Past Conferences
THE SCHOLAR AND THE FEMINIST VI:
THE FUTURE OF DIFFERENCE
April 21, 1979
Conference Program (PDF, 328 KB)
Morning Session
Welcoming Remarks
Jacquelyn Anderson Mattfeld, President, Barnard College
Difference, Relation, and Gender in Psychoanalytic Perspective
Nancy Chodorow, University of California-Santa Cruz
The Powers of Difference
Josette Féral, University of Toronto
The Straight Mind
Monique Wittig, writer: The Opoponax, Les Guérillères, The Lesbian Body
Moderator: Alice Jardine, Columbia University
Panel Discussion
Difference and Language
Audre Lorde, poet, CUNY-John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Christiane Makward, Pennsylvania State University
Sally McConnell-Ginet, Cornell University
Moderator: Domna Stanton, Rutgers University and Signs
Afternoon Workshops
- Mothers and Daughters
Jane Flax, Howard University
- The Dialectical Treatment of Difference
Alice Kessler-Harris, Hofstra University
- The Anxiety of Difference: Rereading Mme Bovary
Naomi Schor, Brown University
- Lesbianism and the Social Function of Taboo
Pamella Farley, CUNY-Brooklyn College and Barnard College (spring '79)
- Women and the Uses of Power
Elizabeth Janeway, author of Man's World, Women's Place and Between Myth and Morning
- Black Women and Feminism
Barbara Omolade, Women's Action Alliance
- Androgyny and the Psychology of Sex Differences
Carolyn Heilbrun, Columbia University
- Psychoanalysis and Feminism in France
Carolyn G. Burke, University of California-Santa Cruz
Jane Gallop, Miami University
- Sexual Differences Artistic Production: The Debate over a Female Aesthetic
Rachel Blau Du Plessis, Temple University
- Mothers/Daughters/Sisters: Separation and Survival
Clare Coss, Sondra Segal, Roberta Sklar, The Women's Experimental Theatre
- Women in Power and Politics
Ruth W. Messinger, The Council of the City of New York
- Differences in Women's Thinking about Self and Morality
Carol Gilligan, Harvard University Graduate School of Education and Wellesley Center for Research on Women
- Visibility and Difference: Black Feminism in History and Literature
Quandra Stadler, Barnard College
- Domination and Difference: The Roots of Rational Violence
Jessica Benjamin, The New York Institute for Humanities, New York University
- The Sociobiological Rationale for Women's Oppression
Eleanor Leacock, CUNY-City College
Academic Coordinator
Alice Jardine
Planning Committee
Louise Adler, Roberta Bernstein, Mary Jane Ciccarello, Hester Eisenstein, Irene Finel-Honigman, Suzanne Hanchett, Nancy K. Miller, Elizabeth Minnich, Ellen Pollak, Susan R. Sacks, Philippa Strum, Kathryn B. Yatrakis
Conference Coordinators, Women's Center
Jane S. Gould, Janie Kritzman
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