https://journals.sas.ac.uk/hwa <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> Society for the History of Women in the Americas en-US History of Women in the Americas 2042-6348 Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:<br /><ol type="a"><br /><li>Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/" target="_new"><span style="color: #337755;">Creative Commons Attribution License</span></a> that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.</li><br /><li>Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.</li><br /><li>Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See <a href="http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html" target="_new"><span style="color: #337755;">The Effect of Open Access</span></a>).</li></ol><p>Please note that there are no author fees for publishing in this journal.</p> https://journals.sas.ac.uk/hwa/article/view/2381 The voices of older women, those aged sixty-five and above, remain largely unheard in contemporary society and culture, although this is changing. 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