History of Women in the Americas
Journal Data
| Type | JOURNAL |
|---|---|
| Publisher | School of Advanced Study |
| ISSN | 2042-6348 |
| Wikidata | Q50640733 |
| OpenAlex | S4210225997 |
| MAG | 4210225997 |
| Website | http://journals.sas.ac.uk/hwa |
| Total publications | 26 |
| Coverage period | 2013 - 2017 |
| Country | GB |
| Language | EN |
| Access | Open Access |
| Cited by | 4 |
| h-index | 2 |
This journal focuses on the history of women in the Americas, intersecting with social/cultural history, gender studies, and area studies. These are cognate humanities fields with regular anthropological intersection, especially when examining social structures and cultural practices
Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · American Political and Social Dynamics · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing · Canadian Identity and History · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience · Cuban History and Society · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Politics and Representation
Comparing Generations
Jody Woodruff, A Generational Difference: the Issue of Independence Susan Segal, Alone Deborah Shefler, Old War Limits and New World Opportunity Carol Hoffman, One Generation Away And Yet... Lenore Light, Fulfilling My Mother’s Wishes Joyce Lombard, If We Could Have Julie Freestone, We Had No Life Together
Lifetime Stories
Lifetime Stories
The Challenge and Lure of Creativity
Comparing Generations
The Challenge and Lure of Creativity
Dorothy Bryant, Free to Write Poems Ahni Robinson, Plant Your Feet Bonnie Best, A New Perspective on Career and Retirement Gayle Ann Weinstein, What is Sixty-Three? Arlene Bernstein, Wow! Aka Women of Wisdom
I Never Thought I'd Ever Do This
Annette Langer, Cops and Robbers: The Senior Version Donne Davis, Even Grandmas Need a Sisterhood” Kay Licina, Dragonboat Racing
My Mother, the Immigrant
Strong Greek Roots Gifts from my Alien Grandmothers
Realising a Dream
Joan Reinhardt-Reiss, Running Around! Barbara Lindemann, Reflections on Retirement, Eight Years In
Overcoming Adversity
Unpacking My Bags in Another Locale
Elizabeth Wholey, My Midlife Migration to Umbria Lee Haworth, My Adventures on the Move Shirley Nicholas, Worn Out Hip, Shoulder and Levis Wendy Shipnuck, Embracing La Joie de Vie Linda Jay, A New Chapter, at Seventy-Five! E. Ruth Harder, Love Never Dies
My Amazing Mother
Leslie DeLuca Martin, Return to the Sea Kaye Sykes Williams, My Mother Sue Leonard, Ruth Hunter’s Story Van Pham, A Short Story about a Little Vietnamese Lady Virginia Howard Mullan, I Never Did Learn to Speak Afrikaans
The Importance of Feminism
S. Jay Kleinberg, A Historian of a Certain Age Sheila Goldmacher, Becoming Sheila Gloria. J Sandoval, Not Your Grandmother’s Feminism Ruth Rosen, How Feminism Changed My Life
Contrasting Trends in Women’s Employment in the Twentieth Century
In The Feminine Mystique (1963), Betty Friedan highlighted the anomie experienced by women whose sole focus was their husbands, children and homes. She also presented a solution to this ‘problem that has no name’, arguing that women’s lives could be more fulfilling if they combined marriage and motherhood with paid employment, and more particularly with a professional occupation. Using evidence from the U.S. Census, this article demonstrates that…
Just a Housewife’
Some criticism of Women Strike for Peace suggests that their maternal identification and pride in projecting the image of ‘housewife and mother’ solidified the feminine mystique. This article argues that members of Women Strike for Peace adopted this image as a tactic in order to advance their campaign for peace. In recognising the political awareness of members, an assessment of the group’s successes as perceived by former activists demonstrates…
We Called Ourselves “Feministas”
This article explores the ways in which Ana Castillo's 1993 novel So Far From God presents female characters who are more than ‘just’ wives, mothers and daughters (Women Are People, Too!), and celebrates mestiza consciousness as a way to challenge oppression. Therefore this article focuses on the role of women within the specific Mexican American context which differs significantly from Friedan’s white and middle-class perspective as described in…
How The Feminine Mystique Played in Peoria
Betty Friedan’s groundbreaking work, The Feminine Mystique, published in 1963, was not celebrated in her hometown of Peoria, Illinois, until its fiftieth anniversary. This article explores why many of Friedan’s Peoria contemporaries – white, educated, married, middle- and upper-middle-class women, like the women featured in her book – rejected her thesis that their lives as women without careers in the paid labor force were dissatisfying and unfu…
Introduction
Introduction to the journal's special issue, 'Women as Wives and Workers: Marking Fifty Years of The Feminine Mystique
What is a wife’? Reconstructing domesticity in postwar Britain before The Feminine Mystique
This article investigates the relationship between the lived experiences of housewives in 1950s and early 1960s Britain and their portrayal in The Feminine Mystique and popular women’s magazines. Through a study of four housewives’ associations, the Women’s Institutes, Mothers’ Union, Townswomen’s Guilds and the National Council of Women, it is argued that they rejected the prevailing ideology of domesticity and challenged the myth of the ‘happy …
International Women’s Day in the Brazilian Countryside
This paper examines new forms of political protest and resistance carried out by Brazilian peasant women during the celebration of International Women’s Day. Since 2006, the Brazilian women of La Via Campesina (International Peasant Movement) have taken radical action in order to reclaim 8 March as an international day of struggle by women workers and to question the political, cultural and economic model of development. Their efforts to break th…
Forty Years of Women’s and Gender Studies
This article looks at women’s history and women’s studies with a focus on their institutionalization at non-elite U. S. universities. The fortieth anniversary of women’s studies has prompted many reviews of the field, with most tracing the intellectual trajectory of key scholarly concepts. The present study takes a structural approach to determine how effectively women’s studies has been implanted in institutions of higher education. Personal rec…
Presidential and Prime Ministerial Women in the Americas
The Americas and Latin America in particular are sharply in advance of the global norm when it comes to the incidence of female presidential and prime ministerial leadership. One reason is the relatively high and increasing incidence of democracy on the two continents. Another is that the Americas are more progressive than other parts of the world. The relatively peaceful state of the region over the last half century is an additional factor, for…
From the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean
While some work has recently been done on native women in Russian America, very little has been written about Russian women and even less about the European non-Russian women who went to Russia’s North American colonies in Alaska—the easternmost outpost of the Russian empire in Alaska—from the western periphery of the empire. This paper is about three such women, Elisabeth von Wrangell, Margaretha Etholen and Anna Furuhjelm, and their experiences…
This is the Age of Woman’
Una Marson (1905-1965) was an Afro-Jamaican intellectual who in the 1930s became an internationally famous feminist, Pan-Africanist, poet, playwright, journalist and social activist. Between 1932 and 1936 Marson lived in London and became involved in the burgeoning Pan-African movement and a number of British and international women’s and feminist organisations. In 1936, she briefly returned to Jamaica amidst the nationalist movements of the time…
Whither History of Women in the Americas
This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://journals.sas.ac.uk/hwa/article/view/1690
International Women’s Day in the Brazilian Countryside
This paper examines new forms of political protest and resistance carried out by Brazilian peasant women during the celebration of International Women’s Day. Since 2006, the Brazilian women of La Via Campesina (International Peasant Movement) have taken radical action in order to reclaim 8 March as an international day of struggle by women workers and to question the political, cultural and economic model of development. Their efforts to break th…
This is the Age of Woman’
Una Marson (1905-1965) was an Afro-Jamaican intellectual who in the 1930s became an internationally famous feminist, Pan-Africanist, poet, playwright, journalist and social activist. Between 1932 and 1936 Marson lived in London and became involved in the burgeoning Pan-African movement and a number of British and international women’s and feminist organisations. In 1936, she briefly returned to Jamaica amidst the nationalist movements of the time…
Forty Years of Women’s and Gender Studies
This article looks at women’s history and women’s studies with a focus on their institutionalization at non-elite U. S. universities. The fortieth anniversary of women’s studies has prompted many reviews of the field, with most tracing the intellectual trajectory of key scholarly concepts. The present study takes a structural approach to determine how effectively women’s studies has been implanted in institutions of higher education. Personal rec…
Presidential and Prime Ministerial Women in the Americas
The Americas and Latin America in particular are sharply in advance of the global norm when it comes to the incidence of female presidential and prime ministerial leadership. One reason is the relatively high and increasing incidence of democracy on the two continents. Another is that the Americas are more progressive than other parts of the world. The relatively peaceful state of the region over the last half century is an additional factor, for…
From the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean
While some work has recently been done on native women in Russian America, very little has been written about Russian women and even less about the European non-Russian women who went to Russia’s North American colonies in Alaska—the easternmost outpost of the Russian empire in Alaska—from the western periphery of the empire. This paper is about three such women, Elisabeth von Wrangell, Margaretha Etholen and Anna Furuhjelm, and their experiences…
This is the Age of Woman’
Una Marson (1905-1965) was an Afro-Jamaican intellectual who in the 1930s became an internationally famous feminist, Pan-Africanist, poet, playwright, journalist and social activist. Between 1932 and 1936 Marson lived in London and became involved in the burgeoning Pan-African movement and a number of British and international women’s and feminist organisations. In 1936, she briefly returned to Jamaica amidst the nationalist movements of the time…
Whither History of Women in the Americas
This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://journals.sas.ac.uk/hwa/article/view/1690
The House, the Street and the Brothel
This article delineates scholarship in Latin American history (mostly in English) defined by gender relations and/or focused on women. From 1492 until 1750, the honor code, the process of miscegenation or race mixture, and property rights are emphasized. Scholarship has overturned the traditional view that colonial households and production were invariably patriarchal, since between 25 to 45 percent of households were headed by women. Illegitimac…
International Women’s Day in the Brazilian Countryside
This paper examines new forms of political protest and resistance carried out by Brazilian peasant women during the celebration of International Women’s Day. Since 2006, the Brazilian women of La Via Campesina (International Peasant Movement) have taken radical action in order to reclaim 8 March as an international day of struggle by women workers and to question the political, cultural and economic model of development. Their efforts to break th…
Contrasting Trends in Women’s Employment in the Twentieth Century
In The Feminine Mystique (1963), Betty Friedan highlighted the anomie experienced by women whose sole focus was their husbands, children and homes. She also presented a solution to this ‘problem that has no name’, arguing that women’s lives could be more fulfilling if they combined marriage and motherhood with paid employment, and more particularly with a professional occupation. Using evidence from the U.S. Census, this article demonstrates that…
Just a Housewife’
Some criticism of Women Strike for Peace suggests that their maternal identification and pride in projecting the image of ‘housewife and mother’ solidified the feminine mystique. This article argues that members of Women Strike for Peace adopted this image as a tactic in order to advance their campaign for peace. In recognising the political awareness of members, an assessment of the group’s successes as perceived by former activists demonstrates…
We Called Ourselves “Feministas”
This article explores the ways in which Ana Castillo's 1993 novel So Far From God presents female characters who are more than ‘just’ wives, mothers and daughters (Women Are People, Too!), and celebrates mestiza consciousness as a way to challenge oppression. Therefore this article focuses on the role of women within the specific Mexican American context which differs significantly from Friedan’s white and middle-class perspective as described in…
How The Feminine Mystique Played in Peoria
Betty Friedan’s groundbreaking work, The Feminine Mystique, published in 1963, was not celebrated in her hometown of Peoria, Illinois, until its fiftieth anniversary. This article explores why many of Friedan’s Peoria contemporaries – white, educated, married, middle- and upper-middle-class women, like the women featured in her book – rejected her thesis that their lives as women without careers in the paid labor force were dissatisfying and unfu…
Introduction
Introduction to the journal's special issue, 'Women as Wives and Workers: Marking Fifty Years of The Feminine Mystique
What is a wife’? Reconstructing domesticity in postwar Britain before The Feminine Mystique
This article investigates the relationship between the lived experiences of housewives in 1950s and early 1960s Britain and their portrayal in The Feminine Mystique and popular women’s magazines. Through a study of four housewives’ associations, the Women’s Institutes, Mothers’ Union, Townswomen’s Guilds and the National Council of Women, it is argued that they rejected the prevailing ideology of domesticity and challenged the myth of the ‘happy …
Comparing Generations
Jody Woodruff, A Generational Difference: the Issue of Independence Susan Segal, Alone Deborah Shefler, Old War Limits and New World Opportunity Carol Hoffman, One Generation Away And Yet... Lenore Light, Fulfilling My Mother’s Wishes Joyce Lombard, If We Could Have Julie Freestone, We Had No Life Together
Lifetime Stories
Lifetime Stories
The Challenge and Lure of Creativity
Comparing Generations
The Challenge and Lure of Creativity
Dorothy Bryant, Free to Write Poems Ahni Robinson, Plant Your Feet Bonnie Best, A New Perspective on Career and Retirement Gayle Ann Weinstein, What is Sixty-Three? Arlene Bernstein, Wow! Aka Women of Wisdom
I Never Thought I'd Ever Do This
Annette Langer, Cops and Robbers: The Senior Version Donne Davis, Even Grandmas Need a Sisterhood” Kay Licina, Dragonboat Racing
My Mother, the Immigrant
Strong Greek Roots Gifts from my Alien Grandmothers
Realising a Dream
Joan Reinhardt-Reiss, Running Around! Barbara Lindemann, Reflections on Retirement, Eight Years In
Overcoming Adversity
Unpacking My Bags in Another Locale
Elizabeth Wholey, My Midlife Migration to Umbria Lee Haworth, My Adventures on the Move Shirley Nicholas, Worn Out Hip, Shoulder and Levis Wendy Shipnuck, Embracing La Joie de Vie Linda Jay, A New Chapter, at Seventy-Five! E. Ruth Harder, Love Never Dies
My Amazing Mother
Leslie DeLuca Martin, Return to the Sea Kaye Sykes Williams, My Mother Sue Leonard, Ruth Hunter’s Story Van Pham, A Short Story about a Little Vietnamese Lady Virginia Howard Mullan, I Never Did Learn to Speak Afrikaans