History 3070   MacKay   

Quiz 1

Write short essays (2-3 paragraphs) identifying the following topics. Your essay should reflect you reading and your understand of the significance of the topic in U.S. women's history. (5 points each)

  1. femme coveture
  2. the Republican Mother
  3. female economy/ domestic production (subsistence economy)
  4. Lowell mill girls
  5. Cult of Domesticity

You will also be allowed an extra point question: summarize the argument made by any one of the scholars whose essay you read. How did her/his scholarship help you understand the history of women in America?

Quiz 2

  1. homosociality
  2. Harriet Jacobs
  3. women's legal status, 1860s-1920s, as persons
  4. women's legal stats, 1860s-1920s, as citizens
  5. Progressive reform

You will also be allowed an extra point question: summarize the argument made by any one of the scholars whose essay you read in Kerber and dehart since the last quiz.  How did her/his scholarship help you understand the history of women in America?

Quiz 3

  1. Women in WWII
  2. suburban housewife
  3. the second women's movement
  4. The Body Project
  5. summarize one of the web sites you explored from Women

You will also be allowed an extra point question: summarize the article you found through Gender Watch. (available through Stewart Library databases)