Joanne E. Passet: Sex Radicals and the Quest for Women’s Equality, 2003. U of Illinois Press.
Ricki Solinger: Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America, 2007.
Regina G.Kunzel: Fallen Women, Problem Girls: Unmarried Mothers and the Professionalization of Social Work, 1890-1945, Yale Historical Publications.
Ruth Feldstein: Motherhood in Black and White: Race and Sex in American Liberalism, 1930-1965, 2000. Cornell U Press.
Kompendium:
Leila J. Rupp: A Desired Past: A short history of same-sex love in America , Chapter 4.
Leisa D. Meyer: "Creating GI Jane: The Regulation of Sexuality and Sexual Behavior in the Women's Army Corps during WWII" i Feminist Studies , 1992. 18:3, 581-601..
Alice Kessler-Harris: "Equal Employment Opportunity Commission vs. Sears, Roebuck and Company: A Personal Account" i Unequal Sisters , Chapter 34 .
Available via JSTOR or online:
(Go to America: History and Life database in the library –online. Search by last name and some unique word from the title. Click on UBO at the bottom to get the full text version.)
Barbara Welter: "The Cult of True Womanhood, 1820-1860" i American Quarterly, 1966. 18, 151-174.
Nancy F. Cott: "Passionlessness: An Interpretation of Victorian Sexual Ideology, 1790-1850" i Signs, 1978. 4, 219-236.
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg: The Female World of Love and Ritual, Fall, 1975. 1, 1-29.
Journal of Women’s History retrospective of Smith-Rosenberg’s article, http://www.swetswise.com/eAccess/viewToc.do?yevoID=699999&titleID=116618 .
Susan K. Cahn: "From the 'Muscle Moll' to the 'Butch' Ballplayer: Mannishness, Lesbianism & Homophobia in U.S. Women's Sport" i Feminist Studies , 1993. 19:2, 343-368.
Lisa D. Brush: "Love, Toil, and Trouble: Motherhood and Feminist Politics" i Signs, 1996. Signs . 21:2, 429- 454 (Review Essay).
Deborah Gray White: "Female Slaves: Sex Roles and Status in the Antebellum Plantation South" i Unequal Sisters. 2nd ed, Chapter 2 .
Class handouts:
Primary source documents
Films:
Mildred Pierce,
Imitation of Life,