Fall 2006 Schedule

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Class Schedule…have the listed readings completed for that day’s class...


Date


Topics to be covered

Readings from
Textbooks…
Readings from website or *handouts…

Assignments & Activities

Tuesday
22 Aug 06

Who was Victoria?
& Chronology

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Thursday
24 Aug 06

 

Separate Spheres

 

Clinton & Lunardini (C & L), Historiographical Essay

Optional: C & L, Chapter One

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Tuesday
29 Aug 06

The Home

C & L, Chapter Two

Clarence Cook’s The House Beautiful: “The Entrance”

* Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s The American Woman’s Home

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Thursday
31 Aug 06

Religion & Morality

C & L, Chapter Four

*The American Woman’s Home: “The Christian Family”

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Tuesday
5 Sept 06

Childhood
& Gender Roles

The Age of Innocence:
A Little Girl’s New York,
A Backward Glance, and
The Valley of Childish Things

* Eliza Lynn Linton’s “The Girl of the Period”

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Thursday
7 Sept 06

Courtship & Marriage

The Age of Innocence:
Chapters I-X
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Tuesday
12 Sept 06

Realities of Marriage?

The Age of Innocence:
Chapters XI-XVIII

Frances Power Cobbe’s “Wife-Torture in England”

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Thursday
14 Sept 06
Divorce

The Age of Innocence:
Chapters XIX-XXV

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Tuesday
19 Sept 06
Societal Expectations

The Age of Innocence:
Chapters XXVI-XXXIV

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Thursday
21 Sept 06
Picturing Victorian Society . .

In-class viewing of
“The Age of Innocence”

Grad. students Hand-in Journal…

Tuesday
26 Sept 06
Assessing
“The Age of Innocence”
. .

Continuation of
“The Age of Innocence”

Paper on The Age of Innocence due…

Thursday
28 Sept 06
Reproductive Roles C & L, Chapter Eight

The (Smith-)Rosenberg’s “The Female Animal”

* Excerpts from Woman in the Nineteenth Century

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Tuesday
3 Oct 06

Social Darwinism .

* Excerpts from Cynthia Eagle Russett’s Sexual Science

* Olive Schreiner’s “Sex-Parasitism”

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Thursday
5 Oct 06

Spinsterhood

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* Frances Power Cobbe’s “Celibacy vs. Marriage”

Carroll Smith-Rosenberg’s “The Female World of Love and Ritual”

* Selections from Martha Vicinus’ Intimate Friends

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Tuesday
10 Oct 06

No Class – Fall Break

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Thursday
12 Oct 06

Midterm Evaluation C & L, “A thru H” Review Readings so far… Midterm Exam…
Tuesday
17 Oct 06

Education for
Women & Girls

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Catherine Hobbs’ Nineteenth-Century Women Learn to Write, Introduction

Daniel Defoe’s “On the Education of Women”

In-class activity on
The McGuffey Readers…

Thursday
19 Oct 06

Higher Education
in America

C & L, Chapter Three

* “‘Give her the apple and see what comes of it’…”

* Selections from Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz’s Alma Mater & Campus Life

Assignment on The McGuffey Readers due…

Tuesday
24 Oct 06

Domestic Employment .

Louisa May Alcott’s “How I Went Out to Service”

Josephine Butler’s “The Education and Employment of Women”

Grad. students Hand-in Journal…
Thursday
26 Oct 06

Industrial Employment

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“Women Miners in the English Coal Pits”

* “The Experience of a Lady as a Factory Girl”

Harriet Robinson’s “Lowell Mill Girls”

Proposal for Custer Paper due…

Tuesday
31 Oct 06

Impact of Migration

C & L, Chapter Five

* Excerpts from Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey

Wendy M. Gordon’s Mill Girls and Strangers, Chapter 1

Last Day to turn in Report on Historic Site…

Thursday
2 Nov 06

Conspicuous Consumption

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Thorstein Veblen’s “Conspicuous Leisure and Conspicuous Consumption”

* The American Woman’s Home: “Home Decor” & “A Glossary”

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Tuesday
7 Nov 06

Shopping in
Victorian America

C & L, Chapter Seven

Jordan, Marsh Illustrated Catalog of 1891

* Bloomingdale’s Illustrated 1886 Catalog: Fashions, Dry Goods and Housewares on “Hair Goods” & “Jewelry”

In-class Shopping project…
Thursday
9 Nov 06

Comparative
Shopping Practices

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Selections from The Woman’s World, edited by Oscar Wilde

Alice M. Bacon’s “How Japanese Ladies Go Shopping”

Shopping project due.
Tuesday
14 Nov 06

Female
Medical Reformers

C & L, Chapter Six

Florence Nightingale’s “Rural Hygiene”

Charles Sumner writes in support of Dorothea Lynde Dix’s “Memorial Soliciting a State Hospital for the Protection and Cure of the Insane…”

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Thursday
16 Nov 06

Women &
The Civil War

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Selections from Louisa May Alcott’s Hospital Sketches

Clara Barton’s “The Women Who Went to the Field”

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Tuesday
21 Nov 06

The Woman’s Crusade of 1873-1874

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Reports on the Crusade from South Charleston and Xenia, Ohio

In-class assignment on images of the Crusades…
Thursday
23 Nov 06

No Class – Thanksgiving

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Tuesday
28 Nov 06

Victorian Feminism

C & L, Chapter Nine

* Excerpts from John Stuart Mill’s “The Subjection of Women”

“Declaration of Sentiments”

Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman?”

Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon’s “Reasons for and Against the Enfranchisement of Women”

Grad. students Hand-in Journal…
Thursday
30 Nov 06

Suffragettes vs. Suffragists

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“Woman’s Rights Petition to the New York Legislature”

Susan B. Anthony’s “Women’s Right to Vote”

Frances Cobbe Power’s “Why Women Desire the Franchise”

Custer Paper Due…
Tuesday
5 Dec 06

Emergence of “The New Woman”

C & L, Chapter Ten . .

Thursday
7 Dec 06

Final Evaluation C & L, “I thru Z” Review Readings since the Midterm… Final Exam…
Friday
15 Dec 06

Final Exam scheduled
3:30-5:30 p.m.

. . Meet with Graduate Students…