1.1: Developments in East Asia

• Confucian hierarchy limited women's autonomy

• Foot-binding enforced

• Song Dynasty

  • Inner quarters​

1.2: Developments in Dar al-Islam

• Women & the Abbasid Caliphate

  • Women's seclusion became part of Shari'a​

    • Women could own property​​

1.5: State Building in Africa

• Polygymy mainstay because of low populations​

• Women could own slaves

1.6: Developments in Europe

• Primogeniture​

• Convents

  • Rise of content culture

• Cult of Mary

• Gendered division of labor

  • Women can inherit estates​

2.2: Mongol Empire

Brothels

Rights for women​

• Foot-binding illegal​

• Rights of movement

• Women managed herds

Kublai Khan

• Court was multinational​

2.3: Exchange in the Indian Ocean

• Egalitarian in Southeast Asia​

• China

  • Women involved in silk culture

    • Harvesting silk, running businesses​

2.4: Trans-Saharan Trade Routes

• Restrictions for women​ increase

  • Abassids enforced Shari'a law​

  • Harems & concubine culture practiced based on class

  • Scheherazade

2.5: Cultural Consequences of Connectivity

• India

  • Sati & child marriage​

3.1: Empires Expand

• Migration led to development of race/racism​

• Control of marriage increased

  • Rights for women decrease

3.2: Empires: Administration

• Women acted as intermediaries between local/foreign culture

3.3: Empires: Belief Systems

• Africa​

  • Polygamy​

3.4: Comparison in Land-Based Empires

• Europe​

  • Literacy expanded​

  • Women in domestic roles

  • Women could not own land

  • Sexual misbehavior prosecuted​

Primary Sources for Unit 3​​

• Resources coming soon!​

4.3: Columbian Exchange

• Latin America​

• Amerindian women sold to European men​

• Castas/socioracial categories

• Slavery=matrifocal

4.4/4.5: Maritime Empires 

4.6: Internal & External Challenges to State Power

• North America

  • Less intermarriage than in Latin America​

  • Matrilineal/matrilocal tribes

4.7: Changing Social Hierarchies

• Japan​

  • In postclassical era-women had more political power​

    • Declined in early modern period

    • Militarization

Primary Sources for Unit 4​​

• Resources coming soon!​

5.1: Enlightenment

• Manifesto by the Society for the Emancipation of Women (France)

• Mary Astell (England)

• Mary Hays (England)

5.2: Nationalism & Revolutions

• American Revolution

  • Public Universal Friend​

  • Phyllis Wheatley

  • Deborah Sampson

• French Revolution

  • Olympe de Gouges

  • Napoleon's Civil Code (1804)

• Haitian Revolution

  • Cécile Fatiman

  • Marie-Jeanne Lamartinière

  • Victoria Montou (aka “Toya”)

• Latin American Revolutions

  • War & Motherhood in the 19th Century

5.3 & 5.4: Industrial Revolution

5.5: Technology of the Industrial Age

5.6: Government's Role in Industrialization

5.7: Economic Developments & Innovations in the Industrial Age

5.8: Reactions to the Industrial Economy

• Women's suffrage

5.9: Society & the Industrial Age

6.1: Rationales for Imperialism

• Victorian norms​

6.2: State Expansion

6.3: Indigenous Responses to State Expansion

• China​

  • Empress Dowager Cixi​

• New Zealand

  • Maori​ & Waitangi Treaty

6.4: Global Economic Development

• Japan

  • Women not considered legal persons​

6.6 & 6.7: Causes/Effects of Migration 

• Strict sexual norms​ enforced by the European empires in India, West Africa, Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand

• Outlawing of the Hijra in India & any indigenous third gender 

Primary Sources for Unit 6​​

• Resources coming soon!​

7.1: Shifting Power after 1900

• Suffrage​

  • 1904

    • International Woman Suffrage Alliance (Germany)

  • 1909

    • 5th Congress of International Woman Suffrage Alliance ​

  • 1910

    • Hubertine Auclert (France)​​

  • 1890s-1910s: Suffragette movement (Britain,Canada)

    • Emmeline Pankhurst, Sylvia Pankhurst, Cristabel Pankhurst, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence (Britain)

    • Dr. Emily Howard Jennings Stowe (Canada)

    • Catholic Women’s Suffrage Society (UK) 

  • Netherlands

    • Aletta Henriette Jacobs (Netherlands)

7.4: Economy in the Interwar Period

• Josephine Baker in France​

7.5: Unresolved Tensions After World War I

• 1920s

  • International Alliance of Women for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship

  • Yamakawa Kikue (Japan)

• 1931

  • Suffrage approved in Spain

• 1940s​

  • Durriyyah Shafiq (Egypt)​

7.8: Mass Atrocities After 1900

• Armenian genocide

  • Women & Children targeted​

• Jewish women in the Holocaust

• Cambodian genocide

  • Women soldiers​

• Rwandan genocide​

  • Sexual violence​

8.1: Setting the Stage for the Cold War & Decolonization

8.2, 8.3, 8.8 & 8.9: The Cold War​

• Women in the Cultural Revolution (China)

• Women’s movement of the Philippines 

• 1960s

  • ​​Maria Carolina de Jesus (Brazil)

  • Golda Meir (Israel)

• 1970s

  • Right wing women (Chile)

  • Sima Walk in the USSR-Afghan War

• Women in the non-aligned movement/decolonization

  • Women’s International Democratic Federation (Asia & Africa)

  • Djamila Bouhired (Algeria)

  • Alimotu Pelewura (Nigeria)

  • International Women’s Day

    • May 8, 1950

8.4: Spread of Communism​​​

• China​

  • Women in the Red Guard & Cultural Revolution​

  • Communist feminism

• Vietnam​
  • Women in the independence movement​
• China
  • Ding Ling, purged by Mao​

• Myanmar​
  • Aung San Suu Kyi​
• India
  • Indira Gandhi​

• India
  • Phoolan Devi (Bandhit Queen)​

9.1: Advances in Technology & Exchange

• Birth control​

9.2: Technological Advances & Limitations After 1900: Disease

9.3: Technological Advances: Debates About the Environment After 1900

9.4: Economics in the Global Age

9.5: Calls for Reform & Responses After 1900

• 1980s--Argentina

  • Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo 

• Bolivia

  • Domitila Barrios de La Chungara

• El Salvador​

  • Organización de Mujeres Salvadoreñas por la Paz 

• Philippines

  • Corazon Aquino​​

• South Africa’s transition to democracy (1990s)

• Asante Queen Mothers

• 1993: UN World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna

• 1995: UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing

• Women Presidents/Prime Ministers

  • Chandrika Kumaratunga (Sri Lanka, 1994-2005)

  • Violeta Chamorro (Nicaragua)​

9.6: Globalized Culture After 1900

• Constitutional Convention (Chile)

• Las Tesis (Chile)

• 100 Elles (Geneva, Switzerland)

• 100 Women and Thousands More(Switzerland)

9.7: Resistance to Globalization After 1900

• ​Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan(Sept. 14, 2001)​

9.8: Institutions Developing in a Globalized World

• Germany

  • Angela Merkel