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AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
29 September – 2 October 2005

• Labor feminism and female activism
• Feminism and the gendering of working-class history
• Race/ethnicity • Sexuality and bodies
• Home, Workplace, and Community Struggles
• Critical Conversations Across Borders, Theories, and Generations


This conference aims to create intellectual and political space for dealing with issues of major importance to scholars and activist academics working in the areas of labor feminism and female activism across multiple sites and contexts. We particularly desire to address feminist theoretical and political debates and facilitate dialogue across the generations within a context of mutual respect. Ultimately we seek to explore ways of moving beyond current polarities in labor history and towards more inclusive ways of re-conceptualizing working-class studies.

Contact Information:

Laboring Feminism Conference
c/o Centre for the Study of the United States
Munk Centre for International Studies
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Place
Toronto, Ontario M53 3K7
CANADA
Email: labour.fem@utoronto.calabour.fem@utoronto.ca


Sponsors: University of Toronto:Centre of the Study of the United States; Munk Centre for International Studies; Institute for Women’s Studies and Gender Studies; Bissell-Heyd Chair of American Studies. Journals: Feminist Studies; International Labor and Working-Class History; Journal of Women’s History; Labor: Working-Class History in the Americas; Left History. Organizations/Institutions: Labor and Working-Class History Association; International Federation for Research in Women’s History; Canadian Committee on Women’s History; Canadian Committee on Labour History; Left Feminist Working Group; York University Department of History.