Comparative Women's History Workshop

Spring 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 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:

Friday Jan. 25--Evan Roberts, "Gender in Store: Salespeople's Working Hours in Minnesota and New Zealand." Comparative comment by M.J. Maynes

Friday Feb. 22--Kimberly Bea, "Assyro-Babylonian Queens in Classical and Contemporary Sources." Comparative comment by Hsieh Mei-Yu

Friday March 1--M.J. Maynes, "Girl Power? Gender, Age and Political Economy in European Textile Markets, 1750-1850." Comparative comment by Serena Zabin

Friday March 8--Margot Canaday, "'Who is a Homosexual?': The Consolidation of Sexual Identities in Mid-Century American Immigration Law." Comparative comment by Susie Bullington

Friday March 15--Seulky McInneshin, "Gender and the Political Language of Nationalism and Southern Identity in the Late-Nineteenth-Century U.S." Comparative comment by Helena Pohlandt-McCormick

**Tuesday March 26, 12:00 noon to 1:30--Christina Benninghaus, "'Every childless marriage carries a burden. . .'--The experience of infertility, Germany 1870-1970." Comparative comment by Elaine Tyler May. Note day and time change!!

Friday April 12--Hiromi Mizuno, "Popular science magazines in prewar and wartime Japan: gender analysis in the history of science." Comparative comment by Sally Kohlstedt

Friday April 19--Flo Waldron, "Quebecois Migrants and the French Canadian 'Nation': Redefining Manhood through Americanization." Comparative comment by Anna Clark

Friday May 3--Anne Huebel, "Motherhood, Civilization, and Nature in Late-Victorian Britain." Comparative comment by Marynel Ryan

Friday May 10 through Sunday May 12--Conference:

"Gendered Politics in a Comparative World Perspective: Impossible Citizens, Unlikely Alliances, Unconventional Politics"