Comparative Women's History Workshop

Fall 2002

Paper, time, and place:

Papers are pre-circulated (unless otherwise noted) and can be obtained a week in advance in the History Department's photocopy room (Social Sciences Tower 636). The author leads off with a brief summary and presentation of approximately 15 minutes. A commentator begins the discussion with a 5-minute comment from a comparative perspective. The workshop normally (with one exception**) convenes in the Ford Room (710 Social Science Tower) on Fridays from 3:30-5:00 P.M. Light refreshments are served.

Schedule:

**10/22 NB unusual day and time - 12:30 to 2:00PM, 710 Social Sciences
Journal of Women's History - a proposal to bring it to Minnesota

11/1
Hoku Aikau, Karla Erickson, and Jennifer Pierce, "Feminist Waves, Feminist Generations"
Comment: Ann Waltner

11/15
Flo Waldron "The Battle over Female (In)Dependence: Women in Two Quebecois Migrant Communities, 1870-1930."
Comment: Hiromi Mizuno

11/22
Koni Benson and Joyce Chadya, "Gender and Sexual Violence in Bulawayo, Colonial Zimbabwe, 1946-56"
Comment: Kirsten Fischer

12/6
Anna Kuxhausen, "Doctors Know Best: New Male Authorities on Birth and Motherhood in Enlightenment Russia, 1764-1800"
Comment: MJ Maynes

12/13
Yuxin Ma "Brave the New World: Chinese Women in the Late Qing Press, 1898-1911"
Comment: Tom Wolfe

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