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 Victoria Skelton on Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Call for Presenter (NACBS 2021 Conference)

Tentatively titled, “Transnational Actors in a Gendered Anglo-World,” our panel seeks to elucidate women’s activism in the transnational space of the Anglo-World. Drawing from James Belich’s identification of an “Anglo-World” created by British settler-colonialism, presenters will explore how women acted as transnational arbiters of causes as diverse as nineteenth-century evangelism through preaching, and colonial women’s espousal of national identities through international feminism during the interwar. 

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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 Simone Pfleger on Tuesday, March 2, 2021

H-Net Job Guide from 22 February 2021 to 1 March 2021

The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from
22 February 2021 to  1 March 2021.  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

Discussion published by Victoria Skelton on Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Call for Presenter (NACBS 2021 Conference)

Tentatively titled, “Transnational Actors in a Gendered Anglo-World,” our panel seeks to elucidate women’s activism in the transnational space of the Anglo-World. Drawing from James Belich’s identification of an “Anglo-World” created by British settler-colonialism, presenters will explore how women acted as transnational arbiters of causes as diverse as nineteenth-century evangelism through preaching, and colonial women’s espousal of national identities through international feminism during the interwar. 

Discussion published by Avi Staiman on Tuesday, March 2, 2021

EVENT: Moving Beyond the Monograph- New and Creative Models of Academic Publication Every Scholar of Humanities Should Know About

Dear H-Women Readers,

I want to invite you to join me for my exclusive interview with Chris Harrison, Publishing Development Director of Humanities and Social Sciences at Cambridge University Press as part of our ongoing 'Publication Success Interview Series'. 

Chris will discuss how Cambridge is moving beyond the monograph to introduce new and creative publication models to fill the gap between academic articles and books. Register to learn more about how you can take advantage of this new forum to publish your research and advance your career.