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 Margarita Sierra Hurtado on Tuesday, May 31, 2022

CFP "Gender and Politics"

Colombia Internacional

School of Social Sciences, Political Science Department Universidad de los Andes (Colombia)

Call Gender and politics

Guests editors: Lina Álvarez Ph. D, Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), Angelika Rettberg Ph. D, Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) and José Fernando Serrano Ph. D, Universidad de los Andes (Colombia)

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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 Monday, June 27, 2022

H-Net Job Guide from 20 June 2022 to 27 June 2022

he following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from
20 June 2022 to 27 June 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,
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