HIST214: Women's History From Emma Bovary to Mrs. Dalloway
TR 11-12:15        Stein Hall 223
Professor Theresa McBride
Office: O'Kane 363    Phone:  793-2770
 tmcbride@holycross.edu
 
 
 

Readings:

Bonnie Smith, Changing Lives: Women in European History Since 1700 (D. C. Heath, 1989) ISBN 0-669-014561-0
Margaret Higgonet, et al., eds.  Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars (Yale University, 1987) 0300-04429-1
Virginina Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (1925) Harcourt Harvest Books, 0-15-662870-8
Eleanor S. Riemer and John C. Fout, eds. European Women, A Documentary History, 1789-1945 (1980) -- on E-Res
Hellerstein, et. al., Victorian Women: A Documentary Account of Women's Lives in England, France, and the US (1981) - E-Res
Françoise Thébaud, ed. A History of Women in the West, vol 5 (Harvard University, 1994) -- E-Res

September 9 - 11   Defining 'Female'
Bonnie Smith, Changing Lives, chap. 1 - 2
Thomas Laqueur, "Orgasm, Generation, and the Politics of Reproductive Biology"
 

September 16 - 18   Revolutionary Politics and the Changing Status of Women
Bonnie Smith, Changing Lives, chap. 2 -3
Victorian Women, documents 68 - 69, " ‘No Men Could Endure the Work’"
 and "French and American Seamstresses Petition Their Governments" -- photocopied
Victorian Women, document 60, "Mme. Dudevant sues for legal separation from her husband"
European Women, A Documentary History, documents 16-17 and 33: Declaration of the Rights of Woman and  A Rural Woman  -- E-Res

Sep 23 - 25     Women in Everyday Life
Bonnie Smith, Changing Lives,  chap. 4 - 5
European Women, A Documentary History, documents 34, 36, 38-39: Housewives and Domestics, Advice on Feeding of Children, An Unhappy Mother

Sep 29 - Oct 2  Changing Patterns of Work and the Birth of Feminism
Bonnie Smith, Changing Lives,  chap. 6
European Women, A Documentary History, documents 1- 4,  5-7, 9 - 12: Occupations for Women, Women's Education.
and dos 29-30: Child Abuse and A Working-Class Childhood
Emile Zola. Ladies’ Paradise -- brief photocopied excerpt

Oct 7 - 9  The New Women
Bonnie Smith, Changing Lives, chap. 7 - 8
Antoinette M. Burton, "The White Woman’s Burden: British Feminist and "The Indian Woman," 1865-1915," in Western Women and Imperialism:
    Complicity and Resistance (1992), pp. 137-157.
Judith R. Walkowitz, "Dangerous Sexualities," in A History of Women: Emerging Feminism from Revolution to World War, vol. IV (1993),
    pp. 369-398.
Case studies, "Prostitutes, 1906-09" in Feminisms of the Belle Epoque, pp. 177-182; and 357-383.
Louise Marie-Compain, "The Consequences of Woman’s Work," Feminisms of the Belle Epoque, pp. 134-145.

Oct 16, 21- 23  Suffrage, Socialism, and Social Activism Before World War One
Bonnie Smith, Changing Lives, chap. 7 - 8
European Women, A Documentary History, documents 20, 21, 23-24, Women's Suffrage, A Socialist Platform
A Room of One's Own (film based on a lecture by Virginia Woolf)

Oct 28 - 30   World War I
Bonnie Smith, Changing Lives, chap. 9
Behind the Lines (1987): Lynne Layton,  "Vera Brittain’s Testament(s)," pp. 70-83; Steven C. Hause,  "More Minerva than Mars: The French Women’s Rights Campaign and the First World War," pp. 99-113; Elaine Showalter, "Rivers and Sassoon", pp. 61-69;
Sandra M. Gilbert,  "Soldier’s Heart: Literary Men, Literary Women, and the Great War," pp. 197-226.
Sylvia Pankhurst from Beyond the Home Front, ed. by Yvonne Klein (1997), pp. 22-26.
European Women, A Documentary History, document 41, Communism and the Family

Nov 4 - 6   Aftermath of the War
Bonnie Smith, Changing Lives, chap. 10
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

Nov 11 - 13  Gender, Sexuality, and Politics in the 1920s
Bonnie Smith, Changing Lives, chap. 10
European Women, A Documentary History, docs 46 and 53, Research on Birthcontrol and The Truth About Myself
Nancy Cott, "The Modern Woman, American Style,"  from A History of Women in the West, F. Thébaud, ed., vol. 5 -- E-Res

Nov 18 - 20  Women in the 1930s
Victoria de Grazia, ch. 4, "How Mussolini Ruled Italian Women," pp. 120-148, and Gisela Bock, ch. 5, "Nazi Gender Policies and Women’s History," pp. 149-176, from A History of Women in the West, vol 5, ed. by Françoise Thébaud
European Women, A Documentary History, 1789-1945, docs. 26-27 on Nazi Women

Nov 25, Dec 2 - 4  War and Resistance
Bonnie Smith, Changing Lives, chap. 11
Paula Schwarz,  "Redefining Resistance: Women’s Activism in Wartime France," in Behind the Lines, pp. 141-153.
Marguerite Duras, "Monsieur X" from The War: A Memoir  (1986)
Etty Hilesum and Charlotte Delbo from Beyond the Home Front, ed. by Yvonne Klein (1997), pp. 175-186.

Dec 9 Legacies of War and Resistance, Postwar Feminisms
Bonnie Smith, Changing Lives, chap. 12