Download the PDF edition of this journal here. CONTENTS Paula Bartley on Ellen Wilkinson and parliamentary politics, 1924-1947, 4-10 Lisa R. Lindell on Dr Frances Woods and the intersection of war, expansionism, and equal rights, 11-19 Małgorzata Dajnowicz on Eliza Orzeszkowa’s influence on the feminist views of…
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Still Queer / a postgraduate and early-career work-in-progress study day
Still Queer / a postgraduate and early-career work-in-progress study day Queer@King’s / King’s College, London / Saturday 13 September 2014 Queer@King’s invites proposals for presentations to be given at a collaborative work-in-progress study day. We hope to foster a supportive environment…
A CONVENT SCHOOLING – SCHOOL DAYS, ADULT WAYS … Pt I
Some people (it was argued) are obviously not terrorists: newborn babies for example. And nuns. Nuns are mild, gentle people who wouldn’t say boo to a goose, let alone blow up a plane. They can be safely waved through after only the most cursory of searches. That was the view of one of the speakers.
But somebody else thought nuns should be regarded as prime suspects, because what could be more fundamentalist than a nun? Nuns believe so strongly in the truth of their religion that they dedicate their whole lives to it. They live in like-minded communities, and spend many hours in rituals of religious devotion, serving a god who, they believe, has a special mission for them – their vocation. A god who, if they follow their vocation obediently will reward them with eternal bliss, but who, if they don’t, may send them to hell.
Communique – Getting Asia Pacific Women’s Voices Heard!
As result of a bottom-up and inclusive process, the creation of the RCEM has been initiated, designed and will therefore be owned by CSOs in Asia and Pacific. It will be an open, inclusive and flexible mechanism designed to reach the broadest number of CSOs, harness the voice of grassroots and peoples’ movements to advance a more just, equitable and sustainable model of development. Moreover, it will be a platform to share information and best practices and build capacities of CSOs for better and more effective engagement in the future
June Newsletter
WHN members receive a monthly electronic Newsletter with conferences, events, publishing opportunities, prizes, Women’s Library News and WHN news. View issue 61: June 2014
ISSUE 74 Women’s History Magazine, Spring 2014
Download the PDF edition of this journal here. CONTENTS Sutapa Dutta on Identifying Mother India in Bankimchandra Chatterjee’s Novels, 4-10 Rene Kollar on Convents, the Bible, and English Anti-Catholicism in the Nineteenth Century, 11-18 Alyssa Velazquez on Tupperware: An Open Container During a Decade of…
CFP: Consuming/Culture: Women and Girls in Print and Pixels
Call for Papers: Consuming/Culture: Women and Girls in Print and Pixels June 5/6, 2015 Oxford Brookes University This conference follows on from those held at Kingston (2012) and Cornell (2013), themed around women and magazines, and will be held at…
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Claire Jones talking about the history of women in science on the Guardian’s science podcast 12 May 2014 Jill Liddington and Elizabeth Crawford on Radio 4 Woman’s Hour (March 21st 2011) talking about 1911 Suffrage Census boycott Pat Starkey on women’s history in…
Building the Old Time Religion: Women Evangelists in the Progressive Era
In Hicks Hollow, an impoverished enclave in Kansas City, former slave, Emma Ray, turned a ramshackle, two-story wooden building into a rescue mission for African American children, while at a nondescript crossroad along the foothills of the Appalachians, Mattie Perry founded Elhanan Training School, even before the first public school opened in Marion, North Carolina. When institution building reached the craggy creek beds of western North Carolina through an ordinary woman like Perry, with no financial reserves, no church standing, and no higher education, the movement can be said to have thoroughly pervaded the entire nation.