Announcements

Announcements The Journal would like to extend our call for papers for an upcoming special issue, congratulate two of our contributors, and post the following announcements. Requests for inclusion of future announcements should reach us nine months prior to the deadline of the event (to ensure timely publication of posting and allow adequate time for applicants to respond). Send all announcements to: Managing Editors, Journal of Women's History, c/o Department of History, The Ohio State University, 106 Dulles Hall, 230 West 17th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210-1367, or e-mail . The Journal of Women's History is soliciting essays for a special issue on age as a category of analysis in women's history. We seek manuscripts on any part of the world in any historical period that deal with age cohorts of women (young women, middle-aged women, and old women), generational interactions, or women's life cycles. We particularly are interested in conceptualizing what it means to take age into account, along with gender , class, ethnicity, and sexuality, in analyzing women's lives. The issue will be guest edited by Birgitte S0land and will appear in early 2001. The deadline for submissions is 1 August 1999. Send four one-sided, doublespaced copies of your manuscript (no more than 10,000 words, including endnotes) to: Ages of Women Issue, Journal of Women's History, c/o Department of History, The Ohio State University, 230 West 17th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210-1367. For more details on submission poticy, see the Notice to Contributors page in the most recent issue or e-mail . The Journal of Women's History is proud to announce that the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians has awarded the 1997 Berkshire Article Prize to Dorothy Ko for "The Body as Attire: The Shifting Meanings of Footbinding in Seventeenth-Century China," which appeared in the winter 1997, volume 8, number 4, issue of the Journal. For receiving the Letitia Woods Brown Prize from the Association of Black Women Historians, the Journal of Women's History congratulates Leslie Schwalm. Her article "'Sweet Dreams of Freedom': Freedwomen's Reconstruction of Life and Labor in Lowcountry South Carotina" appeared in the spring 1997, volume 9, number 1, issue of the Journal. © 1999 Journal of Women's History, Vol. 10 No. 4 (Winter) 1999 Announcements 243 The Oral History Association invites applications for three awards to be presented in 1999 that wiU recognize outstanding work in the field. Awards wül be given for a book that uses oral history to advance an important historical interpretation or addresses significant theoretical or methodological issues; for a completed nonprint media project that addresses a significant historical subject or theme and exemplifies excellence in oral history methodology; and to a precoUegiate educator who has made outstanding use of oral history in the classroom. In all cases, awards will be given for work published or completed between 1 April 1997 and 30 March 1999. The Association welcomes entries and nominations from academic scholars and educators, pubUc history institutions and practitioners, independent professionals, Ubraries and archives, and community-based groups. For guidelines and submission information write to: Oral History Association, Baylor University, P.O. Box 97234, Waco, TX 76798-7234; emaU : , or see the OHA home page: . Deadline for receipt of aU nomination materials is 1 April 1999. We are seeking a new, interdisciplinary collection of essays in women's studies to be published by Peter Lang PubUshers. The goal of this book is to introduce college students to major issues and phüosophical questions within the field of women's studies. The six core chapters are: American and World Literature, Social and Political History, Religion and Spirituality , Performing Popular Culture, Language Theory and Feminist Philosophy , and Psychological and Biological Development. Each essay should have a specific focus, but should engage the larger questions inherent in women's studies. Send inquiries, proposals (2 pages) or completed papers (15-20 pages), and vitae to: Roberta Rosenberg, Department of EngUsh , Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA 23606, or e-maU . The deadUne for final submission of completed essays is 1 March 1999. The Indiana Historical Society is pleased to announce our offer of two $6,000 graduate...