The International Federation for Research in Women’s History (IFRWH) (Web)
Time: 24.-25.08.2022
Venue: Poznań, Poland
The IFRWH organizes these two sessions at the XXIII International Congress of Historical Sciences 2020/2022 in Poznań in Poland (Web)
Gendered Work, Gendered Struggles: Working Women’s Activism in Long-Term and Comparative Perspective (Link)
- Veronika Helfert and Katharina Hermann: Women on strike! Participation of women in mass strike movements in Austria and Switzerland at the end of First World War
- Anne Zacharias-Walsh: By women, for women: The rise of women-only labor unions in Japan
- Cristina Borderias and Manuela Martini: Gendered division of work and labour conflicts in the Lyon silk and Barcelona cotton trades in the 19th century
- Laura Savelli: The State Must Be the Role Model. Issues and struggles of women workers in PTT services in the first half of the 20th century
- Emma Amador: Demanding Equality: Puerto Rican Women Workers and the Fight for Social Security in the US Territories
- Görkem Akgöu and Alexandra Ghit: Peripheral to industrial work? Gendered bodies and sexualities in post-1945 labor’s discourses in Turkey and Romania
- Immanuel Harisch: Paving the way for women workers at the workplace and within unions: Nigerian women trade union officials and their labor activism during the 1960s
- Chair: Susan Zimmermann
Rediscovering spaces of gender history in Poland and Czechoslovakia (Web)
- Dietlind Hüchtker: Space and gender. Autobiographical texts of 1961 in postwar Poland Continue reading