WEEK

TOPIC

READING

WORK DUE

#1
First Day 1/22
MLKing 1/19

Introduction to Class & to Women’s History

DuBois, Women’s Eyes, Chapter 5

Ruiz, Unequal Sisters, 1-40 (Freedman, Boyd, Liu) 

Atlas, pp. 32-39

Reading

#2
1/28/2010

Basic Concepts
The Challenge of Seneca Falls
Western Women

DuBois, Women’s Eyes, Chapters 7

Ruiz, Unequal Sisters: Brooks (41),  Chavez Garcia (108), Mihesuah (178), Raibmon (194)

Atlas, pp. 51-59

Reading

#3
2/4/2010

Southern Women

DuBois, Women’s Eyes, Chapters 6

Ruiz, Unequal Sisters: Camp (83), Fahs (130), Brown (156) 

Atlas, pp. 40-50

Reading
Characters

#4
2/11/2010

Women, Labor, & Unionization:
Women & Labor

 DuBois, Women’s Eyes, Chapters 8

Ruiz, Unequal Sisters: Ruiz (248), Yung (259), Meerowitz (325)

Atlas, pp. 60-80

Reading
Characters

#5
2/18/2010

From Seneca Falls to Organized Womanhood & Reform in the Progressive Era, 1880-1920
Temperance, Club Movement
Suffrage, & Settlement House Movement

 DuBois, Women’s Eyes, Chapters 8 (cont)

Ruiz, Unequal Sisters: Gordon (221), Ruiz (248), Yung (259), DuBois (271)

Atlas, pp. 80-85

Reading

Paper Proposal Due

Reading Quiz #1

#6
2/25/2010

Mothers & Daughters in the 1920s:
Tradition v. Modern Life

WWI

 DuBois, Women’s Eyes, Chapters 8 (cont) w/appropriate docs

Ruiz, Unequal Sisters: Higginbotham (289), Pascoe (303), Peiss (342)

Atlas, pp. 86-87

Reading
Characters

#7
3/4/2010

Political Women in the 1920s

 DuBois, Women’s Eyes, Chapters 9, pp. 520-535 w/appropriate docs

Ruiz, Unequal Sisters: Higginbotham (289), Ruiz (363)

Atlas, pp. 88-89

Reading
Characters

Reading Quiz #2

#8
3/11/2010

Midterm Week 

MT Exam #1

#9
3/18/2010

A "Mother’s Wage": The Great
Depression
Women, Wages, & Labor
Family Lives of Women in the Great
Depression
Women & National Reform: The New
Deal

DuBois, Women’s Eyes, Chapters 9, pp. 535-545 w/appropriate docs

Ruiz, Unequal Sisters: Matsumoto (379), Korrol (390), Orleck (401), Weber (417), Glenn (427), Hall (456)

Atlas, pp. 90-99

Reading
Characters

#10
3/25/2010

From Wonder Woman to June Cleaver:
1940s & 1950sThose 1950s

Women in the Military
Employment: From Living Wages to Unemployment

Suburban Expansion
Family Economy

1950s Women's Lives: Ideal or
Constricting?

"Modern" Pressures: Women, Addictions, & the 20th Century

DuBois, Women’s Eyes, Chapters 9, pp. 545-563 w/appropriate docs

Ruiz, Unequal Sisters: Wu (467), Tucker (483), Horowitz (495), May (521)

( If you have read Coming of Age in Mississippi, consider Anne Moody's experience in the 1950s)

Atlas, pp. 100-107

Reading
Characters

#11
4/1/2010

Reading Week

No Class

#12
4/8/2010
Spring Break

Spring

Break

Spring Break

#13
4/15/2010

Women, family Life, & Labor in the 1960s
Mothers & Daughters
Fertility, The Pill, & the Medical
Establishment
Women & Wage Labor
Education & Organization

DuBois, Women’s Eyes, Chapters 10

Ruiz, Unequal Sisters: Choy (563)

In Our Time: Memory of A Revolution

Atlas, pp. 108-119

Reading
Characters
Reading Quiz #3

#14
4/22/2010

The Civil Rights Movement & "Women's
\Liberation," 1960s-1970s
Civil Rights Movement & New Left
Women's Movement
Women & National Reform
"Women's Liberation:" Ideal or
Constricting?

Women and Violence in the 20th Century

DuBois, Women’s Eyes, Chapters 10 (cont)

Ruiz, Unequal Sisters: Camacho (577)

Suburban Warriors, first third

Atlas, pp. 120-121

Reading
Characters
Papers Due by 4/22

#15
4/29/2010

A Frontier of Challenges:
Women & Mass Media in 20th Century

DuBois, Women’s Eyes, Chapters 11

Suburban Warriors, second third

Atlas, pp. 122-133

Reading
Characters

Reading Quiz #4

#16
5/6/2010

A Handmaid's Tale?

From Schafly to Goldwater: Women's Roles in the Construction of the New Right

Students Ideas and Conclusions about Women and the New Right and Current State of Women's Status and Rights in the U.S.

DuBois, Women’s Eyes, Chapters 12

Ruiz, Unequal Sisters: Deeb (592)

Suburban Warriors, last third

Reading
Discussion

#17
5/13/2010
Final 8-10

NO CLASS

FINALS WEEK

Midterm #2