Women's History & Feminist Theory
HISTORY 182/WOMEN'S STUDIES 100, Spring 1998
Professor Catherine Lavender    ||    The College of Staten Island of CUNY



Course Texts

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland (1915)

Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography (1928)
including close readings within the text of gender bending and women's biography

Alice Walker, The Color Purple (1982), along with a brief biography of Alice Walker

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper (1899)

Elsie Clews Parsons, The Journal of a Feminist

Patricia Raybon, My First White Friend: Confessions on Race, Love, and Forgiveness (1996)

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (1929)

Douglas Sirk, Imitation of Life (1959)
Film, Feminisms, and Identities worksheet

Mike Nichols, Working Girl (1988)
Film, Feminisms, and Identities worksheet

Salt of the Earth (1953)