CFP: Boston Seminar on the History of Women, Gender, & Sexuality
Call for Proposals
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
AHA: Seeking Panelists: New Perspectives on Women and Slavery in the Atlantic World
Greetings,
I am organizing a panel for the 2020 annual meeting of the American Historical Association which brings together scholars who are interested in presenting new research about women and slavery in the Atlantic world. My own research examines English female expatriates who lived in Royal African Company forts and castles on the West African littoral during the slave trade era. If you are interested in joining me, please send the following to me via email (sejr@berkeley.edu) by February 1, 2019:
CFP: Seeking Panelists for "Marital Economies in Early America" for AHA 2020
We are seeking contributors for a panel on "Marital Economies in Early America" at the AHA 2020 in NYC. The exact description will be determined by the final composition of the panel.
CFP: Seeking a Presenter for a Panel on U.S. Women Who Brought Down Powerful Men (for OAH 2020)
I am looking for a third presenter for a panel on U.S. women who brought down powerful men in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The first paper will address the New York Female Benevolent Society's lawsuit against a fellow moral reformer in the 1830s. The second paper will be on the first all-female city government in Kansas in the early 1900s.
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Recent Book Reviews
Harrington-Lueker on Groeneveld, 'Making Feminist Media: Third-Wave Magazines on the Cusp of the Digital Age'
The following book review from JHistory may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Elizabeth Groeneveld
Reviewer:
Donna Harrington-Lueker
Elizabeth Groeneveld. Making Feminist Media: Third-Wave Magazines on the Cusp of the Digital Age. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2015. 250 pp. $36.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-77112-120-0.
Vuic on Dumenil, 'The Second Line of Defense: American Women and World War I'
The following book review from H-SHGAPE may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Lynn Dumenil
Reviewer:
Kara Dixon Vuic
Lynn Dumenil. The Second Line of Defense: American Women and World War I. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. 360 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-3121-9.
Crowe on Liles and Boswell, 'Women in Civil War Texas: Diversity and Dissidence in the Trans-Mississippi'
The following book review from H-Texas may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Debbie M. Liles, Angela Boswell, eds.
Reviewer:
Rebekah Crowe
Debbie M. Liles, Angela Boswell, eds. Women in Civil War Texas: Diversity and Dissidence in the Trans-Mississippi. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2016. Illustrations, maps. 336 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-57441-651-0.
Masson on Peirce, 'Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire'
The following book review from H-War may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Leslie Peirce
Reviewer:
Gemma Masson
Leslie Peirce. Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire. New York: Basic Books, 2017. 368 pp. $32.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-465-03251-8.
Shepardson on Gristwood, 'Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe'
The following book review from H-War may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Sarah Gristwood
Reviewer:
Nikki Shepardson
Sarah Gristwood. Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe. New York: Basic Books, 2016. Illustrations. 400 pp. $28.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-465-09678-7.
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Recent Discussions
CFP: Boston Seminar on the History of Women, Gender, & Sexuality
Call for Proposals
AHA: Seeking Panelists: New Perspectives on Women and Slavery in the Atlantic World
Greetings,
I am organizing a panel for the 2020 annual meeting of the American Historical Association which brings together scholars who are interested in presenting new research about women and slavery in the Atlantic world. My own research examines English female expatriates who lived in Royal African Company forts and castles on the West African littoral during the slave trade era. If you are interested in joining me, please send the following to me via email (sejr@berkeley.edu) by February 1, 2019:
CFP: Seeking Panelists for "Marital Economies in Early America" for AHA 2020
We are seeking contributors for a panel on "Marital Economies in Early America" at the AHA 2020 in NYC. The exact description will be determined by the final composition of the panel.