The University of Minnesota Comparative Women's History Workshop Spring 1998 Scehdule

The Comparative Women's History Workshop

Spring 1998 Schedule

Our theme for the year is Women's Life Course.
We understand this very broadly including girlhood, motherhood, life course transitions,
sexuality, generational experiences, aging, etc.

All meetings are in the Ford Room (710 Social Sciences) except for Tuesday April 21, which is in Blegen 120

April 7

Anna Rotkirch - "’I'm a Typical Woman – A Variation on the Norm’: Depictions of Exemplary Soviet Family and Love Life in Autobiographies from St. Petersburg"

Comparative Comment: MJ Maynes

April 21 (NOTE: This meeting is in Blegen 120)
Michelle Mouton – “From Nurturing the Nation to Purifying the Volk: Conflicts in the Implementation of German Family Policy, 1918-1945.”
Comparative Comment: Lisa Ebeltoft-Kraske

April 28
Amy Kaler – “Generating Generations: Fertility and Power in the Extended Family in Zimbabwe, 1965-1980”
Comparative Comment: Steve Ruggles

May 5
Anne Thompson – “Motherhood in Late Nineteenth-Century England: The Reconstruction of an Ideal (with comparative glances at the United States)”
Comparative Comment: Michelle Mouton and Lisa Norling

May 19
Elizabeth Jones – “Women and Children First: Family Labor in Saxon Agriculture, 1907-1925”
Comparative Comment: Estella Musiiwa and/or Susan Geiger

May 26
Tracey Boisseau "A White Queen at the World's Fair: New Womanhood in the Service of Race, Class and Nation” [focused on the American traveler to Africa, May French-Sheldon and her participation in the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition in 1893]
Comparative Comment: Liping Wang

June 2
Thomas Saylor - "Confrontation and its Consequences: the 1904 Strike by Women Workers at Siemens in Berlin"
Comparative Comment: Deborah Henry

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