April 14, 1986

5th Annual Gender Studies Symposium

Gender, Race, Class, and Culture:  Exploring the Issues
April 14-16, 1986

Monday, April 14, 1986

8-8:30 a.m., Thayer Rooms of Templeton College Center
Registration and Coffee

8:30-9:30 a.m., Thayer Rooms
Childcare: Institutionalized Gender Stratification, Sheri Bartlett and Dorinda Welle

8:30-9:30 a.m., Gray Room
Research on Women’s Lives: The Madwoman in the Basement, Linda Beavey and Ursula Smith

9:30-11:00 a.m., Thayer Rooms
Woman’s Consciousness in Literature after 1800
Selected papers from English 243, Women Writers after 1800

9:30-11:00 a.m., Gray Room
Gender, Code and Culture
Shulamit Levine, Sarah Mitchell, and Amy Smith

11:00-12:30, Thayer Rooms
Language, Power and Sexuality: Issues in Feminist Literary Theory
Bonnie Anderson, Lisa Hoesel, Jill Marts, Robert Markley

11:00-12:30, Gray Room
Gender and Health Issues
Bonnie Blatchford, Katrina Allen, Sarah Jo Chaplen and Louise Gerity

12:30-1:30 p.m., Thayer Rooms
Homeless Women
Robyn Franzen and Laure Underwood

1:30-3:00 p.m., Thayer Rooms
Visions of Community
Mikel Garcia and Nancy Porter

1:30-3:00 p.m., Gray Room
Gender, Epistemology and Value
Linda Olds, Sally Markovitz and Kirk Reynolds

3:30 p.m., Council Chamber, Templeton College Center
Poetry Reading by Nikki Giovanni

7:30 p.m., Council Chamber, Templeton College Center
Keynote Address by Nikki Giovanni
“Gender, Race, Class and Culture”

Tuesday, April 15

8:30-9:30 a.m., Tomlinson Room, Library
Women and the Nicaraguan Revolution: A Multi-Media Presentation
Cheryl Ibabao, Chayatha Phelps and Linda Sandstrom

8:30-9:30 a.m., Thayer Rooms
Re-entry Women as Students
Diana Larson, Janice Marie Allard and Judy Fish

9:30-11:00 a.m., Thayer Rooms
The Voice of Ethnic Women: A Response to Acculturation
Maria De Marin, Maricita Catibayan and Robert Wong

9:30-11:00 a.m., Gray Room
Curriculum Workshop with Walter Williams
(limited enrollment)

11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Thayer Rooms
Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective I (Asia)
Jeff Barlow, Jane Atkinson and Lorna Lockwood

12:30 p.m., Tomlinson Room of Library
Showing of “Quilting in Women’s Lives” (film)

1:00-2:00 p.m., Thayer Rooms
Gender and Sexual Preferences
Helena Carlson and L. J. “Tess” Tessier

2:00-3:30 p.m., Thayer Rooms
Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective II (Africa)
Sandra Jenkins and Deborah Heath

3:30 p.m., Council Chamber, Templeton College Center
Lecture by Walter Williams
Gender and Male Sexuality: Cross-Cultural Experience

6:30 p.m., Stamm Dining Room, Templeton College Center
Dinner for Symposium Speakers and Moderators

Wednesday, April 16

8:30-10:00 a.m., Thayer Rooms
Literature and Gender I
Matthew Pursell, Cassie Lynes, Diane Freedman, Gail Berkley

8:30-10:10 a.m., Gray Room
The Gender and the Curriculum Project at the College of Saint Benedict and St. John’s University
Oswald J. Mayers, Joan Steck, Martha Blauvelt, Jim Nelson

10:00-11:30 a.m., Thayer Rooms
Literature and Gender II
Pamela Fox, Kristin Berg and Jean Ward

10:00-11:30 a.m., Gray Room
Jewish Women Activists of the Twentieth Century
Shulamit Levine, Janet Rosen and Catherine Sameh

11:30 a.m., Tomlinson Room of Library
Showing of “Quilting in Women’s Lives” (film)

11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Thayer Rooms
Poetry Readings
Eliza Balaher, Elaine Childs Maveety, and others

1:30-3:00 p.m., Thayer Rooms
Gender and Relationships
Christine Pettingill, Denise Solomon, Lisa Konigsberg, and Diana Larson

1:30-3:00 p.m., Grey Room
Religion and Feminism
Shulamit Levine, Amy Smith and Frida Furman

3:00-4:30 p.m., Thayer Rooms
Body Images: Depiction of the Female Body by Male and Female Writers
Gayle Shadduck, Ruth Saxton, Linda Goodrich-Giray

3:00-4:30 p.m., Gray Room
Life History
Sheri Bartlett, Tom Collins, Anne Seymour-St. John