Date
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Topics to be covered
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Readings from
Textbooks…
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Readings from
website or *handouts…
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Assignments & Activities
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Tuesday
22 Aug 06
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Who was Victoria?
& Chronology
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Thursday
24 Aug 06
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Separate Spheres
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Clinton & Lunardini (C & L), Historiographical Essay
Optional: C & L, Chapter One
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Tuesday
29 Aug 06
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The Home
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C & L, Chapter Two
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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
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Religion & Morality
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C & L, Chapter Four
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*The American Woman’s Home: “The Christian Family”
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Tuesday
5 Sept 06
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Childhood
& Gender Roles
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The Age of Innocence:
A Little Girl’s New York,
A Backward Glance, and
The Valley of Childish Things
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* Eliza Lynn Linton’s “The Girl of the Period”
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Thursday
7 Sept 06
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Courtship & Marriage
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The Age of Innocence:
Chapters I-X |
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Tuesday
12 Sept 06 |
Realities of Marriage?
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The Age of Innocence:
Chapters XI-XVIII
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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 |
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In-class viewing of
“The Age of Innocence”
Grad. students Hand-in Journal…
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Tuesday
26 Sept 06 |
Assessing
“The Age of Innocence” |
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Continuation of
“The Age of Innocence”
Paper on The Age of Innocence due…
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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
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Social Darwinism |
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* Excerpts from Cynthia Eagle Russett’s Sexual Science
* Olive Schreiner’s “Sex-Parasitism”
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Thursday
5 Oct 06
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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
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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”
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In-class activity on
The McGuffey Readers… |
Thursday
19 Oct 06
|
Higher Education
in America
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C & L, Chapter Three |
* “‘Give her the apple and see what comes of it’…”
* Selections from Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz’s Alma Mater & Campus Life
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Assignment on The McGuffey Readers due… |
Tuesday
24 Oct 06
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Domestic Employment |
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Louisa May Alcott’s “How I Went Out to Service”
Josephine Butler’s “The Education and Employment of Women”
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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”
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Proposal for Custer Paper due… |
Tuesday
31 Oct 06
|
Impact of Migration
|
C & L, Chapter Five
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* Excerpts from Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey
Wendy M. Gordon’s Mill Girls and Strangers, Chapter 1
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Last Day to turn in Report on Historic Site… |
Thursday
2 Nov 06
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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
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C & L, Chapter Seven
Jordan, Marsh Illustrated Catalog of 1891
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* Bloomingdale’s Illustrated 1886 Catalog: Fashions, Dry Goods and Housewares on “Hair Goods” & “Jewelry”
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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”
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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
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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
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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”
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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”
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Custer Paper Due… |
Tuesday
5 Dec 06 |
Emergence of “The New Woman”
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C & L, Chapter Ten |
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Thursday
7 Dec 06
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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.
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Meet with Graduate Students… |