The Scholar and the Feminist XIV:
Women in the 21st Century: Looking Forward and Looking Back – March 21, 1987

Conference Program (PDF, 348 KB)

Morning Session

Welcoming Remarks
Ellen V. Futter, President, Barnard College
Conference Opening
Temma Kaplan, Director of the Barnard Women’s Center
Rayna Rapp, New School for Social Research; “The Presence of the Past in the New Reproductive Technologies: A Feminist Pedagogy”
bell hooks (Gloria Watkins), Yale University; “Toward a Revolutionary Feminist Pedagogy”
Sara Evans and Barbara Nelson, Humphrey Institute, University of Minnesota; “Comparable Worth: the Paradox of Technocratic Reform”
Louise Meriwether, author; “Rereading the Past: Segments from a New Historical Novel”

Afternoon Workshops

1. Writing as a South Asian Immigrant Woman Poet
   Meena Alexander, Fordham University
2. Women and the Passage to Civilian Rule in Latin American
   Sonia Alvarez, University of California, Santa Cruz
   Patricia Chuchryk, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
   Jane Jacquette, Occidental College
3. Student Organizing Now and in the Future
   Danisa Baloyi, Teachers College, Columbia University
   Tanaquil Jones, School of General Studies, Member of the Steering Committee of the Coalition for a Free Southern Africa
   Barbara Ramsby, University of Michigan
4. Quantum Mechanics and Feminist Science
   Karan Barad, Barnard College
   Elisabeth Friedman, Centennial Scholar, Barnard ‘88
5. Feminism in India: Issues and Ideology, Problems and Prospects
   Amrita Basu, Amherst College
   Leslie Calman, Barnard College
6. Disabled Women in Fiction: Limits and Empowerment
   Christopher Baswell, Barnard College
   Ruth Kivette, Barnard College
   Timea Szell, Barnard College
7. Crisis in the Construction of Female Subjects: The Couch, the Negative, and Other Narrative Surfaces
   Page Baty, University of California, Santa Cruz; “The Post-Mortem Condition: Re-membering Marilyn Monroe”
   Lisa Bloom, University of California, Santa Cruz; “Mapping the Male Subject”
   Susan Gevirtz, University of California, Santa Cruz; “Pilgrimage as Poetics: Dorothy Richardson”
   Thyrza Goodeve, University of California, Santa Cruz; “Frances Farmer and the Legacy of Hysteria”
8. Gender Politics of Honor and Shame
   Elizabeth Cohen, University of Toronto
9. Black Families
   Marsha Jean Darling, Wellesley College and Hunter College, CUNY
10. The Feminization of Poverty Among Women in Puerto Rico
    Carmen Gautier, University of Puerto Rico
11. The Nude: Past, Present, and Future
    Mary Gibbon, Hunter College, CUNY
    Barbara Winslow, Hunter College, CUNY
12. Women and the State in the 20th Century: Comparative Perspectives on Japan, the Soviet Union, and West Germany
    Wendy Goldman, University of Pennsylvania; “Women and the Family in the Russian Revolution”
    Robert Moeller, University of California, Santa Cruz; “The State and Women’s Lives in Post-World War II West Germany”
    Katherine Uno, Temple University; “State and Motherhood in Pre-War Japan”
13. New Directions in Feminist Law
    Janice Goodman, Cardozo Law School; “Future Employment Issues of Women”
    Isabel Marcus, SUNY/Buffalo Law School; “New Family Law”
    Nadine Taub, Rutgers University Law School; “Legal Ramifications of the New Reproductive Technologies”
14. The Future of Feminism in the Black Community
    Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Spelman College
15. Milestones of Progress: The Lesbian Issue and the Feminist/Gay Movement
    Lee Hudson, Office of the Mayor, New York City
    Ginny Vida, New York City Commission on the Status of Women
16. The Future of U.S. Feminist Politics and Family Policy
    Ethel Klein, Columbia University
17. Critical Futures: Women/Language/Theory
    Nancy K. Miller, Barnard College; moderator
    Mae G. Henderson, Rockefeller Fellow, Rutgers University, and Wellesley College
    Mary Russo, Hampshire College
    Patricia S. Yaeger, Harvard University
18. Women’s Studies and Feminism in the Future
    Barbara Omolade, City College, CUNY
19. Changing Representations of Women: Three Artists’ Critical Views
    Andrea Fraser, Artist/Writer, New York City
    Aimee Rankin, Artist/Writer, New York City
    Leslie Thornton, Film & Semiotics, Brown University
    Marianne Weems, Curator, New York City
20. Women Creating the Opposite of War
    Vera Williams, Author, Illustrator, Member of the War Resisters League

Closing Session

Reception and Feminist Coffeehouse: “The Ugly-Out and Other Outrages”
In the spirit of Emma Goldman (If there’s no dancing, I won’t come to your revolution.”), Ms. Magazine columnist Mary Kay Blakely and Claudia Davis, Linda Sheets, and Joan Uebelhoer from Fort Wayne, Indiana, present songs, drama, and comedy to raise the spirits and extinguish the brushfires among battle-weary feminists.