SATURDAY, 13 MARCH

7:00 a.m.
CANCELLED! POWER WALK FOR GIRLS Sponsored by Newcomb College Senate

8:30 - 10:45
REGISTRATION Second floor, University Center

SESSION E, 8:45-10:15
PANEL 24 Hunt Anderson Listening to Women's Voices: Therapy for Women Reconsidered Chair: Melanie McGrath, Tulane University "Negotiating the Semantics of Death and Survival: A Comparative Study of Women's Recovery Narratives" Lee Winniford; University of Houston "Madnation, Madgrrls: Feminism, Mental Health and the Politics of Identity" Beth Donaldson; Stephen F. Austin State University "'God, It's So Hard': What some poor white women want therapists to know" Carolyn Wright, Ph.D.; Syracuse University	PANEL 27 President's B Strategies for Helping Girls in Trouble Chair: TBA "Early Intervention With At-Risk Young Female 'Status Offenders' in the Jefferson Parish Juvenile Court System" Kristen C. Chawla and Helen Glancy; Division of Law and Psychiatry, LSU Medical Center	PANEL 28 Freeman Auditorium Viewing Kate Chopin "Kate Chopin: A Re-Awakening" (screening and discussion) Produced by Tika Laudun and Lucille McDowell. Directed by Tika Laudun. 1998 DISCUSSION: "Producing a Chopin Documentary: Process and Problems" Tika Laudun and Lucille McDowell Louisiana Public Broadcasting "Preserving Kate Chopin: The Kate Chopin Home in Cloutierville, Louisiana" (slide presentation) Mary Linn Wernet	PANEL 29 Stibbs A Do I Look Fat? Chair: tba "Women of Substance" Ann Elizabeth Younger; Louisana State University "Victoria's Big Secret" Peggy Walzer Rosefeldt; Independent scholar and costume designer, New Orleans	PANEL 30 Mezzanine A and B Empowerment Video Workshop YW Led by the young women from The Teenage Girls' Documentary Project	PANEL 31 Chastant The 5 Greatest Opportunities vs. the 5 Greatest Obstacles Facing Women and Girls Globally in the Year 2000 Open Workshop People drawn to this room have a little over one hour to get themselves organzised and produce a one-page mission statement/manifesto/press release which speaks to the immediate future of the feminist movement. Come prepared to map territory and plot strategy. Bring a notebook. Please turn a copy of the document in to the registration desk at the end of the session.

SESSION F, 10:30-12:00
PANEL 32 Freeman Auditorium "Barbie Nation: An Unauthorized Tour" (screening and discussion) Susan Stern; El Rio Productions, San Francisco	PANEL 33 Mezzanine A and B Empowerment Video Workshop YW Continuation of earlier workshop.	PANEL 34 President's B Writing Like A Woman Chair: Susanne Dietzel, Newcomb College Center for Research on Women "Autobio- graphical Criticism as Literary Criticism: Finding a Place for the Personal" Deshae Lott; Texas A&M University "How to Write Like a Woman" Christiana Langenberg; Iowa State University "Scully's Journal: Creating the Diarist in Contemporary Popular Culture" Amy L. Wink; Stephen F. Austin State University "The Missing Women in the History of Technical Writing" Margaret Dawson; Texas A&M University	PANEL 35 Stibbs A Gender and the Visual Chair: Molly Rothberg, Tulane University "'There is Something Frightful in Our Midst': The Double and the Masculin- ization of Women in Weimar Culture" Barbara Hales; University of Houston - Clear Lake "Flânerie: Gendered Visualities and the Work of Annette Messager" Beth Lauritis; University of California Riverside "Happiness is A Warm Gun: Thelma and Louise as Parable on Patriarchal Power" Stacey C. Short, Texas A&M University	PANEL 36 Stibbs B Border Crossings and Identity Chair: tba "Feminism on the Edge: A Study in a Border Culture" Carol Waters; Texas A & M International University "Identity Formation and Strategies of Cultural Negotiaion Among Mexican- American Women Professionals" Esmeralda de los Santos; University of the Incarnate Word "Retraditional- ization of Roles Through Bicultural Resynthesis as an Effective Means of Achieving American Indian Women's Self- Determination" Linda Napholz; University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee	PANEL 37 President's A Administrative Academic Activism: Feminist Solutions at Texas Tech University (roundtable) Chair: Marjean D. Purinton Elizabeth Hall; Texas Tech University Rosslyn Smith; Texas Tech University Marjean D. Purinton; Texas Tech University	PANEL 38 Hunt-Anderson Contemporary Perspectives on The Awakening Chair: tba "Kate Chopin's Ecofeminism: A Dialogue Between The Awakening and Contemporary Women" Sarah Klein Smith; Southwest Texas State University "'I Almost Live Here': Gender and Ethnicity in The Awakening and The Storm" Pamela Menke; Regis College	PANEL 39 Chastant Teaching Women's Studies in New Orleans High Schools (roundtable/ workshop) YW Chair: Mary Carruth; University of New Orleans Anita Calagna; Louisiana Department of Education Kim Wargo; Louise S. McGehee School Joan Fairbank; Eleanor McMain Magnet School Patricia Elliott; Chalmette High School

PLENARY SESSION, 12:15-1:45
"Cents and Sensibility: Gender, Power, and Economics -- Your value beyond the market economy" Krishanti Dharmaraj Founder of Women's Institute for Leadership Development (WILD) Kendall Cram Room

SESSION G, 2:00-3:30
PANEL 40 Stibbs B Medical Women of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Chair: Cecelia Brown "Early American and Canadian Women Physicians: Their Stuggles and Successes" Laurie Scrivener; University of Oklahoma Libraries "Mother-Doctors on the Canadian Frontier: Charlotte Ross and Elizabeth Matheson" Cecelia Brown; University of Oklahoma Libraries	PANEL 41 President's A Remapping Our Bodies, Our Selves: Past, Present, Future Chair: Phyllis Thompson , Louisiana State University "'A Certain Portion of Misery and Disappointments': Mapping Passion and Pain in the Female Body" Phyllis Thompson; Louisiana State University "Living on the 'Dark' Side of the Moon: 1990s representations of women living with HIV and the social construction of marginality" Taryn Lindhorst and Luz Lopez; School of Social Work, Tulane University "Decorative Utility: Women's Descriptions of the Female Self at the Millennium" M. Kelly James; Louisiana State University	PANEL 42 President's B Nineteenth/Twentieth Century Women's Literature Chair: Nancy Maveety, Tulane University "Charlotte Brontê's Answer to the Victorian Woman Question: Caroline Helstone and Shirley Keldar, the Heroines of Shirley" Jennifer Boots; University of Oklahoma "A 'revolution in female manners': Wollstonecraft's Vindcations and Cather's O Pioneers!" Maria K. Stanonis; University of Florida "The Discipline of Social Corsets: The Gendered Typification of the Southern Lady in the Diary of Sally McNeill" Mary Lynn Gasaway-Hill, St. Mary's University	PANEL 43A Stibbs A The African American Female Experience in the Works of Toni Morrison (Sex, Sexuality, and Spirituality) Chair: Karen Mongo, Texas Woman's University "Paradigms of Womanhood in Toni Morrison's Sula and Paradise" Melissa Ill; University of Denver "Metaphors of Pleasure, Outspoken Women, and the High Silence of Orgasm" Jeryl Prescott; Wake Forest University "Speaking in Tongues: The Presence of Voice and Absence in Body in Beloved's Baby Suggs" Diana Davidson; University of Alberta "I Tie All My People Together: The Yoruba Deity Oshun in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby and Sula" Natalie King; Florida Atlantic University	PANEL 43 Hunt-Anderson Kate Chopin in New Orleans Chair: Emily Toth "What Kate Chopin Did in New Orleans" Emily Toth; Louisiana State University "What Kate Chopin Wrote About New Orleans" Barbara Ewell; City College, Loyola University of New Orleans "What Kate Chopin Saw in New Orleans" Judith Bonner; Historic New Orleans Collection	PANEL 44 Freeman Auditorium Saturday Afternoon Screening Younger Women's "keynote" Screening and Discussion of The Desire Media Project Director Julie Gustafson and at least three young women from The Teenage Girls' Documentary Project

SESSION H, 3:45-5:15
PANEL 45 President's A Dead Girls Don't Say No: The Sexualization of the Lifeless Female Body Chair: Lauryn Angel-Cann "Love Beyond Death: A Look at Necrophilia in 19th Century British Literature" Lauryn Angel-Cann; University of North Texas "The Synthetic Woman: A Necrophiliac's Ideal" Amy Gingerich, University of North Texas "Keeping a Stiff Upper Lip: Necrophilia in Eliza Haywood's The Double Marriage" Kathryn Strong, University of North Texas "Necrophilia, Vagina Dentata, and Oedipal Complexes: The Ties that Bind in Poe's 'Ligeia,' 'Morrella,' and 'Berenice'" Rebecca Hanson, University of North Texas "[Cormac McCarthy's] Lester Ballard: The Necrophiliac as the Patriarchal Hero" Kelly Herd, University of North Texas	PANEL 46 President's B The View: Women's Perspectives on Body Image Issues Across the Lifespan (roundtable) Chair: Kate Victory Kate Victory; Texas Woman's University Jody Oomen; Texas Woman's University Judy Spira; Texas Woman's University Sue Hayes Kanitra Brooks-Johnson; Texas Woman's University	PANEL 47A Kendall Cram The African American Female Experience in the Works of Toni Morrison (Blackness) Chair: Karen Mongo "Slippin' Into Darkness: Complication Blackness in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby" Cheryl Johnson; Miami University "Between Vision and View: Cinema, Consumerism, and the White Male Gaze in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye" Susan Somers-Willet; University of Texas "Girls at Play: The Violence of Experience in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Sula Delores Ayers Keller; Rice University	PANEL 47 Chastant Reconverging Kali: Reuniting the Female Elements into a Feminine Unity (roundtable) Facilitators: R. Anya Davis and Michael Tate R. Anya Davis; University of North Texas Michael Tate; University of North Texas 5 graduate students; Department of Journalism, University of North Texas	PANEL 48 Freeman Auditorium Nina Rosenblum, "Through the Wire" (screening and discussion)	PANEL 49 Stibbs B Making It Real: Autobiography and Autotheory with College Women and 6th Grade Girls (roundtable) YW Chair/Facilitator: Susan Cumings; Institute for Women's Studies, Emory University The members of the Emory University WS 384L "Autobiography and Autotheory" class: Julie Schwietert, Kay Walraven, Jennifer Kurle, Jessica Elam, Leigh Jacobsen, Kelly Hooper, Susan Walker	PANEL 50 Stibbs B Early Modern Voices and Representations of Women Chair: Betsy Jones Hemenway, Newcomb College Center for Research on Women "Nicknames for Women: Early Modern Slang Terms for Female Genitalia" Catherine Loomis; University of New Orleans "Adriana's Radical Vision of Marriage and Her Threat to Patterns of Male Bonding in Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors" Deborah Griffin; University of Houston - Clear Lake "Medieval Women Writers: A Tradition of Strong Voice" Joanie DeForest; Lee College and Art Institute of Houston

8:00-?
SATURDAY NIGHT EXTRAVAGANZA! Kendall Cram Room Feminine Products: Good Girls Don't Fashion Show (to feature prize of giant tampon punching bag!) Michelle DuBos, Koki Otero; Independent Artists, Activists, Hellraisers, New Orleans