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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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2009-2010 Season

15 October 2009, 5:15 PM
Felicia Kornbluh, University of Vermont
"Disability, Gender, and Politics: The National Confederation of the Blind Confronts the Post-W.W. II U.S. Welfare State"
Comment: Laura L. Frader, Northeastern University

10 December 2009, 5:30 PM
Crystal Feimster, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"How Are the Daughters of Eve Punished? Rape and the American Civil War"
Comment: Nina Silber, Boston University
Location: Schlesinger Library

18 March 2010, 5:15 PM
Carolyn Eastman, University of Texas, Austin
"'Grandeurs wch I had heard of': Women Travelers and Print Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic"
Comment: Cornelia Dayton, University of Connecticut

22 April 2010, 5:30 PM
April Haynes, Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Historical Society and American Antiquarian Society
 "Making 'False Delicacy' True: The Passions of Female Moral Reformers, 1835-1845"
Comment: Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Smith College
Location: Schlesinger Library




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