H-Women

We are looking for a third panelist to complete a panel on gender in the federal government for the 2020 OAH in Washington DC. One of the papers will examine the fate of the Children's Bureau and the women who worked there in the 1950s, and the second paper deals with appeals to female voters in presidential elections in the 1940s and 1950s. We welcome papers working on gender broadly understood, including LGBT history or studies of masculinity, within the government in any period since the Civil War.

We are seeking participants for a panel considering women in radical religious and social movements at times of environmental and economic crisis. Two Swedish social historians, Iréne Flygare and Marja Erikson, have reconstructed the lives of rural women who participated in a religious upheaval that took place in the 1820s and in a radical movement that arose in the wake of harvest failures in the mid-1840s in central Sweden.