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1 Queens College, Women's Studies Department Women's Studies 101W 1 Queens College, Women’s Studies Department Women’s Studies 101w Introduction to Women’s Studies Fall Semester, 2012 Professor Carol Giardina Office Hours: Powdermaker 352y 5-6 pm (or by apt.) E-mail: cgia@ juno.com Class meets: Tues: 1:40 – 4:15: pm KY 271 This course fulfills the requirements for the Pathways flexible core area of U.S. Experience in its Diversity. It is an interdisciplinary course in the Social Sciences and qualifies as “writing intensive.” Students will learn to interpret primary and secondary sources and identify the argument or thesis in a work of scholarship. They will also learn to construct a contestable and specific thesis and support it with relevant evidence. Required Reading: (available at the Queens College Bookstore) Books Paula Giddings, When and Where I Enter (New York: Perenial, 2001) Rosa Parks, Rosa Parks, My Story (New York: Viking Penguin, 1992) Eleanor Flexner, Century of Struggle (New York: Harvard University Press (1996) Articles/Pamphlets Carol Hanisch, Promise and Betrayal (A TruthTeller Production, 1997) Redstockings: First Literature List and a Sampling of Its Material New York Radical Women: Notes from the First Year (1968) Beverly Jones and Judith Brown: Toward a Female Liberation Movement (1968) Kathie Sarachild, Civil Rights Movement: Lessons for Women’s Liberation Kathie Sarachild, Jenny Brown, & Amy Coenen, Eds. Women’s Liberation and National Health Care: Confronting the Myth of America (2001) In addition to these assignments required reading assignments will be distributed in class and placed on e-reserve and/or library reserve. E-reserve password is gia101. Course Requirements: Percent of grade 1.Class participation is a factor in your grade. Please turn 10% off cell phones during class. 2. Eight (8) response papers (1-2 double-spaced pages) 20% Hard copy due in each class indicated below. Late papers will not count toward your grade. 3. Midterm examination 20% 4. Short essay (4-5 double-spaced pages) 15% A hard copy is due in class on Nov. 20 5. Research group presentation 15% 6. Final research paper (7-8 double-spaced pages 20% 1st draft due in class Dec. 11. Final draft due in my office Mon. Dec. 17th by 6 pm. 7. Unless prior arrangements are made, incomplete assignments are graded as failing 8. Plagiarism will result in a failing grade and referral to the appropriate authorities 2 Class Schedule: Readings are due on the date listed below: Aug. 28, 2012 Introductions, professor and students (Tues.) Course objectives and organization Choose topics for group presentation, first meeting of research groups Sept. 4, 2012 Women’s History and Prehistory (Tues.) Read: Flexner, Preface pp. xxviii-xxxiv Giddings, Preface pp. 5-7 E-reserve: Sally R. Binford, Myths & Matriarchies (1980) Response paper: Was there a matriarchal age in which women ruled—or were at least men’s equals— and did not face sexism? Evaluate Binford’s argument Sept. 11, 2012 Women in Colonial and Revolutionary America (Tues.) Read: Flexner, pp. 3-37 Giddings, pp. 33-41 E-reserve: Carol Berkin, “Sisters of Pocahontas” (1996), Lyle Koehler, “The Oppression of Women in New England (1980) Response paper: Compare the status of women among the Wampanoags and the Puritans. As a New England woman in this period, would you have preferred life as a Native American or a Puritan? Why? Sept. 18, 2012 No class Sept. 25, 2012 No class Oct. 2, 2012 Fighting for Freedom in Antebellum America (Tues.) Read: Flexner, pp. 38-49, 57-65 Giddings, pp. 41- 55 E-reserve: Earl Conrad, “I Bring You General Tubman,” The Black Scholar, Vol. 1 #3-4 (Jan./Feb) 1970 Response paper: How does Conrad’s portrayal of Harriet Tubman differ from images of her that you had before reading his article? Why do you think our prevailing image of Tubman is so different than the life it appears she actually led? Oct. 9, 2012 The Seneca Falls Convention through the 15th Amendment, (Tues.) and the International Feminist Movement Read: Flexner, pp. 66-95, 136-148 Giddings, pp. 56-74 Promise and Betrayal, pp. 1-25 E-reserve: Bonnie S. Anderson, “Panorama,” pp. 7-26, “Becoming Rebels,” pp. 47- 62 in Joyous Greetings (2000) Response paper: Should the abolitionists have pursued the vote for men and women or compromised to extend it only to African-American men? Evaluate the arguments on both sides. * Presentation on the struggle for women’s rights in the 19th century 3 Oct. 16, 2012 Winning the Vote (Tues.) Read: Flexner, pp 255-299 Giddings, pp. 119-131, 159-170 Promise and Betrayal, pp. 25-44 E-reserve: Alice Dunbar-Nelson, “The Negro Woman and the Ballot” Words of Fire (1995) Response paper: African-American women, like white women, fought hard for the right to vote. Yet Giddings observes that “white women simply were willing to let Black women go down the proverbial drain to get the vote for themselves.” Can we see women such as Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt as racist and, at the same time, hold them up as heroes? * Presentation on winning the vote (1900-1920) Oct. 23, 2012 The Movement for Birth Control (Tues .) Read: E-reserve: Lawrence Lader, The Margaret Sanger Story (1955) pp. 48-63, 76-83, 89-137 Jessie M. Rodrique, “The Black Community and the Birth-Control Movement, pp.333-344 in Unequal Sisters (1990) The Comstock Law Griswold v. Connecticut Class handout: Lader, 138-152, 171-178 Response paper: How is birth control related to full citizenship for women? Is it? Oct. 30, 2012 The Movement for Birth Control, con’t (Tues.) Read: E-reserve: Margaret Sanger, “Legislating Women’s Morals” (1920), and “The Goal,” (1920), pp. 149-156 in Ralph F. Young, Dissent in America (2005) Leta S. Hollingworth, “Social Devices for Impelling Women to Bear and Rear Children,” pp.19-28 from The American Journal of Sociology (1916) Midterm review Response paper: Who has tried to keep control of family planning out of women’s hands? *Presentation on the Movement for Birth Control Nov. 6, 2012 Midterm (Tues.) Nov. 13, 2012 Women in the Labor Movement (Tues.) Read: Flexner, pp. 185-207, 233-240 Giddings, pp. 74-83, 139-158, 193-197, 231-258 Rosa Parks, My Story (first half of the book) E-reserve: What is Important to Working Women – American Federation of Labor “Betty Friedan Argues for Trade Union Feminism,” Betty Friedan Response paper: Why is equal pay for equal work is difficult to achieve? Agree/disagree with Friedan’s view on why women aren’t paid as much as men? *Presentation on women in the labor movement 4 Nov. 20, 2012 The Movements for Civil Rights/Black Power as the “Borning” Movement (Tues.) Read: Giddings, pp. 261—297 Kathie Sarachild, Civil Rights Movement: Lessons for Women’s Liberation Rosa Parks, My Story (finish the book) E-reserve: “Judith Brown: Freedom Fighter,” Carol Giardina (2006) An Interview with Eleanor Holmes Norton * Short essay on My Story due in class Nov. 27, 2012 The Second Wave of U.S. Feminism (Tues.) Read: Giddings, pp. 299-357 Redstockings: First Literature List and a Sampling of Its Materials New York Radical Women: Notes from the First Year Beverly Jones and Judith Brown: Toward a Female Liberation Movement E-reserve: National Organization for Women (NOW), “Statement of Purpose” “ Woman Identified Woman,” by Radicalesbians *Presentation on feminism in the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s Dec. 4, 2012 Black Women’s Liberation (Tues.) Read: Giddings, pp. 325-357 E-reserve: Cynthia Washington, “We Started at Different Ends of the Spectrum” Frances Beal, “Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female,” Pat Robinson and Group, “Poor Black Women’s Study Papers by Poor Black Women of Mt. Vernon, New York” Mary Ann Weathers, “An Argument for Black Women’s Liberation as a Revolutionary Force” Library Reserve: Pauli Murray, “The Liberation of Black Women” (call# 20543) Response paper: Are you feminist? Why? Why not? Why does the myth persist that women of color were not interested in feminism? *Presentation on Black Women’s Liberation Dec. 11, 2012 Women’s Economic Independence, Some International Comparisons (Tues.) Read: Sarachild, Brown, Coenen, Women’s Liberation and National Health Care: Confronting the Myth of America (2001) Library reserve: Lorraine Hansberry, “Simone de Beauvoir and The Second Sex: An American Commentary” (call# 20542) First draft of final research paper due in class ---------- Reading Response papers and class discussion The objective of the response papers is to develop your understanding and interpretation of the assigned readings—and thus of the history of women in the United States. The response papers will not be graded but will help in our discussion of the reading, since participation in discussion is a factor in judging students’ overall performance. While the papers themselves are not graded, the grade for this requirement is based on timely submission of all required response papers as well as your contribution to class discussion. Response papers that do not interpret the assigned reading will not meet this requirement. A response paper is due in each class from each student except the day of the midterm exam, the day the short essay is due, and the class in which your group makes its presentation. Each student should submit eight (8) response papers. Late response papers will not be accepted. 5 Research and Group Presentations: the class will divide into six research groups: *The Seneca Falls Convention & the Struggle for Women’s Rights in the 19th Century *Winning the Vote: Campaigns for Women’s Suffrage After 1900 *Margaret Sanger and The Movement for Birth Control *Women in the Labor Movement \ *The Feminist Movement’s Second Wave (1960s & 70s) * Black Women’s Liberation (Second Wave) In the first class decide the topic you want to investigate.
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