https://journals.sas.ac.uk/hwa/issue/feed History of Women in the Americas 2017-07-26T07:39:02+00:00 Imaobong Umoren imabong.umoren@pmb.ox.ac.uk Open Journal Systems <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;" lang="EN-US">History of Women in the Americas </span></em><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;" lang="EN-US">(ISSN 2042-6348) is an open-access journal publishing cutting-edge scholarship on women’s and gender history in all parts of the Americas and between the Americas and other nations across all centuries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The journal provides a unique forum for interrogating women’s history from a hemispheric perspective that stretches from Canada and the United States to Latin America, Central America and Mexico to the Caribbean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">History of Women in the Americas</em> is a showcase for historians of North American, South American and Caribbean women from postgraduates and early career scholars to well-established academics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The journal places a spotlight on the significant contributions to the history of women in the Americas that researchers are continuing to make.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the same time, <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">History of Women in the Americas</em> aims to assist scholars by publishing book reviews on related areas and publicizing conferences and other similar items of interest.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span> https://journals.sas.ac.uk/hwa/article/view/2381 Editorial Introduction 2017-07-25T10:33:09+00:00 S. Jay Kleinberg sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk Marjorie Penn Lasky sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk The voices of older women, those aged sixty-five and above, remain largely unheard in contemporary society and culture, although this is changing. Copyright (c) https://journals.sas.ac.uk/hwa/article/view/2384 Comparing Generations 2017-07-25T10:33:09+00:00 Jody Woodruff sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk Susan Segal sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk Deborah Shefler sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk Carol Hoffman sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk Lenore Light sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk Joyce Lombard sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk Julie Freestone sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk <p>Jody Woodruff, A Generational Difference: the Issue of Independence</p> <p>Susan Segal, Alone</p> <p>Deborah Shefler, Old War Limits and New World Opportunity</p> <p>Carol Hoffman, One Generation Away And Yet…</p> <p>Lenore Light, Fulfilling My Mother’s Wishes</p> <p>Joyce Lombard, If We Could Have</p> <p>Julie Freestone, We Had No Life Together</p> Copyright (c) https://journals.sas.ac.uk/hwa/article/view/2372 Overcoming Adversity 2017-07-25T10:33:09+00:00 Jeanne Simonoff sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk Virginia Degner sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk Barbara Cantor sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk <p>Jeanne Simonoff, A Daughter’s Task</p> <p>Virginia Degner, A Second Chance</p> <p>Barbara Cantor, Who have I been? Who do I want to be? Who am I now?</p> Copyright (c) https://journals.sas.ac.uk/hwa/article/view/2385 The Challenge and Lure of Creativity 2017-07-25T10:33:09+00:00 Dorothy Bryant sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk Ahni Robinson sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk Bonnie Best sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk Gayle Anne Weinstein sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk Arlene Bernstein sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk <p>Dorothy Bryant, Free to Write Poems</p> <p>Ahni Robinson, Plant Your Feet</p> <p>Bonnie Best, A New Perspective on Career and Retirement</p> <p>Gayle Ann Weinstein, What is Sixty-Three?</p> <p>Arlene Bernstein, Wow! Aka Women of Wisdom</p> Copyright (c) https://journals.sas.ac.uk/hwa/article/view/2374 Unpacking My Bags in Another Locale 2017-07-25T10:33:09+00:00 Elizabeth Wholey sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk Lee Haworth sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk Shirley Nicholas sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk Wendy Shipnuck sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk Linda Jay sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk E. Ruth Harder sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk <p>Elizabeth Wholey, My Midlife Migration to Umbria</p> <p>Lee Haworth, My Adventures on the Move</p> <p>Shirley Nicholas, Worn Out Hip, Shoulder and Levis</p> <p>Wendy Shipnuck, Embracing <em>La Joie de Vie</em></p> <p>Linda Jay, A New Chapter, at Seventy-Five!</p> <p>E. Ruth Harder, Love Never Dies</p> Copyright (c) https://journals.sas.ac.uk/hwa/article/view/2375 Realising a Dream 2017-07-25T10:33:09+00:00 Joan Reinhardt-Reiss sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk Barbara Lindemann sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk <p>Joan Reinhardt-Reiss, Running Around!</p> <p>Barbara Lindemann, Reflections on Retirement, Eight Years In</p> Copyright (c) https://journals.sas.ac.uk/hwa/article/view/2383 I Never Thought I'd Ever Do This 2017-07-25T10:33:09+00:00 Annette Langer sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk Donne Davis sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk Kay Licina sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk <p>Annette Langer, Cops and Robbers: The Senior Version</p> <p>Donne Davis, "Even Grandmas Need a Sisterhood”</p> <p>Kay Licina, Dragonboat Racing</p> Copyright (c) https://journals.sas.ac.uk/hwa/article/view/2377 My Amazing Mother 2017-07-26T07:35:46+00:00 Leslie DeLuca Martin sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk Kaye Sykes Williams sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk Sue Leonard sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk Van Pham sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk Virgina Howard Mullan sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk <p>Leslie DeLuca Martin, Return to the Sea</p> <p>Kaye Sykes Williams,<em> </em>My Mother</p> <p>Sue Leonard, Ruth Hunter’s Story</p> <p>Van Pham, A Short Story about a Little Vietnamese Lady</p> <p>Virginia Howard Mullan, I Never Did Learn to Speak Afrikaans</p> Copyright (c) https://journals.sas.ac.uk/hwa/article/view/2386 Lifetime Stories 2017-07-26T07:39:02+00:00 Bobbie Steinhart sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk Dionny Sunn sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk Bella Comelo sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk Nancy Connor sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk Heather Booth sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk <p>Bobbie Steinhart, My Mother’s Daughter</p> <p>Dionny Sunn, LOL (Little Old Lady)</p> <p>Bella Comelo, Little Old Ladies Shouldn’t Do This</p> <p>Nancy Connor, At Home in Bolivia</p> <p>Heather Booth, A Life in the Movement</p> Copyright (c) https://journals.sas.ac.uk/hwa/article/view/2379 The Importance of Feminism 2017-07-25T10:33:09+00:00 S. Jay Kleinberg sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk Sheila Goldmacher sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk Gloria J. Sandoval sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk Ruth Rosen sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk <p>S. Jay Kleinberg, A Historian of a Certain Age</p> <p>Sheila Goldmacher, Becoming Sheila</p> <p>Gloria. J Sandoval, Not Your Grandmother’s Feminism</p> <p>Ruth Rosen, How Feminism Changed My Life</p> Copyright (c) https://journals.sas.ac.uk/hwa/article/view/2380 My Mother, the Immigrant 2017-07-25T10:33:09+00:00 Adriana Díaz sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk Susi Manners sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk Barbara F. Artson sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk Irene Sardanis sas-space.info@sas.ac.uk <p>Adriana Díaz, Gifts From My Alien Grandmothers</p> <p>Susi Manners, A Life My Mother Couldn’t Have</p> <p>Barbara F. Artson, Dear Mom: I Finally Got It!</p> <p>Irene Sardanis, My Strong Greek Roots</p> Copyright (c)