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The next conference of the Program in Early American
Economy and Society will be Women's Economies in Early America,
on Friday, October 1, 2004
at the Library Company of Philadelphia,
1314 Locust Street, Philadelphia
The theme of this conference reflects a recent flourishing of scholarship
about the role of women in shaping the early North American economy during
a time of both unprecedented economic development and significant changes
in traditional family, household, and market economies. These changes were
evinced everywhere European peoples settled in mainland North America
during the early modern era, and recent scholarly work on women's
experiences makes it imperative for us to rethink many long-standing
generalizations about such topics as frontier and urban female economies;
family strategies for dividing labor and creating economic efficiencies
within the household; shaping new economic identities out of varied
European, African, West Indian, and Native American cultures; the nature of
women's retailing and entrepreneurship aside from household roles; the
varieties of negotiation of race and class in economic contexts;
comparative women's economies from region to region, plantation to farm, or
across generations and social origins; and much more.
The papers and comments at this conference include some of the finest of
this new work, including that by Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor, Serena Zabin,
Carole Shammas, Marla Miller, Mary Beth Sievens, Stephanie Grauman Wolf,
Kristi Rutz-Robbins, Kate Fawver, and others.
We invite you to read the conference papers in advance; they will posted
on the PEAES web pages after September 1, 2004. Please register
electronically so that we will know you are coming, and then join us for a
lively discussion about the authors' findings and arguments. This
conference is free and open to everyone interested in this topic. The PEAES
website is at: http://www.librarycompany.org/Economics/2004conference. For
further questions, please contact Cathy Matson, PEAES Director, at
cmatson@udel.edu.
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