Topic: 9.1: Contextualizing Period 9

Learning Objectives: –Explain political, social and economic trends for women during this time period –Explain the role of race, class, gender, sexuality, ability and religion in shaping women’s lives during this era –Explain the impact immigrant women have on contemporary American society

Essential Understandings: –Understand that coverture laws lasted through the late 20th century –Women, especially Filipino women, have migrated to the U.S. to work as nurses –Since Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022) overturned this decision, it is unclear if coverture laws have been reintroduced in the United States. –Understand the role of women in the AIDS crisis & the ACT UP movement –Understand ongoing barriers for women to access the right to vote –Understand the causes and effects of the 1994 Violence Against Women Act

Recommended Sources:–“Landscape of the Ordinary” by Andrea Dworkin –Visuals of the pro-choice/pro-life protests outside the Supreme Court –“Prisoner of Sex” by Ariel Levy –Essays by Erika Bachiochi —National Museum of Women in the Arts –Film: RBG –The Promise of Happiness and Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed —Transnational anti-gender movement —WAPUSH interview with Sarah Schulman —Debates over the SAVE Act

Thematic Focus: Women’s Experiences

Women have not had a monolithic experience; their lives have been directly impacted by intersecting identities including race, class, gender, ability, sexuality, religion, region and age. Race and gender are social constructs that have been closely tied to women’s American political and social development

Topic: 9.2: Third & Fourth Wave Feminism

Learning Objectives:–Explain the difference between third and fourth wave feminism –Explain the major topics of issue within each wave –Explain lingering issues of discrimination based on sex including discrimination against LGBTQ+ individuals

Essential Understandings: –Understand the significance of the following events and/or concepts —Riot Grrrl movement and women in the grunge era —“I’m not a feminist, but…” —LGBTQ+ rights in the fourth wave —Punk feminism –Women in hip hop –#MeToo –Intersectionality, coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw –Understand the role of Anita Hill’s testimony against Clarence Thomas in third wave feminism –Understand the importance of art to the women’s movement –Understand varying state laws regarding constitutional gender equality

Recommended Sources: –Rebecca Walker’s “I Am the Third Wave”“ –Beyonce’s Fierce Feminism,” Janell Hobson, Ms. Magazine, Spring 2013 –Women artists such as Harriet Hosmer, Edmonia Lewis, Lilly Martin Spencer, Mary Cassatt, Martha Rosler, Barbara Kruger, Elizabeth Catlett, Lorna Simpson, Georgia O’Keefe —Feminism: The Fourth Wave by the National Women’s History Museum

Thematic Focus: Women and the World

Transnational connections among women have existed since the early modern era and intensified through the 21st century through technology, globalization, cultural exchange, and international organizations

Topic: 9.3: Transnational feminism

Learning Objectives: –Explain trends in the global women’s movement

Essential Understandings:  –Analyze how capitalism and globalization have affected people across nations, genders, classes, races, and sexualities.

Recommended Sources: –Eugenic Feminism: Reproductive Nationalism in the United States and India by Asha Nadkarni —Transnational Feminism in Development“Review: Transnational Feminisms in a Globalized World: Challenges, Analysis, and Resistance” —“Globalization of the Local/ Localization of the Global: Mapping Transnational Women’s Movements” by Amrita Basu —“The Veil Debate Again” by Leila Ahmed —30 people protecting women’s rights around the world

Thematic Focus: Women’s Activism

Women have utilized a wide variety of strategies to demonstrate agency and challenge male authority throughout American history. Women have also contributed to the pursuit of equality with men, even as they worked to define it in different ways

Topic 9.4: Struggle for equal rights in the 21st century

Learning Objectives: –Explain the struggle for equal rights in the 21st century –Explain modern day groups led by women –Explain the concepts articulated by scholar Julie Suk of male overentitlement and overempowerment in the law

Essential Understandings:  –Women activists are at the forefront of the modern struggle for… –Indigenous rights —MMIW –the ERAYoung Feminist Party –pro-life movement: –Students for Life –Lila Rose –Protection against discrimination & sexual assault –Know Your IX -Women’s ordination –Father Anne –Climate justice —Indigenous women & LGBTQ+ activists led the Standing Rock protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline —Gen Z for Change —4B movement –Impact of technofascism on women

Recommended Sources: –Excerpts from After Misogyny by Julie Suk –Ordinary Equality by Kate Kelly —Charlotte Clymer —Silicon Valley Imperialism by Erin McElroy —“Race-ing Roe: Reproductive Justice, Racial Justice, and the Battle for Roe v. Wade” by Melissa Murray from the Harvard Law Review —Erasure of LGBTQ+ history —The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision by Erika Bachiochi —WAPUSH interview with Dr. Iléana Jimenez —Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America by Shefali Luthra

Thematic Focus: Women’s Activism

Women have utilized a wide variety of strategies to demonstrate agency and challenge male authority throughout American history. Women have also contributed to the pursuit of equality with men, even as they worked to define it in different ways

Topic 9.5: Contemporary women in politics

Learning Objectives: –Explain the role of women in the U.S. government in the first quarter of the 21st century –Identify notable women who influenced the political sphere and explain the significance of their roles

Essential Understandings:  –Kathey Kozachenko became the first openly gay American to win elected office in 1974 –The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act was passed in 2009 –Sonia Sotomayor was the first Latina Supreme Court justice (2009) –Under the leadership of Edith Windsor, the U.S. v. Windsor (2013) Supreme Court case overturned the unconstitutional Defense of Marriage Act that was signed by Bill Clinton –Know that Deb Haaland and Sharice Davids were the first Native American women elected to Congress (2018) —Deb Haaland is the first Indigenous women in a presidential cabinet while Nancy Pelosi was the first female Speaker of the House –Hillary Clinton was the first woman to win the primary and nomination of a major party –Condoleeza Rice is the first Republican woman and first Black woman to serve at U.S. Secretary of State –Kamala Harris is the first woman Vice President (2020) –Understand the impact of Christian nationalism women on contemporary American politics

Recommended Sources: –We the Women by Julie Suk –Women and Politics by Lynne E. Ford —Milestones in the American Gay Rights Movement (PBS) –Barbara Jordan: Speaking the Truth with Eloquent Thunder, ed. By Max Sherman —Milestones for Women in Politics by the Center for American Women and Politics —WAPUSH interview with former presidential candidate Gloria La Riva Teaching Resources: —The Data on Women Leaders by Pew Research Center —Women and American Politics: A Research Agenda for the 21st Century by Rutgers

Topic 9.6: Founding Figures in Period 9

Learning Objectives: –Explain the concept of intersectionality that grew to prominence in the late 20th and early 21st century –Explain the role of literature in the modern day women’s movement

Essential Understandings: –Understand the work of the following women/ organizations –Lois Curtis –Dr. Haunani- Kay Trask –Feminist Uprising & modern day Silent Sentinels

Recommended Sources: –“The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House” by Audre Lorde —WAPUSH Interview with Father Anne –Poems byAna Castillo“ —The Women of Black Lives Matter,” Brittney Cooper, Ms. Magazine, Winter 2015 —“The Riot Grrrl Manifesto” Kathleen Hanna —Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 —“Thin and Thick Conceptions of the Nineteenth Amendment Right to Vote and Congress’s Power to Enforce It,” Richard L. Hasan and Leah Litman

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