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We began this class with Gerda Lerner and asking new questions about the past to understand women’s role in American history

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We began this class with Gerda Lerner and asking new questions about the past to understand women’s role in American history. We have explored the manner in which idealized versions of womanhood both confined and freed women. We understand the diversity of women’s lives and experiences as they moved through their private and public lives. We end this class by exploring women and second wave feminism as it relates to sex and health. Using selections from the Week Three to Five, how did women’s roles change over time? If you wish to use more than the number of sources indicated, you are welcome to do so. The sources are listed as they would appear in a bibliography.

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Week Three (pick one):

Melosh, Barbara. “Not Merely a Profession,” The Physician’s Hand: Work Culture and Conflict in American Nursing. Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1982, 15-35.

Melosh, Barbara. “A Charge to Keep: Hospital Schools of Nursing, 1920-1950.” The Physician’s Hand: Work Culture and Conflict in American Nursing. Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1982, 37-76.

Schultz, Jane E. “The Inhospitable Hospital: Gender and Professionalism in Civil War Medicine,” Signs, Vol. 17, Issue 2 (Winter 1992): 363-392.

Week Four (pick one):

Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd. “Disorderly Women: Gender and Labor Militancy in the Appalachian South.” The Journal of American History 73, No. 2 (Sep., 1986): 354-382.

Rose, Margaret. “Traditional and Nontraditional Patterns of Female Activism in the United Farm Workers, 1962 to 1980.” Frontiers 11, No. 1 (1990): 26-32.

Vecchio, Diane “Gender, Domestic Values, and Italian Working Women in Milwaukee: Immigrant Midwives and Businesswomen.” Women, Gender, and Transnational Lives: Italian Workers of the World. Donna Gabaccia and Franca Iacovetta, eds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002, 160-180.

Week Five (pick one):

Douglas, Susan J. “Sex and the Single Teenager.” Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media New York: Times Books, 1994, 61-81.

Murphy, Michael Thomas. “The Politics of Reproductive Rights Legislation in the “Modern” South.” Nursing Clio, July 24, 2019, https://nursingclio.org/2019/07/24/the-politics-of-reproductive-rights-legislation-in-the-modern-south/.

Norman, Brian. “The Conscious-Raising Document, Feminist Anthologies, and Black Women in Sisterhood is Powerful.” Frontiers, Vol. 27, No. 3, (2006): 38-64.

O’Donnell, Kelly “Our Doctors, Ourselves: Barbara Seaman and Popular Health Feminism in the 1970s.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 93, No. 4 (Winter 2019): 550-576.

Primary Sources (pick one):

"A Home for Nurses." Boston Daily Advertiser, 15 Sept. 1885, 2.

Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.

Kenosha, Wisconsin, City Directory, 1916. Ancestry.com. U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.

Consult the History and Philosophy Department’s Writing Rubric and the Bibliography and Reference Notes handout, both on Brightspace. A successful essay will include the following:

• Essays must be 750 to 1,250 words in length.
• An introductory paragraph that clearly states an argument
• Evidence, with examples, to support the argument
• An essay free of technical and grammar errors
• A concluding paragraph that revisits the argument, reminding readers of the author’s purpose.
• A title page
• Page numbers inserted into the header or footer.
• Footnote citations that follow the rules of The Chicago Manual of Style
• Times New Roman font, size 12, double spaced, with one-inch margins. Footnotes and page numbers should also be Times New Roman font, with footnotes size 10.
• Bibliography with separate Primary Sources and Secondary Sources sections (primary source listed first).
• Since this paper is double spaced, extra spaces after paragraphs should be removed.

More things to consider:

• Do not use “I feel” or “I think” statements.
• Do not use the second person, “you.”
• You must only the assigned readings.
• Use of any outside source will result in a loss of points.
• You must also cite (footnotes) quotes from your sources and any information that is not common knowledge.
• Do not use MLA or APA.
• Do not end your paper with “In conclusion.”
• Do not use idioms, colloquialism, or clichés.
• Do not use contractions.