Conference Contents

OPENING REMARKS

• Bonnie Thornton Dill, Chair, University of Maryland, Women’s Studies
• Deborah Rosenfelt, University of Maryland, Women’s Studies
• Mariana Valverde, University of  Toronto, Criminology, Searching for the Roots of
  20th Century Socialist Feminism: Claire Moses’ Work on 19th-Century French Feminists

HISTORIES OF FEMINIST MOVEMENTS

• Sara Evans, University of Minnesota, History, moderator
• Nancy Hewitt, Rutgers University, History and Women’s Studies, Feminist Frequencies: Regenerating the Wave Metaphor
• Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, Morgan State University, History, African American Feminism:
  The Past Debate
• Rosalind Petchesky, Hunter College, Political Science and Women’s Studies,
  Two Decades of Transnational Feminisms: A Self-Critical Reflection
• Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Temple University, English, Reading from the poem “Draft 49: Turns”

SEXUALITY, DESIRE, IDENTITY: TERRAINS OF SEXUAL KNOWLEDGE

• Martha Vicinus, University of Michigan, English, moderator
• Judith Gardiner, University of Illinois at Chicago, English and Gender and Women’s Studies,
  Female Masculinity
• Leisa D. Meyer, College of William and Mary, American Studies and History,
  Talking/Knowing Sex: Women’s Interventions in the Terrain of Sexual Knowledge
• Susan S. Lanser, Brandeis University, English, Comparative Literature, and Women’s and
  Gender Studies, The Sexuality of History
• Matt Richardson, University of Texas, English, African and African Diaspora Studies and Women’s
  and Gender Studies, Putting Critical Race Theory and Trans Theory into Dialogue

THEORY AND POLICY FOR A CHANGING WORLD

• Heidi Hartmann, Institute for Women’s Policy Research, moderator
• Ruth Milkman, City University of New York, Sociology, Women in the Immigrants Rights Movement
• Marilyn Mobley, Case Western Reserve University, Diversity and Equal Opportunity Office,
  Diversity and Inclusion: Implementing Policies for Campus Transformation
• Rayna Rapp, New York University, Anthropology, Chasing Science: Children’s Brains, Neuroscience,
  Special Ed, and the Work of Mothers
• Judith Stacey, New York University, Sociology and Social and Cultural Analysis,
  Unhitched: Love, Marriage, and Family Values from West Hollywood to Western China

Pre-Conference History Colloquium

DOING HISTORY, DOING FEMINISM: THREE DECADES OF CHANGE

Discussion with Feminist Studies history editors, past and present. Presented by the University of Maryland Department of History, the Miller Center for Historical Studies, and the Women’s and Gender History Caucus. Panelists include:

• Mary Ryan, Johns Hopkins University
• Ellen Ross, Ramapo College
• Tessie Liu, Northwestern University
• Uta Poiger, University of Washington
• Ashwini Tambe, University of Toronto

Sponsored by Feminist Studies. Co-sponsored by the University of Maryland Department of Women’s Studies, the College of Arts and Humanities; the departments of American Studies, Anthropology, English, History, and Sociology; McKeldin Library; the Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity; and the Curriculum Transformation Project.