
4 New Archives Courses during Interterm
Mini Archives Courses
ARX 100 Each of these courses meets for a week and earns 1
credit.
Graded S/U. Enrollment limited to 25. 1 credit (S/U only)
Offered
Interterm
ARX 102j: From Subjects of Reform to Agents for Social Change:
Working Women in the Industrial Program of the YWCA
Through
hands-on research with primary sources from records of the YWCA, we will
consider how working women in the first three decades from of the 20th century
used the Industrial department to transform the national organization and their
own lives and working conditions. How the YWCA's strategies—education of single
working girls at risk in low-wage factory jobs, cross-class organizations, and
summer camps— provided the tools for working women to become leaders,
labor-organizers, and educators of the middle-class professional staff of the YW
to embrace labor activism as central to their mission. Enrollment limited to 25.
Susan Van Dyne
January 14-18, 10:00 a.m.-12:00
p.m.
Meets in the Alumnae Gymnasium
and an additional two hours
a day of independent research in the Sophia Smith Collection.
ARX 103j: Editing Sylvia Plath's
Correspondence
This course will teach students how to edit
correspondence. Focusing on the Sylvia Plath Collection in the Mortimer Rare
Book Room, students will read and edit Plath's unpublished letters to her Smith
College friends. Technical aspects related to the editing of a text will be
discussed, including transcription and emendation. Plath's poetry and prose
manuscripts, journals, annotated library and other biographical material will
also be considered during the course, as well as her papers in the Smith College
Archives. Each student will be required to transcribe and edit one letter from
the Sylvia Plath Collection. Whenever possible, footnotes will be based upon
primary sources. Graded S/U only. Enrollment limited to 15. 1 credit
Karen
Kukil
January 7-11, 1:00-5:00p.m.
Mortimer Rare Book
Room, Neilson Library
ARX 104j: Becoming a College Woman:Re-seeing Gender at Smith,
1879-1901
By researching diaries, memorabilia books, and
students’ letters home during 2 decades of Smith’s early history, we’ll consider
how students constructed themselves as “college women,” a new social category at
the end of the Victorian era. How did their experiences—in the classroom and
in their social life --test the boundaries of conventional femininity? How did
sports, drama, female friendships, clubs and chemistry, for instance, transform
gender conventions? How did the homosocial world of the women’s college
intersect, complement, and contradict at times the heterosocial world of life
beyond the college? How do the ephemeral artifacts (bulging scrapbooks,
scribbled letters) of ordinary women help us write a social history of the
evolution of the “new woman”? Graded S/U only {H/S} 1 credit. Enrollment limited
to 25.
Susan Van Dyne
January 7-11, 10:00 a.m-12:00 .m. and two hours of independent
research in the College Archives
Meets in Alumnae Gymnasium
ARX 105j Class Matters: Organizing for Social
Justice
This course will introduce students to several SSC
collections of individual papers and organization records that shed light on the
fight for economic justice, especially for American women, both white and of
color. In addition to some short secondary source readings, students will then
choose pre-selected documents from 14 designated collections and in conversation
with each other, both in class and in five written responses on Moodle, discuss
the ways in which a particular individual or organization has addressed issues
of economic injustice, what worked, what did not, what needs to happen next.Â
Enrollment limited to 20. Kathleen Nutter
January 14-18,
1-4pm
Internship Available:
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New Course in the Program for the Study of Women and Gender for Archives Concentrators:
SWG
271 Reproductive Justice
This course will explore reproductive justice in the U.S. and the influence of
U.S. policy globally, addressing issues of law, policy, theory and activism.
Topics include historic and contemporary state control over women's
reproduction, social movements to expand women's control over their reproductive
lives, access to reproductive care, reproductive technologies, reproductive
coercion and violence, religious fundamentalism's increasing influence over
reproduction, and the discourses around women's bodies and pregnancy. A central
framework for analysis is how gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality,
disability and nationality shape women's ability to control their reproduction.
Prerequisite: SWG 150 or permission of the instructor. WI
Carrie Baker
MW 1:10-2:30
Fall 2012