WS 341B History of American Women, 1865-Present TTH 2:00 - 3:15 Professor S.E. Cayleff, San Diego State U. Spring 1993 Office Hours: Tuesday/Thursday 12:30 - 2:00 Office: AH 3134 Phone: 594-5943 The following books are for sale at the Aztec Bookstore. The reader is at KB Bookstore (5190 College Ave.) for use in this course. Chopin The Awakening Davies Woman's Place is at the Typewriter Dubois and Ruiz Unequal Sisters Evans Personal Politics Ehrenreich and English For Her Own Good Friedan The Feminine Mystique James Daisy Miller Lerner Black Women in White America Plath The Bell Jar Yezierska Bread Givers Class Reader for sale at K-B Books Baxandall "Home and Job: The Double Day" Berube "Marching to a Different Drummer.." Cayleff "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias... Faderman Surpassing the Love of Men, excerpts Haskell "The Twenties" re: Women in Film Howe Pink Collar Workers re: Housework Murray; Friedman Our American Sisters, excerpts Grading: Students are expected to do all of the readings and to come to class prepared to have that knowledge supplemented by lecture material. On discussion/slide (or film) days, students will be asked to critically analyze a variety of the ideas, issues and themes that emerge in the readings and lecture material. Attendance will be taken during each class. Students will choose a Project Group with whom they will research, write and present their topic. Each group must use an equal number of primary and secondary sources in their preparation. The equal distribution and implementation of each individual's responsibilities is to be administered by the group as a whole, but overseen by a collator. Further instructions will follow. Group grades will be given except where an individual's lack of equal effort or greater effort is noted. Each group will turn in a paper (2 pages approximately per member) that reflects the research efforts of the entire group. TWO COPIES ARE TO BE TURNED IN ON THE DAY OF PRESENTATION. Class presentation may utilize slides (your responsibility), lecture-style delivery, or skits. Each group will utilize an entire class and will lead a question and answer session after their presentation. Each student will research and write a 5-7 page paper that proposes another topic for inclusion in 341B. Students must suggest three primary and five secondary sources upon which they would base their lecture. You are not actually writing the lecture itself, but rather making a case for its inclusion in the syllabus given the relevance you believe it has. Therefore you would need to situate it within an existing unit, argue its importance, cite your sources and discuss their value, and create a transition to the next existing topic. Fuller instructions will be given in addition to these. THESE PAPERS ARE DUE ON MAY 4. TWO COPIES MUST BE TURNED IN. Late papers will be penalized one grade per-day late. Attendance, discussion participation, final individual paper proposals: one-third of grade. Final Individual Paper Proposals due: March 4. Group project (date determined by topic), and two page take home essay due February 23: one-third of grade. Final individual paper: one-third of grade; May 4. ***************************************************************** 1/26 Introduction: no readings required for the first class Begin reading Daisy Miller Unit One: The 19th Century Legacy: Woman's Culture and Woman's Sphere 19th Century Legacy The Burden of Morality: Discussion of James' Daisy Miller C. Smith-Rosenberg, "The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in the Nineteenth- Century America," A Heritage of Her Own, 311-42. D. G. White, "Female Slaves..." Unequal Sisters, 22- 34 2/2 19th Century Legacy: Rewards: Widening Horizons; Institution Building and the College Educated Woman Lerner, Black Women in White America, pp. 92-114. P. Baker, "The Domestication of Politics.." Unequal Sisters, 66-91 Unit Two: The New Woman and The Progressive Era 2/4 The Progressive Era and the "New Woman" Defined: The Settlement House Movement K.K. Sklar, "Hull House in the 1890's..." **Students should begin thinking about their individual projects and start locating sources. **Begin thinking about which Group Project you want to work on. ** Begin reading The Awakening** 2/9 "Restlessness" and the Middle Class Ehrenreich and English, For Her Own Good, Chapters 4-6. Discussion: The Awakening. 2/11 Urban Working Women K. Peiss, "Charity Girls and City Pleasures... Unequal Sisters, 157-166 **Begin reading The Bread Givers** 2/16 Immigrant Women and Their Families J. Smith, "Our Own Kind: Family and Community Networks in Providence," A Heritage of Her Own, 393-411. Discussion: Yezierska, Bread Givers. ***Two Page essay question distributed*** 2/18 Women's Strikes and Trade Unions; Socialist Women A. Kessler-Harris, "'Where are the Organized Women Workers?'" A Heritage of Her Own, 343-66. J. D. Hall, "Disorderly Women: Gender and Labor Militancy..." Unequal Sisters, 298-321 2/23 Women's Organizations: Race and Class Dimensions, 1890-1940 E. Pleck, "A Mother's Wages: Income Earning Among Married Italian and Black Women, 1896-1911," A Heritage of Her Own, 367-92. Lerner, Black Women in White America, 437-450. *** Two page essay due *** 2/25 Film: Ida B. Wells D.C. Hine, "Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women..." Unequal Sisters, 292-297 3/2 New Morality and Feminism: A Point of Comparison Cott, "Passionlessness," in Leavitt, A Heritage of Her Own,162-181. Scott-Smith, "Family Limitation..." in Leavitt, A Heritage of Her Own, 222-245. 3/4 Birth Control Campaigns L. Gordon, "Birth Control and Social Revolution," A Heritage of Her Own, 445-75. J.M. Rodrique, "The Black Community and the Birth Control Movement" Unequal Sisters, 333-344 **Students turn in a one-page proposal stating their final individual paper topic and listing their 3 primary and 5 secondary sources. FINAL INDIVIDUAL PROJECT ONE PAGE PROPOSAL DUE 3/9 **Group Project Choices Selected** The Campaign for Woman Suffrage: FILM: "The Emerging Woman" E.C. Dubois, "Working Women, Class Relations, and Suffrage Militance" Unequal Sisters, 176-194 Unit Three: "These Modern Women" 3/11 Youth, Flappers and the New Sex Freedom B.W. Cook, "Female Support Networks and Political Activism," Lillian Wald, Crystal Eastman, Emma Goldman, A Heritage of Her Own, 412-44. Haskell, "The Twenties," From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies (Baltimore: Penguin, 1974), 42-89. [Reader] **Group Project Choices Distributed** 3/16 The Modern Working Woman FILM: "Sentimental Women Need Not Apply" re: nursing history V.L. Ruiz, "A Promise Fulfilled: Mexican Cannery Workers..." Unequal Sisters, 264-274 OPTIONAL: M. May, "Historical Problem of the Family Wage" Unequal Sisters, 275-291 Davies, Woman's Place is at the Typewriter F. Stricker, "Cookbooks and Law Books: The Hidden History of Career Women in Twentieth-Century America," A Heritage of Her Own, 476-98. **Students begin working on Group Projects. Divide responsibilities, set due dates for each aspect of the project, COMMUNICATE with one another. 3/18 Women in the Great Depression R. Milkman, "Women's Work and the Economic Crisis: Some Lessons From the Great Depression," A Heritage of Her Own, 507-41. 3/23 Women and World War II: FILM: "The Life and Times of Rosie The Riveter." V. Matsumoto, "Japanese American Women During World War II" Unequal Sisters, 333-344 A. Berube, "Marching to a Different Drummer: Lesbian and Gay GIs in World War II, Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality, Snitow and Thompson, eds. (NY: Monthly Review Press, 1983), 88-99. [Reader] Lerner, Black Women in White America, "Plan of Work: Atlanta Colored Women's War Council" [WWI], 497-500. 3/25 "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias: The Modern Woman Personified; Conflict and Opportunity Cayleff, "'Babe' Didrikson Zaharias: Her Personal and Public Battle With Cancer," Texas Medicine. [Reader] *** Begin reading The Feminine Mystique and The Bell Jar 3/30 The 1950s Fascination with Gender: Discussion B. Friedan, The Feminine Mystique, Chapters 1-8. 4/1 Ehrenreich and English, For Her Own Good, Chapter 7. The 1950s' Toll: Discussion: S. Plath, The Bell Jar. ***** SPRING BREAK APRIL 5 - 10 ***** Unit Three: Towards Women's Liberation 4/13 The 1960s and Cultural Revolution **Begin reading S. Evans, Personal Politics. Chs. 1-4 4/15 Civil Rights and the New Left S. Evans, Personal Politics, Chs. 5-9 4/20 Women's Liberation: The Problems and Potential for Unity P. Murray, "The Liberation of Black Women," and J. Friedman, "Contemporary Feminism: Theory and Practice," Our American Sisters, Friedman and Shade, eds., (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, Inc. 1973), 326-354. [Reader] 4/22 A History of Domestic Work and Women's Attitudes Towards It: and The Politics of Housework J. Vanek, "Time Spent in Housework," A Heritage of Her Own, 499-506 (Reader). FILM: "The Maids". Howe, "Homemaking," Pink Collar Workers, 170-222. [Reader] Unit Four: In Celebration of Difference: The 1990s and Beyond 4/27 Daughters of the Earth: Native-American Women: SLIDES. R.A. Trennert, "Educating Indian Girls..." Unequal Sisters, 224-237 B. Easton, "Feminism and the Contemporary Family, " A Heritage of Her Own, 555-577. A.M. Garcia, "The Development of Chicana Feminine Discourse, 1970-1980" **Students should be meeting very regularly and working on their individual assignments within the Group Project. Decide on the group format. Get your portion to the collator ON TIME. 4/29 "When Mom is Both and Does it All"; Women in Households Without Men; Includes Single Parenting: Discussion. C.B. Stack, "The Kindred Organization of Viola Jackson," A Heritage of Her Own, 542-54. Baxandall, America's Working Women, "Home and Job: The Double Day," 336-53. (Reader) 5/4 Women-Committed-Women: Lesbian Life and Struggles: Film or Speakers M.D. Davis and E.L. Kennedy, "Oral History...in the Lesbian Community" Unequal Sisters, 387-399 5/4 Continued... L. Faderman, "The Rise of Lesbian-Feminism," and "Romantic Friendship and Lesbian Love," Surpassing the Love of Men (NY: William Morrow Co., 1981), pp. 377-391 and 411-415. [Reader] *** FINAL INDIVIDUAL PAPERS DUE TODAY, MAY 4 *** Each student turn in TWO copiese of her/his paper. One grade per-day-late is subtracted. Unit Five: Group Presentations NOTE: Groups must turn in TWO copies of their written group paper on the day of presentation. 5/6 Group One: The Daily Lives of Immigrant Women (select one ethnic group) 5/6 Group Two: Women Who Dared 5/11 Group Three: Women in the Fine and Performing Arts: A 150 Year Overview 5/11 Group Four: Tracing the Shift in a Cultural Ideal: Mom, to Working Mom, to Wife/Career Woman; A 20th Century Overview Through the Media and Printed Sources 5/13 Group Five: The Body Perfect: The Cultural Context of the Female Figure and Fashion; A 100 Year Overview 5/13 Group Six: The Daily Lives of Immigrant Women (select one ethnic group) 5/18 Group 2 B: Women Who Dared 5/18 Group 3 B: Women in the Fine and Performing Arts: A 150 Year Overview