Past Conferences
THE SCHOLAR AND THE FEMINIST III:
THE SEARCH FOR ORIGINS
April 10, 1976
Conference Program (PDF, 280 KB)
Morning Session
Welcoming Remarks
Elizabeth Janeway, Trustee, Barnard College
Unraveling the Problem of Origins: An Anthropological Search for Feminist Theory
Rayna R. Reiter, The New School for Social Research
When Did Man Make God in His Image? A Case-Study in Religion and Politics
Elaine H. Pagels, Barnard College
Moderator: Hester Eisenstein, Barnard College
Afternoon Seminars
- The Female Threat: Patriarchal Ideology in the Odyssey
Mary R. Lefkowitz, Wellesley College
Joan Peters, CUNY-City College
- Jung After Feminism: A Perspective from the Psychology of Religion
Naomi Goldenberg, Yale University
- The Politics of Wagelessness: Women, Housework, and the Wages Due
Silvia Federici, New York Wages for Housework Committee
- Anger As Inspiration and Inhibition: American Women Writers, 1850 to the Present
Ann Douglas, Columbia University
- Origins of Women as Sex-Objects in the Visual Arts
Nanette Salomon, CUNY-Queens College and Fordham University
- The Development of Sex Differences as the Development of the Power Differences
Rhoda K. Unger, Montclair State College
- The Origins of Modern Marriage
Heidi Hartmann, The New School for Social Research
Ellen Ross, Connecticut College
- Beyond the Mother Tongue: repression and Expression of Sensuous Experience in Women's Poetic Language
Barbara S. Miller, Barnard College
Agueda Pizzaro, CUNY-Brooklyn College
- "Biological" Origins: Avoiding the Mire of "Genetic Destiny"
Ethel Tobach, American Museum of Natural History
- The Medieval Church: What Happened to Women?
Suzanne F. Wemple, Barnard College
- The Physical Abuse of Women: The Force of Patriarchy
Nadia Telsey, CUNY-City College
- The Perspective of the Black Woman Writer in American Literature
Joan Hazzard, CUNY-City College
- Origins and Aims of Socialist Feminism
Barbara Ehrenreich
Elizabeth Ewen, SUNY-Old Westbury
Conference Coordinator
Hester Einstein
Planning Committee
Nancy K. Miller, Susan R. Sacks
Director, Women's Center
Jane S. Gould
Assistant Director, Women's Center
Emily Kofron
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