Chapter 6: The Women of Early America
For this unit you will read Chapter 6 from the Zinn book. This section of the course is meant to explore the role that women played in the creation of the United States. So far, the contributions they made have been ignored, these readings are meant to bring them to your attention.
1-How Women Were Treated
America's working Women: A Documentary History, 1600 to the Present (Rosalyn Baxandall)
2-Independent Women
Anne Hutchison
A Picture of Dyer going to execution:
Mary Dyer
3-Women at Work
America's Working Women: A Documentary History, 1600 to the Present (Rosalyn Baxandall).
Paid and Unpaid Labor (Before 1820) (link to book bellow)
- Grinding Corn
- A white woman's perspective on Indian Women's Labor
- A midwife of many trades home work
- Change work and the whang women int he industry
- Wanted: women
- A founding father's vision of women as factory workers
4-Rights for Women?
Emma Willard
Elizabeth Blackwell
She founded Neew York's first Sunday School (1779-1854)
Catherine Ferguson
Assignments:
Section1: Homework: Write a page summary on these two readings
Section2: Homework:Write a two-page essay about a female figure that you think is or was independent. Please consider these points when writing your essay: defining what you mean by independent, name of the person, age, race, education and why you think makes that person to be independent. It can be a historical female figure, someone from your family or friends…Section 3: Homework: Write a four-page comparison and contrast essay on women at work before 1820 and women at work today