Call for Articles—Special Issue of Peace & Change: A Journal of Peace Research—Topic: The Legacy of Jane Addams Peace & Change, the journal of the Peace History Society (PHS) and the Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA) is planning a special issue in early 2011 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Jane Addams’s birth and the…
Herstoria_Issue_3_web.jpg <http://www.herstoria.com/> HerStoria is a new independent magazine launched to bring women’s history to a wider audience In Autumn’s issue – England’s most provocative queen, the history of women football fans, the first woman civil servant (who was also a pre-Raphaelite model), early-modern witches, the shocking case of women doctors, and an interview with the…
APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS POUR LE COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL : Les féministes, d’une vague à l’autre (France, XXe siècle) Angers, les 20-22 mai 2010 organisé par le CERHIO (Centre de recherches historiques de l’Ouest) et le Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po (Paris) à la Maison des Sciences humaines, 5 bis Bd Lavoisier, Angers En partenariat avec : Archives du…
The founding of a new academic society and scholarly journal British Historians of Women in the Americas There are many historians in the United Kingdom researching women’s history in North or South America. Yet, we rarely gather as a group that interrogates women´s history from a hemispheric perspective. Instead our identity as historians of women…
A new website has been launched called Manchester’s Radical History at http://radicalmanchester.wordpress.com/. The authors state the following:- Manchester Radical History Collective is a small group of politically active people living in Manchester. We’re not affiliated to any single movement or Party and have a range of views on major political issues of the past, present…
Kindly sponsored by the Centre for East Anglian Studies, Norfolk Record Office, Royal Historical Society and the UEA Graduate Students Association ‘Women’s Voices: The power of words in Medieval and Early Modern Europe’ Room 3.26 and 3.27, UEA, Norwich Saturday, October 17th, 2009 9.30-5.30 Cost: £15 per person (To include a buffet lunch) This conference…
Title: Who’s Afraid of Third Wave Feminism? Author: Jonathan Dean Journal: International Feminist Journal of Politics Abstract: This article addresses some issues related to the question of the ‘third wave’ within contemporary British feminism, situating British debates within an international context. My argument is that existing accounts of third wave feminism treat it either in terms…
FEMINISM AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN THE POST COLD-WAR WORLD Call for papers for Workshop/Panel Political Studies Association conference, Edinburgh, 29 March – 1 April 2010 http://www.psa.ac.uk/2010/index.html ** DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS 23 SEPTEMBER 2009** In the 1980s, the activities of feminist anti-nuclear campaigners at Greenham Common and elsewhere, along with Carol Cohn’s groundbreaking work on masculinities…
http://oah.org/activities/awards/lernerscott/index.html 2010 OAH LERNER-SCOTT DISSERTATION PRIZE The Lerner-Scott Dissertation Prize was given for the first time in 1992 for the best doctoral dissertation in U.S. women’s history. The prize is named for Gerda Lerner and Anne Firor Scott, both pioneers in women’s history and past presidents of the Organization of American Historians. A dissertation must…
The latest edition of the Women’s History Review: Volume 18 Issue 3 has a number of articles of interest to historians of feminism, e.g. on the International Federation for Research in Women’s History, a retrospective on theorising feminist history, and a study of working-class women and the meat boycott of 1872.
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