The purpose of this conference is to gather scholars interested in the study of women and gender inequities in education throughout the world. The organizers hope to stimulate discussion surrounding the social, political and economic factors that impede the progressive role of women around the world. The conference intends to gather scholars of gender inequities […]
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Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior, the most-taught text across disciplines according to the MLA, will soon celebrate its 40th anniversary of publication. Over these forty years it has received much critical attention, as well some rather virulent attacks. This volume will reconsider past readings of The Woman Warrior while offering fresh scholarship geared toward
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Two scholars working on the late medieval Europe are seeking additional papers for a panel proposal to the 2017 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women. The panel engages debates about women’s investments in the economies of the preindustrial world. In almost all these economies, there were patriarchal legal and social limitations on women’s inheritance
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Call for Papers: Encounters: An International Journal for the Study of Culture and Society: Women’s Movements, Power, and the State Guest editor Susanne Kranz invites papers that examine the role of women’s movements and their association with the state and other power structures. The editors encourage interdisciplinary approaches that deal with issues of equality, gendered
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The NEH Summer Institute titled “Tokyo: High City and Low City” is a four-week worskhop designed to lead participants in an in-depth humanistic exploration of the literary, religious, and philosophical movements that have visibly—and invisibly—contributed to the construction of modern Japan. By providing a platform in each session for a focused yet flexible investigation into the markers of tradition