Call for Papers – Precarious Spaces: (Dis-) Locating Gender

Precarious Spaces:  (Dis-) Locating Gender The 18th Annual Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference at the University of Rochester March 24th & 25th, 2011 Keynote Speaker: *Laura Kipnis* Professor of Radio/Television/Film, Northwestern University The Susan B. Anthony Institute at the University of Rochester is pleased to announce the 18th Annual…

Journal Special Issue – International Feminisms (Women’s History Review)

Women’s History Review, Volume 19 Number 4 September 2010 Special Issue on International Feminisms, Guest Editors, Ann Taylor Allen, Anne Cova and June Purvis Contents   Introduction: International Feminisms, by Ann Taylor, Anne Cova and June Purvis   Articles   Forgotten Transnational Connections and National Contexts: an ‘entangled history’ of the political transfers that shaped…

New Publication – Arianne Chernock, ‘Men and the Making of Modern British Feminsim’

Arianne Chernock (2010) Men and the Making of Modern British Feminism. Stanford: Stanford University Press.   Link: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WOPe32ADV_AC&printsec=frontcover&dq=arianne+chernock&source=bl&ots=VjC7FIHgyO&sig=wBclPsOK_B4edOF7Fri5G-Ok4Ug&hl=en&ei=AgJgTOWiE8K4jAefiY2YCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CDYQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q&f=false http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WOPe32ADV_AC&printsec=frontcover&dq=arianne+chernock&source=bl&ots=VjC7FIHgyO&sig=wBclPsOK_B4edOF7Fri5G-Ok4Ug&hl=en&ei=AgJgTOWiE8K4jAefiY2YCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CDYQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q&f=false

Related New Books – Women and the Enlightenment

The Enlightenment of age: Women, letters and growing old in eighteenth-century France  Joan Hinde Stewart Foreword by Joan DeJean By studying the correspondences of four prominent women Stewart explores the relation of female aging to respectability, sexuality and power. The author’s focus lies in the physical, emotional and professional well-being of middle-aged and elderly women…

CfA – Special Issue of the Journal of Women’s History on Postwar Transnational Feminisms

Call for Special Issue:  “Human Rights, Global Congresses, and the Making of Postwar Transnational Feminisms” Edited by Jean H. Quataert and Benita Roth For a special issue on “Human Rights, Global Congresses, and the Making of Postwar Transnational Feminisms,” co-edited by Jean Quataert and Benita Roth, we invite authors to submit articles that address the…

Job Opportunity – Assistant Professor of American History specializin in Women’s and/or Gender History (Texas, USA)

The School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of American History specializing in nineteenth or twentieth-century Women’s and/or Gender History [Search PAN100902]. This position has been posted on the H-NET job listings: <https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=41142&gt; The successful candidate must hold a Ph.D. and have evidence…

Job Opportunity – Research and Personal Assistant in American Women’s or Gender History (Surrey, UK)

RESEARCH and  PERSONAL  ASSISTANT. Based in Surrey. UK. There will be some flexibility regarding location Salary: c. £25,000 – £30,000 pa. Hours: 40 hrs a week, flexible. Applications are invited for the post of research/personal assistant to assist Professor Jay Kleinberg of Brunel University in facilitating her research in the field of North American Women’s…