The online journal Women and Social Movements in the U.S., 1600-2000 is launching a new initiative entitled, “Jewish women and Postwar Social Movements, 1945-1982.” This call for proposals for document projects asks how Jewish women’s personal and historic experiences shaped the ways in which they participated in both Jewish communal affairs and in the larger American society. Shira Kohn and Rachel Kranson, both of New York University, and Kathleen Laughlin, of Metropolitan State University – St. Paul, will serve as the editors for this initiative and will begin accepting proposals for document projects on this topic.

This initiative will build upon the website’s current offerings, which include projects concerning Protestant women, Native American women, African-American women, Jewish women, and most recently Catholic Women and Second Wave Feminism.

We encourage document projects in the same format as those currently posted on the website. They should pose a question and organize documents that address the question. To begin the submission process, please send email to the editors for this initiative describing the project you are interested in developing. They will get back to you with further details on the submission process and the nature of the proposal you will need to prepare for the peer review process.

Examples of potential topics include:
• Jewish Women and Civil Rights
• Jewish Women and Second Wave Feminism
• Jewish Women and Radical Feminism
• Jewish Women and the Red Scare
• Jewish Women and Wars (Korea, Vietnam, etc.)
• Jewish Women and the “Feminine Mystique”
• Comparative Projects between Jewish and non-Jewish Women
• Jewish Women’s Clubs and/or Voluntary Organizations (i.e. Hadassah, National Council for Jewish Women, etc.)
• Jewish Women and Religious Institutions
• Jewish Women and Suburbia
• Jewish Women and Zionism
• Icons of American Jewish Womanhood
• Jewish Women and New Professions
• Jewish Women and Education
• Jewish Women and Lesbian Rights

For more information and to see examples of document projects, please visit the Women and Social Movements website at: http://www.binghamton.edu/womhist/

Please send proposals to:
Shira Kohn shiram19@aol.com
Rachel Kranson rachel@honksandsirens.com
Kathleen Laughlin Kathleen.Laughlin@metrostate.edu

CfP – Quelle: Newsletter des AKHFG Arbeitskreis Historische Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Universität Flensburg