Category: Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW)

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Round-up of our ‘Women in America’ blog series for Women’s History Month

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Our “Women in America” blog series for Women’s History Month 2015 is now drawing to an end. We would like to thank the Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) and the Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) who joined us in putting together this diverse and exciting blog series that ran for five weeks in total and included 16 posts. Here we have collected and summarised all of those posts. Continue reading

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Beyond the Boundaries of Time and Text: Recovering Oral Traditions in American Women’s Writing

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The penultimate post in the series, courtesy of SSAWW, is written by Corey Hickner-Johnson and examines the theme of recovery through three writers (Margaret Walker, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Kao Kalia Yang) who reclaim their own family and cultural stories and histories through fiction. Continue reading

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Imagining a Female President: Commander in Chief and the unfinished business of presidential fiction

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In the sixth SHAW post Gregory Frame considers the recent fictional depiction of a female US president in Commander in Chief and asks whether this television series gives us clues as to why there has yet to be a woman elected into the Oval Office. Continue reading

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The Lady Vanishes: American Women Writers and the Noir Canon

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In the fifth SHAW post Stefania Ciocia revisits the noir canon. Dr Ciocia offers a new reading of the gender dynamics in classic films and texts. Continue reading

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From National Histories of Advice Discourses to a ‘Transatlantic Domestic Dialogue’

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The final three contributions in the SHAW series offer some distinct case studies. In the fourth post, Grace Lees-Maffei discusses the significance of moving from single nation accounts towards transnational history in her recent research project on domestic advice books. Continue reading

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Job-hunting: An Early Career Perspective

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Moving from postgraduate research to an early career perspective, the third SHAW post is an honest account about the search for employment. David Doddington writes about his experiences and provides useful advice for other scholars in this transitional phase. Continue reading

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Surviving a Long-Distance Research Project

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In SHAW’s second post in their series, Charlie Jeffries shares her experiences of embarking upon a PhD about the US in the UK and gives practical tips for others thinking of doing likewise. Continue reading

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Blogs on Togs: Dress History Research in an Overseas Archive

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SHAW’s series opens with Alison Goodrum’s discussion of visiting the designer Elizabeth Hawes’ archives in New York. Professor Goodrum explores the challenges and joys of both using overseas archives and starting a blog about her research trip. Continue reading