The Upstate New York Women’s History Organization (UNYWHO) will hold a conference on March 7, 2009 at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
Sessions
- Warring Identities: Suffrage and Work
- Outsiders/Insiders: African American Women and Civil Society
- Gendering the Body: Representations of Manhood
- Campaign Trains and Suffrage Soap Boxes: Women’s Political Tactics
- Gender, Science and Imperialism in Higher Education
- Widows, Beloveds, Working Women, and Modernity: Perspectives on Women, Gender and Family
- Trangressors: Religion and Motherhood in Women’s Lives
- Transnational Women: International Women in the Americas
Session 1: 8:45-10:15
1. Warring Identities: Suffrage and Work (Sanford Room)
Katherine Hubler, „Wenn nicht für notwendig, so jedenfalls für nützlich“: The German Men’s League for Women’s Suffrage, 1911-1914
Susan Goodier, „A Curious Pair: Suffrage and Anti-Suffrage Leaders during the First World War“
Kenneth O’Brien and Carolyn Vacca, SUNY Brockport and St. John Fisher, „Women and Work During WWII in Monroe County NY“
Chair: Vivien Rose, National Park Service
2. Outsiders/Insiders: African American Women and Civil Society (Geneva Room)
Catherine Adams, „New England Women’s Civil Lawsuits“
Justin Behrend, „Women Control the Election: Rethinking Black Women’s Participation in Electoral Politics during Reconstruction“
Alison Parker, „Mary Church Terrell’s Campaign Against ‚White Lawlessness'“
Chair: Victoria Wolcott, University of Rochester
Session 2: 10:30-12:00
3. Gendering the Body: Representations of Manhood (Sanford Room)
Lyn Blanchfield, „Injurious Words: Public Insults, Gender, and Honor in Late Medieval Italy“
Kenneth E. Marshall, „Manhood in the Shape of a Northern Slave Woman: Masculine Identification in Silvia Dubois, A Biografy of the Slav Who Whipt Her Mistress and Gand Her Freedom“
Kate Culkin, „‚Knowing What Barriers Must in the Outset Oppose All Womanly Efforts‘: Harriet Hosmer’s Memorial to Thomas Hart Benton.“
Meredith Roman, „The Black Male Body and Representations of American Racial Apartheid and Soviet Anti-Racism“
Chair: Tamar Carroll, Cornell University
4. Campaign Trains and Suffrage Soap Boxes: Women’s Political Tactics (Geneva Room)
Lauren Kozakiewicz, „To Be or Not to Be: Women, Partisanship and the Hughes Campaign Train of 1916“
Tara McCarthy, „‚Never Mind If You Are Not Lady-like‘: Irish-American Women and the Politics of Suffrage in the Twentieth Century“
Karen Pastorello, „New Tactics for a New Woman: Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon and the 1917 New York State Suffrage Campaign“
Gaylynn Welch, „Pursuing Political Strategies: Partisanship and Non-Partisanship within the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association“
Chair: Margaret Susan Thompson, Syracuse University
Lunch 12:00-1:30 Commons Room, Scandling Center
Session 3: 1:30-3:00
5. Gender, Science and Imperialism in Higher Education (Sanford Room)
Barbara Reeves-Ellington, „Boston on the Bosphorus: Women, Empire, and the American College for Girls in Constantinople“
Laura Ettinger and Nicole Conroy, „Techettes: A Case Study of Women Engineering Undergraduates in the 1960s and 1970s“
Gwen Kay, „‚From Home Economics to Human Ecology‘: An Overused Book Title on an Important Topic“
Chair: Emilye Crosby, SUNY Geneseo
6. Widows, Beloveds, Working Women, and Modernity: Perspectives on Women, Gender and Family (Geneva Room)
Katherine Clark, „A Household Full of Rogues“: The Chaste Widow and Household Management in Early Modern Advice Literature
Amy Aisen Elouafi, „2,000 Jibbas: Reform and the Modern Family in Nineteenth-Century Tunisia“
Krystal D. Frazier, „‚My Beloved Whom I Never Expected to See Again:‘ The Experience of Separation within Enslaved Antebellum Families“
Jean Elisabeth Pedersen, „Métier or Marriage? French questions about work in the lives of young women, wives, and widows, 1900-1914
Chair: Dorinda Outram, University of Rochester
Session 4: 3:15-4:45
7. Trangressors: Religion and Motherhood in Women’s Lives (Sanford Room)
Paul Moyer, „Revisiting the Public Universal Friend: Religion & Gender in Revolutionary America“
Jenny Lloyd, „Mary O’Bryan Thorne: Preacher, Wife and Mother“
Carol Faulkner, „Schism: Women’s Rights and the Society of Friends“
Rebecca Edwards, „Mothering in Silence: Deafness, Marriage, and Motherhood in Historical Perspective“
Chair: Marcia Robinson, Syracuse University
8. Transnational Women: International Women in the Americas (Geneva Room)
E. Sue Wamsley, „Negotiating Women’s Interests in the National and International Arenas“
Penny Messinger, „Applying the Lessons of Women’s International Activism in the Appalachian South: Mary and Helen Dingman,“
Neici Zeller, „Pan Americanism in a Hemispheric Context“
Chair: Nancy Rosenbloom, Canisius College
5:00-5:45 UNYWHO Meeting-everyone welcome! (Sanford Room)
6:00 Dinner, Commons Room, Scandling Center
7:00 Keynote Speaker: Leigh Ann Wheeler, Binghamton University, „Making Liberties: The ACLU and the Transformation of Sexual Culture in the Twentieth-Century United States“ (Geneva Room)
UNYWHO Steering Committee:
Carol Faulkner
Laura Free
Jenny Lloyd
Doris Meadows
Penny Messinger
Alison Parker
Karen Pastorello
Monique Patenaude
For registration information, please contact Carol Faulkner, cfaulkne@maxwell.syr.edu
aus: H-WOMEN@H-NET.MSU.EDU