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.
Dear colleagues.
From the editorial board of Entremons: UPF Journal of World History we invite you to send us an original text for its possible inclusion in the next issue of our journal. Entremons: UPF Journal of World History is an annual publication sponsored by the University Pompeu Fabra and accepts both academic articles and recently published books' reviews about World History.
Rutgers University Division of Global Affairs
Annual Global Affairs Conference
"GLOBAL POLITICS IN THE ERA OF CLIMATE CHANGE"
April 3, 2020
Save the date and join us at the University of Guelph, situated just west of Toronto, for the Triennial Rural Women’s Studies Conference, 13-15 May 2021. The Rural Women's Studies Association is an international association for the advancement and promotion of farm and rural women's gender studies in historical perspective. The conference theme is “Kitchen Table Talk to Global Forum.” Guelph is “Canada’s Food University” and is internationally recognized for its impact on agricultural sciences and rural life. The RWSA welcomes public historians, archivists, graduate students, rural or
Call for Proposals
45th Annual Conference of the Coalition of Women in German Conference
October 15-18, 2020 (Sewanee, TN, Sewanee-University of the South)
Queer Eye: Black German Visions
Panel Co-Coordinators:
Tiffany Florvil, University of New Mexico
Vanessa Plumly, Lawrence University
Kevina King, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Dear colleagues.
From the editorial board of Entremons: UPF Journal of World History we invite you to send us an original text for its possible inclusion in the next issue of our journal. Entremons: UPF Journal of World History is an annual publication sponsored by the University Pompeu Fabra and accepts both academic articles and recently published books' reviews about World History.
Rutgers University Division of Global Affairs
Annual Global Affairs Conference
"GLOBAL POLITICS IN THE ERA OF CLIMATE CHANGE"
April 3, 2020
H-Women is looking for two network editors, one with an interest in developing social media ties and another with an interest in building network resources, specifically teaching material.
For the first position, we are looking for someone with social media savvy to compile a weekend reading list and synthesize social media stories of particular interest to the listserv. This person may provide a “This Week on Social Media” analysis of current discussions as well as a reading list of the week’s top news stories of interest to women’s and gender studies scholars.
Save the date and join us at the University of Guelph, situated just west of Toronto, for the Triennial Rural Women’s Studies Conference, 13-15 May 2021. The Rural Women's Studies Association is an international association for the advancement and promotion of farm and rural women's gender studies in historical perspective. The conference theme is “Kitchen Table Talk to Global Forum.” Guelph is “Canada’s Food University” and is internationally recognized for its impact on agricultural sciences and rural life. The RWSA welcomes public historians, archivists, graduate students, rural or
The International Federation for Research in Women's History has issued a call for applications for the Ida Blom–Karen Offen Prize in Transnational Women's and Gender History.
The deadline has been extended to 31 January 2020.
To apply for the prize submit a short bio and an abstract that briefly summarizes the book and explains its contribution to the field of transnational women's and gender history by 31 January 2020.
Semi-finalists will then be asked to send complete books (preferably digitally) by 1 March 2020.
