Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies

Class 4: Historical Strategies for Gender Change

Outline

Class 4 Outline (PDF) (DOC)

Read/View

• Frederick Douglass, “Why I Became a Women’s Rights Man” (1892)
• Douglass’s piece read by actor Ossie Davis on YouTube
• Ta-Nehisi Coates, “Frederick Douglass: Women’s Rights Man”
• Clip, Not for Ourselves Alone (Ken Burns, 1999)
• Susan B. Anthony, “Speech after Being Convicted for Voting in the 1872 Presidential Election” (1873)
• Anthony’s speech delivered by actor Lili Taylor (with Wallace Shawn) on YouTube

Homework #4

Sojourner Truth and Anna Julia Cooper (PDF) (DOC)

Oral Presentation Assignment

Current events oral presentation