Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies

Class 3: Everyday Justice and the 19th Century U.S. Women's Movement

Outline

Class 3 Outline (PDF) (DOC)

Readings

• Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell, “Marriage Agreement” (1855)
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “Our Costume” (1851)
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “The Solitude of Self” (1892)

In-Class Writing Exercise

Gender, the Weight of History, and the Surname Questions: The Meaning of Naming Choices in Marriage (PDF) (DOC) 

Homework #3 

Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony (PDF) (DOC)

Review

Essay 1 Sequence