The aim of the International Federation for Research in Women’s History is to encourage and coordinate research in all aspects of women’s history at an international level. The Winter 2018-2029 issue of the IFRWH Newsletter can be read and downloaded here (PDF). Please take note of the deadlines for the Berkshire Conference (in March 2019) and […]
Professional Announcements
This CCWH resource provides members with information about professional opportunities: stipends, fellowships, prizes, CFPs and more. Conference or grant announcements may be posted on our website without charge. Please contact us with professional announcements of interest to our members.
CFP: Feminist Studies Special Issue
Feminism and Capitalism – This is a call for innovative theoretical, empirical, and creative submissions about feminism and twenty-first-century capitalism. Our call is spurred by phenomena such as the millions of people displaced and relegated to invisibility as “surplus populations,” increasing debt and income inequality, rising corporate profits, persistent agrarian crises, planetary urbanization, labor precarity […]
In Memoriam: Anne Firor Scott
A Message from Janet Allured, President of the Southern Association for Women Historians, on behalf of the SAWH: The Southern Association for Women Historians is sad to announce the passing of one of our co-founders, Anne Firor Scott, a native of Georgia and a pioneer of American women’s history. Her first book, The Southern Lady (1970), opened […]
Special Issue ~ Caribbean Review of Gender Studies
The December 2018 special issue of the Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, edited by Natanya Duncan and and Reena Goldtree titled “Gender and Anti-Colonialism in the Interwar Caribbean,” is now available online. The issue examines the political ferment of the interwar period (1918–1939), tracking how gendered conceptions of rights, respectability, leadership, and belonging informed anti-colonial thought and praxis. Rather […]
CFP: Gender, Labour and Consumption in historical perspective
Over the past four decades or so, gender scholarship has transformed our understanding of many key issues of historical concern. Particularly fruitful have been explorations of consumption in its varied manifestations, undertaken by researchers studying the subject within different disciplines. Labour historians have been slow to address these important developments, though there are signs that […]