Fifteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women
Friday, June 10, 2011
Report by Nick Syrett
I had the distinct pleasure of chairing this session devoted to queer students, professors, and their classes in the twentieth-century United States. Continue reading
AHA Annual Meeting
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Report by Leila J. Rupp
This session offered three papers on different aspects of organizing around same-sex sexuality before the emergence of the contemporary gay liberation movement. Continue reading
AHA Annual Meeting
Friday, January 7, 2011
Report by Lucinda Grinnell
This panel focused on lesbian and feminist activism and transnational organizing in the waning years of the Cold War. This was a period when the lesbian and feminist movements were engaged in complex ideological, strategic, and tactical battles about the direction and the focus of the movement in the United States, and when lesbian and gay activists were initiating political battles in Latin America in the context of authoritarian regimes as was the case in Mexico or within liberation struggles as was the case in Nicaragua.