Race, Sexuality, Gender and the Body in Early-Twentieth-Century American Culture

Posted on June 26, 2011 by CLGBTH

Fifteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women
Friday, June 10, 2011

Report by Chad Heap

I had the pleasure of commenting on the session, “Race, Sexuality, Gender and the Body in Early-Twentieth-Century American Culture.” Matthew Guterl (Indiana University, Bloomington) chaired the session. Kathleen B. Casey (University of Rochester) presented a paper, entitled, “‘She Is What She Ain’t’: Lillyn Brown and the Meaning of Black Male Impersonation”; and Cookie Woolner (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) delivered a paper on “Gertrude ‘Ma’ Rainey’s ‘Prove It on Me Blues’ and the Dialectics of Queer Popular Culture.” Continue reading →

Lesbian and Feminist Activisms in the Americas: Contested Notions of Solidarity and Citizenship in the Neo-liberal Reagan Era

Posted on February 13, 2011 by CLGBTH

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.

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