Congress of the International Committee of Historical Sciences (Web)

Time: August 23-29, 2015
Location: Jinan, China
Deadline: 2013-11-30, CfP als PDF

One of the Specialised Themes at the Congress of the International Committee of Historical Sciences focusses on the History of the Girl. The aim of this session is to bring together scholars working in the field and to identify common themes and differences in the history of the girl across the world. In order to establish some cohesion for the discussion the focus will be on girls aged from early adolescence to the early 20s. Paper proposals are welcome on all periods of time as well as from as wide a geographical span as possible.

Topics to be discussed include:

• Public discourses on girls
• Girls and the family
• The culture of adolescent girls
• Coming of age
• Sex education
• Debates on the education of girls
• Dress and fashion
• Girls work
• Consumerism and girls
• The modern girl
• Representations of girls
• Literature and writing for girls

Professor Mary O’Dowd
School of History and Anthropology
Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN
Email: m.odowd@qub.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://www.cish.org/congres/
ST29-Towards-global-history-CfP.girl.pdf

Source: H-WOMEN@H-NET.MSU.EDU