Gender Issues in Atlantic History

March 31 - April 1, 2001

Saturday, March 31

Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University
Introduction

Laurel Ulrich, Harvard University
“Where Does Gender Fit in History?”

Kathleen Brown, University of Pennsylvania
“Gendering the Atlantic and Atlanticizing Gender: Two Routes to a Gendered Atlantic World”

Sylvia Van Kirk, University of Toronto
“From ‘Marrying-In’ to ‘Marrying-Out’: Changing Patterns of Aboriginal/Non-Aboriginal Marriage in Colonial Canada”

Barbara Bush, Staffordshire University
“ ‘Sable Venus,’ ‘She Devil,’ or ‘Drudge’? British Slavery and the ‘Fabulous Fistion’ of Black Women's Identities, c.1650-1838”

Elizabeth Kuznesof, University of Kansas
“The Significance of Race and Gender in Brazilian Family History”

Kathryn Burns, University of North Carolina
“Crossings: Gender, ‘Race,’ and Sexuality in and beyond the Colonial Andes”

Sunday, April 1

Aaron Fogleman, University of South Alabama
“Jesus Is Female: Gender, Power, and Religious Violence in the German Communities”

Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Rutgers University
“Female Slaves in the Atlantic World: Ethnicities, Gender Balances, Skills, Family Life”