The Scholar and the Feminist VI:
The Future of Difference – April 21, 1979

Conference Program (PDF, 328 KB)

Morning Session

Welcoming Remarks
Jacquelyn Anderson Mattfeld, President, Barnard College
Difference, Relation, and Gender in Psychoanalytic Perspective
Nancy Chodorow, University of California-Santa Cruz
The Powers of Difference
Josette Féral, University of Toronto
The Straight Mind
Monique Wittig, writer: The Opoponax, Les Guérillères, The Lesbian Body

Moderator: Alice Jardine, Columbia University

Panel Discussion

Difference and Language
Audre Lorde, poet, CUNY-John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Christiane Makward, Pennsylvania State University
Sally McConnell-Ginet, Cornell University

Moderator: Domna Stanton, Rutgers University and Signs

Afternoon Workshops

1. Mothers and Daughters
   Jane Flax, Howard University
2. The Dialectical Treatment of Difference
   Alice Kessler-Harris, Hofstra University
3. The Anxiety of Difference: Rereading Mme Bovary
   Naomi Schor, Brown University
4. Lesbianism and the Social Function of Taboo
   Pamella Farley, CUNY-Brooklyn College and Barnard College (spring ’79)
5. Women and the Uses of Power
   Elizabeth Janeway, author of Man’s World, Women’s Place and Between Myth and Morning
6. Black Women and Feminism
   Barbara Omolade, Women’s Action Alliance
7. Androgyny and the Psychology of Sex Differences
   Carolyn Heilbrun, Columbia University
8. Psychoanalysis and Feminism in France
   Carolyn G. Burke, University of California-Santa Cruz
   Jane Gallop, Miami University
9. Sexual Differences Artistic Production: The Debate over a Female Aesthetic
   Rachel Blau Du Plessis, Temple University
10. Mothers/Daughters/Sisters: Separation and Survival
    Clare Coss, Sondra Segal, Roberta Sklar, The Women’s Experimental Theatre
11. Women in Power and Politics
    Ruth W. Messinger, The Council of the City of New York
12. Differences in Women’s Thinking about Self and Morality
    Carol Gilligan, Harvard University Graduate School of Education and Wellesley Center for Research on Women
13. Visibility and Difference: Black Feminism in History and Literature
    Quandra Stadler, Barnard College
14. Domination and Difference: The Roots of Rational Violence
    Jessica Benjamin, The New York Institute for Humanities, New York University
15. The Sociobiological Rationale for Women’s Oppression
    Eleanor Leacock, CUNY-City College

Academic Coordinator

Alice Jardine

Planning Committee

Louise Adler, Roberta Bernstein, Mary Jane Ciccarello, Hester Eisenstein, Irene Finel-Honigman, Suzanne Hanchett, Nancy K. Miller, Elizabeth Minnich, Ellen Pollak, Susan R. Sacks, Philippa Strum, Kathryn B. Yatrakis

Conference Coordinators, Women’s Center

Jane S. Gould, Janie Kritzman