SOUTH CENTRAL WOMEN'S STUDIES ASSOCIATION 1999 CONFERENCE NEWCOMB COLLEGE, TULANE UNIVERSITY 11 - 13 MARCH 1999 THURSDAY, 11 MARCH 7:00 - 10:00 p.m. Anna E. Many Lounge, Newcomb College Center for Research on Women Caroline Richardson Hall WELCOMING RECEPTION, EARLY REGISTRATION, AND OPEN-MIKE READINGS FRIDAY, 12 MARCH 8:00 - 5:00 REGISTRATION Second floor, University Center SESSION A -- 8:45 - 10:15 PANEL 1 University Center Stibbs B Roundtable: Walking the Medicine Wheel: The Intersection of Ancient Tradition and Contemporary Concerns 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 University Center Hunt-Anderson Toni Morrison 1: Perspectives on the Works of Toni Morrison Chair: Rebecca Mark, Tulane University "Beloved and the Kantian Sublime: A Cultural Insight into American Perceptions of 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: ÔThe Dance of an Open MindÕ" Sara Laidlaw, University of St. Thomas PANEL 3 University Center 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 Ð Central "Re-Presenting Pornography: A Feminist Reading" Jennifer Richards, School of Women's Studies, York University, Canada PANEL 4 University Center Stibbs A Whither Feminism? Chair: Susan Bryson, University of New Orleans "The New ÒFÓ Word: Feminism and the 21st Century" Kim Wells, Texas A & M University "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 in Public Policy at the Millennium" Natalie Harris, Newcomb College, Tulane University PANEL 5 University Center President's B Challenging the Real in "Reel": Using Media Studies as a Forum to Awaken a New Generation to 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 PANEL 6 Anna E. Many Lounge, Caroline Richardson Hall Creative Writing Section Readings Poetry: Kathy Bowman, University of New Orleans graduate Poetry: Rebecca Stilling, BCMSW Poetry: Catherine Loomis, University of New Orleans Poetry: Elizabeth Thomas, University of New Orleans Fiction: Ruth Harmon, Director ESL Program, Loyola University SESSION B -- 10:30 - 12:00 PANEL 7 University Center 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, Bryn Mawr College; Visiting Scholar, 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 8 University Center Stibbs A Open Discussion/Workshop: Feminist (Non?)Response to the Jones-Clinton-Starr-Lewinsky-Tripp-Goldberg-Broderick- Impeachment-Media et al Affair 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-profile anti-feminist Pillis Schmoofly has challenged the spokeswoman of your organization to debate Òthe hypocritcal feminist non-reponseÓ 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: ÒWe just had a cancellation and want to go live with you folks at Noon. Is that enough lead time?Ó You have one hour and fifteen minutes to come up with a ÒfeministÓ talking points document on the whole mess. Remember: The whole world will be watching. PANEL 9 University Center Hunt-Anderson Toni Morrison 2: Toni Morrison's Paradise Chair: Gretchen Mieszkowski "Paradise in Historical Perspective" Angela Howard, University of Houston Ð Clear Lake "Paradise, Metaphorically Speaking" Terry Johnson, University of Houston Ð Clear Lake "An Ethical Perspective on Paradise" Verva Densmore, University of Houston Ð Clear Lake "Paradise as a Woman's Novel" Gretchen Mieszkowski, University of Houston Ð Clear Lake PANEL 10 University Center 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 University Center 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 "ÔYou Just Gotta Beat Them DownÕ: School Sexual Harassment and Black High School Girls' Emotional Labor" Clare T. Porter, Center for Research on Women, University of Memphis PANEL 12 Anna E. Many Lounge, 2nd floor, Caroline Richardson Hall Creative Writing Section Readings Poetry: Nancy Easterlin, University of New Orleans Poetry: Elizabeth Cayce Dumont, University of Oklahoma Non-fiction: Alice Kemp, University of New Orleans Fiction: Julie Hensley, University of Kansas Non-fiction: Kim Mikonsky, University of New Orleans PLENARY SESSION -- 12:15 - 1:45 University Center Kendall Cram "Beyond the Sex Wars" a talk by Wendy Chapkis University of Southern Maine Wendy Chapkis is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at the University of Southern Maine. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her scholarly work is primarily in the area of social stratification, with a special interest in the construction of such hierarchically organized identity categories as sex, gender and sexuality. Chapkis is the author of Beauty Secrets: Women and the politics of appearance (South End Press: 1986) and Live Sex Acts: Women performing erotic labor (Routledge: 1997). She is also the editor of two anthologies: Loaded Questions: Women in the military and Of Common Cloth: Women in the global textile industry. SESSION C -- 2:00 - 3:30 PANEL 13 University Center President's B Vampires, Warriors, Bitches and Terrorists: Reading Gendered Violence in Popular Fantasy Texts Chair: Elyce Rae Helford "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 14 University Center Hunt-Anderson "Community Partnership: University Students Providing Rape Crisis Intervention" (workshop) Chair/Facilitator: Susan Turell, University of Houston Ð Clear Lake PANEL 15 University Center President's A Gendered Perspectives on Francophone African Literature Chair: Tola Mosadomi "Women and Marriage: The Dis-ease of Tradition in African Francophone Plays" Tola Mosadomi, 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 B‰'s So Long a Letter and Collette's The Vagabond" CŽcile Accilien, Tulane University PANEL 16 University Center 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 17 University Center 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 18 University Center 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 PANEL 19 Anna E. Many Lounge, 2nd floor Caroline Richardson Hall Creative Writing Section Readings Fiction: Mylene Dressler, University of St. Thomas Fiction: Marcia Pimental, University of Texas Ð Dallas Fiction: Linda Deaver, University of Texas Ð Dallas Fiction: Patricia Baker, University of Texas Ð Dallas Fiction: Kate Yarbrough, University of Texas Ð Dallas SESSION D -- 3:45 - 5:15 PANEL 20 University Center Hunt-Anderson Women in Louisiana: The Neglected Majority Chair: Alice Kemp "Women's Poverty: Who Cares? It's Only Women!" Tara Lindhorse, Welfare Reform Research Project, Southern University at New Orleans Louisiana State University School of Social Work & 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 21 University Center President's B "Your Body is a Playground": Strategies of Feminist Power and Resistance for the New Millennium Chair: Karmen MacKendrick "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 22 University Center President's A Feminist Sci-Fi Formulations and Fabulations Chair: Robin Roberts "'The Sensors are Having Difficulty Penetrating the Interiors': The Female Alien in Star Trek: The Next Generation" Robin Roberts, Louisiana State University "ÔBetter Living Through ChemistryÕ: Cyborgs and the Problem of Female Sexuality in Dr. Caligari" Tria Airheart-Martin, Texas A&M University "ÔHand Me A MacheteÕ: Building and Maintaining a Buffy the Vampire Slayer Slash Fanfiction Community" Kate Bolin, Newcomb College, Tulane University PANEL 23 University Center Chastant University Center Perspectives on Poetry Chair: TBA "ÔMocking My Own RipenessÕ: 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 24 University Center Stibbs B Roundtable: Femillenniums: Young Women Bridge Theory and Practice YW Chairs/Facilitators: Carla Mancini, Carmela Murdocca and Stefanie Samuels, York University, Canada PANEL 25 University Center Mezzanine A Girl Zine Workshop YW Alison Fensterstock, Newcomb College, Tulane University Editor, Bad Girl Ann Liu, Newcomb College, Tulane University Editor, Chinese Box Ho PANEL 26 University Center Stibbs A Young Women in Search of Meaning and Rites of Passage YW Chair: Rachel Devlin, Tulane University "Re-membering Ourselves: Reflections on Spirituality and ActivismÓ 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: Who Girls of Today Look Up To" Jeanne Cashen, University of New Orleans PANEL 27 Creative Writing Section Readings Anna E. Many Lounge, 2nd floor Caroline Richardson Hall Poetry: Biljana D. Obradovic, Xavier University Poetry: Debra Phelps, Sam Houston State University Poetry: Camille Martin, Louisiana State University Fiction: Moria Crone, Louisiana State University KEYNOTE ADDRESS -- 7:00 p.m. McAllister Auditorium Free and open to the public Booksigning to follow in McAlister Auditorium lobby ÒThe Truth That Never Hurts: Thirty Years of Writing and Working for Justice and ChangeÓ a presentation by Barbara Smith Activist, scholar and writer Welcome by Susan Turrell, President South Central WomenÕs Studies Association Introduction by Teresa Soufas, Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Tulane University ¥ The conference keynote address is free and open to the public thanks to the support of the Tulane Center for Scholars, The Tulane Office of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Life, and the members of the South Central WomenÕs Studies Association Barbara Smith, keynote speaker for the Women@2K Conference, is a Black feminist writer and activist who has been politically active since the 1960s. Her articles, essays, literary criticism, and short stories have appeared in a variety of publications, including The New York Times Book Review, Ms., The Black Scholar, Gay Community News, The Guardian, The Village Voice, and The Nation. She has edited three major collections about Black Women: Conditions: Five, the Black Women's Issue (with Lorraine Bethel), 1979; All the Women Are White, All the Blacks are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies (with Gloria T. Hull and Patricia Bell Scott), 1982; and Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, 1983. She is also the co-author with Elly Bulkin and Minnie Bruce Pratt of Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti- Semitism and Racism (1984). Smith is a general editor of the recent volume The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History with Wilma Mankiller, Gwendolyn Mink, Maryse Navarro and Gloria Steinem (Houghton Mifflin, February 1998). Her most recent work is The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender and Freedom, a collection of essays and articles published in fall 1998 by Rutgers University Press. She was the 1994 recipient of the $25,000 Stonewall Award for service to the lesbian and gay community awarded by the Anderson Prize Foundation. She served on the Board of Advisors for the New York Public Library's award-winning 1994 exhibition, "Becoming Visible: The Legacy of Stonewall." She was a Scholar-in- Residence during 1995-1996 at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City, and a Fellow at the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College during 1996-1997. A guest on numerous television public affairs programs through the years, Smith has also appeared in several films, including "Pink Triangles" and Marlon Riggs' Black Is, Black Ain't." She has lectured on college and university campuses throughout the country. Barbara Smith is a co-founder of the Combahee River Collective, a Black feminist group which did political organizing in Boston from 1974-1980. She was co-founder and publisher until February 1995 of Kitchen Table Women of Color Press, the first U.S. publisher for women of color. Barbara Smith was born in Cleveland, Ohio and lived in Boston for nine years from 1972 until 1981. She now lives in Albany, New York SATURDAY, 12 MARCH 8:30 - 10:45 REGISTRATION Second floor, University Center SESSION E -- 8:45 - 10:15 PANEL 28 University Center 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, Syracuse University PANEL 29 University Center President's B Strategies for Helping Girls in Trouble "Early Intervention With At-Risk Young Female 'Status Offenders' in the Jefferson Parish Juvenile Court System" Kristen Chawla and Helen Glancy Division of Law and Psychiatry, LSU Medical Center PANEL 30 Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center Viewing Kate Chopin "Kate Chopin: A Re-Awakening" (screening) Produced by Tika Laudun and Lucille McDowell. Directed by Tika Laudun. 1998 "Preserving Kate Chopin: The Kate Chopin Home in Cloutierville, Louisiana" (slide presentation) Mary Linn Wernet, Northwestern State University of Louisiana PANEL 31 University Center 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 32 University Center Mezzanine A and B Empowerment Video Workshop YW Led by the young women from The Teenage Girls' Documentary Project 1) TGDP girls will begin each workshop by screening and discussing one of the short video projects that they produced, directed and co-edited for the TGDP. 2) The teenage videomakers will then instruct workshop participants in the basics of how to use a video camera, with the goal of producing short "video-voice" pieces on the spot 3) Each workshop participant will be invited to enter an englised recording booth, face a mirror, and record herself talking about issues concerning her developing sexuality and identity (for example, body image, romance, sexual identity) and/or revelations resulting from her participation in the conference. These mini-projects will then be recorded on 5 minute VHS tapes that participants can take home. An archival reel will also be recorded on a master tape and housed in the Newcomb College Archives, thus creating a conference record of young women's voices that reflect not only on their present-day concerns and assertions, but also a record of reactions and musings on subject matter raised at the conference. PANEL 33 University Center Chastant Open Workshop: The 5 Greatest Opportunities vs. the 5 Greatest Obstacles Facing Women and Girls Globally in the Year 2000 People drawn to this room have a little over one hour to get themselves organized 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. PANEL 34 Anna E. Many Lounge, 2nd floor Caroline Richardson Hall Creative Writing Section Readings Poetry: Christine Murphey, Program Director Environmental Studies, Tulane University Poetry: Pat Ward, University of New Orleans graduate & teacher at McMain Magnet School Poetry: Bonnie Crumly-Fastring, poet, mother & teacher Poetry: To Be Continued Ð Dillard University poets Tameka Cage, Kalinda Eaton, Nicole Perkins Poetry: Martha Serpas, The Honors College, University of Houston SESSION F -- 10:30 - 12:00 PANEL 35 Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center "Barbie Nation: An Unauthorized Tour" (screening) Director: Susan Stern, El Rio Productions, San Francisco Note: MA rating/sexually graphic in spots Distributed by New Day Films www.newday.com PANEL 36 University Center Mezzanine A and B Empowerment Video Workshop YW Continuation of earlier workshop. PANEL 37 University Center President's B Writing Like A Woman Chair: Susanne Dietzel, Newcomb College Center for Research on Women "Autobiographical 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 38 University Center Stibbs A Gender and the Visual Chair: Molly Rothenberg, Tulane University "'There is Something Frightful in Our Midst': The Double and the Masculinization of Women in Weimar Culture" Barbara Hales, University of Houston Ð Clear Lake "Fl‰nerie: 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 39 University Center 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 Negotiation Among Mexican-American Women Professionals" Esmeralda de los Santos, University of the Incarnate Word "Retraditionalization of Roles Through Bicultural Resynthesis as an Effective Means of Achieving American Indian Women's Self- Determination" Linda Napholz, University of Wisconsin Ð Milwaukee PANEL 40 University Center 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 41 University Center Hunt-Anderson Contemporary Perspectives on The Awakening Chair: TBA "Kate Chopin's Ecofeminism: A Dialogue Between The Awakening and Contemporary Women" Sarah Klein, Southwest Texas State University "'I Almost Live Here': Gender and Ethnicity in The Awakening and ÔThe StormÕ" Pamela Menke, Regis College PANEL 42 University Center Chastant Roundtable/Workshop: Teaching Women's Studies in New Orleans High Schools YW Chair: Mary Carruth, University of New Orleans Anita Calagna, Louisiana Department of Education Kim Wargo, Louise S. McGehee School Patricia Elliott, Chalmette High School PANEL 43 Anna E. Many Lounge, 2nd floor, Caroline Richardson Hall Creative Writing Section Readings Poetry: Ellen Pecoul, Librarian, McMain Magnet School and members of the McMain Poetry Club Non-fiction: Whitney Stewart, biographer for young adults Non-fiction: Joyce Zonana, University of New Orleans Fiction: Susan Hubbard, University of Central Florida PLENARY SESSION -- 12:15 - 1:45 University Center Kendall Cram Room ÒCents and Sensibility: Gender, Power and Economics Ð Your value beyond the market economyÓ a talk by Krishanti Dharmaraj Women's Institute for Leadership Development (WILD), San Francisco Krishanti Dharmaraj is a human rights educator and activist. She is currently the Executive Director and co-founder of Women's Institute for Leadership Development (WILD), an organization focusing on promoting human rights to address long term change in the United States through the conscious leadership and action of women and girls. Through her work at WILD, Ms. Dharmaraj does the following: ¥ develops strategies for implementation of international human rights standards, both nationally and locally; ¥ provides a human rights perspective on and gendered analysis of U.S. foreign policy and global economics; ¥ designs and conducts training on human rights and leadership for women and girls. She has lectured extensively in the United States and abroad on topics including colonialism, imperialism and human rights; gender equity and violence against women; the politics of population control; breaking the silence about human rights violations against members of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities; and globalization, power and economic rights. She has conducted numerous workshops and training sessions on women's human rights, cultural relativism, homophobia and anti-oppression, international human rights treaties, and the political action of women and girls. Currently, Ms. Dharmaraj is a member of the Board of Directors of Amnesty International, and is on the Citizen's Advisory Committee for Grants for the Arts in San Francisco. She is an immigrant from Sri Lanka and currently resides in San Francisco. She holds Master's degrees in International Relations and Business Administration. SESSION G -- 2:00 - 3:30 PANEL 44 University Center Stibbs B Medical Women of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Chair: Cecelia Brown "Early American and Canadian Women Physicians: Their Stuggles and SuccessesÓ Laurie Scrivener, University of Oklahoma Libraries "Mother-Doctors on the Canadian Frontier: Charlotte Ross and Elizabeth Matheson" Cecelia Brown, University of Oklahoma Libraries PANEL 45 University Center President's A Remapping Our Bodies, Our Selves: Past, Present, Future Chair: Phyllis Thompson "'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 46 University Center President's B Nineteenth/Twentieth-Century Women's Literature Chair: Nancy Maveety, Tulane University "Charlotte Bront‘'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 Vindications and Cather's O Pioneers!" Maria K. Stanonis, University of Florida ÒThe Discipline of Social Corsets: The Gendered Typification of the Southern Lady in the Diary of Sally McNeillÓ Mary Lynn Gasaway-Hill, St. MaryÕs University PANEL 47 University Center Stibbs A The African American Female Experience in the Works of Toni Morrison (Sex, Sexuality, and Spirituality) Chair: Karen Mongo, Texas WomanÕs University "Paradigms of Womanhood in Toni Morrison's Sula and Paradise" Melissa Ill, University of Denver ÒMetaphors 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 48 University Center 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 49 Freeman Auditorium Saturday Afternoon Screening/Younger Women's "Keynote": Sneak Preview and Discussion of The Desire Media Project with director Julie Gustafson and the young women of The Teenage Girls' Documentary Project The Desire Media Project is produced in collaboration the nine teenage girls from three economically and racially diverse New Orleans communities. Over the course of four years, filmmakers Julie Gustafson and Issac Webb have trained and commissioned nine teenage girls to collaborate on this unique media project. The work of these young women dramatically presents teenage voices, voices that adults rarely listen to, with a sophisticated analysis of one of today's most profound social concerns: how class, race and gender significantly affect the "choices" young women make about their futures. Through the eyes of the teenagers themselves, and of the filmmakers who document the social and interpersonal environments in which the girls live, the team explores the moral and practical decisions young women make about work, love, family and sexual activity - making evident the ways in which young women's desires and choices, often taken to be private matters, are frequently linked to larger factors. PANEL 50 Creative Writing Section Readings Anna E. Many Lounge, 2nd Floor, Newcomb College Center for Research on Women Poetry: Lee Winniford, University of Houston Poetry: Deshae E. Lott, Texas A&M University Poetry: Beverly Rainbolt, University of New Orleans Fiction: Alison Fensterstock, Newcomb College, editor Bad Girl (zine) Fiction: Darlene Olivio, photographer SESSION H -- 3:45 - 5:15 PANEL 51 University Center President's A Dead Girls Don't Say No: The Sexualization of the Lifeless Female Body Chair: Lauryn Angel-Cann ÒThe Synthetic Woman: A NecrophiliacÕs IdealÓ Amy Gingerich, University of North Texas "Love Beyond Death: A Look at Necrophilia in 19th Century British Literature" Lauryn Angel-Cann, University of North Texas "Keeping a Stiff Upper Lip: Necrophilia in Eliza HaywoodÕs 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 "Lester Ballard: The Necrophiliac as Patriarchal Hero" Kelly Herd, University of North Texas PANEL 52 University Center PresidentÕs B The View: Women's Perspectives on Body Image Issues Across the Lifespan (roundtable) Chair: Kate Victory, Texas Woman's University Jody Oomen, Texas Woman's University Judy Spira, Texas WomanÕs University Sue Hayes, Manor Care, Dallas, Texas Kamitra Brooks-Johnson, Texas WomanÕs University PANEL 53 University Center Stibbs A The African American Female Experience in the Works of Toni Morrison (Blackness) Chair: Karen Mongo, Texas WomanÕs University "Slippin' Into Darkness: Complication Blackness in Toni Morrison's Tar BabyÓ 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 SulaÓ Delores Ayers Keller, Rice University PANEL 54 University Center Chastant Roundtable: Reconverging Kali: Reuniting the Female Elements into a Feminine Unity Facilitators: R. Anya Davis and Michael Tate, University of North Texas 5 graduate students Department of Journalism University of North Texas PANEL 55 Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center Nina Rosenblum, "Through the Wire" (screening and discussion with Ms. Rosenblum) PANEL 56 University Center 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 57 University Center Mezzanine A 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 Ð Clear Lake "Medieval Women Writers: A Tradition of Strong Voice" Joanie DeForest, Art Institute of Houston PANEL 58 Anna E. Many Lounge, 2nd floor, Caroline Richardson Hall Creative Writing Section Reading Poetry: Martha McFerren, Warren Wilson Poetry: Mona Lisa Saloy, Louisiana State University and Dillard University Poetry: Carolyn Alifair Skebe, University of North Texas Fiction: Joanna Leake, Director MFA Program, University of New Orleans SATURDAY NIGHT ART EXTRAVAGANZA! 8:00 - 9:30 Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center ÒThe Feminine Products II: Good Girls Don'tÓ Fashion Show Free and open to the public Curators/Producers: Michelle DuBos, Koki Otero, Mary Kosut (femprod@aol.com), Independent Artists, Activists, Hellraisers, New Orleans Assistant producer: Alison Fensterstock, Newcomb College Host: Surprise guest TBA During the month of March, be sure to visit the ÒFeminine Products II: Good Girls DonÕtÓ art show at the Mercury Gallery at 4310 Magazine Street. Gallery hours: Saturdays 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Fashion Show Participants: Mariposa Vintage Clothing 2038 Magazine Street New Orleans, LA 70130 (504) 523-3037 Stella Dotir Fashion Design 3205 Magazine Street New Orleans, LA 70115 (504) 269-1666 Funky Monkey 3127 Magazine Street New Orleans, LA 70115 (504) 899-5587 Featuring designs by Sarah Wheelock, Michele Baker, and Susan Gisleson Michele Baker Star Steamstress Sensual Wear (504) 949-0791 Susan Giselson (504) 865-1973 Lorna Leedy (504) 484-7024 and thereÕs an art opening just down the stairs in the Newcomb Art Gallery... Deborah Kass: The Warhol Project Organized by the Newcomb Art Gallery, this exhibition features a selection of Deborah KassÕs appropriations of Andy WarholÕs now-classic Pop Art formats. By substituting a range of Jewish, female and lesbian subjects into WarholÕs familiar picture formsÑsuch as Barbra Streisand for Jackie Kennedy, Gertrude Stein for Robert Rauschenberg, and Cindy Sherman for Liza MinnelliÑKass challenges the stereotypes embedded in WarholÕs pantheon of beauty and power to question the existence of a fixed identity of self and culture. This exhibition will be on view March 8 - May 29, 1999. SUNDAY 14 MARCH Note: Participants must have pre-registered for the tour and meal. Participants should check with someone at the conference registration desk for details about where to meet the tour bus. Participants should plan their own post-prandial transportation. 10 a.m., Bus/Walking Tour of Kate ChopinÕs New Orleans led by New Orleans historian and writer Mary Gehman to be followed by 12:30 p.m., EdnaÕs Birthday Dinner (a recreation from the pages of The Awakening) Governor Noe Room TujagueÕs Restaurant, 823 Decatur Street 15 25