Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies

Class 7: Gender, Race, Class, and Suffrage, cont.: Resistance or Illness? Discourses on Women, Medicine, and Madness in the 19th Century U.S.

Outline

Class 7 Outline (PDF) (DOC)

Discussion: Ida B. Wells: Passion for Justice

Read

Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll. “The Hysterical Woman: Sex Roles and Role Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America.” Social Research, 39. no 4. (1972): 652–678.

Homework #6

The Yellow Wallpaper (PDF) (DOC)