Preliminary Programme

Showing: Women and Gender (all days)
Wed 22 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

Thu 23 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

Fri 24 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

Sat 25 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

All days
Wednesday 22 March 2006 8:30
K-1 WOM23 Varieties of Feminism I: International Perspectives
Room K
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Bonnie Smith
Organizers: - Discussant: Bonnie Smith
Florence Binard : Biology, Sexuality and the Sexual Order in Relation to Feminism in the 1920s in Great Britain
Silke Neunsinger, Pernilla Jonsson : Feminine Finances. Funding the socialist and bourgeois women's movement - a transnational approach
Anne Revillard : Bringing the movement within the state: the Comité du Travail féminin (1965-1981), or the unknown origins of French state feminism



Wednesday 22 March 2006 10:45
G-2 WOM19 Roundtable: Women and Investment
Room G
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Kirsti Niskanen
Organizers: - Discussant: Maria Ågren
Mary Beth Combs : A Measure of Legal Independence: The Married Women's Property Act and the Portfolio Allocations of British Wives
David Green : Women providing for women: money, emotion and duty 1800-1870
Stefania Licini : Women as investors, some evidence from the case of Milan, Italy (1860-1900)
Josephine Maltby, Janette Rutterford : “A nesting instinct”? Women investors and risk in England 1800-1930
Alastair Owens : Feathering the nest: property, investment and the English bourgeois household 1800-1860
Stephanie Wyse : Gender, wealth and margins of empire: women's financial decision making in New Zealand c.1890 to 1950



Wednesday 22 March 2006 14:15
P-3 WOM07 Migration, Marriage, and National Identity
Room P
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Christiane Harzig
Organizers: - Discussant: Christiane Harzig
Suzanne Morton : The Nation Building of Everyday Life: Atlantic Canadian Women in Montreal, 1880-1940
Josefa Schriever-Baldoz : Forget-Me-Not: A Historiography of 'Inangbayan' as the Philippine Trope of the Nation-State
Maija Urponen : Gender, nation and transnational marriages in the 1950s' Finland
Marguerite Van Die : 'What God hath joined...': Perspectives on Marriage and Divorce in late Victorian Canada



Wednesday 22 March 2006 16:30
G-4 WOM05 Russian Women's Rights
Room G
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Marianna Muravyeva
Organizers: - Discussant: Natalia Novikova
Natalia Pushkareva : Feminism in Russia: Two Centuries of History
Rochelle Ruthchild : The Myth of 'Bourgeois' Feminism in Russia, 1905-1917
Igor Shkolnikov : Women's Liberation Movement in Russia in the Light of British Women's Suffrage.
Olga Shnyrova : "If woman deserves to mount the scaffold, she deserves to enter the parliament": Women's Eguality Union and struggle for political rights of women during the first Russian revolution



Thursday 23 March 2006 10:45
V-6 WOM06 Social Policy and the Politics of Intimacy
Committee Room 1
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Sonya Michel
Organizers: - Discussant: Sonya Michel
Sibylle Brändli Blumenbach : Close Encounters, Time for Change: Psychological Counseling for Children and Their Families in Public Institutions after WW II (Germany and Switzerland)
Ingela Naumann : Unions, gender politics and childcare. West Germany and Sweden compared
Yvonne Svanström : The Early Swedish Welfare State and Prostitution 1920-1980
Hannelore Vandebroek : An allowance for mothers? Re-interpreting Belgian post-war family policy (1949-1957)
Richard Wilson, Paula Nicolson & Graham Smith : The historiography of domestic violence in Great Britain and the United States, 1960-1980.



Thursday 23 March 2006 14:15
E-7 WOM01 Varieties of Feminism II: Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe
Room E
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Maria Bucur
Organizers: - Discussant: Maria Bucur
Francisca De Haan, Krassimira Daskalova : Varieties of Feminisms in the Life Stories of Women and Men from Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
Dominika Gruziel : The Meaning of Polish Catholic Female Activism for the Emancipation of Polish Women in the Context of the Nation-State Building Processes (1880s-1918)
Anna Loutfi : Putting Law in its Place. Contextualising Feminist Responses to the Hungarian Draft Civil Code of 1913


K-7 WOM18 Masculinities and Feminist Historiography
Room K
Networks: Theory , Women and Gender Chair: Stefan Dudink
Organizers: - Discussants: Anita Göransson, Sonya Rose
Marilyn Lake : Men against Men
Ann-Catrin Östman : Masculinity, citizenship and traditions of agrarian historiography


P-7 WOM10 Sexuality, Gender, and Politics in the Late Ottoman Empire and Turkey
Room P
Networks: Asia , Women and Gender Chair: Ruth Mandel
Organizers: - Discussant: Ruth Mandel
Elif Gozdasoglu : Thinking About Turkish Women's Past: Some Reflections on the Intersection of Turkish Nationalism and Gender
Tuba Kanci : Women and Men of an Imagined Community: Gender Constructions of the Turkish Republic in Textbooks
Selçuk akşin Somel : Woman, state, and religion: The Issue of Abortion in the Late Ottoman Empire



Friday 24 March 2006 8:30
L-9 WOM09 Roundtable: Varieties of Feminism III: International Perspectives
Room L
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Judith P. Zinsser
Organizers: - Discussant: Judith P. Zinsser
Carolyn Eichner : Getting the Dowry and Keeping Your Name: Feminist Perspectives on Race, Agency, and Empire in Late Nineteenth-Century France
Hasmik Khalapyan : Defining Feminism in Ottoman Armenian Women's Movement, 1875-1914
Maria Martinez Gonzalez : The feminist movement in the basque country: problems and challenges
Sharifa Wright : Lionheart gyal, and what of radical feminism? - How gender inequality became the feminist agenda in Caribbean Nationalism



Friday 24 March 2006 14:15
U-11 WOM02 Gender, Islam, and European Multiculturalism
Room U
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Frances Gouda
Organizers: - Discussant: Karen Vintges
Linda Duits, Liesbet Van Zoonen : Headscarves and porno-chic: Disciplining girls’ bodies in the European multicultural society
Jytte Klausen : The Sexual Politics of Islam in Europe
Sonja van Wichelen, Marc de Leeuw : "Please, Go Wake Up!" Submission, Hirsi Ali, and the War on Terror in the Netherlands
Judith Vichniac : Other Reactions: Christian and Jewish Responses to the Foulard Controversy


V-11 WOM04 Women Interpret Historical Change
Committee Room 1
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Hanneke Hoekstra
Organizers: - Discussant: Hanneke Hoekstra
Isabela Campoi : Gender and politics: Adalgisa Nery in the Brazilian political jornalism
Marianna Muravyeva : History at crisis: Gender studies, national identity and contemporary Russian history profession
Rosemarie Schade : Looking at America: Alice Salomon and Charlotte Lütkens



Friday 24 March 2006 16:30
C-12 WOM16 Roundtable: Gender and the Politics of Representation
Room C
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Allaine Cerwonka
Organizers: - Discussant: Allaine Cerwonka
Carlota Coronado Ruiz : Italian women representation during war time: The Luce film news programs (1940-1945)
Joan E. Greer : Untying the Bonds in Late Nineteenth-Century Print Culture: a Male Artist's Radical Visual Language in an Early Feminest Periodical
Elizabeth Menon : Evil by Design: The Creation and Marketing of the Femme-Fatale in 19th-century France
Aurora Morcillo : Body Politics and Spanish Transition to Democracy
Francisco Segado : Spanish women in the late Franco dictatorship: an approach through political cartoons
María Del Carmen Suescun Pozas : Modern Feminity, Shattered Masculinity: The Scandal of the Female Nude During Political Crisis in Colombia, 1930-1948


O-12 WOM14 Gender and Professionalism
Room O
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Katrin Schultheiss
Organizers: - Discussant: Katrin Schultheiss
Michelle Denbeste : Russian Women Physicians 1867-1905: Professionalism, Feminism, Radicalism
Sonja Matter : Contested Experts. Swiss Women in the Field of Professional Social Work and Welfare (1900-1960)
Susan McGann : Nurses are Citizens: the politics of the College of Nursing (UK) as a non-feminist organisation in the interwar period
Mary Jane Mossman : Women Lawyers of the 19th century: gender, law and the legal professions


U-12 WOM24 Representations of the Sexed Body in Medicine and Society
Room U
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Ivan Crozier
Organizers: - Discussant: Ivan Crozier
Hans-Georg Hofer : Challenging sex differences when becoming old. Discourses on the “male menopause” in Twentieth-century German medicine
Christabelle Sethna : "Chastity Outmoded!" The Ubyssey, Sex and the Single Girl, 1960-1970



Saturday 25 March 2006 8:30
G-13 WOM11 Gender and Communism, East and West
Room G
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Anna Loutfi
Organizers: - Discussant: Susan Gal
Tiina Lintunen : "Dangerous to the State and Society”: 'Red' women in court after the Finnish Civil War
Basia Nowak : ‘Inconvenient’ for the Party-State: The League of Women in Poland and the Dissolution of Workplace Chapters in 1966
Raluca Maria Popa : “Women of the Whole (Socialist) World”: The Involvement of Women’s Organizations from State Socialist Hungary and Romania in International Women’s Activism, 1965 –1990


N-13 WOM03 Roundtable: Gender and the History of Social Work through Visual Sources
Room N
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Berteke M.L. Waaldijk
Organizers: - Discussant: Roxana Cheschebec
Evelyne Diebolt : Iconography of Social Work in Soissonais (France) 1920
Adriane Feustel : A photoalbum telling the women's history of social work.
Pavel Romanov, Elena R. Iarskaia-Smirnova : Interpreting visual memories of Soviet institutional child care



Saturday 25 March 2006 10:45
B-14 WOM08 Perspectives on Gender and Politics in Mandate Palestine
Room B
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Inger Marie Okkenhaug
Organizers: - Discussant: Inger Marie Okkenhaug
Deborah S. Bernstein : The Understanding of Prostitution:The Colonial Government and the Jewish National Community in Mandatory Palestine
Nurit B. Gillath : The Hebrew Women's Union for Equal Rights in Eretz-Israel 1918-1948
Orit Manor : Women Inequality in Dual Society – The Galilee Moshava in Palestine
Nancy Stockdale : Transgressing Sacred Space: British Women Missionaries in Mandate Palestine, 1918-1948



Saturday 25 March 2006 14:15
G-15 REL06 Roundtable: Gender and Religion
Room G
Networks: Religion , Women and Gender Chair: Francisca De Haan
Organizers: - Discussant: Kristen Ghodsee
Maria Bucur : Gender, Religion, and Collective Memory in 20th Century Eastern Europe
Bart Latré : Feminist Christians and the feminization of religion: a case study of groups in Flanders (1979-1990)
Mohamed Malchouch : Gender and masculinity in Islam
Georgeta Nazarska : Women from Religious Minorities in the Bulgarian Political, Economic and Cultural Life (19th -20th Centuries)
Teresa Polowy : Beyond Cookbooks and Choirs: Women's Role in the Doukhobor Community in Canada


S-15 WOM12 Gender in the Military
Room S
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Ulla Wikander
Organizers: - Discussant: Joy Damousi
Anders Ahlbäck : Beyond middle-class manliness? Notions of masculinity in the Finnish conscript army 1919-1939
Anu Heiskanen : When Intimate Becomes a National Affair - Reactions on Women's Sexuality during WW II
Seija-Leena Nevala-Nurmi : Families Defending the Nation - Gender and Generation in the Voluntary Defence Movement in Finland 1918-1944
Fia Sundevall : Backdoor in: women’s informal entry into the Swedish military. The Swedish Women’s Voluntary Defence Service. (approx. 1924 – 1950)



Saturday 25 March 2006 16:30
E-16 WOM13 Sexual violence, slavery and women's agency
Room E
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Emily Landau
Organizers: - Discussant: Emily Landau
Darlene Abreu-Ferreira : Single, Servant, and Slave: vulnerable and resourceful women in early modern Portugal
Belén Martín-Lucas : Body language: verbal and visual narratives in 'Still Sane'
Amanda Pipkin : Uses of Sexual Violence and Conceptions of Rapists in the Dutch Republic of the Seventeenth Century
Aida Rosende Pérez : Memory and Resistance: Triúr Ban and the Re-Membering of the Female Body


F-16 WOM21 Labour contracts and marriage contracts
Room F
Networks: Labour , Women and Gender Chair: Laura Frader
Organizers: - Discussant: Laura Frader
Zara Bersbo : The hidden emancipation. Were changes in 1915: s law of marriage and divirce mainly supporting male emancipation? A study of attitudes to paid and unpaid work in Sweden 1915-1974
Lina Galvez Muñoz : Exploring the Gender Wage Differentials in Spain, 1900-1930
Linda Lane : “Bringing Home the Bacon – Female contributions to family income 1920-1940.”
Kirsti Niskanen : Contracts of Labour and Marriage - A Generations Approach


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