H-Women

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

Seeking Third Panelist: OAH 2020

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.

Call for Panelists (Berks 2020): Women’s Advocacy and Activism in the Formation of Welfare State Policy, from Grey Osterud

We are seeking participants for a panel considering women’s advocacy and activism in the formation of welfare state policy, particularly in regard to two-breadwinner or male-breadwinner models of the family. Lena Sommestad, a Swedish economic historian who now serves in government, has analyzed the significance of agrarian notions of women’s gainful labor and rural women’s participation in party politics in shaping Sweden’s two-breadwinner policy during the early 2

Call for Panelists (Berks 2020): Women and the Radical Religious and Social Movements at Times of Crisis, from Grey Osterud

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.

CFP: Trump’s America: Terrorizing Gender, Race, and Justice

Co-editors: Christine A. Kray and Uli Linke, Rochester Institute of Technology

We invite abstract proposals for chapters in an edited volume on the theme of Trump’s America: Terrorizing Gender, Race, and Justice.

CfP: Journal of the History of Ideas Graduate Symposium (May 2019)

The Journal of the History of Ideas and the University of Pennsylvania invite graduate students to propose papers for this intensive one-day interdisciplinary symposium on “Reception? Challenging and Defending Canons.”

To apply, please email a 500-word paper proposal and CV to blogjhi@gmail.com by January 20. Selected applicants will be notified by early February 2019. Please direct any questions to blogjhi@gmail.com. Reimbursement for some travel expenses will be available.

Vuic on Dumenil, 'The Second Line of Defense: American Women and World War I'

The following book review from H-SHGAPE may be of interest to some H-Women list members.

Author:

Lynn Dumenil

Reviewer:

Kara Dixon Vuic

Lynn Dumenil. The Second Line of Defense: American Women and World War I. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. 360 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-3121-9.

Crowe on Liles and Boswell, 'Women in Civil War Texas: Diversity and Dissidence in the Trans-Mississippi'

The following book review from H-Texas may be of interest to some H-Women list members.

Author:

Debbie M. Liles, Angela Boswell, eds.

Reviewer:

Rebekah Crowe

Debbie M. Liles, Angela Boswell, eds. Women in Civil War Texas: Diversity and Dissidence in the Trans-Mississippi. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2016. Illustrations, maps. 336 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-57441-651-0.

Masson on Peirce, 'Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire'

The following book review from H-War may be of interest to some H-Women list members.

Author:

Leslie Peirce

Reviewer:

Gemma Masson

Leslie Peirce. Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire. New York: Basic Books, 2017. 368 pp. $32.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-465-03251-8.

Shepardson on Gristwood, 'Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe'

The following book review from H-War may be of interest to some H-Women list members.

Author:

Sarah Gristwood

Reviewer:

Nikki Shepardson

Sarah Gristwood. Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe. New York: Basic Books, 2016. Illustrations. 400 pp. $28.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-465-09678-7.

Krys on Priest, 'She-wolf: A Cultural History of Female Werewolves'

The following book review from H-SHERA may be of interest to some H-Women list members.

Author:

Hannah Priest, ed.

Reviewer:

Svitlana Krys

Hannah Priest, ed. She-wolf: A Cultural History of Female Werewolves. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017. 231 pp. $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5261-1689-5.

Vuic on Dumenil, 'The Second Line of Defense: American Women and World War I'

The following book review from H-SHGAPE may be of interest to some H-Women list members.

Author:

Lynn Dumenil

Reviewer:

Kara Dixon Vuic

Lynn Dumenil. The Second Line of Defense: American Women and World War I. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. 360 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-3121-9.

Crowe on Liles and Boswell, 'Women in Civil War Texas: Diversity and Dissidence in the Trans-Mississippi'

The following book review from H-Texas may be of interest to some H-Women list members.

Author:

Debbie M. Liles, Angela Boswell, eds.

Reviewer:

Rebekah Crowe

Call for Nominations: Agricultural History Society Annual Awards

The Agricultural History Society is now accepting nominations for its 2018 awards, to be presented at the annual meeting in June 2019. To be considered for an award, the article, book, or dissertation must bear a 2018 original publication date. AHS welcomes submissions for the following honors:

The Theodore Saloutos Memorial Award for the best book on U.S. agricultural history, broadly interpreted, with an original copyright date of 2018.

Seeking Third Panelist: OAH 2020

Call for Applicants: Smith College Library Fellowships

Grants for Researchers

Smith College Special Collections offer four extended-term fellowships:

The Margaret Storrs Grierson Fellowship is named in honor of the

founding Director of the Sophia Smith Collection, and former College

Archivist and Executive Secretary of the Friends of the Smith College

Library.

The Friends of the Smith College Libraries Fellowship is generously

supported by the Friends of the Smith College Libraries in support of

research across the collections.

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Recent Calls

Seeking Third Panelist: OAH 2020

Call for Panelists (Berks 2020): Women’s Advocacy and Activism in the Formation of Welfare State Policy, from Grey Osterud

Call for Panelists (Berks 2020): Women and the Radical Religious and Social Movements at Times of Crisis, from Grey Osterud

CFP: Trump’s America: Terrorizing Gender, Race, and Justice

CfP: Journal of the History of Ideas Graduate Symposium (May 2019)

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Recent Book Reviews

Vuic on Dumenil, 'The Second Line of Defense: American Women and World War I'

Crowe on Liles and Boswell, 'Women in Civil War Texas: Diversity and Dissidence in the Trans-Mississippi'

Masson on Peirce, 'Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire'

Shepardson on Gristwood, 'Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe'

Krys on Priest, 'She-wolf: A Cultural History of Female Werewolves'

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Vuic on Dumenil, 'The Second Line of Defense: American Women and World War I'

Crowe on Liles and Boswell, 'Women in Civil War Texas: Diversity and Dissidence in the Trans-Mississippi'

Call for Nominations: Agricultural History Society Annual Awards

Seeking Third Panelist: OAH 2020

Call for Applicants: Smith College Library Fellowships

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