Books Available from the Bookstores
Chaudhuri, Nupur and Margaret Strobel, eds., Western Women and Imperialism: Complicity and Resistance. Bloomington and Indianapolis. Indiana University Press, 1992.
Engels, Frederick, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, ed. Eleanor Burke Leacock. New York: International Publishers, 1942.
Kaplan, Marion A. The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family, and Identity in Imperial Germany. New York, et.al.: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Koonz, Claudia. Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family, and Nazi Politics. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981.
Mill, John Stuart. The Subjection of Women, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1970.
Moses, Claire Goldberg. French Feminism in the Nineteenth Century. Albany: State University Press of New York, 1981.
Pederson, Susan. Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State: Britain and France 1914-1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Ross, Ellen. Love and Toil: Motherhood in Outcast London, 1870-1918. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Scott, Joan Wallach. Gender and the Politics of History. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.
Graded Course Projects
Short weekly papers, combined, 75%. Individual Projects, 25%
. Tentative Schedule Jan. 23: Introduction
30: Scott, Gender and the Politics of History.
Feb. 6: M. Gray, Gender in Early Modern Germany. (Manuscript to be provided)
13: Kaplan, Jewish Middle Class
20: Ross, Motherhood and Working-Class Women
27: Mill, Subjection of Women
Mar. 5: Engels, Origins of the Family and Private Property
12: Moses, Feminism
19: Chaudhuri and Strobel, Gender and Imperialism
Apr. 2: Pederson, Welfare State
10: Pederson, Welfare State
16: Koonz, Gender and Nazism
23: Koonz, Gender and Nazism
30: Individual Projects
May 7: Individual Projects
Individual Projects
Your project will allow you to follow your own objectives within the parameters of the course, developing something that will contribute to your personal educational and professional goals. The project should address issues that go beyond the ten books read in common but build on the insights gained from them. Suggested types of projects are:
1. Research: use of primary sources to conduct a focused research project, certainly an important component of your graduate education and one in which experience is a great teacher.
2. Pedagogy: develop, for example, a course outline for an advanced-level course in modern European gender history with a discussion of the pedagogical objectives you would pursue.
3. An essay based on secondary sources addressing a theme that is relevant tot the course but is not addressed to your satisfaction (or not at all) through our current agenda.
I will want to be in close touch with you as you develop your project. Essentially we will draw up a contract about your objectives. It is understood that the projects will be limited in nature, given the fact that you have substantial reading and writing to do otherwise for the course. As a rough guideline, if you are writing a paper, think in terms of a ten-page essay or research paper. But length is not the criterion of judgement. Quality of effort and of the product will be the basis on which I evaluate the projects. An important part of the experience will be the sharing of projects among the members of the seminar.
Weekly Papers
I will make specific assignments each week and will alter this plan if more long-term planning is advantageous to you.