{"id":46751,"date":"2021-01-05T02:05:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T01:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.univie.ac.at\/Geschichte\/salon21\/?p=46751"},"modified":"2022-05-19T15:53:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T15:53:50","slug":"cfp-intercontinental-cross-currents-transatlantic-women-at-work-service-in-the-long-nineteenth-century-virtual-conversations-06-07-2021-by-15-03-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/?p=46751","title":{"rendered":"CfP: Transatlantic Women at Work: Service in the Long 19th Century (Virtual workshop series, 06-07\/2021); by: 15.03.2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Laura-Isabella Heitz, and Julia Nitz (Martin Luther Univ. Halle-Wittenberg); Khristeena Lute (SUNY Adirondack); Sandra H. Petrulionis (Penn State Univ., Altoona)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Time: 07.06.-31.07.2021<br \/>\nVenue: virtual space, via Halle<br \/>\n<strong>Proposals by<\/strong>: 15.03.2021<\/p>\n<p>The current dual crises of the global CV-19 pandemic and the (also global) renewed struggle for racial justice have turned our attention to women worldwide whose critically important service roles bring to mind and expand on their similar occupations in the long nineteenth century. Women comprise the majority of the workforce that has been deemed \u201cessential\u201d during the pandemic &#8211; from healthcare and social services to retail and other service sector jobs. Women have been disproportionately affected by the loss of employment, whether through involuntary lay-offs or voluntary resignation due to the need to provide \u201cessential\u201d care at home, most significantly as teachers of their now virtually-schooled children. Across various service horizons today, we can also observe that women, especially those of color, continue as in the past to confront institutionalized discrimination, subordination, and marginalization.<\/p>\n<p>Both this troubling contemporary reality and its historical precedents make clear the inherent ambiguity of women\u2019s service. On the one hand, as Hannah Branch and Melissa Wooten have shown, service occupations may offer fields of action that enable new paths of social mobility for women; on the other, as with today\u2019s virtual mother-teachers, such service often perpetuates domestic stereotypes, race conflicts, and class affiliation , while also severely impacting career progression, lifetime earning potential, and ongoing emotional stress. Studies on women and service largely focus on three main research areas: 1) women and domestic service, 2) women and service in an entrepreneurial context, and 3) women and military service. Kristina Booker, in particular, conceptualizes women in service as either engaging in such work from a humanitarian \u201cspiritualized sense of \u2018duty,\u2019\u201d or actually working for wages in a servant capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Not as well examined, however, is the complexity of women\u2019s service as an enabling or a disabling factor within a transatlantic context. Throughout the long 19th century, women in the transatlantic world were engaged in a range of service roles, including nursing, teaching, and reform causes. Many served in menial jobs with no glory or recognition, while some held leadership roles in various movements, such as antislavery, temperance, workers\u2019 rights, woman\u2019s rights, and community service. Several served openly with the respect of family and society, while other women were forced to disguise themselves in order to serve their chosen cause. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsozkult.de\/event\/id\/event-94963\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more and source &#8230; (Web)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laura-Isabella Heitz, and Julia Nitz (Martin Luther Univ. Halle-Wittenberg); Khristeena Lute (SUNY Adirondack); Sandra H. Petrulionis (Penn State Univ., Altoona) Time: 07.06.-31.07.2021 Venue: virtual space, via Halle Proposals by: 15.03.2021 The current dual crises of the global CV-19 pandemic and the (also global) renewed struggle for racial justice have turned our attention to women worldwide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calls-for-papers","category-history-of-european-womens-movements","category-migration-2","category-topic_pflegecare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55743,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46751\/revisions\/55743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}