History - Fall 1998

Instructor: Noriko Aso
Office Hours: T 6-7, Th 3-4, or by appointment
Merrill 108
Telephone: 459-5371
E-mail: naso@ucsc.edu

Course Description:

We will examine the rise of various forms of popular culture, such as comic books, animation, movies, television, music, and sports, as one means of understanding broad trends in postwar Japanese history. In particular, we will focus on depictions of gender roles, national identity, relations with the US, foreigners in Japan, and attitudes toward work and leisure.

Requirements:

1. Attendance
2. Participation
3. Weekly one-page response papers; website review to substitute for one paper
4. Final project

Required Books:

Gary Allinson, Japan's Postwar History

Hayao Miyazaki, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

Sanpei Shirato, The Legend of Kamui

John Whittier Treat, Contemporary Japan and Popular Culture

Banana Yoshimoto, np

(Required books are available for purchase at the Literary Guillotine, downtown at 204 Locust Street, tel: 457-1195)

Reading packet to be purchased in class in the first two weeks.

Various books and videos on reserve at McHenry Library.

An introduction to the history of Judaic and Christian religious traditions as created and experienced by women. Beginning with early (prehistoric) goddess religions and ending with contemporary feminist theology, this course will explore religious ideas about women, the treatment of women by the mainstream institutions and religio/social communities, and female religious leaders and followers. The course takes an explicitly feminist analytical approach and will use a variety of "texts," including historical and literary scholarship, sacred texts, contemporary documents, archaeological artifacts, visual arts, and music.

Assigned readings will probably be chosen from the following list. At this point, the bibliography has not been set, but the final list will include six books of common reading.

• Marija Gimbutas, The Language of the Goddess (discussing the archaeological evidence from the Neolithic era)
• Merlin Stone, When God Was A Woman (on the rise of the Hebrew Religion)
• Raphael Patai, The Hebrew Goddess (on the goddesses in the Hebrew Bible)
• Phyllis Trible, Texts of Terror (on women in the Hebrew Bible)
• Elaine Pagels, Adam, Eve, and the Serpent (on women during the early Christian centuries)
• Karen Jo Torjesen, When Women Were Priests (on the leadership of women in the early Christian Church)
• Ann Barstow, Witchcraze (on the witch hunts of the early modern era
• Carol Lee Flinders, Enduring Grace: Seven Women Mystics (on seven female mystics, living during the 11th to 20th centuries)
• Judith Brown, Immodest Acts (on female mysticism/convent lesbianism in the 16th century)
• Collection of Devotional Prayers (Tekhine) composed by Jewish womn, 16th century
• Christine Trevett, Women and Quakerism in the Seventeenth Century (on Quaker women in England)
• Lynn Westerkamp, Godly Women (on women in Puritan and Evangelical Traditions)
• William Andrews, ed., Sisters of the Spirit (on three African-American preachers of the 19th century)
• Rebecca Jackson, Gifts of Power (journal kept by African-American Shaker, mid-19th century)
• Catherine Wessinger, ed., Women's Leadership in Marginal Religions (essays on female religious leaders of the late 19th and 20th centuries)
• Hannah Senesh, The Life and Diary of Hannah Senesh (journal of a Hungarian Jewish freedom fighter during WWII)
• I. Gebara & M. Bingemer, Mary Mother of God, Mother of the Poor (essay on Mary, grounded in Latin American Liberation Theology)
• Letty M. Russell, et.al., ed., Inheriting Our Mothers' Gardens (essays on feminist Christian theology by women of color, some in the United States, and some from other nations)

In addition students will be required to read one text of special interest. The last time the course was offered, choices included:

• Katie Geneva Cannon, Black Womanist Ethics
• Carter Heywood, Touching Our Strength (on sexuality)
• Judith Plaskow, Standing Again at Sinai (Judaism and women)
• Starhawk, The Spiral Dance (on ecofeminism)
• Rosemary Ruether, Gaia and God (on Christian learning from ecofeminism)
• Wha Soon Cho, Let the Weak be Strong (on Christian missions and workers rights in Korea)

1. Mandatory Lecture and Section Attendance and Participation
2. A weekly journal
3. An in-class midtermand an in-class final

Lecutres will discuss the understanding of women and the religious roles that women played. The coverage will be organized as follows:

1. Early Goddess Religions and the Patriarchalization of Mediterranean and European regions
2. The Foundational Periods of Judaism and Christianity
3. The Christianization and "Reformation" of Europe
4. Judaism and Christianity in the United States: 1600-1900
5. Western Religions' Responses to the Modernism of Twentieth Century
6. The Contemporary Feminist Theology Movement, including Christian, Jewish, and neopagan writers.

The Course is open to all students.

History 80H Class, Gender, and Community in China 1700-1998
MWF 2-3:10
Instructor: Gail Hershatter

This course uses the categories of class and gender to explore three aspects of Chinese history: the cultural construction of gender and the family, the dynamics of revolution, and the problems of building and partially dismantling a socialist state. We will begin with an examination of gender, sexuality, and family in the late imperial period (pre-1911). Then we will investigate the tranformation of all three by a revolution defined primarily in the Marxist language of class struggle (1911-1949). We will consider the positions of women in socialist China, examining the uneasy relationship of feminist and socialist goals and the frequent irrelevance of both to daily social practice (1949-1978). For the era of economic reform (post-1978), we will consider the entanglement of gender with changing visions of modernity, both official and unofficial.

In concentrating upon women, a group which has remained largely invisible in conventional Chinese history, we will draw upon memoir, fiction, and products of popular culture as well as standard historical sources. We will ask: what does the history of Chinese women tell us about the history of modern Chinese society as a whole? Did women have a Chinese revolution? A Cultural Revolution? A postsocialist transition? Does a consideration of gender alter the "big picture" of Chinese history? Does it require that the picture be reframed?

• Mann, Precious Records
• Pruitt, Daughter of Han
• Gilmartin, Engendering the Chinese Revolution
• Chang, Bound Feet and Western Dress
• Johnson, Women, the Family, and Peasant Revolution in China
• Yang, Spider Eaters
• Honig and Hershatter, Personal Voices
• In addition, a reader will be sold in conjunction with the class.

• Mindful reading and wakeful attendance. Much of the assigned reading consists of individual memoirs of particular historical periods. Class sessions will be devoted to contextualizing as well as analyzing these readings. We will cover material in class that enhances but does not duplicate the course reading; therefore attendance and selective (not slavish) note-taking is essential.
• Writing. You will be asked to write three short (3-4 page) critical reviews of books we read in the course, and to complete an in-class midterm and a take-home final.
• Talking. Most class sessions will be divided between lecture and discussion, and a few classes will be devoted entirely to student debate and discussion. Prepare to question, opine, and defend!

T4-Humanities and Arts; E. By arrangement with the instructor, this course can also fulfill an upper-division course requirement for the major in Women's Studies.

You can obtain more information about the course by contacting the instructor at 9-2863 or by email at gbhers@cats.ucsc.edu.

Driss Maghraoui

Description: This course is a comparative examination of European Imperialism in the 19th and 20th centuries. It looks at the historical contexts which led to the emergence of imperialist relations. It also seeks to look at the political, economic, social and cultural dimensions of modern European imperialism. The focus will be primarily on British and French colonial experiences overseas. Through an examination of specific histories, it will explore the various reactions of the colonized people to colonial encounter. Issues of gender, colonial science, Orientalism and culture will be dealt with as part of the complex fabric of the modern European colonial experience. A discussion of the process of decolonization and nationalism will be at the end of the course.

This graduate course surveys selected western-language works and historiographical controversies in Chinese history from 1919 to the 1950s. Weekly readings will combine emphasis on particular social and political movements with examination of long-term changes in urban and rural society.

Critical reading and discussion are the heart of this course. Each week, students will be asked to read one to two books and to browse additional works for major themes and arguments. Since the class meets on Monday mornings, a response paper of 2-3 pages should be emailed to the instructor and other members of the class by noon on Sunday each week. It need not be polished, but it must be thoughtful, as it will be our basis for discussion on Monday. Twice during the quarter, students will submit a five- to seven-page critical essay on one of the common readings. You should discuss your choice of book with me. The essay is due in class on the day we discuss the book you have chosen. (You do not have to submit a response paper on that day; prepare to present your critique to the group instead.) The first essay should be submitted by November 2 and the second by December 7.

All required readings will be on two-hour reserve at McHenry Library, and key readings will also be ordered through the bookstore.

• Chow, The May Fourth Movement
• Schwarcz, The Chinese Enlightenment
• Dik"tter, The Discourse of Race in Modern China
• Schwartz, Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao
• Van de Ven, From Friend to Comrade
• Zarrow, Anarchism and Chinese Political Culture
• Dirlik, Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution
• Honig, Creating Chinese Ethnicity
• Wakeman, Policing Shanghai
• Wasserstrom, Student Protests in Twentieth-Century China
• Chesneaux, The Chinese Labor Movement
• Perry, Shanghai on Strike
• Goodman, The Native Place and the City
• Hershatter, The Workers of Tianjin
• Liu, Translingual Practice
• Yeh, Provincial Passages
• Hershatter et al, Remapping China
• Schoppa, Blood Road
• Duara, Culture, Power, and the State
• Duara, Rescuing History from the Nation
• Fei, From the Soil
• Huang, The Peasant Economy and Social Change in North China
• Coble, Facing Japan
• Eastman, Abortive Revolution
• Eastman, The Nationalist Era in China
• Benton, Mountain Fires
• Hartford and Goldstein, Single Sparks
• Selden, The Yenan Way
• Fu, Passivity, Resistance, and Collaboration
• Pepper, Civil War in China
• Friedman et al, Chinese Village, Socialist State

Revised 7/19/04.