アメリカ文化史I.II
担当 石井 紀子
概要 建国期より、今日までのアメリカ合衆国の女性の歴史を概観する。前期では、主として、南北戦争までに、女性と社会の関わり方について、どのようにジェンダーが形成されたか、女性史の古典の抜粋や一次資料を読みながら、考察する｡後期では、主として、南北戦争後、現代までを取り扱い、ジェンダー、人種、階級、エスニシティが、女性の経験にどのような意味をもってきたかを考察する。
コース・アサインメント
１）毎クラス、必ず文献を読んでくること。テーマに沿って、毎回簡単な感想文を書いてもらいます。授業は、毎回１〜２人の受講生による１０分程度のプレゼンテーションと、教員の解説とクラスのディスカッションで進めます。
２）学期末に小論文を提出。
テキスト プリント類 （中央図書館7階アメリカ・カナダ研究所カナダセクション）
授業区分：
American Cultural History I (前期）
Section One. Introduction to American Cultural History I
1. Introduction to History of Women in America
2. Theory and Methodology
Nancy A. Hewitt, "Beyond the Search for Sisterhood: American Women's History in the 1980s," in Vicki L. Ruiz and Ellen Carol DuBois, ed. Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History, 2nd ed. (1994), 1-19.
3. Gender in the New Republic
Linda Kerber. Women of the Republic (1980), Chapter 9 "'The Republican Mother' Female Political Imagination in the Early Republic," 269-288.
4. "The Cult of True Womanhood"
Barbara
Welter, "The Cult of True Womanhood, 1820-1860," American
Quarterly 18 (1966): 151-74.
5. Separate Spheres
Nancy F. Cott. The Bonds of Womanhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835 (1977), Chapter Two "Domesticity," 63-100.
6. Women's Culture
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, "The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations Between Women in Nineteenth-Century America" in Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America (1985), 53-76.
7. Deviance
Smith-Rosenberg,
"The Hysterical Woman: Sex Roles and Role Conflict in Nineteenth-Century
America" in Disorderly Conduct (1985), 197-216.
[ref. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper]
8. The Cult of Domesticity
Kathryn Kish Sklar. Catharine Beecher: A Study in American Domesticity (1973), Chapter 11 "The Building of a Glorious Temple, 1843," 151-167.
9. The Grimke Sister
Gerda
Lerner. The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina --Pioneers for Woman's
Rights and Abolition (1967), Chapter 1, 1-12.
Alice S. Rossi, "From Abolition to Sex Equality: Sarah Grimke and
Angelina Grimke," in The Feminist Papers, 282-296.
10. Selected Writings of the Grimke Sisters and a pastoral response
Angelina
Grimke, "Appeal to the Christian Woman of the South"
Sarah Grimke, "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of
Women"
From a Pastoral Letter, "The General Association of Massachusetts
(Orthodox) to the Churches Under Their Care." 1837.
Angelina Grimke, "Letters to Catharine Beecher" in Rossi, Feminist
Papers, 196-322.
11. The Beginnings of the Suffrage Movement: the Seneca Falls Convention
The
Seneca Falls Declaration: "Declaration of Sentiments." Seneca Falls,
New York, 1848.
*Ann Firor Scott and Andrew MacKay Scott, One Half the People: The Fight
for Woman Suffrage (1975), Chapter 1, "Consent of the Governed,"
3-13.
[ref. Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Amelia Bloomer]
12. Women's Rights: Politics& Property in Antebellum America
Theda
Perdue, "Cherokee Women and the Trail of Tears," in Unequal
Sisters, 32-43.
13. Review
American Cultural History II (後期）
1. Introduction to American Cultural History II
Section One. Women and Race
2. Black Women (1)
Rossi, “Sojouner Truth and the Akron Convention,” 426-429.
Phyllis Marynick Palmer, “White Women/Black Women: The Dualism of Female Identity and Experience in the United States,” 368-387.
3. Black Women (2)
Mary Helen Washington. Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women, 1860-1960 (1987), Part One, 16-68.
4. Black Women (3)
Gail Bederman, “Civilization, the Decline of Middle-Class Manliness, and Ida B. Wells’s Antilynching Campaign (1892-94),” (1992) in Hine, King Reed, ed., “We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible” ( 1995), 407-432.
5. Women and the Social Settlement Work
A Documentary Video, “The Women of Hull-House,” Jane Addams’ Hull-House Museum, 1992 Robyn Muncy, Chapter 1 “Origins of the Dominion: Hull House, 1890-1910,” in Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform 1890-1935 (1991).
6.Women and the Domestic Life
Video, “A Century of Struggle”
Dolores Hayden, “Domestic Evolution or Domestic Revolution” in The Grand Domestic Revolution: A History of Feminist Designs for America Homes, Neighborhoods, and Cities (1981), 183-205.
7. Women and Politics
Ellen Carol DuBois, “The Limitations of Sisterhood: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Division in the American Suffrage Movement, 1875-1902,” in Woman Suffrage & Women’s Rights(1998), 160-175.
8. Cultural Contact and Ethnic Difference
George F. Sanchez, “Go After the Women,” in Unequal Sisters, 284-297.
9. Gender and WWII
Video, “A Century of Struggle”
Elaine Tyler May. Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era (1988), Chapter Three “War and Peace: Fanning the Home Fires,” 58-91.
10. Japanese American Women and WWII
Video, “A Century of Struggle”; Valerie Matsumoto, “Japanese American Women During World War II,” in Unequal Sisters, 436-449.
11.Betty Friedan and the Birth of Modern Feminism
Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (1963), Chapter One “The Problem That Has No Name,” 15-32.
12.The Challenges of Modern Feminism
Tessie Liu, “Teaching the Differences Among Women from a Historical Perspective: Rethinking Race and Gender as Social Categories,” in Unequal Sisters, 571-583.
Ellen Carol DuBois, “A Vindication of Women’s Rights,” (1997) in Woman Suffrage & Womenユs Rights(1998), 283-299.
13. Review