Fifteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Report by Marc Stein
Approximately sixty people attended this session, which focused on the ongoing relevance and usefulness of the category “lesbian” in historical scholarship on women. Continue reading
Shelley Grosjean, “A ‘Womyn’s’ Work is Never Done: The Gendered Division of Labor on Lesbian Separatist Lands in Southern Oregon” has been awarded the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History’s 2011 Joan Nestle Undergraduate Prize. The Joan Nestle Undergraduate Prize is awarded for an outstanding paper on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, and/or queer history completed in English by an undergraduate student during the previous two years.
The 2011 Prize Committee was chaired by Ellen Herman and included Chris Waters and Stephanie Gilmore.
In reaching its decisions, the Prize Committee prepared the following commendation: Continue reading