Journal of Women’s History Roundtable Forum – Edited by Dana Rabin – Department of History University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign USA

• How can legal sources give evidence of women’s lives, experiences, and voices?
• How do these sources represent, clarify, and obscure gender roles?
• How do students negotiate and interact with these sources and what sorts of teachable moments do they stage in the classroom?
• What challenges do legal sources present for teaching women’s and gender history and how can one avoid misperceptions and misunderstandings?

We seek essays (1000 words) that engage the problems and opportunities presented by legal sources in the undergraduate classroom. We are especially keen to receive submissions from scholars teaching outside of Western Europe and the United States, and from scholars working outside the western legal tradition.

The deadline for submissions is July 1, 2009. Please be sure to consult the JWH website for submission guidelines.

Submissions should be addressed to:
Dana Y. Rabin
Journal of Women’s History
c/o Department of History
University of Illinois
810 S. Wright St.
Urbana, IL 61801

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