Event Details

End: December 11, 2015
Contact: Tara James: tjames@sarahlawrence.edu
More Info: https://www.sarahlawrence.edu/womens-history/conference/

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The 18th Annual Conference on Women's History at Sarah Lawrence College

Friday and Saturday March 4-5th 2016

Free and Open to the Public

 

Working women have a long history of fighting injustice on multiple fronts and leading social change.  Our 2016 Women’s History Month conference will analyze and celebrate this tradition and explore the following questions: How can working women’s movements fight off conservative assaults and who are the allies in that fight? What strategies have worked—or not worked—in the past, and what can we learn from them? Can examples set by rising movements among women, youth, LGBTQIA communities, and people of color re-invigorate the mainstream labor movement? How might the labor movement become a better vehicle for the larger movement for social justice?

 

We seek papers, panels, films and performances that address these themes:

Working-class feminism

Workers’ centers and women’s activism

Queer labor history

Women and socialism

Women’s global resistance to neoliberalism

Struggles for wage equality

Labor sheroes, past and present

Women’s work for justice in their communities

Gender in the struggle for immigrant rights

The politics of housework, paid & unpaid

Women’s struggles in traditionally male trades

Movement-building

 

Deadline:

December 7, 2015