History

History 2609 (249) / GSWS 2601. A History of Women's Voices in America

Reading Guide and Electronic Reserve Reading Links

• 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
  • The "Romance" of Elizabeth Whitman
• Week 5
  • Enslaved Women:  A Radically Different Degree of Unfreedom
  • Library Tour with Barbara Levergood
• Week 6
  • SC&A Tour with Marieke Van Der Steenhoven and Individual Research Conferences
  • African American Women:  From Slavery to Freedom 
• Week 7
  • The “Reality” of Women’s Lives
  • Nineteenth-Century Local Color and Realist Fiction
• Week 8
  • Late Nineteenth Century "Race Literature" and Black Women Writers
  • Individual Researh Conferences
• Week 9
  • Coeducation and the "Transformation" of New England Men's Colleges
  • Coeducation continued
• Week 10
  • Women at Bowdoin: Prehistory of Coeducation
  • Women at Bowdoin: Process of Coeducation
• Week 11
  • Women at Bowdoin: The Bowdoin Orient
  • Women at Bowdoin: Curriculum; Women's Resource Center
• Week 12
  • Women at Bowdoin: Extracurricular Activities; Athletics
  • Women at Bowdoin: Social Life & Fraternities; Timeline
• Week 13
  • Individual Research Paper Conferences
  • Work-in-Progress Reports
• Week 14
  • Writing a Woman’s Life
  • Women Writing Women's Lives:  "When the hope for closure is abandoned ...."