Professor Lavender: HST/WMS 286 Online Lectures and Materials

The following lectures are printable versions of the Powerpoint lectures presented in class, and links to materials to be read for the course. If you are prompted for a password, enter the professor's last name all in lowercase. Please choose the one you wish to view:

What is Women's History?

Colonial Women

Witchcraft and Women's Historiography

A Midwife's Tale

American Revolutions

WRITING ASSIGNMENT #1: Abigail and John Adams on Women's Citizenship (due 3/10/2009)

View Liberty Rhetoric Part I (The Origins of Liberty Rhetoric in the Revolutionary Tradition – www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/americanstudies/lavender/origins.html)

Slavery and Resistance

Download Linda Brent/Harriet Brent Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl etext (3.76MB)

View Discussion Questions for Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

First Midterm Study Guide

Reading for First Midterm: Hine, Introduction through Chapter 4; Evans, Introduction through Chapter Three.

 

Women and the Industrial Revolution

View Liberty Rhetoric Part II (Uses of Liberty Rhetoric Among Lowell Mill Girls -- www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/americanstudies/lavender/lowell.html)

True Womanhood / Scientific Sexism & The Victorian Medical Construction of Womanhood

Download Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall Paper etext (234kB)

The Woman Movement and Abolition

Suffrage and First Wave Feminism

View Liberty Rhetoric Part III Part III (The 1848 Declaration of Sentiments as an Expression of the Tradition of Liberty Rhetoric -- www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/americanstudies/lavender/seneca.html)

Women and Social Reform

Women in the Great Depression and WWII (not on final)

View Discussion Questions for The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (not on final)

Second and Third Wave Feminism (not on final, but ERA is covered on pages 8-9)

Second Midterm Study Guide

Reading for Second Midterm: Hine, Chapters Five-Epilogue; Evans, Chapters Four-Thirteen.

 

Final Paper Guidelines

On Writing Essays

 

URL: http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/286/s09286lectures.html