dear all,

We are organizing a session at CNEHA 2012 titled "Gender in the Historical Northeast" that is focused on historical practices of gender and gendering. We are looking for papers that center gender – masculinity, femininity, etc. – but take into account the ways in which gender is entangled with other vectors such as age, race, ethnicity, class and status, profession, and religious affiliation. Papers might consider the social relationships in marriage, homemaking, the military, seafaring, apprenticeship, slavery, retail, and churchgoing that are dependant on constructions of gender and the ways that gender is created and reinforced through the patterned use of bodies, objects, and spaces.

Sound tempting? If this proposed session interests you, please send us an abstract by June 15 2012, or email prior to that date with ideas or questions.

You can find the conference Call for Papers and more information here: http://www.mun.ca/archaeology/cneha/callforpapers.php

thank you!

Christina Hodge
Peabody Museum, Harvard University
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Christa Beranek
Fiske Center, UMass Boston
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