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The Boston Seminar on the History of Women, Gender, & Sexuality is the new name of the Boston Seminar on the History of Women and Gender. Just as the pathbreaking field of “women’s history” grew to encompass studies of femininity, masculinity, and LGBTQ history, the seminar’s new name indicates the importance of the study of sexuality to this interrelated set of questions and methodologies for understanding the past.
The seminar invites scholars and students to meet periodically and discuss new research. Sessions may consider any aspect of the history of women, gender, and sexuality without chronological limitations. A collaboration of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America and the Massachusetts Historical Society, the seminar meets in turn at the facilities of the two sponsors.
Seminar meetings revolve around the discussion of a precirculated paper. Sessions open with remarks from the essayist and an assigned commentator, after which the discussion is opened to the floor. After each session, the Society serves a light buffet supper.
September
History of Women and Gender Seminar
Developing Women: Global Poverty, U.S. Foreign Aid, and the Politics of Productivity in the 1970s
29 September 2016.Thursday, 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Location: Radcliffe, Fay House, Sheerr Room, 10 Garden St. in Cambridge
Joanne Meyerowitz, Yale University
Comment: Priya Lal, Boston College
“Developing Women” is a chapter of a book-in-progress on U.S. involvement in campaigns ...
“Developing Women” is a chapter of a book-in-progress on U.S. involvement in campaigns to end global poverty in the 1970s and 1980s. This chapter focuses on the “women in development” movement of the 1970s. It shows how indigent women came to be seen as potential “income generators” who were central to anti-poverty programs.
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December
History of Women and Gender Seminar
Panel: The History of Black Feminisms
8 December 2016.Thursday, 5:30PM - 7:30PM
RSVP required
Françoise Hamlin, Brown University, Tanisha C. Ford, University of Delaware, and
Treva Lindsey, Ohio State University and the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research
Moderator: Kali Nicole Gross, Wesleyan University
A conversation about black feminisms that will encompass issues of identity, class, and culture and ...
A conversation about black feminisms that will encompass issues of identity, class, and culture and pay tribute to the scholarship of Leslie Brown of Williams College. Ford is the author of Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul. Hamlin is the author of Crossroads at Clarksdale: The Black Freedom Struggle in the Mississippi Delta After World War II, while Lindsey’s forthcoming book is Colored No More: New Negro Womanhood in the Nation’s Capital.
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February
History of Women and Gender Seminar
Conversation: Sexuality of History, History of Sexuality
23 February 2017.Thursday, 5:30PM - 7:30PM
RSVP required
Location: Radcliffe, Fay House, Sheerr Room, 10 Garden St. in Cambridge
Sue Lanser, Brandeis University, and Jim Downs, Connecticut College
Moderator: Jen Manion, Amherst College
Lanser is the author of The Sexuality of History. Downs is the author of Stand by ...
Lanser is the author of The Sexuality of History. Downs is the author of Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation.
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April
History of Women and Gender Seminar
Sadie Alexander, Black Women’s Work, and Economic Citizenship during the New Deal Era
20 April 2017.Thursday, 5:30PM - 7:30PM
RSVP required
Lauren Meyer, Yale University
Comment: Martin Summers, Boston College
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History of Women and Gender Seminar
Developing Women: Global Poverty, U.S. Foreign Aid, and the Politics of Productivity in the 1970s
29 September 2016.Thursday, 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Location: Radcliffe, Fay House, Sheerr Room, 10 Garden St. in Cambridge
Joanne Meyerowitz, Yale University
Comment: Priya Lal, Boston College
“Developing Women” is a chapter of a book-in-progress on U.S. involvement in campaigns to end global poverty in the 1970s and 1980s. This chapter focuses on the “women in development” movement of the 1970s. It shows how indigent women came to be seen as potential “income generators” who were central to anti-poverty programs.
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History of Women and Gender Seminar
Panel: The History of Black Feminisms
Seminars are free and open to the public; RSVP required.
8 December 2016.Thursday, 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Françoise Hamlin, Brown University, Tanisha C. Ford, University of Delaware, and
Treva Lindsey, Ohio State University and the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research
Moderator: Kali Nicole Gross, Wesleyan University
A conversation about black feminisms that will encompass issues of identity, class, and culture and pay tribute to the scholarship of Leslie Brown of Williams College. Ford is the author of Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul. Hamlin is the author of Crossroads at Clarksdale: The Black Freedom Struggle in the Mississippi Delta After World War II, while Lindsey’s forthcoming book is Colored No More: New Negro Womanhood in the Nation’s Capital.
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History of Women and Gender Seminar
Conversation: Sexuality of History, History of Sexuality
Seminars are free and open to the public; RSVP required.
23 February 2017.Thursday, 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Location: Radcliffe, Fay House, Sheerr Room, 10 Garden St. in Cambridge
Sue Lanser, Brandeis University, and Jim Downs, Connecticut College
Moderator: Jen Manion, Amherst College
Lanser is the author of The Sexuality of History. Downs is the author of Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation.
close
History of Women and Gender Seminar
Sadie Alexander, Black Women’s Work, and Economic Citizenship during the New Deal Era
Seminars are free and open to the public; RSVP required.
20 April 2017.Thursday, 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Lauren Meyer, Yale University
Comment: Martin Summers, Boston College
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