The Scholar and the Feminist IX:
Toward a Politics of Sexuality – April 24, 1982

Conference Program (PDF, 372 KB)

Morning Session

Welcoming Remarks
Ellen V. Futter, President, Barnard College
How Feminists Thought About Sex: Our Complex Legacy
Ellen Carol DuBois, SUNY-Buffalo
Linda Gordon, University of Massachusetts-Boston
Interstices: A Small Drama of Words
Hortense Spiller, Haverford College
The Taming of the Id: Feminist Sexual Politics 1965-1981
Alice Echols, University of Michigan

Moderator: Carole S. Vance, Columbia University

Afternoon Workshops

1. Power, Sexuality, and the Organization of Vision
   Mary Ann Doane, Brown University
   Barbara Kruger, artist
2. Lacan: Language and Desire
   Maire Kurrik, Barnard College
3. Political Organizing Around Sexual Issues
   Cheryl Adams, Lesbian Feminist Liberation
   Noreen Connell, NYC Planned Parenthood
   Brett Harvey, No More Nice Girls
4. Pornography and the Construction of a Female Subject
   Bette Gordon, Hofstra University
   Kaja Silverman, Simon Fraser University
5. Teen Romance: The Sexual Politics of Age Relations
   Camille Bristow, The Center for Public Advocacy Research
   Sharon Thompson, The Center for Open Education
6. Everything They Always Wanted You to Know: Popular Sex Literature
   Meryl Altman, Columbia University
7. Beyond the Gay/Straight Split: do Sexual “Roles” (Butch/Femme) Transcend Sexual Preference?
   Esther Newton, SUNY-Purchase
   Shirley Walton, Djuna Books
8. Sexuality and Creativity-A Theatre Workshop
   Shirley Kaplan, Barnard College
9. Aggression, Selfhood, and Female Sexuality: Rethinking Psychoanalysis
   Dale Bernstein, psychotherapist
   Elsa First, psychotherapist
10. Class, Culture, and Historical Influences on Sexual Identity in the Psychotherapeutic Relationship
    Oliva Espin, Boston University
    Pat Robinson, clinical social worker
11. Beyond Politics: Understanding the Sexuality of Infancy and Childhood
    Mary S. Calderone, M.D., Sex Information and Education Council of the US (SIECUS)
    Kate Millett, writer
12. The Defense of Sexual Restriction by Anti-Abortion Activists
    Faye Ginsburg, CUNY-Graduate Center
    Susan Hill, National Women’s Health Organization
13. Politically Correct, Politically Incorrect Sexuality
    Dorothy Allison, Conditions
    Muriel Dimen, CUNY-Lehman College
    Mirtha N. Quintanales, Ohio State University
    Joan Nestle, Lesbian Herstory Archives
14. The Myth of the Perfect Body: Age, Weight, and Disability
    Roberta Galler, Postgraduate Center for Mental Health
    Carol Munter, Council on Eating Problems
15. The Forbidden: Eroticism and Taboo
    Paula Webster, Institute for the Study of Sex in Society and History
16. Sexual Purity: Maintaining Class and Race Boundaries
    Diane Harriford, SUNY-Stony Brook
17. Concepts for a Radical Politics of Sex
    Gayle Rubin, University of Michigan
18. Sex and Money
    Arlene Carmen, Judson Memorial Church

Closing Session

Desire for the Future: Radical Hope in Passion and Pleasure
Amber Hollibaugh, Socialist Review
Poetry Readings by Hattie Gossett, Cherrie Moraga, and Sharon Olds
Introduced by Janie L. Kritzman, Barnard Women’s Center

Academic Coordinator

Carole S. Vance

Planning Committee

Julie Abraham, Hanna Alderfer, Meryl Altman, Jan Boney, Frances Doughty, Ellen DuBois, Kate Ellis, Judith Friedlander, Julie German, Faye Ginsburg, Diane Harriford, Beth Jaker, Mary Clare Lennon, Sherry Manasse, Nancy K. Miller, Marybeth Nelson, Esther Newton, Claire Riley, Susan Riemer Sacks, Ann Snitow, Quandra Prettyman Stadler, Judith R. Walkowitz, Ellen Willis, Patsy Yaeger

Conference Coordinators, Women’s Center

Jane S. Gould, Janie L. Kritzman, Maria La Sala