H-Women's purpose is to enable historians more easily to discuss research interests, teaching methods, and the state of the field and historiography of women's studies. H-Women is especially interested in methods of teaching history to graduate and undergraduate students in diverse settings.

Recent Calls

Discussion published by Saskia Roberts on Monday, May 29, 2023

Extended Call For Papers (closes 29 May!): 'Gender and Joy in History', ACU Melbourne/online, 27-28 September 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS: GENDER AND JOY IN HISTORY, LILITH: A FEMINIST HISTORY JOURNAL SYMPOSIUM 2023

‘Gender and Joy in History’ is a symposium aimed at counterposing the common scholarly focus on catastrophe and crisis of recent years. Lilith: A Feminist History Journal now calls for scholars in all areas of gender and feminist history to consider questions about how women, feminists and gender diverse people have found joy, strength, resilience, inspiration, love, happiness and transcendence in the past.  

Discussion published by Kathleen Comerford on Monday, May 29, 2023

Call for Papers, Renaissance Society of America Conference, Chicago, IL, March 21-23, 2024

The Renaissance Society of America (RSA) has announced that it will accept proposals for individual presentation proposals and complete panels for its annual conference, to be held March 21-23, 2024, in Chicago, IL (USA).  The Journal of Jesuit Studies regularly organizes up to five panels at this conference.  We are looking to organize panels in any aspect of Jesuit studies in any region, up to the year 1700.  (Please note: submission by the JJS does not guarantee acceptance to the program, as we are not an affiliated society.)

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Recent Book Reviews

Discussion published by Jessie Frazier on Thursday, August 1, 2019

Bowers on Juárez Almendros, 'Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature: Prostitutes, Aging Women and Saints'

The following book review from H-Disability may be of interest to some H-Women list members.

Author: 

Encarnación Juárez Almendros

Reviewer: 

Kristy Wilson Bowers

Encarnación Juárez Almendros. Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature: Prostitutes, Aging Women and Saints. Cambridge: Liverpool University Press, 2018. 216 pp. $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78694-078-0.

Discussion published by Jessie Frazier on Thursday, August 1, 2019

Logemann on Knab, 'Wearing the Letter P: Polish Women as Forced Laborers in Nazi Germany, 1939-1945'

The following book review from H-Poland may be of interest to some H-Women list members.

Author: 

Sophie Hodorowicz Knab

Reviewer: 

Daniel Logemann

Sophie Hodorowicz Knab. Wearing the Letter P: Polish Women as Forced Laborers in Nazi Germany, 1939-1945. New York: Hippocrene Books, 2016. ix + 293 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7818-1359-4.

Discussion published by Jessie Frazier on Monday, July 22, 2019

Bowman on Lambert-Hurley, 'Elusive Lives: Gender, Autobiography, and the Self in Muslim South Asia'

The following book review from H-Socialisms may be of interest to some H-Women list members.

Author: 

Siobhan Lambert-Hurley

Reviewer: 

Jack A W Bowman

Siobhan Lambert-Hurley. Elusive Lives: Gender, Autobiography, and the Self in Muslim South Asia. South Asia in Motion Series. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018. 296 pp. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5036-0651-7; $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-0480-3.

Discussion published by Jessie Frazier on Thursday, July 18, 2019

Sumpter on Roggenkamp, 'Sympathy, Madness, and Crime: How Four Nineteenth-Century Journalists Made the Newspaper Women's Business'

The following book review from JHistory may be of interest to some H-Women list members.

Author: 

Karen Roggenkamp

Reviewer: 

Randall Sumpter

Karen Roggenkamp. Sympathy, Madness, and Crime: How Four Nineteenth-Century Journalists Made the Newspaper Women's Business. Kent: Kent State University Press, 2016. 184 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-60635-287-8.

Reviewed by Randall Sumpter (Texas A&M University) Published on Jhistory (July, 2019) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe

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Recent Discussions

Discussion published by Saskia Roberts on Monday, May 29, 2023

Extended Call For Papers (closes 29 May!): 'Gender and Joy in History', ACU Melbourne/online, 27-28 September 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS: GENDER AND JOY IN HISTORY, LILITH: A FEMINIST HISTORY JOURNAL SYMPOSIUM 2023

‘Gender and Joy in History’ is a symposium aimed at counterposing the common scholarly focus on catastrophe and crisis of recent years. Lilith: A Feminist History Journal now calls for scholars in all areas of gender and feminist history to consider questions about how women, feminists and gender diverse people have found joy, strength, resilience, inspiration, love, happiness and transcendence in the past.  

Discussion published by Kathleen Comerford on Monday, May 29, 2023

Call for Papers, Renaissance Society of America Conference, Chicago, IL, March 21-23, 2024

The Renaissance Society of America (RSA) has announced that it will accept proposals for individual presentation proposals and complete panels for its annual conference, to be held March 21-23, 2024, in Chicago, IL (USA).  The Journal of Jesuit Studies regularly organizes up to five panels at this conference.  We are looking to organize panels in any aspect of Jesuit studies in any region, up to the year 1700.  (Please note: submission by the JJS does not guarantee acceptance to the program, as we are not an affiliated society.)

Discussion published by Katja M. Guenther on Tuesday, May 23, 2023

Panel on reproductive justice and sexual agency for disabled people 5/23 @ 3:30PST via Zoom

Dear Colleagues,
 
Please join us on Tuesday, May 23, at 3:30pm PST via Zoom for a thought-provoking conversation about current challenges and opportunities in the struggle for reproductive justice and sexual agency for disabled people in the US.