Thursday, June 27, 2012:
14.30-15.00: Welcome and Introduction to the Conference
Isabel Heinemann: Refocusing the Modern American Family
15.00-17.00: Section 1: Childhood and Generational Conflict
Chair: Simon Wendt, Frankfurt a.M.
Claudia Roesch, Münster: Familia, Machismo, Compadrazgo? - Mexican American Families and Changing Social Norms in the 20th Century USA.
Laura Lovett, Amherst: From Free Children to Family Values: Children in the American Women’s Movement.
Grace Hale, Child’s Play: Making an Alternative Culture in Athens, Georgia in the Reagan Era.
Comment: Astrid Baerwolf, Münster
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18.00-20.00 Keynote:
Joanne Meyerowitz, Yale University: Exporting the Modern American Family: U.S. Foreign Assistance and the Politics of Gender, 1960s-1980s.
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Friday, June 28, 2012:
9.00-10.30: Section 2: The Family as an Object of Social Therapy, Part I
Chair: Andre Dechert, Münster
Anne Overbeck, Berlin: “The Mass of Ignorant Negroes Still Breeds Disastrously.” The Debate on Birth Control for African Americans in the 1920s and 1930s.
Isabel Heinemann, Münster: Preserving the Bedrock of Society: Public Debates and Expert Discourses on Divorce, Women’s Work and Reproduction in the 20th Century United States.
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11.00-12.30: Section 2: The Family as an Object of Social Therapy, Part II
Chair: Claudia Roesch, Münster
Jennifer Nelson, University of Redlands: Coven to Client: The Reproductive (Maternal) Body in Feminist Women’s Health Activism.
Johanna Schoen, Rutgers University: The Construction of Anti-Abortion Narratives: Abortion Providers, Women, and Fetuses as Objects in Anti-Abortion Rhetoric.
Comment: Corinna Unger, Jacobs University Bremen
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14.00-15.30 Section 3: The Family as a Subject of Popular Culture
Chair: Sandra Kraft, Münster
Christina von Hodenberg, Queen Mary, University of London: Archie, Edith and their Viewers: Post-patriarchal Marriage on 1970s Television.
Andre Dechert, Münster: Dad on TV. Public Debates on Fatherhood and Family Representations in US-American Sitcoms, 1981-92.
Comment: Simon Wendt
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16.00-18.00: Section 4: Religious Beliefs and Family Values
Chair: Heike Bungert, Münster
Michael Hochgeschwender, München: Family Values, Gender Norms and Value Transmission in US-American Catholicism of the 20th Century.
Jana Hoffmann, Münster: Family Values in American Mainline-Protestantism, 1950-1980.
Anja Maria Bassimir, Mainz: Envisioning the ‘American Family’: An Analysis of Family Ideals in Evangelical Magazines.
Comment: Uta Balbier, London
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Saturday, June 29, 2013
9.00-12.00: Roundtable: Family Values and Social Change in Modern Western Societies
Chair: Isabel Heinemann, Münster
Joanne Meyerowitz, Yale University
Till van Rahden, Université de Montréal
Christopher Neumaier, ZZF Potsdam
Elisabeth Timm, Münster
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