CFP: Gender & History Special Issue on Food and Sovereignty EXTENDED DEADLINE
Call for Proposals (New Deadline of October 15)
Special issue: Food and Sovereignty
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
CfA USHMM Faculty Seminar: LGBTQ+ Histories of the Holocaust
The 2021 Jack and Anita Hess Faculty Seminar focuses on the history of LGBTQ+ people during the Holocaust, as well as the continued relevance of this history to understanding the discrimination that queer and trans people face today. The seminar will explore how the Nazi state persecuted, incarcerated, and interned men in concentration camps for the supposed crime of consensual sex with other men under §175 of the criminal code, with at least 5,000 perishing at the hands of Nazi state agents.
Call for Papers CULTURAL HERITAGE INSTITUTIONS IN POPULAR CULTURE Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
Call for Papers CULTURAL HERITAGE INSTITUTIONS IN POPULAR CULTURE Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA) 42nd Annual Conference, Week of February 22-27, 2021 http://www.southwestpca.org Submissions Open September 1, 2020 Submission Deadline: November 13, 2020
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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
CFP: Gender & History Special Issue on Food and Sovereignty EXTENDED DEADLINE
Call for Proposals (New Deadline of October 15)
Special issue: Food and Sovereignty
A Message from H-Net's Officers and Executive Council
Dear H-Net Community,
H-Net Job Guide from 21 September 2020 to 28 September 2020
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from
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HUMAN RIGHTS
Hagley Center Virtual Fall Conference/November 5 and 6, 2020
“Capitalism and the Senses” is the theme of the Hagley Library’s fall conference, held virtually on November 5 and 6, 2020
Pologued: New Podcast from the Ohio State University analyzes the myth of the women's bloc
Prologued is a serial podcast from Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective. With amazing stories and remarkable guests, Prologued offers in-depth discussions of the historical roots of the world today—a past that has often been lost, ignored, or misconstrued. Each season we reconstruct the history of a major issue that confronts society now: to explain how we got here and to reveal a path forward. Join us for insight and entertainment about the past, present, and future.
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