Tuesday, September 24 Mid-Nineteenth Century: Women's Rights & Civil War
Reading:
W&AE, pp. 128-141;
Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments (1848);
Sojourner Truth, 1851 Speech (handouts).
Emily Dickinson, poems in Women's Work):
211 [Come slowly--Eden!] (397)
249 [Wild Nights--Wild Nights!] (398)
898 [A Narrow Fellow in the Grass] (408)
508 [I'm ceded--I've stopped being Theirs--] (p. 402)
528 [Mine--by the Right of the White Election!] (404)
752 [My Life had stood--a Loaded Gun--] (408)
1737 [Rearrange a "Wife"'s affection!] (411)
letter [To recipient unknown/about 1861] (412-413)
letter [To T.W. Higginson/ 7 June 1862] (415-416)
Audio: Woody Guthrie (1941)
Wednesday, September 25, 7:00 PM, SH 221: FILM: The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Link to reviews
Thursday, September 26 Late Nineteenth Century
Reading:
W&AE, pp. 142-155.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "The Solitude of Self" in Course Reader, pp. 28-33.
Kate Chopin, "The Storm" (1898/1969), WW, 594-597.
Bertha Palmer, "The Fair Women, Chicago, 1893";
Ida B. Wells, "Speaking Out Against Lynching";
"Frances Willard Equates Learning to Ride a Bicycle with Opening New
Frontiers for Women";
"Molly Dewson's Letters Home from Wellesley";
"Jane Addams Struggles with the Problem of 'After College, What?";
"Buffalobird Woman's Story";
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "A Feminist Challenge to the Privatized
Home,"
(all in Susan Ware, Modern American Women
[MAW], pp. 7-20, 28-37, 51-52, 78-81.)
collage of Scenes from Class Skits
MUSIC: Lesley Gore, "You Don't Own Me" (1964)