Anti-Fascism, Gender, and International Communism provides a comprehensive history of the Comite mondial des femmes contre la guerre et le fascisme (CMF), an international women’s organisation concerned with confronting the impact of fascism on women and children across the globe. Women played an…
Medea is one of the most well-known characters in Greek literature and perhaps the most changeable. Made famous in antiquity by Euripides, Apollonius of Rhodes, Seneca, Ovid, and others; betrayed by the man she loved and made infamous for her…
The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) next online seminar: Tuesday 17 January 2023, 6-7pm. Fiona de Londras (Birmingham Law School), ‘The Patterns and Purposes of Anti-Abortion Legal Experimentalism’. Abstract: US-based anti-abortion activists have long centred…
The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) welcomes proposals for its annual conference at Manchester Metropolitan University. The conference is open to papers on any topic, geographical period, chronological time, or themes related to the history…
The 2022 Platinum Jubilee for Queen Elizabeth, as well as her state funeral, highlighted the importance of commemoration in the life of a nation. For Britain, these two instances of commemoration were focused on female representations of nationhood. Women’s History…
A gentle reminder of the deadline of 14 January to submit your panels, papers, round table proposals and practice presentations to the 6th edition of Doing Women’s Film and TV History at the University of Sussex. The FINAL call for…
Gender in the European Town Online book event on 18 January 2023 (Zoom) Welcome to the book launch of Deborah Simonton’s Gender in the European Town on Wednesday 18 January 2023 at 2:30 GMT (3:30 CET, 4:30 EET). Moving from the mid-seventeenth century…
This annually-held conference addresses the role of women in consumerism, shopping, global trade, domestic trade, markets (literary and otherwise), currency, and varying practices of exchange. The conference is interdisciplinary in nature, bridging literature, material culture, gender studies, theatre and economic…
Dedicated to Mary Philomena Collins, and every mother in history who has experienced the pain of being separated from their child. The London Foundling Hospital was founded in 1739 by philanthropist Thomas Coram for the ‘maintenance and education of exposed…