Announcements

Each year the Journal of Women's History celebrates the National History Day competition by sponsoring special prizes in Women's History. The special prize winners receive one year subscriptions to the journal and the winning entry, if it is an essay, is published in the journal. We are delighted to announce that the special prize for Women's History in the Senior Division of the 2009 National History Day competition went to Christina E. Bax of National Cathedral School in Washington DC. Christina's paper, "Entrepreneur Brownie Wise: Selling Tupperware to America's Women in the 1950s" appears in this issue of the journal. The special prize for Women's History in the Junior Division of the 2009 National History Day competition went to Bianca DiSanto of Holy Name of Jesus School in Harrisburg, PA. Her entry was a performance based on the life of Stephanie Kwolek and her creation: Kevlar.

We are happy to announce that a new team of editors at SUNY Binghamton will be taking over the Journal of Women's History in July 2010. They are Jean Quataert and Leigh Ann Wheeler, with Elisa Camiscioli as Book Review Editor and Benita Roth as Associate Editor. Please join us in welcoming them!

Beginning April 15, 2010, all new manuscripts submitted to the Journal of Women's History must be submitted online at: http://history.binghamton.edu/JWH. Peer reviewers and journal staff will also use the system for all communications regarding manuscripts. This new process will allow the Journal's editors to streamline the submission and review processes, speed up acceptance and revision times and automatically track information regarding authors, reviewers, and Journal content. However, any resubmission of manuscripts that were originally submitted before April 15, 2010 should be sent via email to the editorial office at jwh@binghamton.edu.

Recognizing that access to the internet is not universal, the editors will accommodate those who cannot use the on-line submission process. For further instructions, please contact the editorial staff at:

• Jean Quataert and Leigh Ann Wheeler, editors

  Elisa Camiscioli, book review editor

  Journal of Women's History

  c/o Department of History

  Binghamton University, SUNY

  P.O. Box 6000

  Binghamton, New York 13902-6000

• Phone: 607-777-5060

  Fax: 607-777-5100

  jwh@binghamton.edu

We are pleased to announce a forthcoming special issue of the Journal of Women's History edited by Leslie J. Reagan, which will examine issues of "Reproduction, Sex, and Power. Issue 22.3, to be published in the autumn of 2010, will feature articles on abortion and sterilization in apartheid South Africa; prenatal Psychology in early-twentieth-century America; white supremacy and the surveillance of African American sexual behavior in the civil rights era; U.S. reproductive health activist Loretta Ross and the Women of Color Reproductive Freedom Movement in the 1980s; the role of gender and power in hearings about the use Depo Provera as a contraceptive in the United States; and Norplant and U.S. women's reproductive decision making in the late twentieth century. In addition, the issue will feature short essays on the use of film in the classroom to provoke discussions on reproduction, sex, and power and on discourses of "rare" in conversations about abortion; a Book Forum on Mary Fissell's Vernacular Bodies: The Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern England; and Book Review Essays on "Reproduction and Professional Institutions" and "Science, Medicine, Gender, and Defining the State."