History 246 Reading Guide
“Women’s History”—“Women History”: Introduction
- Conversation between Miss Tilney and Miss Morland from Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (1803). LINK
- Victor Konrad, "Seasonal Round of Activities, 1850s, Tobias Walker Farm, Kennebunk, Maine," The Harraseeket Project, Freeport, Maine (1984). LINK
Course Texts:
- Laurel Ulrich, Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750 (1982; revised 1991).
- Joan Jensen, Loosening the Bonds: Mid-Atlantic Farm Women, 1750-1850 (1986).
- Jean Friedman, The Enclosed Garden: Women and Community in the Evangelical South, 1830-1900 (1985).
- Jacqueline Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the Present (1986; with a new epilogue 1995).
- Anzia Yezierska, Bread Givers (1925; new edition 1999).
- Kathy Peiss, Hope in a Jar: The Making of America�s Beauty Culture (1998).
