Syllabi and Resources for Teaching Western Women's History

Syllabi for Western Women's History

Western Women's History, Catherine Lavender, College of Staten Island of CUNY.
This course focuses on reading a multicultural history of women in the American West, drawing on a mixture of secondary readings and women's autobiographical writings.

Catherine Lavender, HST/WMS 389 -- Women in the American West, The College of Staten Island/CUNY, Fall 2000, http://scholar.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/389.html

Elizabeth Jameson, Historical Studies 493.13-L01 -- HISTORY OF WOMEN IN THE AMERICAN WEST, The University of Calgary, Fall 1999 http://hist.ucalgary.ca/courses/F1999/49313L01.htm 

Katherine G. Morrissey, History 495f -- Topics in U.S. History: Western U.S. Women's History, University of Arizona, Fall 2002 http://www.u.arizona.edu/~kmorriss/h495f~1.htm 

Barbara Smith, ENGL 2260-CV -- Women Writers from the West, Western Wyoming Community College, Fall 2000 http://www.wwcc.cc.wy.us/pbsmith/winlit.htm 

Centre for Work and Community Studies, History 363 -- The Women's West: Women and Canadian Frontier Settlement, Athabasca University http://www.athabascau.ca/html/syllabi/hist/hist363.htm 

Susan Ressler, Women Artists of the American West, Purdue University, Summer 2001 http://www.sla.purdue.edu/WAAW/Themes/TOC.html 

Susan Branson, Women and the American Frontier, University of Texas at Dallas, 2003, http://www.utdallas.edu/~sbranson/frontier_syl.html 

Linda Sanderson, AMS 101B -- Women in the American West: Overland Trail to the 1920s, University of California at Davis, Summer 2003 http://summer-sessions.ucdavis.edu/Syllabi%202003/AMS101B.html 

J. Wu, History 598 -- Race and Gender in the U.S. West, Ohio State University Winter 1998 http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/people/wu.287/race&gender.html Autumn 2000 http://people.history.ohio-state.edu/wu.287/West2000.html Winter 2002 http://people.history.ohio-state.edu/wu.287/West2002.htm 

 

Teaching Resources Online for Western Women's History

Chris H. Lewis, "How did women's lives and social roles change when they moved West in the 1800s?" AMST 2010, The University of Colorado at Boulder http://www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/2010/roles.htm

Some Online Materials for Western Women's History, Catherine Lavender, College of Staten Island of CUNY.
A collection of resources--images and discussion questions--on Western women's history themes.

"Gender in the West: A Bibliography" (1996), Catherine Lavender, College of Staten Island of CUNY.

American Women's History, Ken Middleton, reference/microforms librarian at MTSU Library.

An excellent resource on Women's History. See especially the sections on Women in State and Local History at http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-state.html and Western Women http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-west.html.

Women's Studies Online Resources, Joan Korenman.

last updated: November 7, 2003