Founding the International Federation for Research in Women's History, 1987–2007

Abstract

This is an abbreviated version of a presentation to the Conference of the International Federation for Research in Women's History in Sofia, 2007. The article traces the origins and foundation of the Federation in 1989.

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Lucia Charewiczowa (1933) Est-il fondé d'écrire une histoire spéciale de la femme?, La Pologne au VIIe Congrès international des sciences historiques, Varsovie 1933, vol. 1 (Warsaw: Société Polonaise d'Histoire), 309–313. Translated from the French by Karen Offen. Thanks to [the late] Anna Zarnowska, of the Historical Institute, University of Warsaw, for providing me with a photocopy of this text. See also IFRWH Newsletter, 29 (January 2000).

Hilda Smith (1981) Masculinity as a Political Concept in English Thought, 1600–1850, paper presented at the 5th Berkshire Conference on Women's History, Vassar, 1981.

Later published in 1976 in Feminist Studies, 3(3–4).

CCWHP Newsletter, 6(3) (October 1975), pp. 5–6.

‘Women Protest at International Science Meeting’, San Francisco Chronicle (26 August 1975).

CCWHP Newsletter, 6(3) (October 1975), p. 6.

Nikkie Keddie, on the Muslim Middle East; Kathleen Neils Conzon on urban & local US history; and Hazel Whitman Hertzberg on the teaching of history, generally speaking. Keddie had been present at the 1975 luncheon and, I believe, also signed the petition. The list of those in attendance, from my files, has been preserved in the IFRWH archives at the IIAV (International Archive for the Women's Movement, now known as Aletta) in Amsterdam.

Michael Kammen (Ed.) (1980) The Past Before Us: contemporary historical writing in the United States (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press).

Barbara Sicherman, E. William Monter, Joan Wallach Scott & Kathryn Kish Sklar (Eds) (1980) Recent United States Scholarship on the History of Women (Washington, DC: American Historical Association), p.iv.

See the CGWH Newsletter (November 1987) and the AHA, Perspectives (December 1987) for the official birth announcements.

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Karen Offen

Karen Offen is a historian and independent scholar, affiliated with the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University. She is a founder and past secretary-treasurer of the International Federation for Research in Women's History, and serves on the Board of Directors for the virtual International Museum of Women (San Francisco), where she posts a women's history blog, ‘Clio Talks Back.’ Her publications include European Feminisms, 1700–1950: a political history (2000) and Globalizing Feminisms, 1789–1945 (2010). Karen is currently completing her book on the ‘woman question’ debate in modern France.