Document Archive

Over the years, the Scholar & Feminist Conference has gathered together hundreds of voices from the front lines of feminist scholarship, art and activism. Anna Deavere Smith, Winona LaDuke, Barbara Ehrenreich, Honor Moore, Elaine Pagels, Faye Ginsurg, Anna Quindlen and Maria Hinojosa, to name just a few, have generously and eloquently shared their unique views on subjects ranging from sex, gender and sexuality to race and economics to politics and culture. In preparation for this special issue of the journal, the Center invited participants from past conferences to share either their reflections on the conference or the materials that they originally presented. The work assembled here expresses the scope and history of this vital feminist undertaking, and we’d like to extend our thanks to these authors for their contributions.

Mimi Abramovitz (Participant, 1989, 1994, 1996)

• “Women and Children at Risk and in Poverty” (PDF, 172 KB)
• “Welfare Reform and Women – Tough Love or Tough Luck!” (PDF, 132 KB)
• “The Attack on Welfare Families: Causes, Consequences, and Cures” (PDF, 128 KB)

Martha Ackelsberg (Participant, 1985)

• “Telling Stories All Over Again: Looking Back on The Scholar & The Feminist XII” (PDF, 120 KB)

Marjorie Agosín (Participant, 1985, 1988)

• “Comments on The Scholar & Feminist” (PDF, 88 KB)

Susan McGee Bailey (Participant, 1998)

• “Shortchanging Girls and Boys” (PDF, 136 KB)
• “Forward” from The Jossey-Bass Reader on Gender in Education (PDF, 164 KB)

Sheila Dauer and Barbara Schulman (Participants, 2003)

• “Amnesty International’s Campaign to Stop Violence Against Women” (PDF, 108 KB)

Jane Flax (Participant, 1979)

• “Mother Daughter Relationships: Psychodynamics, Politics, and Philosophy” (PDF, 208 KB)

Judith Friedlander (Participant, 1982, 1985)

• “Who’s Telling Whose Story and Why? Doing Oral History Among Mexican Indians and Jewish Survivors of the Holocaust” (PDF, 136 KB)

Jane Gallop (Participant, 1979)

• “Psychoanalysis in France” (PDF, 184 KB)

Carol Gilligan (Participant, 1979)

• “In a Different Voice: Women’s Conceptions of Self and Morality” (PDF, 264 KB)

Sherry Gorelick (Participant, 2002)

• “Fear, Fury and Feminism: Finding a Way to Peace in the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict” (PDF, 132 KB)

Mae G. Henderson (Participant, 1987)

• “Speaking in Tongues: Dialogics, Dialectics, and the Black Woman Writer’s Literary Tradition” (PDF, 232 KB)

Ruth Hubbard (Participant, 1977)

• “In a Science Restructured Along Feminist Lines, Would the Laws of Gravity No Longer Hold?” (PDF, 144 KB)

Tanya Melich (Participant, 1993)

• “Comments from the 1993 Scholar & Feminist Conference” (PDF, 112 KB)
• “Recent Comments (Eleven Years Later)” (PDF, 100 KB)

Juliet Mitchell (BCRW, 1985)

• “Reflections on Twenty Years of Feminism” (PDF, 192 KB)

Ruth Nemzoff (Participant, 1993)

• “Making Babies, Making Laws 2” (PDF, 140 KB)

Stacy Wolf (Participant, 1998)

• “Barbra’s ‘Funny Girl’ Body” (PDF, 176 KB)

Leslie R. Wolfe (Participant, 1989)

• “Policy Prospects for a ‘Kinder, Gentler’ Nation for Women in the Bush Administration?” (PDF, 140 KB)