WHN Book Prize
An annual £500 prize for a first book in women’s or gender history.
The Women’s History Network (UK) Book Prize is awarded for an author’s first single-authored monograph which makes a significant contribution to women’s history or gender history and is written in an accessible style. The book must be written in English and be published the year prior to the award being made.
Entries close on 15 March 2011 (books published during 2009). To be eligible for the award, the candidate should be a member of the Women's History Network (UK) and be normally resident in the UK. Current members of the WHN Steering Committee are not eligible to enter the competition.
For further information please contact Professor Ann Heilmann, chair of the panel of judges: email: bookprize@womenshistorynetwork.org
Professor Ann Heilmann, Department of English, University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull HU6 7RX, UK
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The annual WHN book prize was awarded at the annual conference held at St Hilda's College Oxford in September 2009. The winner was Sarah Pearsall of Oxford Brookes University for her engaging history of transatlantic families and women's lives:
Sarah M.S. Pearsall, Atlantic Families: Lives and Letters in the later eighteenth century, Oxford University Press, 2008.
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WHN Book Prize Winner 2008
This year, 10 books were submitted for the £500 Women’s History Network (UK) Book Prize and the field was particularly strong. The winner, announced at the annual WHN conference in Glasgow, is Lucy Delap for her book The Feminist Avant-Garde: Transatlantic Encounters of the Early Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2007). The judges were particularly impressed with the high level of scholarship of this book which nonetheless, remains accessible to the non-specialist. The book focuses on one branch of feminism in the early twentieth century, epitomised in the journal The Freewoman, edited by Dora Marsden. In particular, Delap explores the political ideas of the avant garde within the wider preoccupations of the period, were emphasising transatlantic influences and exchanges. Overall, it was felt that The Feminist Avant-Garde disrupts traditional narratives about early twentieth-century feminism, raising many intriguing questions for future debate and analysis.
Lucy Delap receiving her prize from Gerry Holloway at the 2008 Annual Conference in Glasgow