The Scholar and the Feminist V:
Creating Feminist Works – April 12, 1978

Conference Program (PDF, 280 KB)

Morning Session

Welcoming Remarks
Jacqueline Anderson Mattfeld, President, Barnard College
Creating Feminist Works: A Panel Discussion
Eve Merriam, poet and playwright
Nancy K. Miller, Mellon Fellow in the Humanities, Columbia University
Harmony Hammond, artist and member of the Heresies Collective

Moderator: Elizabeth Minnich, Barnard College

Afternoon Seminars

1. A Feminist Perspective on Art History
   Ann Sutherland Harris, Metropolitan Museum of Art
2. The Evolution of a Black Woman Artist
   Catti James, artist/designer
3. Teaching Women’s Studies: How Creative? How Feminist?
   Catherine R. Stimpson, Barnard College, Signs
4. Blank Page/Empty Canvas-A Moment Both Political and Personal
   Honor Moore, poet and playwright, editor of The New Women’s Theatre
5. The Process and Product of Developing a Theory of Gender
   Suzanne Kessler, SUNY-Purchase
   Wendy McKenna, Sarah Lawrence College
6. Crafts as Feminist Experience: Making Connections
   Sandra M. Whisler, fiber craftswoman
7. The Literary Salon: An Alternate Space for Feminist Writing and Theory
   Erika Duncan, Karen Malpede, Carol McCauley, Gloria Orenstein- The Women’s Salon
8. Using Feminism and Politics to Change the Health Care Structure
   Diane Lacey, Sydenham Hospital
9. Comedy and Performance in Scholarly Inquiry
   Naomi Weisstein, SUNY-Buffalo
10. Creating a Feminist Novel
    Alix Kates Shulman, author of Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen and Burning Questions
11. An Anthropologist Looks at Women’s Traditional Arts
    Elizabeth Weatherford, School of Visual Arts, member of Heresies Collective
12. Feminism vs. Journalism
    Margo Jefferson, Newsweek
13. Creating the Book/Creating Ourselves
    Wilma Diskin, Paula Doress, The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, co-authors of Our Bodies, Ourselves
14. The Autobiographies of 17th Century Hispanic Nuns From the Perspective of a 20th Century Feminist Scholar
    Electa Arenal, CUNY-College of Staten Island
15. A False Dichotomy for the Artist: Individualism vs. Collectivity
    May Stevens, painter, School of Visual Arts, member of Heresies Collective

Academic Coordinator

Elizabeth Minnich

Planning Committee

Louise Adler, Hester Eisenstein, Irene Finel-Honigman, Pamela Fishman, Linda Marks, Mary Parlee, Susan R. Sacks, Maria von Salisch, Sandra Whisler

Conference Coordinators, Women’s Center

Jane S. Gould, Ellen McManus