HIS/WSP302: Women in American History

Table of Contents:
HIS/WSP302 "READER"

• Barbara Welter, "The Cult of True Womanhood, 1820-1860" ...................................... 1
• Gerda Lerner, "The Lady and the Mill Girl: Changes in the Status of Women
  in the Age of Jackson" ............................................................................................ 23
• Aileen S. Kraditor, "The Woman Question" ........................................................... 34
• The Fourteenth Amendment (U.S. Constitution) .................................................... 54
• Ellen Carol DuBois, "The Fourteenth Amendment and the American Equal
  Rights Association" .................................................................................................. 55
• Letter by Frederick Douglass, 27 September 1868 ................................................ 69
• Margaret Susan Thompson, "Women and American Catholicism, 1789-1989" ......... 70
• Margaret Susan Thompson, "Sisterhood and Power: Class, Culture, and
  Ethnicity in the American Convent" ............................................................................ 81
• Margaret Susan Thompson, "The Validation of Sisterhood: Canonical Status
  and Liberation in the History of American Nuns" .......................................................... 95
• Emma Goldman, "The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation" ................................... 116
• Emma Goldman, "Woman Suffrage" ................................................................... 122
• Emma Goldman, "The Traffic in Women" ............................................................. 129
• Mary Siegel, "'Crossing the Bar': A 'She' Lawyer in 1917" ...................................... 137
• G. I. Roundtable, Do You Want Your Wife to Work After the War? ...................... 144
• Ella Thompson vs. J. C. Aldredge, Louisiana vs. Mary Young
  and Dawn DeBlanc................................................................................................ 166
• Barbara Gittings, "Founding the New York Daughters of Bilitis: 'It was a long,
  hard journey'" .......................................................................................................... 168
• Joan Nestle, "The Fem Question" ....................................................................... 182
• Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (excerpt) ................................................ 186
• Anne Koedt, "The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm" .................................................... 201
• Jesse L. Jackson, "Don't Forget About Racism" ................................................... 206
• Naomi Weisstein, "Woman as Nigger" ................................................................ 208
• General Comments & Suggestions for Writing Papers ....................................... 213

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