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Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Papers UPT 50 S644

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Summary Information

Prepared by
Kaiyi Chen
Date [inclusive]
1971-1990
Extent
3.5 Cubic feet

PROVENANCE

Transferred to the University Archives with the records of the History Department in 1995.

ARRANGEMENT

The papers of Carroll Smith-Rosenberg have been arranged alphabetically.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Carroll Smith-Rosenberg was born in 1936. She earned her B.A. from the Connecticut College for Women in 1957, her M.A. in 1958 and Ph.D. in 1968 from Columbia University. She was appointed Research Assistant Professor at Penn in 1970, Assistant Professor in 1972 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1974. She served as Director of Women’s Studies Program at Penn from 1983 to 1995.

In 1971, she taught the first course on “Women in America” at Penn. Active in the women’s rights movement in Philadelphia, Smith-Rosenberg traced the dispute and stress about women’s traditional role as mother and housekeeper to the eighteenth century. Her study of women, sex roles and socialization in the United States is believed to have contributed to the understanding of the development of women’s role in society. She is the author of Religion and the Rise of the American City (1971), Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America (1985), and over a dozen of articles and book reviews on women, sex, family and society.

Carroll Smith-Rosenberg left Penn for the University of Michigan in 1996.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

The papers of Carroll Smith-Rosenberg document her research interest and teaching experience at Penn. Major files in the collection are recommendations she wrote for the students, papers and projects of the students from her classes, teaching files containing notes, syllabus and reference material, and papers and articles she collected done by other scholars on subjects that interest her most–women, sex and society.

Controlled Access Headings

Corporate Name(s)
University of Pennsylvania. School of Arts and Sciences.
Geographic Name(s)
United States–History–Study and teaching.
Occupation(s)
Historians–Pennsylvania–Philadelphia.
Subject(s)
History–Study and teaching–Pennsylvania–Philadelphia.
Women’s studies.
Women–History.–United States

Inventory

 

General File 

Box

Folder

America’s Women Scholars Conference, 1988 

1

1

Correspondence 

Kennedy Institute, Free University of Berlin, 1979 

1

2

Rosenberg, Leah, 1978-1982 

1

3

Rosenberg, Charles, 1978-1979 

1

4

Cover story in Pennsylvania Gazette, 1986, 

1

5

History Department Faculty list, 1972-1973 

1

6

Introduction of Carroll Smith-Rosenberg to a women studies meeting by 

1

7

Major in Women’s Studies, Program description, 1986 

1

8

Rockefeller Foundation, Application[1981-1982] 

1

19

Speaking engagements, 1987 

1

20

Teaching files 

American religious history, notes 

1

33

Course 610, Myth and Social Change, 1983, notes 

1

34

Course 610, Myth and Social Change, readings 

1

35

Family in Trasition, notes 

1

36

Feminist movement, notes 

1

37

History 66C, Women in America, bibliography, etc., 1971 

1

38

History 188, History and Social Role of Women, syllabus and 

1

39

History 200, and General Honors 16 and 18, syllabus 

1

40

History 346, History of Women in America from the Victorian Era 

1

41

History 360, Irish Immigration and Religion, notes 

1

42

History 360, Religious and social reform in 19th-century America, 

1

43

History 360, syllabus 

1

44

History 611, History of the Family, introductory remarks 

1

45

History of the Family, notes 

1

46

History of the Family, reference material (I) 

1

47

History of the Family, reference material (II) 

1

48

History of Women, women education, reference material 

1

49

Miscellaneous 

1

50

Pamphlets related to the Seneca Falls Woman’s Rights Convention 

1

51

Reference material: selections from the Journal of Lucien C. 

1

52

Reference material: “The ‘Little Women’ of Long Ago” and Phillida 

1

53

Women emancipate themselves from their 19th century role, etc., 

1

54

Women’s Studies 02 and 200, syllabus and attachments, 1985-1986 

1

55

Xeroxed copy of old material on women or by women authors, 

1

56

Teaching files–reference materials 

Roman Catholic Catechism, bibliography, 1969 

1

57

Smithsonian Institution News Release on the Exhibition “Men and Women: a History of Costume, Gender and Power,” 1989 

1

58

Women studies, catalogs 

1

59

Sexism in education 

1

60

The Gerritsen Collection of Women’s History, periodicals checklist, 1974 

1

61

Collected papers and articles by others on women, sex, etc. 

Banner, Lois W. 

1

62

Bart, Pauline B., “Menopause,” etc. 

1

63

Bendiner, Elmer, “Elizabeth Blackwell: ‘Heresy with Intelligence'” 

1

64

Bock, Gisela, “Historisches Fragen nach Frauen,” 1983 

1

65

Bornstein, Berta, “The Analysis of a Phobic Child” 

1

66

Boswell, John, “Revolutions, Universals and Sexual Categories” 

1

67

Boylan, Anne M., “Toward a Typology of Women’s Organizations: 

1

68

Boylan, Anne M., “Women and Politics in the Era before Seneca Falls” 

1

69

Bridenthal, Renate, “The Effect of Women’s History on Traditional Historigraphy…twentieth century Europe,” 1974 

1

70

Brooks-Higginbotham, Evelyn, “The Problem of Race in Women’s History,” 1989 

1

71

Broverman, Inge K., “Sex Role Stereotypes and Clinical Judgments,” 1970 

1

72

Brown, Richard D., “Modernization and the Modern Personality in Early America” 

1

73

Bunkle, Phillida, a historical study on women (no title) 

1

74

Burstyn, Joan N., two articles on Higher Education for Women in England, 1972, 1973 

1

75

Cammann, Schuyler, “Islamic and Indian Magic Squares,” 1969 

1

76

Castle, Terry 

1

77

Chambers, Lyn, “Mother-Daughter Relationshiops in Nineteenth-century America,” 1976 

2

1

Clover, Carol J., “Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film,” 1987 

2

2

Cook, Blanche Wiesen, “American Justifications for Military Massacres…” and “Emma Goldman and Crystal Eastman” 

2

3

Cook, Blanche Wiesen, “The Personal is the Political: Women, Alternative Lifestyles and Political Activism,” 1976, and a review on lesbiana, 1978 

2

4

Coryell, Janet L., “Neither Heroine nor Fool: Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland,” dissertation abstract, 1987 

2

5

Cowan, Ruth Schwartz, two papers 

2

6

Crane, Elaine F., “The World of Elizabeth Drinker” 

2

7

Curry, Richard O., “The Abolitionists and Reconstruction: A Critical Appraisal” 

2

8

Davis, Natalie Zemon, “The Sacred and Conjugal Sesuality in Sixteenth-Century Lyon” and two other papers 

2

9

DeJean, Joan, two articles on Sappho, 1987 

2

10

Delattre, Roland, “The Rituals of Humanity and the Rhythms of Reality 

2

11

Demos, John, “Reflections on the History of the Family 

2

12

Di Leonardo, Micaela, “The Female World of Cards and Holidays: Women, Families, and the Work of Kinship” 

2

13

Dobkin, Marjorie Housepian, “M. Carey Thomas: Childhood and Adolescent Influences on the Growth of a Feminist Consciousness, ” 1976 

2

14

Dunn, Mary Maples, “Women of Light” 

2

15

Eckols, Alice, “New Feminism” 

2

16

Elder, Glen H., Jr., two papers 

2

17

Ellis, Havelock, “Sexual Inversion in Women” 

2

18

Epstein, Cynthia Fuchs, six articles 

2

19

Farley, Pamela, “Bitch–and Man on the Run” 

2

20

Farley, Pamela, “Developments in the Conception of the Bitch as American Heroine” 

2

21

Faust, Drew Gilpin, “Men and Women in Nineteenth-century America,” 1974 

2

22

Faust, Drew Gilpin, “The Altars of Sacrifice, or How Confederate Women Lost the Civil War” 

2

23

Fee, Elizabeth, “Science vs. Feminists: women and their skulls” 

2

24

Fine, Michelle, “Bein’ Wrapped too Tight: when Low-income Women Drop out of High School” 

2

25

Formisano, Ronald P., two articles, 1976 

2

26

Foster, Lawrence, “Between Two WOrlds: Anthropological Perspectives on the Development of Alternative Marriage 

2

27

Fried, Michael, “Courbet’s ‘Femininity,” 1988 

2

28

Friedlander, Judith, “The Role of the State in the Segregation of the Sexes: the U. S. Example,” 1988 

2

29

Friedman, Cornelia Morrison, two articles, 1972 

2

30

Gilbert, Sandra M., “Costumes of the Mind: Transvestism as Metaphor in Modern Literature” 1980 

2

31

Goerler, Raimund E., “Family, Psychology, and History 

2

32

Goldin, Claudia, three papers on women, marriage, and labor, 1979-1988 

2

33

Goodman, Bernice, two papers on lesbians 

2

34

Gordon, Ann D., et. al., “Women in American Society,” 1971 

2

35

Gordon, Linda, two articles and two papers on sexism and voluntary motherhood, 1970-1973 

2

36

Gove, Walter R., “Adult Sex Roles and Mental Illness,” 1973 

2

37

Griffin, Susan, “Rape: The All-American Crime,” and “Her Body,” 1973 

2

38

Gubar, Susan, “Blessings in Disguise,” [after 1979] 

2

39

Gundersheimer, Werner L., “A Radical Feminist in the Italian Renaissance: Bartolommeo Goggio of Ferrara,” n.d. 

2

40

Haines, Patricia Foster, “Equality of Coeducational Opportunity: Historical Perspectives from Cornell University, 1871-1921” 

2

41

Hall, David D., two articles, 1975 

2

42

Haller, John S., Jr., “Neurasthenia,” 1971 

2

43

Hannon, Joan Underhill, “Uses of Poorhouse in Nineteenth Century New York State,” 1985 

2

44

Hantover, Jeffrey P., “Manliness and Citizenship” and “Masculine Affirmation and the Boy Scouts,” 1976 

2

45

Haraway, Donna, “Situated Knowledge: The Science Question in Feminism as a site of Discourse on the Prividge of Partial Perspective,” 1987 

2

46

Harding, Sandra, “The Science Question in Feminism,” n.d. 

2

47

Hareven, Tamara K., “The Family as Process: the Historical Study of the Family Cycle, ” 1974 

2

48

Hart, Linda, “Mabou Mines’ Lear,” 1990 

2

49

Hartmann, Heidi I., “The Family as the Locus of Gender, Class, 

2

50

Hartsock, Nancy C. M., “Men, Women, War, and Politics,” n.d. 

2

51

Hoenig, J., et. al., “Social and Economic Aspects of Transsexualism,” 1970 

2

52

Holt, W. Stull, “Some Consequences of the Urban Movement in American History,” 1953 

2

53

Horner, Matina S., “Toward an Understanding of Achievement-related Conflicts in Women,” 1973 

2

54

Horney, Karen, “The Problem of Feminine” 

2

55

Hunt, Lynd, “Family Narrative and Political Discourse in Revolutionary France and America, ” 1988 

2

56

Hyme, Dell H., “Ethnolonguistic Study of Classroom Discourse,” 1982 

2

57

James, Janet Wilson, “Origins and Backgrounds of Modern Nursing from about 1850,” n.d. 

2

58

James, Selma, “Sex, Race and Working Class Power,” 1975 

2

59

Jehlen, Myra,”New World Epics: the Novel and the Middle-Class in America” and another paper 

2

60

Jeklin, Myra, a paper re Marxism and feminism 

2

61

Joffe, Carole, “Sexual Politics and the Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Worker,” 1990 

2

62

Johnson, Richard Christian, “Anthony Comstock: Reform, Vice, and the American Way,” 1973 

2

63

Kammen, Carol, “The Problem of Professional Careers for Women: Letters of Juanita Breckenridge, 1872-1893” 

2

64

Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, “The De-Housewifing of Women,” and two other papers, 1974 

2

65

Kasson, Joy S., “Images of American Women: the Pressures of the Ideal” 

2

66

Katz, Michael B., “Fertility, Class, and Industrial Capitalism: Erie County, New York, 1855-1915,” 1979 

2

67

Keller, Evelyn Fox, “Gender and Science,” 1978 

2

68

Keller, Suzanne, “Does the Family have a Future?” 

2

69

Kett, Joseph F., “Curing the Disease of Precocity” 

2

70

Kieffer, Carolynne M., “The Never-Married Mature Academic Woman: A Life History Analysis Abstract,” project proposal, 1978 

2

71

Kleinberg, Susan, “Women’s Work: the Lives of Working Class Women in Pittsburgh, 1870-1900,” 1974 

2

72

Knauer, Louise T., “Candidate files of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Mission, 1815-1900” 

3

1

Koonz, Claudia, “Women Legislators and Women’s Law in Weimar Germany, 1919-1933” 

3

2

Lane, Ann, “Mary Ritter Beard: Feminist Historian 

3

3

Language bibliographies by Nancy Hewitt and Roland A. Delattre, 1977 

3

4

Larson, Sue, “What Benefits a Woman” 

3

5

Leacock, Eleanor, “Women, Social Evolution, and Errors, Crude and Subtle” 

3

6

Lee, Lynn H., “The Transformations of the Irish Religious Mentality in the Nineteenth Century,” 1975 

3

7

Lerner, Gerda, three articles on women 

3

8

Levy, Robert H., “The Rural Domestic in Pennsylvania in 1850 

3

9

Lidz, Ruth, “Woman and her Womb” 

3

10

Lipman-Blumen, Jean, “Religious Affiliation, Female Role Ideology and Level of Educational Aspiration among Women,” 1971 

3

11

Lutzky, Harriet, three papers and one article, with correspondence, 1989 

3

12

Maccoby, Eleanor E., “Role-taking in Childhood and its Consequences for Social Learning” 

3

13

Madden, Janice Fanning, “Discrimination of Male Market Power?” 

3

14

Mankoff, Milton, “Societal Reaction and Career Deviance: a Critical Analysis,” 1971 

3

15

Martin, Biddy, “Woman and Modernity,” and a paper 

3

16

Martin, Emily, “Premenstrual Syndrome: Discipline, Work and Anger in Late Industrial Societies” 

3

17

Massa, Ann, “Black Woman in the ‘White City'” 

3

18

Mathews, Donald G., “Religion in the Old South” 

3

19

McCarthy, Esther, “Catholic Women and War: the National Council of Catholic Women, 1919-1946,” 1976 

3

20

McCrea, Frances B. and Gerald E. Markle, “The Estrogen Replacement Controversy in the United States and Great 

3

21

McIntosh, Glenda Riley, “The Origins of the Feminist Movement in America,” 1973 

3

22

McNamara, Jo Ann, “Sanctity and Power: the Dual Pursuit of Medieval Women” 

3

23

Michaels, Walter Benn, “The Veil, the Mask, and the Invisible Empire: Representation of Race in the Gilden Age” 

3

24

Mitscherlich-Nielsen, M., “Psychoanalysis and Female Sexuality,” 1975 

3

25

Montgomery, Maureen, project proposal, “The Gendering of Leisure: Women in the New York Leisure Class, 1870- 

3

26

Mullan, John, “Hypochondria and Hysteria: Sensibility and the Physicians” 

3

27

Musallam, Basim F., “The Islamic Sanction of Contraception” and a paper, 1973, 1974 

3

28

Neu, Charles E., “Olympia Brown and the Woman’s Suffrage Movement,” 1960 

3

29

Nissenbaum, Stephen, “The New Chastity in America, 1830-1840” 

3

30

O’Flaherty, Wendy, “The Splitting of the Indo-European Woman,” 1984 

3

31

Oren, Laura, “The Family Economy of the Laboring Poor” 

3

32

Ortner, Sherry B., “Oedipal Father, Mother’s Brother, and the Penis” 

3

33

Ortner, Sherry B., “On Key Symbols” 

3

34

Papanek, Hanna, “Purdah in Pakistan: Seclusion and Modern Occupations for Women,” 1971 

3

35

Paquet, Sandra Pouchet, “The Ancestor as Foundation in Their Eyes were Watching God and Tar Baby” 

3

36

Parlee, Mary Brown, “The ‘Premenstrual Syndrome’,” 1973 

3

37

Parsons, Talcott, “The Kinship System of The Contemporary United States” 

3

38

Peal, Ethel, “Marriage: Jacksonian Style” 

3

39

Pessen, Edward, “The Marital Theory and Practice of the Antebellum Urban Elite,” 1972, and another article 

3

40

Pleck, Joseph H., “Man to Man: is Brotherhood Possible?” and another paper 

3

41

Rapp, Rayna, “Amniocentesis” 

3

42

Remer, Rosalind, “Reaching the Country: Book Marketing and Distribution in Philadelphia Publishing, 1800-1830,” 1990 

3

43

Rhys, Isaac, “A Dramaturgy of Sources: Notes on Units of Description in Ethnographic History” 

3

44

Roelker, Nancy L., “The Appeal of Calvinism to French Noblewomen in the Sixteenth Century” 

3

45

Roemer, Kenneth M., “Sex Roles, Utopia and change,” 1972 

3

46

Roeske, Nancy, “Social Issues: Women and Psychiatry,” 1975 

3

47

Rosen, Ruth, “‘The Lost Sisterhood’: an Analysis of the Causes of Prostitution,” 1976 

3

48

Rosenberg, Charles E., “And Heal the Sick: the Hospital and the Patient in the 19th Century America” and “The Therapeutic Revolution,” 1976 

3

49

Rosenberg, Miriam, “The Biologic Basis for Sex Role Stereotypes,” 1973 

3

50

Rosenberg, Rosalind, “Charity Lost: The Shift from Voluntarism to Paid Work Among American Women” and “The Academic Prism,” 1976 

3

51

Rosenhan, Mollie Schwartz, “Women’s Studies and Feminism: Ideological Conflict in the Academy” 

3

52

Rossi, S. Alice, “The Blackwell Clan” and three other papers 

3

53

Rotella, Elyce J., “Occupational Segregation and the Supply of Women to the American Clerical Labor Force, 1870-1930,” 1974 

3

54

Ruether, Rosemary Radford, “Faminist Theoloty and Spirituality,” 1983, and “The Bitter Fruit: Heredity, Disease, and Social Thought in 19th-century America” 

3

55

Ryan, Mary P., “The Power of Women’s Networks: a Case Study of Female Moral Reform in Antebellum America” 

3

56

Sanday, Peggy R., “Toward a Theory of the Status of Women” 

3

57

Schatzman, Morton, “Paranoia or Persecution: the Case of Schreber” 

3

58

Schwartz, Hillel, “Adolescence and Revivals in Anti-Bellum Boston” 

3

59

Scott, Anne Firor, “American Women in the 18th Century” and two articles 

3

60

Scott, Joan W., “Gender: a Useful Category of Historical Analysis,” 1985 and another paper 

3

61

Scott, Joan W., “Women’s Work and the Family in Nineteenth Century Europe,” 1973 

3

62

Seiden, Anne M., “Black Rage in White Women: Problems in Mother-Daughter Reationships,” 1973 

3

63

Seiden, Anne, “Is Anatomy Destiny?” 1973, and another paper 

3

64

Shainess, Natalie, “IMages of Woman: Past and Present, Overt and Obscured,” 1969 

3

65

Sherman, Julia A., “Sex Bias and Sex-role Stereotyping in Psychotherapeutic Practice” 

3

66

Shorter, Edward, “Has a Desire to Limit Fertility always Existed?” 1980 

3

67

Sicherman, Barbara, “The Paradox of Prudence: Mental Health in the Gilded Age,” 1976, and two other papers 

3

68

Simmons, Christina,rity Rejected: the New Sex Freedom of the Twenties,” 1976 

3

69

Simon, Bennett, “Hysteria – The Greek Disease” and “Models of Mind and Mental Illness in Ancient Greece: II. The Platonic Model” 

3

70

Sklar, Kathryn Kish, “American Women Historians in Context, 1770-1930” and “The American Household” 

3

71

Sklar, Kathryn Kish, “The Founding of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary: a Case Study in Change in the History of Female Education in New England, 1790-1837,” 1976 

3

72

Slater, Miriam, “Female Friendships and the Emergence of Professionalism” 

3

73

Smith, Hilda, “Ideology and Gynecology in 17ty England” 

3

74

Spiegel, Gabrielle M., “Social Change and Literary Language,” 1987 

3

75

Spiegel, Gabrielle, “Genealogy: Form and Function in Medieval Historical Narrative” and two articles 

3

76

Spiegel, Gaby, “History, Historicism and the Social Logic of the Text in the Middle Ages” 

3

77

Spillers, Hortense J., “Interstices: a Small Drama of Words,” 1983 

3

78

Stameta, “Metaphors of Household Strategy” 

3

79

Stannard, Una, “Adam’s Rib, or the Woman Within” and “Married Women V. Husbands’ Names” 

3

80

Stansell, Christine, book project prospectus 

3

81

Stein, Judith, “The Image of Sappho in Nineteenth Century Painting,” syllabus, 1974 

3

82

Stimpson, Catherine R., “The Mind, the Body, and Gertrude Stein,” 1976 

3

83

Stone, Lawrence, “The Rise of the Nuclear Family in Early Modern England” 

4

1

Strouse, Jean, “Semiprivate Lives” 

4

2

Taylor, Barbara, “The Woman-Power” 

4

3

Taylor, William R., “Two ‘Kindred Spirit’: Sorority and Family in New England, 1839-1846” 

4

4

Trey, J. E., “Women in the War Economy–World War II,” 1973 

4

5

Valentine, John Howard, “Alienation and the Family History” 

4

6

Vine, Phyllis, “The Social Function of Eighteenth-Century Higher Education,” 1976 

4

7

Vinovskis, Maris and Dean May, “A Ray of Millenial Light: Early Education and Social Reform in the Infant School Movement 

4

8

Vinovskis, Maris, “Trends in Massachusetts Education, 1826-1860,” 1972 

4

9

Waite, R. G. L., “Adolf Hitler’s Guilt Feelings: A Problem in History and Psychology” 

4

10

Walkowitz, Judith R., “Jack the Ripper and the Myth of Male Violence” and “The Making of an Outcast Group” 

4

11

Walters, Ron, “Sexual Matters as Historical Problems,” 1974 

4

12

Ward, Richard and Dorothy C. Wertz, “Childbirth as Disease” 

4

13

Warner Modular Publication articles, 1964-1973 

4

14

Weinstein, Fred, “Toward a Psychosocial Theory of Change: Events and Affects,” 1976 

4

15

Weiss, Nancy Pottishman, “”Mother, the Invention of Necessity” and “A Case Study in Women’s Voluntary Networks” 

4

16

Weitzman, Lenore J., “Legal Regulation of Marriage: Tradition and Change,” 1974 

4

17

Wellman, Judith, four papers on the Seneca Falls Woman’s Rights Convention 

4

18

Wellman, Judith, one paper and one article 

4

19

Wellman, Judith, “Some Thoughts on the Psychohistorical Study of Women,” 1976, and “Simple Descriptive Statistics for Social 

4

20

Wells, Robert V., “American Family Size and Composition over Two Centuries” 

4

21

Welter, Barbara, “Anti-Intellectualism and the American Woman: 1800-1860” and “The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820-1860” 

4

22

Williams, Raymond, “Marxism and Literature” 

4

23

Wolman, Carol, and Hal Frank, “The Solo Woman in a Professional Peer Group,” 1972 

4

24

Woloch, Nancy Spelman, “Women in Reform: the Autobiography of Protest” 

4

25

Wood, Ann Douglas, “‘The Fashionable Diseases’: Women’s Complaints and Their Treatment in Nineteenth Century America,” “The War Within a War: Women Nurses in the Union Army” and “How Liberation of Women Can Improve Higher Education” 

4

26

Wright, Marcia, “Women in Peril: A Commentary Upon the Life Stories of Three Women of East-Central Africa” 

4

27

Zaleznik, Abraham, “Decision, Coalitions, and the Economy of the Self” 

4

28

Zeitlin, Froma I., “The Dynamics of Misogyny: Myth and Mythmaking in the Oresteia of Aeschylus” 

4

29

Zeitlin, Froma I., “Travesties of Gender and Genre in Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazousae,” with comments by Smith-Rosenberg 

4

30

Zuckerman, Harriet, and Jonathan R. Cole, “Women in American Science,” 1975 

4

31

Zuckerman, Michael, four articles, 1976-1978 

4

32