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
DEADLINE EXTENDED: Call for Papers: 27th Annual James A. Barnes Graduate History Conference at Temple University March 18-19, 2022
The James A. Barnes Club, Temple University's graduate student history organization, is pleased to announce the 27th Annual Barnes Club Graduate Student History Conference. The event will feature a keynote address from the chair of the history department at Macalester College, Dr. Walter Greason, author of International Segregation and Cities Imagined: The African Diaspora in Media and History.
CFP : "Global Histories of Menstruation and Menopause" - Special Issue of the Journal of Women's History
Call for Submissions to a Special Issue : “Global Histories of Menstruation and Menopause” for the Journal of Women’s History
Call for Papers: Moral/Economies (deadline extended)
Guest Editor: Bethany Moreton, Dartmouth College
Call for Papers: A Century of Gender Equality Struggles in Turkey: Feminist History Revisited
Apologies for cross-posting
Call for Papers for the Special Issue
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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 10 January 2022 to 17 January 2022
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from
10 January 2022 to 17 January 2022. 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
https://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.
Angela Merkel: The Legacy
Angela Merkel: The Legacy
International Conference
( Zoom sessions:2 days-Virtual platform:5 days)
Thematic Approach
GIRES, the Global Institute for Research Education & Scholarship wishes to explore the life and legacy of Angela Merkel, one of the most influential and controversial leaders of the 21st century.
New Peer-reviewed Paper to Read.
Happy New Year for 2022.
Dear History of Women List Members,
Just to inform you that a new peer-reviewed paper has been published, in Academia Letters, explaining the methodology for deciphering the language and writing system for the Medieval manuscript MS408 (Ischia, Voynich). The paper is titled: The Manuscript and the Meandering Mind. There are many pages of useful historical information yet to be translated. The mansucript includes much information about the women of Ischia, Vulcano and Lipari.
global book talk: Women at Universities in East-Central Europe: In a Search for New Narratives. Wednesday, January 27, 18:00-20:00 CET / 20:00-22:00 MSK/ 12:00-14:00 EST
gender history / hps.cesee global book talk: Women at Universities in East-Central Europe: In a Search for New Narratives, with Martina Bečvářová (Prague), Aleksandra Derra (Toruń), Anna Maria Kola (Toruń), Jan Surman (Prague). Wednesday, January 27, 18:00-20:00 CET / 20:00-22:00 MSK/ 12:00-14:00 EST
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