H-Women

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.

Reviewed by Kristy Wilson Bowers (University of Missouri) Published on H-Disability (July, 2019) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)

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The

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.

Reviewed by E. T. Atkins (Northern Illinois University) Published on H-Japan (July, 2019) Commissioned by Jessica Starling (Lewis & Clark College)

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If you’re going to write about divas, write like a diva. This was

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.

Reviewed by Daniel Logemann (Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation) Published on H-Poland (July, 2019) Commissioned by Anna Muller (University of Michigan - Dearborn)

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Sophie Hodorowicz

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.

Reviewed by Jack A W Bowman (University of Warwick) Published on H-Socialisms (July, 2019) Commissioned by Gary Roth (Rutgers University - Newark)

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We are happy to announce that Volume 32, Issue 3 of the Nordic Journal of African Studies (NJAS) is now out! It is a special issue on Rethinking Time and Gender in African History, guest edited by Jonna Katto and Heike Becker.

This NJAS special issue seeks to problematize the way that time and gender – and their relationship to each other – is conceptualized in prevailing historical narratives about African pasts. Often we take the notions of time and gender for granted in our practices of research and writing. In this special issue – that brings together scholars from different disciplinary

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Each year the Folger Institute awards research fellowships to create a high-powered, multidisciplinary community of inquiry. This community of researchers may come from different fields, and their projects may find different kinds of expression. But our researchers share cognate interests in the history and literature, art and performance, philosophy, religion, and politics of the early modern world. 

The Folger Institute offers five, long-term fellowships at $70,000 for the

Dear Colleagues:

I am thrilled to announce that When Will the Joy Come? Black Women in the Ivory Tower, edited by Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine, Michelle Dionne Thompson, and Abena Ampofoa Asare (African American Intellectual History - University of Massachusetts Press, 2023) is now available. 30% Discount Code UMASS30.

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What is the New Deal?  During the election of 1932, Americans did not know what it was, but they knew that they wanted whatever it was. Dr. James Kimble’s research is on the history of this term from the time Franklin Delano Roosevelt first spoke it in the summer of 1932 to when he took office in March of 1933. Throughout the campaign season, FDR never defined what the “New Deal” meant and let the voters decide what it meant for themselves. One of the main ways he accomplished this was by reaching out to the electorate through the still new technology of radio, where he proved to be an