The AHA Committee on Gender Equity hosts this annual networking breakfast, an exciting and unique opportunity to meet scholars across generations working in all fields. We warmly invite anyone with an interest in gender history to this year’s breakfast.

Continental breakfast is open to all; tickets are $40 for members, $65 for nonmembers, $15 for student members, and $40 for student nonmembers. Tickets can be purchased in advance through the registration form or at the meeting at the onsite registration counters.

This year's panel will ask: How did ultraconservative voices manage to take over and weaponize "women" and "gender" as terms? What is the longer history of the current (mis)use of the phrase "gender ideology"? We want to take advantage of the opportunity to think with a room full of historians about how this situation came to be. Areas of focus will include historicizing the current anti-trans agenda and exploring the prominence of “manhood” in contemporary political discourse. With a view toward concluding with visions for the future and ideally surfacing a few action steps for working against these developments, we will ask participants to consider their own strategies for keeping women’s and gender history vibrant even in a moment in which the field(s) are under direct attack. And we will welcome suggestions not only for doing academic or scholarly work but also considering forms of institutional support and engagement, ways forward for teaching courses, and modes of self-presentation that may indicate (yet also keep safe, especially for pre-tenure faculty) scholars with expertise in these areas.