Comparative Women's History Workshop

Spring 2008

Paper, time, and place:

All meetings of WCHWGS will be in the History department’s Ford Room (710 Social Sciences), from 3:30 to 5:00 PM.  Snacks will be provided.  Also unless indicated otherwise, papers will be available the Monday before the session in the History Department Mail Room, 6th floor Social Sciences.  (Some papers will be available on request by email.  Watch for individual session announcements.)

Schedule:

February 8 – Boyd Cothran, "Working the Indian Field Days: Expectations, Consumerism and Labor in Yosemite Valley, 1916-1929."

Comment: Tracey Deutsch

March 7 – Berks Preview Session

Jill Frahm – "'A Place and Occupation in the World': Independence and Lifelong Singlewomen in the United States, 1880-1930."

Comment: M.J. Maynes

March 28 – Berks Preview Session

• Rachel Neiwert, "Professionals in Private: Governesses and Mothers in the Parents' National Education Union."
• Marynel Ryan, "Embodied Knowledge and Strategies of Professionalization."

Comment: Lisa Norling

April 4 !NOTE ADDITIONAL EVENT! – Victor M. Macías-González (UW- La Crosse and Visiting Professor, UMTC, History) "Male Consumers in Nineteenth-Century Mexico."

Comment: Regina Kunzel

April 11 !NOTE DATE CHANGED! – Masako Nakamura, "Disciplining Women Racially 'Ineligible to Citizenship': Bride Schools for Wives of U.S. Servicemen in Japan, 1951-1963."
Comment: Yuichiro Onishi, African-American and African Studies

April 18 – Berks Preview Session

• Jack Norton - "On the Road to Madrid: Male and female interurban mobility as a measure of economic activity in early modern Spain."

Comment: Sarah Chambers

April 25 – Elizabeth Colwill (San Diego State University), "Bearing Witness: Memories of Re-enslavement in Saint Domingue."

Comment: Kirsten Fischer

May 2 !NOTE DATE CHANGED! – Berks Preview Session

• Tracey Deutsch, "1970s Socialist Feminism and the History of Capitalism."
• Jigna Desai, "Gender, Race, Capitalism, and Empire Too: The Expanding Domain of Transnational Feminist Theory."

Comment: Sara Evans

AND, of course!! be sure to plan on going to:

The 14th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
June 12-15, 2008

(for info see: http://www.berksconference.org/)

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