Screencast on Gender in the 17th through 19th centuries
Prepare an analysis of gender in the United States, with a focus on the 20th and 21st centuries. You will draft your script for you screencast on gender.
Tasks to Complete
Read all the secondary sources
Select one of the primary sources from each week in the gender unit.
Draft your script of your screencast
Submit your draft of your screencast script
Post your draft of your screencast script on the discussion board
Comment on 2 of your classmates’ draft on the discussion board
Primary Sources:
Blackwell, A.S. (1917). Answering Objections to Women’s Suffrage. Retrieved from http://www.americanyawp.com/reader/20-the-progressive-era/alice-stone-blackwell-answering-objections-to-womens-suffrage-1917/
Bailey, A. (1815). Abigail Bailey Escapes an Abusive Relationship. Retrieved from http://www.americanyawp.com/reader/the-early-republic/abigail-bailey-escapes-an-abusive-relationship-1815/
Secondary sources:
Winter, T. (2004). Industrialization. In B. Carroll, (Ed.) American masculinities: an historical encyclopedia. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. (Available as a PDF attachment under “Secondary and Primary Sources Reading” and on e-reserve through the Baruch Library).
From the American Yawp: “Changes in gender and family life,” “Women’s rights in Antebellum America,” “Reconstruction and women.” (Locke, J. and Wright, B. (Eds). (2017). The American yawp. Retrieved from http://www.americanyawp.com)
