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Tolstokorova Alissa

Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor, Chair of the English Language, Kherson State Pedagogical Institute

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PO BOX 33
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73039, Ukraine
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E-mail: talissa30@hotmail.com

Role of women in British and American history: biographical profiles of notable women

Course Guidelines

Course Description

This course will follow women’s role in social evolution and women’s movement as a historic phenomenon from its origin to the rise of the modern age. It will devote special attention to biographies of women, whose lives and activities shaped the ideas and morals of their age.

Course Goals

The course aims to achieve four goals:

  1. First, it aims to impart an idea of the universal women’s role in the process of global transformation of society.
  2. Second, it gives basic understanding of chronology of Women’s movement, its motive trends and forces.
  3. Third, through the study of key personalities, events and themes students will also develop essential skills of analysis: learn how to read critically and gain an appreciation.
  4. Finally, the course will help students to develop their ability to present the fruits of their analytical labors. They will learn how to present arguments effectively both in writing and in discussion.
Course Format, Requirements and Grading

The class will meet once a week - once for a lecture and once for a seminar. The lecture class will contain a material connected to the topic under consideration for that or the following week. The seminar class will consist of discussion time, which will usually revolve around the assigned reading and material covered in lectures. Students will have to answer the questions posed to the lecture and reading material, bring about complicated issues and perform their individual projects to the group. Impromptu writing assignments or pop quizzes may also be administered during seminars.

In this course students are responsible for 2 papers which will build upon the secondary reading assigned for the class or the individual reading related to the topic under discussion up to a student’s selection. In the end of the course students write a quiz, which covers all the issues discussed in the class during the semester.

Individual projects imply presentation of a fragment of a lesson containing brainstorming tasks for the group to a unit of lesson under study. They may be performed in the way of a quiz, a multiple-choice comprehension test, or a questionnaire, aimed at evoking a discussion – any kind of study guides for a theme under consideration which give both a student and a group an opportunity to master the material effectively.

Grades will be assigned on the following basis:
Active and regular class participation (20%);
Two (2) papers on a subject to be assigned in class (30%)
A final quiz (20%)
Individual projects’ presentation during the semester (30%).

Note to Students

You will find this course a rewarding exercise if you keep the following things in mind:

  1. Come to class regularly. This is essential if you want to do well in this course. Be attentive when you are in class.
  2. Come to class prepared. Be sure to do the reading assigned for the week and make up you individual project presentation.
  3. Study faithfully. Go over your notes at least once a week. Re-write them if necessary . Underline the books you read or make notes on the margins. Many students find it helpful to draw time lines for themselves in which they not only list people, dates and events, but also the links between them. Remember that events and personalities do not exist in isolation, but are always clustered together.
  4. Ask questions. If you are confused by the reading material or have a complicated question – let us all discuss it in class.
  5. Learn the basics if you have not done so already. It is assumed that from the courses of «British and American Studies», «British and American Literature» you already know about main historic stages, crucial events and outstanding events and people of the target cultures. It also assumes that you have basic knowledge about mainstream development of western civilization in generals and are familiar with such notions as suffragism, feminism, sexism, gender gap etc.

Classroom Topics

Part I. Outstanding Women of Britain

  1. Role of women in Celtic Britain: women-Druids; Queen Boadicea – national heroine and symbol of courage.
  2. Women in Early Christianity: Hilda, Abbess of Witby (614-680 A.D.), Ethelreda (630-679A.D.) – founder of Double monastery of Ely, Nun Lioba (710-782), who helped to christianize Germany.
  3. Anglo-Saxon women – Lady Godiva (1040-1080) - gentlewoman, patron of the arts, equestrienne, and tax protester.
  4. Ladies of King Arthur’s England: Queen Guinevere, Eleanor of Aquitaine and her daughter Marie de Champaigne, Queen Morgana (Morgan Le Fay), The Lady of the Lake.
  5. Influence of women on social reforms in Tudor’s England : Ann Boleyn (150? -1536), Queen Mary I Tudor (Bloody Mary) (1516-1558), Mary Stuart (1542-1587).
  6. Queen Elizabeth I (1533- 1603) and Golden Age in the British history
  7. Radical Women of the British Revolution.
  8. Women and religion : Margaret Askew Fell (1614-1702) – mother of Quakerism, «The Mother of Methodism» - Suzanna Wesley (1670-1742).
  9. Victorian Age in the British and world history: Queen Victoria (1819-1901), Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)– Lady of the Lamp, pioneer nurse and statistitian; Madam Tussod and her museum.
  10. Activists and leaders of Suffragists’ and Women’s Rights movements: Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), Lydia Becker (1827-1890), Jozephine E. Butler (1828-1906), Pankhursts fighters: Emmeline (1858-1928), Christabel (1880-1958), Sylvia (182-1960) and Adela (1885-1961), Milicent Garret Fawcett (1847-1929), Clementina Black (1854-1922).
  11. «Iron Lady» Margaret Thatcher (1925- ) and Britain of 80-s.
  12. Royal females of Windsors - Queen Elizabeth II (1922 -), Queen Mother (1900-), Lady Diana Spenser (1961- 1998).
  13. Women of Science: Catherine Macaulay (1731-1796), Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910 – 1994), Kathleen Lonsdale (1903-1971), Mary Leakey (1913- ).
  14. Women-writers : Margey Kempe (1373-1438), Margaret Cavendish (Mad Marge) (c. 1623-1673), Katherine Philips (Orinda) (1631-1664), Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762), Jane Austen (1775-1815), Mary Shelley (1797-1851), Elizabeth Barret Browning (1806-1861), sisters Bronte, Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), Beatrix Potter (1866-1943), members of Bluestockings Club.

Part II. Women in American National History

  1. Women if the early American period: women in Jamestown colony; women on «Mayflower»; witchcraft haunting .
  2. Revolutionary women: Betsy Ross (1752-1836) – Founding Mother of the American Nation, Margaret Corbin (Captine Molly) (c.1751-1800), Deborah Sampton (1760-1828), Ann Maria Lane (? –1810), Mary Hayes (Molly Pirtcher ), Esther Reed (1746-1782), Sarah Franklin Bache.
  3. Native American women: Pocahontas (c. 1595-1617), Kateri Tekakwitha, The Lily of the Mohawks (1656-1680), Sacajawea (c.1789-1812), Sarah Winnemucca (1844-1891) , Queen Liliuokalanu (1838-1917), Wilma Mankiller (1945 - ), Suzette (1854-1903) and Susan (1856-1915) La Flesche.
  4. African-American women in Early America and in Slavery :Sally Hemings, Sojourner Truth ( c.1797-1883), Harriet Tubman (1815-1913), Frances Harper (1825-1910).
  5. Women in abolitionist and antislavery movements : Harriet Beecher-Stowe (1811-1896),Frances Wright (1795-1852), Lucretia Mott (1793-1880), Sarah (1792-1875) and Angelina (1805-1870) Grimke, Lydia Maria Child (1802- 1880).
  6. American Suffragists – Susan B. Athony (1802-1906), Elizabeth Cady Stenton (1815-1902), Anne Hatchinson.
  7. Female-scientists: Maria Mitchell (1818-1889); Elsie Clews Parsons (1875-1941), Ruth Benedict (1887-1948), Margaret Mead (1901-1978), Rachel Carson (1907-1964).
  8. Women-writers : Anne Dudley Breadstreet (c. 1612-1672), Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), Louisa May Alcott (1887-1948), Tony Morrison (1931-), Ethel Lylian Voynich.
  9. Ladies in arts: singers: Bessie Smith (1894-1937), Billie Holiday (1913-1954), Zora Neale Hurston (1901-1960); dancers: Isadora Duncan (1878-1927), Martha Graham (1894-1991); painters: Mary Casatt (1844-1926), Georgia O’Keeffe (188701986) ; photographers: Margaret Burke (1904-1971), Diane Arbus (1923-1971); architects (Maya Lin 1959- ).
  10. Sportswomen: Mildred Didrikson (1911-1956), Wilma Rudolph (1940-1994), Billie Jean King (1943-).
  11. Politicians and stateswomen – Shirley Chisholm (1924-), Barbara Jordan (1936-) .
  12. Human rights activists- Judith Sargent Murray, Mary Harris (1830-1930), Emma Goldman (1869-1940), Rose Schneiderman (1884-1972), Marian Wright Edelman (1939- ).
  13. Feminists – Margaret Fuller (1810-1850), Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935), Anne Reid, Betty Freidan (1921 - ), Gloria Steinam
  14. First ladies of the U.S: Martha Washington, Jane Adams (1860-1935), Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929-1994)
  15. Women as health-care-promoters: Clara Barton (1821-1912) – founder of the American Red Cross, Elizabeth Blackwell (1921-1910) – first lady-doctor, Carry Nation (1846-1930) – antialcohol campaign initiator, Fannie Farmer (1857-1915) – healthy nutrition book author, Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) – birthcontrole champion, Alice Hamilton (1869-1970), Mary Gore Nichols (1810- ?)
  16. Women struggling for improvement of disabled people’s position – Dorothea Dix (1802-1887), Hellen Keller (1880-1968)
  17. Women-reformerts in education and in social work: Ema Willard (1787-1870-), Catherine Beecher (1800-18780, Mary MacLeod Bethune (1875-1955)
Suggested Readings:
  1. Ruth Ashby, Deborah Gore Ohrn. Herstory. Viking Press, 1987
  2. Barbara Melosh. Gender and American History. Routledge PB
  3. Mary Beth Norton. Major Problems in American Women’s History, Lexington Christine Lunardi, What Every American Should Know about Women’s History, Bob Adams, Inc. 1994.
  4. Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of Rights of Women. Prometeus Books, New York, 1989.
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