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.
The Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at the University of Rochester will hold a two-day writing collective on October 25-26, 2019. The writing collective will provide a lively platform for graduate students to workshop a paper with fellow graduate students and faculty from multiple institutions.
Transverse Disciplines:
Panel Proposal for SCMS 2020 Conference
WOMEN, GENDER, AND FAМILIES OF COLOR
“Transing Academia: Scholarship for Social Change.” A Transdisciplinary Graduate Symposium. Drew University, Madison NJ. 28 February 2020
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from
12 August 2019 to 19 August 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.msu.edu, or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time.
WOMEN, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY
The World Wings International, Inc. Research Grant
Since its first international flight in 1927, Pan Am positioned itself as a world leader in American commercial aviation. Formed in 1959, World Wings International, Inc. (WWI) is an association of former Pan Am flight attendants that now dedicates itself to charitable activities. This collection includes the administrative records of the organization as well as scrapbooks, photographs, membership and annual meetings files, correspondence, and financial records.
The Institute of French Studies (IFS) and the Department of History at New York University invite applications for a position in Modern French History at the rank of Associate Professor, beginning September 1, 2020. We are seeking to hire a historian of the twentieth century whose research considers France’s connections with other parts of the world and ideally explores questions of gender and sexuality.
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from
5 August 2019 to 12 August 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.msu.edu, or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time.
WOMEN, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY
