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Boston Seminar on the History of Women and Gender

The Boston Seminar on the History of Women and Gender provides a forum for scholars and students to meet periodically and discuss new research; sessions may consider any aspect of the history of women and gender without chronological limitations. A collaboration of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America and the Massachusetts Historical Society, the seminar meets in turn at the facilities of the two sponsors.

Most seminar sessions revolve around the discussion of a precirculated paper. Sessions open with remarks from the essayist and an assigned commentator, after which the discussion is opened to the floor. After each session, the evening's host will serve a light buffet supper. We request that those wishing to stay for supper make reservations in advance.
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2008-2009 Season

23 October 2008, 5:30 PM
Jennifer Scanlon, Bowdoin College
"Second/Third Wave Feminism: The Case of Helen Gurley Brown"
Comment: Alice Jardine, Harvard University
Location: Schlesinger Library, Harvard University

12 February 2009, 5:30 PM
Lois Brown, Mount Holyoke College
"Race Work, Women's Work: African American Women and History in Massachusetts"
Comment: Susan Tomlinson, University of Massachusetts at Boston

19 March 2009, 5:30 PM
Amy G. Richter, Clark University
"A Domestic Market: Reframing International Marriages in the Age of U.S. Expansionism"
Comment: Frank Costigliola, University of Connecticut
Location: Schlesinger Library, Harvard University

16 April 2009, 5:30 PM
Jacqueline Castledine, Empire State College, SUNY
"Anticolonial Feminism in the Cold War Era"
Comment: Margaret Burnham, Northeastern University




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