FRIDAY, 12 MARCH

8:00 - 5:00
REGISTRATION Second floor, University Center

SESSION A, 8:45-10:15
PANEL 1 Stibbs B Walking the Medicine Wheel: The Intersection of Ancient Tradition and Contemporary Concerns (roundtable) YW Dora Ruffner, University of the Incarnate Word Patricia Fite, University of the Incarnate Word Theresa Ortiz, University of the Incarnate Word Sara Campos, University of the Incarnate Word	PANEL 2 Hunt-Anderson Toni Morrison 1: Perspectives of the Works of Toni Morrison Chair: Rebecca Mark, Tulane University "Beloved and the Kantian Sublime: A Cultural Insight into American Perpectives on Women's Experiences" Shannon N. Elliot; Independent scholar, Norman, OK "Delivering Divinity: Maternal Redemption and Resistance in Toni Morrison's Paradise" Andrea O'Reilly; School of Women's Studies, York University, Canada "Paradise: The Dance of an Open Mind" Sara Laidlaw; University of St. Thomas	PANEL 3 President's A The Social Construction of Gender and the Problematics of Representation and Interpretation Chair: Joy Fuqua, Tulane University "Lights, Camera, Theory!: Feminist Film Analysis in Action and Activism" Mylene Dressler; University of St. Thomas "To Have and to Hold: Women's and Men's Understandings of Committment in Australian Cosmopolitan" Fiona Ann Papps; School of Behavioural Sciences, Macquarie University, Australia "'Intersex'?: The importance of mapping past, present and future shifts in biological and sociological definitions of sex and gender" Saundra Y. Boyd; Houston Community College System - Central "Re-Presenting Pornography: A Feminist Reading" Jennifer Richards; School of Women's Studies, York University, Canada	PANEL 4 Stibbs A Whither Feminism? Chair: Susan Bryson, University of New Orleans "The New 'F' Word: Feminism and the 21st Century" Kim Wells; Independent scholar "The Gender Gap in Education: Have These Findings Reached the Parents and Teachers of Preschool Children?" Janice McCabe; Newcomb College, Tulane University "What Voices Will be Heard?: Women and Public Policy at the Millennium" Natalie Harris; Newcomb College, Tulane University	PANEL 5 President's B Challenging the Real in "Reel": Using media studies as a forum to awaken a new generation of gender discrimination awareness YW Chair: Valerie Greenberg; University of the Incarnate Word Peggy Bowie; University of the Incarnate Word Tiffanie Wilson; University of the Incarnate Word Rexanne Coolidge; University of the Incarnate Word

SESSION B, 10:30-12:00
PANEL 6 President's A Social Constructions of Masculinities Chair: Michael Zimmerman, Tulane University "Southern Discomfort: Race and Gender Performance within the New Orleans Jazz Funeral" Allison Levy; Newcomb College Center for Research on Women "Expressions of Manhood and and Exaggerated Masculinity in African-American Adolescent Males" Michael Cunningham; Tulane University "Warhol's Drag: Painted Performance" Michael Plante; Tulane University	PANEL 7 Stibbs A Feminist (Non?)Response to Clinton- Lewinsky- Starr- Tripp- Goldberg Scandal Open discussion Imagine that the assembled body is the weekend media relations war room staff on duty at Feminism Incorporated. CNN reporter Dandy Crawley is on the phone with the news that high-prolife anti-feminist Pillis Schmoofly has challenged the spokeswoman of your organization to debate the "hypocritical feminist non-response" to The Big Scandal via satellite hookup. It turns out that the news vans are speeding towards your location even as Dandy drops the bomb: "We just had a cancellation and want to go live with you folks at Noon. Is that enough lead time?" You have one hour and fifteen minutes to come up with a "feminist" talking points document on the whole mess. Remember: The whole world will be watching.	PANEL 8 Hunt-Anderson Toni Morrison 2: Toni Morrison's Paradise Chair: Gretchen Mieszkowski, University of Houston - Clear Lake "Paradise in Historical Perspective" Angela Howard; University of Houston - Clear Lake "Paradise, Metaphorically Speaking" Terry Johnson; University of Houston - Clear Lake "An Ethical Perspective on Paradise" Verva Densmore; University of Houston - Clear Lake "Paradise as a Woman's Novel" Gretchen Mieszkowski; University of Houston - Clear Lake	PANEL 9 President's B Women's Studies at the Millenium Chair: Beth Willinger, Newcomb College Center For Research On Women "Lesbian Studies at Century's End: Millennial Meditations" Anne Charles; University of New Orleans "Mapping the Feminist Self: Student Evaluations of the Women's Studies Experience" Erin Ceynar; University of North Dakota	PANEL 11 Stibbs A The Social Work of Adolescent Girls YW Chair: Laura Sanchez, Tulane University "Narratives of Adolescent Girls: How They Describe Themselves in Regards to Motherwork" Kristin Wolfe and Alice Kemp; University of New Orleans "You Just Gotta Beat Them Down: School Sexual Harassment and Black High School Girls' Emotional Labor" Clare T. Porter; Center for Research on Women, University of Memphis

PLENARY SESSION, 12:15-1:45
"Beyond the Sex Wars" Wendy Chapkis University of Southern Maine Kendall Cram

SESSION C, 2:00-3:30
PANEL 12 President's B Vampires, Warriors, Bitches and Terrorists: Reading Gendered Violence in Popular Fantasy Texts Chair: Elyce Rae Helford, Middle Tennessee State University "Sometimes It Was Good to be Scary: Gender, Seuxality and Violence in Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter Novels" Kathleen M. Therrien; Middle Tennessee State University "Queer Pleasure, Feminist Pain: Navigating the Sexual Politics of Violence in Xena: Warrior Princess" Elyce Rae Helford; Middle Tennessee State University "'My Role Models Do Not Wear Bikinis!': Representations of Sexuality and Revenge Fantasy in Diane DiMassa's Hothead Paisan and Roberta Gregory's Naughty Bits" Anne N. Thalheimer; University of Delaware	PANEL 13 Hunt-Anderson "Community Partnership: University Students Providing Rape Crisis Intervention" (workshop) Chair/Facilitator: Susan Turell; University of Houston - Clear Lake	PANEL 14 President's A Gendered Perspectives on Francophone African Literature Chair: Tola Mosadomi, Newcomb College Center For Research On Women "Women and Marriage: The Dis-ease of Tradition in African Francophone Plays" Tola Mosadomi; Visiting Scholar, Newcomb College Center for Research on Women "Rose-Anna, or, Gabielle Roy's Ideal of Womanhood in Bonheur d'occasion" Mohamaed Kamara; Tulane University "Epistolary Form and The Quest for the Female Voice: Mariama Bâ's So Long a Letter and Collette's The Vagabond" Cécile Accilien; Tulane University	PANEL 15 Chastant "Non-traditional" Work of Texas Women Chair: Susanne Dietzel, Newcomb College Center For Research on Women "A Female Roughneck?: An oral history/analysis of one woman's non-traditional experience in the Texas oil industry" Rose M. Rodriguez-Rabin; Texas A&M International University "The Role of Women in Production Agriculture in a Nine-County Area of West Texas" Jean Brashear Nichols; Texas Tech University	PANEL 16 Stibbs A The Story of Louise S. McGehee School: Gathering, Preserving, Recording History YW Chair/Facilitator: Kim Wargo; Louise S. McGehee School and Tulane University Members of the McGehee Senior Project in Women's History Class: Brandy Branigan, Chelsea Cropper, Rosemary Zuppardo, Jiandi Effendi, Ayesha Korejo, Corrine Seltzer, Leigh Taylor, Carolyn O'Neil, Jordan Gillette, Amna Halum, Caitlin Mabile, and Katherine Goldstein)	PANEL 17 Stibbs B Third Wave Feminism YW Chair: Marsha Houston, Tulane University "The Politics of Difference: Implications for Feminist Theory and Praxis" Susan Mann; University of New Orleans "Feminism as 'The Bad Mother,' or, The Third Wave's Rebellion" Astrid Henry; University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee "The Popular Cultural Geography of US Feminism: The Politics of Discursive Tropes in the Third Wave" Ednie Kaeh Garrison; University of California Santa Barbara

SESSION D, 3:45-5:15
PANEL 18 Hunt-Anderson Women in Louisiana: The Neglected Majority Chair: Alice Kemp, University of New Orleans "Women's Poverty: Who Cares? It's Only Women!" Tara Lindhorst; Louisiana State University School of Social Work and Alice Kemp; University of New Orleans "Gambling on Women?" Beth Willinger; Newcomb College Center for Research on Women "Women's Health -- or is it in Louisiana?" Judith H. La Rosa; Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine	PANEL 19 President's B "Your Body is a Playground": Strategies of Feminist Power and Resistance for the New Millennium Chair: Karmen MacKendrick, Gettysburg College "A Question of Strategy" Ellen K. Feder; American University "Your Body is a Playground" Karmen MacKendrick; Gettysburg College "The Fetus Fetishists" Patricia Ventura; University of Florida	PANEL 20 President's A Feminist Sci-Fi Formulations and Fabulations Chair: Robin Roberts, Louisiana State University "'The Sensors are Having Difficulty Penetrating the Interiors': The Female Alien in Star Trek: The Next Generation" Robin Roberts; Louisiana State University "Better Living Through Chemistry: Cyborgs and the Problem of Female Sexuality in Dr. Caligari" Tria Airheart-Martin; Texas A&M University "Hand Me A Machete: Building and Maintaining a Buffy the Vampire Slayer Slash Fan Fiction Community" Kate Bolin; Newcomb College, Tulane University	PANEL 21 Chastant Perspectives On Poetry Chair: tba "Mocking My Own Ripeness: Authenticity and Heritage in the Poetry of Marilyn Chin" John Gery; University of New Orleans "Feminism and Domesticity in Bioevolutionary Perspective" Nancy Easterlin; University of New Orleans "'The Fog That is Thick Between Us': Why Hilda Morley Matters" Glenda Zumwalt; Southeastern Oklahoma State University	PANEL 22 Stibbs B Femillenniums: Young Women Bridge Theory and Practice YW Chairs/Facilitators: Carla Mancini, Carmela Murdocca; York University Carmela Murdocca; York University Stefanie Samuels; York University	PANEL 23A Mezzanine A Girl Zine Workshop YW Alison Fensterstock; Newcomb College, Tulane University Editor, Bad Girl Ann Liu; Newcomb College, Tulane University	PANEL 23 Stibbs A Young Women in Search of Meaning and Rites of Passage YW Chair: Rachel Devlin, Tulane University "Remembering Ourselves: Reflections on Spirituality and Activism" Rachel E. Key; University of North Texas "Once There Was a Rite: Girls and the Coming-of-Age Ceremony" Glenda Hufnagel; University of Oklahoma "In Search of Role Models [in Popular Culture]: Who Girls of Today Look Up To" Jeanne Cashen; University of New Orleans

KEYNOTE ADDRESS, 7:00 p.m.
Barbara Smith Critic, activist, writer The Truth That Never Hurts: Thirty Years of Writing and Working for Justice and Change McAlister Auditorium Free to the Public