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History

History/GWS 249. A History of Women's Voices in America

Week 1
- Introduction
- Reading Women’s Voices: “Reading as a Woman”
Week 2
- Early Voices
- Early Voices: Travel Narratives
Week 3
- Women’s Reading and Writing During the Revolution and the Early Republic
- Writing a Research Paper in History
Week 4
- Masquerade: An Eighteenth-century “Best Selling” Novel as History
- Slave Women: A Radically Different Degree of Unfreedom
Week 5
- African American Women: From Slavery to Freedom
- Library Tour
Week 6
- FILM: Mary Silliman’s War
- FILM: A Midwife’s Tale
Week 7
- Individual Research Paper Conferences
- Individual Research Paper Conferences
Week 8
- The “Reality” of Women’s Lives
- Nineteenth-Century Local Color and Realist Fiction
Week 9
- African American Women in mid-Twentieth Century White America
- Women and Civil Rights
Week 10
- Asian American Immigrant Women
- Chinese American Daughters
Week 11
- Individual Research Paper Conferences
- Individual Research Paper Conferences
Week 12
- Jewish Immigrant Women
- Jewish Mothers and Jewish Daughters
Week 13
- Work-in-Progress Reports
- Work-in-Progress Reports
Week 14
- Writing a Woman’s Life
- Women Writing Women's Lives: "When the hope for closure is abandoned ..." (Carolyn Heilbrun)