Announcements
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The 13th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, "Sin Fronteras: Women's Histories, Global Conversations," will be held 2-5 June 2005 at Scripps College, Claremont, California, USA. For more information, please visit the website at <www.berksconference.org>
"Once Upon a Time . . . Welfare Made a Difference" is a video that reveals the dramatic stories of four women in America who relied on welfare as a lifeline for their families. To order a copy of this video, call 212-894-8082 or email <wmadcampaign@yahoo.com>. The website for Welfare Made a Difference, a project of the Community Food Resource Center, is <www.wmadcampaign.org>.
The Journal of Women's History is pleased to announce that Lynn Sacco won the Western Association of Women Historians the Judith Lee Ridge Article Prize for her article, "Sanitized for Your Protection: Medical Discourse and the Denial of Incest in the United States, 1890-1940" (Journal of Women's History, autumn 2003).
The conference, "Labouring Feminism and Feminist Working-Class History in North America and Beyond," will take place 29 September - 2 October 2005 at the University of Toronto. This conference will create intellectual and political space for dealing with issues of major importance to feminist historians, scholars, and activist-academics working in the areas of labor feminism and female activism across multiple sites and contexts. For more information, visit the website: <www.utoronto.ca/csus/labourfem>.
