Female Imprimatur: Women in the Lawbook Trade.

[We have the following announcement of an online exhibit at Boston College Law School.  DRE]Female Imprimatur: Women......

Haan, "Corporate Governance and the Feminization of Capital"

Sarah Haan (Washington and Lee) has posted "Corporate Governance and the Feminization of Capital." Here's the abstract:Between......

Prifogle on Migrant Labor and Female Social Networks in Midcentury Michigan

Emily Prifogle, University of Michigan Law School, has posted Legal Landscapes, Migrant Labor, and Rural Social Safety......

Boris's "Making the Woman Worker" at WHS

The next meeting of the Washington History Seminar, on Monday, November 16 at 4:00 pm ET, will be devoted to Making the......

McClain on the 19th Amendment Centennial and Trollope's Palliser Novels

Linda C. McClain, Boston University School of Law, recently has posted two articles.  The first is What Becomes a......

The 19th Amendment @ 100 @ St. Johns Law

 [We have the following announcement.   DRE]The St. John’s Law Review invites you to explore the past, present,......

A Symposium on Race, Citizenship and Women's Right to Vote

 [We have the following announcement.  DRE]The symposium Citizenship and Suffrage: Race, Citizenship, and Women’s......

Haksgaard on the Homestead Rights of Deserted Wives

Hannah Haksgaard, University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law, has posted The Homesteading Rights of Deserted Wives:......

Lee to Lecture on Contagious Diseases and the Rule of Law in the British Empire

[We have the following announcement from the Transnational Legal History Group Seminar of the Centre for Comparative and......

Women at the BSA (1919–1939): Girton College

Six former members of Girton College, Cambridge were admitted to the BSA between the wars:Benton, Miss S. Girton 1907–10.......

A God in Every Stone: Kamila Shamsie

Kamila Shamsie's latest novel, A God in Every Stone (Bloomsbury), has just been published in the UK. Part of it is......

Women in History: A Gallery

Continuing with the theme of women's history, often a-times, I believed that the best way of portraying a situation was......

By the 1820s, more women were becoming teachers because...

   they were demonstrably more intelligent than male candidates. men scorned teaching as “women's work.” state......

One reason women took charge of religious and charitable enterprises during and after the Second Great Awakening was because...

   their husbands ordered them to do so. they were excluded from other public roles. they had more......

Why did women's issues suddenly become so prominent in American culture?

Women issues came forth when they started to be needed in the society. Being excluded from public roles and being numerous,......

Parental Background of BSA Students (1886-1914)

I was struck by the background of the fathers of students admitted to l'École française d'Athènes (EfA) in its first half......