February 26, 2020 at 4:45 pm
Week 6 First up on this week’s agenda was finishing the discussion from last week. The theme was women’s political activism throughout the period from roughly 1870 until the ratification of the 19th Amendment other than suffrage movement activism per se. Different students had read articles focusing on different times, different groups of women, different […]
February 19, 2020 at 6:15 pm
Week 5 This week we continued with the topic from last week – the rise and transformation of woman suffrage movement – then turned to a discussion of some of the varieties of ways women were active in and had influence on politics (other than suffrage activism) from the Civil War up to the ratification […]
February 14, 2020 at 11:12 am
Week 4 The rise of an independent woman suffrage movement is a fascinating story of transformation of the anti-slavery movement and the ensuing conflict within interlinked social movements over priorities, values, and strategies, all conditioned by national and regional politics and the rise of the American party system. Today we went back to the anti-slavery […]
February 5, 2020 at 2:44 pm
Week 3 Most discussion of the woman suffrage movement, or even the broader women’s rights movement, tends to take that activism out of context. Perhaps there is some discussion of leaders who previously participated in the abolition movement, but the rich development of political activism tends to be invisible. This week’s work was designed to […]
January 31, 2020 at 12:07 pm
Week 2. It is not possible to understand the rise of women’s rights movements, including the suffrage movements, without first understanding the situation women faced in the historical lead-up to that period. This is especially important because we can be sure that very few students have any background in women’s history. They haven’t begun to […]
January 31, 2020 at 12:00 pm
First Week. My students had required reading for our first meeting: the wonderful catalogue of the National Portrait Gallery exhibit, Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence. The first three chapters and the associated discussion served as a kind of trailer for the whole course. Lisa Tetrault’s “To fight by remembering, or the making of […]
January 31, 2020 at 11:48 am
Having decided to commit self-torture by designing and teaching a whole new course for my second-to-last course before retirement, I decided to share the experience. Our investments in courses usually pay off through the successive iterations of teaching them. That won’t happen here. Further, most of the time most of us teach courses for which […]
June 26, 2018 at 12:21 pm
Once again, in 2018, we are debating civility and its place in American politics. It has not been very long since the last time we had serious worries about a “civility crisis” — in the late 1990s, but a lack of civility seems less a rupture and more a fundamental part of political style today, […]
November 16, 2017 at 9:39 am
Remarks delivered by Virginia Sapiro (Michigan Ph.D. ’76) at the Institute for Social Research/ G.R. Ford School of Public Policy Symposium on Impact on Inequality: Contributions of Michigan Social Science. Panel on Race, Gender, & Empowerment University of Michigan Bicentennial Thursday 9 November 2017 I am honored […]
November 16, 2017 at 9:32 am
Remarks for a Roundtable at the International Symposium on Education and Gender Equality,Wellesley College, October 20, 2017 What a large task we have been set, to attempt to answer the question: What is Gender Equality? Let me begin with some hot-off-the-presses data. The nonpartisan, highly respected Pew Research Center just released some data from a September survey of […]
