Professor Lavender: HST/WMS 286 Online Lectures

The following lectures are html versions of the Powerpoint lectures presented in class. 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 I

Witchcraft and Women's Historiography II

A Midwife's Tale

American Revolutions

Industrial Revolution

 

Slavery in the Southern Gender System

True Womanhood and the "Cult of Domesticity"

Scientific Sexism & The Victorian Medical Construction of Womanhood

Women, True Womanhood, and Abolitionism

Linda Brent's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

The Woman Movement and Suffrage

The "Woman Movement" Becomes the "Women’s Movement" -- First Wave Feminism

Women and Social Reform

Women in the Great Depression and WWII

Second and Third Wave Feminism