Preliminary Programme

Showing: Women and Gender (all days)
Tue 26 February
    14.15
    16.30

Wed 27 February
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Thu 28 February
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Fri 29 February
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Sat 1 March
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

All days
Tuesday 26 February 2008 14.15
D-1 WOM11 Gender and Modernization in Balkan Societies
Cave D
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Berteke M.L. Waaldijk
Organizers: - Discussant: Berteke M.L. Waaldijk
Serpil Cakir : Women's Movement in Turkey: Historical Process and Changing Paradigms
Krassimira Daskalova : Women within the "communication circuit" in Modern Bulgaria (1878-1944)
Dubravka Stojanovic : Misogyny as Modernization? The Case of Belgrade Vaudvilles 1890-1914
Polly Thanailaki : The role of women's press in the shaping of female model in the 19th century Greek society


U-1 EDU11 Gender and professionalism in teaching
Room10.2
Networks: Education and Childhood , Women and Gender Chair: Frank Simon
Organizers: - Discussant: Annemieke Van Drenth
Isabela Cabral Félix De Sousa, Cristiane N. Braga & Cristina A. Ferreira & Telma M. Frutuoso & Diego S. Vargas : The female predominance of a vocational and scientific program in Brazil for high school students
Bart Hellinckx, Marc Depaepe & Frank Simon : The educational work of women religious: a historiographical survey
Maria Mogarro : Social Origins and Teacher Training: Female Students at Teacher Training Schools in the second half of the 19th Century in Portugal
Lies Van Rompaey, Marc Depaepe & Frank Simon : A different kind of activism: the position of catholic women teachers in their union. Belgium, 1950-1965.


V-1 WOM02 Feminism and Transnationalism I: Transnational Networks and National Contexts
Room 2.10
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Women and Gender Chair: Francisca De Haan
Organizer: Julie Carlier Discussant: Ulla Wikander
Maria Anastasopoulou : The American Influence on Callirrhoe Parren at the turn of the 19th Century Greece
Julie Carlier : Shaping Belgian feminism. Transnational transfers and the forging of a national women’s movement (ca.1890-1918)
Carolyn Eichner : "The Veil and the Vote: Race, Sexuality, and Feminist Imperialism in Late 19th Century France"
Rochelle Ruthchild : Russian Feminists: From Global Sisterhood to Silence
Judith P. Zinsser : Gendering Transnational Topics: Benefits and Liabilities



Tuesday 26 February 2008 16.30
D-2 WOR07 Gender History in Transnational Perspectiv (roundtable)
Cave D
Networks: Women and Gender , World History Chair: Judith P. Zinsser
Organizers: - Discussant: Judith P. Zinsser
Ann Allen : "Lost in Translation? Gender History in National and Transnational Perspective."
Swapna Banerjee : The Father and the Child : Fatherhood as a Vector of Masculinity in Colonial India
Anne Cova : "Women and Associativism in France, Italy, and Portugal, 1900-1945"
Jennifer Morris : Father to the World's Children: The United Nations Children's Fund


V-2 WOM03 Feminism and Transnationalism II: Transnational Feminism and International Politics
Room 2.10
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Women and Gender Chair: Jose Moya
Organizer: Julie Carlier Discussant: Francisca De Haan
Carol Faulkner : The World's Anti-Slavery Convention and the Origins of Women's Rights
Brigitte Rath : Forgotten Networks: Olga Misars Engagement in the Austrian Feminist Peace Movement (transnational and national networks)
Victoria Rowe : Women's Transnational Organizing: Feminist and Humanitarian Interventions in the League of Nations' Commission for the Protection of Women and Children in the Near East
Ulla Wikander : Women over national borders against night work prohibition,



Wednesday 27 February 2008 8.30
E-3 ORA03 Gender and its influence on remembrance, the oral-history process, the interviewer, and the interviewee
Cave E
Networks: Oral History , Women and Gender Chair: Sally Alexander
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Helga Amesberger : Doing Gender within Oral History
Terry Brotherstone, Hugo Manson : Women in North Sea Oil
Sónia Ferreira : “Women’s voice place” – memory, gender and oral history
Pia Olsson : "Only the grove whores whistle." Women's sexuality pictured in questionnaire material


J-3 ECO01 Women and Investment: England, Wales and Canada in the late 19th century
Room 3.1
Networks: Economics , Women and Gender Chair: Joyce Burnette
Organizers: - Discussant: Kris Inwood
Peter Baskerville : Women and Wealth: Urban and Rural Patterns in Late Nineteenth Century Canada
David Green, Alastair Owens : Lives in the balance? Women’s financial assets and debts in late nineteenth-century England and Wales
Josephine Maltby, Janette Rutterford : Consols, Home Rails and Foreign Things: women and investment in England and Wales in the early twentieth century


Y-3 WOM04 Feminism and Transnationalism III: Transnational Feminism in Latin America
Room 2.14
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Women and Gender Chair: Teresa Meade
Organizer: Julie Carlier Discussant: Teresa Meade
Isabela Campoi : Brazilian first wave feminism and transnationalism
Jose Moya : Dangerous Women in the Land of the Tango: Anarchist Feminism in Buenos Aires, 1890-1914
Jadwiga Pieper Mooney : Women’s Coalition-building and Collective Empowerment: Transnational Feminism Under Military Rule in Chile, 1973-1990



Wednesday 27 February 2008 10.45
J-4 ECO02 The Material Well-Being of Women: Studies from England, Scotland, Ireland and Canada in the 19th and 20th centuries
Room 3.1
Networks: Economics , Women and Gender Chair: Peter Baskerville
Organizer: Peter Baskerville Discussant: Anne Mccants
Bernard Harris : Anthropometric history, gender and the measurement of well-being
Kris Inwood : The Changing Physical Standard of Living for British and Canadian Women, 1850-1950.
Stephan Klasen, Parvati Truebswetter : Emigration and Gender Bias in Mortality in Ireland, 1850-1930.



Wednesday 27 February 2008 14.15
Y-5 WOM16 Gender in the Early Modern World
Room 2.14
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Krassimira Daskalova
Organizers: - Discussant: Krassimira Daskalova
Ulrike Gleixner : Gender as a Medium of “expanding Piety”. The Protestant Mission to India in the 18th Century.
Janine Lanza : Family wealth and marriage settlements of siblings in early modern Paris
Maritere Lopez : The Art of Courtship in Early Modern Conduct Manuals
Daniel Murphree : Conquistadores, Huguenots, and Sexuality: Constructing Gender in the Florida Borderlands, 1513-1573
Gabriele Pieri : "Competent boys" and "obedient girls": Female Role Models in Catechisms and School Bibles in early modern Germany (16th to early 19th century)



Wednesday 27 February 2008 16.30
N-6 WOM14 Women and Medical Care in Modern Europe
Room 6.1
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Maria Bucur
Organizers: - Discussant: Maria Bucur
Michelle Denbeste : Cleanliness and Virtuousness: Women Physicians and the Hygiene Movement in Late Imperial Russia
Lynn Lubamersky : The Advantage of being “A Polish Woman, and a foreigner in their country”: the Life of Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa
Sabine Veits-Falk : Migration of Women Doctors (19th and early 20th century)



Thursday 28 February 2008 8.30
X-7 WOM07 Engendering Socialism. A Roundtable
Room 2.13
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Mihaela Miroiu
Organizers: - Discussant: Mihaela Miroiu
Wendy Goldman : Family Networks in the Great Terror in the Soviet Union
Lynne Haney : Reading the Past from the Politics of the Present
Donna Harsch : Women and the Domestication of State Policy in the German Democratic Republic (GDR)
Jill Massino : Experience as Evidence: Women, Gender, and Everyday Life in Socialist Romania
Shana Penn : Third Space: Gender Dynamics in Opposition Movements in Communist Poland and Czechoslovakia



Thursday 28 February 2008 10.45
Y-8 REL01 Competing Identities: Gender and Religion
Room 2.14
Networks: Religion , Women and Gender Chair: Ariadne Schmidt
Organizers: Karin Hofmeester, Ariadne Schmidt Discussant: Karin Hofmeester
Bojan Aleksov : Women in Religious Movements in Yugoslavia
Silvia Evangelisti : Failed Jesuitesses: Gender, Religion, and Politics in Early Modern Europe
Ji Li : Letters from Manchuria: Gender, Writing and Confession in Nineteenth-century Rural China
Cecilia Winterhalter : St. Thérèse of Lisieux and the 19th. Century



Thursday 28 February 2008 14.15
M-9 ETH06 VEIL. Debates about headscarfes in Europe
Room 5.2
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Sexuality , Women and Gender Chair: Birte Siim
Organizers: - Discussants: Sieglinde Rosenberger, Birte Siim
Rikke Andreassen : VEIL. Debates about headscarves in Europe. The Danish case
Leila Hadj-Abdou, Nora Gresch & Sieglinde Rosenberger : Unveiling the Austrian headscarf debate
Petra Rostock, Sabine Berghahn : VEIL Germany: The hegemonic use of the headscarf as a symbol of subordination
Sawitri Saharso, Doutje Lettinga : Moral conflicts and practical solutions: policies and debates about Muslim women’s head and body covering in the Netherlands


P-9 WOM15 Translating Gender: Historical Change Through a Gender Perspective
Room 8.1
Networks: Sexuality , Women and Gender Chair: Natali Stegmann
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Dietlind Hüchtker : Gender Order as a Medium of Conceptualizing Reform Movements in the 19th Century (Zionism, Socialism, Feminism and Nationalism in East Central Europe)
Claudia Kraft : Communicating processes of Social Change by the Multiple Shifting of Gender Concepts in Central and Eastern Europe Since World War II
Mohamed Malchouch : Moroccan Masculinity in Literary and Historical Perspectives
Clare Midgley : Making national heroines in imperial and post-imperial Britain: the divergent and shifting commemorative fortunes of two heroines of the Crimean War
Alison Oram : Love between Women in Historic Houses: Sexual Dissidence and the Uses of the Past


V-9 WOM01 Women, Armies, and the Nation
Room 2.10
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Melissa Bokovoy
Organizers: - Discussant: Melissa Bokovoy
Petra Goedde : Military Conquest as Sexual Conquest: the Gendering of Warfare during the Second World War
Zeynep Kutluata : Gender and War during the late Ottoman and Early Republican Periods: The Case of Black Fatma(s)
Holly Mayer : Revolutionary Roles and Role Models: Perceptions of Women's Actions in the American War for Independence
Fia Sundevall : Swedish women’s military work in the post-war period of 1945-1969



Thursday 28 February 2008 16.30
Y-10 NMWOM Network meeting: Women and Gender
Room 2.14
Network: Women and Gender Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -



Friday 29 February 2008 8.30
N-11 ETH21 Male Domestic Workers: Past and Present in Comparative Perspective
Room 6.1
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Women and Gender Chair: Leonore Davidoff
Organizers: Raffaella Sarti, Francesca Scrinzi Discussant: Megan Doolittle
Maria Rita Bartolomei : Migration processes and gender relation. Focusing on male domestic workers
Majella Kilkey : Engendering the relationship between globalisation, migration and social reproduction: the migrant handyman phenomenon
Raka Ray, Seemin Qayum : Male servants and the failure of patriarchy in Kolkata (Calcutta)
Raffaella Sarti : Fighting for masculinity. Male Domestic Workers in Italy (19th-20th century)
Francesca Scrinzi : Male migrant domestic workers and the management of de-gendered racialized identities



Friday 29 February 2008 10.45
F-12 WOM05 Relationships of care and authority across gender and generation in nineteenth and twentieth century British families
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Ann Allen
Organizers: - Discussant: Ann Allen
Leonore Davidoff : Siblings as Carers in the long nineteenth century
Megan Doolittle : Working class fathers, domestic authority and the poor law in England 1870-1910
Katherine Holden : Not the mothering kind? Single women and child-care in mid twentieth century England
Brigitte Schnegg : The Home of the Poor, the Poor Man’s Wife and Her Housekeeping Skills: Issues of Public Interest


K-12 ETH13 Gender and Migration I
Room 4
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Women and Gender Chair: Tanja Bastia
Organizer: Marlou Schrover Discussant: Tanja Bastia
Maja Cederberg : “Narratives of female migrants: Processes of gender, ethnicity and class, and the impact of policy”
Deirdre Moloney : Women, Prostitution, and the Differential Regulation of U.S. Borders
Marlou Schrover : Migration policy, gender and (dual) citizenship
Suzanne Sinke : Gendered Policies and Practices of Immigration: A U.S. Example


T-12 WOM24 The Rhetoric of Work and Gender
Room 9
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Leda Papastefanaki
Organizers: - Discussant: Leda Papastefanaki
Dimitra Lampropoulou : Proud men with suffering bodies: construction workers narrate male identities in post-war Greece
Catherine Mcclenahan : "Endless Their Labour"; Women in Blake's Illuminated Works and the British Workforce
Conchi Villar : Engendering metal- work in nineteenth century Spain (1900-1930)
Yannis Yannitsiotis : The idiom of work and the making of a local bourgeois identity in 19th century-early 20th century Piraeus society



Friday 29 February 2008 14.15
K-13 ETH14 Gender and Migration II
Room 4
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Women and Gender Chair: Mary Odem
Organizers: - Discussant: Mary Odem
Tanja Bastia : Mobilites and Vulnarabilities: Towards a Gender-aware Trafficking Framework
Bihter Carhoglu : The Changing Self Perception of Turkish Migrants in Europe
Erka Caro : Gender and Migration Interaction. The Case of Albania
Derya Demirler : Gender Dimensions of the Internal Displacement Problem in Turkey
Leslie Page Moch : Bécassine and the Bretons: Ethnic Caricature and Community Reaction


P-13 WOM06 Gender, race and 'liberation' in the Postwar Era
Room 8.1
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Jane Slaughter
Organizers: - Discussant: Jane Slaughter
Beth Bailey : "If you like Ms., you'll love pvt": Women, Recruiting, and the All-Volunteer Army in the United States
Eveline Buchheim : Rebuilding family life after internment. Negotiating limits of femininity and masculinity.'
William Hitchcock : Race, Sex and Power on the Normandy “Frontier”: France, 1944
Todd Shepard : France, Muslim Women, and the Gendering of the Algerian Revolution


U-13 SEX14 Perceptions of Women's Sexuality
Room10.2
Networks: Sexuality , Women and Gender Chair: Klara Arnberg
Organizers: - Discussant: Klara Arnberg
Steve Hewitt, Christabelle Sethna : Gender Subversion: Abortion, Canadian State Security and Women’s Groups in the early 1970s
Claire Langhamer : Prostitution in the golden age of marriage: England 1930-1970
Lena Lennerhed : Finkbine and other abortion travellers
Elisabeta Zelinka : Trafficking of women in Eastern Europe. Its influences upon the concept of the ‘family’.



Friday 29 February 2008 16.30
D-14 WOM17 Gender, Migration and Work
Cave D
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Women and Gender Chair: Pat Ayers
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Arab Chadia : Harragas in the feminine
Christa Matthys : Sisters, servants and fertility control in nineteenth century Flanders. Some preliminary results.
Christine Muller : Luxemburg's women in Paris at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century
Anne Winter : Domestic servants as mediators of migration change, Antwerp c. 1760-1880


Y-14 WOM13 Understanding the Aging Female Body: 1500-1900
Room 2.14
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Pat Thane
Organizers: - Discussant: Pat Thane
Lynn Botelho : ‘Cough, Creaks, and Shuffling Feet: The Gender-Neutral Nature of Old Age in English Household Medicine, 1500-1700’.
Kathryn de Medeiros : From Reproduction to New Production: The Shift in Focus on Older Women’s Bodies in Gerontological Discourse After World War Two
Elizabeth Hurren : 'Aged, Female and Poor in an English World-Without-Welfare, c. 1870-1900'.
Anne Kugler : “Vigor and Virtue: Women, Aging, Body, and Mind”



Saturday 1 March 2008 8.30
H-15 WOM09 Gendering and Memory in Interwar Europe
Room 1.1
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Berteke M.L. Waaldijk
Organizers: - Discussant: Berteke M.L. Waaldijk
Eliza Ablovatski : The Deluge: Gender Danger and Fear of Revolution in 1919 Central Europe
Melissa Bokovoy : Gendering Wartime Allies: Interwar Commemoration of Ithe Entente in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Gabriela Dudeková : Women in- and after the Great War. Habsburg monarchy and succesor states.
Tiina Lintunen : The Representations of Women in War Propoganda during the First Half of the 20th century
Andrea Peto : Rhetoric of Work Women's Mobilisation in interwar Hungary: Work of Mourning and Knitting


Q-15 WOM22 Controlling prostitution
Amphitheatre 3
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Michelle Denbeste
Organizers: - Discussant: Michelle Denbeste
Natalia Gerodetti : Female Sexuality and Mobility between Public and Private
Victoria Harris : The invisible whore? Germany’s failed attempt at the societal marginalisation of prostitute women, 1871-1945.
Christine Machiels : Prostitution and Women’s Rights. National Council of French Women and National Council of Belgian Women in front of abolitionist question (20th century)


X-15 CRI19 Gender Story Violence
Room 2.13
Networks: Criminal Justice , Women and Gender Chair: Judith Rowbotham
Organizers: - Discussant: Judith Rowbotham
Efi Avdela : Stories of Blood and Gender: Cultural scenarios of honour crimes in post-war Greece
Elena Barbulescu : Violence and Gender in a Romanian Village
Marie Eriksson : The Politics of "Marital Dissonance" - Political Discourses about Men's violence against Women in Marriage in 19th Century Sweden



Saturday 1 March 2008 10.45
D-16 SEX07 Lesbianisms in different contexts
Cave D
Networks: Sexuality , Women and Gender Chair: Alison Redick
Organizers: - Discussant: Alison Redick
Chiara Beccalossi : Female Sexual Inversion: Italian and British Sexology Compared c. 1870-1915
Florence Binard : Perception and construction of lesbian sexuality during the inter-war period in Great Britain
Elise Chenier : “Freak Wedding!”: Lesbian Marriage as a Pleasure Practice in Post-WWII Toronto
Karen Krahulik : Progressive in Provincetown: A new understanding of lesbian migration


U-16 WOM23 Social Marginality and the Construction of Gender Roles
Room10.2
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Maria Bucur
Organizers: - Discussant: Maria Bucur
Andrae Marak, Laura Tuennerman-Kaplan : Better Morals Make Better Maids: Tohono O’odham Women between Worlds
Sabrina Marchetti, Domenica Ghidei : Asmara-Roma: A Journey of Imaginary. (Post)colonial legacies and women’s migration during the 70’s.
Sonja Matter : “The client’s private sphere has to be esteemed”. The discussion about the rightfulness of unannounced home visits in social work in Post-War Switzerland
Jane Slaughter : "Stepford Wives, Black Widows and Fanatical Females: Women Terrorists in a Comparative, Transnational Perspective"


Y-16 WOM25 Round Table: Female Labour Market Participation and Economic Growth
Room 2.14
Network: Women and Gender Chairs: Danielle van den Heuvel, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Organizers: Danielle van den Heuvel, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk Discussants: Joyce Burnette, Tine De Moor, Marjatta Rahikainen, Carmen Sarasua, Ariadne Schmidt, Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen



Saturday 1 March 2008 14.15
M-17 WOM12 Breaking Down the East-West Divide
Room 5.2
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Borbala Juhasz
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Roxana Cheschebec : Gender, Race and Class in Definitions of Modern Social Work in Interwar Romania
Jacqueline Heinen : Breaking sown the East-West Divide through the Case Study of Polish Child care 1945-1989
Dorottya Szikra, Eszter Varsa : Inclusion and Exclusion in the Building of the Hungarian Welfare State: An Intersectional Analysis of Productive Social Policy and the Settlement Movement in Interwar Hungary
Eszter Varsa, Dorottya Szikra : Inclusion and Exclusion in the Building of the Hungarian Welfare State: An Intersectional Analysis of Productive Social Policy and the Settlement Movement in Interwar Hungary


P-17 WOM21 Work and Household in Early Modern and Modern Europe
Room 8.1
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Danielle van den Heuvel
Organizers: - Discussant: Danielle van den Heuvel
Darlene Abreu-Ferreira : Locating the maritime and the gender in an early modern Portuguese town
Valerie Burton : Ten-Shillings A Week’: How Did Women Manage [Households] in English Industrial Ports?
Thijs Lambrecht : Female servants in husbandry and saving strategies in the Southern Low Countries (1650-1850)
Amélia Polónia : Women’s Labour and Households in Maritime Communities in Early Modern Portugal
Jutta Schwarzkopf : Work and the Household in circum-1900 Lancashire



Saturday 1 March 2008 16.30
B-18 WOM19 State Gender Policies in Comparative Perpective
Cave B
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Eliza Ablovatski
Organizers: - Discussant: Eliza Ablovatski
Anders Ahlbäck : War Heroes as War Teachers: The "Jaeger" Officers, Conscript Soldiers and Military Masculinities in Finland, 1918-1939
Carlota Coronado Ruiz : The education of female daughters: Fascism education in the Luce cinematographic news programs.
Jessica Davidson : “Women, Fascism, and Work in Francoist Spain: The Law for Political, Professional, and Labor Rights”
Tuba Demirci : Regulating Marriage, Regulating Conflict: Ottoman State, The Emergence of Ottoman “Marriage Proper” and Its Discontents


E-18 LAB04 Gender Wage Gaps Revisited: Social, Institutional and Market Processes
Cave E
Networks: Labour , Women and Gender Chair: Cristina Borderias
Organizers: Cristina Borderias, Peter Scholliers Discussant: Jane Humphries
Joyce Burnette : Testing for Wage Discrimination in US Manufacturing in 1832
Michael Huberman : The gender wage gap during the first great wave of globalizaton, 1870-1900
Montserrat Llonch : Gender wage gaps during the Second Industrial Revolution. A Catalan case.
Carmen Sarasua : Gender gap in agricultural wages, Spain 1750-1900
Lars Svensson : Institutions, market forces – or both? Determinants of gender wage equalisation in Sweden


P-18 WOM10 Challenging Gender in Method, Theory and Medium
Room 8.1
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Anna Tijsseling
Organizers: - Discussant: Anna Tijsseling
Therese Garstenauer : 'East' and 'West' in Research Collaboration – The Case of Feminist, Women's and Gender Studies (FWGS)
Lydia Jammernegg, Natascha Vittorelli : Women's Movements - "Women in Motion". Digital Archive and Historiography. Habsburg Monarchy / Austria 1848 - 1938.
Maria Martinez Gonzalez : Feminist destabilization: toward a feminism of "subversion"?
Georgeta Nazarska : Women in the University of Zurich Digital (Web) Alumni Archive: (In)visibility


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