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The 2020 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders and Sexualities will be held in Baltimore, Maryland. The exact dates will be announced shortly. Please stay tuned for details. Keep up-to-date with Big Berks News Sign me up to receive information about the … Read More »
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Annual Meeting
Fall meeting of the Berkshire Conference of Women's Historians October 27-29, 2017 The 2017 Little Berks will be held at the Historic Inns of Annapolis in Annapolis, MD from Friday, October 27 to Sunday October 29, 2017. Members will be emailed a sign up form and hotel reservation information in … Read More »
Prizes
The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians awards two annual book and article prizes in the following categories: An article in the fields of the history of women, gender, and/or sexuality. An article in any field of history other than the history of women, gender, and/or sexuality. A first book that deals … Read More »
Berks News
Gender & History is very pleased to grant the prize for best paper by a graduate student at the 2017 Berkshire Conference to:
Jeongmin Kim (New York University) for her paper “Sexual Economy of War and Base: Global MPC Black Market and the R&R Economy during the Korean War.”
The paper perceptively traces the transnational connections between the U.S. military presence in Korea and Japan in the early 1950s and the growth and transformation of “sexual economies” in the region. The paper begins with an analysis of the complexities of the MPC (Military Payment Certificate) as a basic currency for all sorts of transactions between American soldiers and local people, but in particular as payment for sexual transactions. Kim then shows how manipulation of this currency on black markets affected national and international currency markets, led to increased exploitation of sex workers, and brought huge profits to brothel owners and other go-betweens. The paper artfully demonstrates how the U.S. military presence in East Asia was "built on and sustained by the gendered exploitation of geographic and human resources in the region.” Through extensive research, Kim demonstrates the intersection of formal geopolitics, economic exchange, and sexuality.
Congratulations to the following Berkshire Conference Book Prize Winners (for books and articles published in 2016):
Book Prize Winners:
Marisa J. Fuentes. Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
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Anya Zilberstein. A Temperate Empire: Making Climate Change in Early America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Article Prize Winners:
Amy Stanley, "Maidservants' Tales: Narrating Domestic and Global History in Eurasia, 1600-1900," American Historical Review, vol. 121, no. 2, April 2016, pp. 437-460.
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Devra Anne Weber, "Wobblies of the Partido Liberal Mexicano: Reenvisioning Internationalist and Transnational Movements through Mexican Lenses," Pacific Historical Review, 85, no. 2 (May 2016), 188-226.
Current Prize Winners | Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
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The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians is pleased to announce the following awards for books and articles published in 2016. Book Awards For a first book that deals substantially with the histor...
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Just two days to the 2017 Berkshire Conference: "Difficult Conversations: Thinking and Talking About Women, Genders and Sexualities Inside and Outside the Academy." Beginning Thursday morning June 1 and concluding Sunday afternoon June 4. Hofstra University, Hempstead, Long Island. There is space for drop-in one day registrations if you have not yet registered. From traditional panels, to roundtables, lightning sessions, performances, activist-historian conversations, paper workshops, art installations, film screenings a barbecue and - of course - the Saturday night dance. Come join us.