American Studies Department 1 Ruth Adams Building 204 Books Required for Purchase: David Levin, ed., What Happened in Salem? Second edition. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc., 1960. Out of print. Available for purchase from University Publishing Solutions: 732-220-1211. $10.00 Gerda Lerner, The Grimké Siers from South Carolina: Pioneers for Women's Rights and Abolition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. $19.95. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1997. $1.50 Phyllis Chesler, Women and Madness. 1972 reprinted San Diego: A Harcourt/HBJ Book, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1989. $15.00. 19 used copies available at Student Cooperative Store, Inc. Additional copies should be purchased immediately from http://www.amazon.com/, http://www.half.ebay.com/, http://www.barnesandnoble.com/, or other vendors. Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar. 1971; reprinted New York: Harper Perennial, 2000. $13.95. Kate Chopin, The Awakening and Select Stories by Kate Chopin, edited by Barbara H. Solomon. New York: New American Library, 1995. $4.95. Andi Rierden, The Farm: Life Inside a Woman s Prison. Boon: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997. $19.95. Theodore Dreiser. Sier Carrie. 1900; reprinted New York: Modern Library, 1999. $5.95. Koren Zailckas, Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood. 2005; reprinted New York: Penguin, 2005. $21.95. Susan Brownmiller, Again Our Will: Men, Women and Rape. 1975; reprinted New York: Fawcett Books, 1993. $15.00. Sara Evans, Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement & the New Left. New York: Vintage, 1980. $13.80. Karla Jay, Tales of the Lavender Menace: A Memoir of Liberation. New York: Basic Books, 2000. $14.00. Coursepack available from University Publishing Solutions (732-220-1211). $16.00.
American Studies Department 2 Ruth Adams Building 204 Course requirements: Monday, October 3 rd : 3-4 page critical paper due. Xerox a one page source dealing with female deviance in the American pa, e.g. editorial, news ory, photograph, advertisement, song, poem, cartoon, etc., and analyze its assumptions regarding female deviance in its hiorical context. To what degree is such deviance portrayed as a social and/or sexual threat? Footnote your source and other sources used, if any. Thursday, October 20th: Midterm examination. Monday, November 28 th : 8-10 page term paper due on topic to be decided in consultation with inructor by Thursday, October 6 th. Monday, December 12 th : 12:00 P.M.-3:00 P.M.: Final examination. Office: Ruth Adams Building 024C Office hours: Monday: 10:45-12:15 Thursday: 10:45-12:15 Office telephone: (732) 932-8650 and by appointment E-mail: fishbei@rci.rutgers.edu ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: Except for collaborative assignments officially approved by the inructor in advance, all work a udent submits mu be his/her own independent effort. Students mu cite properly all outside sources consulted in preparing written assignments. Students should review the university policy on Academic Integrity (see the website for the Center for the Advancement of Teaching: http://teachx.rutgers.edu/integrity/policy.html). The Writing Program maintains a website that defines and discusses plagiarism: http://wp.rutgers.edu/courses/201/plagiarism_policy/. This site clarifies many issues regarding the University s policy on academic integrity. Failure to comply with this policy can result in failure of the course. Plagiarism is the representation of the words or ideas of another as one's own in any academic exercise. To avoid plagiarism, every direct quotation mu be identified by quotation marks or by appropriate indentation and mu be promptly cited in the text or in a footnote. Acknowledgement is required when material from another source is ored in print, electronic, or other medium and is paraphrased or summarized in whole or in part in one's words. To acknowledge a paraphrase properly, one might ate: "to paraphrase
American Studies Department 3 Ruth Adams Building 204 ACADEMIC INTEGRITY, CONTINUED: Plato's comment..." and conclude with a footnote identifying the exact reference. A footnote acknowledging only a directly quoted atement does not suffice to notify the reader of any preceding or succeeding paraphrased material. Information which is common knowledge, such as names of leaders of prominent nations, basic scientific laws, etc., need not be footnoted; however, all facts or information obtained in reading or research that are not common knowledge among udents in the course mu be acknowledged. In addition to materials specifically cited in the text, only materials that contribute to one's general underanding of the subject may be acknowledged in the bibliography. Plagiarism can, in some cases, be a subtle issue. Any queions about what conitutes plagiarism should be discussed with the faculty member. For information on proper documentation, consult Acknowledging Sources: http://amerudies.rutgers.edu/documents/acknowledgingsources.pdf, the guide prepared by the Rutgers American Studies Department, which will be diributed in class. FILM SHOWINGS: FILM Means of Grace (1995) Ain t Nobody s Business (1977) Rape Culture (1983) Step by Step: Building a Femini Movement (1988) SHOW DATE Thursday, October 6 th Thursday, November 17 th Monday, November 28 th Thursday, December 8th FILMS PLACED ON RESERVE AT MEDIA SERVICES, KILMER AREA LIBRARY (732-445-4980, EXTENSION 2 TO BOOK A VIEWING ROOM) Gaslight (1944) Thursday, September 1 - Thursday, September 22 nd
American Studies Department 4 Ruth Adams Building 204 ASSIGNMENTS: All readings on reserve at the Mabel Smith Douglass Reserve Desk and all articles available on electronic reserve. All articles except Elaine R. Hedges Afterword to The Yellow Wallpaper available through purchase from University Publishing Solutions (732-220-1211) in the American Studies Department office, Ruth Adams Building 024. I. September 1 Begin: David Levin, ed., What Happened in Salem? Second edition. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc., 1960. Preface, vii-viii; Introduction, xi-xviii; Trial Evidence, pp. 1-80; Contemporary Comment, pp. 81-135; Legal Redress, pp. 137-142; Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown, pp. 145-154. Film assignment for week of September 17 th : Gaslight (1944, 114 minutes), on reserve at Media Services, Kilmer Area Library, Thursday, September 1 -Thursday, September 22 nd II. September 5 th Complete reading Levin, ed., What Happened in Salem? III. September 12 th Gerda Lerner, The Grimké Siers from South Carolina: Pioneers for Women's Rights and Abolition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Acknowledgments: ix-xi; Introduction: xiii-xix; pp. 3-291. IV. September 19 th *Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, The Hyerical Woman: Sex Roles and Role Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America, Social Research, 39 (1971): 652-678. *Ann Douglas Wood, The Fashionable Diseases : Women s Complaints and their Treatment in Nineteenth- Century America, Journal of Interdisciplinary Hiory, 4 (Summer, 1973): 25-52. continued on page 4
American Studies Department 5 Ruth Adams Building 204 IV. September 19 th Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper and Other (continued) Stories. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1997. The Yellow Wallpaper (1892): pp. 1-15. *Afterword by Elaine R. Hedges to Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper. 1892; reprinted Old Webury, New York: The Femini Press, 1973; revised edition 1996, pp. 9-36. Available only on online reserve. Film assignment: Gaslight (1944, 114 minutes), on reserve at Media Services, Kilmer Area Library, Thursday, September 1 h - Thursday, September 22 nd. V. September 26 th Phyllis Chesler, Women and Madness. 1972; San Diego: A Harve Book: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1989. Quotation from Doris Lessing; Acknowledgments: 2 unnumbered pages; "Twenty Years since Women and Madness: Toward a Femini Initute of Mental Health," pp. xiv-xxvii; Demeter Revisited -- An Introduction: pp. xxviii-xxxvii; pp. 1-305; Appendix: The Female Career as a Psychiatric Patient: The Sex, Class, Race, and Marital Status of America's Psychiatrically Involved Population, 1950-1969: pp. 306-333; Footnotes: pp. 334-353; pictorial section at centerfold. VI. October 3 rd Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar. 1971; reprinted New York: Harper Perennial, 2000. Foreword by Frances McCullough: CRITICAL vii-xv; pp. 1-244; Sylvia Plath: A Biographical Note by PAPER DUE Lois Ames with eight drawings by Sylvia Plath: pp. 245- MONDAY 10/3; 264. LAST DATE TO CONSULT ON MEANS OF GRACE (1995) SHOWN IN CLASS TERM PAPERS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6 TH THURSDAY 10/6
American Studies Department 6 Ruth Adams Building 204 VII. October 10 th Kate Chopin, The Awakening and Selected Stories by Kate Chopin, edited by Barbara H. Solomon. New York: New NO CLASS ON American Library, 1995. Biographical blurb on Kate YOM KIPPUR Chopin; Introduction by Barbara H. Solomon: vii-xxvii; THURSDAY, Note on the Text: xxix; Chronology: xxx-xxxi; pp. 1-125. OCTOBER 13 TH VIII. October 17 th * Dorie Klein, The Etiology of Female Crime: A Review of the Literature, Issues in Criminology, 8 (Fall, 1972), 2-30. MIDTERM EXAM, * Eelle Freedman, "Their Siers' Keepers: An Hiorical THURSDAY Perspective on Female Correctional Initutions in OCTOBER 20 TH America, 1870-1900," Femini Studies 2 (1974), 77-95. X. October 24 th. Andi Rierden, The Farm: Life Inside a Woman s Prison. Amher: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997. Quotation from James Baldwin; Preface: pp. xi-xviii; Introduction, pp. 1-14; pp. 151-74; Epilogue, pp. 175-186; Acknowledgments: pp. 187-189. X. October 31 Theodore Dreiser. Sier Carrie. 1900; reprinted New York: Modern Library, 1999. Introduction by Andrew Delbanco: xv-xxxiii; Commentary by H. L. Mencken: xxxvii-lxxx; Foreword by Theodore Dreiser: The Early Adventures of Sier Carrie: lxxxiii-lxxxv; A Publisher s Note: On the Modern Library Edition of Sier Carrie ; pp. 3-350. XI. November 7 th Theodore Dreiser, Sier Carrie, pp. 351-659. XII. November 14 th Koren Zailckas, Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood. New York: Viking/The Penguin Group, 2005. Preface: pp. xi-xxi; pp. 3-339; Acknowledgments: pp. 341-343. AIN T NOBODY S BUSINESS (1977) SHOWN IN CLASS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17 TH
American Studies Department 7 Ruth Adams Building 204 XIII. November 21 Susan Brownmiller, Again Our Will: Men, Women and Rape. 1975; reprinted New York: Fawcett Books, 1993. A Personal atement: pp. 7-9; pp.140-255, 283-404; Acknowledgments: pp. 405-407. XIII. November 28 th Sara Evans, Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement & the New Left. New York: Vintage, 1980. Dedication; Acknowledgments: pp. ix-xii; Prologue: Cracks in the Mold: pp. 3-23; pp. 24-232. Appendix: pp. 233-242. TERM PAPER DUE MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28 TH RAPE CULTURE (1983) SHOWN IN CLASS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28 TH XIV. December 5 th Karla Jay, Tales of the Lavender Menace: A Memoir of Liberation. New York: Basic Books, 2000. Quotation from Susan Brownmiller; Note on t he Text; Prologue: pp. 1-2; pp. 3-266; Acknowledgments: pp. 267-269. XV. December 12 th Final lecture STEP BY STEP: BUILDING A FEMINIST MOVEMENT (1998) SHOWN IN CLASS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8 TH Monday, December 19 th : 12:00 P.M.-3:00 P.M: Final examination. Please note that this time has been switched from the original date to avoid adminiering the exam on the Jewish Sabbath. If, as a result, you have any final exam conflicts or will be taking three final exams in a twenty-four hour period, please notify me by e-mail: fishbei@rci.rutgers.edu by Monday, October 17 th so that I can arrange to group all the make-up exams into one slot and to provide an exam room for those udents who need to take a make-up exam.