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
Call for Papers Special issue of Southern Cultures: The Women’s Issue
Call for Papers
Special issue of Southern Cultures: The Women’s Issue
CFP: Canadian Association of African Studies 2020
Type:
Panel Call for Papers
Due Date:
TBD
Conference and Location:
Canadian Association of African Studies Conference 2020, London, Ontario, Canada
Subject Fields:
19th Century / Colonial / Geographic Region, Sub-Saharan Africa / Subject, History / Subject, Settler Colonialism / Subject, Gender / Subject, Race / Subject, Indigenous
CFP: The Unexpected Caribbean
Attn: Scholars of women, gender, and sexuality studies, please review the following publication opportunity for a special guest-edited issue of Women, Gender, and Families of Color (University of Illinois Press).
CfP: The Ends of Text (May 2020, UPenn)
We invite paper proposals for the Journal of the History of Ideas' second annual graduate student symposium on "The Ends of Text", to take place on May 1, 2020. Please see the full call for papers here.
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Recent Book Reviews
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.
Atkins on Miller and Copeland, 'Diva Nation'
The following book review from H-Japan may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Laura Miller, Rebecca L. Copeland, eds.
Reviewer:
E. T. Atkins
Laura Miller, Rebecca L. Copeland, eds. Diva Nation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018. xvii + 242 pp. $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-520-29773-9.
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.
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.
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
H-Net Job Guide from 11 November 2019 to 18 November 2019
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from
11 November 2019 to 18 November 2019. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-Women. See the H-Net Job Guide website at
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information. To contact the Job Guide,
write to jobguide@mail.h-net.org, or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time.
WOMEN, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY
New Paper for Your Interest.
Dear History of Women Scholars,
Just to let you know that a new paper has been issued: Plant Series, No. 4. Euphorbia myrsinites: https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/004880 This is the latest instalment in our series of papers about the use of plants as medicines and foods, from the borderlands of the Mediterranean Basin, translated from a 15th century manuscript, written by women.
One month left to apply for ICSI Seminars with NOAM CHOMSKY, SASKIA SASSEN, & EYAL WEIZMAN
One month left to apply for ICSI Seminars with NOAM CHOMSKY, SASKIA SASSEN, & EYAL WEIZMAN
Schlesinger Library Grants 2020-2021
SCHLESINGER LIBRARY GRANTS
Hortense J. Spillers papers available for research (Brown University)
The Pembroke Center’s Feminist Theory Archive and the John Hay Library at Brown University are proud to announce that the Hortense J.
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