[资料]Ses# 2 summary Dr. Andrea Walsh.pdf

CLASS #2 OUTLINE –SP. 401

1. Women’s and Gender Studies: Identifying, Analyzing and Critiquing Gendered
Systems of Power and Performance: Influence of Social Movements

2. Writing Exercise/Discussion: Factors Leading to “Questioning Gender”
Through Gender Rights/Equality Movements

American Revolution and Gender Roles
Traditional Roles for Women in Colonial and Revolutionary America
Crossing the Gender Boundary: Deborah Sampson (1760-1827)
Women and Civic Culture: The Idea of Republican Motherhood
And its Contradictions

4. The Cult of True Womanhood (“Cult of Domesticity”) and Female Reform
Movements
Piety, Purity, Domesticity and Obedience: Four Cornerstones
Of the Cult of True Womanhood
Contradictions Within this Ideology, Enlightenment Ideas and the Birth of
Women’s Reform Movements

5. Abolitionism and Women’s Rights Activism: The “School of Anti-Slavery”
Social Movement Theories: Resource Mobilization, Relative Deprivation
Roles within Movements: Beneficiary Constituent, Conscience Constituents

6. The Grimke Sisters: Sarah Grimke (1792-1873) and Angelina Grimke Weld
(1805-1879)
Setting the Agenda for a Women’s Rights Movement
Unique Role as Southern ex-plantation women
Defending Women’s Political Roles as Writers/Speakers
Prefigurative Po