Comparative Women's History Workshop

Fall 2004

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 convenes in the Ford Room (710 Social Science Tower) on Fridays from 3:30-5:00 P.M. Light refreshments are served.

Schedule:

October 1
Jack Norton “Understanding Women as Transitional Economic Agents in Spain”
Comment: Chris Isett

October 8
N’Jai-An Patters, “Virtually Sex"
Comment: Rod Ferguson, Department of American Studies

October 15
Florence Mae Waldron, “Nuns and Nation: (Trans)National Identities and Les Petites Franciscaines de Marie, 1889-1930”
Comment: TBA

October 29
Tracey Deutsch, “’Innumerable Women’s Organizations’: Consumer Protest and Consumer Culture in the Interwar Years”
Comment: MJ Maynes

November 5
Laura Doan, The University of Manchester
Co-Sponsored with Global Sexualities Research Group

November 12
Nikki Berg, “Reconciling Womanhood with Work: How Female Plantation Managers Defined and Performed Gender in 1840s Mississippi”
Comment: TBA

December 3
Chika Shinohara, “EEO policies and Gender Roles in Japan 1985-2004: Mapping the Relationship between Legal Reforms and Attitudinal Changes”
Comment: Sara Evans

December 10
Tani Barlow, University of Washington
Co-Sponsored with Global Sexualities Research Group and Department of Asian Language and Literature

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