POLLY BEALS History

OTHER PUBLICATIONS:

With Carol Barash. Editorship and introduction to "Violence, Feminism, and the History of Sexuality," a special issue of Critical Matrix: Princeton Working Papers in Women's Studies (1988).

BOOK REVIEWS (total #):

Love and Toil: Motherhood in Outcast London, by Ellen Ross, in Transformations (Fall 1994).

Managing Gender: the State, the New Middle Class and Women Workers, 1830-1930, by Desley Deacon, in Victorian Studies (1992).

CONFERENCE PAPERS ORALLY DELIVERED (last 10 years):

"Middle-Class Women and Working-Class Subjects: The Fabian Women's Group in Lambeth, South London" (panel). Southern History Conference, New Orleans, November 1995.

Keynote speaker, Warren Susman Graduate Student History Conference, Rutgers University, April 8, 1995.

"Fabian Socialism, Women and the British Welfare State" (graduate seminar, "History of the Welfare State"), University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, February 20, 1995.

"Women and European Industrialization." Connecticut Council for Social Studies, October 28, 1994.

Chair, session on "Public Health." CSU Faculty Research Conference, Southern Connecticut State University, October 16, 1993.

"National Insurance and Maternal Health in Early 20th Century Britain." Third Annual Women's Studies Conference, Southern Connecticut State University, October 1-2, 1993.

"A Woman's Place is in the Curriculum." "European Women and Industrialization" Summer Institute, Southern Connecticut State University, August 1993.

"The Rights of Men: Masculinist Arguments for Divorce" (session comment). Ninth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Vassar College, June 11-13, 1993.

"British Imperial Literature in the Nineteenth Century" (session chair). Northeast Conference on British Studies, Trinity College, October 1992.

"Imagining Women and Socialist Alternatives in Fabian Texts." American Historical Association, 1991.

"The First World War and the Restructuring of Socialist Feminism." Western Conference on British Studies, 1991.

"Scientific Socialism and Economic Independence: the Fabian Women's Group and Theories of Socialist Feminism." American Historical Association, 1988.

"Endowment of Motherhood: Perspectives on the British Case." Conference on Gender and the Emergence of the Welfare State, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 1987.

"Scientific Socialism and Feminist Imagination: Fabian Men and Women and Their Fiction." Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, 1987.

RECENT GRANTS RECEIVED:

Faculty Development Grant for lecture series on "Women in History," Spring 1995

RESEARCH INTERESTS IN GENERAL (use keywords):

British Women; Socialism; Welfare State

CURRENT/FUTURE SPECIFIC RESEARCH PROJECTS:

"The Fabian Society and the Woman Question, 1883-1896." Article on Fabian feminism to be submitted to Journal of British Studies

DISSERTATION TITLE:

Fabian Feminism: Gender, Politics and Culture in London, l880-1930

INSTITUTION GRANTING PH.D.:

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey