History 398 Early American Women

Elective Reading

1. Miscellaneous and Multi-topic Readings

Miscellaneous Colonial-era Subjects

    1. Elective Reading
      1. William L. Andrews, ed., Journals in New Worlds: Early American Women’s Narratives (Madison, Wisc., 1990) [in Boatwright]
      2. Catherine Clinton and Michelle Gillespie, eds., The Devil’s Lane: Sex and Race in the Early South (New York, 1997) [in Boatwright]
      3. Mary Beth Norton, "Communal Definitions of Gendered Identity in Seventeenth-Century English America," in Ronald Hoffman, Mechal Sobel, and Fredrika J. Teute, eds., Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on Personal Identity in Early America (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1997), 40-66 [in Boatwright]
      4. Carol Berkin and Leslie Horowitz, eds., Women's Voices, Women's Lives: Documents in Early American History (Boston, Mass., 1998) [in Boatwright]
      5. Joseph Perlman and Dennis Shirley, "When Did New England Women Acquire Literacy?", William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., XLVIII (Jan. 1991)
      6. Paula A. Treckel, To Comfort the Heart: Women in Seventeenth-Century America (New York, 1996) [in Boatwright]
      7. Ann Taves, ed., Religion and Domestic Violence in Early New England: The Memoirs of Abigail Abbot Bailey (Bloomington, Ind., 1989) [in Boatwright]

       

      WK #1. (I) Intro; (II) Pre-contact Native American Women

    2. Tue, Jan. 16: Intro

       

    3. Thu, Jan. 18: Native women before 1491
      1. Elective Reading
        1. Elizabeth Tooker, "Women in Iroquois Society," in Michael K. Foster, Jack Campisi, and Marianne Mithun eds., Extending the Rafters: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Iroquois Studies (Albany, N.Y., 1984), 109-123 [not in Boatwright]
        2. Natalie Zemon Davis, "Iroquois Women, European Women," in Margo Hendricks and Patricia Parker, eds., Women, "Race," and Writing in the Early Modern Period (London, New York, 1994), 243-258 [in Boatwright]
        3. June Nash, "Aztec Women: The Transition from Status to Class in Empire and Colony," in Mona Etienne and Eleanor Leacock, Women and Colonization (New York, 1980): 134-148 [in Boatwright]

       

      WK #2. Contact

    4. Tue: Pre-colonial Africa and the slave trade
      1. Elective Reading
        1. Claude Meillassoux, Maidens, Meal, and Money: Capitalism and the Domestic Economy (Cambridge, Eng., 1981). [in Boatwright]
        2. Jennifer Morgan, "‘Some Could Suckle Over Their Shoulder’: Ethnology, Racism, Stereotypes: Male Travelers, Female Bodies, and the Gendering of Racial Ideology, 1500-1770," William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd. Ser., LIV (Jan. 1997), 167-192
    5. Thu: Indians and colonists
      1. Elective Reading
        1. Sylvia Van Kirk, Many Tender Ties: Women in Fur Trade Society, 1670-1870 (Norman, Okla. and London, 1983) [in Boatwright]
        2. Jennifer S. Brown, Strangers in the Blood: Fur Trade Company Families in Indian Country (Vancouver, B.C., 1980) [in Boatwright]
        3. Mary Jemison, Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison, ed. James E. Seaver (Syracuse, N.Y., 1990)
        4. "Narrative of the Captivity of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, 1682," in Charles H. Lincoln, Narratives of the Indian Wars 1675-1699 (New York, 1913), p. 116. [in Boatwright] [also on Internet]
        5. John Demos, The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America (New York, 1994) [in Boatwright]
        6. Nancy Shoemaker, ed., Negotiators of Change: Historical Perspectives on Native American Women. (New York, 1995) [in Boatwright]
        7. Theda Perdue, Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835 (Lincoln, Nebr., 1998) [in Boatwright]
        8. Carol Devens, Countering Colonization: NatAm Women and Gt Lakes Missions, 1630-1900 (Berkeley, Calif., 1992) [in Boatwright]
        9. Marshall J. Becker, "Hannah Freeman: An Eighteenth-Century Lenape Living and Working Among Colonial Farmers," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, CXIV (Apr. 1990)
        10. "The Vengeful Women of Marblehead: Robert Roule’s Deposition of 1677," James Axtell, ed., William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., XXXI (Oct. 1974)
        11. Annette Kolodny, The Land Before Her: Fantasy and Experience of the American Frontiers, 1630-1860 (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1984) [in Boatwright]
        12. Karen L. Anderson, Chain Her by One Foot: The Subjugation of Native Women in Seventeenth- Century New France (New York, 1991) [not in Boatwright]
        13. Nancy F. Cott and Elizabeth H. Pleck, eds., A Heritage of Her Own: Toward a New Social History of American Women (New York, 1979) [not in Boatwright on Mar. 1, 2001]
        14. Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola, Women's Indian Captivity Narratives (New York, 1993) [in Boatwright]
        15. Irene Silverblatt, Moon, Sun, and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru (Princeton, N.J., 1987) [in Boatwright]
        16. Ramon Gutierrez, When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 (Stanford, Calif., 1991) [in Boatwright]

       

      WK #3. Women in the Seventeenth Century Chesapeake

       

    6. Tue: Women in Bacon’s Rebellion and other 17th c. Chesapeake Revolts
      1. Elective Reading – none
    7. Thu: Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake Women
      1. Elective Reading
        1. Darrett B. and Anita H. Rutman, "Now-Wives and Sons-in-Law: Parental Death in a Seventeenth Century Virginia County," in Thad W. Tate and David L. Ammerman, eds., The Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century (Chapel Hill, 1979) [in Boatwright]
        2. Mary Beth Norton, Founding Mothers and Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society (New York, 1996) [in Boatwright]
        3. Lois Green Carr and Lorena S. Walsh, "The Planter’s Wife: The Experience of White Women in Seventeenth-Century Maryland," William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Ser., XXX (1977)
        4. Kathleen M. Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1996) [in Boatwright]

       

      WK #4. Women in Seventeenth Century New England

       

    8. Tue: The witchcraft debate
      1. Elective Reading
        1. Carol F. Karlsen, The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England (New York, 1987) [in Boatwright]
        2. Paul S. Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum, Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft (Cambridge, Mass., 1974) [in Boatwright]
        3. Elizabeth Sarah Reis, Damned Women (Ithaca, N.Y., 1997) [in Boatwright]
        4. John Demos, Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England (New York, 1982) [in Boatwright]
        5. Marion Starkey, The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Inquiry into the Salem Witch Trials (New York, 1949) [in Boatwright]
        6. Elaine G. Breslaw, Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies (New York, 1996) [in Boatwright]
        7. Chadwick Hansen, Witchcraft at Salem (New York 1969) [in Boatwright]
        8. Peter Charles Hoffer, The Salem Witchcraft Trials: A Legal History (Lawrence, Kans., 1997) [in Boatwright]
        9. Laurie Winn Carlson, A Fever in Salem: A New Interpretation of the New England Witch Trials (Chicago, Ill., 1999) [in Boatwright]
        10. Kai Erikson, Wayward Puritans: A Study in the Sociology of Deviance (New York, 1966) [in Boatwright]
      2. web links
        1. Salem witchcraft trial documents

       

    9. Tue: Seventeenth-century New England Women
      1. Elective Reading
        1. John Harvard Ellis, ed., The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse (New York, 1932) [in Boatwright]
        2. Daniel Scott Smith, "Child-Naming Practices, Kinship Ties, and Change in Family Attitudes in Hingham, Massachusetts, 1641 to 1680," Journal of Social History XVIII (Summer 1985)
        3. Cotton Mather, Ornaments for the Daughters of Zion, or the Character and Happiness of a Virtuous Woman (Cambridge, Mass, 1692) [microform in Boatwright]
        4. Lyle Koehler, "The Case of the American Jezebels: Anne Hutchinson and Female Agitation During the Years of the Antinomian Turmoil, 1636-1640," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d series, XXXI (Jan. 1974)
        5. Lyle Koehler, A Search for Power: The Weaker Sex in Seventeenth Century New England (Urbana, Ill, 1980) [in Boatwright]
        6. Patricia U. Bonomi, "Mary Dyer: Religious Martyr," in Susan Ware, ed., Forgotten Heroes: Inspiring American Portraits From Our Leading Historians (New York, 1998), 27-34 [in Boatwright]
        7. Mary Beth Norton, Founding Mothers and Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society (New York, 1996) [in Boatwright]
        8. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750 (New York, 1982) [not in Boatwright] [not in Boatwright on Mar. 1, 2001]
        9. Nancy F. Cott and Elizabeth H. Pleck, eds., A Heritage of Her Own: Toward a New Social History of American Women (New York, 1979) [not in Boatwright on Mar. 1, 2001]
        10. Anne Bradstreet, "Meditations," in John Harvard Ellis, ed., The Works of Anne Bradstreet, (Gloucester, Mass., 1962) [in Boatwright]
        11. Edmund S. Morgan, The Puritan Family (New York, 1966) [in Boatwright]
        12. G.J. Barker-Benfield, "Anne Hutchinson and the Puritan Attitude Toward Women," Feminist Studies, I (1973)
        13. Amy Schrager Lang, Prophetic Woman: Anne Hutchinson and the Problem of Dissent in the Literature of New England (Berkeley, Calif., 1987) [in Boatwright]
        14. Amanda Porterfield, Female Piety in Puritan New England (New York, 1992) [in Boatwright]
        15. Lisa Wilson. Ye Heart of A Man: The Domestic Life of Men in Colonial New England (New Haven, Conn., 1999) [in Boatwright]

       

      WK #5. Town and country (18th c.)

       

    10. Tue.: Farm Women
      1. Elective Reading
        1. Field Horn, ed., The Diary of Mary Cooper: Life on a Long Island Farm, 1768-1773 (Oyster Bay, N.Y., 1981) [not in Boatwright]
        2. Elise Pinckney, ed., asst. by Marvin R. Zahniser and introduction by Walter Muir Whitell, The Letterbook of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, 1739-1762 (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1972) [in Boatwright]
        3. Joan R. Gundersen, "The Double Bonds of Race and Sex: Black and White Women in a Colonial Virginia Parish," Journal of Southern History, LII (Aug. 1986)
        4. Lorena Walsh and Lois G. Carr, "The Planter’s Wife: The Experience of White Women in 17th Century Maryland," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d series, XXXIV (1977)
        5. Barbara Lacey, "The World of Hannah Heaton: The Autobiography of an Eighteenth-Century Connecticut Farm Woman," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., XLV (Apr. 1988)
        6. Julia Cherry Spruill, Women’s Life and Work in the Southern Colonies (New York, 1972, 1938) [in Boatwright]
        7. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, "Wheels, Looms, and the Gender Division of Labor in Eighteenth-Century New England," William and Mary Quarterly, 1998 LV:1: 3-38.
        8. Joan Jensen, Loosening the Bonds: Midatlantic Farm Women, 1750-1850 (New Haven, Conn., 1986) [in Boatwright]
        9. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, "Hannah Barnard’s Cupboard: Female Property and Identity in Eighteenth-Century New England," in Ronald Hoffman, Mechal Sobel, and Fredrika J. Teute, eds., Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on Personal Identity in Early America (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1997), 238-273 [not in Boatwright]
        10. Betty Wood, Women's Work, Men's Work: The Informal Slave Economies of Lowcountry Georgia (Athens, Ga., 1995) [in Boatwright]
        11. Margaret Washington Creel, "A Peculiar People: Slave Religion and Community-Culture Among the Gullahs (New York, 1988) [in Boatwright]
    11. Thu.: Townswomen
      1. Elective Reading
        1. Jean R. Soderlund, "Black Women in Colonial Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, CVII (Jan. 1983)
        2. Eric G. Nellis, "Misreading the Signs: Industrial Imitation, Poverty, and the Social Order in Colonial Boston," New England Quarterly XLIX (Dec. 1986)
        3. Gary B. Nash, "The Failure of Female Factory Labor in Colonial Boston," Labor History, XX (Spring 1979)
        4. Sharon Salinger, "‘Send No More Women’: Female Servants in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography CVII (Jan. 1983)
        5. Carol Karlsen and Laurie Crumpacker, The Journal of Esther Edwards Burr, 174-1757 (New Haven, Conn., 1984) [in Boatwright]
        6. Elizabeth A. Dexter, Colonial Women of Affairs (Boston, Mass. and New York, 1924) [not in Boatwright]
        7. Carole Shammas, "The Female Social Structure of Philadelphia in 1775," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography CVII (1983)
        8. Mary Beth Norton, "A Cherished Spirit of Independence: The Life of an Eighteenth-Century Boston Businesswoman," in Carol Berkin and Mary Beth Norton, Women of America: A History (Boston, 1979) [in Boatwright]
        9. Lisa Wilson Waciega, "A ‘Man of Business’: The Widow of Means in Southeastern Pennsylvania, 1750-1830," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., XLIV (Jan. 1987)

       

      WK #6. Institutions (Law, religion, and gentlewomen)

    12. Tue.: Religion, marriage, and gentlewomen
      1. Religion
        1. Elective Reading
          1. Christine M. Levenduski, Peculiar Power: A Quaker Woman Preacher in Eighteenth-Century America (Washington, D.C., 1996) [in Boatwright]
          2. Mary Beth Norton, "’My Resting Reaping Times’: Sarah Osborn’s Defense of Her ‘Unfeminine Activities’, 1767, Signs: A Journal of Women and Culture II (Winter 1976)
          3. Mary Maples Dunn, "Saints and Sisters: Congregational and Quaker Women in the Early Colonial Period," American Quarterly, XXX (1978)
          4. Jean Soderlund, "Women’s Authority in Pennsylvania and New Jersey Quaker Meetings, 1680-1760," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d series, XLIV (Oct. 1987)
          5. William Lumpkin, "The Role of Women in Eighteenth Century Virginia Baptist Life," Baptist History and Heritage, VIII (1973)
          6. Mary Maples Dunn, "Women of Light," in Carol Berkin and Mary Beth Norton, eds., Women of America: A History (Boston, 1979) [in Boatwright]
          7. Barbara Lacey, "The Bonds of Friendship: Sarah Osborn of Newport and the Reverend Joseph Fish of North Stonington, 1743-1779," Rhode Island History, LV (Nov. 1986)
          8. Helena M. Wall, Fierce Communion: Family and Community in Early America (Cambridge, Mass., 1990) [in Boatwright]
          9. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, "Vertuous Women Found: New England Ministerial Literature, 1688-1735," American Quarterly, XXVIII (1976)
      2. Gentlewomen
        1. Elective Reading
          1. Karin Calvert, "Children in American Family Portraiture, 1670-1810," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., XXXIX (Jan. 1982):87-113
          2. Jan Lewis, The Pursuit of Happiness: Family Values in Jefferson’s Virginia (New York, 1983) [in Boatwright]
          3. Joseph A. Leo Lemay, Robert Bolling Woos Anne Miller: Love and Courtship in Colonial Virginia, 1760 (Charlottesville, Va., 1990) [not in Boatwright]

       

    13. Thu.: Law
      1. Elective Reading
        1. Marylynn Salmon, "The Legal Status of Women in Early America: A Reappraisal," Law and History Review, vol. 1 (1983)
        2. Nancy F. Cott , "Divorce and the Changing Status of Women in Eighteenth-Century Massachusetts," William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd. Ser., XXXIII (Oct. 1976), 586-614.
        3. Frank L. Dewey, "Thomas Jefferson and a Williamsburg Scandal: The Case of Blair v. Blair," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography LXXXIX (Jan. 1981)
        4. Norma Basch, In the Eyes of the Law: Women, Marriage, and Property in Nineteenth-Century New York (Ithaca, N.Y., 1982) [in Boatwright]
        5. Cornelia Hughes Dayton, Women Before the Bar: Gender, Law and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789 (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1995) [in Boatwright]
        6. Mary Beth Norton, "Gender and Defamation in Seventeenth-Century Maryland," William and Mary Quarterly 3d ser. 44 (Jan. 1987)
        7. Frank L. Dewey, "Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Divorce," William and Mary Quarterly 3d ser., XXXIX (Jan. 1982)
        8. Linda Speth, "More than Her ‘Thirds’: Wives and Widows in Colonial Virginia," Women and History 4 (1982)
        9. Marylynn Salmon, "Equality or Submersion? Femme Covert Status in Early Pennsylvania," in Carol Berkin and Mary Beth Norton, eds., Women of America: A History (Boston, Mass., 1979) [in Boatwright]
        10. Marylynn Salmon, "Women and Property in South Carolina, The Evidence from Marriage Settlements, 1730-1830," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., XXXIX (Oct. 1982)
        11. Marylynn Salmon, Women and the Law of Property in Early America (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1986) [in Boatwright]
        12. Clara Ann Bowler, "Carted Whores and White Shrouded Apologies: Slander in the Country Courts of 17th Century Virginia," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, LXXXV (1977)
        13. Alexander Keyssar, "Widowhood in Eighteenth-Century Massachusetts: A Problem in the History of the Family," Perspectives in American History VIII (1974)
        14. Elizabeth Pleck, Domestic Tyranny: The Making of American Social Policy against Family Violence from Colonial Times to the Present (New York, 1987) [in Boatwright]
        15. N.E. Hull, Female Felons: Women and Serious Crime in Colonial Massachusetts (Urbana and Chicago, Ill., 1987) [not in Boatwright]
        16. Lisa Wilson, Life After Death: Widows in Pennsylvania, 1750-1850 (Philadelphia, Pa., 1992) [in Boatwright]
        17. Lee Virginia Chambers-Scholler, Liberty, a Better Husband, Single Women in America: The Generations of 1780-1840 (New Haven, Conn., 1984) [not in Boatwright]
        18. Joan R. Gundersen and Gwen Victor Gampel, "Married Women’s Legal Status in Eighteenth-Century New York and Virginia," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., XXXIX (Jan. 1982)

       

      WEEK #7. Sexuality, abortion, childbirth (18th c.)

       

    14. Tue.: Sexuality and privacy
      1. Elective Reading
        1. Daniel Scott Smith and Michael S. Hindus, "Premarital Pregnancy in America 1640-1971: An Overview and Interpretation," Journal of Interdisciplinary History, V (Spring 1975), 537-570
        2. Edmund S. Morgan, "The Puritans and Sex," New England Quarterly, XV (1942)
        3. Daniel A. Cohen, "Social Injustice, Sexual Violence, Spiritual Transcendence: Constructions of Interracial Rape in Early American Crime Literature, 1767-1817," William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., LVI (1999), 481-526
        4. Merril D. Smith, ed., Sex and Sexuality in Early America (New York, 1998) [in Boatwright] [Includes: Her master's voice : gender, speech, and gendered speech in the narrative of the captivity of Mary White Rowlandson / Steven Neuwirth -- William Byrd's "flourish" : the sexual cosmos of a southern planter / Richard Godbeer -- The sexual life of an eighteenth-century Jamaican slave overseer / Trevor Burnard ]
        5. Barbara S. Lindemann, "’To Ravish and Carnally Know’: Rape in Eighteenth-Century Massachusetts," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, X (Aug. 1984)
        6. Norton, Mary Beth, "Sex, Religion, and Society in Early America; or, a 17th-Century Maryland Menage a Trois and its Consequences" [lecture online]

       

    15. Thu. Abortion and Childbirth
    16. Elective Reading
        1. Robert V. Wells, "Family Size and Fertility Control in Eighteenth-Century America: A Study of Quaker Families," Population Studies vol. 25, 1 (March 1971), 73-82
        2. Judith Walzer Leavitt, Brought to Bed: Childbearing in America, 1750-1950 (New York and London, 1986) [in Boatwright]
        3. Peter C. Hoffer and N.E.H. Hull, Murdering Mothers: Infanticide in England and New England, 1558-1803 (New York, 1981) [in Boatwright]

       

      WEEK #8, The American Revolution, I

       

    17. Tue. White Women in the Revolution
      1. Elective Reading
        1. Joy Day Buel and Richard Buel, Jr. on Mary Fish Nyes Silliman, The Way of Duty: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America (New York, 1984) [in Boatwright]
        2. Curtis Carroll Davis, "Helping to Hold the Fort, Elizabeth Zane at Wheeling, 1782: A Case Study in Renown," West Virginia History, XLIV (Spring 1983), 212-225
        3. Barbara Clark Smith, "Food Rioters and the American Revolution, William and Mary Quarterly, LI (Jan. 1994)
        4. Rosemarie Zagarri, A Woman’s Dilemma: Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution (Wheeling, Ill., 1995) [in Boatwright]
        5. Mary Beth Norton, Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1820 (Boston, Mass., 1980) [in Boatwright]
        6. Carol Berkin, First Generations: Women in Colonial America (New York, 1996), ch. 7 ("Women in the American Revolution") [in Boatwright]
        7. Alfred Young, "The Women of Boston: ‘Persons of Consequence’ in the Making of the American Revolution, 1765-1776," in Harriet Applewhite and Darlene Levy, eds., Women and Politics in the Age of the Democratic Revolution (Ann Arbor, Mich., 1993) [in Boatwright]
        8. Kathryn Zabelle Derounian, "A Dear, Dear Friend: Six Letters from Deborah Norris to Sarah Wister, 1778-1779," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, CVIII (Oct. 1984)
        9. Lester H. Cohen, "Explaining the Revolution: Ideology and Ethics in Mercy Otis Warren’s Historical Theory," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., XXXVII (Apr. 1980)
        10. Ronald Hoffman and Peter J. Albert, eds., Women in the Age of the American Revolution. (Charlottesville, Va., 1989) [in Boatwright]
        11. Louise Belote Dawe and Sandra Gioia Treadway, "Hannah Lee Corbin: The Forgotten Lee," Virginia Cavalcade, XXIX, 2 (1979), 70-77
        12. Julia Ward Stickley, "The Records of Deborah Sampson Gannett, Woman Soldier of the Revolution," Prologue: The Journal of the National Archives, IV (Winter 1972)
        13. Elaine Foreman Crane, ed., The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker (Boston, Mass., 1991) [in Boatwright]
        14. Elaine Foreman Crane, "The World of Elizabeth Drinker," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, CVII (Jan. 1983)
        15. Linda Grant DePauw, "Women in Combat: The Revolutionary War Experience," Armed Forces and Society, VII (Winter 1981)
        16. Constance B. Schulz, "Daughter of Liberty: The History of Women in the Revolution War Pension Records," Prologue: The Journal of the National Archives, XVI (Fall 1984)
        17. Mary Beth Norton, "Eighteenth-Century American Women in Peace and War: The Case of the Loyalists," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., XXXII (1976)
        18. Mary Beth Norton, "’What an Alarming Crisis Is This’: Southern Women and the American Revolution," in Jeffrey Crow and Larry Rise, eds., The Southern Experience in the American Revolution (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1978) [in Boatwright]
        19. Kierner, Cynthia, Southern Women in Revolution, 1776-1800: Personal and Political Narratives (Columbia, S.C., 1998) [in Boatwright]
        20. Elizabeth Evans, ed., Weathering the Storm: Women of the American Revolution (New York, 1975) [in Boatwright]

       

    18. Thu. Slaves and Indians in the Revolution
      1. Elective Reading
        1. Claudio Saunt, "‘Domestick . . . Quiet Being Broke’: Gender Conflict Among Creek Indians in the Eighteenth Century," in Andrew R.L. Cayton and Fredrika J.Teute, eds., Contact Points: American Frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi, 1750-1830 (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1998) [in Boatwright]
        2. Charles W. Akers, "’Our Modern Egyptians’: Phillis Wheatley and the Whig Campaign Against Slavery in Revolutionary Boston," Journal of Negro History, LX (July 1975)
        3. R. Lynn Matson, "Phillis Wheatley – Soul Sister?" Phylon, XXXIII (Fall 1972) [in Boatwright]

       

      WEEK #9, The American Revolution, II

       

    19. Tue. Founding Mothers (First Couples)
      1. Elective Reading
        1. Edith Gelles, Portia: the World of Abigail Adams (Bloomington, Ind., 1992) [in Boatwright]
        2. Paul C. Nagel, The Adams Women: Abigail and Louisa Adams, Their Sisters and Daughters (New York, 1987) [in Boatwright]
        3. Winthrop Jordan, "Hemings and Jefferson: Redux," in Jan Ellen Lewis and Peter S. Onuf, eds., Sally Hemings & Thomas Jefferson (Charlottesville, Va. and London, 1999), 35-51. [in Boatwright]
        4. L.H. Butterfield, M. Friedlander, and M.J. Kline, The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784 (Cambridge, Mass., 1975), 184-85 [in Boatwright]
      2. web links
        1. Annotated Thomas Jefferson Bibliography
        2. Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings (sponsored by Monticello)

       

    20. Thu. Feminists, Republican Mothers, and Authors
      1. Elective Reading
        1. novels: go to footnotes of Cathy Davidson for authors’ names
        2. Cathy N. Davidson, Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America (New York, 1986) [in Boatwright]
        3. William Wells Brown. Clotel, or the President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States (New York, 1970) [in Boatwright]
        4. Susan Juster, Disorderly Women: Sexual Politics and Evangelicalism in Revolutionary New England (Ithaca, N.Y., 1994) [in Boatwright]
        5. Susan C. Boyle, "Did She Generally Decide? Women in Ste. Genevieve, 1750-1806," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., XLIV (Oct. 1987)
        6. Ann D. Gordon, "The Young Ladies Academy of Philadelphia," in Carol Berkin and Mary Beth Norton, eds., Women of America: A History (Boston, Mass., 1979) [in Boatwright]
        7. Ruth Bloch, "The Gendered Meanings of Virtue in Revolutionary America," in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, XIII (1987)
        8. Jan Lewis, "The Republican Wife: Virtue and Seduction in the Early Republic," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., XLIV (Oct. 1987)
        9. Irwin N. Gertzog, "Female Suffrage in New Jersey, 1790-1807," in Women, Politics and the Constitution, Naomi B. Lynn, ed. (New York, 1990) [not in Boatwright]
        10. Stern, Julia, The Plight of Feeling: Sympathy and Dissent in the Early American Novel (Chicago, Ill., 1997) [in Boatwright]
        11. Sharon M. Harris, ed., American Women Writers to 1800 (New York, 1996) [in Boatwright]
        12. Jan Lewis, "The Republican Wife: Virtue and Seduction in the Early Republic," William and Mary Quarterly, XLIV (1987), 689-721
        13. Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, "Dis-covering the Subject of the ‘Great Constitutional Discussion, 1786-1789,’" Journal of American History (June 1994), 220-232
        14. William Hill Brown, The Power of Sympathy (New Haven, 1970) [in Boatwright]
        15. Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders (1722, New York, 1973) [in Boatwright]
        16. Mark E. Kann, A Republic of Men: The American Founders, Gendered Language, and Patriarchal Politics (New York, 1998) [in Boatwright]
        17. Linda K. Kerber, Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1980) [in Boatwright]

             

  1. WEEK #10. Midwife’s Tale
    1. Elective Reading - none

     

  2. Miscellaneous Nineteenth-Century Topics
    1. Elective Reading
      1. Ann Douglas, The Feminization of American Culture (New York, 1977) [in Boatwright]
      2. Terri L. Premo, Winter Friends: Growing Old in the New Republic, 1785-1835 (Urbana, Ill., 1990) [in Boatwright]

     

  3. WEEK #11. Town and country

     

    1. Tue.: City women
      1. Elective Reading
        1. Suzanne Lebsock, The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784-1860 (New York, 1984) [in Boatwright]
        2. Patricia Cline Cohen, The Murder of Helen Jewett (New York, 1998) [in Boatwright]
        3. Benita Eisler, ed., The Lowell Offering: Writings by New England Mill Women, 1840-1845 (Philadelphia, Pa., 1977) [in Boatwright]
        4. Kathryn Kish Sklar, Catherine Beecher: A Study in American Domesticity (New Haven, 1973), 36 [in Boatwright]
        5. Thomas Dublin, Women at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860 (New York, 1979) [in Boatwright]
        6. Thomas Dublin, "Women, Work and the Family: Female Operatives in the Lowell Mills, 1830-1860," Feminist Studies 3 (Fall 1975)
        7. Christine Stansell, City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860 (New York, 1986) [in Boatwright]
        8. Nancy A. Hewitt, Women’s Activism and Social Change, Rochester, New York, 1822-1872 (Ithaca, N.Y., 1984) [in Boatwright]
        9. Paul A. Gilje, "Infant Abandonment in Early 19th-Century New York City: Three Cases," Signs, 9 (Spring 1983)

       

    2. Thu.: Farm women
      1. Elective Reading
        1. Stacy Gibbons Moore, "‘Established and Well Cultivated’: Afro-American Foodways in Early Virginia," Virginia Cavalcade, XXXIX (Fall 1989)
        2. Catherine Clinton, The Plantation Mistress: Woman’s World in the Old South (New York, 1982) [in Boatwright]
        3. Catherine Clinton, "Caught in the Web of the Big House: Women and Slavery," in Walter J. Fraser, Jr.; R. Frank Saunders, Jr.; and Jon L. Wakelyn, The Web of Southern Social Relations: Women, Family, and Education (Athens, Ga., 1985) [in Boatwright]
        4. Louis J. Kern, An Ordered Love: Sex Roles and Sexuality in Victorian Utopias - the Shakers, the Mormons, and the Oneida Community (Chapel Hill, N.C. 1981) [in Boatwright]
        5. Stephanie McCurry, Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country (New York, 1995) [in Boatwright]
        6. Mary P. Ryan, Cradle of the Middle Class: The Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790-1865 (Cambridge, Mass., 1981), 89-102 [not in Boatwright]
        7. Carole Shammas, "Black Women’s Work and the Evolution of Plantation Society in Virginia," Labor History, XXVI (Winter 1985)
        8. Nancy F. Cott, The Bonds of Womanhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835 (New Haven, 1977) [in Boatwright]
        9. Maria Bryan Harford Connel, Tokens of Affection: The Letters of a Planter's Daughter in the Old South, ed. Carol Bleser (Athens, Ga., 1996) [in Boatwright]
        10. Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1988) [in Boatwright]
        11. Margaret Law Callcott, Mistress of Riversdale: The Plantation Letters of Rosalie Stier Calvert, 1795-1821 (Baltimore, Md., 1991) [not in Boatwright]
        12. Margit Stange, Personal Property: Wives, White Slaves, and the Market in Women (Baltimore, Md., 1998) [in Boatwright]

     

  4. WEEK #12: Race, gender, religion and sexuality
    1. Tue.: Religion and Sexuality
      1. Elective Reading
        1. Karen Lystra, Searching the Heart (New York, 1989) [in Boatwright]
        2. Victoria E. Bynum, Unruly Women: The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1992) [in Boatwright]
        3. Martha E. Hodes, White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South (New Haven, 1997) [in Boatwright]
        4. Nancy F. Cott, "Passionlessness: An Interpretation of Victorian Sexual Ideology, 1790-1850," in Nancy F. Cott and Elizabeth H. Pleck, A Heritage of Her Own (New York, 1979) [not in Boatwright]
        5. Jan Lewis and Kenneth A. Lockridge, "’Sally Has Been Sick’: Pregnancy and Family Limitation Among Virginia Gentry Women, 1780-1830," Journal of Social History, XXII (Fall 1988)
        6. Joan Iverson, "Feminist Implications of Mormon Polygny," Feminist Studies, 10 (Fall 1984)
        7. Julie Dunfey, "’Living the Principle’ of Plural Marriage: Mormon Women, Utopia, and Female Sexuality in the Nineteenth Century," Feminist Studies, 10 (Fall 1984), 523-36

       

    2. Thu.: Hobomuk
      1. Elective Reading
        1. Theda Purdue, "Southern Indians and the Cult of True Womanhood," in Fraser, et al, The Web of Southern Social Relations: Women, Family, and Education (Athens, Ga., 1985), 35-51 [in Boatwright]
        2. Johnny Faragher and Christine Stansell, "Women and Their Families on the Overland Trail to California and Oregon, 1842-1867," Feminist Studies, 2 (1975)
        3. Johnny Mac Faragher, Women and Men on the Overland Trail (New Haven, 1979) [in Boatwright]
        4. Robert Berkhofer, Salvation and the Savage: An Analysis of Protestant Missions and American Indian Response, 1787-1862 (Lexington, Ky., 1965) [in Boatwright]

     

     

  5. WEEK #13: African-American Women

     

    1. Web Links
      1. Interviews with former slaves
      2. Interview with former slave Fountain Hughes (audio, photo, and transcript)
    2. Elective Reading
      1. Norrece T. Jones, Jr., Born a Child of Freedom, Yet a Slave: Mechanisms of Control and Strategies of Resistance in Antebellum South Carolina (Hanover, N.H., 1990) [in Boatwright]
      2. Wilma King, Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America (Bloomington, Ind., 1995). [in Boatwright]
      3. Herbert Gutman, The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925 (New York, 1976). [in Boatwright] (only through the end of Reconstruction)
      4. Suzanne Lebsock, "Free Black Woman and the Question of Matriarchy: Petersburg, Virginia, 1784-1820," Feminist Studies, VIII (1982)
      5. Thomas L. Webber, Deep Like the Rivers: Education in the Slave Quarter Community, 1831-1865 (New York, 1978). [in Boatwright]
      6. Steven Weisenburger, Modern Medea: A Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder from the Old South (New York, 1998). [in Boatwright]
      7. Brenda E. Stevenson, Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South (New York, 1996). [in Boatwright]
      8. Jacqueline Jones, "’My Mother Was Much of a Woman’: Black Women, Work and the Family Under Slavery," Feminist Studies 8 (Summer 1982), 235-70
      9. John Campbell, "Work, Pregnancy, and Infant Mortality among Southern Slaves," Journal of Interdisciplinary History 14, No. 4 (Spring 1984), 793-812
      10. Cheryll Ann Cody, "There Was No ‘Absalom’ on the Ball Plantations: Slave-Naming Practices in the South Carolina Low Country, 1720-1865," American Historical Review, XCII (June 1987)
      11. Patricia Morton, ed. Discovering the Women in Slavery: Emancipating Perspectives on the American Past (Athens, Ga., 1996) [in Boatwright]
      12. Melton Alonza McLaurin, Celia, a Slave (Athens, Ga., 1991) [in Boatwright]
      13. Suzanne Lebsock, Free Women of Petersburg (excellent chapter on free black women) [in Boatwright]
      14. Herbert Gutman, "Marital and Sexual Norms among Slave Women," in Nancy Cott and Elizabeth H. Pleck, eds., A Heritage of Her Own: Toward a New Social History of American Women (New York, 1979) [not in Boatwright]
      15. Betty Wood, "Some Aspects of Female Resistance to Chattel Slavery in Low Country Georgia, 1763-1815," Georgia History Journal, XXX (Sept. 1987)
      16. Harriet Wilson, Our Nig, or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House, North…, 2nd edn. (New York, 1983). [in Boatwright]
      17. Nell Irvin Painter, Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol (New York, 1996). [in Boatwright]
      18. William L. Andrews, ed., Six Women's Slave Narratives (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-century Black Women Writers) (New York, 1988) [in Boatwright]
      19. Jon Swan, "The Slave Who Sued for Freedom," American Legacy, II: 3 (Fall 1966), 51-55
      20. Kari J. Winter, Subjects of Slavery, Agents of Change: Women and Power in Gothic Novels and Slave Narratives, 1790-1865 (Athens, Ga., 1992) [in Boatwright]

     

  6. WEEK #14: Freedom Fighters

     

    1. Tue.: Women Against Slavery
      1. Elective Reading
        1. Gerda Lerner, The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Women’s Rights and Abolition (Boston, Mass., 1967) [in Boatwright]
        2. Katharine DuPre Lumpkin, The Emancipation of Angelina Grimké (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1974) [in Boatwright]
        3. Larry Ceplair, ed., The Public Years of Sara and Angelina Grimké: Selected Writings, 1835-1836 (New York, 1991) [in Boatwright]
        4. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin…. (New York,1852) [in Boatwright]
        5. Sarah H. Bradford, Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her People (1869; New Jersey, 1961, 1974) [in Boatwright]
        6. Barbara Leslie Epstein, The Politics of Domesticity: Women, Evangelism, and Temperance in Nineteenth-Century America (Middletown, Conn., 1981) [in Boatwright]
        7. Shirley J. Yee, Black Women Abolitionists: A Study in Activism, 1828-1860 (Knoxville, Tenn., 1992) [in Boatwright]
        8. Julie Roy Jeffrey, The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1998) [in Boatwright]
        9. Steven Weisenburger, Modern Medea: A Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder from the Old South (New York, 1998) [in Boatwright]
        10. Olive Gilbert, Narrative of Sojourner Truth; A Bondswoman of Olden Time, With a History of Her Labors and Correspondence Drawn from Her "Book of Life" (1850; New York, 1991) [in Boatwright]
        11. Nell Irvin Painter, Sojourner Truth; A Life, A Symbol (New York, 1996) [in Boatwright]

       

    2. Thu.: Seneca Falls
      1. Elective Reading
        1. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897 (New York, 1898, reprint New York, 1971) [in Boatwright]
        2. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and Ida Husted Harper, History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 1 (1848-1861) (New York, 1969, reprint of 1881-1922) [in Boatwright]
        3. Elisabeth Griffith, In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton (New York, 1984) [in Boatwright]
        4. Lois W. Banner, Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Radical for Woman’s Rights (Boston, Mass., 1980) [in Boatwright]
        5. Nancy A. Hewitt, "Feminist Friends: Agrarian Quakers and the Emergence of Women’s Rights in America," Feminist Studies, 12 (Spring 1986)
        6. Louise Michele Newman. White Women's Rights: The Racial Origins of Feminism in the United States (New York, 1999) [in Boatwright] (Actually takes places mostly after 1848, but worth it.)