Online readings:
-- Margaret Fuller, excerpts from Woman in the Nineteenth Century [1845]. (This link takes you to part 1; follow links on that page for parts 2 & 3 as well.) Based on her previous 1843 essay "The Great Lawsuit" for the Transcendentalist journal The Dial (which you can read here if you want), Fuller describes the life of many 19th-Century woman in America . . . at least white, middle-class or higher ones.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Declaration of Sentiments" [1848]. The convention at Seneca Falls, New York, in July 1848, was organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, two Quakers whose concern for women's rights was aroused when Mott, as a woman, was denied a seat at an international antislavery meeting in London. The Seneca Falls meeting attracted 240 sympathizers, including forty men, among them the famed former slave and abolitionist leader, Frederick Douglass. The delegates adopted a statement, deliberately modeled on the Declaration of Inde-pendence, as well as a series of resolu-tions calling for women's suffrage and the reform of marital and property laws that kept women in an inferior status.
-- Sojourner Truth, "Ain't I a Woman?" [1851]. Delivered at the later Women's Convention of 1851 in Akron, Ohio, this speech by Sojourner Truth, former slave, emphasizes the extent to which black women had been left out of the Women's Movement, despite that movement's alliances with the Abolition struggle. Truth indicates the blind spots inherent to most "emancipation" drives of the day.
-- Pohl Ch.3 171-74, 258-260, 263-266
Continue with Tuesday's Online readings:
-- Margaret Fuller, excerpts from Woman in the Nineteenth Century [1845]. (This link takes you to part 1; follow links on that page for parts 2 & 3 as well.)
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Declaration of Sentiments" [1848].
-- Sojourner Truth, "Ain't I a Woman?" [1851].
Journal 2 due (see Cultural Event and Journal page for reminders/details).
»»WEEK 10 (03/09-03/11/04) -- OFF FOR SPRING BREAK
-- NO CLASS; read ahead for next week, or absorb some UV rays and prematurely age yourself.
-- NO CLASS; read ahead for next week, or try not to appear on any of those tacky "Wild on Spring Break" videos that populate the internet and Spike TV.