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