H-Women

Networks of Creative Persuasion in Advertising and Marketing”

A Conference at the Hagley Library, Wilmington Delaware

Friday November 6, 2026

This conference will explore the networks of creative and intellectual labor in American advertising and marketing, broadly defined, from the colonial period through the twentieth century. We seek papers that identify and explain the nodes of production and intellectual labor that crafted persuasive communication in these fields. The conference aims to understand the variety of creators and producers who contributed to persuasion in American commerce and

The following book review from H-Disability may be of interest to some H-Women list members.

Author: 

Encarnación Juárez Almendros

Reviewer: 

Kristy Wilson Bowers

Encarnación Juárez Almendros. Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature: Prostitutes, Aging Women and Saints. Cambridge: Liverpool University Press, 2018. 216 pp. $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78694-078-0.

Reviewed by Kristy Wilson Bowers (University of Missouri) Published on H-Disability (July, 2019) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)

Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=53613

The

The following book review from H-Japan may be of interest to some H-Women list members.

Author: 

Laura Miller, Rebecca L. Copeland, eds.

Reviewer: 

E. T. Atkins

Laura Miller, Rebecca L. Copeland, eds. Diva Nation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018. xvii + 242 pp. $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-520-29773-9.

Reviewed by E. T. Atkins (Northern Illinois University) Published on H-Japan (July, 2019) Commissioned by Jessica Starling (Lewis & Clark College)

Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=54284

If you’re going to write about divas, write like a diva. This was

The following book review from H-Poland may be of interest to some H-Women list members.

Author: 

Sophie Hodorowicz Knab

Reviewer: 

Daniel Logemann

Sophie Hodorowicz Knab. Wearing the Letter P: Polish Women as Forced Laborers in Nazi Germany, 1939-1945. New York: Hippocrene Books, 2016. ix + 293 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7818-1359-4.

Reviewed by Daniel Logemann (Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation) Published on H-Poland (July, 2019) Commissioned by Anna Muller (University of Michigan - Dearborn)

Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=53652

Sophie Hodorowicz

The following book review from H-Socialisms may be of interest to some H-Women list members.

Author: 

Siobhan Lambert-Hurley

Reviewer: 

Jack A W Bowman

Siobhan Lambert-Hurley. Elusive Lives: Gender, Autobiography, and the Self in Muslim South Asia. South Asia in Motion Series. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018. 296 pp. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5036-0651-7; $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-0480-3.

Reviewed by Jack A W Bowman (University of Warwick) Published on H-Socialisms (July, 2019) Commissioned by Gary Roth (Rutgers University - Newark)

Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews

Networks of Creative Persuasion in Advertising and Marketing”

A Conference at the Hagley Library, Wilmington Delaware

Friday November 6, 2026

This conference will explore the networks of creative and intellectual labor in American advertising and marketing, broadly defined, from the colonial period through the twentieth century. We seek papers that identify and explain the nodes of production and intellectual labor that crafted persuasive communication in these fields. The conference aims to understand the variety of creators and producers who contributed to persuasion in American commerce and

Women and Social Movements seeks reviewers for museum exhibitions and digital exhibits that are germane to the central focus on the journal -- the history of women in social movements and activism . The journal is published bi - annually, and we anticipate publishing 2 - 3 reviews per issue. We welcome suggestions of exhibitions to review and hope to include both permanent exhibits and temporary ones. Graduate students, newer scholars, and museum professionals are most welcome. 

Research Seminar: Diane E. Bockrath

“Art, Business, and …Christmas Cards: The American Artists Group”

Virtual Event 
April 29, 2026
Time 12:00-1:30
Registration via Eventbrite

In 1934, Russian Jewish immigrant and committed Socialist Samuel Golden (1895-1963) launched what might seem to be an unlikely new endeavor: he started a Christmas card business. The company, American Artists Group (AAG), was founded with a three-fold vision to provide income for artists struggling during the Great Depression; democratize American art by bringing it into the average person’s home in accessible ways; and