Announcement and call for papers: Congress of the International
Committee of Historical Sciences, special theme: The History of
the Girl, Jinan, China, August 23-29, 2015

The Congress of the International Committee of Historical Sciences will be
held in Jinan, China from 23-29 August 2015. One of the Specialised Themes
focusses on the History of the Girl. The aim of this session is to bring
together scholars working in the field and to identify common themes and
differences in the history of the girl across the world. In order to
establish some cohesion for the discussion the focus will be on girls aged
from early adolescence to the early 20s. Paper proposals are welcome on all
periods of time as well as from as wide a geographical span as possible.
Topics to be discussed include:

Public discourses on girls
Girls and the family
The culture of adolescent girls
Coming of age
Sex education
Debates on the education of girls
Dress and fashion
Girls work
Consumerism and girls
The modern girl
Representations of girls
Literature and writing for girls

Professor Mary O’Dowd
School of History and Anthropology
Queen’s University Belfast
Belfast BT7 1NN
Email: m.odowd@qub.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://www.cish.org/congres/**
ST29-Towards-global-history-**girl.pdf