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+ | # Reinterpreting the âsacred textsâ of America (The Declaration of Independence, | ||
+ | # Nature and nation: âOldâ and âNew Americanistâ ideas of the land and the mission | ||
+ | # The intellectual history of women: discussing Puritan subversion, separate spheres, womenâs history, citizenship, | ||
+ | # The âpictorial turnâ | ||
+ | # Visual | ||
+ | # The social construction of the visual and the visual construction of the social in American culture | ||
+ | # Gender and visual representation (empowerment and disempowerment of vision)Â | ||
+ | # Race and visual representation (empowerment and disempowerment of vision)Â | ||
+ | # US women religious leaders and their impact | ||
+ | # Racial tokenism in the visual arts: television and film | ||
+ | # Black market commodities and their necessity in American commerce | ||
+ | # The âAmerican Dreamâ vs. American socio-reality | ||
+ | # Major religions that are still recognized as cults | ||
+ | # Womenâs depection in mass media and and its role in female emancipation. | ||
+ | # Marginilization of American women in religious movements | ||
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+ | == recommended readings | ||
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+ | Althen, Gary (with Doran Amanda and Szmania Susan), American Ways, 2nd Edition, Intercultural Press, 2003. | ||
+ | Ehrenreich, Barbara, Bait and Switch: The Futile Pursuit of the American Dream. Holt, 2005. | ||
+ | Ehrenreich, Barbara, Nickel and Dimed. Holt, 2001. | ||
+ | Rothstein, Bo, Social Traps and the Problem of Trust (Theories of Institutional Design). Cambridge University Press, 2005. | ||
+ | McFarlane, C. K., ed., Readings in Intellectual History: The American Tradition. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970. | ||
+ | Hollinger, David A., and Charles Capper, ed., The American Intellectual Tradition, IâII. New York: Oxford UP, 1997. | ||
+ | Pease, Donald E., ed., National Identities and Post-Americanist Narratives. Durham: Duke University Press, 1994. | ||
+ | Schlosser, Eric, Fast Food Nation. Penguin Books, 2002. | ||
+ | Harley, Gail M., Emma Curtis Hopkins: Forgotten Founder of New Thought. Syracuse UP, 2002. | ||
+ | Macionis, John, Social Problems (4th edition). Prentice Hall, 2009. | ||
+ | Kerber, Linda K., No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies. Women and the Obligations of Citizenship. New York: Hill and Wang, 1998. | ||
+ | Kerber, Linda K., Towards an Intellectual History of Women. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1997. | ||
+ | Kerber, Linda K., Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1980. | ||
+ | Kerber, Linda K., Alice Kessler-Harris and Kathryn Kish Sklar, U. S. History as Womenâs History. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1995. | ||
+ | Kerber, Linda K., and Jane Sherron de Hart, Womenâs America. Refocusing the Past. New York: Oxford UP, 1995. | ||
+ | Mooney, Linda, D. Knox, and C. Schacht, Understanding Social Problems (7th edition). Wadsworth, 2010. | ||
+ | Maddox, Lucy, ed., Locating American Studies. The Evolution of a Discipline. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1999. | ||
+ | Baker Eddy, Mary, Manual of the Mother Church (The First Church of Christ Scientist in Boston, Massachusetts). IndyPublish, | ||
+ | Machin, David, and Theo van Leeuwen, Global Media Discourse. Routledge, 2007Â | ||
+ | Horwitz, Richard P., ed., The American Studies Anthology. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 2001. | ||
+ | Phillip, Rayner, Peter Wall, Stephan Kruger, Media Studies: The Essential Resource. Routledge, 2004Â | ||
+ | Kephart, William, and W. Zellner, Extraordinary Groups: An Examination of Unconventional Lifestyles, 5th ed. St. Martinâs Press, 1993. | ||
+ | Kornblum, William, and J. Julian, Social Problems (13th edition). Prentice Hall, 2008. |
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