Wednesday, February 8, 7:00 PM, SH 221: FILM: Snow White (1938)
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Thursday, February 9 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)

Thursday, February 16 Industrialism and the New Woman

Reading:

W&AE, pp. 142-218.

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.)

"The Harsh Conditions of Domestic Service, MAW, 52-56.

"Female Perspectives on the Great Migration," MAW, 56-59.

Agnes Nestor, "The Story of a Glove Maker" (1898), MAW, 59-62.

"Working Women Wite the Jewish Daily Forward (1907, 1914), MAW, 62-65.

Photo Essay, MAW, 66-73.

"Mother Jones Supports Striking Coal Miners in Colorado," MAW, 74-78.

Emma Goldman, "A Radical Woman's View of Women's Emancipation, MAW, 89-92.

Fanny Fern, "The Working-Girls of New York" (1868), WW, 245-46)

Willa Cather, "Paul's Case" (1905), WW, 685-96.