Summary – Panel 2
Women and Resistance: Grassroots and Global Activism

Hosted in 1984, the eleventh Scholar & Feminist Conference – Women in Resistance – examined how women were confronting and countering oppressive power structures on a number of fronts, from South African apartheid and Italian militancy to domestic abuse and degrading representations of women in popular culture. Temma Kaplan, former BCRW director who organized that historic gathering, leads … Read more

Summary – Panel 1
Building and Using Political Power: Women Making Change

The Scholar & Feminist XIX: Women as Change Makers: Building and Using Political Power brought together over 50 prominent women in political life to explore the relationship between women and the state. Participants explored how women gain power in the public domain, what they tend to do once they’ve got it, and what they should do to secure and … Read more

Conference

On Saturday, 9 April 2005, the Center celebrated the 30th anniversary of the hallmark of its public programming: the Scholar & Feminist Conference. Leaders of second wave feminist movements, some of the most distinguished participants of the conference’s earlier days, joined their third wave counterparts in a daylong conversation aimed at where we, as feminists, … Read more

Feminism: Controversies, Challenges, Actions

The Center commissioned a short documentary film to reflect on the first three decades of the Scholar & Feminist Conference, as well as to trace the history of the last thirty years of feminist movements in America. The result, “Past, Present and Future Feminisms,” was shown at the opening of the 30th conference and started … Read more

Photo Archive

Recently, while reorganizing our library holdings, the Center’s staff unexpectedly stumbled upon a cache of photo negatives. Much to our surprise and delight, the discovery provided valuable insight into the early days of the Scholar & Feminist Conference. Looking over these photographs, the majority of which were taken in the late 1970s and early 1980s, … Read more

Online Resources

Center for Women’s Global Leadership Equality Now EMILY’s List FAIR Women’s Desk Feminist Majority Foundation Institute for Women’s Policy Research International Center for Research on Women Legal Momentum Lesbian Herstory Archives MADRE: An International Women’s Human Rights Organization National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League National Center for Research on Women National Coalition Against Domestic … Read more

Recommended Reading

Alexander, Meena. Fault Lines: A Memoir. New York: Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1993. Alexander, Meena. Illiterate Heart. Evanston, Ill: Triquarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2002. Alexander, Meena. The Shock of Arrival: Reflections on Postcolonial Experience. Boston, MA: South End Press, 1996. Allison, Dorothy. Bastard Out of Carolina. New York: Plume, 1993. Allison, Dorothy. Skin: Talking About … Read more

About this Issue

This special double-issue of The Scholar and Feminist Online was, in effect, thirty years in the making. With a wealth of multimedia information that only an online journal can offer, it traces the history of the landmark feminist conference from which it takes its name through photographs, films, archival publications, and transcripts from the thirtieth anniversary conference … Read more

Introduction:
Feminism is Dead

“What makes this conference interesting?” I was asked this question by our colleagues in Public Affairs when it came time to publicize the Scholar and Feminist Conference XXX. At first, I didn’t know how to answer because it seemed so obvious to me. Where to start? I could talk about the 30 year history of … Read more

On Violence: An Online Gallery

From the global threat of the “war against terrorism” to the most intimate forms of domestic assault, every form of violence is inherently destructive. It stands to reason, then, that opposition to violence and feminist alternatives to it must rely on constructive forces, the urge to collaborate, connect, create. S&F Online asked seven visual artists committed to … Read more

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