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DHA & Upcoming Conferences
The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Minneapolis, MN, June 12-15, 2008 (http://berks.umn.edu/index.html). Come to the DHA reception on Friday, June 13 from 6:00-7:30 at the Minnesota Room in the McNamara Alumni Center (where the main reception for the conference will be held).
For panels and papers of interest to disability historians, Board Member Penny Richards has provided the following list:
- PANELS:
- [46] Disability History Confronts Women's History: Compliant Daughter or Rebellious Youth?
- Chair: Susan Burch (Ohio State U.)
- Susan Burch (Ohio State U.): "What's the Sign for Sex? Changing Views of Language, Gender, and Historical Identity in America's Deaf Community"
- Penny L. Richards (UCLA-Center for the Study of Women): "The Spinster in the Attic: Retrieving Disabled Women's Stories from Private Collections"
- Kim Nielsen (University of Wisconsin-Green Bay): "Confessions of the Right-Now Able-Bodied Researcher"
- Audra Jennings (Ohio State U.): "The Forceful Urge for Independence: Women Activists and the American Federation of the Physically Handicapped, 1942-1960"
- [105] How Do They Do It? Sexual Representations of Conjoined Twins in United States Culture
- Chair: Ruth Alexander (Colorado State U.)
- Ellen Samuels (University of Wisconsin-Madison): "Examining Millie and Christine McCoy: Where Enslavement and Enfreakment Meet"
- Alison Kafer (Southwestern U.): "Fabulist Past, Fabulist Future, but No Queer Presence: Desiring Disability in Shelley Jackson's ‘Half- Life’"
- Cynthia Wu (SUNY Buffalo): "The Queer Pleasures and Frustrations of Chang and Eng's Autopsy"
- Comment: Catherine Kudlick (UC-Davis)
- [46] Disability History Confronts Women's History: Compliant Daughter or Rebellious Youth?
- INDIVIDUAL PAPERS:
- Ryan Lee Cartwright (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities): "'Feeble- Minded' Women and Country Rubes: Intersections of Sexuality, Race, and Mental Ability in the Rural United States" [38]
- Sarah Rose (University of Illinois, Chicago): "Preventing the Reproduction of Dependency: Women in Idiot Asylum Labor Programs, 1878-1920" [59]
- Susan Rensing (Mississippi State U.): "Sexual Eugenics in Progressive Era America" [63]
- Ana Carden-Coyne (Manchester U.): "Conflicted Bodies: Gendering Pain and Injury in Wartime"
- Lisa Kohlmeier (Claremont Graduate U.): "The Space of the Sickroom in the Life of Alice James" [68]
- Jennifer M. Morris (College of Mount St. Joseph): "Degenerates No Longer: UNICEF's Anti-Syphillis Campaign" [180]
- Aimee Newell (U-Mass, Amherst): "Tattered Pieces: The Sampler of an Aging Antebellum New England Woman"