The Scholar and the Feminist X:
The Question of Technology – April 23, 1983

Conference Program (PDF, 264 KB)

Morning Session

Welcoming Remarks
Ellen V. Futter, President, Barnard College
Man, Machine, and Myth: A Feminist Historical Perspective on Technology
Judith A. McGaw, University of Pennsylvania
Advanced Technology, International Development, and Women’s Employment
Maria Patricia Fernandez Kelly, San Diego State University
New Machines, New Bodies, New Communities: Political Dilemmas for a Cyborg Feminist
Donna Haraway, University of California-Santa Cruz

Moderator: Bettina Berch, Barnard College

Afternoon Workshops

1. From Scrub Boards to Microwaves: Housework History in Perspective
   Ruth S. Cowan, SUNY-Stony Brook
2. Feminist Utopian Fiction
   Lee Cullen Khanna, Montclair State College
3. Workplace Automation: Studying Technological Discrimination
   Eve Hochwald and Mary Murphree, Women and Work Research Group, Center for the Study of Women and Society, CUNY-Graduate Center
4. The Electronic Cottage: Can We Bring the Power Home?
   Jaime Horwitz, CUNY-Graduate Center
5. Can We Make Science More Feminist?
   Rita Arditti, The Graduate School of the Union Experimenting Colleges
6. Women and Weapons Technology
   Shelah Leader, American University
7. The Power to Create, the Power to Resist: Ecological Feminism and Technology
   Ynestra King, New York City
8. The Engineering of Reproduction
   Marsha Hurst, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
9. Health Hazards at Work
   Jeanne Stellman, Women’s Occupational Health Resource Center, Columbia University
10. Women’s Trauma? Women’s Friend? Personal and Political Implications of the Microcomputer
    Beva Eastman, The William Paterson College of New Jersey
11. The Definition and Redefinition of Skill
    Lordes Beneria, Rutgers University
12. Organizing the New Workplace
    Judith Gregory, 9 to 5, National Association of Working Women
    Marsha Love, New York Committee on Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH)
13. Videotape: A Women’s Development Tool
    Sherry Delamarter, Martha Stuart Communications
14. Minority Women in the Workforce and Technological Change
    Harriett Harper, Women’s Bureau of the US Department of Labor

Closing Session

Excerpts from Stone, Paper, Knife and other works
Marge Piercy
Introduced by Quandra Prettyman Stadler, Barnard Colleg

Academic Coordinator

Bettina Berch

Planning Committee

Alice Amsden, Leslie Calman, Sally Chapman, Eva Eilenberg, Wendy Fairey, Rught Handel, Diane Harriford, Eve Hochwald, Jaime Horwitz, Marsha Love, Julie Marsteller, Nancy K. Miller, Mary Murphree, Susan R. Sacks, Quandra Prettyman Stadler, Norma Stanton

Conference Coordinators, Women’s Center

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