Transgender History in the United States

p. 7-18

1. What were views of European sexologists on gender nonconformity?
2. What were early surgeries and therapies that took place in the 1920s-40s?
3. What was significant about Christine Jorgensen?
4. What were some developments of the 1960s (Post-Christine Era)

Transforming History, Retro Report, NYT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROjtETLNknY

1. What are the connections and tensions see between transgender and gay people in the historical movement for rights?
2. What was Sylvia Rivera’s role?
3. What challenges do transgender people face?

http://oralhistory.nypl.org/neighborhoods/trans-history

1. Review this website, and write briefly about one or two people.

Study Guide #13

1.What are important changes of the 1960s?

1. How does Civil Rights relate to other rights movements?
2. Why is the availability of oral birth control important?

Primary sources from the 1960s and 70s

“The Feminine Mystique excerpt” (The Problem That Has No Name, 1963 )by Betty Friedan

4.How does she describe women in this period?

1. What is the image of the American housewife in the Cold War context?
2. What is the “mystique”?

One of America's great feminists Betty Friedan | CBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfgxHKli9CU

1. What are 2 main points of Betty’s Friedan’s speech?
2. What is your opinion?

“The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm” Anna Koedt, 1970
http://www.feministezine.com/feminist/modern/The-Myth-ofthe-Vaginal-Orgasm.html

1. How does the author explain the myth?
2. How does sex relate to patriarchy in this piece?

“ The Facts About Abortion” [1970] p432-433.

1. What is the main point in this piece?

Angry Notes from a Black Feminist, Doris Wright, 1970

12.What are two main ideas from this source?

“Imprisoning and Artificial Labels of Gay, Straight, and Bi” Third World Gay Revolution and Gay Liberation Front, 1971

1. How does the author relate female and homosexual oppression?

Study Guide 14

The sources this week take into account many sources from the general period of postwar (post1945) United States and affecting mostly people of color.

McGuire video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLNITftvr64

Danielle L. McGuire, At The Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape and Resistance—a New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power (2010); excerpts

Jennifer Nelson, Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement (2003), 121-132

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/pill-black-genocide/

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/unwanted-sterilization-and-eugenics-programs-in-the-united-states/

McGuire video:

1. What are two important ideas from this video?

At the End of the Dark streets excerpts

1. Why does the author mention all the crimes committed on pages 33-37?
2. What are some main points from pages, 54-61?
3. What does the Willie McGee case teach us about the South in this period?
4. What are some experiences that Fannie Lou Hamer faced?
5. What main event is discussed in the section, 191-195?

Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights movement excerpt.

1. What were goals of women in the YLP?
2. What are the concerns surrounding sterilization in this excerpt?

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