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Conference Program (PDF, 296 KB) Morning Session Welcoming Remarks:Ellen V. Futter, President Barnard CollegeConference Opening:Temma Kaplan, Director of the Barnard Center for Research on WomenKeynote Addresses:Judith S. Kaye, Associate Judge, Court of Appeals for the State of New York “Women and the Courts as a Reflection of Social Change”Charlotte Bunch, Laurie Professor of Women’s Studies, Douglass College, … Read more

Conference Program (PDF, 344 KB) Morning Session Welcoming RemarksEllen V. Futter, President, Barnard CollegeConference OpeningTemma Kaplan, Director of The Barnard Center for Research on WomenPaula Giddings, Author, Historian; “Black Women in the Progressive Era”Sylvia Law, New York University Law School; “Non-traditional Employment for Women”Rosi Braidotti, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands; “Everlasting Knots: Feminism and Critical Theory”Barbara Christian, Afro-American Studies, … Read more

Conference Program (PDF, 348 KB) Morning Session Welcoming RemarksEllen V. Futter, President, Barnard CollegeConference OpeningTemma Kaplan, Director of the Barnard Women’s CenterRayna Rapp, New School for Social Research; “The Presence of the Past in the New Reproductive Technologies: A Feminist Pedagogy”bell hooks (Gloria Watkins), Yale University; “Toward a Revolutionary Feminist Pedagogy”Sara Evans and Barbara Nelson, Humphrey Institute, University … Read more

Conference Program (PDF, 496 KB) Morning Session Welcoming RemarksEllen V. Futter, President, Barnard CollegeConference Opening: “Things Visible and Invisible: Representations of Women:Catherine Stimpson, founding editor of Signs, Rutgers UniversityFilm: “Christopher Strong”, 1931, with Katherine Hepburn, directed by Dorothy ArznerCommentary: “The White Female Director in Hollywood: Arzner’s Representation of Women in ‘Christopher Strong’”E. Ann Kaplan, Rutgers University … Read more

Conference Program (PDF, 804 KB) Morning Session Welcoming RemarksEllen V. Futter, President, Barnard CollegeConference OpeningMusic by Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and the Arts Gospel Choir Morning Workshops Traditions and Plot in Women’s FictionJulie Abraham, Columbia University; “Tell the Lacadaemonians: Lesbian Writers and the Heterosexual Plot”Rachel Brownstein, Brooklyn College, CUNY; commentatorJewelle Gomez, literary critic, Program Associate … Read more

Conference Program (PDF, 440 KB) Opening Session Welcoming RemarksEllen V. Futter, President, Barnard CollegeConference Opening: “The Gender Gap and Resistance in Reagan’s America”Bella Abzug, Founder and Director of Women, USA Morning Forums Women’s Personal Literary Resistance to Racism and ColonialismMeena Alexander, Fordham University; “Sarojini Naidu: Romanticism as Anti-Colonialism”Gloria Hull, University of Delaware; “Sight Deceiving: The Strategies of Alice … Read more

Conference Program (PDF, 372 KB) Morning Session Welcoming RemarksEllen V. Futter, President, Barnard CollegeHow Feminists Thought About Sex: Our Complex LegacyEllen Carol DuBois, SUNY-BuffaloLinda Gordon, University of Massachusetts-BostonInterstices: A Small Drama of WordsHortense Spiller, Haverford CollegeThe Taming of the Id: Feminist Sexual Politics 1965-1981Alice Echols, University of Michigan Moderator: Carole S. Vance, Columbia University Afternoon Workshops Power, … Read more

Conference Program (PDF, 344 KB) Morning Session Welcoming RemarksEllen V. Futter, Acting President, Barnard CollegeAnti-Feminism, the “New Right”, and ReaganZillah Eisenstein, Ithaca CollegeFrom Slavery to Welfare: The Control of Black WomenCheryl Townsend Gilkes, Boston UniversityRepression and Resistance: A Historical PerspectiveBlanche Wiesen Cook, CUNY-John Jay College of Criminal Justice Moderator: Hanna Lessinger, Barnard College Afternoon Workshops Laid Bare … Read more

Conference Program (PDF, 348 KB) Morning Session Welcoming RemarksJacquelyn Anderson Mattfeld, President, Barnard CollegeOn the Hem of Life: Race, Class, and the Prospects for SisterhoodBonnie Thornton Dill, Memphis State UniversityClass Divisions in Women’s Productive and Reproductive LivesRosalind Petchesky, Ramapo CollegeEmbracing Deviance and Redefining the NormBetty Powell, CUNY-Brooklyn College Moderator: Amy Swerdlow, Rutgers University Afternoon Workshops Difference, Domination, … Read more

Conference Program (PDF, 328 KB) Morning Session Welcoming RemarksJacquelyn Anderson Mattfeld, President, Barnard CollegeDifference, Relation, and Gender in Psychoanalytic PerspectiveNancy Chodorow, University of California-Santa CruzThe Powers of DifferenceJosette Féral, University of TorontoThe Straight MindMonique Wittig, writer: The Opoponax, Les Guérillères, The Lesbian Body Moderator: Alice Jardine, Columbia University Panel Discussion Difference and LanguageAudre Lorde, poet, CUNY-John Jay … Read more