History 3930, Women and Law
Wed—8-10 periods
Keene Flint 113
Professor: Elizabeth Dale, Assistant Professor, US
Legal History
234 Keene-Flint
W 4-5 periods and by appointment
Books: Kerber,
No Constitutional Right to be Ladies
Hartog, Man and Wife
in America
Dayton, Women before
the Bar
Reagan, When Abortion
was a Crime
Odem, Delinquent
Daughters
Cohen, Murder of
Helen Jewett
Also on-line assignments
Weekly
assignments:
Week 1: Introduction to the course
Week 2:
Trial of Anne Hutchinson before the Court of Assistants (reserve)
Journal
assignment due
Week 3:
Cornelia Dayton, Women before the Bar
Book review assignment
due
Preliminary
topic proposal due
Week 4: Minor v. Haperstett, Kerber; No
Constitutional Right, ch. 1
Case project
due
Week 5:
Cohen, Murder of Helen Jewett; case
Primary
source project due
Specific
topic proposal due
Week 6: Lea
VanderVelde and Sandhya Subramania. “Mrs. Dred Scott”; Yale Law Journal
106 (January 1997): 1033;
Kerber, No
Constitutional Right, ch. 2
Article project due
Week 7:
Hartog, Man and Wife in America
Preliminary
bibliography due
Week 8:
Cara Robertson, “Representing Miss Lizzie,” Yale Journal of Law and
Humanities 8 (Summer 1996): 351;
Kerber, No Constitutional Right, ch. 3
Week 9:
Reagan, When Abortion was a Crime
Paper
proposal due
Week 10:
Odem, Delinquent Daughters
Week 11: Triangle Shirtwaist Fire web
site
Week 12:
no class, work on paper drafts
Paper drafts
due
Week 14:
Discuss paper drafts
Week 15:
EEOC v. Sears Roebuck; United States v. Virginia; Kerber, No Constitutional
Right, ch. 5
Week 16: individual
meetings about paper
Finals week:
paper due