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

Call for panelists from Tamar W. Carroll: I am seeking a third panelist for a panel for the 2014 Berkshire Conference on the topic of theater and women’s health activism. We hope to explore both formal and street theater projects aimed at transforming understandings of gender and health.

One paper analyzes Eve Ensler’s „The Vagina Monologues“ as a transnational activist/theatrical initiative for combating gender violence related to health and body politics, including eating disorders, biomedical abuse, and mutilation. The second paper examines the Church Ladies for Choice, a group of gay men AIDS activists who perform in drag in support of abortion rights and women’s access to reproductive health care. If you are interested in joining us, please contact me at twcgsh@rit.edu.

Tamar W. Carroll
Assistant Professor
History Department, College of the Liberal Arts
Rochester Institute of Technology

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