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

1. The Female Threat: Patriarchal Ideology in the Odyssey
   Mary R. Lefkowitz, Wellesley College
   Joan Peters, CUNY-City College
2. Jung After Feminism: A Perspective from the Psychology of Religion
   Naomi Goldenberg, Yale University
3. The Politics of Wagelessness: Women, Housework, and the Wages Due
   Silvia Federici, New York Wages for Housework Committee
4. Anger As Inspiration and Inhibition: American Women Writers, 1850 to the Present
   Ann Douglas, Columbia University
5. Origins of Women as Sex-Objects in the Visual Arts
   Nanette Salomon, CUNY-Queens College and Fordham University
6. The Development of Sex Differences as the Development of the Power Differences
   Rhoda K. Unger, Montclair State College
7. The Origins of Modern Marriage
   Heidi Hartmann, The New School for Social Research
   Ellen Ross, Connecticut College
8. 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
9. “Biological” Origins: Avoiding the Mire of “Genetic Destiny”
   Ethel Tobach, American Museum of Natural History
10. The Medieval Church: What Happened to Women?
    Suzanne F. Wemple, Barnard College
11. The Physical Abuse of Women: The Force of Patriarchy
    Nadia Telsey, CUNY-City College
12. The Perspective of the Black Woman Writer in American Literature
    Joan Hazzard, CUNY-City College
13. 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