Syllabus/achievement requirements

Pensum:

  • Regina Kunzel, Fallen Women, Problem Girls (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993). (170)
  • Elaine Tyler May, Barren in the Promised Land: Childless Americans and the Pursuit of Happiness (Boston: Harvard University Press, 1997) (260)
  • Ziad W. Munson, The Making of Pro-life Activists: How Social Movement Mobilization Works (Morality and Society Series) (Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2009) (196 pp)
  • Daniel Winunwe Rivers, Radical Relations: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and Their Children in the United States since World War II (Gender and American Culture) (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015) (216)

Articles and Excerpts:

(Articles are available with America: History & Life. Bood chapters will be posted on Fronter.)

  • John P. Bartkowski, “Distant Patriarchs or Expressive Dads: The Discourse and Practice of Fathering in Conservative Protestant Families,” Sociological Quarterly 41:3 (Summer 2000) 465-485. (20)
  • Joyce Berkman, “The Fertility of Scholarship on the History of Reproductive Rights in the United States, History Compass 9:5 (May 2011) 433-447. (15.pp)
  • Lynn Z. Bloom, “’It’s All For Your Own Good:’ Parent-Child Relationships in American Child Rearing Literature, 1820-1970,” Journal of Popular Culture  xxxx 191-198. (7)
  • Laura Kalman, “On Roe at Forty,” Reviews in American History 41:4 (Dec 2013). 756-766. (10)
  • Marjorie Kruvand, “The Pill at Fifty: How the New York Times Covered the Birth Control Pill, 1960-2010,” American Journalism 29:4 (Fall 2012) 34-67. (34 p)
  • Joanna N. Lahey, “Birthing a Nation: The Effect of Fertility Control Access on the Nineteenth-Century Demographic Transition,” xxxx 482-508. (26)
  • Rickie Solinger, “Layering the Lenses: Toward Understanding Reproductive Politics in the United States,” Journal of Women’s History 25:4 (Winter 2013) 101-112. (11)
  • Rickie Solinger, Chapter 4 in Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America (NY: New York University Press, 2005). (30)
  • Rickie Solinger, “Race and ‘Value’: Black and White Illegitimate Babies, in the U.S.A., 1945-1965,” Gender & History 4:3 (Autumn 1992) 343-363. (20)
  • Hilde L?vdal Stephens, “Parenting and Politics: The Personal and the Political in the Evangelical Family Values Movement,” American Studies in Scandinavia 45:1-2 (2013) 1-17. (17) http://rauli.cbs.dk/index.php/assc/article/view/4901/5326

Film

  • A Midwife?s Tale

Music

  • Loretta Lynn, The Pill
  • One?s on the Way
  • Pregnant Again
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