The Scholar and the Feminist XVI:
Women and Public Policy: Making the Difference – April 1, 1989

Conference Program (PDF, 296 KB)

Morning Session

Welcoming Remarks:
Ellen V. Futter, President Barnard College
Conference Opening:
Temma Kaplan, Director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women
Keynote Addresses:
Judith S. Kaye, Associate Judge, Court of Appeals for the State of New York “Women and the Courts as a Reflection of Social Change”
Charlotte Bunch, Laurie Professor of Women’s Studies, Douglass College, Rutgers University “Global Feminism and Human Rights”

Morning Plenaries

1. Women and Children at Risk and in Poverty
   Mimi Abramovitz, Hunter College School of Social Work, Author of Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present
   Sherry Deane, Attorney, Children’s Defense Fund, Program Associate for the Adolescent Pregnancy Child Watch Project, Member of the MADRE Board of Directors
2. National and International Perspectives on Racism
   Laura Balbo, Italian Parliamentary Delegate and Member of the Parliamentary Committee, Italia-Razzismo
   Althea Simmons, Director of the Washington Bureau of the NAACP
3. Private Foundations, Public Policy, and Advocacy
   Jill Blair, Program Officer, New York Foundation
   Safiya Bandele, Director, Center for Women’s Development, Medgar Evers College
   Lynn Walker, Deputy Director of Human Rights and Governance, The Ford Foundation
4. Mother and Woman-Blaming in the Mental Health Establishment
   Paula J. Caplan, Ontario Institute, author of The Myth of Female Masochism and Don’t Blame Mother: Mending the Mother-Daughter Relationship

Afternoon Session

In Search of Equality: An American Quest
Eleanor Holmes Norton, Georgetown University Law School
Similarities in the Roles of Women in Elective and Non-Elective Offices
Carol Bellamy, Morgan Stanley and Company, Inc.

Afternoon Plenaries

5. Public Policy and Education
   Gemma Campbell, Director, HEOP, Columbia University
   Vivian Taylor, Associate Dean for Student Affairs, Barnard College
6. Feminism and AIDS
   Amber Hollibaugh, Video Producer, Educator for the AIDS Discrimination Unit of the NYC Commission on Human Rights
   Nan Hunter, Director, ACLU AIDS Project
   Ruth Rodriguez, Executive Director of the LOISAIDA (Lower East Side Association) and formerly Director of the Hispanic AIDS Forum
   Maria St. Cyr, Executive Director of WARN (Women’s AIDS Resource Network)
   Katy Taylor, Deputy Director of the AIDS Discrimination Unit
7. Making the Public Private: Black Women and Self-Recovery
   bell hooks (Gloria Watkins), Oberlin College, author of Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, and Talking Back
8. Policy Prospects for a “Kinder, Gentler Nation” for Women? Transformation of the Work Place, Welfare Reform, Family Supports, Education, Reproductive Rights, and Health in the Bush Administration
   Leslie Wolfe, Executive Director, the Center for Women Policy Studies

Academic Coordinator

Temma Kaplan

Conference Coordinators

Bernita Dorch, Ruth Farmer, Temma Kaplan