Coordinating Council for Women in History

Thursday, January 8, 2026

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Fields of Controversy: Historical Perspectives on Building and Preserving Women’s and Gender History in Hostile and Retrograde Times
Coordinating Council for Women in History 1

Gendered Threat or Tool for Liberation? Feminists Grapple with Media’s Role in Women's Health and Well-Being
Coordinating Council for Women in History 2

Race, Gender, and Stereotyping: Intersectional Issues in Women’s Roles in the United States
Coordinating Council for Women in History 3

Publishing Histories of Women, Genders, and Sexualities
Coordinating Council for Women in History 4

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Childbirth and Childcare in Nigeria and the US
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Transgressive Mobilities: Sex, Crime, and Mobility
Coordinating Council for Women in History 6

Friday, January 9, 2026

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


Gendered Labor, Cultural Knowledge, and Resistance in Women’s Everyday Practices
Coordinating Council for Women in History 7

Disability, Vulnerability, and Resistance: Examining the Lives of Disabled Black Girls and Women
Coordinating Council for Women in History 8

Law, the State, Nationality, and Well-Being
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10:30 AM-12:00 PM


Prosopographical Approaches to Premodern Women’s History
AHA Session 99

Cultivating a New Generation of Women Historians
Coordinating Council for Women in History 11

Abortion: Histories of Care, Resistance, and Reproductive Justice
Coordinating Council for Women in History 12

Gender and Agency in Wartime China
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Relationships and Well-Being: Women and Power in American History
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12:00 PM-1:30 PM


History Organizations of Historians of Women, Genders, and Sexualities Confab
Coordinating Council for Women in History

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Teaching How to Form and Be in Community
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Critical Trans Histories
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Women's Health Activism and Agency: At the Intersections of Sexuality, Race, and Class
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3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Beyond “I Do”: Marriage in the 20th-Century United States
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Communities of Care
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Coordinating Council for Women in History Plenary
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5:30 PM-7:30 PM


Coordinating Council of Women in History and Berkshire Conference for Women Historians Reception
Coordinating Council for Women in History

Saturday, January 10, 2026

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


Conceptualizing Mental and Physical (Ill) Health
Coordinating Council for Women in History 21

Strategies for Teaching the History of Women’s Voting Rights in K–12 and University Classrooms
Coordinating Council for Women in History 22

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


Murder, Mayhem, and Asylums: The State’s Rendering of the Inconceivable
Coordinating Council for Women in History 23

Revisiting “Violence Against Women”: Feminist Activisms in the Late 20th Century
Coordinating Council for Women in History 24

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Building Support Systems in  the Early 20th-Century United States and Britain
Coordinating Council for Women in History 25

Writing for the Popular Press: A Ms. Workshop for Feminist Historians
Coordinating Council for Women in History 26

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Gendered Violence: Learning from the Past to Change the Future
Coordinating Council for Women in History 27

Histories of Reproductive Justice for Fascist Times
Coordinating Council for Women in History 28

Sunday, January 11, 2026

9:00 AM-10:30 AM


Feeding Change: Revisiting Intersections of Food, Health, Labor, and Education in 20th-Century America
Coordinating Council for Women in History 29

Frances Perkins: The Force Behind Social Security and for the Way Life Should Be
Coordinating Council for Women in History 30

11:00 AM-12:30 PM


Girls Just Want to Have Fun: Writing History as a Feminist Practice of Self Care
Coordinating Council for Women in History 31

Writings About Well-Being and Transnational Networks of Care in the British World, 1870s–1930s
Coordinating Council for Women in History 32