America’s Mothers: How the Mobilized Women of Berkeley Harnessed the Power of Women to Support the Great War and Challenge the Government

This paper examines how middle-class and upper-class women of Berkeley, California harnessed their already-established roles as community organizers and leaders to support the United States Government and their efforts in World War I. These women used the imposed limitations of their role as domestic protector in order to change the scope of their sphere from private to public, and assert their political voice by highlighting their reciprocal relationship with the federal government. In their founding document, the Mobilized Women of Berkeley state that “All of the 151 women’s organizations of Berkeley are willing to give their sons, husbands and brothers to do the bidding of the government and die if necessary in the cause of democracy, but in return demand that the government protect these young men while in its own training camps against organized vice and the saloon. We believe the honor of the home as important as the honor of the flag.” This document, and the other club records of the Mobilized Women of Berkeley, illustrate the vigor with which these women focused their energies and engaged their communities to support a wide variety of programs, work with the Red Cross, and generate volunteer time and funds to prove their worth as citizens, remarkable during when the government had not granted them the full rights of citizenship. The first part of this examination will focus on the mobilization of women at a national level, delving into how President Wilson drafted the leadership of the Woman’s Committee of the Council of National Defense to act as outreach to the powerful resource that was American women. The second part of this paper examines how that organizational blueprint was enacted on a local level in the city of Berkeley, California. Both of these examples will highlight how these privileged women used their status, education, competency, and time to harness a network of volunteers and implement a range of programs on behalf of the government and, in turn, made demands on the administration to assert their political agendas. While these documents and the club’s efforts never touch on the women’s suffrage issue, they amply illustrate the formidable power that they were able to wield in their communities and the attention and respect they demanded from the men holding political office

Presumed Incompetent: Continuing the Conversation

On March 8, 2013, the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice hosted an all-day symposium featuring more than forty speakers at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law to celebrate and invite responses to the book entitled, Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia (Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Yolanda Flores Niemann, Carmen G. González & Angela P. Harris eds., 2012). Presumed Incompetent presents gripping first-hand accounts of the obstacles encountered by female faculty of color in the academic workplace, and provides specific recommendations to women of color, allies, and academic leaders on ways to eliminate these barriers. The symposium held at Berkeley continued the conversation begun in the book through a series of concurrent and plenary panels, poetry readings, and keynote addresses. Selected papers from the symposium were published in both the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice and the Seattle Journal for Social Justice (SJSJ). This introduction discusses and contextualizes the papers published in the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice. These papers reflect the exhilarating breadth and depth of the discussions that took place during the symposium. Like the papers published in SJSJ, they enhance our understanding of the hierarchies of the academic workplace, and offer additional tools to promote a more equitable and inclusive campus environment

Presumed Incompetent: Continuing the Conversation

On March 8, 2013, the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice hosted an all-day symposium featuring more than forty speakers at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law to celebrate and invite responses to the book entitled, Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia (Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Yolanda Flores Niemann, Carmen G. González & Angela P. Harris eds., 2012). Presumed Incompetent presents gripping first-hand accounts of the obstacles encountered by female faculty of color in the academic workplace, and provides specific recommendations to women of color, allies, and academic leaders on ways to eliminate these barriers. The symposium held at Berkeley continued the conversation begun in the book through a series of concurrent and plenary panels, poetry readings, and keynote addresses. Selected papers from the symposium were published in both the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice and the Seattle Journal for Social Justice (SJSJ). This introduction discusses and contextualizes the papers published in the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice. These papers reflect the exhilarating breadth and depth of the discussions that took place during the symposium. Like the papers published in SJSJ, they enhance our understanding of the hierarchies of the academic workplace, and offer additional tools to promote a more equitable and inclusive campus environment

Margarita Moreira y Antonia Núñez. Inquisición y grupos criptojudíos en México, 1646-1647

Este artículo analiza dos documentos inquisitoriales desconocidos provenientes de la Bancroft Library (Berkeley) relativos al procesamiento en México por judaizantes de Margarita Moreira y Antonia Núñez, en 1646 y 1647 respectivamente.This article analyzes two previously-unkown documents from The Bancroft Library (UC Berkeley). These documents refer to the accusation made by the Mexican Inquisition against Margarita Moreira and Antonia Núñez in 1646 and 1647 respectiveley. Both women were accused of practicing Judaism

Review of \u3cem\u3eNothing Happens to Good Girls: Fear of Crime in Women\u27s Lives.\u3c/em\u3e Esther Madriz. Reviewed by Deborah Page Adams, University of Kansas.

Esther Madriz, Nothing Happens to Good Girls: Fear of Crime in Women\u27s Lives. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997. $40 hardcover

Review of Traise Yamamoto, Masking Selves, Making Subjects: Japanese American Women, Identity, and the Body.

Traise Yamamoto, Masking Selves, Making Subjects: Japanese American Women, Identity, and the Body. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. 304 pp. ISBN 0520210344

\u3cem\u3eOpting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home.\u3c/em\u3e Pamela Stone.

Book note for Pamela Stone, Opting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2007. $45.00 hardcover,$16.95 papercover

Book Review: Hard Choices: How Women Decide About Work, Career, and Motherhood. by Kathleen Gerson.

Book review: Hard Choices: How Women Decide About Work, Career, and Motherhood. By Kathleen Gerson. Berkeley, Ca.: University of California Press. 1985. Pp. xix, 312. Reviewed by: Mirra Komarovsky

Introduction: Reflections on nancy abelmann's legacy

Nancy Abelmann passed away on January 6, 2016, at the age of fifty-six. She received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990, after completing her dissertation under Nelson Graburn. That same year, she was hired by the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she worked for two and a half decades. She was a beloved teacher, mentor, and colleague to many, and she was a key figure in multiple departments and centers. At the time of her death, she held the Harold E. Preble Professorship in Anthropology, Asian American Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures, and Women and Gender Studies and was also Associate Vice Chancellor for Research

\u3cem\u3eThe Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in a New Age of Empire.\u3c/em\u3e Cynthia Enloe.

Book note for Cynthia Enloe, The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in a New Age of Empire. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004. $50.00 hardcover,$19.95 papercover