CALENDAR OF EVENTS--Lectures and Readings

 

 

Thurs. August 31  Introduction and Welcome

                    Reading:  DuBois and Ruiz, 1-19:  Hewitt,

                    "Beyond the Search for Sisterhood"

 

Tues. Sept. 5   Multiculturality and Gender Anarchy, 1880-1930

Reading:  DuBois and Ruiz, 205-213:  Murray, “Ilse Women and the Early Korean American Community”

                             

Thurs. Sept. 7       Women Workers in a Changing Economy, 1880-

                              1930

                    Reading:  DuBois and Ruiz, 307-323:

                    Meyerowitz, "Sexual Geography and Gender

                    Economy"

 

Tues.  Sept. 12       Women's Organizations: The Women's          

            Christian Temperance Union and the Club Movement, 1880-1930

                  Reading:  DuBois and Ruiz, 257-267:  Yung, “Unbound

                  Feet”

 

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Thurs. Sept. 14      Historical Research and Your Projects

 

Tues. Sept. 19       Higher Education:  All Dressed Up and Nowhere

                                   to Go

                        Reading:  Michel and Muncy, 60-63

 

Thurs. Sept. 21   Creating Somewhere to Go: Social Settlements,

                         Social Churches and School Settlements

         

Tues. Sept. 26    Creating Somewhere to Go:  Boston Marriages,     

                    and Kitchenless Homes

 

Thurs. Sept. 28   Creating Somewhere to Go:  Professions and

                         Progressive Reform

Reading:  Ruiz and DuBois, 214-241: Gordon, “Black and White Visions of Welfare” and Ruiz and DuBois, 242-256:  Gustafson, “Partisan Women”

 

Tues.  Oct. 3     Women and Americanization

Reading:  Ruiz and DuBois, 183-196:  Mihesuah, “Too Dark to Be Angels”

 

Thurs. Oct. 5     Class, Race and the Suffrage Campaign

                  Reading:  Michel and Muncy, 57-60; DuBois and

                  Ruiz, 276-291:  DuBois, "Woman Suffrage Around the World,”

                  and DuBois and Ruiz, 268-275:  Azize-Vargas, "Emergence                

of Puerto Rican Feminism" and DuBois and Ruiz, 292-306:  Higginbotham, “In Politics to Stay”

 

Tues. Oct. 10     Fruits of Victory?:  The Sheppard-Towner Act,    

                              1921-1929