The Scholar and the Feminist XV:
Motherhood Versus Sisterhood – March 26, 1988

Conference Program (PDF, 344 KB)

Morning Session

Welcoming Remarks
Ellen V. Futter, President, Barnard College
Conference Opening
Temma Kaplan, Director of The Barnard Center for Research on Women
Paula Giddings, Author, Historian; “Black Women in the Progressive Era”
Sylvia Law, New York University Law School; “Non-traditional Employment for Women”
Rosi Braidotti, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands; “Everlasting Knots: Feminism and Critical Theory”
Barbara Christian, Afro-American Studies, University of California, Berkeley; “Somebody Forgot to Tell Somebody Something: The Historical Novel of Contemporary Afro-American Women”

Afternoon Workshops

1. Poetry and Resistance in Greece and Chile
   Marjorie Agosin, Poet, Department of Spanish, Wellesley College
   Eleni Fourtouni, Poet and writer
2. Mining the Dancefield: Spectacle, Moving Bodies, and Feminist Theory
   Ann Cooper Albright, Performance Studies Department, New York University
   Carol Martin, Performance Studies, New York University
3. Feminism and Ecology
   Asoka Bandarage, writer and activist, Cambridge, Massachusetts
   Christine Di Stefano, University of Washington, Seattle
   Ynestra King, University of Southern Maine
4. The Outraged Mother Figure in Contemporary Afra-American Writing
   Joanne M. Braxton, Department of English, College of William and Mary
5. Rethinking Love, Adolescence, and the Family
   Jane Brown, Gannett Center for Media Studies, Columbia University; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
   Francesca Cancian, Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine
   Janie Kritzman, Psychology and Women’s Studies, Ohio State University
   Annette Lawson, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University; Institute of Human Development, University of California, Berkeley
6. Images and Ideologies of the Body
   Terri Cafaro, CUNY Graduate Center; “The Rebellious Body: Some Responses to Figural Transgression in 20th Century Art”
   Maud Lavin, CUNY Graduate Center; “Androgyny, Photography, and Spectatorship in Weimar and Contemporary Culture”
   Terry Lichtenstein, CUNY Graduate Center; “The Polluted Body: The Politics of Degeneracy in Nazi Germany, 1933-38”
   Kathy O’Dell, CUNY Graduate Center; “The Performance Artist as Masochistic Woman”, Chair
7. Feminism, Gender, and the State
   Victoria de Grazia, History Department, Rutgers University, Chair
   Anne Showstack Sasson, School of Economics and Politics, Kingston Polytechnic, Great Britain; “Gramsci and Women”
   Hamideh Sedghi, Political Science, Vassar College; “Feminism and the State in Iran”
8. Women and Munitions Workers in the First World War
   Laura Lee Downs, Mellon Fellow, Columbia University; University of Michigan
   Jane Bond-Howard, Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College; Lincoln University
9. Sealed Adoption Records Controversy: The Search for Reunion by Adoptees and Natural Parents
   Florence Anna Fisher, President of ALMA (Adoptees’ Liberty Movement Association)
10. Uses and Misuses of Maternalism and the Law
    Kristin Booth Glen, Justice of the Supreme Court, State of New York
11. Creating Families: the Experience of Lesbians
    Claire Riley, CUNY Graduate Center
12. Women and Political Action in Asia
    Hei Soo Shin, Sociology, Rutgers, New Brunswick; “Women and the Political Situation in South Korea”
    Jayne Werner, Southern Asian Institute, Columbia University; “Women in Viet Nam”
    Marilyn Young, History, New York University; Chair
13. The Effects of Destabilization on Women in Southern Africa
    Stephanie Urdang, New York journalist, affiliated with the American Committee on Africa

Closing Session

Deb Pardes, New York City based folk singer
The Columbia Metrotones, an all-women a cappella singing group

Academic Coordinator

Temma Kaplan

Conference Coordinators

Ruth Farmer
Robin Ferguson
Temma Kaplan