Berkshire Conference on Women’s History, Toronto, Canada, May 22-25, 2014, Website

Call for panelists from Natalie Rose: I am interested in organizing a panel that explores gendered ideas about entries into adulthood from childhood/adolescence for young women. However, I am also interested in perhaps organizing a panel more generally about childhood and adolescence if that fits with other panelist’s work. My own paper examines how Mormon women, aged between twelve and twenty, dealt with changing ideas of adulthood, womanhood, sexuality, and rites of passage in their religious culture after the long end of polygamy from 1890 to the early 1920s. I anticipate submitting the panel to the Sexualities, Genders/LGBTIQ2, and Intimacies subtheme. I am looking for two other presenters as well as a commentator and a chair within the next few weeks. Please contact me directly at rosenat3@msu.edu.

Natalie Rose
Doctoral Candidate
Michigan State University
Department of History
Email:rosenat3@msu.edu
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