From: web-form@Oswego.EDU Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 12:08 PM To: ucc@oswego.edu; loem@oswego.edu Subject: Web Form: Course Submission IP Address: 129.3.50.38 Department Chair: Ming-te Pan Department Chair Email: pan@oswego.edu Additional Contact: Mary McCune Additional Contact Email: mccune@oswego.edu Course Number: HIS 393 Course Type: New Course Course Title: Women and War in the Twentieth Century Catalog Description: This course will examine women’s experiences in war during the twentieth century on both the battlefront and the homefront. The course will focus predominantly on women in the United States, Europe and Asia. The periods to be covered include World War I and the Russian Revolution, World War II and the Holocaust, the Vietnam War, and the Yugoslav Civil War. Prerequisites: Advanced class standing and a previous course in the area; or a general level of competence indicated by three previous courses in the social sciences and/or humanities Fl - irregular basis: Yes Semester Hours: 3 justification for course: This course is aimed at upper-division students predominantly in History and Social Studies Education, but students in other disciplines such as Women’s Studies, Global & International Studies, and Conflict Studies and Management, will also be attracted to the course. The class size should be limited to 30 in order to ensure an ability to hold effective discussions in which all students can comfortably participate. Some students seeking an upper-division elective requirement will also take the course. The upper-division level of the course will ensure that students have had some exposure to courses in the social sciences and the humanities and will therefore be able to engage fruitfully in a course that is reading and discussion-oriented rather than predominantly lecture based. course Objectives: Students will: • apply the concept of gender theory to conduct an analysis of gender in the study of 20th century wars and revolutions. • identify the major themes in the history of women’s experiences in wartime. • articulate the ways in which women’s experiences have differed based on particular war, the global political context, a woman’s national origin, minority status, and more. • Complete a series of book reviews and/or write a research paper on a topic related to women and war. Resources: The History Department and Penfield Library have the necessary resources to offer this course. In addition to monographs in the library’s collection, on-line databases and interlibrary loan services provide students with the opportunity to access primary and secondary materials for research papers. The library also has a number of videos and DVD’s that could be utilized in such a course, including Rabbit in the Moon, a documentary featuring a Japanese-American woman and her sister who were interned during World War II, and Daring to Resist, which explores the ways in which three teenage Jewish women survived the Holocaust. Bibliography: (NOTE: This is a representative sample of works that would be consulted or that could be assigned to students. The literature, particularly on World War II, is voluminous). General Collections: Dombrowski, Nicole Ann, ed. Women and War in the Twentieth Century: Enlisted With or Without Consent. New York: Routledge, 1999. Higonnet, Margaret Randolph, Jane Jenson, Sonya Michel, and Margaret Collins Weitz, ed., Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1987. World War I and Russian Revolution: Clements, Barbara Evans. Bolshevik Women. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Daniel, Ute. The War From Within: German Working-Class Women in the First World War. Oxford: Berg, 1997. Davis, Belinda J. Home Fire’s Burning: Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Grayzel, Susan R. Women’s Identities at War: Gender, Motherhood, and Politics in Great Britain and France During the First World War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Greenwald, Maurine Weiner. Women, War, and Work: The Impact of World War I on Women Workers in the United States. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1980. Gullace, Nicoletta F. The Blood of Our Sons: Men, Women, and the Renegotiation of British Citizenship During the Great War. London: Palgrave, 2002. Kennedy, Kathleen. Disloyal Mothers, Scurrilous Citizens: Women and Subversion During World War I. Bloomington: Indiana University, 1999. Porter, Cathy. Women in Revolutionary Russia. New York: Cambridge, 1987. Stoff, Laurie S. They Fought for the Motherland: Russia’s Women Soldiers in World War I and the Revolution. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2006. Wood, Elizabeth A. The Baba and the Comrade: Gender and Politics in Revolutionary Russia. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. Woollacott, Angela. On Her Their Lives Depend: Munitions Workers in the Great War. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. Zeiger, Susan. In Uncle Sam’s Service: Women with the American Expeditionary Force, 1917-1919. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. World War II and the Holocaust: Anderson, Karen. Wartime Women: Sex Roles, Family Relations and the Status of Women During World War II. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981. –. “Last Hired, First Fired: Black Women Workers During World War II,”Journal of American History 69 (June 1982 ): 82-97. Anonymous. A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in a Conquered City, A Diary. New York: Holt, 2005. Bailey, Beth and David Farber. The First Strange Place: the Alchemy of Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii. New York: Free Press, 1992. Bentley, Amy. Eating for Victory: Food Rationing and the Politics of Domesticity. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. Boris, Eileen. “‘You Wouldn’t Want One of ‘Em Dancing with Your Wife’: Racialized Bodies on the Job in World War II,” American Quarterly 50 (March 1998): 77-108. Bridenthal, Renate, Atina Grossman, and Marion Kaplan, ed. When Biology Became Destiny: Women in Weimar and Nazi Germany. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1984. Chang, Iris. The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust. New York: HarperCollins, 1997. Goodpaster-Strebe, Amy. Flying for Her Country: The American and Soviet Women Military Pilots of World War II. Westport: Praeger, 2007. Goossen, Rachel Walter. Women Against the Good War: Conscientious Objection and Gender on the Homefront, 1941-1947. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Hartmann, Susan M. The Homefront and Beyond: American Women in the 1940s. Boston: Twayne, 1982. Jolluck, Katherine R. Exile and Identity: Polish Women in the Soviet Union During World War II. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002. Kaplan, Marion A. Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Koonz, Claudia. Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, The Family, and Nazi Politics. New York: St. Martin’s, 1987. Mackie, Vera. “In Search of Innocence: Feminist Historians Debate the Legacy of Wartime Japan,” Australian Feminist Studies 20 ( July 2005) : 207-217. Matsumoto, Valerie. “Japanese American Women during World War II.” In Unequal Sisters: Multicultural Readeri n U.S. Women’s History, ed. Vicki L. Ruíz and Ellen Carol DuBois, 436-449. New York: Routledge, 1994. Meyer, Leisa D. Creating G.I. Jane: Sexuality and Power in the Women’s Army Corps During World War II. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. Ofer, Dalia and Lenore J. Weizman, ed. Women in the Holocaust. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. Pennington, Reina. Wings, Women, and War: Soviet Airwomen in World War II Combat. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2001. Rose, Sonya O. Which People’s War? National Identity and Citizenship in Britain, 1939-1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Rupp, Leila. Mobilizing Women for War: German and American Propaganda, 1939-1945. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. Simmons, Cynthia and Nina Perlman, Writing the Siege of Leningrad: Women’s Diaries, Memoirs and Documentary Prose. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002. Tanaka, Yuki. Japan’s Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery and Prostitution During World War II and the U.S. Occupation. New York: Routledge, 2002. Yoshiaki, Yoshimi. Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery in the Japanese Military During World War II. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. Vietnam: Hayslip, Le Ly with Jay Wurts. When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman’s Journey From War to Peace. New York: Penguin, 1990. Jeffords, Susan. The Remasculinization of America: Gender and the Vietnam War. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989. Marshall, Kathryn. In the Combat Zone: An Oral History of American Women in Vietnam, 1966-1975. Boston: Little, Brown, 1987. Taylor, Sandra C. Vietnamese Women at War: Fighting for Ho Chi Minh and the Revolution. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1999. Tram, Dang Thuy. Last Night I Dreamed of Peace. New York: Harmony Books, 2007. Turner, Karen Gottschang with Phan Thanh Hao. Even the Women Must Fight: Memories of War from North Vietnam. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1998. Yugoslav Civil War: Allen, Beverly. Rape Warfare: The Hidden Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996. Drakulić, Slavenka. S.: A Novel about the Balkans. New York: Penguin, 2001. Hunt, Swanee. This Was Not Our War: Bosnian Women Reclaiming the Peace. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005. Nikolić-Ristanović, Vesna. Women, Violence and War: Wartime Victimization of Refugees in the Balkans. New York: Central European University Press, 2000. Stiglmayer, Alexandra, ed. Mass Rape: The War against Women in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994. Other Comments: