LECTURE NOTES: A Feminist Angle on American Economic History
It is, of course, something substantially wrong with the way I am teaching this that feminist concerns are only about a tenth—rather than at least a quarter—of this course, & are, to much too great...
It is, of course, something substantially wrong with the way I am teaching this that feminist concerns are only about a tenth—rather than at least a quarter—of this course, & are, to much too great an extent, boxed off in this week. I had planned to rectify this last year. But we are not now what once moved heaven and earth—indeed, we never were. Still, we are what we are, and we at least try to do something…
My current slide deck:
My tiny brain was contemplating what would happen if American society was converted to the perfect society of the domination of the White Christian Male. Women were again relegated to the nursery, kitchen and church? I remember early in my career watching young women being let go when they disclosed their pregnancy. That ain't gonna happen now.
Would the feeling of superiority and domination make up for the resulting poverty?
What about the war years (1940s)?