORY
Office: Hendricks 146
Phone: 2575/1225 Email: JJenrette@edinboro.edu
Office hours: Mon 5-6; M-R 11:00-noon, and by appointment or walk-in!
Mon 5-6 office hours in Wiley 111
Course Description:
The course provides an in-depth examination of the political, economic, social, and cultural developments
of women in history. The intent of the course is to build the student’s bibliographic, historiographic, and
research knowledge on women’s history. The culminating activity of this course is the preparation of a
scholarly paper. In sum, this course has a two-fold purpose: to build your bibliographic and
historiographic knowledge, and to build your research skills/knowledge by selecting a specific topic for
research.
This course is not a lecture course but is a Seminar in the true meaning of the word. Discussion will drive
each class session and all students will be required to participate fully.
THIS IS A GRADUATE COURSE and as such I will not listen to complaints about the workload.
Former graduate students who are now working on their doctorates have encouraged us to require more
reading in our graduate courses!
Required Texts:
Estelle Freedman, No Turning Back: The History Feminism and the Future of Women
Gerda Lerner, The Creation of Patriarchy
Rosalind Miles, Who Cooked the Last Supper: The Women’s History of the World
Kate Turabian, A Manual for Writers 7th edition
EUP Graduate School Thesis Requirements
MASS Website http://users.edinboro.edu/rspiller/MASS/home.htm
Additional books from the weekly readings lists (included in this syllabus). Each student
will be responsible for a minimum of 1 book and 1 primary document per week. More may
be assigned.
Recommended Text:
Strunk and White, Elements of Style
All written assignments will adhere to the style found in Kate Turabian, A Manual for Writers, 7th edition.
SPELLING AND PUNCTUATION COUNT! SPELL-CHECK AND PROOFREAD. POINTS WILL
BE DEDUCTED FROM ALL ASSIGNMENTS FOR TYPOGRAPHICAL, PUNCTUATION, AND
SPELLING ERRORS.
Do NOT use “in-text” citations. All students MUST use footnotes!
All papers must be written with the intended goal of submitting the paper for publication consideration
and/or conference participation.
Course Objectives:
To expose you to the leading scholars in women’s history
To examine the lives of some of the women who have played important roles in the political,
social, and economic history and to help you analyze the impact of their actions
To understand women’s roles/contributions in times of significant change
To help you identify a specific research topic, preferably one that has not been done before, and
conduct research and write a substantial paper
To improve your oral and written communication skills
To improve your analytical skills
To improve your research skills
To examine, through tests, discussions, essays, book reviews, presentations, and research, your
comprehension of the material covered
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Course Outcomes:
Each student will have demonstrated:
an indepth knowledge of important events, people, issues, etc. in women’s history
knowledge of the complexities surrounding race, class, and gender
knowledge of the leading scholars in women’s history
the ability to analyze the impact of women and their contributions to global development
the ability to express your ideas in written and oral communication at the level appropriate for
graduate study
the ability to write a significant paper that contributes to the field of women’s history
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Course Requirements/Assessment:
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Weekly Class Discussions.
A. Discussions will be based on the books on the reading list provided for each topic, primary
sources, websites and any other item I give you to read. Students will select 1-3 books for
each topic for which you will read and be prepared to discuss in class. Students will also
select one primary source to discuss in class for each topic. For the most part we will rotate
between primary documents and books until the weeks of April 11 and April 18, at which
time you will be responsible for both a primary document and book until The appropriate
number is listed in the course schedule. Of those you select you will write reviews of two of
the books. You will also write annotations of the other books/primary sources you select.
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Each student will regularly contribute to and, at times, lead class discussion.
Failure to participate/lead class discussion will result in your participation being recorded as no
more than 50% and that is ONLY if you attend ALL CLASSES.
Because this is a seminar, this course depends on and thrives on quality discussion and dialogue.
Failure to participate in each class will lower your grade by a minimum of 3 points per class.
Failure to engage in class discussion MAY immediately result in a test and/or zeros for each
member of the class.
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To earn higher than a 50% on this section, you MUST ACTUALLY PARTICIPATE IN
DISCUSSION DAILY.
Your contribution will be evaluated based on quality as well as frequency. No credit will be
given for thoughtless babble!
To be counted present in this course all of you, including your brain, must be in attendance
throughout the entire class period.
NOTE: Putting your body in a desk DOES NOT CONSTITUTE your presence in the course.
Becoming actively engaged suggests presence. BE ATTENTIVE.
ZEROS WILL BE GIVEN IF STUDENTS ARE NOT PREPARED FOR CLASS; ZEROS WILL
ALSO BE GIVEN IF STUDENTS MISS CLASS without a legitimate reason (“I don’t feel good”
is not a legitimate reason)
ABSENCES ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE.
If you are not willing to “step up the plate” and behave like a real graduate student who aspires to
excel, this is NOT the class for you.
I do not (and will not) find it acceptable for one or two people to carry the weight of class
discussion.
B. Guest Speakers. From time to time we may have guest speakers and/or films. You should
consider these presentations comparable to books you’re reading. You may be required to write
critiques of guest lectures and films. These assignments will be calculated in your Discussion
grade.
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RESEARCH PAPER/PRESENTATION/JOURNAL/CONFERENCE SUBMISSION.
25-30 page paper. Due April 4. Topic must be as close to an original idea as possible--You
cannot simply regurgitate something that has already been done; at the very least, you must have
a new interpretation of the topic.
This assignment is a three-part task:
A. 25-30 page research paper due on April 4
 Topic selected by Jan. 31. You must submit a formal proposal that includes the
title and your methodology/plan for completing the proposal. What is the goal of
your paper? What are you trying to prove? What is the thesis?
 Working bibliography is due on Feb. 28
 Detailed outline due by March 14
 No more than 5 sources may come from the Internet.
 Any material from the internet must include an accession date.
 You must have a minimum of 30 sources; at least half must be primary sources.
 You must include footnotes and a bibliography.
B. Journal or Conference Submission.
You must identify a journal or a conference for which your paper is appropriate, and
submit your paper for publication consideration. This must be done by April 4. You
must identify the conference or journal on a page which you attach to the end of your
paper when you submit it on April 4.
C. Presentation.
STUDENTS ARE ALSO REQUIRED TO DO A 20 MINUTE PRESENTATION ON THE
RESEARCH PAPER. DATES FOR THESE PRESENTATIONS ARE LISTED ON THE
COURSE SCHEDULE. These presentations must follow a traditional History Conference
format. This means you have 20 minutes ONLY to do the presentation. I will provide more
details in class. The best way to approach this is to reduce your 25-30 page research paper to
no more than 10 pages (for the presentation only) and READ the abbreviated version of your
paper. Presentations will be given during the last several class periods. You will sign up
tonight for your presentation date.
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Annotated Bibliography. Due April 18. Each student will develop a lengthy, annotated
bibliography in collaboration with the other students in the class. The annotated bibliography
will include annotations of the books and historical documents you select. Books will be selected
from the lists I have provided AND you will find the primary historical documents “on your
own.”
 Students will pick 1-3 books for each topic (depending on the weekly assignment)
and prepare a substantial paragraph about each book which will be included in the
annotated bibliography. 75-100 words minimum.
 One of the best ways to achieve this will be to find other reviews of the books you
select. You should also review the book’s contents (i.e. “we called it ‘gutting’ in my
doctoral program”---I will explain this in class).
 The point of this assignment is that you become FAMILIAR with many, many
sources so that you know the authors’ names, the books they have written and the
main point of the books.
 You will provide copies of your annotations to the professor and the other members
of the class. These annotations are due no later than 7:00 p.m. on Sundays via email.
 LATE PAPERS WILL BE PENALIZED BY 2 FULL LETTER GRADES
REGARDLESS OF WHEN YOU SUBMIT IT AFTER NOON ON MONDAYS.
Complete annotated bibliography is due by April 18.
What should you include in the Annotations?
 major theme and subthemes
 What is the author’s position on the topic (i.e. Reconstruction, Progressivism, New Deal,
etc.)?
 What does the work contribute to the field? What is its value?
 What do other scholars say about the work?
Basically, the annotations should include enough information so you (or someone else) can read the
annotation and “know” if the book is a valuable source on the topic. Annotations should include a full
bibliographic citation and a substantial paragraph. You must double-space after the bibliographic
citation, the single-space the entry.
In sum, here’s what you have to do.
 Choose 1-3 books from the list for each topic as assigned on the course schedule (THE
NUMBER IS LISTED AT THE BEGINNING OF EACH SECTION)
 Choose on primary historical document for each topic as assigned on the course schedule
 Write annotations for each book each week
 Submit via email to professor and students by 7:00 p.m. on Sundays
DUE DATES for annotated bib entries via email on Sundays by 7:00 p.m.
 Feb. 13, 27
 March 20
 April 3, 10, 17
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Book Reviews. Each student will write two book reviews, choosing from the lists I have
provided on this syllabus. There will be NO duplication of books you read; each student will read
a different book. Book reviews must follow a traditional format appropriate for publication
submission. The books you select to write reviews on must have been published since 2007.
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Select two of the books and write a full 3 page review of each book; they may not be on
the same topic
Reviews must be periodically throughout the semester. I will not accept reviews after the
topic has been covered; for example, if you choose to write a book review from the
Social and Economic Life list, the review is due on Sunday, Feb. 13 for discussion on
Monday, Feb. 14.
Students will provide copies for each student in the class (and for the professor); these
copies will be provided via email to the professor and the rest of the class by 7:00 p.m. on
SUNDAY evenings. This will give the class and the professor time to read the papers
prior to Monday evening classes.
LATE PAPERS WILL BE PENALIZED BY 2 FULL LETTER GRADES
REGARDLESS OF WHEN YOU SUBMIT AFTER 7:00 P.M. ON SUNDAYS.
Consequently, if you submit a late book review you cannot earn higher than a C on the
review.
You must complete one review by Mar. 20 so you must submit either on Feb. 13 , Feb.
27, or Mar. 20. Your second review will be due either on Apr. 3, Apr. 10, or Apr. 17.
In other words, the dates on which you may submit your reviews are:
Feb. 13: Social and Economic Life
Feb. 27: Political Women and Their Ideas
Mar. 20: Gender-Race-Ethnicity
Apr. 3: Witchcraft
Apr. 10: Voice of Resistance During War and Revolution
Apr. 17: Feminism
Essentially, what I am saying is that the book review is due BEFORE the book is discussed
in class.
Students will submit one of the book reviews for publication consideration to Visions and
Revisions or to another scholarly journal. Due dates will vary according to topic. NOTE: It is
imperative that you select your books asap as I cannot guarantee that all are in the Baron-Forness
Library; it is highly probable that you will have to order some through interlibrary loan. You will
find a book review guide at the end of the syllabus.
5. Primary Documents Analysis. This is a two-part assignment that will familiarize you with
primary documents on revolutionary history and, hopefully, enhance your research skills.
A. Identify and print primary documents on each of the topics we are covering. Students must
find ONE primary document for each of the topics we will cover this semester. Bring these
to class at the appropriate time. If feasible, make copies for your classmates and professor.
You will be required to summarize, analyze and explain the document’s contribution to your
understanding of the historical period/event/person/issue. Annotations of the documents will
also be included in your Annotated Bibliography. Annotations of primary documents are due
to the professor and class by 7:00 p.m. on Sundays.
TOPIC
Social and Economic Life
Political Women-Ideas
Gender-Race-Ethnicity
Witchcraft
Resistance/War/Revolution
Feminism
BRING TO CLASS ON THE DATE BELOW
Feb. 7
Feb. 14
Mar. 14
Mar. 28
Apr. 11
Apr. 18
B. Each student will write a 5-7 page comparative critique of the documents you selected. Due
April 25.
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HIAN Spring Colloquia AND Women’s History Month. Students will attend each of the three
colloquia presented by the Department of History and Anthropology. Each graduate student will
write a critical analysis of each colloquium. Papers are due on the Monday following each
colloquium. (1 page synopsis) Students are also asked to attend selected presentations during
Women’s History Month (March). These will count as part of your Discussion grade. If you
have proof that you work fulltime (off-campus) you may talk with me about alternative
assignments. (See schedule at end of syllabus).
Wednesdays: Jan. 26 Student Center MPR-A
March 23, April 20(Time: noon; Location: HH147)
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Final Comprehensive Exam. (A final exam will be given IF students do not perform as they
should during this course which will count as part of the discussion grade).
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FAILURE TO COMPLETE ALL ASSIGNMENTS WILL RESULT IN AN F FOR THE
COURSE. I WILL NOT TOLERATE LESS THAN OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE FROM
EACH STUDENT.
Grading Percentages:
Grading Scale:
Book Reviews
Research Paper/Pres.
Annotated Bib
Discussions
Documents Analysis
0-65 = F
65-69=D 70-75=D+
76-79=C 80-85=C+
86-89=B 90-93=B+
94-100=A
January 24:
15%
35%
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15%
100%
Introduction
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Selection of books
Discussion of Assignments
Each student will write 2-3 discussion questions each for Miles, Lerner
and Freedman to be used in class on Jan. 31. These questions must be
sent to Dr. Jenrette by 7:00 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 30.
January 31
Discussion of:
Miles, Who Cooked the Last Supper
Lerner, The Creation of Patriarchy
Freedman, No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the
Future of Women
Topic:
February 7
Social and Economic Life (Feb. 7-14)
Film and Primary Documents
Book review due by 7:00 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 13
February 14
Book Discussion
(select 2 books)
Akers, Charles . Abigail Adams : An American Woman . 2nd ed. New York: Longman, 2005.
Alic, Margaret. Hypatia’s Heritage: A History of Women in Science From Antiquity Through the
Nineteenth Century. Boston: Beacon Press, 1986.
Amadiume, Ifi. Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society. London: Zed
Books, 1987.
Andaya, Barbara Watson. The Flaming Womb: Repositioning Women in Early Modern Southeast Asia.
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2008.
Arrom, Silvia Marina. The Women of Mexico City, 1790-1857. Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ. Press, 1985.
Bennett, Judith. Women in the Medieval English Countryside: Gender and Household In Brigstock
Before the Plague. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1987.
Berger, Iris. Threads of Solidarity: Women in South African Industry, 1900-1980. Bloomington: Indiana
Univ. Press, 1992.
Berres, Thomas Edward. Power and Gender in Oneota Culture. DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois Univ.
Press, 2001.
Boxer, Marilyn J. and Jean H. Quataert. Connecting Spheres: European Women in a Globalizing World,
1500 to the Present. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1999.
Bowers, Jane and Judith Tick, eds. Women Making Music: The Western Art Tradition, 1150-1950 Urbana:
Univ. of Illinois Press, 1986.
Braude, Ann. Sisters and Saints: Women and American Religion. New York: Oxford University Press,
2007.
Burn, Shawn Meghan. Women Across Cultures: A Global Perspective.3rd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill,
2010.
Callaway, Barbara. Muslim Hausa Women in Nigeria: Tradition and Change. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Univ.
Press, 1987.
Davis, Fanny. The Ottoman Lady: A Social History from 1718 to 1918. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press,
1986.
Derks, Annuska. Khmer Women on the Move: Exploring Work and Life in Urban Cambodia. Honolulu:
University of Hawaii Press, 2008.
Doorn-Harder, Pieternella van. Woman Shaping Islam: Reading the Qu'ran in Indonesia. Champaign:
University of Illinois Press, 2006.
Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock, ed. Women and the Family in the Middle East: New Voices Of Change.
Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1985.
Floyd-Thomas, Stacey. Deeper Shades of Purple: Womanism in Religion and Society. New York: NYU
Press, 2006.
Franco, Jean. Plotting Women: Gender and Representation in Mexico. New York: Columbia Univ. Press,
1989.
Frank, Dana. Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America. Cambridge: South
End Press, 2008.
Graham-Brown, Sarah. Images of Women: The Portrayal of Women in Photography of The Middle East,
1860-1950. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1988.
Hahner, June, ed. Women Through Women’s Eyes: Latin American Women in the Nineteenth Century.
Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Books, 1998.
Hartigan-O'Connor, Ellen. The Ties That Buy: Women and Commerce in Revolutionary America.
University Park: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.
Hinsch, Bret. Women in Early Imperial China.2nd ed. Plymouth, UK: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
Inc., 2010.
Holliday, Carl. Woman’s life in colonial days. Florence: Nabu Press, 2010.
Honig, Emily, and Gail Hershatter. Personal Voices: Chinese Women in the 1980s. Stanford, CA: Stanford
Univ. Press, 1988.
Ilic, Melanie. Women Workers in the Soviet Interwar Economy: From Protection to Equality. UK: Univ.
of Birmingham/St. Martin’s Press, 1999.
Imamura, Anne E. Urban Japanese Housewives. Honolulu: Univ. of Hawaii Press, 1987.
Johnson-Odim, Cheryl, and Margaret Strobel, eds. Expanding the Boundaries of Women’s History: Essays
on Women in the Third World. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1992.
Kassem, Fatma . Palestinian Women: Narrative Histories and Gendered Memory. London: Zed Books,
2011.
Kellogg, Susan. Weaving the Past: A History of Latin America's Indigenous Women from the Prehispanic
Period to the Present. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Kelly, Mary. Private Woman, Public Stage: Literary Domesticity in Nineteenth- Century America. New
York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1984.
Koonz, Claudia. Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family, and Nazi Politics. St. Martin’s Press,
1987.
Lefkowitz, Mary R. and Maureen B. Fant. Women's Life in Greece and Rome.3rd ed. Baltimore, MD: The
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
Milani, Farzaneh. Veils and Worlds: The Emerging Voices of Iranian Women Writers. Syracuse, NY:
Syracuse Univ. Press, 1992. CT: Greenwood Press, 1986.
Millett, Kate. Sexual Politics. Garden City, N.J.: Doubleday, 1970.
Minces, Juliette. The House of Obedience: Women in Arab Society. London: Zed Books, 1982.
de Pizan, Christine. The Book of the City of Ladies. New York: QPB Club, 1992.
Pomeroy, Sarah B. Goddesses, Wives, Whores, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity. New York:
Schocken, 1975.
Ranke-Heinemann. Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven: Women, Sexuality, and The Catholic Church.
New York: Doubleday, 1990.
Robertson, Priscilla. An Experience of Women: Pattern and Change in Nineteenth-Century France.
Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press, 1982.
Romero, Patricia W., ed. Life Histories of African Women. London: Ashfield Press, 1988.
Russeau, G.S. and Roy Porter, eds. Sexual Underworlds of the Enlightenment. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North
Carolina Press, 1988.
Saidi, Christine A. Women's Authority and Society in Early East-Central Africa. Rochester: University of
Rochester Press, 2010.
Sealey, Raphael. Women and Law in Classical Greece. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1990.
Shostak, Marjorie. Nisa: The Life and Words of a Kung Woman. Cambridge:Harvard Univ. Press, 2000.
_____. Return to Nisa. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 2000.
Ullrich, Laurel Thatcher. A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812.
New York: Knopf, 1991.
Vapnek, Lara. Breadwinners: Working Women and Economic Independence, 1865-1920.Champaign:
University of Illinois Press, 2009.
Wildfang, Robin Lorsch. Rome's Vestal Virgins. New York: Routledge, 2006.
Williams, Susan Millar. A Devil and a Good Woman, Too. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 2000.
Zeitz, Joshua. Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America
Modern. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2007.
Topic:
Political Women and their Ideas
(Feb. 21-28)
February 21
Film and Primary Documents
Book review due by 7:00 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 27
February 28
Book Discussion (select one book)
Afshar, Haleh, ed. Women, State, and Ideology: Studies From Africa and Asia. Albany: State Univ. of New
York Press, 1987.
Buckley, Mary. Women and Ideology in the Soviet Union. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1989.
Coleman, Isobel. Paradise Beneath Her Feet: How Women Are Transforming the Middle East. New York:
Random House, 2010.
Dennison, Matthew. Livia, Empress of Rome. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2011.
Dixon, Suzanne. Cornelia: Mother of the Gracchi. New York: Routledge, 2007.
Garland, Lynda. Byzantine Empresses: Women and Power in Byzantium, AD 527-1204. Routledge, 1999.
Goldman, Emma. Anarchism and Other Essays. New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association, 1991.
Henderson, Sarah and Alana Jeydel. Women and Politics in a Global World. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2009.
Jayawardena, Kumari. Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World. London: Zed Books, 1986.
Johnson-Sirleaf, Ellen. This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman
President. New York: Harper Perennial, 2010.
Kampwirth, Karen and Kurt Weyland . Gender and Populism in Latin America: Passionate Politics.
University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010.
Kark ,Ruth, Margalit Shilo, Galit Hasan-Rokem, and Shulamit Reinharz. Jewish Women in Pre-State
Israel: Life History, Politics, and Culture. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2008.
Kessler-Harris, Alice. U.S. History As Women's History: Knowledge, Power, and State Formation. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
Kleinman, Ruth. Anne of Austria: Queen of France. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press, 1985.
Lal , Ruby. Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2005.
Levine, Philippa. Gender and Empire. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
MacLean, Ian. The Renaissance Notion of Woman. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1980.
de Madariage, Isabel. Russian the Age of Catherine the Great. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1981.
May, Nina Emma, Nigerian Women Mobilized: Women’s Political Activity in Southern Nigeria, 19001965. Berkeley: Institute of International Studies, Univ. of California, 1982.
Meade, Marion. Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Biography. New York: Hawthorne Books, 1977.
Ozment, Steven. When Fathers Rule: Family Life in Reformation Europe. Cambridge: Harvard Univ.
Press, 1983.
Paulson, Ross Evans. Liberty, Equality, and Justice. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1997.
Pirro, Robert C. Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Tragedy. DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois Univ.
Press, 2001.
Sanchez, Magdalena S. The Empress, The Queen and the Nun: Women and Power at the Court of Philip
II of Spain. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1998.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Cultures, 1830-1980. New York:
W.W. Norton, 1985.
Skaine, Rosemarie . Women Political Leaders in Africa. Jefferson NC: McFarland, 2007.
Thyret, Isolde. Between God and Tsar: Religious Symbolism and the Royal Women of Muscovite Russia.
Dekalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois Univ. Press, 2001.
Topic:
March 14
Gender-Race-Ethnicity (Mar. 14-21)
Film and Primary Documents
Book review due by 7:00 p.m. Sunday, Mar. 20
March 21
Book Discussion (select one book)
Altink, Henrice. Representations of Slave Women in Discourses on Slavery and Abolition, 1780-1838.
New York: Routledge, 2007.
Breines, Wini. The Trouble Between Us: An Uneasy History of White and Black Women in the Feminist
Movement. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Bynum, Victoria E. Unruly Women: The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South. Chapel
Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1992.
Clinton, Catherine, ed. Fanny Kemble's Journals. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 2000.
Cashin, Edward J. and Glenn T. Eskew, eds. Paternalism in a Southern City: Race, Religion, and Gender in
Augusta, Georgia. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 2001.
Curry, Constance. Deep in Our Hearts: Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement. Athens: Univ. of
Georgia Press, 2001.
DuBois, Ellen Carol and Vicki L. Ruiz. Unequal Sisters: A Multi-Cultural Reader in U.S. Women’s History.
New York: Routledge, 1990.
Duchess, Harris. Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Clinton. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Devasahayam. Theresa W. Gender Trends in Southeast Asia: Women Now, Women in the Future.
Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2009.
Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South.
Chapel Hill: The Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1988.
Giddings, Paula. When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Sex and Race. New York:
Bantam Books, 1984.
Ginzberg, Lori D. Women in Antebellum Reform. Wheeling, Illinois: Harlan Davidson, Inc., 2000.
Hamabata, Matthews M. Crested Kimono: Power and Life in the Japanese Business Family. Ithaca, NY:
Cornell Univ. Press, 1990.
Leslie, Kent Anderson. Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege: Amanda America Dickson, 1849-1893.
Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 2001.
Lintelman, Joy K. I Go to America: Swedish American Women and the Life of Mina Anderson. St.Paul :
Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2009.
Morgan, Robin. Sisterhood is Global. Garden City, N.J.: Anchor Books, 1984.
Namias, June. White Captives: Gender and Ethnicity on the American Frontier. Chapel Hill: Univ. of
North Carolina Press, 1993.
Newman, Louise. White Women’s Rights: The Racial Origins of American Feminism. New York: Oxford
Univ. Press, 1998.
Okihiro, Gary Y., ed. In Resistance: Studies in African, Caribbean, and Afro-American History. Amherst:
Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1987.
Reading Black, Reading Feminist: A Critical Anthology. Meridian Books, 1990.
Smith, Bonnie. The Gender of History. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 2000.
Springer, Kimberly. Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968–1980. Durham NC:
Duke University Press Books, 2005.
Sterling, Dorothy. Ahead of Her Time: Abby Kelley and the Politics of Antislavery. New York: W. W.
Norton, 1991.
Valk, Anne M. Radical Sisters: Second-Wave Feminism and Black Liberation in Washington, D.C.
Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2010.
Der Vleuten, Anna Van. The Price of Gender Equality: Members States and Governance in the European
Union . Farnham, UK: Ashgate Publishing , 2007.
Topic:
March 28
Witchcraft (Mar. 28- Apr. 4)
Film and Primary Documents
Book review due by 7:00 p.m. Sunday, Apr. 3
April 4
Book Discussion (select two books)
Ankarloo, Bengt and Gustav Henningsen, eds. Early Modern European Witchcraft: Centres and
Peripheries. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990.
Baker, Emerson W. The Devil of Great Island: Witchcraft and Conflict in Early New England. New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Barstow, Anne Llewellyn. Joan of Arc: Heretic, Mystic, Shaman. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press,
1986.
_____. Witchcraze: A New History of the European Witch Hunts. New York: Harper Collins, 1994, 1995.
Breslaw, Elaine. Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies. New York:
Harper Collins, 1992.
Boyer, Paul and Stephen Nissenbaum, eds. Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974.
______. Salem-Village Witchcraft: A Documentary Record of Local Conflict in Colonial New England.
Boston: Northeastern Univ. Press, 1972, 1993.
Carlson, Laurie Winn. A Fever in Salem: A New Interpretation of the New England Witch Trials. Chicago:
Ivan R. Dee, 2000.
Cohn, Norman. Europe's Inner Demons: The Daemonization of Christians in Mediaeval Christendom.
London, 1993.
Davies, Owen. Witchcraft, Magic, and Culture, 1736-1951. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.
Demos, John. Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England. New York: W.W.
Norton, 1982.
Gatrell, V.A.C. The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People, 1770-1868. New York: Oxford
Univ. Press, 1994.
Geschiere, Peter. The Modernity of Witchcraft: Politics, Policy, and Culture in Botswana. Charlottesville,
VA.: Univ. Press of Virginia, 1997.
Gies, Frances. Joan of Arc: The Legend and the Reality. New York: Harper & Row, 1981.
Gragg, Larry. A Quest for Security: The Life of Samuel Parris, 1653-1720. New York: W.W. Norton,
1990.
Harris, Marvin. Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches. New York: Vintage Books, 1974.
Harris, M.L., M.F. Harris, E. Spiller, and M. Carr, eds. John Hale: A Man Beset by Witches: His Book, a
Modest Inquiry into the Nature of Witchcraft. Beverly, Mass., 1992.
Hill, Frances. A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials. New York: De Capo Press,
1997.
Hobbins, Daniel. The Trial of Joan of Arc. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007.
Karlsen, Carol. The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England. New York:
W.W. Norton, 1987.
MacFarlane, Alan. Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England: A Regional and Comparative Study. New
York: Harper & Row, 1970.
Mather, Cotton. Diary. Massachusetts Historical Society Collections, 4th ser., vol. 8, Boston, 1912.
Michelet, Jules. Satanism and Witchcraft. Secaucus, New Jersey: Lyle Stuart, Inc., 1939.
Mitchell, Stephen A. Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages. University Park: University of
Pennsylvania Press, 2010.
Ogden, Daniel. Magic, Witchcraft and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds. 2nd ed. New York :Oxford
University Press, 2009.
Pernoud, Rénoud and Marie-Véronique Clin. Joan of Arc: Her Story. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.
Reis, Elizabeth. Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England. Ithaca, New York:
Cornell Univ. Press, 1999.
Starkey, Marion. The Devil in Massachusetts. New York: W.W. Norton, 1949.
Trask, Richard B. The Devil Hath Been Raised. Danvers, Mass., 1992.
_______. The Meetinghouse at Salem Village. Danvers, Mass., 1992.
Walker, D.P. Unclean Spirits: Possession and Exorcism in France and England in the Late Sixteenth and
Early Seventeenth Centuries. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1981.
Wright, Lawrence. Remembering Satan. New York: W.W. Norton, 1994.
Topic:
Voices of Resistance During War and
Revolution (Apr. 11)
Book review due by 7:00 p.m. Sunday, Apr. 10
April 11
Film and Primary Documents AND Book Discussion
(select one book)
Berkin, Carol. Civil War Wives: The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and
Julia Dent Grant. New York: Knopf, 2009.
Buechler, Steven M. The Transformation of the Woman Suffrage Movement: The Case of Illinois, 18501920. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1992.
Castro, Fidel, et. al. Women and the Cuban Revolution: Speeches and Documents. New York:
Pathfinder, 1981.
Dunkerly, Robert M. Women of the Revolution: Bravery and Sacrifice on the Southern Battlefields.
Charleston: The History Press, 2007.
Fregoso, Rosa-Linda, Cynthia Bejarano, Marcela Lagarde y de los Rios, and Mercedes Olivera . Terrorizing
Women: Feminicide in the Americas . Durham, NC: Duke University Press Books, 2010.
French, Marilyn and Margaret Atwood. From Eve to Dawn, A History of Women in the World, Volume IV:
Revolutions and Struggles for Justice in the 20th Century. New York: The Feminist Press at CUNY,
2008.
Goldberger, Avriel H., trans. Ten Years of Exile: Germaine de Stael. DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois
Univ. Press, 2001.
Hall, Richard. Women on the Civil War Battlefront. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006.
Higonnet, Margaret, ed. Lines of Fire: Women Writers of World War I. New York: Penguin Books, 1999.
Kerber, Linda. Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America. Chapel Hill: The
Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1980.
Law, Cheryl. Suffrage and Power. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.
Lee, Rebekah. African Women and Apartheid: Migration and Settlement in Urban South Africa. New
York: Tauris Academic Studies, 2009.
Lerner, Gerda. The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Women's Rights and Abolition. 2nd
ed. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
Maloof, Judy. Voices of Resistance: Testimonies of Cuban and Chilean Women. Lexington: Univ. Press of
Kentucky, 1999.
McMillen, Sally Gregory. Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2009.
Miller, Francesca. Latin American Women and the Search for Social Justice. Hanover:Univ. Press of New
England, 1991.
Morton, Patricia, ed. Discovering the Women in Slavery: Emancipating Perspectives of the American
Past. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 2001.
Murthy, Padmini and Clyde Lanford Smith. Women's Global Health and Human Rights. Sudbury, MA:
Jones & Bartlett Publishers, 2009.
Ono, Kazuko. Chinese Women in a Century of Revolution, 1850-1950. Stanford, CA:Stanford Univ. Press,
1989.
Pankhurst, Emmeline Goulden. My Own Story. New York: Source Book Press, 1970.
Ruthchild, Rochelle Goldberg. Equality and Revolution: Women's Rights in the Russian Empire, 19051917. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010.
Sorel, Nancy Caldwell. The Women Who Write the War. New York: Arcade Publishing, 1999.
Stanfield, Michael Edward. Red Rubber, Bleeding Trees: Violence, Slavery, and Empire in Northwest
Amazonia, 1850-1933. Albuequerque: Univ. of New Medico Press, 1998.
Taylor, Sandra C. Vietnamese Women at War: Fighting for Ho Chih Minh and the Revolution. Univ. Press
of Kansas, 1999.
Zeigler, Sara L. and Gregory G. Gunderson . Moving Beyond G.I. Jane: Women and the U.S. Military.
Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005.
Topic: Feminism in History (Apr. 18)
Book review due by 7:00 p.m. Sunday, Apr. 17
April 18
Film and Primary Documents AND Book Discussion
(select one book)
Bacon, Margaret Hope. Mothers of Feminism: The Story of Quaker Women in America. 2nd ed. Friends
General Conference, 1995.
Chafe, William. The Paradox of Change: American Women in the 20th Century. New York: Oxford Univ.
Press, 1991.
Cobble, Dorothy Sue. The Other Women's Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern
America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.
Cott, Nancy F. Root of Bitterness: Documents of the Social History of American Women. Boston:
Northeastern Univ. Press, 1986.
Crapol, Edward, ed.. Women and American Foreign Policy: Lobbyists, Critics, and Insiders. Wilmington,
Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1992.
Daly, Mary. The Church and the Second Sex. New York: Harper & Row, 1975.
_____. Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Woman's Liberation. 2nd ed. Boston: Beacon
Press, 1985.
Dicker, Rory Cooke. A History of U.S. Feminisms. Berkeley: Seal Press, 2008.
Doberman, Martin Bauml, et.al. Hidden From History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past. NewYork: New
American Library, 1989.
DuBois, Ellen Carol, Lynn Dumenil. Through Women's Eyes: An American History with Documents:
Combined Version. 2nd Ed. New York: St. Martin's, 2008.
Faludi, Susan. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against Women. New York: Crown Publishing, 1991.
Fireston, Shulamith. The Dialectic of Sex: The Case of Feminist Revolution. New York: Morrow Quill
Paperbacks, 1970.
Friedan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique. 3rd ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996.
_____. The Fountain of Age. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.
Gilmore, Stephanie and Sara Evans. Feminist Coalitions: Historical Perspectives on Second-Wave Feminism
in the United States. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2008.
Glenn, Susan A. Female Spectacle: The Theatrical Roots of Modern Feminism. Cambridge: Harvard Univ.
Press, 2000.
Hart, Dianne Walta. Undocumented in L.A.: An Immigrant’s Story. Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly
Books, 1997.
Hartog, Hendrik. Man and Wife in America. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 2000.
Howard, Angela. Antifeminism in America. Hamden, CT.: Garland Publishing, 1998.
Inness, Sherrie. The Lesbian Menace. Amherst, MA.: University of
Massachusetts Press, 1997.
Kessler-Harris, Alice. A Woman’s Wage: Historical Meanings and Social Consequences. Lexington: Univ.
Press of Kentucky, 1990.
Landes, Joan B. Feminism, the Public, and the Private. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1998.
Love, Barbara J. and Nancy F. Cott. Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975. Champaign: University of
Illinois Press, 2006.
Riswold, Caryn D. Feminism and Christianity: Questions and Answers in the Third Wave. Eugene, OR:
Cascade Books, 2009.
Ross, Sarah Gwyneth. The Birth of Feminism: Woman as Intellect in Renaissance Italy and England.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009.
Scott, Anne Firor. Making the Invisible Woman Visible. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1984.
Scott, Joan Wallach. Feminism & History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Stansell, Christine. The Feminist Promise: 1792 to the Present. New York: Modern Library, 2010.
Steinem, Gloria. Moving Beyond Words. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994.
Weisberg, Kelly D. Applications of Feminist Legal Theory to Women's Lives. Philadelphia: Temple University
Press, 1996.
_____. Feminist Legal Theory. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996.
Willard, Frances Elizabeth. Glimpses of Fifty Years; The Autobiography of an American Woman. Chicago:
Woman's Temperance Publication Association, 1889.
Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Women. London: Penguin Books, 1985.
April 25 5:30-9:00
Presentations
May 2
Presentations
5:30- 9:00
Friday May 6
6-8:00 p.m.
Final Exam Period/Presentations
Samples for Annotated Bibliography
Cherny, Robert W. American Politics in the Gilded Age 1868-1900. Wheeling: Harlan Davidson, 1997.
Robert Cherny’s American Politics in the Gilded Age 1868-1900 is a short book, and easily
read. Drawn on primary and secondary sources this book recreates, as best it can the actual political
events of the era. During Reconstruction the author examines the two major political parties of the era,
the Republicans, Democrats and their patrons. There are appendix tables and assorted graphs to
illustrate the influence of the two parties. The academic community of historians in politics, presidents,
sociology, reconstruction, labor, women’s suffrage, etc., or the general reader would find Cherny’s book
a great starting point in understanding this period of U.S. history. There was a seventy to ninety percent
turnout throughout the presidential elections of the Gilded Age, this was unprecedented. Participation
in a political party in the Gilded Age was part of your identity, and was considered a responsibility not to
be taken lightly. From Grant to Cleveland this wide voter participation created political deadlock with
both parties unable to establish any political momentum. These administrations were left to defend
patronage appointments, with little else being accomplished. Not until Henry Harrison took office did
the political gridlock cease. In ten months Congress passed a record number of laws, and admitted Idaho
and Wyoming into the Union. Several more states were admitted during the lame duck period of 1889.
In 303 days the Republicans including Harrison had enacted their entire platform. The author also
includes the dynamics of the populists, women’s suffrage, and farmers. At the end of the nineteenth
century came a political realignment, a party shift that would upset the political machinery of the past.
Robert Cherny is a Professor of History at San Francisco State University and specializes in politics and
labor. Mr. Cherny is also President of H-Net and performs book and article reviews. He has written three
books and co-authored many more.
Kelly, Mary. Private Women, Public Stage: Literary Domesticity in Nineteenth Century
America. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1984.
Mary Kelly, a professor of History, American Culture, and Women Studies at the University of
Michigan made a very good job in writing this fascinating piece in which are unveiled personal
narratives, prose, letters, diaries and journals of 12 extraordinary women in the 19th century America.
Private Women, Public Stage: Literary Domesticity in Nineteenth Century America, is divided in 3 parts
each part composed by four chapters rich of extraordinary accounts of the private and public lives of a
select group of nineteenth century female writers . It focuses on what is called by Mary Kelly “literary
domesticity” which reflects struggles and conflicts that women like Harriet Beecher Stowe, Susan
Warner, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Mary Jane Holmes, Caroline Howard Gilman, Mary Virginia Terhune,
and Augusta Evans Wilson among others need to overcome in order to succeed as professional writers
at the time where women were not allow to be professionals. Kelly’s work provide a broad
understanding of the struggles white middle class women suffered in order to balance public recognition
with the traditional roles of wife and mother. It also it gives the readers understanding of several
aspects of women history in terms of culture, literary history and scholarly issues as well as a sensitive
analysis of those 12 complex women and their role in American Culture. Despite the enormous
contributions to women history and women studies this book has no relevance on the topic of American
Expansion.
King, Greg. A Season of Splendor: The Court of Mrs. Astor in Gilded Age New York.” Hoboken, NJ: John
Wiley & Sons, 2009.
Greg King’s book a season of splendor is an examination of the height of New York City society,
from about 1880 through 1912. King chronicles the happenings of the society set and shows their
standard of living; from housing to clothes, to hobbies and servants. The book itself is scholarly, and has
a style similar to other historians such as Robert Massie, this is due to the fact that King is a prolific
biographer of not only American “royalty” but also the European variety as well. King’s interpretation of
the society set is assumed by the substantial misuse of their fortunes. Curiously, this indictment is seen
by King as the one positive to come out of the abuse of wealth and power, namely the cultural heritage
that has been handed down to those who would have otherwise been shunned.
WRITING A BOOK REVIEW
After reading the monograph or novel and consulting your notes on it, consider the following:
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What was the author's goal/purpose in writing the book? What type of evidence did the
author provide to support it? Was this evidence credible? Is there evidence that the author
omitted? Would this evidence invalidate the author's thesis? If so, how? If not, why not?
How does this work fit into other scholarship? Compare it to materials used in class.
How do other scholars see the author's work? Why? Be sure to consult your texts, book
reviews written by historians and other scholars (start with the index, America: History
and Life), and other relevant materials.
Were there any features of this work which added to and/or subtracted from the author's
presentation? Explain.
What weaknesses, if any, were prevalent in the work?
Present these considerations in your book review. It should be written in your own words. Make
sure you attribute thoughts to other reviewers and that if you use more than three consecutive
words of another person, please use quotation marks. Please consult the style guide. (Kate
Turabian, A Manual for Writers, 7th edition.
The book that you have chosen may antedate the run of historical journals found at the BaronForness Library. If this is the case, check to see whether or not the work was reissued. If it has,
check to see if one of the historical journals in the library carries a review. If so, use the four
considerations suggested above.
If the book was NOT reissued, or if the review is NOT available, you will omit the third
suggestion, and instead will explain how the work fit into the contemporary world at the time of
publication.
FORMAT
Your review of 750-1000 words will be submitted typewritten or word processed, double-spaced,
and PROOF-READ FOR SPELLING AND GRAMMAR. Grades will be lowered for poor
spelling, bad grammar, and improper form.
Begin with the full bibliographic citation of your book, double-space, and begin writing.
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Be sure to use a cover sheet. Title it: REVIEW OF Title, your name, course info, and
date.
Staple the finished product in the upper left corner, making sure you have not stapled it in
such as way that prevents the reader from actually being able to see what you have
written.
Do not use binders of any type.
HIAN Spring Colloquia
Hendricks 147
12:00 p.m.
Wednesday, January 26 (Pogue Student Center, MPR-A)
Dr. Lenore Barbian, “Putting Your Best Foot Forward: How to Apply for a Job with the
Federal Government”
Prior to joining Edinboro University, Dr. Barbian was an employee of the
National Museum of Health and Medicine (NMHM), Armed Forces
Institute of Pathology for 10 years. As part of the Army Museum system,
Dr. Barbian was a civilian employee of the Army and a federal GS
employee. While with the NMHM, Dr. Barbian was promoted several
times raising from a GS-9 Collections Specialist to a GS-13 Curator. She
has written multiple federal job descriptions, interviewed job candidates,
and been enrolled on the Army On-line resumix system. Dr. Barbian will
discuss the federal hiring process and offer insider tips on how to mount
a successful job search.
Wednesday, March 23
Carolyn Pitcairn, “Those Wicked Women: Witchcraft in Puritan New England”
Wednesday, April 20
Erin Sullivan, “Erie, Pennsylvania and the U.S.S. Wolverine: Mother-in-Law of the Navy”