The Sixteenth
Berkshire Conference on the History of Women will be held at the University of Toronto, Canada, on May 22-25, 2014; the conference theme is "Histories on the Edge." The
final program is now available. Of particular interest to business and economic historians will be
Session 22P: "Working Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe and the British Atlantic"
Session 28RT: A roundtable on women in science featuring Margaret Rossiter and Ruth Schwartz Cowan
Session 39RT: "Gendering Bodies in Employment and Legal History"
Session 48P: "On the Edges of Trade: Women, Commerce, and Space in the 18th-Century Anglo-Atlantic World"
Session 74RT: "Women and Gendered Labour History"
Session 80RT: "Domestic Work on the Edge: Transnational Labour, Global Research"
Session 83RT: "Gendering and Queering the Corporate Person"
Session 92P: "Things of the Edge: Materiality and Early Modern Trade Routes"
Session 140P: "Gender and Economic Power in Three African Contexts"
Session 168P: "Women's Labours and the Global Production of Consumer Culture in the 20th Century"
Session 215W: Gender and the Urban Economy in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe"
Many individual papers--on slavery, trafficking, material culture, migration, domestic service, women's legal rights--may also be of interest. Registration information is available on the
conference website; on-line registration closes
May 14.
