History of Women in the Americas 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> en-US 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> imabong.umoren@pmb.ox.ac.uk (Imaobong Umoren) matt.phillpott@sas.ac.uk (Matt Phillpott) Fri, 21 Jul 2017 16:22:47 +0000 OJS 3.3.0.13 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Editorial Introduction 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. S. Jay Kleinberg, Marjorie Penn Lasky Copyright (c) https://journals.sas.ac.uk/hwa/article/view/2381 Comparing Generations https://journals.sas.ac.uk/hwa/article/view/2384 <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> Jody Woodruff, Susan Segal, Deborah Shefler, Carol Hoffman, Lenore Light, Joyce Lombard, Julie Freestone Copyright (c) https://journals.sas.ac.uk/hwa/article/view/2384 Overcoming Adversity https://journals.sas.ac.uk/hwa/article/view/2372 <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> Jeanne Simonoff, Virginia Degner, Barbara Cantor Copyright (c) https://journals.sas.ac.uk/hwa/article/view/2372 The Challenge and Lure of Creativity https://journals.sas.ac.uk/hwa/article/view/2385 <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> Dorothy Bryant, Ahni Robinson, Bonnie Best, Gayle Anne Weinstein, Arlene Bernstein Copyright (c) https://journals.sas.ac.uk/hwa/article/view/2385 Unpacking My Bags in Another Locale https://journals.sas.ac.uk/hwa/article/view/2374 <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> Elizabeth Wholey, Lee Haworth, Shirley Nicholas, Wendy Shipnuck, Linda Jay, E. Ruth Harder Copyright (c) https://journals.sas.ac.uk/hwa/article/view/2374 Realising a Dream https://journals.sas.ac.uk/hwa/article/view/2375 <p>Joan Reinhardt-Reiss, Running Around!</p> <p>Barbara Lindemann, Reflections on Retirement, Eight Years In</p> Joan Reinhardt-Reiss, Barbara Lindemann Copyright (c) https://journals.sas.ac.uk/hwa/article/view/2375 I Never Thought I'd Ever Do This https://journals.sas.ac.uk/hwa/article/view/2383 <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> Annette Langer, Donne Davis, Kay Licina Copyright (c) https://journals.sas.ac.uk/hwa/article/view/2383 My Amazing Mother https://journals.sas.ac.uk/hwa/article/view/2377 <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> Leslie DeLuca Martin, Kaye Sykes Williams, Sue Leonard, Van Pham, Virgina Howard Mullan Copyright (c) https://journals.sas.ac.uk/hwa/article/view/2377 Lifetime Stories https://journals.sas.ac.uk/hwa/article/view/2386 <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> Bobbie Steinhart, Dionny Sunn, Bella Comelo, Nancy Connor, Heather Booth Copyright (c) https://journals.sas.ac.uk/hwa/article/view/2386 The Importance of Feminism https://journals.sas.ac.uk/hwa/article/view/2379 <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> S. Jay Kleinberg, Sheila Goldmacher, Gloria J. Sandoval, Ruth Rosen Copyright (c) https://journals.sas.ac.uk/hwa/article/view/2379 My Mother, the Immigrant https://journals.sas.ac.uk/hwa/article/view/2380 <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> Adriana Díaz, Susi Manners, Barbara F. Artson, Irene Sardanis Copyright (c) https://journals.sas.ac.uk/hwa/article/view/2380