Friday, November 21 / 1:45 PM - 3:30 PM • LaSalle 1 (7th Floor)

Session 109
Cruel Optimism? Women Maintaining the Status Quo or Organizing against It

Chair: Michaela Soyer, Hunter College CUNY
Discussant: Michaela Soyer, Hunter College CUNY

1. Women’s Social Networks and Sociability in Late Eighteenth and Mid Nineteenth Century China: The Case of Hu Xiangduan, 1775-1850 • Dan Huang, University of Chicago.

2. Profiles in Leadership: Exploring the Demographics of Leaders in the Iowa Woman’s Christian Temperance Union • Adam Chamberlain, Coastal Carolina University; Alixandra Yanus, High Point University.

3. Confronting "The Monster Prejudice": Interracial Female Antislavery Societies in Boston, Salem, and Philadelphia • Kathryn Angelica, Purdue University Fort Wayne.

4. Archives and Autoethnography: Jewish Women, Black Women and Intersubjective Histories • Abby Gondek, Florida International University.

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