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Insights: Fall 2017 Vol. 48:3 Notes from the CCWH

Happy Academic New Year! Mary Ann Villarreal, Co-President, CCWH

We have an exciting year our new mentorship program, I ship is less beneficial to both ahead: the CCWH Mentorship want to suggest some ideas parties than one that adjusts and Program is getting ready to based on colleagues’ perspec- adapts to the needs of one start with new mentorship re- tives, and published promising another. Accepting that the men- lationships, we are preparing practices. tor will learn as much from the for our 50th anniversary, and Know Yourself – Set goals. mentee as the mentee will learn soon we will officially an- Why a mentor? Why now? Be from the mentor will create an nounce the Rachel Fuchs Ser- honest about how you work. If environment where both partici- vice and Mentorship Award as you are a person who prefers pants thrive. part of that celebration. structure, who needs set times You Change – Mentors serve The three events represent the and dates, then ask for regular different capacities over the core of the CCWH: longevity, meeting times. If you are going course of our careers. There are resilience, and mentorship. to drop in or do not keep a mentors who bring balance Since I started my Co-Presi- regular schedule, be mindful of when you struggle with how to dency, I have used this space to how the mentor schedules their manage so many different parts reflect on the significance that time. of your life. There are mentors the CCWH played in my grad- Mentorship Relationship who can help you focus on areas uate training and the incredible Change – As you start working where you struggle. Sometimes women scholar activists that with your mentor, you start we need a mentor who straight entered my life as a result. sharing ideas and your know- up tells you what must happen Some of them, like Rachel ledge with them. Both sides next for your success. Each Fuchs, served as a mentor at benefit and it is not exclusively mentor will have their own two different points in my one person imparting wisdom to approach and it is important to career. As we prepare to launch the other. A stagnant relation- listen to their perspective and al-

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INSIGHTS: NOTES FROM THE CCWH low yourself to grow from their set out beacons along the path, knowledge. but they never tell me which Promising Practices – path I should choose. They have Faculty Mentoring Models and taught me to look at potential Effective Practices, published obstacles, and sometimes gently in 2014 by Hanover Research, and sometimes not so gently, offers a set of mentoring have challenged how I respond activities. Repeatedly, the liter- to the unanticipated challenges ature on mentorships empha- that have emerged. sizes the need to set goals and As the product of a small rural strategies. Hold us, the CCWH public school, I arrived at my leadership, accountable. If we undergraduate institution under- are to achieve outcomes, we prepared and, in many ways, Mary Ann Villarreal have to know what we can do unaware. I had, in my toolkit, to increase the success of the two undergraduate saving ex- exclusion. They might become program. The Alliance for Ad- periences: one, a taught love for integral parts of my life as they vancing the Academic Medi- writing; and, a high school witness my life and all of its cine Workplace Recommen- mentor, who nurtured that love parts unfold: death of a family dations offers a set of sug- and was very clear that I needed member, first teaching job, birth gestions that the organization to find a place where I could of a child, first publication, etc. hosting the program might thrive. While I sought to find Still today, mentorship plays consider. We are open to a- the easiest way out, she firmly such a critical part of my dapting and provide support guided me along a path that personal and professional devel- and resources where needed. made me step up to a greater opment. Navigating higher edu- A note to mentors: Please potential. What I learned from cation requires a political savvy know that we don’t always her is that I needed to ask for that we are not taught in grad- know what we seek or how to guidance. uate school in preparation for talk about our goals without None of my mentors have our first job. Mentorship re- fear of being shamed or started out as my friends. They quires a vulnerability of the un- chastised for speaking our were teachers, bosses, speakers I known, being open, and honesty. dream goals. I once sought out heard, or people who had been someone who had gone through suggested to me as someone I a leadership program, thinking should meet. My relationship Join Us for the CCWH she might be willing to mentor with my graduate committee Annual Awards me. She asked what I wanted started from this place: a first Luncheon at the AHA to do with my career. I said generation student who knew that I wanted to be a president nothing about the path I found Make plans to join us for the one day. She looked at me and myself on. I consumed every CCWH Annual Awards Lun- said, “You should never say thought and word that Vicki cheon at the AHA in Washing- that out loud. People will think Ruiz, Noel Stowe, and Rachel ton, D.C. on January 6th. Ula you are being arrogant.” I Fuchs shared with me. When Taylor of UC Berkeley will give found another mentor. And, they presented me with choices, the keynote address entitled yes, I do want to be a president. I was confused. I needed a de- “The Promise of Patriarchy.” My dream job: President of cision, not choices. They taught Tickets are $35 for full-time Mount Holyoke College. me to stand in the muddy wa- employed and $10 for graduate I believe that mentorship can ters, to watch it settle or just students. Tickets are available work both when it happens to move on. They taught me that I for purchase through the AHA us and when we seek out a am not alone in this journey that or by contacting Sandra Trudgen specific person. Throughout is fraught with contradictions, Dawson ([email protected]) my experiences, mentors have disappointments, and politics of

3 Notes from the Washington, D.C. The title of her talk is “The Promise of Pa- Executive Director triarchy.” Please consider com- Sandra Trudgen Dawson ing to this luncheon. Tickets Executive Director, CCWH will be on sale through the AHA registration portal or you may Dear Members, buy your lunch directly from me ([email protected]). This summer I read several We have a number of CCWH non-historical books. One of co-sponsored panels and events at the AHA in January that them was Born a Crime by Sandra Trudgen Dawson Trevor Noah. Set against the include “Starving Women’s backdrop of South Africa in the Bodies,” “Black Women and In- th An Expanded CCWH early 1980s, Noah’s funny and ternationalism in the 20 Cen- heartbreaking memoir reveals tury,” “The Politics of Domestic Host Program! how his mother’s crime – Service in Asia and the Amer- having sex and reproducing icas, 1870-2015,” “Dismantling Our Membership Coordinator, with a white man – impacted Boundaries: Women’s Histori- Ilaria Scaglia, writes that it is their lives. When Trevor was a ans and the Transformation of with great joy to announce the small child, he was hidden in History,” “Experiencing War: expansion of the CCWH Host his grandmother’s home away Refugees, Alliances, and Fight- Program, which provides all of from the police who would ers.” Please support these pan- us with the opportunity of stay- seize a “colored child” from the els and our CCWH members! ing at other members’ houses streets and arrest his mother for In 2019, the CCWH will when traveling for conferences her crime. Noah calls the celebrate the organization’s fif- and/or short research trips. Apartheid system in South tieth anniversary. One of the Africa, “perfect racism” where ways that we can begin to cele- We now have a new Host “racial” groups were segregated brate is at the AHA in January Program Coordinator, Bridget by language, housing, work, 2019. Please let me know if Keown, who will be assisted by education, and violent policing. you would like to put together Elise Leal and Deirdre Lannon Born a Crime reminds us that panels, roundtable discussions, Albrecht. love and faith are powerful, but or workshops at the AHA in that they are not always enough January 2019 in Chicago. For more information and for when facing deep-rooted dis- Finally, please join me in a map of available locations, crimination and brutality within welcoming Elyssa Ford, Assis- see https://theccwh.org/ccwh re- the home and outside. Apart- tant Professor of History, North- sources/host-program/. heid remained institutionalized west Missouri State University, until 1991. I highly recom- as the CCWH Public History Thank you for stepping up to mend the book for anyone Representative. We are so hap- fill these positions! Thanks also interested in race and the poli- py that you have joined us to to all of the hosts who have al- tics of oppression. help the CCWH build a greater ready agreed to open their Those of you interested in presence in Public History! homes. If you can, please con- other forms of oppression will sider adding your name. Each be excited to hear that Ula -Sandra Trudgen Dawson peg makes our future look just a Taylor, Berkeley, will be giv- little bit brighter. ing the keynote address on January 6, 2018, at the CCWH Annual Awards Luncheon in INSIGHTS: NOTES FROM THE CCWH

physical boundaries and limi- Public History tations for ourselves and what Forum we produce. I am finalizing a book manuscript that examines Elyssa Ford memory and identity in race- Public History Coordinator and group-specific rodeos in the United States, with a focus on I am pleased to be joining the circuits like the gay rodeo and CCWH as the Public History the black rodeo. Coordinator and look forward This may be a surprising to bringing you updates from introduction for the Public organizations like the National History Coordinator, yet it is Council of Public History and typical for many Public His- Elyssa Ford the public history field more torians. Few of us wear the sole write, and publish as traditional broadly. These are large shoes hat of “Public Historian.” Rath- historians. In my mind – and to fill as Sarah Case worked er, we often have divided areas this may be a controversial diligently in this capacity since of focus. For me that is Public statement to make – this has 2014 and brought you her Historian and Women’s His- limited the amount of scholarly unique perspective as the Man- torian, with a strong focus on publications, particularly books, aging Editor of The Public culture, memory, and identity. written by Public Historians and Historian. Before I discuss my For Sarah Case, the previous in the field of Public History. plans for this column, let me coordinator, it is Women’s His- This discussion is one that I am introduce myself to you. tory and Southern History. For interested in continuing further I am an Assistant Professor of both of us – and for many other and in more detail in future History at Northwest Missouri Public Historians – our research columns. State University where I direct and published work often falls For my own Public History the Public History and Museum outside of the Public History experience, I have worked and Studies minor degree program. field while our professional interned at a variety of museums, We are a 4:4 regional teaching work and academic training of- including the Baltimore Museum institution, so we focus on un- ten falls within it. This profes- of Art, the Tempe Historical dergraduates and teach a wide sional tug-of-war has been cre- Society, the El Paso Museum of array of courses. My own ated, in part, by graduate History, the National Cowgirl teaching runs the gamut of my programs. My degrees are from Museum and Hall of Fame, and specializations in Public His- Arizona State University and I the Arizona Jewish Historical tory and Women’s History to studied with some of the Society. I have organized oral everything from Colonial His- founders of the Public History history projects at three different tory to the U.S. since 1945. field: Noel Stowe and Jannelle museums, and most of my Outside of teaching and univer- Warren-Findley. Yet, we could interests and experience is in oral sity service, I have published in not be Public Historians alone. history and the museum field. the Pacific Historical Review We, like students in many Currently, I serve on the board and the Journal of Museum programs, had dual fields, and for the Nodaway County Education, and I have an article for almost everyone our re- Historical Society, located in the forthcoming in the Journal of search areas fell within our community where I live and Men’s Fashion. As a women’s second field – the non-public work, and I am the Missouri historian, the latter is a place I history field – so while academ- Humanities Council State Scho- never imagined publishing, ically trained as Public His- lar for the Smithsonian travelling which is a testament to how torians and often with profes- exhibit Hometown Teams: How sometimes our understandings sional work experience in that Sports Shaped America. I also of our own work can create very field, we were trained to research, am on the Development Commit- 5 Public History CCWH Mentorship 2.0 If you are a current member of New Program and the CCWH and would like to Forum (cont.) Expanded Committee participate in this program, please send an email to mentor- tee for the National Council of [email protected]. Ilaria Scaglia, CCWH’s Please note that CCWH Public History and have Membership Coordinator re- presented at recent NCPH con- members who are part of the ports that the Mentorship Pro- older version of this program ferences on topics such as: gram has undergone an im- when to save a museum and and/or people who emailed pressive process of expansion Ilaria Scaglia to express an when to let it die; sport history and transformation. It is no museums; and how to create interest in the program need to longer the responsibility of a re-enroll. relationships between academic single coordinator, but it is in- programs and community part- If you are a graduate student, stead administered by a large or if you have a Ph.D. and are ners. Some of this work has committee attentive to the many gone into white papers that are seeking guidance about issues and various needs of its nu- such as applying for your first now available on the NCPH merous participants. This com- website. tenure-track job and/or submit- mittee includes: ting your first article, please For this column, I plan to provide a summary of the an- write “graduate” in the subject Nicole Therese Bauer, Univer- line and provide the following nual NCPH Conference, in- sity of North Carolina, Chapel clude interviews with Public information: Name; Institution, Hill; Rikki Bettinger, Univer- including Department/Program; Historians, especially those sity of Houston; Liz Bryant, who focus on gender in their Fields/Interests; Aspirations. McNeese State University; Jen- If you have obtained your work and research, gather an nifer Cote, University of Saint annual list of recent Public Ph.D. and seek guidance about Joseph; Bridget Keown, North- junior/mid-career issues, or if History publications and high- eastern University; Elise Leal, light those on gender, and offer you are available to serve as a Baylor University; Deirdre mentor, please write “postgrad- more general updates from the Lannon Albrecht, University of field. If you have any specific uate” in the subject line and Texas, Austin; Jacqueline provide the following infor- interests, concerns, or questions Mougoue, Baylor University; regarding Public History, mation: Name; Institution, in- Nicole Pacino, University of cluding Department/Program; whether on a personal or pro- Alabama in Huntsville; Einav fessional level or in terms of Fields/Interests; Current Posi- Rabinovich-Fox, Case Western tion; Aspirations. content for this column, please Reserve University/ Cleveland contact me at ebford@nwmis- Please indicate if you are in- History Center; Kelly (Kean) terested to serve as a mentor, a souri.edu (include CCWH in Sharp, University of California, the subject line). mentee, or both (e.g., an as- Davis; Amanda Swain, UC sociate could act as a mentor for Irvine; and Jennifer Talerico an assistant and could also Brown, University of Califor- receive mentorship by a full nia, Riverside. professor). Women at the advanced stage Thank you to all of the com- of their career (e.g., full pro- mittee members that have made fessors, independent scholars, our new program possible! and/or people in administrative The new and expanded version positions) can also ask for a of the CCWH Mentorship peer mentor. Program is now open for Please do not hesitate to email enrollment. if you have questions! INSIGHTS: NOTES FROM THE CCWH

Graduate News partments have gone to create more representative faculty de- Kelly Midori McCormick mographics has, in part, been Graduate Representative the assumption that student numbers would reflect this shift. In 2014, a co-authored study Now, more than ever, we must by scholars from the business reflect on and work towards schools at Wharton, Columbia changing the inherit biases that University, and New York influence the mentor-mentee re- University published findings lationship – from before it has based on a study of over 6,500 been formally initiated, through professors in 89 disciplines the process of graduate training Kelly Midori McCormick from 259 different universities. and beyond. Their report demonstrated that In this spirit, I would like to the job market to addressing when fictional prospective call up on readers to send in sexual harassment. At the same students contacted faculty re- their personal experiences of time, I am acutely aware that garding applying to Ph.D. pro- bias in the academy – whether it more could be done to address grams, “faculty were signifi- be based on skin color, sexual the lived experiences of female cantly more responsive to Cau- orientation, gender, ethnicity, and graduate students of color casian males than to all other language, class, or anything else as we encounter professional categories of students, collec- – and to offer suggestions for scenarios for which no seminar tively, particularly in higher- how others might address this can prepare us. That fact that paying disciplines and private kind of situation in the future. male faculty members are not institutions.” What is more, For graduate students and fac- leading departmental discus- they found that faculty re- ulty, how have you faced the sions on family planning and sponse bore little relation to the problem of bias both within the work life balance has given me actual numbers of women and mentor-mentee relationship or pause, reaffirming pernicious people of color (POC) repre- within other academic contexts? biases that issues related to sented within their respective What details of your experience families remain within the institutions. In other words, a might serve as guidance for female sphere. paucity of women or POC others? Or can you offer pro- The CCWH provides fantastic students, nor larger represent- ductive counter examples of opportunities for graduate stu- tation amongst faculty within how to approach specific sce- dents to engage in mentoring re- their department, did not make narios? With your permission I lationships with faculty across faculty members more recep- will share your accounts in the the country, a much-needed tive towards a response from a next issue, removing all iden- asset to History and related fictive female or non-white tifying details. fields, which continue to skew student. Speaking personally, since toward white men. Together, When I first read this study, I joining the University of Cali- how can we work to address is- was, unfortunately, not sur- fornia, Los Angeles’s History sues of bias within mentorship, prised by the first finding, but Department, I have found men- making sure to include male was taken aback by the idea tors whose personal experiences and white colleagues in the that greater representation of throughout their careers have conversation? Your shared ex- women and POC in academia been both inspirational and periences will help open con- did not counter an historic lack cautionary tales. I am immense- versations around this goal. of support from an institution ly grateful for their continued Please share your stories at: towards those same demo- commitment to share insights on [email protected]. graphics. Underlying the com- a range of issues from broaching mendable efforts that many de- the topic of pregnancy while on 7

creasingly fragmented and com- that we each have the power of CCWH modified, our growing Host giving positive memories to Conference Program reminds us of the others. CCWH might help us to power of offering to a colleague do so more deliberately, more Liaison Program one’s home, courtesy, and effectively, and more mean- friendship for the sake of mak- ingfully. Experience ing all of us better. Our ex- The culmination of my Ilaria Scaglia panding Mentorship Program, CCWH-SHAFR experience whose scope ranges from came when the SHAFR Presi- A year ago, I shared with you graduate students to mid-career dent, Mary L. Dudziak, enthu- my first experience as a CCWH women to senior scholars, re- siastically endorsed our organi- Conference Liaison at the 2016 presents an innovative and po- zation and announced having Annual Meeting of the Society tentially transformative re- joined both personally and as an for Historians of American source for countless people and affiliate on behalf of SHAFR. Foreign Relations (SHAFR) in institutions. More broadly, work Only a handful of women pre- San Diego, California. It is by the CCWH is based on the ceded her as Presidents in with renewed energy and great proposition that academia does SHAFR’s 50 years’ history. optimism that I am writing now not have to be a cut-throat Yet at the end of that day, as I about my second time around environment, but can and should watched her giving an impress- serving in this capacity. Short- become instead a place where sive official address, I could not ly after last year’s conference, I all of us can thrive, standing as help but feel sure that, in ten was asked to join the Women a model of inclusiveness whose years’ time, women’s presence in SHAFR Committee. I gladly importance cannot be overesti- and leadership in SHAFR will accepted. Following a sugges- mated. be formidable. As the Buffalo tion by this committee, SHAFR I encouraged all attendees to Springfield lyric goes, “some- has since expanded its accom- hang one of our newly-designed thing is happening here,” and modations by offering a hos- brochures outside of their of- CCWH is at the forefront of it. pitality suite for parents of fice’s door, emphasizing that babies and small children, a set doing so would have constituted Interested in Becoming a of childcare references, and a not only an advertisement for CCWH Conference roommate-seeking-roommate our organization, but also a Liaison? program. powerful statement. Like a rib- CCWH also co-sponsored the bon, the CCWH brochure as- We have a goal to ensure that traditional Women in SHAFR serts one’s determination to the CCWH has somebody re- Breakfast, thus giving me the welcome more women in our presenting us at as many con- opportunity to talk about our profession. Its visible presence ferences as possible, large and organization in front of a large normalizes and signifies sup- small, and that women in and distinguished crowd of port. I also suggested that they history receive all the support both male and female col- do not simply stack our mate- they deserve. Consider be- leagues. As I delivered my re- rials on a table, but take the time coming a CCWH conference marks, I found myself reflect- instead to approach women liaison for any conference you ing on the relevance of the individually and to express how attend regularly! work we do. Our expanding important their presence is in You can find details as well as networks of liaisons and repre- their respective fields. After all, a list of current liaisons here: sentatives have the potential of our perceptions are shaped by https://theccwh.org/ccwh- becoming a fundamental refer- individual anecdotes, by notable resources/conference-liaisons/. ence point for women in his- instances of discrimination and For further information, con- tory. At a time when every bit inclusion we carry with us along tact Dr. Cassia Roth at con- of our life seems to become in- our journey. How extraordinary [email protected]. INSIGHTS: NOTES FROM THE CCWH Archives of Interest Editor’s Note: As a new feature for Insights, we are looking at archives of interest to our membership. Some archives may be familiar and others may be hidden gems. If you are an archivist, or would like to suggest an archive for us to feature, contact newsletter@ theccwh.org. With this issue, we look at The Pembroke Center’s Feminist Theory Archive at Brown University Library.

The Pembroke Center’s Feminist Theory Archive, Brown University Library: Preserving and Promoting Women’s History Joan Wallach Scott, Founding Director of the Pembroke Center, beneath a portrait of Sarah E. By Mary Murphy, the Nancy L. Buc ‘65, Doyle, with Pembroke alumnae, colleagues, and Pembroke Center Archivist students reviewing archival materials, 1983. Photograph by William C. Gucfa.

Feminist Theory is as an extension of feminism, Scholars such as Naomi Schor, the Benjamin F. which is a belief in the equality of the sexes, into a Barge Professor of French at Yale University, theoretical, sociological, or philosophical dis- whose papers served as the seed collection for the course. It is a scholarly pursuit that aims to un- archive, were pioneers in their fields who derstand the nature of gender equality/inequality approached their research through the lens of and engages fields like psychoanalysis, philosophy, gender. As an example, Schor's academic anthropology, biology, literature, education, and background was in French literature, but she economics, among others. Key areas of focus focused her research on subjects such as female within feminist theory include discrimination and fetishism, deconstruction in literature, the concept exclusion, objectification, power and oppression, of details/ornamentation as gendered, and uni- and gender roles.1 versalism in an era of identity politics.2 Schor began teaching these subjects in the 1960s and along with other groundbreaking feminist the- History of the Collection orists, such as Judith Butler, the Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature at the Uni- In 2003, Elizabeth Weed, Director of the versity of California, Berkeley; Hortense Spillers, Pembroke Center from 2000 to 2010, established the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor at the Feminist Theory Archive at Brown University. Vanderbilt University; and Anne Fausto-Sterling, She, along with Joan Wallach Scott, Founding the Nancy Duke Lewis Professor Emerita of Director of the Pembroke Center from 1981 to Biology and Gender Studies at Brown University, 1985, and other supportive colleagues moved to caused a paradigm shift in the way scholars and document the work of influential feminist theorists students studied fields as varied as English, who had transformed the landscape of higher history, anthropology, and biology, placing sex education through their writing, teaching, and gender at the center of theoretical study. institution building, and activism. 9

Picks & Finds Archives of Highlights of the Archive are numerous. As of Interest (cont.) this writing, 38 processed collections comprise the Feminist Theory Archive. The average size of a collection is approximately 11 cartons while the total extent of the Archive measures 525 linear feet (and growing). According to user statistics pro- vided by the John Hay Library, the most heavily used papers in the Archive are those of the scientist and gender theorist, Anne Fausto-Sterling (whose collection is also the Feminist Theory Archive’s largest); feminist theorist of French literature and the Holocaust, Elaine Marks (1930- 2001), Chair of the Department of French and Italian; Germaine Bree Professor of French at the University of Wisconsin, Madison; and affect theorist, Teresa Brennan (1952-2003), the Schmidt Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Florida Atlantic University.4,5,6 But knowing the scholars only scratches the surface of the types of material that can be found in the Feminist Theory Archive. Because donors contribute both personal and professional items, Portrait of Naomi Schor, 1960. researchers will find evidence of women’s Unknown photographer. scholarship as well as women’s history and experiences in general. For instance, researchers might know of Diane Middlebrook as the late biographer of Sylvia Plath, Billy Tipton, and Anne Upon Naomi Schor’s sudden death in 2001, Sexton, but might be surprised to be able to use her Elizabeth Weed and Schor’s family decided that papers to study mother-daughter relationships, Brown was the most suitable place for Schor’s female sexuality, and women and alcoholism. This papers, given that she had been the Nancy Duke profound collection includes Middlebrook’s per- Lewis Professor (1985-1989) - a position desig- sonal correspondence and photographs along with nated for a senior scholar in any discipline with her groundbreaking research, which produced significant scholarly interest in women’s studies. audiotapes of interviews with Anne Sexton’s Consequently, Weed and others conceived the idea daughter, Linda Gray Sexton, and Sexton’s to develop an archive for Schor's papers and for the therapist, Dr. Martin Orne.7 papers of other prominent feminist theorists and to Diaries are another highlight of the Feminist house the collections and provide access to them Theory Archive that give great insight into the through the John Hay special collections library at work of these theorists. As an example, the papers Brown University.3 of Tani E. Barlow, the George and Nancy Rupp Since 2003, the collection has grown exponent- Professor of Humanities and Professor of History tially and now includes the papers of theorists from at Rice University, and Mary Poovey, the Samuel across the disciplines including not only feminist Rudin University Professor of the Humanities at theorists, but also scholars of difference who New York University, include rich diaries and specialize in queer theory, Black feminist theory, psychoanalysis journals (note that Poovey’s jour- global feminisms, and affect theory related to nals are closed until January 1, 2041).8,9 Barlow’s gender and sexuality studies. diaries range in date from 1988 to 2013 and illus- INSIGHTS: NOTES FROM THE CCWH

work and childcare are the base of all industrial Archives of work and thus should be compensated as paid wage labor. (The Feminist Theory Archive is Interest (cont.) accessioning Federici’s papers at this time. The collection will be available for research in the coming year). Anne Fausto-Sterling’s papers document her extensive scholarship on women in science and the biology of gender, but also include research on the Women’s Movement, Marxist feminism, and Latin American revolutions. Women’s Movement items include “Off Our Backs” and “Notes from the Second Year: Women's Liberation,” while high- lights regarding Latin America and Cuba include Fidel Castro's 1981 Speech "28th Anniversary of the Attack on the Moncada Garrison.”

Committed Donors

The Feminist Theory Archive is curated by the Nancy L. Buc '65, Pembroke Center Archivist, who works in close collaboration with the Director of the Pembroke Center, the Pembroke Center Fac-

The Diane Middlebrook papers during processing, 2017. Photograph by Mary Murphy, 2017.

trate Barlow’s flowing thought process, which is both personal and professional in nature. Re- searchers can read Barlow’s thoughts on feminism in East Asia as well as her feelings on larger issues such as racism within feminist discourse and thoughts about her personal life and relationships – writing that beautifully evidences the private and public spheres of Barlow’s life and how one influenced the other over time. Many of the theorists within the Feminist Theory Archive also participated in women’s advocacy movements in their private lives and/or collected proof of that work for their scholarship. For instance, rare print material found within the papers of Silvia Federici, Professor Emerita of Social Sciences at Hofstra University, document her work with the International Wages for Housework Cam- Collaged items from the Tani E. Barlow paign - a global social movement founded in 1972 Papers, 2016. Photograph by Hank Randall, that was formed to raise awareness of how house- 2016. 11 Archives of Interest (cont.) ulty Board, and colleagues from the John Hay Li- brary, to select appropriate collections for inclu- sion. The principles that guide curatorial decision- making for the Feminist Theory Archive are that scholars be senior in their fields or on a trajectory toward senior leadership and that they are groundbreakers: theorists who have transformed and diversified the very meaning of "feminist" research through their lives and scholarship. As of 2017, the Feminist Theory Archive con- tinues to grow focusing on first-generation feminist theorists and on the generation of scholars who studied under the founding mothers of the field. This cross-generational effort is exemplified by the commitment from Inderpal Grewal, Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University, who committed to donate papers to the Feminist Theory Archive in 2011. This year, we Notecards from the Jane Flax Papers, 2016. gained a commitment from Mimi Thi Nguyen, Photograph by Hank Randall, 2016. Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Asian American Studies at the Uni- versity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Nguyen’s scholarship is influenced by Grewal’s research in Please see the “Donors of Collections” webpage the fields of transnational feminist cultural studies for a full list of our committed donors. and critical refugee studies. Overall, 140 scholars have committed to donate Research their papers to the Feminist Theory Archive. Some scholars, such as Sharon Marcus, the Orlando The John Hay Library is open to all researchers Harriman Professor of English and Comparative and to the public. Those who will find the Feminist Literature at Columbia University, donate during Theory Archive particularly helpful are feminist their careers while others, such as Judith Butler, are theorists and women and gender studies scholars, collecting while they work in anticipation of as well as undergraduates, graduate students, and donating at a later date. And while scholars, such as others studying women’s history, ethnicity studies Mae Henderson, Professor of English at the Uni- and feminism, trauma, deconstruction and Jacques versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, may Derrida, post-coloniality and global feminism, donate in their retirement, we also work with women in war and migrant studies, queer theory, family members and executors, such as Bill the culture wars and political correctness Johnson González, Assistant Professor of English (especially debates with Christina Hoff Sommers), at DePaul University, with whom we are co- Jewish identity and Holocaust studies, por- ordinating receipt of the papers of Barbara Johnson, nography studies, literary criticism, sex dis- late Professor of English and Comparative Lit- crimination, feminist philosophy and anthro- erature and the Fredric Wertham Professor of Law pology, women in science, women and work, and Psychiatry in Society at Harvard University. transgenderism, and women writers. INSIGHTS: NOTES FROM THE CCWH

6 Teresa Brennan papers, Ms. 2009.014, Feminist Archives of Theory Archive, Brown University Library. http://riamco.org/render.php?eadid=US-RPB- ms2009.014&view=title. Interest (cont.) 7 Diane Middlebrook papers, Ms.2010.043, To begin research at the Feminist Theory Archive, Feminist Theory Archive, Brown University visit the archive’s website and view the LibGuide Library. http://riamco.org/render.php?eadid=US- and finding aid for the Feminist Theory Archive 10,11,12 RPB-ms2010.043&view=title. Collections. Researchers should send general questions and research inquiries to the curator who 8 Tani E. Barlow papers, MS.2015.003, Feminist will assist users in accessing the collections. Email Theory Archive, Brown University Library. the curator at [email protected]. http://riamco.org/render.php?eadid=US-RPB- ms2015.003&view=title.

NOTES 9 Mary Poovey papers, MS.2017.001, Feminist 1 Theory Archive, Brown University Library. “Feminist Theory” Oxford Reference. Oxford http://riamco.org/render.php?eadid=US-RPB- University Press. 2017 Published. 31 August 2017 ms2017.001&view=title. Accessed. http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/ 10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095814254. 10 “Feminist Theory Archive.” Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, Brown 2 Martin, Douglas. “Naomi Schor, Literary Critic University. 2017 Published. 31 August 2017 and Theorist, Is Dead at 58” New York Times, 16 Accessed. https://www.brown.edu/research/pem- December 2001 Published. 31 August 2017 broke-center/archives/feminist-theory-archive. Accessed. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/16/ nyregion/Naomi-schor-literary-critic-and-theorist- 11 Feminist Theory Archive LibGuide. Brown is-dead-at-58.html. University Library. 29 August 2017 Published. 31 August 2017 Accessed. http://libguides.brown. 3 Weed, Elizabeth. “Notes on Pembroke Center’s edu/FTA. History, 1981-2011.” Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, Brown 12 Feminist Theory Archive collection, University. 1 January 2011 Published. 31 August MS.2017.016, Feminist Theory Archive, Brown 2017 Accessed. https://www.brown.edu/research/ University Library. http://riamco.org/render.php? pembroke-center/sites/brown.edu.research.pem- eadid=US-RPB-ms2017.016&view=title. broke-center/files/uploads/Notes_PC_History_ Final.pdf.

4 Anne Fausto-Sterling Papers. MS.92.9, Feminist Theory Archive, Brown University Library. http://riamco.org/render.php?eadid=US-RPB- ms92.9&view=title.

5 Elaine Marks papers, Ms. 2007.003, Feminist Theory Archive, Brown University Library. http://riamco.php?eadid=US-RPB-ms2007.003& view=title. Collaged items from the Feminist Theory Archive, 2016. Photograph by Hank Randall, 2016. 13

fers four central contributions to teach English to adolescent Book historical and educational schol- boys at a preparatory school in arship. First, it presents White the Cape Colony of southern as a biographical subject. Mor- Africa. Reviews ice situates her work in the This leads to Morice’s third “biographical turn” in the focus, that White’s biography

humanities and social sciences also brings a gendered lens to involving “preoccupation with educational history and negates individual lives…as a change” the long-held view of progress- (3). For social, feminist, and sive education that casts men in post-colonial historians, detailed the role of theorists and women studies of the lives of indi- as practitioners. In Chapter viduals, families, and other Four, “The New Education,” groups offers insights into how the author examines the small particular institutions and private school established by events, as well as larger social, White as part of the child- economic, and political devel- centered strand of progressive opments were felt, experienced, education including her imple- Linda C. Morice. Flora White: and understood by those who mentation of motor training In the Vanguard of Gender lived through them. Historians (fine and gross motor develop- Equity. Lanham, MD: Lexing- such as Barbara Cain, cited by ment) and other new practices ton Books, 2017. 219pp. ISBN Morice, argue that this provides in education theory. Chapter 978-1-4985-4238-8. $85.00. a way of accessing “subjective” Five, “Visionary Women,” links understanding and experience. White to other progressive Erika Cornelius Smith Second, Flora White corrects women educators in Massa- Nichols College the historical record with regard chusetts, including Boston phi- to important aspects of the pro- lanthropist Pauline Agassiz To be in the vanguard is to be gressive era, including John Shaw and Dr. Grace Wolcott. in a position at the forefront of Dewey’s role in the reform Her connections with the Secre- new developments or ideas. In known as Organic Education, tary of Massachusetts State her recent historical biography the idea that school curriculum Board of Education and other of Flora White, Linda Morice should be structured and pro- prominent educators facilitated reveals the story of a woman gress according to his concept her work at her alma mater, who helped form the social and of the stages of biological and Westfield Normal School, and cultural landscape of education neurological child development. the Boston gymnasium of Nils in the 21st century. Although Chapter Two, “Nature Weeps,” Posse, before she chose to once her name was never a house- reveals how White’s margin- again start her own private hold word, Flora White had a alized status as a female public school in Concord, Massachu- distinguished career promoting school teacher led her to revolt setts in 1897. In Chapter Six, physical and intellectual a- against the prevailing industrial “A Redeemer,” Morice empha- chievements of girls and model of U.S. public education. sizes the rivalry among male women. Believing that public schools theorists in the early progress- Authored by Linda Morice, were organized like factories sive education movement, and an Assistant Professor of Edu- with men overseeing adults and shows that competition affects cational Administration whose older students, and women be- current understandings of wom- research focuses on the history ing relegated to nurturing small en’s contributions to school of educational leadership and children, White resigned her reform. Taken together, these feminist perspectives on edu- teaching position in Springfield, three chapters illustrate Mor- cational leadership, the text of- Massachusetts public schools to ice’s larger point, that the rela- INSIGHTS: NOTES FROM THE CCWH sale of her Concord school and early retirement years in Heath. Book White defied easy categori- zation, having the racial priv- Reviews (cont.) ilege of being white, but a social class status that fluctuated tionships between practices, throughout her life. theory, and research in educa- Perhaps one of the more tion are complex, interlinked, interesting elements of Flora and influenced by political and White to note is that the author social concerns, and thus is the great grand-niece of the cannot be neatly divided across subject of the book. Morice gendered spheres. explains her methodology and The fourth goal of Flora extensively addresses the ques- White is to introduce evidence tion of her family relationship in of the central figure’s critique an Appendix that would be of Cherstin M. Lyon, Elizabeth M. of a well-known leader in edu- use to other scholars consid- Nix, and Rebecca K. Shrum. cational history, G. Stanley ering a similar approach to Introduction to Public History: Hall, who drew on evolutionary biographical historical writing. Interpreting the Past, Engaging theory to propose a sexist view The majority of Morice’s pri- Audiences. New York: Rowman of educated women who were mary and secondary sources and Littlefield, 2017. 187 pp. childless. The author builds on (letters, speeches, newspaper ISBN 978-1-4422-7222-4. $39.00. the work of Joan N. Radner and clippings, published articles, Susan S. Lanser, who contend books, photographs, and bro- Joanne Schneider that marginalized women ex- chures) only recently became Rhode Island College press their thoughts in code in available to scholars, specifi- order to gain protection from cally to distant family through a This textbook reaches far people who might find their somewhat controlled route. beyond what appears in its title. ideas disturbing (5). Analyzing Morice speculates that this was Not only does it provide an the poem “Redemption,” pub- perhaps even a final act of introduction to public history, it lished in 1939, Morice believes agency for White intended to also serves as a primer on White wrote to offer a new leave documents telling her life historical method, and as a interpretation of Republican story only with an entrusted reference work. It defines Pub- Motherhood by asserting the brother and his progeny as a lic History as having unique merit of single women who way of taking ownership over standards beyond academic redeem humankind by edu- her own life’s work. history with which it shares the cating children (133-4). The text concludes in Chapter common bond of asking ques- The organization of the book Eight, “The Best of Her Gen- tions of sources using proper proceeds chronologically, fol- eration,” with reference to an historical method. The book’s lowing the arc of White’s life. obituary that complimented eight chapters explore various Chapter One, “A Good Name,” White by stating that her work themes and include case studies, establishes the context for what had been praised by “men of suggested resources, and biblio- the author calls “White’s quest note throughout the educational graphy, which augment each for agency,” a combination of world” (8). Linda Morice cor- narrative. privilege and marginalization rects the record by situating It begins with noting that during her early years and Flora White as a woman leader Public History distinguishes Chapter Seven, “Doing Pre- in a formative period of pro- itself from academic history in cisely What One Pleases,” de- gresssive education, according terms of audience and collab- scribes White’s life after the to her own contributions. oration with others. Students in 15 Context and Curiosity; and, lectors of the past are now giv- Evidence (26-7). en greater respect and attention. Book Ensuing chapters examine A premiere example of this is various public history initiatives the Smithsonian’s National Mu- Reviews (cont.) and concerns related to the field. seum of African American Cul- The University of Baltimore’s ture which opened in September high school or college history “Baltimore ’68 Project” pro- 2016. classes have different expec- vides an example. It began with Practical suggestions about tations and experiences than the desire to uncover the con- how to set up and interpret visitors to museums, historic tested history of Baltimore in exhibits highlight further dis- sites, and monuments. Public April 1968. It involved oral cussion. What will inform the historians must create exhibits history interviews with people visitors without overwhelming that contextualize the stories who lived through the public them? What draws someone to presented and show visitors outcry in the city after Martin examine an object? Exhibits that history involves problems Luther King, Jr.’s assassination. should have a “Big Idea” as the to be solved not factoids to be Techniques for doing proper primary focus and artifacts memorized. and thoughtful interviews are should relate to it (90 ff). Additionally, the public explained. This included mak- Interpretive descriptions should historian works with others. ing everyday people feel that be brief yet informative. Most This includes stakeholders, the their stories were worth telling. importantly, visitors should be people connected to the site as What emerged debunked the encouraged to learn more on owners of the property or arti- commonly held belief that their own. facts or as monetary donors, for Baltimore had been wracked by How should public history example. Experts from other riots. The people involved wan- engage audiences? Much de- disciplines such as art, archae- ted the students to describe pends on the site’s or museum’s ology, and anthropology might those days as times of distur- resources. Some living history also be part of a collaborative bance and dismay. People museums have costumed inter- effort to interpret a site. marched in grief because of the preters who act as historical Through concern about audi- assassination, although vandal- figures; historic houses and ence and collaboration with ism did occur and six people battlefields have knowledgeable others, the public historian cre- died (34). The project’s success docents who provide infor- ates an exhibit that has rele- rested on the students’ care in mation either by lecture or vance to and connection with doing those interviews and guided tour; and, many loca- the local community. interpreting this sensitive story, tions have audio gear (headsets The second chapter, “Think- which was much more nuanced and recorders) or I-phone apps ing Historically,” stresses “his- than the historical memory of that allow visitors to listen to tory as practice.” It describes rioting, looting, and death. recorded messages and proceed the basics of historical cate- Dilemmas that public his- at their pace through the site. gories of inquiry, with which torians confront involve the Engagement can be tricky if the any student of history should be collecting of artifacts, the pre- site has contested historical acquainted. It emphasizes that serving of historic sites, and the stories to tell. These must be any historical research should archiving of documents. What handled with care – not overly immerse itself in primary should be collected? What dramatized, but certainly not sources. It creates a pneumonic should be saved? The origins of ignored. SOURCE to use to examine collecting artifacts belonged to The book concludes with real documents and material ob- the elites, who gathered curi- life examples of students who jects. It stands for: Series of osities and great art. But today, have recently graduated and steps; Origin; Use at the time it people who had been under- secured jobs in public history. was created; Reality check; represented or ignored by col- Their stories help inform the in- INSIGHTS: NOTES FROM THE CCWH tations, and the Making of a New South offers an insightful Book compilation of essays that ex- plore the hunting retreats in the Reviews (cont.) South Carolina Lowcountry and the Red Hills of Florida and dividual reading the chapter Georgia. A sorely understudied about strategies for finding facet of the emergent New work in the profession. Re- South, these works explore the sources for job seekers appear social relations that did or did as well as hints about net- not develop between the working. Moreover, the con- Northerners who acquired for- clusion has relevance for every- mer plantations for new one: public history should sporting resorts, and the black matter to everyone! and white Southerners who

This well-written, relatively observed the newcomers; the concise work should be part of Julia Brock and Daniel Vivian, ecological changes wreaked by any introductory course in editors. Leisure, Plantations, the popularity of hunting for Public History. Obviously, it and the Making of a New South: sport in the postwar era and has been created by historians The Sporting Plantations of the early twentieth century; the who have had wide experience South Carolina Lowcountry and “culture of leisure” as the in the field and a deep com- Red Hills Region, 1900-1940. experiences of sportsmen and mitment to passing on their Lanham, Maryland: Lexington sportswomen defined or rede- knowledge to their students. Books, 2015. 214 pp. ISBN 978- fined status; and how the influx Where technical terms are 0739195802. $42.99. of newly-moneyed Northerners introduced, they are explained. into a socially-revolutionized Photos illustrate those chapters Misti Nicole Harper South diversified the meaning devoted to specific public his- University of Arkansas of powerful Southern symbols tory projects. Suggestions for such as “plantations” (4, 12). following through on ideas and In their introduction, Julia This collection presents a examples can be found in the Brock and Daniel Vivian cite a valuable and unique lens for “Sources and Activities” sec- 1935 issue of Country Life understanding the complicated tions at the end of each chapter. magazine that reported an regional, economic, spatial, and The book’s narrative through- “army” that had recently racial relationships between out stresses history as process: “marched through Georgia” (1). Americans in the wake of civil what questions need to be Unlike Sherman’s soldiers who war. asked of the past and how to definitively spelled the defeat of This work includes the represent the potential answers the Confederacy, this new army findings of historians, curators, in public history venues that was comprised of Northern and preservation specialists to can be enjoyed by and instruct- sportsmen and –women, most examine the former cotton and tional for all visitors. newly rich from the industrial rice kingdoms that became the boom and enterprise of the private playgrounds of titans of postwar Gilded Age, and all industry in the decades between eager to participate in the rituals Union victory and the Great and activities that would cata- Depression. The “Second Yan- pult them from nouveau riche kee Invasion” included men and status to the mythological aris- women who had ascended diz- tocracy they associated with the zying financial heights in the antebellum South. Leisure, Plan- urban North, but looked south- 17 ed the right clothes, firearms, freed descendants, that allowed and accouterment resulted in the them a modicum of inde- Book ballooning of plantation estates pendence before emancipation across the Lowcountry by 1928, and placed them in a position of Reviews (cont.) and thousands of Northern real power relative to Northern visitors eager to prove their sta- newcomers who had no innate ward for the kind of quiet tus to one another and them- advantages in the hills or on the setting that was “undisturbed selves. Sports such as boating, swamps and beaches of coastal by the restless present” (22, horseback riding, golf, and Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. 28). The southeastern coast tennis – in addition to hunting – The “black landscape” of represented exactly that and as solidified the elite status of regions where African-Amer- investors acquired thousands of people who only recently stood ican Southerners often outnum- acres of unsullied marsh and on that rung, and that they bered native whites and former plantations including reimagined themselves (and Northerners ensured social and South Carolina’s famed Boone enjoyed the sensation of feeling economic opportunities that Hall, robber barons and like) “a Southern aristocrat” sometimes enabled the former socialites flocked southward for (39). to mitigate the grinding poverty winter sojourns to enjoy hunts Essential to Northern tourists’ of the entire South in the and shoots that encapsulated images of themselves as Amer- postwar era, as well as rapidly what blue-blooded Teddy ican gentry, and to the actual crystalizing Jim Crow law and Roosevelt dubbed “the stren- business of exploring and ex- custom that further margin- uous life” that allowed privi- ploiting the Southern wil- alized African Americans even leged urbanites to act out derness, was the use of native in the points-of-view of North- fantasies of what they imagined African-American labor. Thou- ern sportsmen and sports- was a simpler life. sands of families who de- women who could not navigate Of the admirable essays scended from enslaved people the wilderness without them included in this study, Daniel continued to live and work on (141-44). Vivian’s “‘Plantation Life’: plantations as tenant farmers, Taken together, these essays Varieties of Experience on the and they recognized new pros- offer a distinctive glimpse into a Remade Plantations of the pects in the arrival of sportsmen particular moment in Southern South Carolina Lowcountry” and sportswomen who, for a history. This volume will be showcases the personal class time, transformed the ante- especially useful for scholars of anxieties of Northern sports- bellum associations with “plan- environmental and agricultural men and sportswomen ironi- tation” to mean “fashionable studies, and affords cultural cally enraptured by the exot- destination.” In particular, arti- historians a fresh look at class- icism of the defeated Old cles contributed by Julia Brock, conscious rituals and enter- South, against the backdrop of Robin Bauer Kilgo, and Hayden tainments. Most of all, Leisure, a nation careening toward de R. Smith, highlight the agency Plantations, and the Making of jure and de facto Jim Crow. of African-American Southern- a New South is an excellent Vivian ably highlights that the ers not only in the context of social history that underlines supposed-simple life actually how they took advantage of new how the fantasy of the Old served to solidify the statuses money and personalities eager South extended to white Nor- of the newly-wealthy through to perform the roles of mythol- therners’ imaginations, and pro- rituals and exclusions designed ogized feudal lords. Their works pelled policies of common and specifically to recall the aris- reveal the remarkable hunting formal discrimination that Afri- tocracy of European societies skills, ecological and topograph- can Americans throughout the and the feudal hierarchies of ical knowledge that black com- Lowcountry, Red Hills, and the the Old South. The popularity munities amassed from en- nation inverted, subverted, and of glamorous hunts that demand- slavement, and passed to their resisted. INSIGHTS: NOTES FROM THE CCWH work that takes place in the most a hundred years, it ex- household on the stage in plores and analyses how these Book American theatre and her mis- plays have changed and keeps sion is to “consider the invisible in focus the political and social Reviews (cont.) labor that makes possible the upheavals and changes over household depicted on the time. Chansky divides the book realistic stage” (10). Realism into seven chapters with rough- makes this possible as the stage ly one or two decades’ worth of is described in detail and plays in each with their ex- assumes that the characters and ploration and study from a settings are as close to life as feminist perspective. The first possible. The kitchen sink dra- chapter covers the plays from ma examines how domestic 1918-1925 and talks about the labor includes “food pre- “New Theatre Movement” (31) paration, knitting, sewing, iron- which aimed at making the ing, dusting, sweeping, floor plays more personable to the scrubbing, vacuuming, bathing audience post-World War I and and dressing children, caring for also had female characters such the elderly, doing the laundry, as the “New Woman” who tried dining, serving, entertaining, to traverse both home and and cleaning up” (3) pervading economic independence outside the lives of female characters. of the private sphere. Chapter 2 Dorothy Chansky. Kitchen Sink These wide-ranging activities focuses on the 1920’s and Realisms: Domestic Labor, consume the lives of the women explores plays whose central Dining, and Drama in Ameri- in the plays and is part of their plots revolve around domestic can Theatre. Iowa City: Uni- folklore. Even though Chansky dystopias where electricity and versity of Iowa Press, 2015. argues that women are still the consumerism take over Ameri- 291 pp. ISBN 978-1-60938- main members of the family can homes. The same trend 375-6. $55.00. engaged in domestic labor, she continues in the ‘30’s where overlooks that it is also part of beauty parlors and grooming Disha Acharya women’s folklore. One of the take over as a woman’s ap- University of Louisiana primary functions of folklore is pearance was still seen as one at Lafayette to maintain social mores, but of the most important facets of also to subvert those traditions. her personality. The third Dorothy Chansky’s introduc- Women feel the need to be chapter deals with burgeoning tion locates her text as part of excellent cooks or the perfect commercialism, but paradoxi- feminist history as she argues homemaker, but also use food cally also it was the decade of that “it investigates the un- preparation and cleaning as a the Depression where the econ- remittingly gendered nature of means to undermine the forces omy was suffering and as virtually all domestic labor which try to control them. Chansky argues “Professional portrayed on the American Including the acts of resistance women suffered the greatest stage” (3). The book is an at- of these characters would have loss of employment during the tempt at laying bare the bones also recognized the important Depression” (95). Losing jobs of the industry that women put contribution that they make as meant that they were back to in housework which is rendered part of feminist history. being relegated to the kitchen invisible by the institutions of The text works as a literature and so “the best social security marriage and family. Chan- review of notable kitchen sink for a domestic worker was a sky’s endeavor is to make vis- dramas on the American stage marriage to a man with a wage ible the naturalization of house from 1918 to 2005. Spanning al- or a salary” (108). Chapter 4, 19 pets about the playwright and politicians in American history. actors’ biography or interviews The author conducts a “longi- Book makes it a more enriching tudinal” study to “explain the reading experience. Chansky’s discursive strategies used by Reviews (cont.) argument that domestic labor in mainstream newspaper report- American theatre needs at- ers in their covering of pioneer which deals with the war years tention because it is important women in politics in order to and the aftermath of the Second part of women’s lives and folk- understand how these strategies World War, is the longest lore helps to strip away the have changed throughout his- chapter in the book and stresses mythos of domestic labor that tory” (3). With an exhaustive the fact that plays focused on millions of American women introduction and conclusion, the how “domestic labor was the partake in every day. book includes four chapters bedrock of American patriot- focusing on four significant ism” (116) and so Rosie the women politicians covering the Riveter typified very few wom- period from the 1870’s to the en at the time. Chapters 5 and 2000’s: Victoria Woodhall, the 6 discuss the publication of first woman to run for President Julia Child’s cookbook and in 1872; Jeannette Rankin, Betty Friedan’s Feminine Mys- Republican from Montana and tique and how feminism and a the first woman elected to call to domesticity both battled Congress in 1916; Margaret it out on the American stage. Chase Smith, the first woman to The final chapter, which exam- receive a nomination for Pres- ines plays from the 1990’s until ident at a major party’s con- 2005, finds that the Friedan/ vention in 1964; and Sarah Child paradox still exists and Palin, the first Republican probably always will, but that woman selected as a vice- women need to keep resisting presidential candidate in 2008. patriarchal forces. The choice of these particular The book does an exemplary Teri Finneman. Press Portray- women is interesting and it job of reviewing American als of Women Politicians, 1870s seems irrelevant to Finneman theatre from the standpoint of –2000s: From “Lunatic” Wood- whether any of these women feminist criticism. What is hall to “Polarizing” Palin. New figures won or lost their re- noteworthy is Chansky’s in- York: Lexington Books, 2015. spective elections. The author clusion of Black theatre and 217 pp. ISBN 978-1-4985-2424 makes clear that her focal point other marginalized groups such -7. $44.00. is the way in which these wom- as Jews and Latinos who en broke gender barriers to feature as characters in some of Antara Bhatia make path breaking leaps for- the plays that she examines. University of Mumbai, India ward in the feminist movement. Every chapter has a section In fact, the very first line of the devoted to Black theatre and a Finneman’s book could not book establishes the focus, pre- detailed analysis of the same. have arrived at a more relevant senting an image of Hilary However, this reviewer wishes time, nor could her subject have Clinton standing before her Chansky’s analysis of Black been more highly topical than in supporters in the failed nom- theatre was part of the main these recent politically volatile ination bid for the Democratic discussion and not a separate years. Press Portrayals encap- presidential elections of 2008. section. Locating the plays sulates fairly succinctly the nu- The key word here being within the historical context ances and subtleties behind “failed.” Finneman opines here along with providing brief snip- media representations of women that power in such women is not INSIGHTS: NOTES FROM THE CCWH ment, and, finally, World War I. ican white women leaders for Finneman further argues that the the most part; perhaps the in- Book press coverage of Rankin ro- clusion of black politicians or manticized Rankin’s image as a politicians of color would have Reviews (cont.) kind of heroic suffragette with added a racial, gendered angle an attractive appearance, that to the analysis. defined by failure or success, fuelled the Topeka State Journal Press Portrayals effectively but by their abilities to effect to put out a headline “[…] Look provides a detailed historical major positive changes in the Out Boys!” (68). overview and analysis of the roles of women in modern day Chapter Four begins with the language used to represent society. The other point to note information that Margaret Chase women in the media over the is, of course, the author’s very Smith dissociated herself firmly years and by the end, has out- detailed study of the deeply from feminism. In the volatile lined a trajectory. In other political language, entrenched climate of the day and the rise words, the relentless vilification in gender debates, used in press of the women’s movement, this of Victoria Woodhall gradually portrayals of American women was a controversial stance. The changes into the more subtle leaders. The recurrent phrase author remarks that in Smith’s delegitimization of Sarah Palin throughout the introduction is case, the media representation and the book definitely takes a “word choice” (4) and the was not as much a personal positive stance by saying that chapter mentions the “stereo- commentary as one based on traditional acceptance of gender typical, biased” (2) language gender, where Smith herself stereotypes may finally be used in news coverage of became “irrelevant” (96). crumbling. women politicians through Chapter Five brings out the history. way in which media coverage of Chapter Two discusses Sarah Palin was far more Victoria Woodhall’s election of personal than the others. “She 1872 and her candidacy being became a popular target for tab- presented through phrases like loids” (117). However, Palin’s “Wall Street Aroused” (16) in representations are seen as an The New York Times, 1870, evolution from Woodhull’s and “Satanic Ticket” (32) in The others’, with reduced scrutiny Daily Leader, 1872, and “lewd and the focus largely on and debauched women …in questioning her experience in one shocking, profane mass” the field rather than appearance (29) in The New York Express, or gender. 1872. Finneman uses such ex- Chapter Six summarizes the amples to show the sexuali- book and also briefly discusses zation and demonization of some notable contemporary women who break out of women politicians such as traditional gender roles. Geraldine Ferraro, Nancy Pe- Chapter Three deals with losi, Elizabeth Dole, and Hilary Jeannette Rankin and her Clinton. The book, however, election to Congress in 1916. could have been enhanced with Her rise to power is traced vis- visual inclusions of actual press à-vis the changing political cli- clippings of the articles mate, including electoral re- mentioned so that the reader forms, the 17th Amendment would have a clearer idea of the mandating director election of language used. Additionally, Senators, the Progressive move- the focus seems to be on Amer- 21 Member News Book Reviewers Wanted!

The following books are avail- able for review. If you are interested contact Whitney Leeson at: wleeson@roanoke. edu Bridget Keown Jomarie Alano, A Life of Re- Bridget Keown has become sistance: Ada Prospero Mar- the Host Program Coordinator chesini Gobetti (1902-1968) Elyssa Ford for the CCWH. Bridget is a rising fifth year Ph.D. candi- Edward C. Atwater, Women Elyssa Ford joins the CCWH date in World History at North- Medical Doctors in the United Board of Directors as the eastern University. Her re- States before the Civil War: A Public History Coordinator. search focuses on issues of gen- Biographical Dictionary She is an Assistant Professor of der violence, and trauma in the History at Northwest Missouri British Empire during the First Elma Brenner, Leprosy and State University where she is World War and the Irish War Charity in Medieval Rouen the director of the Public of Independence. She has been History and Museum Studies fortunate enough to teach Benjamin Dabby, Women as minor degree program. She courses in the History of the Public Moralists in Britain: also teaches courses in U.S. British Empire, and Gender and From the Bluestockings to History and Women’s History, Sexuality in World History at Virginia Woolf and she has published in the Northeastern, and is a blogger Pacific Historical Review and for the American Historical Karen A. McClintock, My Fa- the Journal of Museum Association. A native of Pea- ther’s Closet Education and has an article body, Massachusetts and de- forthcoming in the Journal of voted Red Sox fan, Bridget Barbara McManus, The Drun- Men’s Fashion. Her book received her B.A. from Smith ken Duchess of Vassar: Grace manuscript examines memory College and her M.A. in Harriet Macurdy, Pio-neering and identity in race- and group- Imperial and Commonwealth Feminist Classical Scholar specific rodeos in the United History from King’s College States, with a focus on circuits London. While living in Lon- Daniel Nemser, Infrastructures like the gay rodeo and the black don, she also worked at the of Race: Concentration and rodeo. Her graduate degrees Imperial War Museum’s De- Biopolitics in Colonial Mexico are from Arizona State Uni- partment of Documents, assis- versity where she studied with ting with the cataloguing of pri- Nancy Shoemaker, ed., Living some of the founders of the vate papers from the First with Whales: Documents and public history field. Within World War. She works as an Oral Histories of Native New that area, her interests and assistant reference librarian at England Whaling History experiences are in oral history, the Peabody Institute Library exhibit design, and museum and loves traveling with her studies. garden gnome. INSIGHTS: NOTES FROM THE CCWH Member cuses on beauty rituals and cul- tural identity in post-indepen- News (cont.) dent Anglophone Cameroon. Mougoué has shared her re- search at Yale University, Northwestern University, and the University of Cambridge.

Einav Rabinovitch-Fox

Einav Rabinovitch-Fox is a Visiting Assistant Professor in History at Case Western Re- serve University. Einav has become a member of CCWH’s Jacqueline-Bethel Mentorship Committee. Her re- Tchouta Mougoué search examines the connec- Amanda Jeanne Swain tions between culture, politics, Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta and modernity, and the ways in Mougoué is an Assistant Also joining CCWH’s Men- which they shaped and reflected Professor at Baylor University. torship Committee is Amanda class, gender, and racial iden- Jacqueline-Bethel joins the Jeanne Swain who is the Exe- tities. Her current book manu- CCWH’s Mentorship Commit- cutive Director, Humanities script, based on her 2014 tee. Her research interests Commons, at the University of dissertation, Dressed for Free- include African Women’s His- California, Irvine. As Execu- dom: American Feminism and tory, separatist and secessionist tive Director of UC Irvine’s the Politics of Women’s Fash- movements, political identity, Humanities Center, Amanda is ion, uses fashion as a lens to and print culture. Her first responsible for faculty and revise twentieth century femi- manuscript complicates current graduate student research de- nism by exploring women’s academic discourse and on- velopment, school-wide and political uses of clothing and going political debates about cross-campus collaborative appearance as a means of nego- contemporary Cameroon, a projects, and community part- tiating new freedoms and gen- West African country with nerships. She received her der roles. Einav has published British and French adminis- Ph.D. in Russian and East on fashion, advertising, femi- trative legacies. Drawing on European History and a Mas- ninity, and feminism in the oral interviews, as well as ar- ter’s degree in International Journal of Women’s History, chival records, she traces the Studies from the University of and in American Journalism, origin of Anglophone Came- Washington. She also has over and has a forthcoming essay on th roonian women’s roles in the ten years’ experience in execu- New Women in the Early 20 effort to maintain Anglophone tive and program management Century for the Oxford Re- separatism, political identity, with cultural non-profits. search Encyclopedia in Amer- and cultural values in a Fran- ican History. cophone-dominated federal re- public (1961-1972). Most re- cently, she has an article in Feminist Africa (2016) that fo- 23 Member of Africa, Europe, the Ameri- of childhood impacted the cas, and the Caribbean in shap- growth of nineteenth-century News (cont.) ing regional Lowcountry cul- evangelicalism while also trans- ture. Broadly, her research forming lived religious expe- interests include social and riences for children and youth. economic history of antebellum Her work has received numer- America, women and gender ous grants and awards, include- history, and food and material ing the American Society for history. Eighteenth Century Studies/ Boston Athenaeum 2016-2017 Fellowship, the Phi Alpha Theta Doctoral Scholarship Award, and a Congregational Library and Archives Research Travel Grant. She has presented her work at numerous national con- ferences, such as the American Kelly Kean Sharp Historical Association and the

Organization of American His- Kelly Kean Sharp has be- torians. Elise is also a Doctoral come a member of CCWH’s Administrative Fellow in the Mentorship Program Commit- Baylor University Graduate tee. Kelly is a Ph.D. candidate School where she oversees var- in Early American History. ious professional development Though a native of Southern programs for graduate students California, her hobby of family and co-directs the Women in the genealogy spurred a love of Academy mentorship program Southern History which she and bi-annual conference. pared with her second hobby, eating. Her dissertation, “Far- Elise Leal mer’s Plots to Backcountry Stewpots: The Culinary Creo- Elise Leal has also signed on lism of Antebellum Charles- to the CCWH’s Mentorship MEMBER NEWS ton,” examines how foodways Program Committee. Elise is a shaped urban Charleston and fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in We invite CCWH members the surrounding Lowcountry the History Department at to keep us updated about their environs in the first half of the Baylor University. Her re- professional activities. New nineteenth century. Agriculture search focuses on intersections book, award or prize, pro- underlies a region’s foodways, between American religion and motion, new position – what- shaping not only Charleston’s culture in the eighteen and ever it might be, share it with economy, but also forming the nineteenth centuries, with par- your CCWH colleagues. backdrop for much of its cul- ticular emphasis on issues of tural distinctiveness. While her gender, childhood, and social Send your news to the scholarship is centralized on reform within evangelicalism. Newsletter Editor at news- the role in Charleston within its She is currently writing her dis- [email protected]. immediate environs, Sharp sertation on the founding of the places Charleston foodways in American Sunday School We look forward to hearing an Atlantic World context to Movement, using this religious from you! highlight the economic, bio- institution as a lens for exam- cultural, and social contributions ining how shifting constructions INSIGHTS: NOTES FROM THE CCWH

Announcements Nation’s First Historical Call for Papers: Society Announces New Women and Religion in Lerner-Scott Prize President the Early Americas Applications The Trustees of the For a special issue in honor of The Lerner-Scott Prize is giv- Massachusetts Historical Soci- the life and career of Mary en annually by the Organization ety have announced the appoint- Maples Dunn, Early American of American Historians for the ment of Catherine Allgor, Ph.D. Studies seeks article-length con- best doctoral dissertation in U.S. as the next President of the tributions from scholars working Women’s History. The prize is Massachusetts Historical Soci- on the history of women and re- named for Gerda Lerner and ety. Allgor will assume her ligion in the early Americas. Anne Firor Scott, both pioneers position in early October 2017. Mary Maples Dunn (1931-2017) in Women’s History and past She succeeds Dennis A. Fiori, was a leading practitioner of presidents of the OAH. who is retiring as President. Women’s History, as a scholar, A dissertation must be com- Paul Sandman, Chair of the as a teacher, and in her life as a pleted during the period July 1, Board of Trustees, said, “In university leader. She worked in 2016 through June 30, 2017 to Catherine, the MHS has found a a variety of fields from Early be eligible for the 2018 Lerner- charismatic leader, an accom- American Women’s History; to Scott Prize. plished scholar, and a capti- Colonial Latin American His- The prize will be presented at vating spokeswoman. She will tory; to the history of religious the 2018 OAH Annual Meeting bring not only creativity and women; to the history of wom- in Sacramento, California, April vision to fulfilling the Society’s en’s education, as well, of 12-14. mission, but also a track record course, the worlds of William A PDF of your complete dis- of successful execution.” He Penn and early Philadelphia. sertation to the committee chair continued, “She is a perfect fit The editors invite essays that must be received by midnight for the MHS and we are excited consider the history of Early (PST), October 2, 2017 with by her commitment to propel- American women, Early Ameri- “2018 OAH Lerner-Scott Prize ling the Society forward.” can religion (or both) and are es- Entry” in the subject line. Allgor is currently the Nadine pecially interested in work that Each application must also and Robert A. Skotheim Di- makes cross-cultural compare- include a letter of support from a rector of Education and Volun- sons or integrates multiple At- faculty member at the degree- teers at the Huntington Library, lantic orientations: North and granting institution, along with Art Collections, and Botanical South (French, British, Dutch, an abstract and table of contents. Gardens. As she prepares to Spanish, and/or Portuguese), Applicants should provide a take the helm at the MHS, she East and West (from European cover letter describing the acknowledged her admiration of and/or African links to Native contribution of the dissertation the MHS. “I am honored that the American perspectives). to the field of U.S. Women’s Trustees have entrusted me with To submit, please email a 3- History and any funding or leading the MHS. American page CV and a 1,000-word project or travel grants that history is a wonderfully diverse summary of the contribution supported the completion of the continuum of experiences that you propose to write by Sep- dissertation. we all share. The MHS provides tember 30th to Ann Little For further details contact the a forum to share insights and ([email protected]) and Committee Chair, Bonnie learn about the long, unfolding Nicole Eustace (nicole.eustace Laughlin-Schultz at blaughlin- human story in which we all @nyu.edu). Please use the [email protected]. participate. There are so many subject line “Mary Maples Dunn wonderful opportunities and I Special Issue Submission.” can’t wait to get started.” 25

Announcements Call for Papers: Call for Papers: Western Association of Journal of West African Employment Opportunity Women Historians History Assistant Professor in Latin American History at The Western Association of The Journal of West African Bowdoin College Women Historians (WAWH) History is a new interdisci- invites proposals for panels, plinary peer-reviewed research The Department of History at roundtables, posters, workshops, journal that publishes articles on Bowdoin College invites appli- and individual presentations in West African history. Located at cations for a tenure-track posi- all fields, regions, and periods of the cutting edge of new th tion at the rank of assistant history at its 50 Annual Con- scholarship on the social, cul- professor in Latin American His- ference to be held at the UC tural, economic, and political tory, including Brazil and the Davis Conference Center, April history of West Africa. The Hispanic Caribbean, beginning 26-28, 2018. journal fills a representational Fall 2018. Research sub-field Although they will consider all gap by providing a forum for and period is open, but candi- types of submissions, they par- serious scholarship and debate dates should demonstrate the a- ticularly encourage non-tradi- on women and gender, sex- bility to teach the colonial and tional formats and topics. These uality, slavery, oral history, modern periods. could include panels and round- popular and public culture, and The department welcomes tables focused on pedagogy, on religion. applications from candidates women in academia, on public The editorial board invites committed to the instruction and history, digital humanities, aca- scholars to submit original support of a diverse student pop- demic publishing, career paths, article-length manuscripts (not ulation and those who will en- activism, etc. exceeding 10,000 words inclu- rich and contribute to the Col- Participants are strongly en- ding endnotes, 35 pages in lege’s ethnic and cultural diver- couraged to replace the cus- length) accompanied by an ab- sity. If you have experience tomary 20-minute paper reading stract that summarizes the ar- working with a particular group with shorter and more inter- gument and significance of the of students in the context of active presentation styles. work (not exceeding 150 Latin American History, we Priority will be given to words). Review essays (not encourage you to address this in proposals for complete or par- exceeding 1,000 words) should your cover letter. tially complete sessions, but we engage the interpretation, mean- Please submit a detailed over will also consider individual ing, or importance of an au- letter describing your research papers. The WAWH expects thor’s argument for a wider and teaching interests and how panels to represent diversity of scholarly audience. See what we they will contribute to Bow- our membership and profession. have available for review on our doin’s Department of History, For guidelines, FAQ on Books for Review list. Latin American Studies Pro- WAWH conferences, submis- Manuscripts submitted to the gram, and the broader college sions, and opportunities to find Journal of West African History community; a c.v.; and the co-panelists, please see infor- should be submitted online at names and contact information mation on our 2018 Conference http://ojs.msupress.msu.edu/inde of three references. Review of page at http://www.wawh.org/ x.php/JWAH/about/submission. applications will begin on conferences/2018. October 15th. Proposals are due on Sunday, For further details on the October 15, 2017. WAWH appointment, see http://www. membership and 2018 confer- bowdoin.edu/history/position- ence preregistration will be re- announcement. quired of all program participants. INSIGHTS: NOTES FROM THE CCWH

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Co-Presidents Graduate Student Chaudhuri Award Chair, Representatives 2017 Mary Ann Villarreal 2015-2018 Jasmin Young Pat Turning 2017-2020 Barbara Molony Membership Program Chair 2016-2019 Kelly Midori McCormick 2017-2020 Ilaria Scaglia Executive Director 2015-2018 Book Review Editor Sandra Trudgen Dawson Mentorship Program 2017-2020 Whitney Leeson Committee

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