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Call for Proposals for North American Editorial Office for the Journal
Gender & History
Call for Papers
for an international workshop titled
Disciplining the Modern Family: Gender, State, and Society
The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities
The Zvi Yavetz School of Historical Studies
January 2-4, 2018
Ways of Knowing 2017
This year marks the 40th Anniversary of the 1977 National Women’s Conference, the domestic answer to the United Nations’ International Women’s Year initiative. The Houston Conference, as it came to be known, was the largest federally mandated gathering of American women in history. On this occasion, 2000 delegates elected from fifty states and six territories and roughly 16,000 observers came together to craft a twenty-six plank National Plan of Action, submitted to President Jimmy Carter in 1978. The conference remains one of the most imaginative and wide-ranging exercises in civic enga
