Tuesday, February 28 The Great Depression
Audio: Gold Diggers of 1933
Audio: Robert Johnson (1937)
Reading:
W&AE, pp. 300-321.
Meridel LeSueur, "The Despair of Unemployed Women" (1932);
American Women Ask Eleanor Roosevelt for Help (1934, 1935);
Ann Marie Low, Dust Bowl Diary (1934), all in MAW, pp. 143-156.
Tillie Olsen, "I Want You Women Up North to Know," MAW, pp.171-174.
Lorena Hickok, Letter to Harry Hopkins (1934), in Course Reader, p. 34.
Elizabeth Bishop, "Squatter's Children," in Course Reader, p. 35.
Zora Neale Hurston, from Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), WW, pp. 818-824.
Eudora Welty, "Livvie" (1943), WW, pp. 910-919.
Photo Essay, MAW, pp. 175-182.
Thursday, March 2 World War II and Rosie the Riveter
Reading:
W&AE, pp. 321-341.
Fanny Christina Hill, "Rosie the Riveter";
Marion Stegeman, "Women in the Armed Forces";
Harriette Arnow, "Wartime Migration";
Monica Sone, "Japanese Relocation";
Ruth Marshak, "Women of Wartime Los Alamos," all in MAW,
pp. 183-205.
Hisaye Yamamoto, "Seventeen Syllables" (1949), WW, pp. 956-964.
H.D., "The Walls Do Not Fall" (1944), WW, pp. 767-772.
Tuesday, March 7 Father Knows Best?: The Fifties
Reading:
W&AE, pp. 342-358.
Philip Wylie, from A Generation of Vipers (1942, 1955)
(handout).
Betty Jeanne Boggs, "Balancing Work and Family," MAW, pp. 206-211.
Joanna Rubin, "An Unplanned Pregnancy," MAW, pp. 215-217.
Ethel Barol Taylor, "Women Strike for Peace," MAW, pp. 217-220.
"Rachel Carson Answers Her Critics," MAW, pp. 226-229.
Flannery O'Connor, "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" (1955),
WW, pp. 972-979.
Mary McCarthy, "Artists in Uniform" (1954, 1961), WW, 920-28.
Gwendolyn Brooks, "Song in the Front Yard," "Queen of the Blues,"
"We Real Cool," "Crazy Woman," WW, pp. 936-941, 944.
Adrienne Rich, "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers," WW, 999-1000.
Wednesday, March 8, 7:00 PM, SH-221: FILM: Some Like It Hot (1959)
Thursday, March 9 The Feminine Mystique
Reading:
Betty Friedan, from The Feminine Mystique (1963), in Course Reader, pp. 40-43.
Anne Sexton, "Her Kind," "For John," "The Double Image,"
"Self in 1958," WW, pp. 987-995, 998.
Sylvia Plath, "Black Rook," "Morning Song," pp. 1078-1081.
Adrienne Rich, "Living in Sin," Snapshots of a Daughter-
in-Law," WW, 1000-1004.
A current issue of a women's magazine.
Wednesday, March 1, 7:00 PM, SH-221: FILM: Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Audio Mills Brothers (1943)
Audio: Muddy Waters (1947)
Audio: Billy Ward & the Dominoes (1951)
Audio: Slim Harpo (1957)
Link to Reviews
Collage of Scenes from Class Skits
MUSIC: Gold Diggers of 1933, "Remember My Forgotten Man" (1933)