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UNYWHO Conference
March 7, 2009
Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York

Session 1: 8:45-10:15

1. Warring Identities: Suffrage and Work (Sanford Room)

Katherine Hubler, "Wenn nicht für notwendig, so jedenfalls für nützlich":
The German Men's League for Women's Suffrage, 1911-1914

Susan Goodier, "A Curious Pair: Suffrage and Anti-Suffrage Leaders during
the First World War"

Kenneth O'Brien and Carolyn Vacca, SUNY Brockport and St. John Fisher,
"Women and Work During WWII in Monroe County NY"

Chair: Vivien Rose, National Park Service

2. Outsiders/Insiders: African American Women and Civil Society  (Geneva
Room)

Catherine Adams, "New England Women's Civil Lawsuits"

Justin Behrend, "Women Control the Election: Rethinking Black Women's
Participation in Electoral Politics during Reconstruction"

Alison Parker, "Mary Church Terrell's Campaign Against 'White Lawlessness'"

Chair: Victoria Wolcott, University of Rochester

Session 2: 10:30-12:00

3. Gendering the Body: Representations of Manhood (Sanford Room)

Lyn Blanchfield, "Injurious Words: Public Insults, Gender, and Honor in
Late Medieval Italy"

Kenneth E. Marshall, "Manhood in the Shape of a Northern Slave Woman:
Masculine Identification in Silvia Dubois, A Biografy of the Slav Who
Whipt Her Mistress and Gand Her Freedom"

Kate Culkin, "'Knowing What Barriers Must in the Outset Oppose All Womanly
Efforts':  Harriet Hosmer's Memorial to Thomas Hart Benton."

Meredith Roman, "The Black Male Body and Representations of American
Racial Apartheid and Soviet Anti-Racism"

Chair:  Tamar Carroll, Cornell University

4.  Campaign Trains and Suffrage Soap Boxes: Women's Political Tactics
(Geneva Room)
Lauren Kozakiewicz, "To Be or Not to Be: Women, Partisanship and the
Hughes Campaign Train of 1916"

Tara McCarthy, "'Never Mind If You Are Not Lady-like': Irish-American
Women and the Politics of Suffrage in the Twentieth Century"

Karen Pastorello, "New Tactics for a New Woman:  Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon
and the 1917 New York State Suffrage Campaign"

Gaylynn Welch, "Pursuing Political Strategies:  Partisanship and
Non-Partisanship within the National Woman Suffrage Association and the
American Woman Suffrage Association"

Chair: Margaret Susan Thompson, Syracuse University

Lunch 12:00-1:30 Commons Room, Scandling Center

Session 3: 1:30-3:00

5. Gender, Science and Imperialism in Higher Education (Sanford Room)

Barbara Reeves-Ellington, "Boston on the Bosphorus: Women, Empire, and the
American College for Girls in Constantinople"

Laura Ettinger and Nicole Conroy, "Techettes:  A Case Study of Women
Engineering Undergraduates in the 1960s and 1970s"

Gwen Kay, "'From Home Economics to Human Ecology': An Overused Book Title
on an Important Topic"

Chair: Emilye Crosby, SUNY Geneseo

6. Widows, Beloveds, Working Women, and Modernity: Perspectives on Women,
Gender and Family (Geneva Room)

Katherine Clark, "A Household Full of Rogues":  The Chaste Widow and
Household Management in Early Modern Advice Literature

Amy Aisen Elouafi, "2,000 Jibbas: Reform and the Modern Family in
Nineteenth-Century Tunisia"

Krystal D. Frazier, "'My Beloved Whom I Never Expected to See Again:' The
Experience of Separation within Enslaved Antebellum Families"

Jean Elisabeth Pedersen, "Métier or Marriage?  French questions about work
in the lives of young women, wives, and widows, 1900-1914

Chair:  Dorinda Outram, University of Rochester

Session 4: 3:15-4:45

7. Trangressors: Religion and Motherhood in Women's Lives (Sanford Room)

Paul Moyer, "Revisiting the Public Universal Friend: Religion & Gender in
Revolutionary America"

Jenny Lloyd, "Mary O'Bryan Thorne: Preacher, Wife and Mother"

Carol Faulkner, "Schism: Women's Rights and the Society of Friends"

Rebecca Edwards, "Mothering in Silence: Deafness, Marriage, and Motherhood
in Historical Perspective"

Chair: Marcia Robinson, Syracuse University

8. Transnational Women: International Women in the Americas (Geneva Room)

E. Sue Wamsley, "Negotiating Women's Interests in the National and
International Arenas"

Penny Messinger, "Applying the Lessons of Women's International Activism
in the Appalachian South:  Mary and Helen Dingman,"

Neici Zeller, "Pan Americanism in a Hemispheric Context"

Chair: Nancy Rosenbloom, Canisius College

5:00-5:45 UNYWHO Meeting-everyone welcome! (Sanford Room)

6:00 Dinner, Commons Room, Scandling Center

7:00 Keynote Speaker: Leigh Ann Wheeler, Binghamton University, "Making
Liberties: The ACLU and the Transformation of Sexual Culture in the
Twentieth-Century United States" (Geneva Room)

UNYWHO Steering Committee:
Carol Faulkner
Laura Free
Jenny Lloyd
Doris Meadows
Penny Messinger
Alison Parker
Karen Pastorello
Monique Patenaude