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Uncovering Stand-Up Comedy’s Feminist Media History
Feb 22 2025
Hattie Noel was a trailblazer of the stand-up comedy form. While the visual archive shows her constrained in the controlling images of Disney’s hippo and Hollywood’s maid, her comedy albums tell a different story of Black representation.
Special issue on Feminist Histories is now available from Pacific Historical Review
Jul 23 2024
The summer issue of Pacific Historical Review is a special issue devoted to the theme of Feminist Histories. The special issue, which is temporarily available paywall-free, includes research articles, a forum on feminist history methods, and a response from historian Estelle B. Freedman. At PHR’s ed
Q&A with Janet Garcia-Hallett, author of Invisible Mothers
Nov 04 2022
Janet Garcia-Hallett, an Afro-Latina mother, first-gen scholar, and a product of Harlem, is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of New Haven's Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences. For the annual American Criminology Society conference, she discusses h
Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos Announces Early Career Article Award Winners
May 16 2022
The editorial committee of Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos is pleased to announce the award for best article by an early-career scholar published in 2020-2021. The award aims to recognize contributions of the highest academic quality in the multidisciplinary field of Mexican studies for the origi
Fighting Inside and Outside of the Ring: How Luchadoras Challenged Gender Norms in 1950s Mexico
Apr 26 2021
Marjolein Van Bavel's "Morbo, lucha libre, and Television: The Ban of Women Wrestlers from Mexico City in the 1950s"—published in the current issue of Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos and which we invite you to read for free for a limited time— examines the emergence of the ban on women wrestlers