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In a year, many of us will meet again at theWorld Congress of Historical Sciences
in Sydney. At that time we will have our own meeting that will re-visit the
interpretative and methodological nature of our field, considering women’s
history in a global context. The IFRWH in 1989 organized its first meeting of
national representatives around a historiographical theme, with Writing Women's
History: International Perspectives, edited by Karen Offen, Ruth Roach Pierson
and Jane Rendall, published in 1991. Nearly 15 years later, it seems more than
fitting that we explore the developments in the writing of women’s history
that have emerged since that time.
Indeed, a comparative and transnational turn is advancing understanding of concepts
like gender, agency, nation, class, race/ethnicity, rights and wrongs, age,
violence, coalition-building, and a wide range of issues from reproduction to
imperialism, including standard themes like work, politics, and family. The
13th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, which will meet a month before
Sydney, will explore such themes. I will foreshadow that program in our next
issue and hope some of you can join us in California on your way to Australia
in 2005.
The meeting of the World Congress also reminds us that it is time to turn over
the board to a new set of officers. Please send in nominations (or self nominations)
with CV to the committee.
I would like to thank UCSB history graduate student Bianca Murillo for her assistance
in putting this newsletter together.
Next Issue October 15, 2004
In peace, Eileen Boris