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The EMPIRES/COLONIES/LEGAL CULTURES Conference, organised by the Australian and new Zealand Law and History Society and the Canadian Law and Society Association, to be held in Melbourne July 3-5 1998- the convenors are very keen to have offers of papers on women and gender. please send them to C.Coleborne@latrobe.edu.au, with brief abstract.
New Publication:
P.Grimshaw & D.Kirkby (eds), Dealing with Difference: Essays in Gender, Culture and History (Papers presented at the Third Biennial Conference of the Network for Research in Women’s History, 1996) Published by Department of History, University of Melbourne, 1997.
The Canadian Committee on Women`s History has its WEB SITE:
LISTSERV@UVVM.BITNET (Subscribe LINKCCWH)
CCWH Executive:
Chair:Cynthia Comacchio
Former Chair: Denyse Baillargeon
Vice-Chair: and Newsletter Editor: Nicole Neatby Secretary-Treasurer: Crystal
Gavard
PUBLICATIONS:
Nadia Fahmy-Eid et al. Femmes, sante et profession. Histoire des dietetistes et des physiotherapeutes au Quebec et en Ontario, 1930-1980. L'Affirmation d"un statut professionnel. Montreal: Fides, 1997.
Danielle Juteau et Nicole Laurin. Un metier et une vocation. Le Travail des religieuses au Quebec de 1901 a 1971. Montreal: Les Presses de l'Universite de Montreal, 1997.
Geraldine ANTHONY. Rebel, Reformer, Religious Extraordinaire: The Life of Irene Farmer. University of Calgary Press, 1997.
Victoria BAKER.Emanuel Hahn and Elizabeth Wynn Wood: Tradition and Innovation in Canadian Sculpture. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1997.
Beverly BOUTILIER and Alison PRENTICE, eds. Creating Historical Memory: English-Canadian Women and the Work of History. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1997.
Lori CHAMBERS. Married Women and Property Law in Victorian Ontario. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997.
Frances EARLY. A World Without War: How US Feminists and Pacifists Resisted World War I. Syracuse University Press, 1997.
Franca IACOVETTA with Paula Draper and Bobert Ventresca, eds. A Nation of Immigrants: Women, Workers and Communities in Canadian History, 1840s-1960s. University of Toronto Press, 1997.
Cecilia MORGAN. Public Men and Virtuous Women: The Gendered Language of Politics and Religion in Upper Canada, 1791-1850. University of Toronto Press, 1997.
Marlene F. and Geoffrey RAYNER-CANHAM. A Devotion to their Science: Pioneer Women of Radioactivity. McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997.
Patricia SIMPSON. Marguerite Bourgeoys and Montreal, 1640-1665. McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997.
Mercedes STEEDMAN. Angels of the Workplace: Women and the Construction of Gender Relations in the Canadian Clothing Industry, 1890-1940. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1997.
TRANSLATIONS:
Natalie Davis. Women on the Margins. Three Seventeenth-Century Lives. Cambridge: Havard U.P., 1995 is now available in translation in German (Wagenbach), Italian (Laterz), Portuguese (Companhia Das Letras), French (Seuil), Finnish (Otava)
PRIZES:
The Prix Guy Fregault, for the best article published in the Revue d'histoire de l`Amerique francaise in 1996, vol. 50, was given to Denyse Baillargeon, ``Frequenter les Gouttes de lait. L`experience des meres montrealaises, 1910-1965``, RHAF, L, 1 (ete)
The Women’s History Network held a very successful annual conference at the University of Sussex in Brighton in September where Patricia Grimshaw was one of the plenary speakers. The 1998 Annual Conference will be held at the University of Glasgow in Scotland with the theme ‘Borders and Frontiers’.
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS: WOMEN’S HISTORY NETWORK ANNUAL CONFERENCE - GLASGOW 1998 - 12-13 SEPTEMBER 1998 UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE GRADUATE BUSINESS SCHOOL BORDERS & FRONTIERS
Offers
of Papers are invited which broadly address the conference theme. The theme
should be loosely interpreted to include geographical, spatial, conceptual
and discursive borders. .Papers may address any period and any country. We
would especially welcome proposals addressing the following areas: The transgression
and negotiation of geographical, conceptual and discursive borders and frontiers
National, regional and local identities Women in Frontier Societies Gendered
concepts of nation and nationhood Women and the State Gendered state formation
Politics & political identities Proposals (including title and synopsis
of 500 words) which may consist of individual papers or entire sessions (2
papers plus commentator/chair) should reach the conference organisers by 30
April 1998.
All Enquiries and offers of papers to: Lynn Abrams, Department of History,
(Modern History), University of Glasgow, GLASGOW G12 8QQ Tel: 0141 330 4513
Fax: 0141 330 5000 L.Abrams@modhist.arts.gla.ac.uk
1997
has been a big year for Coordinating Council for Women Historians (CCWH).
An anonymous donor has given us fifty thousand dollars to create an award
for a non-traditional scholar, and we have named it CCWH-Catherine Prelinger
Award after one of our past presidents and now deceased. Dr. Mary Elizabeth
Perry (Department of History, Occidental College) is the Chair of this committee.
For several years now CCWH and Berkshire Women's History Conference has been
awarding CCWH/Berkshire Dissertation Prize. The winner of 1997 CCWH/Berkshire
Prize is Crystal Feimster (Princeton University) for her dissertation titled
"Women and Mob Violence in the New South" and the winner of 1998
award is Valinda W. Littlefield (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
and her topic is "`I am only one, But I am one': Southern-African-American
female School Teachers, 1884-1954."
Recently, we have been fortunate enough to have sufficient money to introduce
second graduate student dissertation award called CCWH-Ida B. Welles Prize.
It will be awarded for the first time in 1998. Julia Carter (University of
California-Irvine) won this award for her dissertation "Modern Love and
the evolution of Whiteness: Sex, Reason, and the Future of Race, 1840-1940."
All of these winners will be honored at CCWH luncheon at the American Historical
Association's (AHA) annual meeting in January. Our speaker for this luncheon
is Professor Sue Armitage (Washington State University). The title of her
talk is "Regional Women's History: Problems and Prospects." This
year CCWH has co-sponsored three panels for the 1998 AHAs annual meeting:
1. Round Table: "The Past, Present, and Future of Affirmative Action
in the United States" is jointly sponsored by the Association of Black
Women Historians; 2. "Gender, Rhetoric, and the National Culture in the
British French, and Dutch Empires, 1880-1949" is jointly sponsored by
the World History Organization; 3. "Voices of Historians: Personal, Political
and Professional," which is also the title of the CCWH 30th anniversary
book being edited by the Indiana University Press. Some of the participants
are the contributors to this collection. Like past years, this year also CCWH
has co-sponsored a workshop on job interview. This session consists of several
small groups where job candidates can domock interviews and ask questions
about the interviewing process. These panels and the workshop are also co-sponsored
by the American Historical Association.
To show our respect and appreciation for our younger colleagues, every year
we organize a graduate student reception at the AHA annual meeting and this
year is no exception. Besides these two activities, we are also sponsoring
a drop-in room for graduate students where they can relax before and/or after
their job interviews. An anonymous donor has given us a certain amount of
money to explore the possibilities of having CCWH sponsored child-care at
the AHA meeting. In 1998, we will try this for the first time. Besides organizing
panels at various national and regional conferences, throughout
the year, the CCWH Board wrote letters protesting the proposed closure of
various feminist research centers such as Simone de Beauvoir Institute in
Canada.
In 1998, there will be some changes in the CCWH Board. In our recent election,
CCWH members have elected Professor June Hahner (State University of New York
at Albany) as co-president of this organization for a three year-term. Her
terms starts from January 1998. She will be replacing Nupur Chaudhuri. June
is a Latin-Americanist. In addition to her books "Emancipating the Female
Sex: The Struggle for Women's Rights in Brazil, 1850-1940," "Poverty
and Politics: The Urban Poor in Brazil, 1870-1920," June has also edited
a documentary collection "Women in Latin America: Their Lives and Views."
Eileen Boris, our newsletter editor, is also stepping down. From January 1998,
Susan Wlasaver-Morgan is going to be the new editor of the CCWH newsletter.
Susan has served as the President of the Western Association of Women Historians.
She has been an editorial associate on the staff of the "Pacific Historical
Review." Previously, she worked on the"Journal of American History."Finally,
"Nation, Empire, Colony," the collection of papers from Montreal
Conference, is going for production by the Indiana University Press. Ruth
Roach Pierson and I with the assistance of Beth MCAuley are editing this book.
The proceeds from this book will go to the IFRWH. I wish all the readers of
this newsletter a wonderful 1998.
Nupur Chaudhuri