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Sixth European Social Science History Conference
22 - 25 March 2006
 
 
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All rooms are equipped with an overhead projector
Rooms C, D, E, F, G and H (H only on Saturday): slide projector (framed slides, carrousel. There are extra carrousels available to set up your presentation in advance)
Rooms C, D, M, N, O, U and Committee Room 2: beamer to connect your laptop. You have to bring you own laptop. (If you want to use your Apple notebook, please contact us, as it may be incompatible.)
Rooms C, T and U: VCR
 
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Wednesday 22 March
   8:30
   10:45
   14:15
   16:30
Thursday 23 March
   8:30
   10:45
   14:15
   16:30
Friday 24 March
   8:30
   10:45
   14:15
   16:30
Saturday 25 March
   8:30
   10:45
   14:15
   16:30

All days


 Wednesday 22 March 8:30 

K-1  -  WOM23: Varieties of Feminism I: International Perspectives
Room K

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Bonnie Smith
Discussant: Bonnie Smith
Silke Neunsinger, Pernilla Jonsson Feminine Finances. Funding the socialist and bourgeois women's movement - a transnational approach
Anne Revillard Bringing the movement within the state: the Comité du Travail féminin (1965-1981), or the unknown origins of French state feminism
Florence Binard Biology, Sexuality and the Sexual Order in Relation to Feminism in the 1920s in Great Britain

 Wednesday 22 March 10:45 

G-2  -  WOM19: Roundtable: Women and Investment
Room G

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

 Wednesday 22 March 14:15 

P-3  -  WOM07: Migration, Marriage, and National Identity
Room P

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

 Wednesday 22 March 16:30 

G-4  -  WOM05: Russian Women's Rights
Room G

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

 Thursday 23 March 10:45 

V-6  -  WOM06: Social Policy and the Politics of Intimacy
Committee Room 1

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

 Thursday 23 March 14:15 

E-7  -  WOM01: Varieties of Feminism II: Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe
Room E

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

 Thursday 23 March 14:15 

P-7  -  WOM10: Sexuality, Gender, and Politics in the Late Ottoman Empire and Turkey
Room P

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Ruth Mandel
Discussant: Ruth Mandel
Tuba Kanci Women and Men of an Imagined Community: Gender Constructions of the Turkish Republic in Textbooks
Selçuk akşin Somel Woman, state, and religion: The Issue of Abortion in the Late Ottoman Empire
Elif Gozdasoglu Thinking About Turkish Women's Past: Some Reflections on the Intersection of Turkish Nationalism and Gender

 Thursday 23 March 14:15 

K-7  -  WOM18: Masculinities and Feminist Historiography
Room K

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Stefan Dudink
Discussant: Sonya Rose
Discussant: Anita Göransson
Marilyn Lake Men against Men
Ann-Catrin Östman Masculinity, citizenship and traditions of agrarian historiography

 Friday 24 March 8:30 

L-9  -  WOM09: Roundtable: Varieties of Feminism III: International Perspectives
Room L

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

 Friday 24 March 14:15 

U-11  -  WOM02: Gender, Islam, and European Multiculturalism
Room U

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

 Friday 24 March 14:15 

V-11  -  WOM04: Women Interpret Historical Change
Committee Room 1

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Hanneke Hoekstra
Discussant: Hanneke Hoekstra
Marianna Muravyeva History at crisis: Gender studies, national identity and contemporary Russian history profession
Rosemarie Schade Looking at America: Alice Salomon and Charlotte Lütkens
Isabela Campoi Gender and politics: Adalgisa Nery in the Brazilian political jornalism

 Friday 24 March 16:30 

O-12  -  WOM14: Gender and Professionalism
Room O

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

 Friday 24 March 16:30 

C-12  -  WOM16: Roundtable: Gender and the Politics of Representation
Room C

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

 Friday 24 March 16:30 

U-12  -  WOM24: Representations of the Sexed Body in Medicine and Society
Room U

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

 Saturday 25 March 8:30 

N-13  -  WOM03: Roundtable: Gender and the History of Social Work through Visual Sources
Room N

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

 Saturday 25 March 8:30 

G-13  -  WOM11: Gender and Communism, East and West
Room G

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

 Saturday 25 March 10:45 

B-14  -  WOM08: Perspectives on Gender and Politics in Mandate Palestine
Room B

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

 Saturday 25 March 14:15 

G-15  -  REL06: Roundtable: Gender and Religion
Room G

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

 Saturday 25 March 14:15 

S-15  -  WOM12: Gender in the Military
Room S

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

 Saturday 25 March 16:30 

E-16  -  WOM13: Sexual violence, slavery and women's agency
Room E

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

 Saturday 25 March 16:30 

F-16  -  WOM21: Labour contracts and marriage contracts
Room F

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