To locate a particular speaker, please go to the the list of participants and you will find a link to her or his session.

THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 2000


8:00-9:00 A.M. Upstairs lounge
Registration
Coffee,  tea.
THURSDAY  9:00-10:45 A.M.

Session 1: Intellectual and Academic Suppressions

Room: San Saba
Chair: Nancy Price, University of Texas at Arlington.

"Male Friendship and the Repression of the Feminine." Rachel Freudenberg, Boston College.

"Metaphors of Generation: Female Imitation in the Academy." Theresa Norman, University of Texas-Pan American.

"Political Opportunities and Ethical Dilemmas." Virginia Schattman, Ft. Worth, Texas.




Session 2: Suppression & Subversion

Room: Guadeloupe
Chair: Wendy Faris, University of Texas at Arlington.

"The Author as Female Quixote: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Her Princess Docile." Carolyn Creed, Brandon University, Manitoba, Canada.

"Countering Suppression in the Royal Court of France: Madame Palatine's Lettres Françaises." Christine Probes, University of South Florida.

"Foregrounding Femaleness to Suppress the Female Philosopher: The Case of Madame du Chatelet." Barbara Whitehead, DePauw University.

"Andre Gide and the Degradation of the Female Principle." Walter Geerts, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.


THURSDAY 11:00 A.M.-12:45 P.M.

Session 3: Myth

Room: Guadeloupe
Chair: Julia Dyson, University of Texas at Arlington.

"Mistress of the House or Mistress of the Heavens -- The Role of Women and Goddesses in Both Patriarchal and Matriarchal Societies in the Ancient Near East." Adele Asher, University of South Africa, Pretoria.

"Bull-Man and Bull-Woman: The Female Principle in the Roman Cult of Mithras." Alison B. Griffith. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

"Inanna -- From Goddess to Harlot, from Immanent Source to Physical Degradation of Living Metaphor: Is There a Way Out?" Anita Hammer, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim.

"Helen of Troy and the Suppression of Female Goddess Power." Bella Vivante, University of Arizona.




Session 4: Sexuality

Room: San Saba
Chair: Enid Arvidson, University of Texas at Arlington.

"Comparative Credibility and Feminist Legal Strategy." Margaret Denike, Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario, Canada.

"Is Polarist Feminism a Suppression of Femaleness?: Ayn Rand's Approaches to Sexuality -- Their Values and Disvalues." Bryan Register, University of Texas at Austin.

"Female 'Principals': Feminine 'Actors' in Literature of and on the Austrian Fin-de-Siécle." Neil Christian Pages, SUNY Binghamton.


THURSDAY 12:45-2:00 P.M. : LUNCH on your own. The Plaza (a food court) and the Paradise Cafe (a cafeteria)--Nos. 28 & 9 on your University Center ground-floor map--will be serving.

THURSDAY 2:0O-3:45 P.M.

Session 5: Biology & Medicine

Room: San Saba
Chair: Beth Wright, University of Texas at Arlington.

"The Female Principle in Aristotle's Biology." Sophia M. Connell, St. John's College, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

"Diagnoses of the Feminine: The Diseased as the Norm in Nineteenth-Century Images of Women." Mary S. Duffy, Middlebury College.

"NO BODIES SPEAKING; NO BODIES THERE: ON THE (dis)PLACE(ment) OF WOMEN IN THE LANGUAGE OF GENES." Geraldine Finn, Carleton University.

"Uterine Fantasies: Whither the Womb?" Ann Starr, Wellesley, Massachusetts.




Session 6: Oral Narratives / Rituals

Room: Guadeloupe
Chair: Rebecca Deen, University of Texas at Arlington.

"Preserving Femininity in Tunisia: The Role of the Sleeping Child." Angel Foster, Oxford University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

"Goddess Worship (some of the time): The Three-day Kali Mai Puja in Guyana." Philip Singer, Oakland University.

"Dilemmas of Empowerment: Negotiations of Non-Oppressive Relations of Power in Researching Hungarian Women's Life-Span Narratives." Erzebet Barat, JATE, Szeged, Hungary.

"Even the Women are Free: A Native American Case Study." Elizabeth MacDonald. Triangle Multicultural Women's History Project. Apex, North Carolina.


THURSDAY, 4:00-5:45 P.M.

Session 7: Ongoing Videos: "The Three-Day Kali Mai Puja in Guyana" and "Chants and Prayers to Kali Mai"

Room: San Jacinto




Session 8: Irigaray

Room: San Saba
Chair: Kim Van Noort, University of Texas at Arlington.

"Irigaray's (De)Constructive Project: Imagining a 'Feminine' Identity." Kathryn Drabinski, University of California, Berkeley.

"Thin Air and Silent Gravity: Luce Irigaray and the Intangibility of Ethics." Joyce Davidson and Mick Smith, University of Abertay, Dundee, Scotland.

"Blind to Touch: The Way Skin and Women Both Got Swapped." Maureen Curtin, SUNY Oswego.



THURSDAY, 5:45-7:30. Wine & Cheese (and beer) RECEPTION: Honors College. Exit University Center through No. 8 on ground-floor map & cross to building opposite (No. 32).

KEYNOTE EVENT (Concho Room)

THURSDAY 7:30 P.M.
Welcoming Remarks by Ruth Gross, Dean, UTA College of Liberal Arts.

Introduction by Susan Hekman, University of Texas at Arlington.

Keynote Speaker
MARTHA NUSSBAUM. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO SCHOOL OF LAW

"Secret Sewers of Vice: Disgust, Bodies, and the Law."


FRIDAY, 9:00-10:45 A.M.


Session 9: Matrimony / "Maternity" / Constitution of the Feminine

Room: San Saba
Chair: Antonia Sol, University of Texas at Arlington.

"Definitions of the Female in 17th-Century Sermons on Matrimony." Silke Falkner, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

"Mortal Constructs: Love, Marriage, and the Suppression of Woman in Mary Hays's The Victim of Prejudice." Anne Close, Loyola University, Chicago.

"The Harte Must Needs be Irish": The Suppression of the Wetnurse in Irish Writing." Bonnie Blackwell, Texas Christian University.




Session 10: Irigaray, Kristeva, & the Ancients

Room: Guadeloupe
Chair: Victoria Farrar-Myers, University of Texas at Arlington.

" 'The Dionysian Paradigm': Eternal Return of the Chora -- the Feminine in Greek Drama." Robb Pocklington, Southern Methodist University.

"Eclipsing the Patriarchal Order: Re-Emerging Spiritualities and the Sacred Actor." Jade McCutcheon, Centre for Cultural Research into Risk, Charles Sturt Univeristy, Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia.

"The Offer of Rhetorike." Laine M. Harrington, Graduate Theological Union.

"Irigaray's Eastern Turn: Tantra and An Ethics of Sexual Différence." Simone Roberts, University of Texas at Dallas.




Session 11: Revising Transgressive Icons in Irish/British and North American Cultures 1890-1990

Room: Palo Pinto
Chair: Karen Steele, Texas Christian University.

"Reclaiming Malintzin: The Creation of Spiritual and Literary Maternity." Margaret M. S. Lowry. Texas Christian University.

" 'A little afraid of the women of today': Evaluating a Modernist Historiography of the New Woman." Elizabeth Walls, Texas Christian University.

"Mother Ireland Talks Back: Female Poets of the Celtic Revival." Karen Steele, Texas Christian University


FRIDAY, 11:00 A.M.-12:45 P.M.

Session 12: L'Exposition de la Femme

Room: Palo Pinto
Chair: Victor J. Vitanza, University of Texas at Arlington.

"Coming to/through Writing: Cixous and Sexual Différence. Diane Davis, University of Iowa.

"Arctic Virgins: Kristeva and the Semiotics of Circumpolar Female Iconography." Cynthia Haynes, University of Texas at Dallas.

"Lip-Locked: Irigaray Beside Herself; Or, Notes Toward a Post-Genital Writing." Michelle Ballif, University of Georgia.




Session 13: Moving Between Worlds: Women's Spirituality in Academia

Room: San Saba
Chair: Diane Jenett, Palo Alto, California.

"Reclaiming the Feminine Principle in Research." Dorothy Ettling, University of the Incarnate Word.

"Red Rice for Bhagavati: Pongala -- A Woman's Ritual in Kerala, South India." Dianne Jenett, Palo Alto, California.

"She Brings Forth All Things From Within Her Body: Intrinsic Movement as Transformative Spiritual Practice and Expression of Women's Spirituality." Louise M. Pare, California Institute of Integral Studies.

"Sainte Anne: Grandmother, Goddess, and Research Guide." Valerie Kack-Brice, Grass Valley, California.

"Embodied Spiritual Autobiography: A New Definition for Performance Art." Leah Taylor, California Institute of Integral Studies.




Session 14: Struggles for Freedom I

Room: Guadeloupe
Chair: Christine Murray, University of Texas at Arlington.

"The Loss of the Female in Early Black Abolitionism, 1775-1830." John Saillant, Western Michigan University.

"Women, Combatants, and Indians: The Women of the Zapatista National Liberation Army." Claudia Magallanes, University of the Americas, Puebla, Mexico.

"The Clitoridectomy Controversy in Kenya: the 'Woman's Affair' that Wasn't." Katherine Luongo, University of Iowa.


FRIDAY, 12:45-2:00 P.M. LUNCH on your own. The Plaza (a food court) and The Paradise Cafe (a cafeteria)--Nos. 28 & 19 on your University Center ground-floor map--will be serving.

Friday, 2:00-3:45 P.M.

Session 15: Maternity

Room: San Saba
Chair: Elizabeth Ordoñez, University of Texas at Arlington.

"A Maternal Genealogy of Wisdom: The Education of the Virgin in Spanish Iconography." Emilie L. Bergmann, University of California, Berkeley.

"Mourning the Maternal: Modalities of Self and Relation." Mielle Chandler, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

"Gift-Giving as the Female Principle vs. Patriarchal Capitalism." Genevieve Vaughan, Austin, Texas.




Session 16: Metaphysical & Anti-Metaphysical Constructions

Room: Palo Pinto
Chair: Emma Bianchi, University of California, Berkeley.

"Parmenides and His Goddesses." Rose Cherubin, George Mason University.

"Mapping the Site of the Forgotten Feminine: The 'Unsaid' in Heidegger, Trakl, and Plato." Darlene Rigo, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

"The Paradox of Poststructuralist Woman: Reading Lacan's and Derrida's Feminine Tropes." Pei-jing Li, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.




Session 17: The Matter of Nature

Room: Guadeloupe
Chair: Susan Hekman, University of Texas at Arlington.

"Sartre and the Lure of Feminine Slime." Wendy O'Shea-Meddour, Postgraduate Center of Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff, Wales.

"I's Wide Shut: Or, Can Woman Tell the 'Truth' about Her Experiences as a Body?" Lisa Hill, Southeastern Oklahoma State University.

"Rereading the Natural Divine: Emerson, Abbey, Austin." Dennis Vanderspek, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.


FRIDAY 4:00-5:45 P.M.

Session 18: Ethnicities & Exotics

Room: Guadeloupe
Chair: Stephanie Cole, University of Texas at Arlington.

"You Can't Go Home Again: Negritude Eclipses the Woman." Linda Clemente, Ripon College.

"Santería Ritual Costumes: A Cross-Cultural Analysis." Mary Ann Clark, Rice University.

"In Harem's Way: British Women Dis-Cover the Turkish Woman." Vicki Sapp, University of Texas at Arlington.

"Second Thoughts on the Feminine Principle among the Sikhs." Nikky Singh, Colby College.




Session 19: Cyborg/Cyber-Feminism & Technology

Room: San Saba
Chair: Cynthia Haynes, University of Texas at Dallas.

"Putting Mater Back in the Matrix: Reproductive Autonomy and CyberImmortality." Edrie Sobstyl, University of Texas at Dallas.

"The Urban Cyborg Sha(wo)man Manifesto: The City-Woman-Techne Machine." Karen Wendy Gilbert, Borough of Manhattan Community College.

"Towards a Degenderized Science or a Non-Univocal Science." E. Gomez and L. Dominguez, University of the Basque Country, Spain.

"Stealth Feminism." Mary Cross, Fairleigh Dickinson University.




Session 20: Autobiography

Room: Palo Pinto
Chair: Carolyn Barros, University of Texas at Arlington.

"The Autobiography of Constance Lytton: A Mobilization of the Discourse on Human Rights." Carolyn Tilghman Bitzenhofer, University of Notre Dame.

"Diagnosing Riot-Grrl Rebellion: Conformity and Counter-Stories." Abby Wilkerson, George Washington University.

"Femina ad Hominem: Woman Confronting Philosophy." Eleanor M. Godway, Central Connecticutt State University.



FRIDAY 5:45-7:30 P.M. Punch reception in The Gallery--No. 27 on 1st-floor map--and Cash Bar, Rio Grande Ballroom, Section C.

KEYNOTE EVENT (Concho Room)

FRIDAY 7:30 P.M.
Welcoming Remarks and Introduction of Keynote speaker by Dana Dunn, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs.

Keynote Speaker
DRUCILLA CORNELL, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW

"Dreaming Up Solidarity: Feminist Witnessing and the Community of the Ought to Be."


SATURDAY 9:00-10:45 A.M.


Session 21: Female Heroes

Room: San Saba
Chair: Rebekah Mercer, Harcourt Brace, Fort Worth, Texas.

"Sex and Self-Determination: A New Approach to Female Heroes." Sandra Collins, University of Pittsburgh.

"Sub-texts from a 50's Girlhood: Mistress Masham's Repose and Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God." Nina Pelikan Straus, SUNY Purchase.

"Impossible Images: Julian of Norwich's Visionary Challenge to Patristic Hierarchy." Lisa Manter, St. Mary's College of California.

"El juego del valor/The Brave Game: Escaramuzas charras -- From Ornament to Subsidiary Opponents." Ana Cristina Ramirez Barreto, University of Michoacán, Michoacán, Mexico.




Session 22: Japanese Women

Room: Guadeloupe
Chair: Laurin Porter, University of Texas at Arlington.

"Because the Woman Spoke First: The Exchange between Men and Women in Classical Japanese Literature." Sonja Arntzen, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

"Reconfiguring Modern Japanese Literature: Strategies in the Reclaiming of the Female Voice." Janice Brown, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

"The Inherent Power of Japanese Women: Bringing Back the Spirit in Princess Mononoke." Eileen Mikals-Adachi, University of Notre Dame.

"From Collaborators in War to Resisters Against War: Contemporary Japanese Women Clarify Responsibility for Japanese Aggression." Akiko Tsutsui, Minneapolis, Minnesota.


SATURDAY, 11:00 A.M.-12:45 P.M.

Session 23: Female Resistance in Art & Archaeology

Room: Guadeloupe
Chair: Mary Vaccaro, University of Texas at Arlington.

"Female Heroic Sculpture in a Man's World: The Art of Marcello (1836-1879)." Caterina Pierre, CUNY Graduate Center.

" 'Art Was Made by Men for Men': The Denigration of Female Creativity in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Germany." Ann McGlashan, Baylor University.

"Subversive Journeys in Paint: Indonesian Women Artists Hijack Hallowed Iconographies." Astri Wright, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., Canada.

"The Women of Dionysos: A Cross-Cultural Course in Female Shamanism." Vicky Noble, Freedom, California.




Session 24: Oriental & Occidental Models

Room: San Saba
Chair: Aime Israel-Pelletier, University of Texas at Arlington.

"China, Japan, and the Birth of Modernism: Eastern Aesthetics and the Reassertion of the Female Principle." Jan Krikke, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

"The Sex Model of History: The Fall and Rise of the Female Principle." Lawrence Taub, Basking Ridge, New Jersey.

"Tribal Belly Dancing: Transgressing a Modernist Discourse or Recreating the Goddess." Barbara Sellers-Young, University of California, Davis.

"Adultery as a Transgression of the Social Order and a Revolt Against the Suppression of Femaleness." Maria Mikoltchak, University of South Carolina.




Session 25: Female Prophecy & Potential

Room: Palo Pinto
Chair: Jane Hickerson, University of Texas at Arlington.

" 'Every Teaching of Women is to be Held Suspect': The Suppression of Female Prophecy at the Close of the Middle Ages." Claire Sahlin, Texas Women's University.

"The Word Made Action: Scripture and the Gendered Process of Pilgrimage in The Pilgrim's Progress and The Sovereignty of God." Heather Kopelson, University of Iowa.

"The Challenge of Establishing and Maintaining a Relational Self in a Stratified World: An Interpretive Account of Poverty Utilizing Critical Theory and Depth Psychology." Hannah Kimsey-Siegel and Belle McDonnell, Saybrook Graduate School and Research Institute, San Francisco.

"Women with Ill-Regulated Desires: The Crisis of Male Authorship in the Anglo-Indian Romance." Anindyo Roy, Colby College.


SATURDAY 12:45-2:00 P.M. LUNCH on your own. The Paradise Cafe only--No. 19 on ground-floor map--will be serving.

SATURDAY 2:00-3:45 P.M.

Session 26: Sex & Death

Room: Guadeloupe
Chair: Teresa Vasquez, University of Texas at Arlington.

"Sexual Suppression of Young Females in Early Modern South Italy." Antonio Calabria, University of Texas at San Antonio.

"The Goddess Night: Explorations into the Relationship Between the Suppression of Female Power and the Fear of Death." Burl B. Hall, Fredricksburg, Virginia.

"The Link Between Women and Death in Art and Advertising." Diana York Blaine, University of North Texas.

"Plugged into Suppression: Hostility and Hope in the Feminist Science Fiction of Charnas, Sheldon, and Tiptree." Bill Clemente, Peru State College.




Session 27: Visual Arts

Room: San Saba
Chair: Kenda North, University of Texas at Arlington.

"The Construction of Maternity." Stefanie Olson, University of Kansas.

"Suppressions of Femaleness in Duchamps' Etants Donne (1946-1966)." Zita Farrell, Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Museum of Art.

"Nancy Spero's Black Paintings (1959-1966): Subverting the Postwar Modern Man Discourse / Recovering Repressed Female Subjectivities." Marilynn L. Board, SUNY Geneseo.

"Confronting the Predatory: Women Artists Explore the Myths Surrounding Rape and Beauty." Sarita Heer, Case Western Reserve University.


SATURDAY 4:00-5:45 P.M.

Session 28: Practices in Religion, Myth, & Archaeological Interpretation

Room: San Saba
Chair: Renate Gerulaitis, Oakland University.

"Monica: The Feminine Face of Christ." Anne-Marie Bowery, Baylor University.

"Suppressing Alternative Paradigms in Archaeology and Reconsidering Signifiers from the Past." Kristy Coleman, Claremont Graduate University.

" 'The Way it Is': Patterning Gender Differentiation in Myth." Lorna Beard, University of Arkansas.

"The Ambiguity of Mythology: Female Power Subverted by Patriarchal Intentions, and its Reversals." Steven Walker, Rutgers University.




Session 29: Visual Arts & Slide Shows

Room: Guadeloupe
Chair: Nancy Wood. University of Texas at Arlington.

"Looking Her in the Eye." Marge Gapp, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.




SATURDAY 5:45-7:30 P.M. Buffet Dinner, Bluebonnet Ballroom, No. 2, on University Center Ground-floor Map.

KEYNOTE EVENT (Concho Room)

SATURDAY 7:30-9:30 P.M. Welcoming Remarks
Phil Cohen, Chair, UTA Department of English.

Introduction by Julia Dyson, University of Texas at Arlington

Keynote Speaker
EVA KEULS, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

"The Male Voice of Feminism: The Strange Case of the Penthesilea Painter."

Introduction by Stacy Alaimo, University of Texas at Arlington

Keynote Speaker
NANCY TUANA, UNIVERSITY OF OREGON

"The Power of Eros: The Suppression of Female Sexuality in the West"