[资料]Ses# 7 summary Dr. Andrea Walsh.pdf

SP 401 Fall 2010

Class #7

1. Discussion: Ida B. Wells: Passion for Justice: feminism/women’s rights activism,
womanism, humanism: conceptualizing the politics of race and gender

2. The Female Mind and Body: Contested Terrain in 19th Century America
a. Backlash, Biological Essentialism and the 19th Century Women’s Rights
Movement: Medical Discourses of Womanhood in the 19th Century.
b. The Anti-Suffragists and “Woman’s Place”: the threat of suffrage and jury
service
c. The Debate about Women’s Place in Higher Education and the Professions-
Edward Clarke
d. The Growth of Women’s Colleges and Co-Education
e. The Conflict Within: “Hysteria” and Women’s Roles in the 19th Century
(Smith-Rosenberg)-Writing Exercise
3. Resistance or Illness? Discourses of Women, Violence and Madness: The Case of
Lizzie Borden (1892)

4. The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) - Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
a. Gilman’s biography
b. The Yellow Wallpaper in the context of her nonfiction and fiction writing
(..Women and Economics (1898), Human Work ( 1904),
The Man-Made World (1911), Herland (1915)
c. Interpretive debates around