Diff·f;ult al(lgues Creativewell, Inc <::< ?=:> _Lectures FOR BOOKING INFORMATION: INFO@CREATIVEWELLCOM 973.783.78575' TOLL FREE800-743-9182 WWW.CREATIVEWELLCOM VISIT Us AT BOOTH 49 MEET CLARISSA PINKOlA ESTES, PH.D. AT OUR BOOTH FRIDAY & SATURDAY llAM - 1 :00 PM ENGAGE • INSPIRE· TRANSFORM Grand Prize: A 16 x 20 Digital Print valued at $1,000 A photograph by Donna Ferrato, the award-winning photojournalist, author, and founder of Domestic Abuse Awareness, tnc.. whose work has changed laws. www.donnaferrato.com OUR BOOTH RAFFLE Two sets of colorful peace baskets handmade by women in the Women for Women International Rwanda program. www.womenforwomen.org Inquire about speakers from Women for Women International. Also giving away a vibrant fuchsia tie-dyed apron made by women in the Women for Women International Nigeria program. ---------------------------------------, CONFERENCE OVERVIEW & LOGISTICS TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS President's Welcome Conference Highlights Conference at a Glance Hotel Maps Keynote and Plenary Sessions First Time Attendee Information Pre-Conference Schedule at a Glance Pre-Conference Schedule Detail The OpEd Project Overview Feminist Methodology Workshop Overview Teagle Faculty Development Workshop Overview Acknowledgements and Awards A Brief (and Incomplete) History of the Women of Color Caucus Membership and Leadership Meeting Information Session Format and Program Theme Information Chronological Program Session Titles with Theme Detail Chronological Program Descriptions Participant Index Subject Index Book Reading and Signing Schedule Exhibit Hall Map and Participant Index Advertiser Index NWSA2011 4 5 6-7 8-9 12-17 16 21 22-30 31 31 32 34-35 36 38-39 40- 41 42- 66 68 -203 204 -211 212 -213 214 -215 216-217 218 219 NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE 3 PRESIDENT'S WELCOME CONFERENCE OVERVIEW & LOGISTICS November 2010 Dear Colleagues, My work as National Women's Studies Association president and program co-chair has been extremely satisfying. I am especially pleased by the changes underway in NWSA as we strive to be the central organization for sharing the latest intersectional feminist scholarship and continue to advance our commitment to building a vibrant multi-racial, multi-ethnic feminist community. I am also happy to welcome you to Difficult Dialogues II, where we expect to build on the excitement and energy of last year's conference. Difficult Dialogues II will explore a range of concepts and issues that remain under theorized and under examined in the field of women's studies. Last year first-time attendees told us the Atlanta conference was the best conference they had ever attended; those who had not been for several years reignited their passion for NWSA; and those who have been long time dedicated members were delighted with the attendance and quality of the program. We look forward to sustaining that quality and momentum this year. As outgoing president I am delighted to welcome my friend and colleague Bonnie Thornton Dill as NWSA president from 2010 to 2012. I remain excited about NWSA's future and the role you can play in its evolution, and once again 1welcome you to the conference. Sincerely, Beverly Guy-Sheftall NWSA President and Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women's Studies, Spelman College 4 NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE CONFERENCE OVERVIEW & LOGISTICS CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS THURSDAY NOVEMBER 11 SATURDAY NOVEMBER 13 RENYARAMIREZ AND ANDREA SMITH KEYNOTEAND BOOK SIGNING 7-9PM • Plaza Ballroom DEF POSTER SESSION 12:00 - 1:30 PM • Plaza Ballroom Foyer INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN'S STUDIES AND SERVICES, METROPOLITAN STATECOLLEGEOF DENVER SPONSOREDRECEPTION 9 - llPM • Plaza Ballroom Foyer PLENARY SESSION: COMPLICATING THE QUEER AND BOOK S,GN,NG: JUANA MARIA RODRIGUEZ AND GAYATRI GOPINATH 12:55 - 2:10 PM • Plaza Ballroom EF SUNY PRESS SPONSORED RECEPTION 2:30 - 3:30 PM • Exhibit Hall Booth 51 & 52 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 12 SEAL PRESS SPONSORED RECEPTION 5:10 - 6:10 PM • Exhibit Hall Booth 35POSTERSESSION 12:00 - 1:30 PM • Plaza Ballroom Foyer MEMBERSHIP ASSEMBLY MEETING 5:10 - 6:25 PM • Directors Row HPLENARYSESSION: COLLABORATION AS FEMINIST PRAXIS REVISITED ANDBOOK S,GNING: CHANDRATALPADE MOHANTY AND M. JACQUI ALEXANDER 12:55- 2:10 PM • Plaza Ballroom EF GIRLS AND THEIR ALLIES RECEPTION 6:30 - 8:00 PM • Plaza Ballroom D SUNY PRESS SPONSORED RECEPTION 5:00 - 6:00 PM • Exhibit Hall Booth 51 & 52 UNIVERSITY OF COlORADO AND FRIENDS SPONSORED WELCOME RECEPTION 7:00 - 9:00 PM • Directors Row I FEMINIST FORMATIONS SPONSORED RECEPTIONAND SPEAKER 4:30 - 6:30 PM • Plaza Lobby Level, Directors Row I ANANYA DANCE THEATRE 8:00 -9:30 PM • Plaza Ballroom EF WOMEN OF COLOR CAUCUS STUDENTESSAY AWARDS AND RECEPTION 5:30 - 7 PM • Plaza Ballroom D NATIONAL WOMEN'S STUDIES ASSOCIATION RECEPTION 9:30 - 11:00PM • Plaza Ballroom Foyer DOCTORAL PROGRAM CHAIRS RECEPTION 7 - 9 PM • Directors Row) SUNDAY NOVEMBER 14 LOCALEVENT: FEMINISM & CO.: ART, SEX, POLITICS RECEPTION AND PERFORMANCE 7:30 -9:00 PM • Museum of Contemporary Art Denver DELEGATE ASSEMBLY MEETING 8:00 - 9:15 AM • Directors Row J GOVERNING COUNCil MEETING 10:00 - 5:00 PM • Directors Row H NATIONAL WOMEN'S STUDIES ASSOCIATION EMPLOYMENT SERVICE Thursday-Saturday, November 11-13,9 AM-7 PM Sunday, November 14, 9 AM-12 PM NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE 5 CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE CONFERENCE OVERVIEW & LOGISTICS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11 7:00 AM - 7:00 PM 9:00 AM - 7:00 PM 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM 12:55 PM 12:55 PM - 2:10 PM 2:20 PM - 3:35 PM 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM 3:00 PM - 7:00 PM 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12 7:00 AM - 7:00 PM 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM 9:00 AM - 7:00 PM 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM 9:25 AM - 10:40 AM 10:50 AM - 12:05 PM 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM 12:55 PM - 2:10 PM 2:20 PM - 3:35 PM 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM 5:10 PM - 6:25 PM CONFERENCE-AT-A-G LANCE General Conference Registration Employment Service Program Administration and Development Pre-Conference Campus Women's Center's Pre-Conference Women of Color Leadership Project The OpEd Project Seminar Teagle Foundation Faculty Development Workshop: Civic Engagement in the Women's and Gender Studies Classroom: Power and Privilege at the Intersections of Race, Class, and Nation Feminist Methodology Workshop: Mixed Methods for Feminist Research GENERAL CONFERENCE SESSIONS BEGIN General Conference Break-out Sessions General Conference Break-out Sessions General Conference Break-out Sessions Exhibit Hall Open Keynote Address: Renya Ramirez and Andrea Smith General Conference Registration Exhibit Hall Open Employment Service General Conference Break-out Sessions General Conference Break-out Sessions General Conference Break-out Sessions Poster Sessions and lunch/networking time Plenary Session: Collaboration as Feminist Praxis Revisited General Conference Break-out Sessions General Conference Break-out Sessions General Conference Break-out Sessions 6 NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE CONFERENCE OVERVIEW & LOGISTICS CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13 7:00 AM - 7:00 PM 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM 9:00 AM - 7:00 PM 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM 9:25 AM -10:40 AM 10:50 AM -12:05 PM 12:00 PM -1:30 PM 12:55 PM - 2:10 PM 2:20 PM - 3:35 PM 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM 5:10 PM - 6:25 PM 5:10 PM -6:25 PM 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14 9:00 AM -NOON 9:00 AM - NOON 9:00 AM - NOON 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM 9:25 AM -10:40 AM 10:50 AM -12:05 PM 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM 10:00AM - 5:00 PM General Conference Registration Exhibit Hall Open Employment Service General Conference Break-out Sessions General Conference Break-out Sessions General Conference Break-out Sessions Poster Sessions and lunch/networking time Plenary Session: Complicating the Queer General Conference Break-out Sessions General Conference Break-out Sessions General Conference Break-out Sessions Membership Assembly Meeting Ananya Dance Theatre General Conference Registration (NWSA exhibot Booth) Employment Service Exhibit Hall Open Delegate Assembly Meeting General Conference Break-out Sessions General Conference Break-out Sessions General Conference Break-out Sessions General Conference Break-out Sessions Governing Council Meeting CONFERENCE REGISTRATION LOCATION & HOURS PLAZA REGISTRATION OFFICE: THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY: 7:00 AM - 7:00 PM NWSA EXHIBIT BOOTH: SUNDAY: 9:00 AM - 12 NOON 7NWSA2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE HOTEL MAPS ... CONFERENCE OVERVIEW & LOGISTICS SHERATON HOTEL CONFERENCE ROOMS LOBBY LEVEL H EXIT I Childcare, some meetings, receptions and a few breakout sessions will occur on the lobby level shown here. c::~:] E ELEVATORS WOMEN MEN TO LOBBY 8 NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE pCONFERENCE OVERVIEW & LOGISTICS HOTEL MAPS SHERATON HOTEL CONFERENCE ROOMS CONCOURSE LEVEL The keynote, plenary sessions, and most breakout sessions willoccur on the concourse level shown here. SERVICE Be EXIT SERVICE Be FREIGHT EXIT ELEVATOR..ro--..IXl._.....l:lJ..""~..oo._...m---lX:I-,, A D FC HEART OF EXIT HOUSE ONLY GENDER NEUTRAL WOMEN TO PARKING GARAGE B PLAZABALLROOM E TOiikWERI. CUENT OFFICE I • • 17 THE FOLLOWING ROOMS ARE AUDIO-VISUAL EQUIPPED: THURSDAY:Governor's Square 9,10,11, Plaza Court 1,2,7, 8 FRIDAY-SUNDAY:Governor's Square 9, 10, Plaza Court 1,2,6,7,8 • • • • WOMEN GENDER NEUTRAL NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE 9 :q THE MIRAGE OF A SPACE BETWeENN"ruM~ AND Nunuu EVELYN FOX KELLER The Mirage of a Space between Nature and Nurture EVELYN FOX KELLER 120 pages, 3 illustrations, paper, $'8·95 IIIIIIIlIllI "Evelyn Fox Keller is at her best dissecting the assumptions and histories that have come to shape a particular version of blology, genes, and life."-SARAH FRANKLIN I'm Black When I'm Singing, I'm Blue When I Ain't and Other Plays SONIA SANCHEZ EDITED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JACQUELJNE WOOD 196 pages, paper, $19.95 "I am always struck by the fearlessness of[Sonia's] intellect, the effortless musicality of her language, and her commitment to putting these gjfts-c-always-c-in service of the Struggle." -RUBY DEE Leaving Art Writings on Performance, Politics, and Publics, 1974-2007 SUZAN N E LACY 424 pages, 74 illustrations, paper, $27-95 "Suzanne Lacy is the most important public artist working today .... Her feminist energy infuses this book."-LUCY R. LIPPARD Correspondence Course An Epistolary History of Carolee Schneemann and Her Circle KRISTINE STILES, EOlTOR 576 pages, 92 illustrations (incl. 24 in color), paper, $29.95 "Correspondence Course demonstrates that letters, no less than canvases or installations, are dense works of art. ... A brilliant, breath-taking, stunning book. "-PEG GY PH ELAN The Promise of Happiness SARA AHMED 328 pages, paper, $23.95 "At a time when happiness studies are all the rage and feminism is accused of destroying women's happiness, Sara Ahmed offers a bold critique of the consensus that happiness is an unconditional good."-RITA FELSKI UN.IVERSITY PRESS Time Binds Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories ELIZABETH FREEMAN , Perverse Modernities 264 pages, 21 illustrations, paper, $22.95 "Blazing and brilliant. Elizabeth Freeman forges claims with texture, rigor, relevance and grace, giving her masterful, original study a voice of unusual tenderness and depth." -KATHRYN BOND STOCKTON Special 20% discount for NWSA 2010 attendees! Contact us: exhibits@dukeupress.edu Toll-Free 1-888-651-0122 www.d uke up ressu du pWomen Studying Pink Noises Women on Electronic Music and Sound TARA RODGERS 336 pages, 38 illustrations, paper, $23·95 "A breath offresh air when you look at how many electronic music books are about more of the same: boys with toyso"-PAUL D. MILLER, AKA DJ SPOOKY Surfer Girls in the New World Order KRISTA COMER 296 pages, 67 b&w illustrations, paper, $zl95 "Fantastic. The only book that I know of to address girls' and women's surfing from an analyti- cal perspective."-LESLlE HEYWOOD Thiefing Sugar Eroticism between Women in Caribbean Literature OMISE'EKE NATASHA TINSLEY Perverse Modemities 288 pages, 4 photographs, paper, $23·95 "Luscious, abundant, and rich-those are apt words for. .this captivating and lyrical explora- tion of what it meant in the twentieth century to be a Caribbean woman who loves women." -GLORIA WEKKER Terrorizing Women Feminicide in the Americas ROSA-LINDA FREGOSO AND CYNTHIA BEJARANO, EDITORS 416 pages, 15 illustrations, paper, $25·95 "This one-of-a-kind book presents a collaborative hemispheric conversation among feminists responding to a crisis of overwhelming importance. It is a call to action from the field." -GEORGE LIPSITZ Alimentary Tracts Appetites, Aversions, and the Postcolonial PARAMA ROY Next Wave: New Direc;tion~in Women'~ Studie~ 304 pages, paper, $23·95 "This splendid book uses ideas about food, fasting and famine to explore the Indian colonial sensorium in a truly original manner. It is beautifully and forcefully written." ~ARJUN APPADURAI Toll-free'-888-65'-0122 www.dukeupress.edu Special 20% discount for NWSA 2010 attendees! Contact us: exhibits@dukeupress.edu Pink Noises Surfer Girls ...... New WIldd Order UNIVERSITV PRESS Shaping women's lives METROPOLITAN STATE COLLEGE o/DENVER Join the speakers after the keynote presentation for a booksigning and reception sponsored by the Metropolitan StateCollege of Denver In NativeAmericans and the Christian Right, Andrea Smith advances social movement theory beyond simplistic understandings of social-justice activism as either right-wing or left-wing and urges a more open-minded approach to the role of religion in social movements. In Native Hubs Renya K. Ramirez investigates how urban Native Americans negotiate what she argues is, in effect, a transnational existence. Through an ethnographic account of the Native American community in California's Silicon Valley and beyond, Ramirez explores the ways that urban Indians have pressed their tribes, local institutions, and the federal government to expand conventional notions of citizenship. M. JACQUI ALEXANDER is the Cosby Endowed Chair in the Humanities and Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Toronto. Animated by anti-colonial, feminist, women of color and queer movements in different parts of the world, her scholarship has addressed the centrality of (hetero)sexuality to the project of nation building; the pedagogical importance of teaching for justice; the need for a critical interdisciplinarity; and the sacred dimensions of women's experience. She has lectured extensively in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe and North America. She is a member of the Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action. Her most recent publication, Pedagogies of the Sacred: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory and the Sacred, has garnered transnational attention. CHANDRA TALPADE MOHANTY is Professor and Chair of Women's and Gender Studies, Professor of Sociology, and Dean's Professor of the Humanities at Syracuse University. Her work focuses on transnational feminist theory, studies of colonialism, imperialism and culture, and anti-racist education. Her scholarship focuses on the politics of difference and solidarity, the crossing of borders, the relation of feminist knowledges and scholarship to organizing and social movements, mobilizing a transnational feminist anti-capitalist critique, decolonizing knowledge, and theorizing agency, identity and resistance in the context of feminist solidarity. Her current work examines the politics of feminist anti-imperialist praxis in the academy and in social movements. She co-edited Feminism and War: Confronting U.S. Imperialism, (Zed Books, 2008), and Feminist Genealogies Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures (Routledge, 1997), and is co-author with Minnie Bruce Pratt on a book entitled At Horne in the Stmggle (forthcoming from Duke University Press). 14 CONFERENCE OVERVIEW & LOGiSTIcs- FIRST-TIME ATTENDEE INFORMATION You are not alone! Almost half of all National Women's Studies Association 2010 conference registrants are attending this event for the first time. Here are some ideas about how to make the most of your conference experience. 1< NWSA STAFF AND LEADERS CAN HELP National Women's Studies Association staff are available at registration on the conference floor to assist with questions large and small. Do not hesitate to bring questions or concerns to their attention and they will do their best to assist you. NWSA Governing Council members serve on the organization's board of directors and are eager to make your conference experience positive and to cultivate future organization leadership. They can be identified by special ribbons attached to their badges-stop anyone to ask questions, share ideas, or learn more about leadership in NWSA. ATTEND A BUSINESS MEETING Caucus, task force, and interest group meetings are a good entry point for learning about specific constituencies within NWSA and for brainstorming about fnture conference planning. Often business meetings focus on what the constituent group intends to put forward for its sponsored conference session in the coming year. IDENTIFY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES This may mean talking with acquisitions editors in the exhibit hall. attending special conference sessions, or grabbing coffee with a presenter who reframed your thinking about your own research. The conference offers many opportunities-scheduled and unscheduled-for you to make new can nections and explore ideas. VISIT THE EXHIBIT HALL IN THE PLAZA BALLROOM HOURS: Thursday, November 11 3PM-7PM Friday & Saturday, November 12-13 9AM-6PM Sunday, November 14 9AM-12PM 16 NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE Women's Movements in the Global Era The Power of Local Ferninisrns EDITED BY AMRITA BASU Westview Press, February 2010, 512 pages 9780813344447, $48.00, paperback Third Edition Global Gender Issues in the New Millennium v. SPIKE PETERSON AND ANNE SISSON RUNYAN Westview Press, 2009, 328 pages 9780813343945, $36.00, paperback- Basic Books, April 2010, 224 pages 9780465011520, $25.95, hardcover " .. ' Doing Gender Diversit)'-~-'--'-_r,_ ... u. ....... " "".'''1'10 ..,''.0,,_, America and the Pill A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation ELAINE TYLER MAY Girls on the Edge The Four Factors Driving the New Crisis for Girls- Sexual Identity, the Cyberbubble, Obsessions, Environmental Toxins LEDNARDSAX Basic Books, April 2010, 272 pages 9780465015610, $26.00, hardcover WOIllen:.'! Movements ill the Global ErJ Third Edition Feminist Thought A More Comprehensive Introduction ROSEMARIE TONG Forthcoming Strange Stirring The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 19605 STEPHANIE COONTZ Westview Press, 2008, 432 pages 9780813343754, $45.00, paperback Fourth Edition Kinship and Gender An Introduction LINDA STONE Westview Press, 2009, 352 pages 9780813344027, $32.00, paperback New Songs of Blood and Sword A Daughter's Memoir FATIMA BHUTTO Nation Books, September 2010,496 pages 9781568586328, $26.95, hardcover Basic Books, December 2010, 248 pages 9780465002009, $24.95, hardcover Doing Gender Diversity Readings in Theory and Real-World Experience EDITED BY REBECCA F. PLANTE AND US M. MAURER Westview Press, 2009, 576 pages 9780813344379, $50.00, paperback New Selling the Fountain of Youth How the Anti-Aging Industry Made a Disease Out of Getting Old-And Made Billions ARLENE WEINTRAUB Basic Books, August 2010, 256 pages 9780465017218, $25.95, hardcover Stop by booth #35 to receive 20% off all display copies. www.perseusacademic.com New Heaven's Bride The Unprintable Life of Ida C. Craddock, American Mystic, Scholar, Sexologist, Martyr, and Madwoman LEIGH SCHMIDT Basic Books, November 2010, 352 pages 9780465002986, $28.00, hardcover '-- Forthcoming Reading Women How the Great Books of Feminism Changed My Life STEPHANIE STAAL PublicAffairs, February 2011, 304 pages 9781586488727, $15.95, paperback The Lesbian and Gay Movements Assimilation or Liberation? CRAIG A. RIMMERMAN Westview Press, 2008, 216 pages 9780813340548, $30.00, paperback Thomas Laacher NoExcuses 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think about Power 978-1-58005-328-0 cloth/ $24.95 VISIT US AT BOOTH#35 NEW FROM SEAL PRESS fS Books thatlnform a Woman's Life Reality Bites Back The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV 978-1-58005-265-8 trade paper / $16.95 Meet author Jennifer L. Pozner at a wine-and-cheese reception in the booth on Saturday, November 7~from 5:70pm to 6:70 pm. In Reality Bites Back, media critic Jennifer L. Pozner aims an analytical lens at reality television. She deconstructs the idea of reality TV as a guilty pleasure, and lays out the implications of the cultural biases that it promotes about gender, race, class, sexuality, and consumerism. Feminist icon Gloria Feldt pulls no punches in this new book, which argues that the most confounding problem facing women today isn't that doors of opportunity aren't open, but that not enough women are walking through them. From the boardroom to the bedroom, public office to personal relationships, she asserts that nobody is keeping women from parity-except themselves. SEAL AUTHORS Elline Lipkin, Shira Tarrant, PhD, Amber E. Kinser, PhD, and Courtney E. Martin will be signing books in the booth on Friday, November 12 from 3:45 pm to 4:45 pm. • ", ...,·S "'OMU r,o,N CH"'N(;~ .... W~T!II"" ........ MWrR """"UO .... '•••• "'co."••• ,n Gender Outlaws The Next Generation 978-1-58005-308-2 trade paper / $16.95 NEW IN FALL 2010 Gender Outlaws, edited by the original gender outlaw, Kate Bornstein, together with writer, raconteur, and theater artist S. Bear Bergman, collects and contextualizes the work of this generation's trans and genderqueer forward thinkers- new voices from onstage, on the streets, in the workplace, in the bedroom, and on the pages and websites of the world's most respected news sources. Men & Feminism Shira Tarrant. PhD Motherhood & Feminism Amber E. Kinser, PhD Click Edited by Courtney E. Martin & J. Courtney Sullivan Girls' Studies Elline Lipkin Friday, November 12th, 7:30 PM Reception • 8:00 PM Pe,rftJ""". Museum of Contemporary Art Denver • • •• • • • Feminism &CO. Isa program series that explores Issues relating to women and gender using film screening, creative performance, lectures and discussions. These evenings address women's (and men's) complicated relationship to art, politics and sexuality. The Program Is co-dlrected by ElissaAuther, Associate Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs and GIJlan SIlverman, Assistant Professor of English at University of Colorado, Denver. PROGRAM: THREESOMES 8:00PM Our theme for the evening is "Threesomes"-in friendships, families, and erotic relationships-viewed from a feminist perspective. The program will include dynamic and provocative conversation featuring film historian Melinda Barlow, the dancer and performance artist Michelle Ellsworth, and Denver-based pclyamorists, including Robyn Trask of Loving More. 9, staring.-"" MOMENTS OF A LONG PAUSE 7:30 PM Bangalore-bassd artist Jasmeen Patheja's two- channel video work, Moments of a Long Pause (2008) has been specially installed for the NWSA conference. The installation focuses on feminist efforts to combat the verbal and physical abuse of women on the urban streets of India. Join us for a screening during our reception. 20 THURSDAY NOVEMBER 11 PRE-CONFERENCE DAY SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE 7:00am - 08:50am I Registration, Welcome Breakfast and Opening 9:00am - 10:15am Difficult Dialogues: Surviving and Thriving in the Academy (WoCLP) 9:00am -10:lSam Concurrent Sessions Round 1 (PAD & WCe) 10:25am -11:40am Work/Life Balance: Sustaining Yourself as a Leader (WoCLP) 10:25am- 11:40am Concurrent Sessions Round 2 (PAD &WCe) 11:S0am-12:50pm Lunch for PAD, WCC, OpEd Project and Civic Engagement Workshop participants 12:55p - 02:10pm Concurrent Sessions Round 3 (PAD &WCC) 1:00pm - 5:00pm Feminist Methodology Workshop 12:55pm - 02:10pm Anti-Racism/White Privilege Workshop Part 1 (Open to PAD, WCC &WoCLP) 2:20pm - 03:35pm Concurrent Sessions Round 4 (PAD & WCe) 3:45pm - 05:00pm Concurrent Sessions Round 5 (PAD & WCe) 12:55pm - 02:10pm Anti-Racism/White Privilege Workshop Part II and Healing Work (Open to PAD, WCC & WoCLP) 3:45pm - 05:00pm PADClosing Session 5:00pm -5:30pm Leadership Dialogue: Thoughts for Moving Forward (WoCLP) 5:00pm -5:30pm Women's Centers Closing Session 5:30pm - 6:30pm IWomen of Color Leadership Project Reception ~ @ #nWSa2010 • share your experiences • quote keynote speakers • share important questions that arise in sessions • find your friends www.twitter.com/nwsa www.facebook.com/WomensStudies 21NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE THURSDAY NOVEMBER 11--------------:..:..:..:..:..:.=.:..:..:....:..:::..:.=:::~- PAD PRE-CONFERENCE SCHEDULE PANEL TITLE ROOM START TIME END TIME PAD Registration, Breakfast and Welcome Governor's Square 10 7:30 am 8:50am Teaching with Case Studies on Women and Public Policy Governor's Square 10 9:00 am 10:15am Transforming the Core: Integrating Transnational, Governor's Square 14 9:00 am 10:15am Activist, and Food Feminisms to the Women's Studies Major Inclusive Science: Difficult Dialogues between Women's Plaza Court I 9:00 am 10:15am Studies and the Sciences X Studies: Naming Conventions vis-a-vis Women's Plaza Court 8 10:25 am 11:40am Studies as a Discipline Smart-Girl: A Model Campus-Community Feminst Governor's Square 14 10:25 am 11:40am Partnership External Reviews: A roundtable on the Process, Practice, Governor's Square 10 10:25 am 11:40am And Benefits Of Women's Studies External Reviews Accountability: How To Develop and Implement a Plaza Court I 10:25 am 11:40am Program Level Assessment Plan The Role of Technology in Women's Studies Program Governor's Square 15 10:25 am 11:40am Administration and Teaching: (How) Does ItWork? Lunch with Table Discussion Topics Plaza Ballroom EF 11:50 am 12:50 pm Using Student Assessment in Women's and Gender Plaza Court I 12:55 pm 2:10 pm Studies Programs Feminist Approaches to Program Reviews Governor's Square 10 12:55 pm 2:10 pm Women's and Gender Studies at Liberal Arts Colleges Governor's Square 15 12:55 pm 2:10 pm Modeling Collaboration: Women's Centers and Governor's Square 14 12:55 pm 2:10pm Women's/Gender Studies Programs Not Separate, But Not Equal: Empowering Female Governor's Square 10 2:20 pm 3:35 pm Undergraduates for Multi-Dimensional Change When Conservatives Are Your Colleagues: Women's Governor's Square 15 2:20 pm 3:35 pm Studies in Precarious Places Changes and Collaborations: Are Leadership Transitions Plaza Court I 2:20 pm 3:35 pm Difficult Dialogues? The Budget Crisis and Women's Studies Governor's Square 14 2:20 pm 3:35 pm PAD Closing Session Governor's Square 10 3:45 pm 5:00 pm 22 NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE PANEL TITLE ROOM START TIME END TIME Women's Centers Registration, Breakfast &Welcome Governor's Square 11 7:30 am 8:50 am Keynote: Dr. Lynn M. Gangone, University of Denver Governor's Square 11 9:00 am 10:15 am Fostering Diverse Leadership and Responding to Emerging Plaza Court 2 10:25 am 11:40 am Needs A Case Study: Brooklyn College Women's Center Serving Muslim Women on Campus Feminist Staff Leadership Programs: Governor's Square 11 10:25 am 11:40 am A Catalyst for Institutional Change Beyond "Violence Against Women": Expanding Our Violence Governor's Square 9 10:25 am 11:40 am Prevention and Intervention Framework Best Practices for Student-Driven Programming Plaza Court 7 10:25 am 11:40 am Reforming Policies and Attitudes to Make Campuses Safer Plaza Court 6 A 10:25 am 11:40 am Lunch with Table Discussion Topics Plaza Ballroom EF 11:50 am 12:50 pm Gray Area: The Work of Women's and LGBT Centers Governor's Square 12:55 pm 2:10 pm Effective Responses to Difficult Conversations: Governor's Square 9 12:55 pm 2:10 pm Transforming Debate to Dialogue Inclusive Leadership Through a Feminist Lens: Teaching Governor's Square 9 2:20 pm 3:35 pm Students Feminist Leadership From Education to Activism: Gender Violence in the Classroom Plaza Court 7 2:20pm 3:35 pm Developing Feminist Voices and Communities Plaza Court 1 3:45 pm 5:00 pm Through Social Media Student Activists: Turning Words into Action Governor's Square 11 3:45 pm 5:00 pm WOMEN OF COLOR LEADERSHIP PROJECT SESSIONS Difficult Dialogues: Surviving and Thriving in the Academy Plaza Court 5 9:00am 10:15pm Work/Life Balance: Sustaining Yourself as a Leader Plaza Court 5 10:25 am 11:40 am Leadership Dialogue: Thoughts for Moving Forward Plaza Court 5 5:00 pm 5:30 pm SHARED SESSIONS Anti-Racism/White Privilege Workshop-Part 1 Governor's Square 16 12:55pm 2:10 pm Anti-Racism/White Privilege Workshop-Part 2 Governor's Square 16 2:20 pm 3:35 pm THURSDAY NOVEMBER 11 WOMEN'S CENTERS PRE-CONFERENCE SCHEDULE NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE 23 PRE-CONFERENCE SESSIONS - WoCLP WOMEN OF COLOR LEADERSHIP PROJECT SESSIONS Registration and We~come 7:00108:50 am· Plaza Court 5 Difficult Dialogues: Surviving and Thriving in the Academy 9:00 to /0:' 5 am • Plaza Court 5 What is your leadership style? What is the nature of leadership in the academy (as faculty, administrators and students)? What are women of color's unique challenges and opportunities for leadership in the academy? Our goal in this workshop is to discuss these questions and provide participants time to reflect 011 their leadership style, core priorities, strengths and challenges. Presenters: Chimi 1. Boyd-Keyes, North Carolina Central University Michele Tracy Berger, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Work/Life Balance: Sustaining Yourself as a Leader 10:25 to 11:40 am • Plaza Court 5 This workshop investigates best practices to sustaining yourself as a leader. There's no such thing as perfect 'balance' between work and life, but there are better models to consider. We'll investigate, and be inspired by. how successful women in the academy navigate this multi-pronged issue. Presenter: Lydia Kelow-Bennett, Georgetown University Pre-Conference Lunch 11:50foI2:50pm- PlazaBa!!roomEF Leadership Dialogue: Thoughts for Moving Forward 5: 10 to 5:30 pm» Plaza Court 5 Through structured self-reflection and dialogue. participants will use this time to develop a roadmap for furthering their leadership goals. Participants: Chimi L. Boyd-Keyes. North Carolina Central University Michele Tracy Berger. University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill Women of Color Leadership Project Reception 5:30 to 6:30 pm - Governor's Square 10 Reception for the 2010 Women of Color Leadership Project participants. THURSDAY NOVEMBER!1- PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION AND DEVELOPMENT PRE-CONFERENCE Registration. Breakfast and Welcome 7:30108:50 am» Governor's Square10 Inclusive Science: Difficult Dialogues betweenWomen', Studies and the Sciences 9:00 to 10: 15 011I' Plazo Court J Women and Science Certificate Program. Linda C Fuselier, Minnesota State University,Moorhead In response to the need to change the 'chilly"cultureofSOOu disciplines, we designed and implementedan innovati\'ecertifiJ: do not realize how WS scholars can contributeto the~ We implemented lessons in our two introductoryWS COUfiS,1 encourage WS students to engage in Dialoguesregardingtheo,,"1@: nature of science and the vision of an inclusivescience.~ indicate that students are more interested in learningabout_ and underrepresented groups in scienceaftercompletingthel~ objectives of the lessons. We use the resistanceencounteredlll~ process of curriculum change to inform our understandingoftll difficult Dialogues between WS and the sciences. Inclusive Science. Claudia Murphy, Minnesota State University,Moorhemi, . comp~tJWe designed and implemented an innovative course .".' ~ contrasting traditional views with feministcritiquesofSClen«~ read and discuss the history and philosophyof science.address gendered science, and review examplesof howsocialcontext~ the perception of the world. even in science. StudentspractJCl , critical review of scientific readings and analyzeandreflect~ ethical dimensions of scientific issues relatedtogender.Wein'i. ,. collaboration between Women's Studies scholarsandscien~i the potential for restructuring science. Thecourseisaprartll.~ the difficult Dialogues between women'sstudiesandsciencelll3l New Director Workshop 9:00 to 10: 15 am· Plaza Court 8 Presenter: Susan Shaw, Oregon StateUniversity 2244--------------=-~---- _:_::_:_::~____( NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFEREN po THURSDAY NOVEMBER 11 PRE-CONFERENCE PAD Teaching with Case Studies on Women and Public Policy 9:0010 10:/5 am· Governors Square 10 Public policy teaching cases tell a real story that is short, stripped of theory and analysis, and allow for many possible solutions. They roster critical thinking and vibrant class discussion. Unfortunately, less than 1% of the thousands of existing cases explore gender, or even have a female protagonist. Feminist cases include: Casa de Esperanza:" Should a domestic violence shelter close to focus its mission on better serving Latinas! My presentation outlines the existing resources on case teaching and instructs women's studies teachers on the basics of how to teach and write cases. Presenter: Sally Jane Kenney, Tulane University Transforming the Core: Integrating Transnational, Activist, and Food Feminisms to the Women's Studies Major 9:0010/0:/5 am » Governors Square 14 Thisroundtable presentation will address the varied ways that Women's Studies faculty have transformed the core curriculum for our major, both through considering new approaches to existing courses and by adding new core courses. The success of this transformation is due in largepart to our Program's ability to secure a grant from the Mellon Foundation. In addition to describing our curricular transformations, panelists will speak to the process of applying for, and winning, the Mellongrant, along with some of the institutional politics that arose during that process. Presenters: JessicaHayes-Conroy, Wheaton College Kim Miller, Wheaton College SereneKhader, Wheaton College Accountability: How To Develop and Implement a Program LevelAssessment Plan /0:25 to //:40 am· Plaza Court 1 with an increasing focus on assessment and accountability in higher education, this workshop will provide program administrators with the necessary knowledge to develop and implement a program level assessment plan. Attendees will receive a pragmatic guide for developingand implementing meaningful, manageable, and sustainable assessment programs. The presenter will also share her experience of rewriting a Women's and Gender Studies' assessment plan in order to complywith the accrediting standards of the Southern Association of Collegesand Schools. Presenter: TracyLynn Woodard-Meyers, Valdosta State University XStudies: Naming Conventions vis-a-vis Women's Studies asa Discipline 10:25 to 1/:40 am » Plaza Court 8 While the NWSA mission identifies "the field of women's studies" as its focus, the leading disciplinary organization in the field makes it clear that "The National Women's Studies Association's institutional members include not only women's studies programs but programs identified as gender studies, feminist studies, and other related fields"(NWSA.org). This roundtable explores the reasons programs/ departments have opted for a name change-or have made a decision to remain "women's studies" - and the impact such changes have had on those departments (enrollment increases? transformed curricular) and on defining women's studies as a discipline. Presenters: TamaraBerg, Winona State University Gerise Herndon, Nebraska Wesleyan University Deborah T. Meem, University of Cincinnati Simona Sharoni, State University of New York, Plattsburgh Moderator: Tamara Berg, Winona State University External Reviews: A Roundtable on the Process, Practice, and Benefits of Women's Studies External Reviews 10:25 to lJ:40am· Governor's Square 10 External reviews are a regular part of higher education assessment. Increasingly, Women's Studies practitioners are having external reviews of their programs to integrate "best practices" of the field into our programs as well as maintain healthy, vibrant departments. They also provide beneficial assessment as well as strategic positioning for one's program. This roundtable will help guide administrators through planning, executing, and reflecting on an external review. Presenters: Wendy K. Kolmar, Drew University Catherine M. Orr, Beloit College Ann Braithwaite, University of Prince Edward Island Annalee Lepp, University of Victoria Ann Schofield, University of Kansas Ann Cudd, University of Kansas Moderator: Wendy K. Kalmar, Drew University Smart-Girl: A Model Campus-Community Feminist Partnership /0:25 to 1/:40 am· Governors Square /4 We will examine a campus/community partnership model that can be replicated on other campuses. We will introduce the Smart-Girl Program, a program for middle school girls that focuses on issues including media images, self-concept, how to have difficult dialogues, critical thinking, problem solving skills, etc. We will discuss our partnership with Smart-Girl, providing an opportunity for our students to volunteer through our internship class to work as mentors with the program, as well as faculty involved in curriculum development and evaluation. We have found that the progranl benefits our college students as much as it does the adolescents. Presenters: Abby 1.Ferber, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Andrea O'Reilly Herrera, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs The Role of Technology in Women's Studies Program Administration and Teaching: (How) Does It Work? 10:25 to 11:40 am· Govemor s Square 15 From Facebook to wtmbe. Second Life to blcgs, online classes to electronic paper grading, individuals in higher education have increasingly turned to technology in order to be more efficient and to appeal to college students' interests. This roundtable focuses on various technologies currently used in Women and Gender Studies programs and courses, with an emphasis on what works/what does not work. Presenters: Ann Burnett, North Dakota State University Etienne L. Fawcett, North Dakota State University Sharon 1. Collingwood, The Ohio State University Brenda Bethman, University of Missouri, Kansas City Jessica Nathanson, Augsburg College Claire Lynn Sahlin, Texas Woman's University Moderator: Dena Marie Wyum, North Dakota State University i NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE 25 PRE-CONFERENCE SESSIONS - PAD , THURSDAY NOVEMBER 11 LUNCH 11:50 to 12:50 pm » Plaza Baliroom EF Using Student Assessment in Women's and Gender Studies Programs J 2:55 to 2: 10 pm » Plaza Court I Participants from a variety of institutions, from smaU Catholic college to large state university, discuss the kinds and ways in which they are using student assessments to improve and support their programs. These range from personalized individual course assessment to assessment of crosslisted courses for their women's/gender studies appropriateness to assessment of entire undergraduate or graduate programs. In addition to improving individual courses and entire programs, student assessment data have been found to be useful in a range of institutional interactions, from teaching awards that bolster promotion/tenure to status and funding within the institution. Sample assessment processes/forms will be available. Presenters: Ann Schonberger, University of Maine Phyllis L. Baker, University of Northern Iowa LeeRay M. Costa, Hollins University Denise Witzig, St. Mary's College Moderator: Sarah Hall Sternglanz, State University of New York, Stony Brook 26 NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE Feminist Approaches to Program Reviews /2:55 to 2:10pm • Governors Square /0 As Women's Studies departments receive institutional recognit.ion, they are asked to participate in formal program reviews. Reviews present critical opportunities to evaluate curriculum, plan for the future, and make a case for additional resources. In turn, administrators who serve as reviewers learn from sister programs. Members of t.his roundtable will emphasize how a feminist approach can lead to a successful review document; a fruitful visit; and ultimately, program improvements. This roundtable will include practical advice for those being reviewed as well as for those interested in becoming reviewers. We will also present experiences from diverse institutions. Presenters: Maria Bevacqua, Minnesota State University, Mankato Peggy Rivage-Seul, Berea College Amy K. Levin, Northern Illinois University Tricia Lin, Southern Connecticut State University Moderator: Astrid Henry, Grinnell College Modeling Collaboration: Women's Centers and Women's and Gender Studies Programs 12:55102: 10pm » Govemors Square 14 [Proposed as a joint session for the PAD and the Women's Centers Pre- conferences] Drawing on the experiences of four universities where the director of the women's center and the director of Women's/Gender Studies program have found ways to collaborate, this roundtable discusses successful projects, explore ways to overcome institutional barriers, and offer frameworks for developing mutually beneficial partnerships. What ties the programs together on their respective campus and forms the focus for this panel is how working as a team and taking advantage of both academic and student affairs channels promotes women, gender and LGBT issues around all our campuses. Presenters: Ann Burnett, North Dakota State University Kara Gravley-Stack, North Dakota State University Judith Grant, Ohio University Susanne B. Dietzel, Ohio University Lisa S. Rismiller, University of Dayton Ashley Elizabeth Nickels, Grand Valley State University Moderator: Kathleen Underwood, Grand Valley State University Women's and Gender Studies at Liberal Arts Colleges 12:55 (02:10pm· Governors Square 15 This roundtable will address the particular issues that face women's and gender studies programs at liberal arts colleges. What are the challenges in administering programs, developing curriculum, finding faculty, and working with other programs? How do those challenges- and possible solutions-differ from those facing our colleagues at other sizes and types of institutions? How are our programs affected by the particular missions of our colleges and by the recent proliferation of interdisciplinary programs? Roundtable presenters will speak to these questions based on experience at a range of liberal arts colleges. The session will allow ample time for discussion. Presenters: Mary A. Armstrong, Lafayette College Linda Garber, Santa Clara University Mairi Pileggi, Dominican University of California Moderator: Carolyn Kyler, Washington & Jefferson College Anti-Racism/White Privilege Workshop Part I 12:5510 2:10 pm » Governor's Square 16 Jointly sponsored- WCC & PAD & WoCLP (participants from any group can attend) Presenters: Michele Tracy Berger, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Chimi L. Boyd-Keyes, North Carolina Central University Changes and Collaborations: Are Leadership Transitions Difficult Dialogues? 2:20 to 3:35 pm· Plaza Conrt I This roundtable wilJ explore aspects of transitioning leadership among! between coordinators, chairs and/or directors of Women's Studiesl Women's and Gender Studies programs and departments with former and current directors from three different universities. Additionally, we seek to explore the topic of interdisciplinarity and relationships with ethnic studies programs in an effort to explain and expand upon leadership transitioning and other factors that can impact collaborative efforts at our various Institutions. This session will conclude with sharing of innovative ideas and stories of success to overcome current barriers to program development, expansion and collaboration. Presenters: Laurie Fuller, Northeastern Illinois University Durene 1. Wheeler, Northeastern Ulinois University Ellen O'Brien. Roosevelt University Ann Russo, DePaul University Beth S Catlett, DePaul University Not Separate, But Not Equal: Empowering Female Undergraduates for Multi-Dimensional Cbange 2:20 to 3:35 pm » Governor s Square /0 Cohort Development for Female Undergraduate Researchers. Charlotte Maheu, Tulane University Cohort development among undergraduate women interested in pursuing independent research with the support of faculty mentors THURSDAY NOVEMBER 11 PRE-CONFERENCE SESSIONS -PAD is a unique opportunity for this department at a four year, Research I, coeducational university to redefine women's education in the 21st century. By creating these cohorts yearly for a selective group of incoming women, the program enables these women to: be challenged intellectually in a supportive environment, test their knowledge and skills in a safe space, and see themselves as contributors to their discipline. The program also enables these women to build community and establish a co-created space in a coeducational environment. Empowering Female Student Advocates by Co-creating Gender-Based Violence Programs and Services. Allen Thomas, Tulane University In May 2009, our institution created a higWy visible office to advocate for survivors of gender-based violence-as well as develop and implement gender violence prevention programs. With the creation of the Office of Violence Prevention and Support Services, students were offered an opportunity to collaborate in new ways with professional staff in their efforts to advocate for survivors of sexual violence. This paper describes the successes that resulted in collaboration between staff and student advocates, particularly as it relates to changes in advocates' attitudes in their ability to influence change at the institutional level related to gender violence. Redefining Womens Education Through Career Preparedness, Co-Curricular and Leadership Programming. Cordelia Ruth Heaney, Newcomb College Institute As women have gained greater access to higher education, the emphasis on women's education has moved from a strictly academic focus to providing women with opportunities to complement and augment in-class learning. Female students require programming tailored to their gendered experience as college students, and we have created avenues for students to hone their leadership style as well as combat the belief that there is only one, masculine style in which to lead.. In response to these needs the office of student programs has identified three major areas of focus: Career Preparedness, Leadership Development, and Co-Curricular Programming. Moderator: Sally Jane Kenney, Tulane University The Budget Crisis and Women's Studies 2:20 to 3:35 pm - Governor's Square 14 This roundtable will create a space to continue a dialogue started during the 2009 NWSA PA&D Pre-Conference concerning impacts of state and national budget crises on the field of Women's Studies. Proposed bymembers of the PA &D Taskforce on the Budget Crisis and Women's Studies, the roundtable will report on a national survey on this topic, and encourage participants to share further information, ideas and strategies that might aide each other in our on-going struggles to protect Women's and Gender Studies programs. Presenters: Loretta Kensinger, California State University, Fresno Jill M. Bystydzienski, Ohio State University Noel Sturgeon. Washington State University Moderator: Betsy Eudey. California State University, Stanislaus When Conservatives Are Your Colleagues: Women's Studies in Precarious Places 2:20 to 3:35 pm - Governor's Square 15 Red Dirt Redox: Feminist Education and Activism in Oklahoma. Carol Mason, Oklahoma State University Oklahoma women face the bad combination of no comprehensive sex education, high rates of domestic violence, skyrocketing rates of drug addiction, insufficient drug treatment. punitive antiabortion laws, and judicial reinterpretation of child neglect laws. As a result, Oklahoma has the highest female incarceration rate in the U.S., has the third highest divorce rate in the nation, is a.mong the top three states with least access to abortion, and among the top 10 states for teen birth rates. This presentation examines how a Gender and Women's Studies program at a university in Oklahoma responds to the situation. Radical Action on a Conservative Campus: Creating a Women's and Gender Studies Program at a Small Midwestern University. Michelle Markert, Concordia University Chicago This paper examines the successful effort to introduce and implement a Women's and Gender Studies program in a conservative Lutheran liberal arts university. It analyzes the challenges and outlines the necessary praxis of feminist activism and scholarship in our organizational strategies. This presentation wUI evaluate the challenges and successes that faculty encountered in our efforts to maintain feminist principles while navigating through a terrain that is both politically and religiously conservative. This paper will investigate the schism between participatory forms of power and commitment to social transformation in program development and the often constricting institutional envirorunent of the university. The Power of Many: Building Feminist Alliances in a Catholic Context. Katy A. Strzepek, St. Ambrose University This paper discusses the efforts of a multidisciplinary feminist committee formed to bring transnational feminist debates to a small Catholic diocesan university in the Midwest. This paper offers our committee as a model for other Women's Studies programs at religiously affiliated schools who want to build alliances within their universities and communities to promote transfcrmative learning and feminist activism. Successful alliances provide crucial safe spaces for feminists in conservative contexts. Moderator: Katy A. Strzepek, St. Ambrose University Anti-Racism/White Privilege Workshop Part 2 and Healing Work 2:20to3:35pm- Governor's Square 16 Jointly sponsored-Wee & PAD & WoCLP (participants from any group can attend) Presenters: Chimi 1. Boyd-Keyes, North Carolina Central University Michele Tracy Berger, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Closing Session 3:45 to 4:45 pm - Governor's Square 10 NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE 27 PRE-CONFERENCE SESSIONS - WOMEN'S CENTERS THURSDAY NOVEMBER 11 Registration, Breakfast &Welcome 7:30 to 8:50 am • Govemors Square 11 KEYNOTE: DR. LYNN M. GANGONE, UNIVERSITY OF DENVER 9:00 to 10:/5 am· Govemors Square 11 Dr. Lynn M. Gangone was named dean ofThe Women's College of the University of Denver, and associate clinical professor of higher education at the University's Morgridge College of Education, in spring 2007. She previously served as visiting professor of higher education at The George Washington University and vice president at Kaludis Consulting, a higher education strategic planning firm. Dr. Gangone was vice president of the Maryland Independent College and University Association; executive director and CEO of the National Association for Women in Education (NAWE); and vice president of development and college relations, and dean of students, at Centenary College (New Jersey). She received an Ed.D.and M.Ed. in higher and postsecondary administration from Columbia University; an M.s. and CAS. in counseling psychology from the State University of New York at Albany; and a B.A.in political science/history from The College of New Rochelle (New York), Dr. Gangone is a nationally known writer and speaker on leadership development and career advancement for women in higher education. She authored the lead article in the inaugural Journal About Women in Higher Education and has a book chapter on women's leadership development in Rethinking Leadership in a Complex, Multicultural, and Global Environment: New Concepts and Models for Higher Education, released by Stylus Publications in 2008. Dr.Gangone isaWoman of Distinction (GirlScoutsof Coloradol, a University of Denver Center for Multicultural Excellence's "Outstanding Achievement in Multicultural Excellence"award recipient, and an invited member to the Denver Chapter of the International Women's Forum. She was honored by the American College Personnel Association (ACPA)asa Diamond Honoree a and byThe College of New Rochelle, which awarded her the Ursula Laurus citation. Reforming Policies and Attitudes to Make Campuses Safer 10:25 to J 1:40 am· Plaza Court 6 Sexual assault and street harassment are disturbingly common problems in campus communities. Most prevention strategies put the responsibility of staying safe on the victims, the majority of whom are women. These strategies often focus on restricting women's ability to be in public and do not guarantee their safety. Campuses often are unhelpful when survivors look for support and accountability. In this workshop, Women's Centers can learn about resources and programs to make their communities safer without imposing restrictions, including prevention strategies, assertive responses to harassers, and tools to empower students to reform campus sexual assault policies. Presenters: Holly Kearl, AAUW Deesha Narichania, SAFER (Students Active for Ending Rape) Best Practices for Student-Driven Programming 10:25 to 11:40 am » Plaza Court 7 Students can, and arguably should, take responsibility for Women's Center programming from concept to implementation. They have the best read on the i.nterests and needs of their peers; further, the research, planning, and organization required for a successful program provides an excellent professional development opportunity This workshop will explore best practices for student programming, including a look at one university's modeL We will also discuss how to guide (but Dot overtake!) student programming, respond when things don't go as planned, and hear input from students on how assuming responsibility for Women's Center programming has enhanced their personal and professional growth. Presenters: Megan Woiwode, Northern Illinois University Lettie Morgan, Northern Illinois University Moderator: Jill Dunlap, Northern Illinois University Beyond "Violence Against Women": Expanding OUf Violence Prevention and Intervention Framework 10:25 to 1/ :40 am • Governor's Square 9 While the mission of Women's Centers grows ever-more intersectional, our language and approach around violence prevention and intervention can be limiting; services around "gender-based violence" or "men's violence against women;' while historically effective, may now be obstacles to those who need our services . .In this workshop, we will examine the ways in which our strategies and language can reflect a more inclusive strategy that works to root our power-based personal violence in all forms from all sides of campus. Presenter: Amta Lee Guest-ieiley, Vanderbilt University Moderator: Nora Anne Spencer, Vanderbilt University Feminist Staff Leadership Programs: A Catalyst for Institutional Change 10:25 to 11:40am· Governor's Square II This workshop will explore the differences between feminist leadership models and generic leadership models for women. -Identify how feminist staff leadership programs are similar and different from faculty and student leadership programs. -Discuss programs for staff that currently exist nationally. -List programs that exist within Women's Centers and discuss challenges, strengths and provide resources for implementing a feminist staff leadership program at other Women's 28 NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE THURSDAY NOVEMBER 11 PRE-CONFERENCE SESSIONS - WOMEN'S CENTERS Centers.-Discuss how feminist staff leadership programs contribute to institutional climate change. Presenters: JOalma Snawder, Metropolitan State College of Denver SbaronKay Sobotta, Saint Mary's College of California Fostering Diverse Leadership and Responding to Emerging NeedsA Case Study: Brooklyn College Women's Center ServingMuslim Women on Campus 10:25 to JI:40am· Govemors Square 16 Participants: Organizing Muslim Women Students and the Transformative Effects On the Organizer. Sau Fong Au, Brooklyn College, City University of New York The speaker will present anecdotal information to assess the success of leadership development. She will also discuss the challenge to apply"public" leadership domains to evaluate the success and.failure of the leadership development of this group of students. Visionary, risk taking, articulation, and other skill based domains are often not adjectives to describe our student leaders. Thus, how leadership playsout when many of graduate students continue to present unique culture characteristics (or some describe as barriers) that contradicts our commonly accepted standard. For example, when many of the women do not venture out of the borough, how they influence and address a larger audience? Introspectively, she will discuss the challenge on "her" as an organizer when these leadership domains arenot applicable on her students, and she is forced to re-examine the imageof women, and the process of leadership development. Why is Mwei an Activist/Feminist Group on Campus? Ten Things You Want to Ask and Are Afraid to Ask a Muslim Woman. Sonia Malik, Brooklyn College, City University of New York The speaker, a graduate of Brooklyn College, was also a founding member of MWEI on campus. She was also the President from 2005- 6 and is currently the Program Organizer at the Women's Center. She will discuss the campus environment and it helped propel the Muslim women to take on a leadership role on campus. She will also discuss the negotiation that Muslim woman student leader has to assume or to refuse to take home. She will draw upon her own personal experiences, and to challenge the "standard" of leadership all campus. The issue (or non issue) of working in a public arena, financial independency, and arranged marriage will be discussed. Feminism in Action: The Sisterhood between the Women's Center and the Women's Studies Program. Huma Ahmed- Ghosh, San Diego State University The speaker once said, "In my tenure as the Endowed Chair, my goal is to better connect the Women's Center and the Women's Studies Program." During her visiting year at Brooklyn College, Professor Ahmed-Ghosh coordinated a whole day conference on "Muslim and Gender". She has brought in many stimulating academic insights on the topics. More importantly, she has involved the students in examining activism in the Muslim community, She will discuss the manyaspects of our Muslim community at Brooklyn College, and the intertwining relationship between faith, cultural and the transplanting of immigrant's experiences. Moderator: Sail Fong Au, Brooklyn College, City University of New York Lnnch I I :50 to 12:50 pm » Plaza Ballroom EF Effective Responses to Difficult Conversations: Transforming Debate to Dialogue J2:55 to 2:10 pm » Governor's Square 9 Research has shown that women and other marginalized populations often do not directly confront incidents of discrimination and de1egitirnization in higher education settings. However, campus- based Women's Centers frequently challenge and transform critical conversations around socially sensitive and politically charged issues into meaningful learning opportunities. Using tangible, real-life examples, the professional staff of a Women's Center will draw from a number of theory-to-praxis models of conversation to offer practical strategies and facilitate discussion on how to actively transform difficult dialogues on campus, in order to convert conflict into understanding, and move from contentious debate to productive dialogue. Presenters: Lysa C. Salsbury, University of Idaho Heather Shea Gasser, University of Idaho Gray Area: The Work of Women's and LGBT Centers 12:55 to 2:10 pm » Governor's Square 11 This workshop explores the "fuzzy lines" between LGBT and gender programming. Who gets to control the programming on these issues or should it be controlled? In a world where feminist activism and LGBT activism are so interrelated how do Centers deal with territoriality? Presenters will discuss methods and troubles encountered while trying to walk this fine line. Additionally, they will explore ways that LGBT and gender programming can form a symbiotic relationship rather than competitive. Presenters: Lettie Morgan, Northern Illinois University Jill Dunlap, Northern Illinois University Moderator: Kate Schaab, Northern Illinois University Anti-Racism/White Privilege Workshop Part I 12:55 to 2:10pm· GovemorsSquare 16 Jointly sponsored- WCC & PAD & WoCLP (participants from any group can attend) Presenters: Michele Tracy Berger, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Chimi L. Boyd-Keyes, North Carolina Central University From Education to Activism: Gender Violence in the Classroom 2:20 to 3:35 pm» Plaza Court 7 Campus Women's Centers have been a safe space for survivors of violence since the first centers opened their doors. Centers offer support, advocacy, and education around these difficult issues as we challenge our campuses to become free of violence. The classroom is an ideal location to expand the work of ending campus and gender violence. Participants will learn how two Women's Center staff members created gender violence courses on their campuses, discuss the theory behind the courses, and encourage Women's Center professionals to become faculty members/instructors. Presenters: Michelle N. Issadore, Lehigh University Laura Kovach, Georgetown University NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE 29 PRE-CONFERENCE SESSIONS - WOMEN'S CENTERS THURSDAY NOVEMBER " Inclusive Leadership Through a Feminist Lens: Teaching Students Feminist Leadership 2:20103:35 pm· Govemor s Square 9 As Women's and Gender Centers (and other Student Affairs professionals guiding students in social justice activism) seek to engage students in critical analysis of their own leadership styles, what role do feminist leadership principles play in this discussion? How can we teach students these foundational concepts? This session will explore ways to integrate feminist leadership into our work with student groups through workshops, retreats, mentcring, and more informal advisory interactions. Presenters: Lysa C. Salsbury, University ofTdaho Heather Shea Gasser, University ofldaho Anti-Racism/White Privilege Workshop-Part 2 and Healing Work 2:20 to 3:35 pm » Governor's Square 16 Jointly sponsored-Wee & PAD & WoCLP (participants from any group can attend) Presenters: Chimi L. Boyd-Keyes, North Carolina Central University Michele Tracy Berger, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Developing Feminist Voices and Communities Through Social Media 3:45 to 5:00 pm » Plaza Court 1 Increasingly, students, faculty, and staff in Women's Centers are using online tools to explore who they are and to "tryon" different identities. These online identities are changing the waywe think about community and feminism, as well as how we can use these tools to better serve our constituents. This session will address these questions, as well as open space for audience participation and sharing of best practices. We will also discuss the use of social media tools from a practical, professional, and feminist perspective, including how to effectively understand, address and use these tools in our women's center work. Presenters: Brenda Bethman, University of Missouri, Kansas City Kate Schaab, Northern Illinois University Joanna Snawder, Metropolitan State College of Denver Anna LoMascolo, Virginia Tech juli L. Parker. University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth Moderator: Jennifer Graham, Georgia ColJege & State University Student Activists: Turning Words into Action 3:45 to 5:00 pm • Governors Square 11 Students are increasingly taking part in efforts to change their campus community; using three examples of student-led activism at one university, this panel will explore how Women's Centers can serve as a resource to activists on their campus. Women's Centers can inspire and shape student activism which can in turn lead to significant changes in campus policy. Presenters: Megan Woiwode, Northern Illinois University Lettie Morgan. Northern Illinois University Kate Schaab, Northern Illinois University Moderator: Jill Dunlap. Northern Illinois University ABOUT THE WOMEN OF COLOR LEADERSHIP PROJECT CLASS OF 2009 The Women of Color Leadership Project is designed to: Increase the number of women of color students and faculty within the field of women's studies and women's centers. Have an impact on the levels of participation and power by women of color in all levels of the Association, particularly in the Program Administration and Development Committee, the Women's Center's Committee, the Women of Color Caucus, NWSA'sgovernance structure, and in the field of women's studies and women's centers as a whole. Women of color in women's studies, ethnic studies, or related fields may apply if they aspire to leadership within women's studies, NWSA,and related fields. Applicants may include graduate students, faculty, center staff members, and current program administrators in women's studies and related fields of study who wish to be more involved in center, program or Association leadership. The NWSA 32nd annual conference will be held in Atlanta GA, November 2011. Visit www.nwsa,org/projects/woclp,php for more details and to submit an application. For additional details contact the NWSAOffice at: nwsaoffice@nwsa,org 30 NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE THURSDAY NOVEMBER 11 THE OpED PROJECTOVERVIEW PLAZACOURT 2 • 9:00AM - 5:00PM TheOpEd Project is an initiative to expand the range ofvoiceswe hear from in the world, with an immediate emphasison enlarging the pool of women experts who areaccessing (and accessible to) our nation's key print and onlineforums. These forums are a gateway into public debate,feed all other media, and drive thought leadership inAmerica and beyond. Sincewomen currently do not submit op-eds with anywherenear the frequency that men do, The OpEd Project target and train women experts in all fields to write for the op-ed pages of major print and online forums of public discourse. The OpEd Project mission is to bring about a sea change in our national conversation, which is currently overwhelmingly dominated (85%)by men. Workshop facilitator Catherine (Katie) Orenstein, (left) is the founder and director of The OpEd Project. She has contributed to the op-ed pages of the New York Times, Washington Post and Miami Herald. Her commentaries on women, politics, popular culture, mythology and human rights have been nationally syndicated and appear in anthologies. She has lectured at Harvard and appeared on ABC TV World News, Good Morning America, MSNBC, CNN and NPR All Things Considered. A graduate of Harvard (MA) and Columbia (MA) universities, she is the author of Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality & the Evolution of a Fairy Tale, which explores stories told about women over 500 years across multiple continents, and how they shape our lives today. FEMINIST METHODOLOGY WORKSHOP: MIXED METHODS FOR FEMINIST RESEARCH PLAZACOURT 5 • 1:OOPM - 5:00PM Thisworkshop will consist of two parts. PART ONE will be a panel discussion on mix methods for feminist research by senior faculty who teach in doctoral programs in women /gender/feminist studies and who employ a variety of methodologies including visual and textual analysis, archival, ethnographic interviews and observation. In PART TWO participants will have the opportunity to consult in a small group with individual panelists about their specific research project. Presented by: EILEEN BORIS, University of California Santa Barbara REBECCA WANZO, Ohio State University MARY MARGARET FONOW, Arizona State University NWSA2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE 31 THURSDAY NOVEMBER 11 TEAGLE FACULTY DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP OVERVIEW CiVIC ENGAGEMENT IN THE WOMEN'S AND GENDER STUDIES CLASSROOM: POWER AND PRIVILEGE AT THE INTERSECTIONS OF RACE, CLASS, AND NATION Hosted by the National Women's Studies Association with generous support from the Teagle Foundation, this workshop is designed to generate critical reflection and discussion among scholars and teachers in Women's and Gender Studies in order to better understand the actual practices and effects of civic engagement and to improve student learning. For the purposes of this workshop, "civic engagement" is defined as individual and collective actions designed to identify and address issues of public concern from feminist and intersectional perspectives. Civic engagement can take many forms, from individual voluntarism to organizational social justice work to electoral participation. SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE PANEL TITLE Welcome and Introductions ROOM START TIME END TIME Governor's Square 17 9:00am 10:00 am Governor's Square 17 10:00 pm 11:00 pm Governor's Square 17 11:00 pm 12:00 pm Governor's Square 17 12:00 pm 1:00 pm Governor's Square 17 1:00 pm 2:30 pm Governor's Square 17 2:30 pm 4:30 pm Grant Activities to Date and Role of November Workshop Participants Challenges and Opportunities: Teaching Civic Engagement in Women's Studies Lunch What Would be a Radical Feminist Approach to Civically Engaged Learning? Planning for the Next Phase: Spring 2011 and Beyond At the Working Group meeting, Atlanta GA, june 2010, listening to Tiffany Manuel, (2nd from Right) Research Director, Frameworks Institute. Members present (a-z) were:Karlyn Crowley, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Astrid Henry, Lynne Huffer, Allison Kimmich, Karen Leong, Catherine Orr, Patti Provance, Barbara Ransby, Bonnie Thornton Dill, & Mary Trigg. 32 NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE po •In the Classroom Add Ms. digital to your online, hybrid, and classroom courses in women's studies, politi- cal science, sociology, media, journalism, leadership, advertising classes and more.Ms. provides a total learning experience, including a calendar of leading academic and activist events, book reviews, letters to the editor, milestones, essays, and non-profit advertising that informs students of opportunities and activities to advance equality, locally and worldwide. MslnTheClassroom.com or call toll free 1-866-MS and ME . (1-866-672-6363) Be Sure to Visit us in the Exhibit Hall Scholarly and Current Guided by the Ms. Committee of Scholars, Leading feminist writers, scholars, and investigative reporters provide your students with cutting-edge analysis of con- temporary issues and events using a gender, race and class lens, With national and global reporting in each issue, Ms. provides up-to-the-minute contemporary examples of feminist theory in action. Instructors' Guides & Materials To make Ms. a qu.ck and easy addition to your syilabus, faculty receive access to all Ms. digital content free, plus instructors' guides, quizzes, and instructional materials developed and reviewed by women's studies faculty. An Affordable Textbook Option For just $15, students receive a 6 month subscription to all of the Ms. digital issues-beginning with the Winter 2009 issue and including the issue that comes out during the semester/quarter of your class. Students will also have acess to the Best of the 30 Years of Ms, which contains our most-requested classics. o ~=====;::;;;-..~....., .;;.;;::===;:::;;;;;;;-;;.:iaa'"1 CONFERENCE OVERVIEW & LOGISTICS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND AWARD COMMITTEES PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Beverly Guy-Sheftall, NWSA President and Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women's Studies, Spelman College Vivian M. May,Associate Professor of Women's Studies, _Syracuse University REVIEW CHAIRS [ian Chen, New York University Patti Duncan, Oregon State University Laila Farah, DePaul University Nami Kim, Spelman College Yi-Chun Tricia Lin, Southern Connecticut State University The National Women's Studies Association would also like to thank more than 40 reviewers nationally who evaluated hundreds of paper and panel submissions as part of our anonymous review process. WOMEN OF COLOR LEADERSHIP PROJECT CO-CHAIRS Michele T. Berger, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Chimi L. Boyd-Keyes, North Carolina Central University FINANCIAL SUPPORT Office of the Dean, School of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, Metropolitan State College of Denver to honor the 25th anniversary of the Institute for Women's Studies & Services, Metropolitan State College of Denver University of Colorado University of Minnesota at Boulder University of Washington University of Colorado University of California, Denver Los Angeles University of Colorado University of Michigan at Colorado Springs Penn State University University of California, Rutgers, The State University Santa Barbara of New jersey The Ohio State University Arizona State University University of Arizona University of Kansas Texas Women's University Emory University University of Maryland, University of Kansas College Park TRAVEL GRANT AWARDS Nupur Chaudhuri, Texas Southern University, Chair Tonia SI. Germain, Eastern Oregon University WOMEN OF COLOR CAUCUS SCHOLARSHIPS Stephanie Troutman, Pennsylvania State University,Chair NWSA GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP Nupur Chaudhuri, Texas Southern University,Chair Maria R. Bevacqua, Minnesota State University Sheila Hughes, University of Dayton LESBIAN CAUCUS SCHOLARSHIP Mel Michelle Lewis, University of Maryland, Chair Susan M. Shaw, Oregon State University julia M. Allen, Sonoma State University Danielle DeMuth, Grand Valley State University SARA A. WHALEY BOOK PRIZES Betty Harris, University of Oklahoma, Chair Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara Carrie N. Baker, Berry College Milann Kang, University of Massachusetts Michelle Dowd, University of North Carolina, Greensboro Nupur Chaudhuri, Texas Southern University, ex officio GLORIA ANZALDUA PRIZE Yi-Chun Tricia Lin, Southern Connecticut State University, Co-Chair Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Spelman College, Co-Chair Amira jarmakani, Georgia State University Maria Cotera, University of Michigan Nupur Chaudhuri, Texas Southern University, ex officio WOMEN OF COLOR LEADERSHIP- Michele T. Berger, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Co-Chair Chimi Boyd-Keyes, North Carolina Central University, Co-Chair Eveleyn Simien, University of Connecticut Lydia Kelow-Bennett, Georgetown University WOMEN'S CENTER AWARDS COMMITTEE Katie Hanna, Case Western Reserve University, Chair Candace Rosovsky, Retired Sasha Smith, Emory University 34 NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE pi CONFERENCEOVERVIEW & LOGISTICS NWSA 2010 SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS RECIPIENTS [illian Hernandez, Rutgers University Rachel Stallard, OLdDominion University NWSA GRADUATE STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP NWSA LESBIAN CAUCUS GRADUATE STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP NWSA WOMEN OF COLOR CAUCUS AWARDS Peace Medie, University of Pittsburgh Debjani Chakravarty, Arizona State University Amira A. AkI, BowlingGreen State University FOR STUDENTS OF AFRICAN DESCENT FOR STUDENTS OF ASIAN DESCENT FOR STUDENTS OF ARAB DESCENT NWSA WOMEN'S CENTERS STANDING COMMITTEE AWARDS Deborah Evind, Portland Community CoLLege Kathleen Holgerson, University of Connecticut Sasha Smith, Emory University Amy Levine, University of CaLifornia,San Francisco Forthcoming from University of Texas Press FOUNDERS AWARD OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD EMERGING LEADER AWARO LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD NWSA 2010 BOOK PRIZE RECIPIENTS SARA WHALEY PRIZE SENIOR SCHOLAR Tiantian Zheng SUNY CortLand Red Lights: The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China University Of Minnesota Press (April 2009) SARA WHALEY PRIZE JUNIOR SCHOLAR Erynn Masi de Casanova University of Cincinnati Making Up the Difference: Ecuadorian Women and Direct Selling ."......_? Beyond, .. BLACK LADY-~.---= GLORIA ANZALDUA PRIZE WINNER Suzanne Bost Loyola University Chicago Encarnacion: Illness and Body Politics in Chicana Feminist Literature Fordham University Press (December 2009) GLORIA ANZALDUA PRIZE HONORABLE MENTION Lisa Thompson University at ALbany Beyond the Black Lady: Sexuality and the New African American Middle Class University of Illinois Press (Spring, 2009) ABOUT THE BOOK PRIZES NWSAGLORIA E. ANZALDUA BOOK PRIZE NWSA SARA WHALEY BOOK PRIZE The prize honors Gloria Anzaldua, a valued and This prize honors Sara Whaley, who owned Rush long-activemember of the National Women's Publishing and was the editor of Women's Studies StudiesAssociation. The prize gives recognition for Abstracts. Each year NWSA will award up to 2 book groundbreaking scholarship in women's studies that awards on the topic of women and labor. makessignificant multicultural feminist contributions to Deadline to appLyfor either award: May 1, each year. women of color/transnational scholarship. more detaiLs and to apply visit: www.nwsa.org/awardsi NWSA2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE 35 CONFERENCE OVERVIEW & LOGISTICS A BRIEF (AND INCOMPLETE) HISTORY OF THE NWSA WOMEN OF COLOR CAUCUS Participants in the 2007 NWSA Women of Color Caucus retreat discussed the central role women of color haveplayed in NWSA history and activities, and wanted to establish a record of those contributions. Pat Washington and Nupur Chaudhuri have begun that work here. The history of the Women of Color Caucus of the National Women's Studies Association is an inexorable and irreducible part of the history of NWSA. From the Association's first national conference in 1979 (Lawrence, Kansas)-when the Women of Color Caucus drew its first breath as the "Third World Caucus"-to the landmark 1981 Storrs Conference ("Women Respond to Racism"); to the watershed 1990 Akron Conference where over a hundred women of color and their allies walked out to protest the Association's entrenched racism; to the "healing" presidencies of Vivien Ng and Betty Harris (1994 and 1997, respectively); to the 2000 Simmons Conference developed and delivered by the Caucus's advisor/ benefactor/champion/mainstay Christina Brinkley; to the 2002 Las Vegas conference where the Women of Color Caucus and the then-newly-constituted Anti White Supremacy Task Force joined forces to agitate for the inclusion of perspectives and contributions of women of color in the Association's 25th anniversary celebration; down to the present time when the Women of Color Cancus and the Women of Color Leadership Project figure prominently in the Association's multi-year Ford Foundation capacity-building grant, the Women of Color Caucus has been a driving force within the Association. The Caucus has benefited from the courage, persistence, and commitment of many "sturdy bridges" of all colors. Several such "bridges" are listed by name in the above highlights of Caucus history. However, there is a long succession of others, leading from the Association's inaugural conference to the present day, and stretching well into the fnture. Nupur Chaudhuri was present at the first national conference, where she recalls "many American women of color and other long time U.S. residents were 'congratulated' by their white peers for 'speaking good English' or having 'a good grasp of the subject matter.''' Chaudhuri was elected that year as one of the Coordinating Council members of the fledgling Third World Cancus, and, in this role, she drafted guidelines for a more inclusive 1980 conference in Bloomington, as well as helped set the stage for the groundbreaking Storrs conference on racism in 1981. It was regarding the experience of women of color at this latter conference that Chela Sandoval would subseqnently write, "To be 'Third World' meant... first, to have been de-centered from any point of power in order to be used as the negative pole against which the dominant powers can then define themselves [and] second, to be working politically to challenge the systems that keep power moving in its current patterns, thus shifting it onto new terrains ...." Sandoval's assessment of the dialectic between "Third World" women's status ("de-centered") and their purpose ("shifting power ... onto new terrains") captures the essence of what the Women of Color Caucus has been historically and what it strives to be today. The Women of eo lor Caucus continues to offer our Association a singular opportunity to look within our own ranks to discover ways to promote broader inclusion of historic ai, social, cultural, political and economical perspectives of racialized women in the United States (and abroad). We do this in a variety of ways with a variety of supporters and allies. Recent examples include our work with Program Administration and Development to create the Women of Color Leadership Project, our work with the NWSA Journal to develop a cluster of articles by emerging and established women of color scholars. our work with ABAFAZI Journal to fund a women of color student essay award (subsequently expanded to several awards through the generous contributions of donors), our work with the Anti White Supremacy Task Force to present an annual "Stop Dreaming/Keep Working" workshop, and numerous other endeavors. I NWSA can be proud of this history of women of color, allies, and social justice advocates who have openly challenged, critiqued, and moved the Association to live up to its mission. 36 NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE Provocative Programs on GlRDIR. BlCl .4 CLASSinthe IIDIll withJennifer L. Pozner author of Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV www.RealityBitesBackBook.com "This should he required reodingJor elmy American girl and unman:" - Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Princeton University; MSNBC analyst 'lIn indispensable toolfir teachers of media and popular culture Iwill use it in my classes.n - SUl Jhally, UMass-Amherst, Media Education Foundation 1)ll«),JI~(~r,I lAir 1 ,rASH: Why Reality TV is Bad for Women ( ••.and Men, People of Color, The Economy, Love, Sex and Sheer Common Sense!) Using humor, multimedia clips and a decade of journalistic research, Pozner reveals how reality television is the new pop cuLturaL backlash against women's rights and sociaL progress. Fierce, funny and in-depth, students will learn cruciaL media literacy skiLLs - and they'lllaugh ...a Lot. Jennifer L. Pozner is Founder and Executive Director of Women In Media & News IWIMNl. and editor of the popuLar group bloq, WIMN's Voices, at www.wimnonline.org. A widely published journalist, she has appeared on NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, FOX, PBSand NPR, and has spoken on gender, race, class and the media at more than 70 colleges. •WOMEN INMEOlA & NEWS Ask About Additional Multimedia Lectures & Hands-on Worksbops: • Hillary Clinton's Cleavage ...& Other Useless Things I Learned from the News: Unpacking Media Representations of Women • When Anchormen Attack!: Gender, Race and the Media in Election Years and Beyond • Workshops: Media Literacy 101; Reality TV Bingo; Media Trainings • CONFERENCE OVERVIEW & LOGISTICS NWSA MEMBERSHIP AND LEADERSHIP MEETING INFORMATION MEMBERSHIP ASSEMBLY MEETING Saturday, November 13 5:10 PM - 6:25 PM • Director's Row H Presidential Transition Celebration Plan to attend a celebration to honor Beverly Guy-Sheftall's leadership in the National Women's Studies Association and Bonnie Thornton Dill's incoming presidency. Members can also learn about the state of the organization, make recommendations in support of the NWSA mission, and talk with NWSA leaders. DELEGATE ASSEMBLY MEETING Sunday, November 14 8:00-9:15 AM. Director's Row J Delegate Assembly members can learn about the state of the organization, make resolutions, and deliberate on Membership Assembly recommendations in support of the NWSA mission, and talk with NWSA leaders. GOVERNING COUNCIL MEETING Sunday, November 14 10:00 AM-5:00 PM • Director's Row H The Governing Council serves as the NWSA Board of Directors with chief responsibilities for finances and strategic direction. Vacant Position Phyllis Baker, University of Northern Iowa Amy Levin, Northern Illinois University Michelle Isadore, Lehigh University Colleen Riggle, Georgia Tech Barbara Scott Winkler, Southern Oregon University Holly Blake, University of Richmond Ruth Nicole Brown, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Nupur Chaudhuri, Texas Southern University NATIONAL WOMEN'S STUDIES ASSOCIATION GOVERNING COUNCIL MEMBERS OFFICERS President Bonnie Thornton Dill, University of Maryland Vice President Michele Berger, University of North Carolina Secretary Astrid Henry, Grinnell College Treasurer Vivien Ng, SUNY, Albany Past President Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Spelman College STANDING COMMITIEE REPRESENTATIVES Elections Chair Program Administration and Development Co-Chair Program Administration and Development Co-Chair Women's Centers Committee Co-Chair Women's Centers Committee Co-Chair Ethics, Equity, Diversity and Accessibility Chair Student Interests Co-Chair Student Interests Co-Chair Education Outreach Chair CONSTITUENCY GROUP REPRESENTATIVES Lesbian Caucus Chair Caucus Representative Member at Large Representative Women of Color Caucus Co-Chair Women of Color Caucus Co-Chair Regional Representative Parliamentarian Michelle (Mel) Lewis, University of Maryland Jill Adams, Kentucky Community and Technical College Stephanie Troutman, Penn State University Annette Madlock, Southern Connecticut State University Stephanie Troutman, Penn State University Alison Piepmeier, College of Charleston Carrie Baker, Berry College 38 NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE • CONFERENCE OVERVIEW & LOGISTICS NWSA MEETINGS AND KEY SPACE DESIGNATIONS THURSDAY Feminist Formations Business Meeting Governor's Square 12 8:30 am 12:30 pm Interdisciplinary Women's Studies Journal Editors' Meeting Director's Row G 1:00 pm 5:00 pm FRIDAY Regional Chairs Business Meeting Director's Row F 8:00 am 9:15 am Feminist Mothering Caucus Business Meeting Plaza Ballroom D 9:25 am 10:40 am Women's Centers Committee Business Meeting Governor's Square 17 9:25 am 10:40 am Girls and Their Allies Caucus Business Meeting Director's Row F 10:50 am 12:05 pm Transgender Caucus Business Meeting Plaza Ballroom D 10:50 am 12:05 pm FatStudies Interest Group Business Meeting Plaza Ballroom D 2:20 pm 3:35 pm Women of Color Caucus Business Meeting Director's Row J 3:45pm 5:00 pm Graduate Student Caucus Business Meeting Plaza Ballroom D 3:45pm 5:00pm SATURDAY Lawand Public Policy Interest Group Business Meeting Director's Row F 8:00 am 9:15 am Ethics, Equity, Diversity and Accessibility Committee Director's Row F 9:25 am 10:40 am Business Meeting Science and Technology Task Force Business Meeting Plaza Ballroom F 10:50 am 12:05 pm Community College Caucus Business Meeting Director's Row F 10:50 am 12:05 pm Aging and Ageism Caucus Business Meeting Director's Row F 2:20 pm 3:35 pm International Task Force Business Meeting Governor's Square 9 2:20 pm 3:35 pm Lesbian Caucus Business Meeting Governor's Square 14 3:45 pm 5:00 pm Iota, Iota, Iota - Women's Studies Honor Society Meeting Director's Row F 3:45 pm 5:00 pm Feminists Against Academic Discrimination Business Meeting Director's Row F 5:10 pm 6:25 pm QUIET SPACE Friday & Saturday - Director's Row G • 8:00 am - 7:00 pm This room is designated as a recovery/sharing room for those in recovery and/or coping with addictions. CHILD CARE Friday & Saturday - Director's Row E • 8:00 am - 5:00 pm . WoCLP HOSPITALITY ROOM Friday & Saturday - Director's Row J • 8:00 am - 7:00 pm RESTROOM DESIGNATIONS For the conference both men's bathrooms in the Plaza Concourse have been designated as gender-neutral. There is a men's bathroom on the Plaza Lobby Level. NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE 39 >CONFERENCE OVERVIEW & LOGISTICS SESSION FORMAT INFORMATION PANELS Panels provide an opportunity for examining specific problems or topics from a variety of perspectives given that they include 3-4 participants. Panels may present alternative solutions, interpretations, or contrasting points of view on a specified subject or in relation to a common theme. Panel members are expected to prepare papers addressing central questions described in the proposal. INDIVIDUAL PAPER SESSIONS Individual Paper proposals are submitted individually and arranged into sessions by the Proposal Review Committee. In paper sessions, authors present 10-12minute papers followed by audience discussion. A typical structure for a session with four papers allows approximately 5 minutes for the moderator to introduce the session, 10 minutes for each presenter, and 30 minutes for discussion. SPONSORED SESSIONS Sponsored Sessions may be submitted by NWSA Caucuses on topics of particular interest to caucus members and NWSA members as a whole. One sponsored session per caucus will be offered space in the Conference Program if submissions are received by the proposal deadline and proposals meet review criteria. Task forces and interest groups may also submit proposals for sponsored sessions. ROUNDTABLES Roundtables typically include a moderator and 4-6 presenters who make brief, informal remarks ab~ut a specific idea or project. They allow for extensive discussion and audience participation. POSTER SESSIONS Poster Sessions present research or analysis on a topic by combining graphics and text on a 4'x8' board. The poster session presenter is available during an assigned session time in order to interact on a one-on-one basis with the attendees viewing the poster. A well-planned poster communicates its message in a visually and textually powerful way, allowing the attendee to grasp the information quickly. WORKSHOPS Workshops provide an opportunity to exchange information or work on a common problem, project, or shared interest. Workshops are typically experientially oriented, grounded in some sort of women's and gender studies research agenda, and include brief presentations that allow adequate time for reflective discussion and interaction. A Note About Scheduling: NWSA staff and the program co-chairs have made every effort to organize the conference program taking into account thematic synergies while avoiding thematic conflicts. The schedule has been repeatedly reviewed and frequently re-organized to that end. Please note that some thematic conflicts are inevitable given the complexity and scope of the overall program. 40 NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE CONFERENCE OVERVIEW & LOGISTICS PROGRAM THEME INFORMATION THEME 1: INDIGENOUS FEMINISMS: THEORIES, METHODS, POLITICS Language shapes and reflects power relations and terms like "indigenous," "Indian," Native American," "aboriginal" and "First Nation" have different historical, social, and political uses. We invite examination of how serious engagement with indigenous feminisms would shift the questions asked, the methods used, and the power analyses possible in women's studies. THEME 2: COMPLICATING THE QUEER The move to queer theory in women's studies has both expanded the field and simultaneously reinforced silences about nation, race, ethnicity, class, and religion. We invite women's studies practitioners to apply feminist intersectional and transnational frameworks within queer studies. THEME 3: THE POLITICS OF NATIONS Taking traditional women's studies topics (i.e., "violence against women") and reformulating them to more adequately account for the role of the state (i.e., incarceration, militarization, land rights, war, immigration! asylum) has the potential to yield new feminist theories, methods, and politics and to shift our understanding of existing frameworks. THEME 4: "OUTSIDER" FEMINISMS We seek to consider what it means to be positioned as epistemologically or phenomenologically "outside" of traditional feminist practices, theories, and politics. Meaningful and transformative political and intellectual practice often takes place when so-called "outsiders" both challenge hegemonic epistemologies and simultaneously articulate the barriers to working across difference in contexts of marginalization. We invite analyses of "outsider" feminisms in many forms, including but not limited to masculinity studies, girls studies, and disability studies. We would like to complicate these areas of study by addressing feminist theorizing about progressive masculinities, the experiences of girls transnationally, and issues of race, class and nation in disability discourse. THEME 5: THE CRITICAL AND THE CREATIVE Groundbreaking collections like Toni Cade Bambara's The Black Woman, Gloria E. Anzaldua's Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Feminists of Color and Anzaldua and Cherrie Moraga's This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color refused thefalse divide between creative expression and theoretical analysis. However, alternative approaches to what "counts" as knowledge have not been fully realized within women's studies. We invite examinations of the epistemological and political dimensions of creativity in many forms, including but not limited to filmmaking, new media technologies, narrative, and the fine and performing arts. NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE 41 THURSDAY NOVEMBER 11 PROGRAM THEME DETAIL KEY TO SESSION THEMES o INDIGENOUS FEMINISMS: THEORIES, METHOOS, POLITICS • COMPLICATING THE QUEER 12:55PM - 2:10PM· THURSDAY NOVEMBER 11 • THE POLITICS OF NATIONS • "OUTSIDER" FEMINISMS • THE CRITICAL AND THE CREATIVE SESSIONTITLE ROOM PRESENTERS o Plaza Court 6 Joe Parker, Pitzer College; Debjani Chakravarty, Arizona State UniversityThe Indigenous. the Subaltern, and the Transnational • Plaza COUTt 8Pushing the Limits of LGBT Equality andQueer Theory Brian R. lara, The Pennsylvania State University; Susanne Beechey, WhitmanCollege, Shawn M. Snidow, University of Oklahoma; Chris Guzaitis, Scripps College; Lisa King, Edgewood College • Citizenship from the Margins Plaza Court 3 Adriane Brown, The Ohio State University; Christina Holmes, Ohio State University; Stacia L. Kock, The Ohio State University; Christine Keating, Ohio State University • Governor'sSquare 12Beijing +15: Difficult Dialogues at the54th Commission on the Status of Women Kristin Marie Alder, University of North Texas; Sara Alida Cooley, University ofCalifornia, Santa Barbara; Deneil Hill, State University of New York, Binghamton; Minjon Tholen, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Christine Marie Willingham, Barry University; Jasmine Winter, Mary Baldwin College, Sandra L. Spencer, University of North Texas • • Plaza Court 4Closets of the Feminist Epistemology:Imperialism and the Space of Liminal Feminisms Josh James Cerretti, State University of New York, Buffalo; Theresa Anne Warburton, State University of New York, Buffalo; Maria Fernanda Glaser Danton, Slate University of New York, Buffalo; Sophia Azeb, State University of New York, Buffalo • Plaza Court 7Creative Approaches to Pedagogy andWomen's Studies as a Discipline Sarah Jane Sloane, Colorado State University; Marie Anne Cartier, ClaremontGraduate University; Andrea Doyle, Oregon State University; Jamie Pauline Ross, Portland State University; Marian Sclachitano, Washington State University; Kryn FreeWing-Burton, Oregon State University 2:20PM - 3:35PM. THURSDAY NOVEMBER 11 SESSIONTITLE ROOM PRESENTERS • Queering the Middle Eastern Cyberscapes Plaza Court 8 Neha Vera, Texas A&M University; Noor Al-Qasiml, University of London; Roshanak Kheshti, University of California , San Diego; Sima Shakhsari, Stanford University; Dima Ayoub, McGill University • Queer Meditations on Race and the Plaza Court 6 Nation • National Politics of Reproductive Care:Turkey, France, and the United States Plaza Court 3 • Cleaning Our Own House: Economics,"Outsiders" and the (Re)production of Oppression in the Academy Governor's Square 12 Brittany Elyse Blake, Georgia State University; Juliana Marie Kubala, Georgia State University; Angela Willey, Emory University; Megan Sinnott, Georgia State University; Moon Charania, Georgia State University Irina Aristarkhova, Penn State University; Ayse Dayl, Towson University; Brigitte Marti, Independent Researcherl PNHP Maryland chapter; Carol Ritter, Conversation Coalition lrlca Barrera, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Joanna Nunez, University of Nevada, Las Vegas 42 NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE PROGRAM THEME DETAIL THURSDAY NOVEMBER 11 • Coalition Politics and Activism: History, Theory, Praxis Plaza Ballroom D Alyx Akers, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Ariella Rabin Rotramel, Rutgers University; Bethany Stevens, Georgia State University; Sonny Nordmarken, University of Massachusetts, Amherst • "Making Waves": the Creation and Implications of a Feminist Collective Zine in an Academic Context Governor's Square 11 • Writing Our Feminist Selves: Uses of Memoir in Feminist Pedagogy & Action Plaza Court 4 Ienelle Haddad, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Blythe Newburg, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Savanna Grey Peterson-Wahl, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Justine Ann Johnson, Minnesota State University, Mankato -~--~--~~- Janet Lee, Oregon State University; Nancy Barbour, Oregon State University; Andrea Doyle, Oregon State University; Julie Ann George, Oregon State University; Heather Montes Ireland, Oregon State University 3:45PM- 5:00PM· THURSDAY NOVEMBER 11 SESSION TITLE ROOM PRESENTERS • 'Bad' Women who do Good Things: Queering Feminist Ideas of the . SOROPTIMIST Best for WoINn www.soroptimist.org 4CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS 8:00 A.M. - 9:15 A.M. FRIDAY 035. Queering Pop Culture 8:0010 9: 15 am· Plaza Court / Margaret Cho atlas the Intersection of Queer, Feminist, and Asiau American Identity. Reid T. Sagara, University of Washington In this paper, I read the comedian Margaret Cho as an articulation of a third-wave feminism, a feminism that simultaneously engages in queer, racial, and gender politics, and that both builds on and repudiates earlier strands of feminist thinking and politics. Following Butler and others, I attend to the performative (both literally and discursively) ways in which Cho forges a queer, racialized, feminist subjectivity, and I argue that this intersectional subjectivity is necessarily fraught with and defined through inherent inconsistencies and impossibilities. Queering the Mic: From Hip Hop to Human Rights. Kathryn E. Trevenen, University of Ottawa TIle paper looks at emerging "horuohop" artists to examine the representations of queer culture, political action and desire that they create. I argue that homohop is emerging within hip hop cultures to challenge both the pervasive homophobia in mainstream hip hop but also to use the forms of hip hop to create an interlocking analysis of oppression, and to articulate queer desires, relationships and experiences. I focus on the ways that queer hip hop musicians articulate solidarity and the fluidity with which hip hop musicians articulate a queer identity. Singiug Awry: Reading the Falguui Pathak Performance. Elakshi Kumar, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities This paper will read the audiovisual performance of a queerly gendered Indian pop singer, Falguni Pathak. With her self-consciously 'feminine' pitch and modulation of voice, contrasting with her obviously cross- dressed appearance, Pathak is a figure rich in contestations around femininity and women's desire. Through her ambivalently gendered persona, it is possible to explore the possibilities for as well as the containment of queer subjectivities. Pathak's persona collides with the nationalist feminization of TV artistes to produce an array of contradictory discourses that simultaneously challenge mainstream homophobic nationalism as well as clean Western narratives of lesbian identity formation. Moderator: Christa C. Craven, College of Wooster 036. Subaltern Rememberings: Mapping Alternative Approaches to Memory 8:00 to 9: /5 am • Plaza Court 2 The Music of Modernity: Time and History in "Bollywood" Soundtracks. Pavitra Sundar, Kettering University This paper builds on new scholarship in ethnomusicology and film studies to ask how Hindi film sound tracks construct time and history, especially in relation to the idealized nation that these films project. Can and does the aural domain of cinema present a challenge to the hegemonic "image" of nation? Juxtaposing the soundtracks of Lagaan (2001) and Rang De Basanti (2006) with film music of the 1950s and 60s, this paper argues that while the music of Hindi cinema does not disrupt hegemony constructions of nation, masculinity, and femininity, it does fundamentally undermine colonial notions of temporality and modernity. 78- • Toward a transnational feminist aesthetics of memory- work: Auto-ethnography in Meena Alexander's Fault Lines and Sara Sulerfs Meatless Days. Soumitree Gupta, Syracuse University I focus on two US-based, diasporic, South Asian women's memoirs. Meena Alexander's Fault Lines (I993, 2003) and Sara Suleri's Meatless Days (1991). I situate them within the eighties' production context of women of color auto-ethnographies in US. I also read them against the post-y/Ll context of the feminism-imperialism complex, operating within the Afghan women's memoir industry in US. I argue how the self-reflexive, non-linear, and fragmented aesthetics of memory-work in Alexander and Suleri's texts defamiliarize colonialist inscriptions of the 'subaltern Third World woman; and imagine 'feminist' communities along the intersectional axes of gender, ethnicity, race, religion, class, nation, and empire. Partition in Contemporary Visual Art: A Transnational Memory Discourse. Pritika Chowdhry, Transdiaspora Project Contemporary visual arts practices have begun to critically engage with cultural memories of historical traumas; however, the discourse of cultural memory, in the West is centered on the Holocaust and the Middle Passage. Stephen Legg's idea of "Subaltern memory" can be productively deployed to recenter and relocate the memory discourse to non-western regions. By examining the artistic practices of Indian and Pakistani artists whose works allude to memories of the Partition of the South Asian sub-continent, r will argue that it is time to re-center the cultural memory discourse to focus on events that have happened elsewhere in the world. What the City Re-members: Towards Mapping Visceral Memory Post-9/11. Jacque Micieli, Syracuse University Almost immediately following the collapse of the Twin Towers, images began to circulate on the internet in attempts to represent the massive void now present in the New York City skyline as a result of the loss of its symbolic skyscrapers. This paper explores what happens when the very technologies associated with disrupting and resisting hegemonic memories are re-operationalized to reinstate the State and its official narrative. Thus with the building plans of the national 9/11 memorial and museum in New York City, this paper focuses on the social production of a post-9lll memory being mobilized through memory's affective registers. Moderator: Saron Miraglia, Syracuse University 037. Challenging Postfeminism: How Today's Popular Culture Has Pushed Radical Femiuisms into the Margins 8:00109: 15 am • Plaza Court 6 Hell is a Postfeminist Horror Film: Exploring Patriarchal Subversion and Complicity in Jennifer's Body. Lauren Ann Walleser, Florida Atlantic University Diablo Cody and a number of feminists have asserted that her 2009 film Jennifer's Body is a pro-woman, feminist horror flick. I argue that the film is actually postfeminist, as it appropriates feminist imagery and discourse as well as a critique of patriarchy while catering to a largely male audience. Using a radical and lesbian feminist framework, r analyze the film's commodification of feminism, violence against women, and representations of lesbians and bisexuality. I argue that the film, its creators and its stars, ultimately demonize female sexuality and female friendships, continuing a postfeminist trend of claiming liberation through ironic self-objectification. NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE .. CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS I Material Community: The L Word and Post-Feminist Ideology. Kathryn Kane, DePaul University Queer has been critiqued for its dismissal of both lesbian specificity and feminist principles. This paper engages the irony that The L Word, the only hour-long drama to focus on lesbians, reproduced a similarly limited vision of queer by celebrating material goods and consumerism, a representation of values at odds with the insights of feminist analyses. Drawing on a critical reading of the program and interviews with queer/lesbian women who identified as regular viewers, this paper analyzes The L Word in relation to postfeminist politics and considers the queer vision it produces. The Domino Effect: Masculine Performance, Sexual Objectification, and Negotiation in Robert Rodriguez's EI Mariachi. Marlene Galvan, University of Texas - Pan American I closely read the construction and performance of female masculinity in the film EI Mariachi through Robert Rodriguez's depictions of Domino, a female police officer, and the women with whom male drug cartels surround themselves. I explore the Spanish, Mexican, and Chicano cultural and mythical influences on the construction of masculinity on the female body and its larger implications in terms of gender. race, sexuality. and border culture. While masculine females in Chicano/a culture are often depicted as transgressive, Rodriguez has manipulated a would-be transgressive figure in order to reinforce gender and cultural norms and maintain established cultural myths. Moderator: Peter Cava, Florida Atlantic University 038. Outlier Feminisms: Black Women's Art and Affect, Chicana Mestizaje, Black and Native Women's Coalition Politics 8:00 to 9: 15 am • Plaza Court 7 No Really, How Does it Feel to Be a Problem?: The Image of Shame, Sado-Masochism, Identity and Representation in Sapphire's Push. Bettina A. Judd, University of Maryland In 1903WE.B. DuBois wrote: "Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unmasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. [... ] How does it feel to be a problem?" In this paper, I re-situate the question to explore the feeling of being a problem. That is, the question of identity as it rests at the multiple intersections of difference. Utilizing Elizabeth Alexander's concept of "the black interior" I will examine the ways in which the self-imagined space is explored through Sapphire's Push via its central heroine Claireece Precious Jones and her journey to fully realized self-hood. Inside and outside the Parameters of Feminist Theory: The Role of Chicana Mestizaje. Ana M. Perez, University of Maryland This paper will explore the productive uses of Chicana mestizaje and its significance to feminist theorizations of race and racialization. The challenges of using mestizaje: a multivoiced and transnational discourse of cultural and racial mixture as a site of critical theory in Chicana Studies reveal the complex ways that Chicana mestizaje is located both inside and outside feminist debates about race and racialization. In this discussion I will consider the following questions: 1) How is Chicana mestizaje deployed in contemporary feminist debates? And 2) How are the political uses of mesrizaje delimited by its unique location both inside and outside feminist theory and practice? NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE _______________ --'1b FRIDAY 8:00 A.M. - 9:15 A.M. Black/Native Feminist Formations at Colonial Collision Sites. Tiffany Lethabo King, University of Maryland, College Park This presentation analyzes the political and cultural work of Black and Native women in the Toronto TNCITE Chapter from 2006-2008. Toronto INCITE's decision to make confronting Canadian and US settler colonial state formations the anchor of their work is the point of departure for this presentation's attempt to rethink ossified and bounded notions of race, settler subjectivities and the coherence of the nation-state. Toronto INCITE's decolonizing work represents an emergent Black-Native feminist formation that challenges forms of Black indigeneity linked to proprietary claims to space, rigid indigenous/[Black]settler binaries (Lawrence and Amahady 2009), as well as the sovereignty of the nation-state (Smith 2008). Moderator: Seung-kyung Kim, University of Maryland, College Park 039. Re-Reading Masculinity in Relation to Women's Positionality 8:00 to 9: J5 am • Plaza Court 8 The Archetypal Pro-Feminist: George Cat! and the Contradictory Experiences of Power and Invisibility. John Michael Erickson, Claremont Graduate University Renowned gender theorists Michael Kaufman and Joanna Urschel formulated similar theories regarding male gender and the role men played during the women's suffrage movement of the early 20th century. While Kaufman argues that men during that era existed in a world of pain and power, Urschel believes that these same men were rejected from actively practicing the power sanctioned by patriarchal society because of their involvement in the women's movement. Contrasting both their views, the husband of prominent feminist Carrie Chapman Catt, George Catt, was unlike the contemporary man of the early 20th century that Kaufman and Urschel describe. Towards a Chicano Feminist Masculinity. Jose Alfredo Navarro, University of Southern California In thinking about the ways in which much of the early Chicano scholarship and cultural production is guilty of effecting a narrative and symbolic erasure of Chicana women-especially with regard to representations of women in the Chicano novel-that stems from positing a unified subjectivity based on the nation-state model of identity and that results in the formation of a "transcendental Chicano (male) subject;' I will explore the potential for re-formulating and theorizing a Chicano Feminist identity through decolonial and postnational frameworks. "It's Hard out Here for a Pimp": Re-reading Black Masculinity in American Popular Film. Corie Hardy. Arizona State University In this study I will focus on the ways in which black masculinity-and in particular, the hip hop or "gangsta" aesthetic-has been traditionally read by feminist scholars and theorists as misogynistic and therefore outside of the realm of progressive masculinities and feminist scholarship. Through an analysis of popular Hollywood "gangsta" or "hood" films released over the last twenty years, I will re-read the construction of black masculinity in American popular culture, noting the ways in which black men have largely been cast aside or positioned both epistemologically and phenomenologically outside of both feminist scholarship and masculinity studies. Moderator: Linda Marie Perkins, Claremont Graduate University 79 8:00 A.M. - 9:15 A.M. FRIDAY CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS 040. Women and Public Art 042. Exploring the Literatures of Women of Color 8:00 to 9: /5 am • Governor s Square 9 Kara Walker: Cut as Masochistic Liberation. Carolyn Jean Trench, University of Pennsylvania Presenting fraught interactions of race, class, and gender, Kara Walker's antebellum-inflected silhouettes have drawn controversy as well as acclaim. Most infamously, BetyeSaar's late 19905 letter campaign alleged that Walker traffics in stereotypes for the pleasure of the elite white art market. The question raised by the controversy is fundamental: Can Walker's work be productively recuperated from a feminist, African- American, or queer studies perspective? Using Walker's 1998 work Cut, my paper theorizes a possible political reclamation of the raced and gendered violence represented in this piece and in Walker's oeuvre more broadly. Yarn Bombing: Women Challenging Spatial Invisibility through Knit Graffiti. Sarah C. Wheeler, San Diego State University The act of installing knit graffiti in public spaces-also known as yarn bombing-s-has recently become a crafting phenomenon, performed globally by enthusiastic knitters who share photographs of their installations online. This paper seeks to explore how this creative endeavor is being utilized as a transformative and distinctly feminine reclamation of public space. Because the act of knitting, and the handmade items it produces, carry strong connotations of gendered labor and resistance to consumerist imperatives, yarn bombing becomes a strategic and symbolic method of drawing upon cultural memory in order to inject a subversive feminine presence into masculinist spaces. "Sparkle and Shine: Gender, Class and Taste in Lynda Benglis' Sculptures". Susan Richmond, Georgia State University My paper analyzes Lynda Benglis' sculptural "Knots" from the mid- 1970s. This work challenged prevailing aesthetic hierarchies through its invocation of so-called low and middlebrow aesthetics. In focusing on the latter, r indicate how our understanding of the "middle" ground complicates the high art/low craft division that historians have productively theorized ill relation to women's visual arts. I argue that women's "middlebrow" tastes actively combined with emerging feminist sensibilities in the 1970s to change the direction of contemporary art in the u.s. Moderator: Kryn Preehiing-Burton, Oregon State University 041. Feminist Photo Albums: Past, Present, and Praxis. 8:00 to 9: 15 am • Governor s Square /0 In keeping with Theme 5: The Critical and the Creative, we seek to explore, discuss and show how photography can be used in the classroom and in real life to better comprehend and demonstrate different areas of focus in Women's Studies. Our goal is to show that through photography students can visualize and create their own representations of concepts, allowing them to move beyond theory and into praxis. Presenters: Arlene Arlene Sgoutas, Metropolitan State College of Denver Kindra Dawn Conrad, Independent Scholar Emily Meredith Moncrief, Metropolitan State College of Denver 80• 8:00 to 9:J 5 am • Governor s Square J J Female subjectivity and the reproduction of colonialism in Bessie Head's Maru. Nickesia Stacy-ann Gordon, Barry University The paper focuses on female subjectivity and how its production re-produces colonial systems in so far as patriarchy is buttressed by colonialism. While attempting to delineate and critique a concept of female subjectivity as presented in Maru, the paper notes that a conceptualization and deconstruction of female subjectivity differs from both a Western and African feminist perspective and as a result, accounts for the fact that these differences will operate to create disjunctures as well as intersections when applied to the novel Riding the Restless Wave: Finding the Foundations of Asian American Feminism in Ayako Ishigaki's Memoir. Ina Christiane Seethaler, Saint Louis University Ayako Ishigaki's Restless Wave: My Life in Two Worlds (1940) presents one of the earliest books by a Japanese American woman published in English. Yet, this memoir does not only tell the story of one woman alone, but, as I argue, gives its readers insight into the pioneering feminist struggles of many Asian American women. As "outsiders" to traditional feminism, because their number seemed insignificant and their voices too silent, Asian immigrant women still found alternative methods of resistance to pursue independence and to gain self- valuation in a highly patriarchal environment. When Being is Not A Burden: Naomi Ayala and the Re- embodying Poetics of Neo-Riquena Discourse. Roberta Frances Elizabeth Barki, University of Texas at San Antonio How Puerto Rican women in the United States depict their experiences of Empire, gender oppression, and racism has long been silenced and ignored in main-stream American society. However, examination of such poetic works as those by Naomi Ayala finds vivid depictions that at once indict her subjugators while simultaneously illuminating a rich sub-culture of conscious self-reflection and empowerment. I argue that analysis of Ayala's "Perfection" and "Crickets," published in 200S, illuminates the significance of Puertcrriquena poetry in consciousness raising in constructing images of "Other" feminist e.ndeavors in the new millennium. Moderator: Er;'1Hurt, West Chester University 043. Speak, Move, Create, Act: Empowering Girls and Young Women 8:00 to 9: /5 am • Governor s Square J 2 This workshop explores the area of girls' and young women's selt- awareness and the role their autonomy plays in their positive development. We present creative ways in which we can challenge girls to explore their own voices. Feminist-centered theory is applied to the creative mediums of creative writing and poetry, filmmaking and radio production, and art and movement therapy as important fonns of resistance and potential sites of activism. Presenters: Colleen Anne Coyne, University of Minnesota Bruney Brinkman, Chatham University Kandie Brinkman, University of Utah Moderator: Shannalee Otauez, Spy Hop Productions NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE J p CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS I 044. We're Tired of Holding It 8:00 to 9: J5 am • Governor s Square /4 Public restrooms continue to be segregated on the basis of sex/gender. 'This social arrangement often causes tremendous problems for many trans and gender non-conforming individuals. Trans people frequently report harassment in public restrooms, ranging from hostile stares to threats of arrests and assault. For years, trans and allied communities have been pushing for the creation of gender neutral/mixed gender bathrooms in response to this prejudice by creating more accessible accommodations. This interim solution, however, does not get to the root of the problem: the need to eradicate sex-segregated facilities. In this session, contributors will discuss the issue of gender-segregated public restrooms and the crisis this creates for many trans and gender non-conforming individuals while also offering innovative, radical and ground-breaking solutions and paradigms to challenge and confront the gender binary. Intersectional approaches that tie in issues of disability, age, race, and parenting among other considerations, are utilized. Presenters: ReeseC. Kelly, State University of New York, Albany Shae Miller, University of California, Santa Barbara Stephanie M. Dykes, independent Scholar Moderator: Reese C. Kelly, State University of New York, Albany 045. The Crunk Feminist CoIlective: A Next Generation Feminist Project 8:00109:15 am » Governors Square 15 This roundtable highlights the work of the Crunk Feminist Collective, a scholar-activist network composed of feminists-of-color who came of age in the 1990s and are driven by the political concerns that have shaped the Hip Hop Generation. Similar to past feminist groups like the Combahee River Collective and the Third World Women's Alliance, the CFC aims to articulate a generationally relevant feminist theory and praxis that draws upon new and creative cultural metaphors, like "crunk" which is appropriated here as a mode of resistance, that can shape our approaches to feminist issues including mothering, organizing, theoryl politics debates, sexuality, and disability. Presenters: SusanaM. Morris, Auburn University RachelA. Raimist. The University of Alabama Sheri Dione Davis-Faulkner, Emory University Moderator: Brittney Chante Cooper, University of Alabama 046. Exclusionary Feminism: Stories of Undergraduate Women of Color 8:00 to 9: 15 am • Governor s Square J 6 A history of racism, exclusion, and marginalization in the feminist movement provide a context for exploring current exclusionary practices in feminism. A transformative narrative study, based in critical race feminism and intersectionality theory, highlight the voices of seven Women of Color activists. Findings include students' understanding of activism, experiences with marginalization in feminist and social justice activism, and strategies for building more inclusive feminist activist movements. Educators and scholars will benefit from hearing the voices of Women of Color activists and gain strategies for building more inclusive campus environments. Presenter: Chris Linder, Colorado State University NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE It. FRIDAY 8:00 A.M. - 9:15 A.M. 047. Women's Bodies as Battlegrounds: Sexual Transgression, Violence and Violation in the South Asian Context 8:00 to 9:15 am » Govemor s Square 17 Dangerous Subjects: The Obscenity Trials of Ismat Chnghtai and "John" Radclyffe-Hall. SadafJaffer, Harvard University Obscenity law bestows the state with authority over permissible and impermissible thought. Urdu writer Ismat Chughtai was tried for obscenity in 1946 for her short story "Lihaaf (The Quilt)" which alludes to a sexual relationship between two women. The charges resembled those brought against "John" Raddyffe-Hall in 1928 for The Well of Loneliness, her novel about a sexual invert. Both works are often cited under the umbrella of lesbian literature, yet there is a palpable difference in the ways in which bodies and pleasures are described. This paper will examine potential reasons Radclyffe-Hall's work was banned whereas Chughtai was acquitted, proving an opportunity to delve into obscenity law in the British Empire and its implementation within colony and metropole. Framing Violence: The Politics of Discourse on Honor Killing in Pakistan. Abbas Jaffer,Harvard University Honor killing, in recent times, has been garnered intense international attention. In response, various discourses have emerged, locating its roots in religion, culture, or as a universal implement of controlling women's sexuality across time and space. There are high ideological stakes in Pakistan; while certain scholars aim to deflect a sense of historical and cultural particularity to honor killing there, coverage from Western governments and human rights organizations focus heavily on governmentality and women's status. This study exposes assumptions on both sides and argues for complicating our view of gender, honor, and nationhood in Pakistan. Daughter of Pakistan? Aafia Siddiqui, Honor, and Nationalism. Azmat Khan, Oxford University The mystery surrounding the disappearance of Dr. AaJ1aSiddiqui before her capture, a Western educated Pakistani neuroscientiest convicted for attempting to murder American military offices, has been explained through competing narratives. For many Pakistanis, Dr. Siddiqui's story includes false imprisonment, torture, rape, and gender-based violence carried out by the U.S. government. This popular Pakistani narrative is one which challenges the traditional representations of "the Muslim woman" popularized in Western discourse (Abu-Lughod. Kahf) and positions her as a symbol of Pakistani nationalism. This topic uses post-colonial feminist theory to understand the implications of how the body and narrative of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui have become a call for nationalism and engendered a battle for women's honor in Pakistan. Moderator: Donnae N. Wahl, State University of New York, Albany 048. Activism to Action: Transforming Students' Activism to Inspire Policy Change 8:00 to 9: J 5 am • Plaza COLIrt3 Students are increasingly taking part in efforts to change their campus community. Using three examples of student-led activism at one university, this workshop will explore how Women's Centers can serve as a resource to student activists on their campus. Women's Centers can inspire and shape student activism which can in turn lead to significant changes in campus policy. Presenters: Megan Woiwode, Northern Illinois University Lettie Morgan, Northern Illinois University Moderator: Kate Schaab, Northern Illinois University 81 I CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DeSCRIPTIONS 8:00 A.M. - 9:15 A.M. FRIDAY 049. Listening to the Narratives of Pre-Stonewall Women 8:00 10 9: 15 am •Plaza Court 4 The workshop combines a presentation of testimonies I photos of women pre~ Stonewall, particularly working class and women of color gay bar attendees. We will discuss the limits/problems with the use of "lesbian" to describe these women, when they did not use that word themselves. We will discuss the problematic of how their history has been silenced. Methodology from bell hooks "Where We Stand: Class Matters" and Pierre Bourdieu's cultural capital and deficit will be explained /explored, working with the matrix of domination and sociological imagination theories as we re-frame the gaze on her/history. Presenter: Marie Anne Cartier, Claremont Graduate University 050. Feminist Literature for Social Change 8:00 fa 9: /5 am • Plaza Court 5 Critical Creativity: Transformative Cultural Memories in Novels by Octavia Butler, Ana Castillo and Marge Piercy. Valerie L. Ruffin, Emory University The genres of science fiction and magical realism remain valid sites of analysis for strategies toward social change. Butler, Castillo, and Piercy represent important authors from marginalized communities in the U.S. who seek to transform communities by invoking cultural memories of creative and innovative methods of undertheorized resistance and activism. Liberation theology, Iimptas y consejos, and tikkun olam combine to shift the unimagined to the real, once linked with the work of Angela Davis, Chela Sandoval, and Debra Schultz. Ecofeminist Characters, Sustainable Selves: Readings and Renderings. Christina Laura Black, University of Cincinnati This presentation explores how ecofeminist literary criticism can influence the development of ecofenunist theory and practice, a project that has become increasingly urgent in the face of environmental crises. Certain literary texts offer versions of sustainable identities, and we as readers do well to think through these fictional constructs. Writers such as Djuna Barnes, Percival Everett, Margaret Atwood and Octavia Butler demonstrate the potential of literature to shape human identities toward greater agency, responsibility and connection with the natural world. Their work provides an important and unique opportunity to interpret and compose new narratives about provisional and sustainable selves. "Armed Coma": Voice and Form in Gwendolyn Brooks's "In the Mecca". Maggie Evans, University of Oregon This paper willexplore the ambiguous roleof silence in feminist experimental poetry. Reading Gwendolyn Brooks's "In the Mecca;' I will investigate how formal experimentation can resist oppressive silences (raced, classed, and gendered) and invent powerful new ways of speaking while also evoking protective and respectful silences that affirm non-linguistic or non-rational modes of being as a method for resisting patriarchal linguistic appropriation. "Fiction as Dialogue: June Arnold's Lesbian Fiction as a Model for Speaking with Others". Mimi Jimuro Van Ausdall, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities This paper addresses two important questions regarding difficult dialogues: I) How can Women's Studies take up insights offered by "outsider" feminisms without engaging in tokenism? 2) What can creative approaches contribute to feminist collaboration and feminist resistance that more traditional ones might not? I examine June Arnold's "Sister Gin" (1974/1989) in which the main character, who is a writer, struggles with her decision as a white middle-class woman to write from the perspective of black working-class woman. Moderator: Jessica Marie Petocz, University of Minnesota 82 I d 051. (Re)creation of Girlhoods through Feminisms 8:0010 9: / 5 am • Plaza Ballroom D Youth Feminisms: What girls really want! Alison Marie Albright, State University of New York, Buffalo This paper will discuss youth feminisms as an "outsider feminism" that have not been fulJydeveloped in contemporary feminist theory. Work from the edited texts Turbo Chicks: Talking Young Feminisms and Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism will be presented, discussed, and compared/contrasted through an lntertextual presentation of girls' desire and need for feminisms that represent them and their lives. The goal of this paper will be to present emerging youth feminisms and their relation to current cultural representations in order to encourage more research on and attention to the positive effects of feminism on girls globally. Voices from the Table: Third Wave Feminism, Girls' Studies, and the Politics of Personal Narrative. Hope L Russell, State University of New York, Buffalo This paper analyzes the different ways that young women and girls come to feminism through an analysis of the seminal third wave feminist anthologies (e.g. To Be Real, 'Third Wave Agenda, Listen Up, Colonize This, Yentl's Revenge, Without a Net, Hijas Americanas , Yes Means Yes). My research is grounded in various feminist debates between second and third wave feminism/feminists (wave model) over academic theory versus personal narrative (experience'). 1 argue that the methodology of personal narrative is a viable and critical tool not only for girls' studies scholars but for those in gender studies and other areas of feminist research and activism. Moderator: Hara Bastas, University of Cincinnati 052. Difficult Dialogues: A (Digital) Zine-Making Workshop 8:00 fa 9:15 am· Plaza Ballroom £ This workshop will engage in Difficult Dialogues with/across feminisms rooted in diverse epistemologies through the process of collaboratively creating a zine (a self-published magazine). Envisioning zi.ne making as a creative and potentially decolonizing methodology, wewilldraw, collage, and write our way into DifficultDialogues between BlackStudies,Ethnic Studies, Women'sStudies, and Indigenous Peminisrns. Thisworkshop is open to alI- no prior experience with zines is needed. Everyone will be given the option to contribute to a zine we create together on the spot and, continuing the dialogue, the zine will be published online following the conference. Presenters: Gabriela R. Rios, Texas A&M University Marcos Dei Hierro, Texas A&M University 053. The Uses and Abuses of History: Methodology, DecoloniaJ Feminist Critique and Narratives of Indigeneity 8:00 to 9: 15 am • Plaza Ballroom F Intelligible Indigeneity and Feminist Interpolations of Miami History. Ashley Glassburn Falzetti, Rutgers University This presentation positions the tensions between historical knowledge of Indigenous women and feminist decolonialism within a series of discussions that have taken place at the NWSA conference in the last several years. In response, I will explore the significance of taking Narayan's suggestion that feminist scholars must interrogate the historical production of difference between First World and Third World women seriously, specifically within the context of the United States and more particularly among the Miami Nation of Indians of NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS Indiana. Thus, I hope to show how a sense of Miami history disrupts the colonial narrative of Miami difference and (unjintelligibility The Colonizer and the Colonized: Decolonial Feminisms, the Critique of Binary Oppositions and Political Praxis. Daphne Taylor-Garcia, University of California, Santa Barbara UmaNayaran has argued that what we understand to be distinct cultures are in fact "fairly arbitrary and shifting designations" always "connected to various political projects;" thus foregrounding the contingent nature of cultural difference. This presentation will explore feminist theories that argue for the inunediate deconstruction of the colonizer/colonized divide in historico-political analyses and place them in conversation with theories that maintain the colonizer/colonized opposition as an important stance for furthering political projects. The implications of the two interpretations of colonialism will be examined with an eye towards furthering a decolonial feminist praxis. History) Native Sovereignty) and Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach. Stephanie Clare, Rutgers University This paper considers how history can undermine indigenous sovereignty by delegitimizing native epistemologies. Specifically, it focuses on the understanding of time embedded in the project of writing History. Drawing on feminist decolonial theory, I argue that the concept of universal, homogenous time, which sees the past as over and the future as yet to come has been used as a tool to legitimize colonialism. Against such an understanding of time, I read Eden Robinson's novel, Monkey Beach, explaining that the teenage protagonist articulates an understanding of time that is integral to the assertion of indigenous sovereignty. Moderator:Michelle Frances Erai, University of California, Los Angeles 054. Regional Chairs Meeting 8:00 to 9: 15 am • Director S Row F I FRIDAY 8:00 A.M. - 9:15 A.M. 056. Acting in Concert: Toward Polyphonic Feminisms 8:00 to 9:J 5 am· Director s Row H We wish to hold a roundtable discussion where activists and academics - not that these categories are mutually exclusive - come together to examine the ways current models of feminist thinking and acting have stagnated and become repressive. when the models themselves become so entrenched that it seems almost impossible to question the perspectives through which we organize, new ways of thinking and strategizing are necessary to jolt us out of ineffective cycles. This roundtable will articulate the ways in which the concreteness of people's lives and abstractions of theory can work practically together. Presenter: Mandy L. Van Deven, Barnard Center for Research on Women Moderator: Juliana Marie Kubala, Georgia State University 057. Reproductive Justice Report from the Red States 8:00 to 9: 15 am • Director s Row I This panel would explore the challenges and obstacles of being an outsider in extremely conservative states while working for the reproductive justice movement. Individuals would be representing Oklahoma and Tennessee. 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I show how Indigenous Feminism works to confront the nexus of patriarchy, settJer colonialism, heteronormativity, and white supremacy by building a movement around liberation and thinking new forms of governance. Not at OUf Expense: American Indian Feminist Thought and Resistance to Colonial Logic. lenell Navarro, Claremont Graduate University The colonial logic of expansion and development effected genocide, and cultural genocide, of indigenous people in the U.S. This paper addresses how American Indian Feminist Thought resists these logics by hinging upon a liberatory politics that addresses heteropatriarchy, white supremacy, and colonialism. Unchartered Territory: Native Feminisms and Violence Against Urban Indian Women. Kimberly Robertson, University of California, Los Angeles This paper delineates how colonization has worked as a gendered process to justify the sexual violence against American Indian women. These justifications continue in the realities of Urban Indian Women who experience sexual violence at disproportional rates. Here, Urban Indian Women are subjects beyond state protection and I dispel the myth that if American indian Women only returned to the reservation they would find protection. Unimaginable Futures: The Exiles and the Emergence of the Native Mother. Angela Morrill, University of California, San Diego The discovery of the long lost 1961 black and white neorealist film "The Exiles" offered the promise of a portrayal of urban Natives in the twentieth century. The film raises questions about the subject of the Native, especially the Native mother, in the latter half of the twentieth century on the eve of the Red Power movement. The discourse around the film and its subjects reinforces ideologies of vanishing and discovery, yet I argue for a reading of the film that discloses the emergence of a radical reconfiguring idea of the Native mother. «If I win I might tattoo my face," Mike Tyson as Maori Artifact? Michelle Frances Erai, University of California, Los Angeles In February, 2003, ten days before his fight with Clifford "the Black Rhino" Etienne, Mike Tyson decided to tattoo his face. Considered by tattoo artists to be of the 'tribal genre: the design is most similar to those seen in traditional Maori carvings and tattoos. This paper examines the conditions of possibility within which a twentieth- century Brooklyn-born Black boxer might commission a facial tattoo so influenced by the forms of a (geographically and temporally) distant indigenous practice. TIle tattoo prompts me to ask, "What are indigenous artifacts and where do they belong?" Moderator: Jennifer Denetdale, Northern Arizona University 84 062. The creative as a way of knowing: Critical feminist arts- based inquiry 9:2510 10:40 am » Plaza Court 2 Hip-Hop [in] Along Transnational Localities: Glocal Exchange, Knowledge on Stage. Michael Benitez, Iowa State University In this piece, I look at how hip-hop serves as a way of coming to know through cultural aesthetics and lyrical forms. Specifically. I consider how different subjectivities (non-unitary) and muJtiple voices are shared, (re)mixed and (rejconceprualtzed to expose absented narratives and inrersectionalities, often veiled by universalist representations in and of hip-hop. I also look at how mobile functions allow for movement and mutation along scattered gendered hegemonies providing spaces and challenges to singular representations of power relations; and how utilizing a transnational feminist perspective provides for analyses that materialize the political-glocal constructions and contradictions present in hip-hop today. The American Girl Doll Collection: Appropriating Feminist Ideals, Selling Girlhood for Profit. Nana Osei-Kofi, Iowa State University "We have been told our world empowers girls offering them anything they want" (Lamb & Brown, 2006, ix). One of the most powerful corporations selling this message is Pleasant Company, the maker of American Girl Dolls. Through pseudo-multiculturalism, sanitized historical fiction. and prescribed gender roles. Pleasant co-opts feminist ideals of empowerment to promote consumption. In this essay, using photographs of a mixed-media installation I created as a critique of American Girl Dolls. I discuss the packaging of girlhood in contemporary society and the ways in which ideologies of identity constructions for profit are both propagated and resisted in contemporary society. Consuming Ideologies and Ideological Consumptions: Reconsidering Visual Representations as Resistant Rhetorics. Adela C. Licona, University of Arizona In Edible Ideologies. LeBesco and Naccarato (2008) ask readers to consider the ways food and foodways are not only "pathways for the exercise of repressive power" but also "opportunities for pleasure," Drawing on their claim that representations "actively produce cultural sensibilities;' in this photo essay, I fOClISon public practices of the consumption of dominant and nondominant ideologies. engaging but also moving beyond food. J do not presume for my photographs to represent "villains" or "victims;' but rather to produce perspectives and conversations about all the ways in which such productions and consumptions are revealing of both domination and resistance. Moderator: Lissa Detrielle Place. Iowa State University 063. Complicating Visibility: Recognizing Diverse Queer Identities 9:25 to JO:40amo Plaza Coun ti Chicanalo LGBT Disidentification: Strategic Silences and Sites of Visibility. Laury Oaks, University of California, Saata Barbara Drawing on survey and focus group data and a three year community- based participatory research project, this paper analyzes experiences of Chicana/o LGBT individuals living in the California central coast region. The author explores aspects of ethnic. sexual, class, family, and immigrant experiences of disidentification, expanding on Jose l\1ui1oz5 concept and specifically addressing coming out at home and at work; NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE ; CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS;,.......:....::..:.::....:..:..::..:.:..::..._-------------- FRIDAY 9:25A.M. - 10:40 A.M. participation in marriage equality campaigns; and access to LGBT services and social venues. Lived Chicano/a LGBT experience reveals both strategic silences and sites of visibility, contesting narratives of difference common in university classrooms that focus primarily on marginalization or agency. Old Women, The "Lesbian Continuum)' and Late Life Intimacies. Meika Loe, Colgate University Drawing on in-depth interviews as well as contemporary memoir and film, this paper focuses on women aged ninety and above and their intimate relationships with women in late life, as well as their silences. This work merges Adrienne Rich's concept of "lesbian continuum" with a lifecourse approach to explore women's friendships and extended kin networks across lives, and the particular salience of these ties in old age. Desiring in the Archives) Desiring in Theory: Rethinking Queer women's Visibility in a Rural Southern Landscape. Ayisha Ashley AI-Sayyad, Emory University Exploring archival material including correspondence, documentaries and interviews, this paper begins to frame new insights into the experiences among women who love women in the deep South. Beginning with available narratives and examples of rural Southern queer women from the mid-20th century and continuing to contemporary theories of rural/urban divides, the politicization of sexuality-based rights, and visibility politics, this project complicates representations of rural sexualities in the South. By rethinking visibility as a strategy and rights-seeking as the only form oflegitimate politics, this paperworks to challenge dominant binaries by opening space in the rural/urban, closeted/visible, and experiential/theoretical dichotomies. "Out, Loud and Proud'T: The Negotiations of Queer Women in the Rural Midwest. Carly Ann Thomsen, University of California, Santa Barbara Scholars and activists have recently problematized the totalizing strategies and discourses of international LGBTQ rights-seeking organizations, pointing out that many of the sexual categories assumed by these groups do not necessarily apply in non-western contexts. This paper draws from this critical scholarship to argue that the "out, loud and proud" discourses of gay rights movements may not apply equally to all groups within western contexts. Byanalyzing the complex ways in which queer women in the rural Midwest both resist and utilize these discourses, this paper complicates representations of the rural and urges liS to re-think contemporary LGBTQ rights-seeking strategies. Moderator:Melissa Autunt1J White, York University 064. Twenty-first Century Motherhood: Semiotic Snarl, Fertile Topic, or Virtual Mayhem? It's Hard to Say. 9:25 to 10:40 am· Plaza Court 7 Abraham and Solomon: Remythologizing Mom. Teresa Winterhalter, Armstrong Atlantic State University This paper explores the discursive limitations of constructions of motherhood through reading the Biblical myths of Abraham and Solomon. It points to the semiotic inadequacies in these myths that, on theonehand.exalt the sacrifice ofa father's love to ahigherauthority, and that, on the other hand. endorse the complete selflessness of the mother's love to the well-being the child. While both these myths infiltrate and undergird Ourcultural judgments about spheres of parenting, time and again they are unable to accommodate contemporary realities where mothers are simultaneously intellectuals, professionals, and artists in NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE their own right. Because perceptual penalties levied against mothers who challenge traditional roles can become so severe, In fact, it seems that it is not the child who is threatened to be split in two as Solomon forewarns. It is rather the mother herself who is split by the competing discourses of self and selflessness. To demonstrate the violence of this splitting, this paper concludes by offering a reading of Rosellen Brown's "Good Housekeeping" to suggest that neither the protagonist nor the reader of the story is able claim ethical surety of the mother's purposive pinch of her child's thigh that marks the climax of the narrative and challenges the old myths that leave us at their mercy. Working/Mothers: Mommy Blogs and Separate Spheres. Elizabeth Howells, Armstrong Atlantic State University Building upon the theoretical framework established in the first presentation, this discussion examines the difficult dialogues that have come to characterize mommy blogs. If we concede the ways in which language constitutes reality, the constitutive power of the word, the way discourse is power, it is in this space in which discourses on motherhood regulate what is and what is not legitimate mothering. And what we find in the recent history of these blogs, once a virtual frontier for rewriting and redefining motherhood, is that the conventional codes of surveillance simply reinstate the binaries that articulate, police, and maintain the split subjectivity of working mothers. Grounded by a discussion of Dooce and Maytag Mayhem of August 2009 as well as the MommyGate controversy that characterized BlogHer conference of July 2009, this presentation examines the ideological implications of the next frontier of motherhood maintaining its separate spheres. Self-Fashioning/Self-Policing: the Stakes of Labels for Women on the Web. Rachel Bowser, University of South Carolina, Beaufort Examining the politics and potential of women on the web while considering the many mommy bloggers who are abandoning the label, this presentation analyzes a related phenomenon: the women who write about mothering, work and cultural, and yet aren't labeled 'mommy bloggers' This presentation demonstrates that women who blog about varied content are not recogntzeable as mommy bloggers: the non-split subjectivity is not identifiably maternal. Further, the subjectivity that aggressively fuses reproduction and work, as when Penelope Trunk tweeted at work about miscarrying, is worse than non-maternal; it is monstrous. This presentation interrogates who can claim to own/reject the mommy blogger label and the political value of that positioning. Moderator: Teresa wtnterhalter, Armstrong Atlantic State University 065, Where the Critical meets the Creative: Women Artist Activists in Social Change 9:25 to 10:40 am· Plaza Court 8 In this work we will focus on art activism and feminist activist artists, particularly from marginalized groups, who tend to issues of oppression and whose work furnishes important archives of memory and sites of resistance. Drawing from Lucy R. Lippard's definitions of activist art and power, we examine the works of Sama Alshaibi, Judith Bacca, Judy Chicago, Yolanda Lopez and Kara Walker in four social movements, Immigration, Chicana, Feminist and Anti-Racism. We explore ways to incorporate both their work and approaches into curriculum K-16 to involve all learners. Presenters: Barbara Beyerbach, State University of New York, Oswego Tania Ramalho, State University of New York, Oswego 8S 9:25 A.M. -10:40 A.M. FRIDAY CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS----------------------- 9:25 10 10:40 am • Governor s Square /1 Dialogic Blackness: Urban Fictioo and Post-Civil Rights Femininity. Beauty L. Bragg, Georgia College & State University This paper will examine the output of women in the urban literature genre, tracing their responses to the economic and social realities of young black women and men in the post-civil rights era teasing out the ways in which this genre simultaneously utilizes the conventions of romance and hip hop to illuminate the obstacles which prevent the realization of either the goals of the civil rights movement or the women's movement. 066. The Question of the Girl, Part I 068. Dialogic Women of Color Narratives 9:25 to 10:40 am· Governor's Square 9 When Black Girls Look At You: A Visual Analysis of School, Home, and Community. Ruth Nicole Brown, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign This multi-media presentation asks the audience to think through theoretical considerations of what it means to be seen and looked at as a black girl in context of the provocative visual poetic analysis of June Jordan (1969) and the insights on ways of seeing and looking as developed by John Berger (1990 & 1992). I argue that Black girls are consistently and actively deciding who and what is worthy of their presence and attention. Why It's Fun Being A Girl: Witnessing Adolescence in Charlie White)s Teen and Transgender Comparative Study. Anne Swartz, Savannah College of Art and Design Several thought-provoking examinations of girlhood exist in contemporary art today. But Charlie White's recent series The Teen and Trans Comparative Studies are some of the most stirring additions to the visual dialogue about "becoming a woman" (De Beauvoir, 1949/1973, Lrigaray, 1985 & 1993). Each of these five photographs consists of a teen girl paired with a trans woman against an empty background dominating the composition. Part of ills complicated Girl Studies project, these images allow the viewer to witness different kinds of female puberty (Rich, 1979). This paper will consider the cultural production and simulation (Baudrillard, 1996) of femininity by teens and trans women. Maiden/Elder. Joanna Frueh, University of Arizona In "Maiden/Elder" I speak simultaneously as an exuberant, sexy girl and as a mature, experienced woman-maiden elder in one body. Using scholarship and personal experience, 1alter limiting ideas about bodies, age, and value by playing with images and preconceptions that conventions about sexuality, age. gender, and language create. The pejorative "old maid" and the derogative "girly" dissolve as I speak from a soul-and-mind-inseparable-from-body that is sexually, spiritually, emotionally, and physically happy. That happiness is rich with the energy, grace, and laughter, the experience, pithy boldness, and gentle faith that belong to girls and wise women alike. Moderators: Jillian Saint Jacques, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis; Anne Swartz, Savannah College of Art and Design 067. "why is this a feminist issue?'): Negotiating the Intersections in Online Feminism and Implications for Classroom Dialogue 9:25 to 10:40 am· Governor's Square 10 Mainstreaming intersectionality. Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Feministing.com This presenter will cover the different and strategic ways online communities can build and support grassroots activism efforts looking at a few key examples of how intersectional activism has been effective through the use of new media. What have we learned in our attempts at mainstreaming intersectionality! Facilitating Complex Dialogues. Courtney Elizabeth Martin, Feministing.com This paper explores how to better facilitation dialogues, both 011 and off line, about the intersections, particularly among participants with vastly different points of entry. Moderator: Courtney Elizabeth Martin, Perninisting.com 86 Don't Explain and "Don't Say It" Either: Black Lesbians in the Fiction of Gomez and Shockley. Stephanie Andrea Allen, Purdue University For decades, black women writers have sought to articulate the experiences of black lesbians through their fiction, starting with the black feminist writer/activists of the 1970s. However, very few critical examinations of the experiences of black lesbians as articulated in their fiction are found in the academy. Thus, drawing from the work of Ann Allen Shockley, [ewelle Gomez, and Barbara Smith, I will examine and analyze black lesbian experiences as they are articulated in ]ewelle Gomez's collection of short stories, Don't Explain, and Ann Allen Shockley's collection of stories, The Black and White of It. "The Critical and the Creative: A Feminist Praxis for Borderland Narratives of the U.S./Northern Americas)'. Judy Marie Bertonazzi, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Abstract: This paper presentation examines a feminist praxis for researching borderland narratives in the northern Americas. Borderlands in the northern Americas will be discussed as lands that border two countries (one of which is the U.S.). The feminist praxis involves theorizing woman-or-color gendered borderlands where historical, ethnic, racial, cultural, political, and economic struggles of women create the narratives' central themes, forms, and content. A feminist praxis weaves together the daily social issues of a women-of- color with visible bodily sites of resistance and other identity markers of lived subjectivity and the public self, within lands that are also sites of resistance. Moderator: Shawn M. Snidow, University of Oklahoma 069. Enacting Multiple Outsider Feminisms: Case Studies in Participatory Research with Minoritized Girls 9:25 [0 /0:40 om· Governor's Square /2 Staging Encounters Among Racialized and Indigenous Girls. fa-Anne Lee, University of Victoria This presentation problematizes the concept of "girlhood" as a privileged lens for understanding the complexity of minority girls' lives by asking how feminist researchers can undertake research with minority girls in ways that do not re-center dominant norms and assumptions about girls and "difference" It critically reflects on a study where participatory action researchers consciously developed and applied feminist, decolonizing and anti-racist research practices to explore interactions between racialized and Indigenous girls living under whiteness in a mid-sized Canadian city. Yet, in designing and implementing the study, the research team found themselves being positioned by dominant discourses about youth and girls despite their desire to act and think differently. Although we developed alternative NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE po CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS.;..::.=:.:..:..:.::.:.:.:....._---~-------_. FRIDAY 9:25A.M. -10:40 A.M. processes to «stage encounters" among minority and Indigenous girls that disassembled some barriers and enabled girls to speak, other problems remained and re-emerged. Specific examples are presented and to illustrate, I draw on video, narratives and photography produced as action tools and data. Difficult Collaborations: Constructing Critical Spaces through Participatory Action Research using Feminist, Anti-Racist and Decolonizing Methodologies. Nishad Khanna, University of Victoria This paper focuses on the practices we used to disrupt dominant colonizing forms of research in a Participatory Action Research project with Indigenous and racialized girls living in a predominantly white Canadian center. 1 unpack the complexities of our process including my own insider/outsider positioning as a racialized transgender, male-identified researcher in a girl-centered space. I explore how we collectively negotiated the tensions between and among critical, decolonizing, anti-racist, youth engaging, and feminist practices in our PARstudy to construct a space that opened alternative discourses of agency and provided engaged methods for girls to voice those experiences that have been repeatedly silenced in other contexts. Project Artemis: When Girls Talk Back. Elicia Loiselle, University of Victoria This feminist Participatory Action Research (PAR) study engaged, as co-researchers, minoritized girls who have been alienated from mainstream schools and positioned as 'drop outs' in exploring their negotiations of agency across multiple identities and contexts. Grounded in critical girlhood studies, our analysis disrupts the problematic ways girls' realities are subsumed under feminist theorizing of women's experiences. The girls' relationships to/tensions with feminism reveal the contradictory ways in which they are excluded from and/or take up feminist identities. 'Through this framework, we unpack dominant constructions of "girl" (re)produced in education settings, which obscure intersecting structural inequalities and exclude minoritized girls from success and belonging. The presentation will include a screening of video clips produced by the girls. Moderator: Sandrina de Finney, University of Victoria 070. Intersectionality and Outsider Feminism(s): Rethinking Margins 9:251010:40 am· Governors Square /4 Intersectionality & Outsider Peminisms, or) "How many times has this all been said before?". Vivian M. May, Syracuse University Intellectual insights developed in outsider feminist contexts often remain in a state of perpetual incomprehensibility in Women's Studies, even as concepts such as intersectionality are considered to now comprise the field's "center." But intersectionality is often treated casually or in ahistorical ways, illustrating that an epistemological shift toward "outsider feminist" philosophies can be elusive. To illustrate, I analyze pivotal essays by Marilyn Frye and Alison Bailey and question the larger meaning behind a recurring insider "logic" of false gender universals and a concomitant outsider "illogic" of intersectionality and its nominal use. Radical Reflexivity: Theorizing "Passing" at the Margins. Kimberly Dree Hudson, University of Washington In answer to the question "Who and what fall 'outside' of traditional feminist practices, theories, and politics, and why]," the authors will investigate the experience of having multiple, intersecting, and NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE simultaneous ambiguous racial, gendered, and sexually oriented "passings" and passages through personal interrogation of our own experiences on the margins. Teacher Positionality and the Politics of Teaching Feminism. Reid T. Sagara, University of Washington Teaching feminism in the classroom poses the following conundrums: as a teacher, I must decide on what counts as feminism and on what 1 want to (relpresenr as feminism; my multiple identifications (along the lines of race, gender, class, sexuality, nationality) are, like feminism, discourses that necessarily intersect with each other; and my students bring to the classroom feminist perspectives and perspectives on feminism that sometimes foreclose certain feminist interventions ("third world': queer, and post-structural feminism). I consider these conundrums against and through my positionality as a queer male of color, teaching feminism in a required English composition class. Moderator: Elizabeth Currans, College of William & Mary 071. The Politics of Nations and the Internationalization of the WGS Curriculum 9:251010:40 am· Govemor s Square J 5 Transgressing Geographies: Experiential Applications of Intersectionality in South Africa. Jennifer Fish, Old Dominion University This talk wilJ discuss how central themes of race, class, and gender emerge through international service-learning in South Africa. Drawing from an established study abroad course that focuses on grassroots women's organization, the talk presents pedagogical models of merging local and global understandings of the contexts of women's lives. By examining micro-level encounters that elucidate larg themes of difference in women's lives, the talk explores a variety 0 approaches to teaching intersectionality through virtual immersion in diverse global contexts. Teaching about Women and Islam in U.S. Universities. Alice Kang, University of Wisconsin, Madison TI1ispaper identifies strategies for teaching students in the U.S. about women and lslam. U.S. media portrayal of Muslim women is but one source of questionable generalizations about Islam. Spotlighting the complexity of Muslim women's lives requires classroom practices and assignments that ensure students (1) have content knowledge about the geographic spread of the world's Muslim population; (2) recognize stereotypes of women and Islam in U.S. media; 3) look for debates among scholars and Muslim women (e.g. Ahmed 1993); and (4) think empathetically about "foreign" peoples and places (e.g. Kandiyoti 1988). Student Authority and International Contexts in the WGS Classroom. Ellen O'Brien, Roosevelt University This paper discusses negotiations of student authority in courses that ask them to interrogate their own U.S. feminist locations while encountering unfamiliar and complex histories and contexts. Drawing on Sunder Rajan's analysis of prostitution in Scandal of the State (2003) and Narayan's discussion of domestic violence murders in Dislocating Cultures (1997), the paper details how comparative, simultaneous analyses of agency and citizenship in India and the U.S. create suggestive juxtapositions that introduce students to the process of international gender studies not by "replacing ignorance with knowledge" but by "understanding the effects of contexts on issues, and of decontextualized, refracted, and reframed 'knowledge" (Narayan). Moderator: Marjorie joUes, Roosevelt University 87 ., CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS 9:25 A.M. - 10:40 A.M. FRIDAY 072. Women's Political Activism: A Transnational Panel on Nations and Political Participation 9:25 to 10:400/11· Govemors Square /6 A Comparison of Women's Political Activism in the United States and Germany in Relation to Women's Movements and Green Parties. Ellen Larrimore, Northeastern l1linois University 1focus on women's political activism in the United States and Germany in relation to the women's movements and the Green Parties in each country. r use a comparative method to trace the historical development of the two parties as well as the traditions of feminist activism in each country. My goal is to investigate women's participation in alternative forms of politics outside of what is considered mainstream, i.e. participation in third or minority parties as party members, activists, or candidates. Taking advantage of expanded opportunities to run as Green Party candidates can be seen as a broader success. I argue for an expanded definition of what constitutes successful political participation for American women beyond the traditional thinking that success can only be proven by favorable election results. Subaltern Governance: Marked Bodies and Possibilities for Feminist Political Practice. Vidya Kalarama.dam, William Paterson University of New Jersey How do subaltern women legislatively propelled to occupy positions within lower echelons of state machinery negotiate structures of govern mentality? This paper will draw upon the experiences of Elected Women Representatives (EWRs) within India's two decade long experiment with decentralization and democratization to raise questions about feminist political practices within the state. It will argue that the increased presence of EWRs many of who are also "lower" caste does not easily translate into participatory empowerment due to the modes of subject formation within governance structures. 111is"limited success" of women's political participation has challenged women's movement's engagement with the liberal state in a neoliberal economy. Re-thinking Gender, Domesticity and the Cold War in US- occupied Okinawa (1945 - 1972). Mire Koikari, University oJ Hawaii During the US occupation of Okinawa, the military authorities actively solicited American, Japanese, and Okinawan elite women's involvement in building "mutual understanding" and "dedicated collaboration" between the US and Okinawa. Mobilized as "women leaders;' these women jointly engaged in a series of activities that promoted "modern" femininity and domesticity and disseminated the idea that the occupation was more about women's reform rather than military domination. Drawing on insights offered by feminist studies of the Cold War, especially Christina Klein's notion of "Cold War Orientalism," the paper traces the gendered dynamics of Cold War US hegemony building in the Asia-Pacific region. Confronting and Constructing the Nation: A Corporate Rhetor for Women World Leaders. Rebecca S. Richards, University of Arizona While organizations were originally created to increase the power of individuals in order to confront the hegemony of the nation-state or religious institution, organizational affiliation also obscures and decenters natural bodies that the organization represents. To demon- strate this tension, this presentation will focus on The Council of Women World Leaders (CWWL)-a policy initiative of the Aspen Institute. J will investigate how the international heads of state represented by the 88 CWVVL successfully unite to create a transnational collee-tive voice. However, using the work of organizational communications scholars George Cheney and Jill McMillian, 1 argue that the CWWL obscures the lived, diverse, and embodied council members into a "corporate rhetor," a collective voice that is highly first-world and nation-building in its rhetorical performance. Moderator: Rebecca S. Richards, University of Arizona 073. Women)s Centers Committee Business Meeting Friday 9:25 10 10:40 am • Governor s Square /7 074. Creative Spaces in Feminist Science and Technology Studies 9:25 to 10:40 am • Plaza COUl'l3 This roundtable is convened by the NWSA Science & Technology Taskforce. Participants will explore conference theme 5 "The Critical and the Creative:' We will investigate the "epistemological and political dimensions of creativity" as related to feminist scholarship and activism in science and feminist science and technology studies (STS). Possible areas of discussion include: Which creative practices do feminist scientists and STS scholars see as essential for productive engagements with the sciences? Can new developments in science and technology contribute to creative expressions of resistance in Women's Studies? How can feminist scientists and feminist STS scholars collaborate to create new knowledges? Presenters: laue 1. Lehr, California Polytechnic State University Alice Pawley, Purdue University Virginia Eubanks, State University of New York, Albany Carole M,Caml, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Moderator: Debolee"a Roy, Emory University 075. (Re)Envisioning Men in Feminism 9:25 10 10:40 alll • Plaza COliI'I4 Difficult Dialogues Among Pro-feminist Men and Women in the U.S. Suffrage Movement. [amie Colette Capuzza, Mount Union College Pro-feminist men were outsiders throughout the U.S.woman's suffrage movement, and they bore the brunt of a social backlash for supporting the cause. Researchers have documented how pro-feminist men were represented as impotent and labeled "Aunt Nancy men;' "man- milliners" and a "traitor to the cause" (see for example: Strauss, 1982; Kimmel, 1987;Robertson, 1996; and Connell, 1993). Despite the social stigma, woman's rights men made signficant contributions to the movement. This essay explores how these outsiders successfully and unsuccessfully challenged hegemonic definitions of masculinity and the marginalization of women. Consciousness-Raising for Men? Men's Feminist Groups, Race, and Sexuality in Second Wave Feminism. Voichita Nachescu, Grand Valley State University The consciousness-ra.ising groups of the feminist Second Wave were meant to include only women, however there were many instances where men were part of consciousness-raising groups. This paper discusses how race and sexuality shaped 1970s men's participation in feminist consciousness-raising groups, in three different contexts. First, white men sometimes organized mens groups, inspired by feminist women. Second, consciousness-raising groups were part of the organizing strategies of the Gay Liberation Front. And third, many African- American women's organizations tried to reach out to Black men by organizing consciousness-raising groups for African-American men. NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS FRIDAY 9:25A.M. - 10:40 A.M. Progress or Paradoxt: The Role of Men and Masculinity Studies in Women's Studies. Leandra Preston, University of Central Florida This paper examines the role of men and masculinities in Women's Studies Programs and feminist activism. Recent texts such as Men Speak Out and Men and Feminism by Shira Tarrant invite discussion about where men figure into feminist spaces. Teaching a Theories of Masculinity class for the first time generated questions about the appropriateness of masculinity studies in Women's Studies and who should teach (and take) such courses. I argue that teaching masculinities in Women's Studies, fostering alliances with male feminists, and organizations such as Men Against Rape are necessary developments within feminist activism and scholarship. Feminist Men: Building Solidarities across Gender. Gina Helfrich, Harvard College As Michael Kimmel argues, continued progress for feminist social changedepends largely on men. This paper contends that contemporary feminist corrununities must shift the paradigm of feminist movement away from "women only" spaces, towards gender inclusivity, Fully integrating men not only benefits feminist women by making in- roads with "the other half" of the population, it also creates a more welcoming environment for trans people and gender non-conformists. Building upon theorizations of solidarity by Sandra Bartky, Jodi Dean, and others, [ contend that new narratives of men's roles in feminist communities are necessary to the continued progress of feminist social movement. Moderator: Andres Castro Samayoa, Harvard College 076. Women and Religion: Feminist Critiques & Interventions 9:2510 /0:40 am • Plaza Court 5 Approaching "Women and Religion" from the Outside-In. K. Merinda Simmons, University of Alabama My paper discusses classifications of and insider/outsider politics tethered to "women" and "religion" in gender theory and religious studies. I will identify three different approaches offered by feminists and religious studies scholars alike that seem to emerge as options for studying and teaching this topic. Looking at the perks and pitfalls of these approaches allows those of us who study gender and religion to engage in a more productive dialogue about what we are up to as scholars who classify tropes of "women" and "religion:' Engaged Pedagogy in the Feminist Classroom and Yoga Studio. Jennifer Christine Musial, Trent University This paper considers the connections between bell hooks' texts on pedagogy (Teaching to Transgress, Teaching Community, Teaching Critical Thinking) and yogic texts (Bhagavad Gita and Patanjali's Yoga Sutras) on the guru/student relationship. As a feminist professor and yoga instructor, I aim for "engaged pedagogy" (hooks 1994) that honours my students while simultaneously challenging them whether it is in the academic seminar room or yoga studio. In this talk, 1 argue that yogic texts ("outSider knowledge") can make a contribution to feminist pedagogy and, likewise, "engaged pedagogy': espoused by bell hooks, can strengthen the relationship between yoga teachers and practioners. Moderator: DanielJe M. DeMuth, Grand Valley State University NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE 077. Bringing the "Outsider" of Age into the Women's Studies Classroom 9:25 to /0:40 am· Plaza Ballroom E Aging, Narrative, and Pedagogy: We Teach Who We Are. Carey Kaplan, St. Michaels College; Susan Kuntz. St. Michaels College Our second presentation, jointly delivered by two self-proclaimed "aging pedagogues;' reflects their efforts to theorize their and their cohort's aging as part of lifelong pedagogical praxis. Drawing on diverse structures such as autobiography, self-reflection, academic writing, and research in academic fields as various as neuroscience, pedagogy, feminism and gender and narrativity, these presenters explore the pedagogical value of intergenerational connections. They review, critique, theorize and revision their own life experiences and pedagogical practices, and how these meaningfully interact. "The Right to Grow Old": Teaching the Politics of Aging in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Feminism. Corinne Field, University of Virginia Presenter 3 addresses how undergraduates, who are navigating the complex transition to adulthood in their own lives, are often deeply interested in the historical aspects of adulthood. Once drawn into the study of age and life stage through a topic that resonates with their own lives, they then show a deeper interest in the history of old age. She focuses in particular on the pedagogical value of recovering the politics of aging within nineteenth-century feminism as a way of illuminating the centrality of age and life stage, and providing a new perspective on the intersections of race, gender, and citizenship. To Space Crone, with Love: Strategies for Including Age Analysis in Feminist Pedagogy. Erin Gentry Lamb, Hiram College Invoking Ursula K. LeGuin's "space crone"-the post-menopausal woman whose wealth of experience makes her the apposite representative of the human race-Presenter 1 argues for the value of including age analysis in the women's studies' classroom. She provides practical examples of classroom exercises and primary and theoretical texts that interrogate the role of age in relation to gender within topics like stereotypes, media analysis, reproduction and sexuality. Ultimately, she argues aging is not only an essential category of difference to which a faithful feminist pedagogy must attend, but also one that can enrich traditional approaches to these topics. Moderator: Pamela Heath Gravagne, University of New Mexico 078. Geographies ofNepantla: Theorizing Anzaiduan Spaces of Transformation 9:25 to /0:40 am· Plaza Ballroom F Navigating Nepantla: Anzalduan Theory as a Space for Dialogue. Erin Ranft, University of Texas, San Antonio Gloria Anzaldua was on the forefront of studies of Queer Theory, identity, Chicana studies, and much more, and her work continues to inform scholarship and discussions. But why is Anzaldua still considered an 'outsider' from a theoretical perspective? Her works offer a framework for dialogue and strategies for bridging the gaps that often separate women and interrupt the conversations that are instrumental in intellectual and social change. Her theory of nepantla engages the idea of transformation, turning the 'outsider' mentality on its head. 89 CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS 9:25 A.M. -10:40 A.M. FRIDAY Performing Breast Cancer: Diseased Bodies. Embodied Poetics. and Latina Cancer facultad. Christina Gutierrez, University of Texas at San Antonio Gloria Anzaldua describes 1afacultad as "the capacity to see in surface phenomena the meaning of deeper realities, to see the deep structure below the surface" that facilitates a "new seeing, [that] makes us pay attention to the soul, and we are thus carried into awareness-an experiencing of soul (Self)." TIlls paper discusses how Latina pop singer Soraya, diagnosed with breast cancer in 2000, expresses a breast cancer facultad in the lyrics and music video of "Par Ser Quien Soy" / "No One Else" that conveys a symbolic feminist discourse which transcends the trauma and terror of breast cancer. Reading Trans/formational Bodies: Spaces of Transformation in Mestiza Maternal Subjectivity. Larissa M. Mercado-Lopez, The University of Texas, San Antonio "Writing the body" empowers the subject to reclaim authority over her body and to situate her body's story along a trajectory of transformation. Gloria Anzaldua explains that the "adversity [of diabetes] forces you to try to give significance to the negative experiences ... We cocreate om experiences and the things around us" (74). Accordingly, I read the bodily experiences of mestiza maternity through Anzaldua's concept of facultad and her troping of "pain." I show how the transforming body of the mestiza mother and her subsequent changing relationship to the world demands that we read "outsider" subjectivities as spaces of epistemological potential. Moderator: Sonia Saldivar-Hull, University of Texas, San Antonio 079. Feminist Mothering Caucus Business Meeting 9:25 to 10:40 am • Director s Row F Feminist Mothering Caucus Business Meeting. The business meeting provides members of the Feminist Mothering Caucus to review past and present projects of the group. Participants: Andrea f. O'Reilly, Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement/Demeter Press Amber E. Kinser, East Tennessee State University 080. Going Public: Speaking to Broad Audiences about Feminist Cultural Radicalism 9:25 to 10:40 am » Directors ROlliH This roundtable examines the role of the visual and performing arts in the creation of a feminist public sphere. It begins with the asswnption that radical forms of feminist art are not for the academy alone, but have the potential to engage wide swaths of the general public. Participating in this roundtable are academics, curators, and artists who create and/ or direct programs and events that investigate issues of women and gender through various forms of creative practice designed to engage the general public. Presenters: Pritika Chowdbry. Transdiaspora Project Lalch Mehran, The University of Denver Gillian Silverman, Feminism & Co iasmeen Patheja, Blank Noise Project Moderator: Pritika Chowdhry, Transdiaspora Project 90 081. Economic Crisis, Gender, Race, and Immigration in Sin City 9:25 to 10:40 am • Director s Row 1 Navigating the Recession.Immigrant Students' Stories of Resiliency and Resistance. Anita Tijerina Revilla, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Drawing on ethnographic study and one-on-one interviews with university students in Las Vegas, Nevada, I will present data on how undocumented immigrant students (as workers and students) are faring through the crisis. Included will be a discussion on resiliency and resistance to oppression/discrimination. In particular, the talk will examine how immigrant students and families not only navigate systems and institutions to survive and thrive under severe economic duress, but also how they actively work and organize to create change and demand justice for their communities. Stratification of Sex Workers inEconomic Crisis. Crystal Jackson, University of Nevada, Las Vegas My research explores informal labor markets by examining the prostitution market in Las Vegas. Laws criminalizing prostitution have disparate effects on sex workers who are social1y and economically disadvantaged, selectively limiting sex workers' access to medical, legal, and other community services, exacerbated by the economic crisis. Using semi-structured interviews with female and transgender sex workers, relationships between gender, class, mobility, and venue (vstreet'' work, out-call, independent) on sex workers' health, social status, and economic resources become clear. I will present empirical data on both labor and social networks used in informal labor markets, particular to this global tourist destination. Masculinities Narratives in the Immigrant Workplace. Leticia Saucedo, University of Nevada, Las Vegas This presentation explores the intersection of gender, immigration and masculinities narratives in the context of the immigrant workplace. Demographic changes resulting from restructuring and deunionizing have given rise to a "brown collar" residential construction industry. Male immigrant workers develop their own masculinities narratives to explain their entry and assignment into non-unionized, segregated, occupations within the residential construction industry in Las Vegas. Interviews capture the ambivalence of immigrant workers as rights bearers in the workplace, and their sense of belonging, expressed. through the forms in which they perform their identities and the ways in which they adopt hypermasculine behaviors. Women in the Great Depression and the Great Recession: Has Anything Changed? Lois Rita He/mbo/d, University of Nevada, Las Vegas During the 1930s, working class women were more likely to maintain employment the more characteristics they possessed which were considered desirable by employers: white skin, youth, single status, Christian religion, and physical attractiveness. Unemployment of women in the service economy of Las Vegas in the current so-called "mancession" offers a fruitful comparison of the extent to which personal demographic characteristics continue to determine women's security in employment as the service sector continuously expands, This paper also compares omen's survival strategies in industrial cities of the 1930s and Sun Belt tourist cities of the early 21st century. Moderator: Lois Rita Helmbold, University of Nevada, Las Vegas NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE pJOINING FORCE§ ONLINE. .,(~ in the.1YD. Classroom ~.blog We're excited to be able to keep readers abreast of the latest feminist news and O cfotmhmentary,inbetween Quarterly issues e magazine, The Ms Blog h inform~d oPln~o~:~t~~o~e sharp writing and bloggers from around the n~~~ty of feminist and the globe, So please become part of this exciting new C coemtmumty-aplace where feminism takes n er stage, www.msmagazine.com/blog Beverly Guy SheflalJ Ms. Committee of Scholars and NWSA President, Spelman College Patricia Trujillo Author "An Acequi R. . es uns Through It" (Ms. Winter 2 Universityof Colorado,Pueblo 009), Natalie Wilson Author "The C It, u ure of Rape" (Ms 8 . California State Univers,'ty sa' pring 2010).. n Marcos Katherine SpilJar Executive Editor, Ms. magazine Join us for our roundtable: Bringing Women's St di "F "" U res Into emlnlst Media and Fe " "M dia l I rninlst e ra Into the Classroom Highlighting case stuoes shOWing how f ..into public discourse through po I emln,lst scholars bring their research pu ar media and f ,. brought into the classroom a I' . emnsr media can bes earning material. Saturday N• ovember 13 • 3:45-5:00 pm Plaza Concours Le ever, Governor's Square 15 MslnTheClassroom .com I CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS 10:50 A.M. - 12:05 P.M. FRIDAY 082. Black Feminist Perspectives on Agency & The Shirley Chisholm Project 10:5010/2:05 pm » Plaza Court J Apart in the Ivory Tower: African- American Women at Elite, Single-Sex CoUeges, 1880s-1930s. Lynne Byall Benson, Bunker Hill Community College This paper explores the experience of black women, who, rather than following the majority of their cohort and attending an HEeU, instead attended the elite, predominantly white, Single-sex colJeges in the East. Specifically, this paper addresses the foUowing question: What would compel them to attend these institutions? There is evidence to suggest that although these women participated in the same classes and extracurricular activities as their white classmates, and went on to successful post-graduate lives, they were also segregated from their white classmates in their campus experiences. That is, they experienced campus life as the "other"; apart from the mainstream. The Shirley Chisholm Project: An Activist and Interactive Project. Barbara Winslow, Brooklyn College City University of New York The Shirley Chisholm Project of Brooklyn Women's Activism is dedicated to bringing Chisholm's life and legacy to the general public through collecting archival materials. Black Feminism After Agency: A Difficult Conversation. Maria D. Davidson, The University of Oklahoma Since its inception, the concept of agency has been a staple in Black Feminist and Womanist theory. Yet with historic gains made by Black women in all areas of life, is it time to envision a Black Feminist theory that does not have agency as a major theoretical framework? This paper will explore the difficult conversation over the relevance of agency as a critical framework in Black Feminist thought today. Moderator: Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara 083. Getting Creative With Feminist Methods: Unconventional Ways to Conduct and Present Feminist Research 10:501012:05 pili- Plaza Court 2 The Creative is Mine: A Spoken Word Performance. Allison Lockwood Rowland, University of Col orad a, Boulder ''After twenty years of school, I'm asked to be creative. Twenty years of predetermined curricula in which success meant stifling my creativity. Twenty years of daily creativity, to cope with an Institution that stamps out creativity ... and now the Institution wants my creativity." In this spoken word piece, I address the difficulty of responding to the feminist call for creative methods within the discipline of communication. I attend to ways to create space for performative creativity, which include practicing an embodied authenticity. Multimedia Methodologies: Building a Case for the Convergence of Creative Technology and Feminist Research. Rachael Anne Liberman, University of eo lorado, Boulder This paper considers the usage of multimedia websites as a creative alternative for the dissemination of feminist research. The usage of websites offers researchers the ability to engage with feminist methodology through the incorporation of interactivity (feedback and reflexivity), visualization (contextualizaticn), and supplemental information (inclusion of testimony, audio, video). Additionally, researcher/participant collaborations on multimedia websites allow 92 for a transparency that is fundamental to feminist methodology. After considering the positive implications of incorporating multimedia websites for feminist methodology, this paper offers concrete examples based on studies of (I) memory and (2) body image. Cropping Identity: Analyzing and Producing Scrapbooks as Creative Feminist Methodology. Sarah Jane Blithe, University of Colorado. Boulder For centuries women have engaged in the production of handicrafts to tell personal stories. Recently, this practice has been manifested in "cropping;' a hobby that involves constructing photo albums with the intent to pass family histories to future generations. Of interest here are the choices croppers make about which stories are told and which stories are left out. r argue that these choices are the constitutive micro practices of identity and further, that the resulting scrapbooks are manufactured identities in artifact form. As such, both studying and producing scrapbooks and other hand-produced artifacts should be an emergent feminist methodological practice. Intercorporeal Ethnography: How Bodies Matter in Feminist Research. fames Michael Fortney, University of Colorado, Boulder; James McDonald, University of Colorado, Boulder This paper positions 'the body' as both the tool through which research is conducted and the phenomenon being studied. Accounting for one's body in research helps escape a mind/body dualism in which research is seen as a disembodied methodological experience. We explore the idea of intercorporeal ethnography as a feminist method for studying physical disability) specifically. We advance current conversations of how bodies function in research to produce a sensuous epistemology. We conclude with a re-articulation of the benefits of 'letting bodies speak' in ethnographic research, emphasizing the promise for studying other embodied differences through a methodological lens of inter corporeality. Moderator: Magdelana Red, University of Colorado, Boulder 084. Fluid Exchanges: Intergenerational Navigation of Ways of Knowing in the Arts 10:5010 12:05 pm • Plaza COliN 6 This roundtable investigates spaces and strategies for critical and creative engagement across generational divides within feminist teaching, research, and activism in the visual arts. Women's studies practitioners in tile arts must navigate sea changes contoured by generations of feminist praxis, including curatorial and critical practices, objects and methods of art historical and visual culture scholarship and teaching, studio (and post-studio) research and education, terms of community engagement for artists and activists, and ways in which audiences encounter the arts locally and globally. IntergenerationaJ dialogues, often difficult, give voice to multiple formulations of knowledge crucial for feminist engagement with the creative. Presenters: Jennifer C. Vigil, University of Arizona lillian Hernandez, Rutgers University Susan Messer, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater Ferris Ottn, Rutgers University Moderator: Melanie A'l1le Herzog, Edgewood College 085. Working with Men In Feminism: Help or Harm? 10:5010 12:05 pill· Plaza Court 7 Men who identify as feminist or pro-feminist have a history of working alongside women in feminist movements to decrease gender-based NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE • CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS I FRIDAY 10:50 A.M. -12:05 P.M. oppression. While it is important to have male allies in these movements, their presence in women's safe spaces, even when well-intentioned, causes harm or further-marginalization of women, This research highlights women's experiences working with men in feminism, providing an overview of benefits, challenges, and strategies for effectively engaging men as allies. Presenter: Rachael lohnson, Colorado State University 086. Troubling Queer of Color Critiques: The Cultural Work of Divas, Marimachas, Lesbianas, and Alternative Masculinities 10:50 to 12:05 pm » Plaza Court 8 Everybody Knows About Mississippi Goddamn!: Queer People of Color & Performing Resistance in the Prop 8 Era. Candace Lopez. University of Texas, Austin The research presented examines Nina Simone's 1964 Jive performance of Mississippi Goddamn at Carnegie Hall as a perfortnative response to racial inequality during the Civil Rights Era and how the language of these lyrics and performance can re-produce itself in meaningful and unfixedwaysin acurrent time and space. Drawing connections between Simone'squeer diva performance strategies and events surrounding the passing of Proposition 8 in California, I show how misappropriations ofCivil Rights rhetoric furthers the racial stratifications in the current LGBTstruggle and places a problematic indebtedness on communities of color. Performing Marimacha: Staging Latina Butch Gender and Sexuality. Jackie T Cuevas, University of Texas, Austin Contemporary staged performances by the Butchlalis de Panochtitlan and Adelina Anthony raise critical questions about the cultural work of the marimacha, or Chicana and Latina butch. Adelina Anthony's "Mastering Sex and Tortillas" and the Butchlalis de Panochtitlan's "Barber of East L.A:' draw on and critique traditional representations of Chicana and Latina butchness. These performance narratives expose and critique how same-sex desire, gender non-normativity, and class mobility continue to displace the Chicana/Latina borderlands butch. This paper examines how this new generation of Chicana/ Latina performance artists stage butchness in order to offer radical possibilities for articulating Chicana/Larina butch as a racialized, working-class gender/sexuality. Reconstructing a Chicana Lesbiana's Relationship with Home and Border through Words, Art and Film. Anel I. Bores, Writer and Independent Scholar In this creative critical presentation, a Tejana border lesbiana, writer, educator and multidisciplinary artiste shows how access to arte and expression creates a channel towards healing, understanding and empowerment for all people, and thus a vehicle for social justice. Through multimedia performance, the educator-performer demonstrates her method of facilitating creative writing, memory realization and story teUing called Painting Down the Word, which she has taught to inner city youth. to incarcerated youth, to community collegestudents, and for community in cultural arts centers. Heriberto Ramirez's Activism: Performing Alternative Latino Masculinities. Beliza Torres Narvaez, University of Texas This paper focuses on Puerto Rican queer artist Heriberto Ramirez and his performances "Ponte en mi falda" (Walk in my skirt) in which Ramirez wore a skirt for nine days, and ''A mime rosa" (Pink flyll don't care) in which he wore only pink clothing last February. Using NWSA2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE h black feminism and critical masculinity as conceptual frameworks, I analyze how through his performances Ramirez challenges ingrained conceptions of Puerto Rican/Latino masculinity. I argue that these are radical performances that through the exploration of the feminine reclaim the public space for the articulation of alternative masculinities. Moderator: Emma Perez, University of Colorado at Boulder 087. The Question of the Girl, Part II /0:50 to /2:05 pm » Governors Square 9 Storyteller, Voyeur and Playmate: Answering the Question of Girl through Contemporary Photograpby. Niku Kashef, California State University, Northridge From the Anna Gaskell's Wonder photographs, are-interpretation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, to Sally Mann's Immediate Family, wherein her children skinny dip in a Georgia river, to Lauren Greenfield's Girl Culture, illustrating everything from girls doing Tae Bo to lap dancing in Las Vegas, contemporary images of girlhood have both reflected shifting behaviors and shaped them. I will explore the works of several contemporary photographers in relation to studies on the power of photographic imagery (Sontag, 1977) and the role of the female gaze (Gamman & Marshment, 1988; Reilly & Nochlin, 2007) as well as my own process working with and portraying young girls photographically. La Filles du Regiment: Sexual Ambiguity, Girlhood and Herculine Barbin. Jilliall Saint Jacques, Amsterdam School fa' Cultural Analysis In Gender Trouble (1990), Judith Butler repeatedly engages Miche Foucault's 1980 novel, Herculine Barbin (Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth Century French Hermaphrodite). In her text, Butler uses Herculine to initiate an analysis of the multifarious interplay between the production of sexual recognition and gender in abject discourse; a theme that resurfaces in Bodies That Matter (1993) and Undoing Gender (2004). Foucault's narrative centers on a special girl, Herculine, an intersexual subject who comes of age in an Ursuline convent. Herein, Foucault approaches girlhood as a hyperbolic pivot for the shifting of sexual paradigms on the axis of pleasure. This paper will re-excavate the Butler/Foucault deployment of Herculine Barbin in light of recent work on post-transsexuality and sexual ambiguity. Babydoll. Claudia Hart, The Art Institute of Chicago "Everyone knows that on Second LlfeI, all the girls are boys, and the boys are girls." In Digital Bodies, my students lise Poser software to create 3D computer models of bodies, producing characters that appear in virtual reality visualizations. These students are fascinated by blurring gender boundaries through stretching the Poser software to its limits, but they are also intrigued by the types of virtual Barbies which a cult of male users have designed. Tn light of Mark Hansen's work in New Philosophy for New Media, which critiques the cultural redefinitions of "the body" in digital medial, along with the digital fluidity of the image that can be extrapolated to a cultural image of the body, my paper will analyze the deployment of Poser to create virtual dolls. Moderators: lillian Saint Jacques, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis Anne Swartz, Savannah College of Art and Design 93 I 10:50 A.M. - 12:05 P.M. FRIDAY Q 088. Women's Self-Agency: Smart, Savvy and Successful Social Media 10:50 fa 12:05 pm » Governor s Square /0 This interactive presentation will examine multiple components of women's self-sufficiency in the on-line arena from the myriad of opportunities in leadership to safety and ethics. All of this will be anchored on the assertion that women's lise of social media has expanded the options for personal creative expression, self-efficacy and having a place for one's voice while addressing issues of intersectionality. Presenters: Arlene Arlene Sgoutas, Metropolitan State College of Denver Joanna Snawder, Metropolitan State College of Denver Crystal Hoffman, Metropolitan State College of Denver 089. Inclnsive Leadership Through a Feminist Lens: Teaching Students Feminist Leadership Principles 10:5010 /2:05 pm » Govemor s Square /I As Women's and Gender Centers (and other Student Affairs professionals guiding students in social justice activism) seek to engage students in critical analysis of their own leadership styles, what role do feminist leadership principles play in this discussion? How can we teach students these foundational concepts? This session will explore ways to integrate feminist leadership into our work with student groups through workshops, retreats, mentoring, and more informal advisory interactions. Presenters: Lysa C. Salsbury, University of Idaho Heather Shea Gasser, University ofIdaho 090. Girls, Food, Health and Power 10:50 fa 12:05 prn » Governor ~ Square 12 Feminist Nutrition: Why Gender Matters to School Garden & Cooking Programs. jessica Hayes-Conroy, Wheaton College This paper details the varying experiences of middle-school aged girls in two School Garden and Cooking Programs (SGCPs), one in Berkeley, CA, and the other in rural Nova Scotia. SGCPs are meant to encourage changes in students' eating habits, and to prevent childhood obesity, as well as to promote alternative food. The girls' varying experiences of these SGCPs provide a framework for theorizing about how we might begin to "do" nutrition differently, in ways that account for context, recognize embodied difference, and allow for student agency in the production offood-based knowledge. Unpacking Girls' Ageucy Regarding Cultural Ideologies of Food. Dam Persis Murray, Rutgers University Girls' relationships to food are certainly complicated, as social scientific literature has cited girls as group of concern for the onset of eating disorders and body image/self-esteem issues. It is imperative for feminist researchers to understand how cultural messages about food are addressed to girls, and how these messages may influence girls' sense of agency regarding their food choices. This talk offers a feminist textual analysis of institutional food messages by unpacking the website of the Office on Women's Health in the Department of Health and Human Services. Food Camp. Rachel Wi/SOilKeener, Albion College Albion College's Introduction to Women's Studies includes a weekly Girls Club with our local middle school. After noting the low level of food and nutritional awareness among this racia.lly and economically diverse group, I have proposed a summer research/community 94 activism project called "Food Camp:' After conducting in-depth interviews with the girls about their access to food, food choices and nutritional awareness, for six weeks we will plan, plant and lend our girls' garden, read and discuss material on food and nutrition, cook, learn to make bread, and visit local farms. Post-camp interviews will assess the impact of the activities. Moderator: Trisha Franzen, Albion College 091. "I'm not your mother, your mentor, your big sister, or your best friend. I'm your women's studies professor," 10:50 to /2:05 pm· Governor s Square /4 More frequently than we admit, feminist (and other) women's studies classrooms are fraught by conflicting expectations and abilities between professor and students. This is especially true when the professor is "different" by gender, ethnicity, education, age, class, politics or other circumstances or characterizations than assumed or desired b)" students, colleagues and others. Our roundtable considers strategies and techniques for success despite, around, or through encounters that threaten legitimate goals, dreams, and needs. Presenters: jennifer Lynn Freeman Marshall, Purdue University Michelle Habell-PalMn, University of Washington Valerie 1. Ruffin, Emory University Moderator: Frances Smith Foster, Emory University 092. Out & In: Living Feminisms in the Academy /0:501012:05 pru » Governor's Square 15 Where does academia situate "outsider feminism and feminists?" Building on the conference subtheme "Outsider Peminisms," this roundtable presents a grassroots feminist organizational model by mapping of origins and advancement of a Consortium of Women and Gender Studies (WGST) Faculty (GRe). The GRC is a collective of diverse WGST academics who work at separate colleges and universities but in dose geographical proximity and who share parallel professional interests and responsibilities. The GRC champions WGST's interdisciplinary merit and serves as a feminist bridge linking differently positioned WGST "outsiders" to avenues of insider empowerment and activism. Presenters: Barbara LeSavoy, State University of New York, Brockport Sekile Nzinga-lohnson, Nazareth College Maria Brandt, Monroe Community College Moderator: Deborah Untan, St John Fisher College 093. Womeu's Studies InlAud the United Arab Emirates: Pioneering Voices /0:50 to /2:05 pm • Governor ~ Square /6 UAB faculty working with colleagues at a University in the United States discuss their experiences integrating women's studies content into their courses. This project is supported by a grant from Higher Education for Development (MEPI). Presenters: Nawar AI-Hassan Golley, American University of Sharjah Suaad Zayed Ai-Oraimt, United Arab Emirates University Habibul Haque Khondker, Zayed University May Al Dabbaglt, Dubai School of Government Moderator: Nawal Ammar, University of Ontario Institute of Technology NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE $ CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS I------~-~~FRIDAY 10:50 A.M. -12:05 P.M. 094. Avoiding "...and Indigenous Feminism" in Women's and Gender Studies Courses and Programs 10:50 to 12:05 pm • Governor's Square /7 Jndigenous Feminisms 101. Sharon L. Sullivan, Washburn University This paper is an overview of literature by Native scholars about Indigenous Feminisms. These scholars offer unique perspectives of gender.cultural identity, nationalism, and (de)colonization, articulated through a range of topics including politics, activism, education, history. arts and culture. Their writings are both a response to colonization and genocide, and a declaration of an identity independent from the Settler and the patriarchal. Queering History and Theorizing Indigenous Feminisms in a Transnational Framework. Arianne Lynne Burford, Northern Arizona University My research addresses the challenge of bridging Indigenous Studies with Queer Studies and feminisms via a queer reading Native American literature. As part of this project, I theorize transnational feminisms and Indigenous studies within a U.S. context, arguing for a transnational scope in teaching and scholarship. Assessing this conversation, I address the difficulty of writing about queer identity and oppressiveheteronormative power structures without participating in the imperial project that Judith Butler critiques in "Sexual Politics, Torture, and Secular Time" in which Western cultures/locations are portrayed and thought of as a refuge from an "uncivilized" "barbarous" lifefor queer folks. Transforming Gender Studies Throngh Engagement with Indigenous Feminisms. Betsy Eudey, California State University, Stanislaus The paper problematizes the author's whit.e identity, white supremacist and colonialist socialization, and the diverse identities/socialization of her gender studies students and colleagues as all try to faithfully engage with indigenous experiences, theories and methods within an academic structure that reinforces white cultural norms. It examines the author's effortsto move beyond addition of indigenous perspectives, to infusion of indigenous praxis in the content and structure of courses. Moderator: Marilee Durel Shaw, California State University, Stanislaus 095. Crossing Borders: Strengthening connections between NSF's ADVANCE Program and Women's Studies 10:50 fa 12:05 pm » Plaza Court 3 Research within ADVANCE-Purdue and the Center for Faculty Success. Alice Pawley, Purdue University In the research program for ADVANCE-Purdue, we incorporate feminist methods of participatory action research, institutional ethnography, and critical storytelling in the interrogation of the career experiences of women STEM tenure-track faculty, with a particular focus on the experiences of women of color. In particular, she will discuss both the theoretical grounding of the group's research in feminist scholarship as well as some of the institutional challenges they have experienced in trying to incorporate intersectionality into our research. Collaboration across the Disciplines: ADVANCE at Ohio State University. Jill M. Bystydzienski, Ohio State University The ADVANCE IT projects have made possible research and program cooperation among scholars from various disciplines in the physical sciences, the social sciences, humanities, and interdisciplinary fields like Women'sStudies. Based on her experience as co- Principal Investigator NWSA2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE on Ohio State's ADVANCE CEOS (Comprehensive Equity at Ohio State) project, she will discuss how feminist theory and practice have been reflected in the work of the ADVANCE team at OSU, as well as limits posed to such incorporation by multi-disciplinary collaboration. Using Women's Studies to Facilitate Institutionalization of ADVANCE. Sue V.Rosser, Georgia Institute of Technology Women's Studies serves as a source for many of the tools needed by ADVANCE initiatives to ground their research, interact with the administrative hierarchy, and foster networks with women faculty, staff and students across campus. Based upon her experience both as a co- PI of an ADVANCE grant and as an external advisory board member to ADVANCE initiatives at nine other Institutions, the presenter discusses the importance of having women's studies faculty involved in the research, internal advisory boards, external advisory boards, and possibly as the final institutional home for ADVANCE because of Women's Studies' interdisciplinary connections with programs. departments, Student Affairs, status of women committees, and women across campus. Translating Feminism and Appreciating Different Gender Strategies: ISU ADVANCE. Sharon Bird, Iowa State University ISU ADVANCE has succeeded in creating an infrastructure for institutional transformation that cuts horizontally across colleges and vertically across departments, colleges and upper administration. The program brings together faculty leaders of many different disciplinary backgrounds. Based on her work as Co-PIon ISU's ADVANCE program and as director of the program's "Collaborative Transformation" project, Bird will discuss some of the many ways in which ISU ADVANCE leaders have relied upon and "translated" feminism in their institutional transformation work. She will also discuss findings from a recent examination of STEM women facul members' different "gender strategies" and the importance of valui these differences. Moderator: Alice Pawley, Purdue University 096. From the Stage to the Streets: Feminist Performance and the Call to Activism 10:5010 12:05 pm » Plaza Coun-t Performance, A Call to Feminist Activism. Jamie Lee Huber, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale The performance studies field strives to engage performance in nuanced ways, focusing on performance of the everyday, [critical] performance ethnography, and Boalian Theatre of the Oppressed. Focusing on performance in such ways strengthens the ability to use performance as an activist tool, empowering and raising consciousness among performers and audience members alike. This presentation examines ways in which performance can be used as a feminist activist tool, and draws upon the author's experiences of directing: The Vagina Monologues; A Memory, Monologue, Rant, and Prayer; and an original show, Steeling the Heart: Women Turning the Tide during World War II. Spoken Word Poet Andrea Gibson and Feminist Performance: Creating a Space for Contemplation and Activism. Sharon Adams, University of Colorado, Boulder Feminist aesthetics and performance not only educate, but also motivate student awareness and participation. It does so in a manner other than through traditional feminist methodologies. I will evaluate The Vagina Monologues and spoken word poet Andrea Gibson's performances not only through the lens of feminist pedagogy, but also as they evokes awareness, transformation, and activism. 95 I C_H_R_O_N_O_L_O_G_IC_ALPROGRAM DESCRiPTIONS .... 10:50 A.M. - 12:05 P.M. FRIDAY Activist Identity Development Through the Lens of The Vagina Monologues. Ashley Elizabeth Nickels, Grand Valley State University; Samantha Schenk, Grand Valley Slate University Opening the minds of both participants and audience members, The Vagina Monologues has been met with both controversy and life- changing anecdotes. The production provides creative expression while igniting difficult dialogue related to gender inequality for communities and college campuses. However, little research has explored the specific impact of either viewing or participating in the production. We seek to examine the experience from a student development perspective of activist identity. Specifically, what are their values of social change through participation, as well as what is their journey of involvement prior, during, and after production in relation to their activist identity development. Moderator: [ustine AmI iohnson, Minnesota State University, Mankato 097. Expressing our Voices through Autoethnography & Narrative Analysis 10:50 to 12:05 pm· Plaza Court 5 Feminine Lust for Purple Suede Shoes. Patricia Kathleen Jennings, California State University, East Bay When I came out as a lesbian, r re-examine my past desire to be thin as a reflection of a heterosexual identity formed through a male gaze. Then my partner informed me that she was transitioning from female to male. After this announcement, I found myself in front of a store window lusting after a pair of ultra feminine purple suede shoes. I imagined a thinner self pairing these shoes with a short skirt. This moment captures identity as both stable and fluid. My goal is to draw on my experience with a transpartner to re-evaluate constructivist approaches to gender identity. Black but not Baptized: African American Women Religious Skeptics. Shondrah Tarrezz Nash, Morehead State University African American women, who reject religious-based claims, defy public and group assumptions of Black cultuta] production and identity formation. It is not surprising, then, that Black women identifying as agnostic, atheist, humanist or freethinking comprise a group seldom seen, heard or, perhaps, imagined. I share preliminary findings of narratives of Black female religious skeptics and non-believers. Findings disclose the onset of disbelief and how that disbelief is negotiated, while part of a group where religion is a presumed marker of membership. The risk or toll of community disaffection and views on gender and the Black church are also explored. "You don't seem hard to get along with" Negotiating Single- ness in a Coupled World. Meredith Margaret Redlin, South Dakota State University In closed- system cultures and in traditional rural communities, single women are often an uncomfortable and visible anomaly in a social landscape driven by family obligation and patriarchal values. Using autoethnography and interviews to compare current perceived statuses with those defined in previous studies by Gordon (1994) and Allen (1989), this paper examines the precarious social role of single never- married heterosexual women over 50 in small towns. Drawing on life stories, this work also updates how single lives are defined on the margins of couple and family-oriented society. Moderator: Patricia KatllieellJellllings, California State University,East Bay 96• . 098. Girls and Their Allies Caucus Business Meeting 10:5010 12:05 pm » Plaza Ballroom 0 The Girls and Their Allies Caucus of NWSA is hosting the first national Girls Studies Summit. This meeting brings together Girls' Studies scholars, practitioners, activists and policy-makers from across America and internationally, who work on behaJf of girls, and who can substantively contribute to a dialogue about the state of Girls Studies scholarship today, including emerging methodologies and frameworks for studying girls, and future research directions. This meeting will also highlight "Best Practices" in education, youth and leadership development, and in creating supportive programs and services for girls. as well as focus on areas where there is a need for greater research and programs. The meeting-goal is to conclude this year's session with a set of concrete recommendations and/or priorities for research and action supporting girls' healthy development, and for continuing to promote their equality world-wide. The Summit will take the place of the Girls and Their Allies Caucus annual business meeting. AlJ interested NWSA members and their guests are invited to attend. 099. An Intersectional Framework: Connecting Theory and Practice 10:5010 12:05 pm » Plaza Ballroom E This interactive workshop will provide educators with a framework for understanding privilege and oppression from an intersectional perspective, and then examine the ways in which we have put this theory into practice. Specifically we will focus on our work to collaboratively build a new Women's and Ethnic Studies major and department on our campus, the intersectional Introduction course we developed, and the curriculum transformation institute we facilitate to provides a forum for sharing ideas and strategies, and integrate this work across the curriculum on our campus. Presenters: Dena Samuels, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs Abby L. Ferber, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Andrea O'Reilly Herrera, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs 100. Theorizing Transnational Sexual Politics 10:50 to 12:05 pm • Plaza Ballroom F This roundtable aims to theorize "sexual politics" through a transnational lens. Specifically, it aims to theorize two aspects of current scholarship in the areas of transnational feminist theory and sexuality/queer studies: TIle notion of "trans nationality" itself, and the notion or «sexual politics," as it has been used to understand contemporary struggles for self-determination and sexual freedom in post/neocolonial contexts. Panelists will draw from their empirical research on transnational sexual politics in the context of immigration, the globaJ development industry, constitutional reform, neoliberal and post-necliberal (< and easily identifiable category. Queer theory challenges this notion of "woman," and presents the opportunity to move away from disaster management policies that are based on a binary system of gender and assumptions of heterosexuality. A theoretical shift in the understanding of "woman" within disaster management policy WQuJd address the additional challenges that many women of the LGBTQ community faced following Katrina. The National Response Framework and Community Vnlnerability and Resilience. Nancy Mock, Tulane University A growing body of literature suggests that disaster response promotes greater social inequalities and vulnerability of marginalized groups. 'This paper demonstrates through the development of a livelihoods conceptual framework (physical. social. human. financial. political capitals) and the incorporation of data from a variety of sources how the well-being of low-income women has been adversely affected by the United States Government's national disaster response framework while community-created efforts have enhanced community post- materialist values. The paper also posits how feminist theory and gendered approaches can increase resilience and decrease vulnerability ofmarginalized groups in the wake of disasters. Secular National Memory versus Sacred Tribal Memory: The Politics of Memory in Times of Disaster. Susan Tucker, Tulane University Modern archives, libraries and museums arose in response to positivist traditions and constituted a largely white male perspective. Yet, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, with the ease and democracy of the Internet, a number of such institutions worked to document a variety ofviewpoints cutting across lines of race, gender, and class. This paper explores that documentation and compares it to memories of a largely women dominated group-family historians. The paper describes how the simultaneous limiuality and centrality of women as guardians of the past are conflated and/or layered in public and private accounts. Moderator: Beth Willinger, Tulane University 107. Spiritualized Indigenous Feminist Activism 2:20 to 3:35 pm· PLaza Court 2 Eco-spirltual Activism: Notes on Contemporary Bonism in Tibet. Xiumei Pu, University of Minnesota Bonism is considered the indigenous religion in Tibet. It has two distinctive orientations: nature and woman. It thus offers rich opportunities to engage with America-based indigenous feminisms to chart de-colonial strategies and imagine alternatives to patriarchal and capitalist social models. in my paper, I will look into the possibilities and difficulties of engaging contemporary bonist thoughts in a transnational indigenous feminist frame. My analysis will be based on myfield research on indigenous spirituality and women in Tibet, which was conducted from June to August in 2009. Putting Feathers on Serpents: Gloria Anzaldua's Mestiza Consciousness and the Ongoing Search for Queer Theological Symbols. Jeanine Elizabeth Viau, Loyola University Chicago Gloria Anzaldua's "La Conciencia de la Mestiza" is significant for NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE ongoing reflection on the relationship between theological symbols and queer identity. Anzaldua is one of the first indigenous/postcolonial voices to celebrate queer sexuality as a space of insight, an evolutionary moment. Acknowledging the power of religious imagination, she embraces a theological symbol as the embodiment of mestiza consciousness and an imperative to reconcile dualistic oppositions. In conversation with queer theology, her vision aids the search for adequate and authentic queer theological symbols. Isuggest that these symbols must incarnate three experiences represented in Anzaldua's work: norteada, hybridity, and !iminality. En la Lncha: The Transnational Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chilpancingo. Carolina Prado, San Diego State University Metales y Derivados was an abandoned battery recycling plant in Tijuana, B.C. creating toxic runoff into the Colonia Chilpancingc until community women mobilized binational pressure to get this site cleaned up. My research analyzes the mobilization of a transnational response to this environmental justice case and the significance of its victory for an otherwise marginalized community in the Global South. My project is realized through interviews with women from Cclectivo Chilpancingo Pro justicia Ambiental, the grassroots environmental collective created from this struggle, and a review of texts analyzing women's transnational activism. Moderator: Kristine Byron, Michigan State University 108. Women, Political Engagement, and the Artistic Imagination (I) 2:20 to 3:35 pm • Plaza Court 6 "Tt could be me sitting in prison': Carol Jacobsen's Social Documentary Art and Activism on Behalf of Incarcerated Women!' Karen Alexander, Signs: Journal of Women in Cultur and Society Carol Jacobsen is a social documentary artist whose work focuses on the plight of incarcerated women, particularly that of women imprisoned for killing their abusive domestic partners. Jacobsen's films, photography, and installations go hand in hand with her work as the director of the Michigan Women's Justice and Clemency Project, which advocates for the human rights of women prisoners. In this paper, Jacobsen's films will be discussed in the context of the history of feminist filmmaking and criticism as well as a tradition of feminist activist art that can be traced back to the 1960s and 19705. "Writing Women's Human Rights in Africa." Heather Hewett, State University of New York, New Paltz Much contemporary African fiction in English plays a central role in articulating new terms of struggle in a globalized world in which the language of social justice has shifted: discourses of "human rights" have largely replaced discourses of nationalist socialist revolution and decolonization. Despite the fact that critiques of human rights (as Western, individualist, erc.) have emerged throughout Africa, many feminist/womanist African writers have offered nuanced perspectives that reveal shared ground with African women's rights activists. This paper examines some of the central tropes, images, and narratives in the work of two African writers (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Tsitsi Dangarembga) and suggests how their fiction articulates and envisions new areas of struggle for social and gender justice by rewriting the past. "Regarding Heroes: The Visual Geographies of Sonth African Women)s Activism Against Apartheid" Kim Miller, Wheaton College This paper examines the extent to which women's participation in the struggle for democracy in South Africa is represented and remembered, and in many cases forgotten, in contemporary South African visual CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS----------~--------.....2:20 P.M. - 3:35 P.M. FRIDAY culture, including commemorative sites. I argue that the rich visual rhetoric thal once helped create political identities and recognition for women has now largely disappeared. Moderator: Jessica Hayes-Conroy, Wheaton College 109. Embodied Outsiders and Insiders: Empirical and Theoretical Implications 2:20 to 3:35 pm • Plaza Court 7 Public Mothers and Private Practices: Breastfeeding as Transgression. Jennifer Reich, University of Denver Breastfeeding symbolically marks maternal commitment, and has been endorsed in public health campaigns as unequivocally good. Yet breastfeeding practice is expected to conform to specific norms. This paper analyzes in-depth interviews with nineteen mothers who define themselves as participating in non-normative mothering practices, including extended breastfeeding (breastfeeding past a baby's first birthday) and breastfeeding in public (where nursing or nipples might be seen). Byexamining these mothers' awareness of others' disapproval and their strategies to manage them as they prioritize their commitment to nursing on their own terms, the culturally appropriate meanings of femininity, motherhood, and embodiment--become visible. Dreaded "Otherness": Heternormative Patrolling in Body Hair Discourse. Breanne Pahs, Arizona State University This paper draws upon qualitative data from students who purposefully engaged in "non-normative" body hair behavior during the course of one semester, highlighti.ng the homophobic reactions students faced both internally and externally (e.g., parents, friends, colleagues, and strangers). Fears of queerness, confrontation of homophobia, and internalization of body norms are explored. Speaking of Genitalia. Christine Labuski, Rice University Although feminists have survived almost two decades of occasionally inflammatory rhetoric, debates about female genital cutting are far from resolved. Moreover, the experiences of women who undergo genital excision for disease-related reasons remain missing from our analyses. This paper, based on interviews with women who have had genital surgery due to either vulvar cancer or vulvar pain syndrome, examines the relationship between excision and erasure. TIle paper argues that surgical excision is often the outcome of culturalJy pervasive vulvar "erasures" that keep women uniformed about the health needs of their non-reproductive and non-heternormative genitalia. From Shaving to Cosmetic Genitoplasty: How Beauty Work Practices Cohere. Samantha Kwan, University of Houston Individuals practice a wide variety of body work practices, from mundane tasks such as shaving or putting on make-LIp to various forms of cosmetic surgery. What separates individuals who participate in few or only mundane practices from those who are willing to participate in more extraordinary forms of body transformation? This paper theorizes body work practices as a continuum, documents the type and frequencies of practices young people participate in, and attempts to understand how young people perceive (the acceptability and desirability) of various practices. Turning to duster analysis of original survey data, we explore how various beauty work practices cohere, including trends by gender, sexual orientation, and race/ethnicity, among others. Moderator: Chris Bobel, University of Massachusetts, Boston 110. Feminist Revolution at The Interface of The Digital Revolution 2:20 to 3:35 pm » Plaza Court 8 Will the Revolution Be Digitized?: Reflections on Feminism and the Digital Revolution. [anell Hobson, University of Albany Examining earlier and current discourses of the Internet and the digital revolution as progressive sites in which race, class, and gender lose their meanings, this paper will question the use of digital technology in advancing women's liberation. Apart from issues of access to computers, other issues - including the Supreme Court ruling granting corporations the right to mobilize political messages in media - threaten to further marginalize individual voices. In light of feminist blogging, can we look to the digital revolution to start a feminist revolution? Or, must we look elsewhere while treating digital culture as another space of privilege and power? Teaching Feminist Blog Wars and the Production of Feminist Thought. jessica Nathanson, Augsburg College During 2007-2008, four separate but related feminist "blog wars raged in response to the publication, online and in print, of feminist thought that 1) represented "feminism" as monolithic, centered around white identity; 2) rejected as inauthentic trans women's experiences; 3) systematicaUy excluded women of color as authors; and 4) appropriated the work ofbloggers of color. The author analyzes these blog wars and presents a model for using them in the classroom in order to raise larger, critical questions about the state of the discipline of Women's Studies and to help students develop an ethical, anti-racist approach to feminist scholarship. Liberatory Media Making as a Response to Feminist "Iheory-Into-Actton; BrownFemi Power, Independent Scholar, Media Maker, Activist Feminist-centered internet media produce infinite theoretical critiques but are less creative when it comes to "action;' which they frequently define as theorizing, donating money, and signing petitions. The author asks, who benefits from such a definition? What does a feminist critique that is deeply entrenched in the "public space" of the internet mean for the feminist action of "politicizing the personal sphere"? And what do Latina feminists, many of whom have never used the internet in any Significant way in their theory/art, have to show us about using the internet to expose the increasingly controlled borders around Iiberatcry media making? Moderator: Tanya Alln Kennedy, University of Maine, Farmington 111. Queer Performance and Spectatorship 2:20 to 3:35 pm » Governor $ Square 9 For Lesbians Who Have Considered Intellectual Separatism When the Rainbow Umbrella Isn't Enough. Katie Rebecca Horowitz, University of California, Berkeley This paper exarnines queer theory's unresolved contestations over who counts as queer, for what reasons, and according to whom, through an ethnographic study of drag king and queen performers and spectators at a nationally-noted LGBTQ bar in Cleveland, Ohio. It offers some conclusions about what makes lesbian culture "lesbian," what makes gay male culture "gay:' and how we might go about making such claims in a manner consistent with queer's deconstruction of "the normal," It's Complicated: Lily Tomlin's Queer Subjective Space. jennifer Reed, California State University, Long Beach Lily Tomlin carved out queer subjectivity in complex ways that have NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS=~~~=~~~__......., ..-:""'~~-:----:-..,..J been important for the formation ofa female queer identity and politics that includes a class, gender, and race based critique of dominant culture. This paper will explore the particular productivity of this non- reproductive body. When "TooMuch" Is Just Enough: Disidentifying Terrorism in Queer Stand-Up Performance. Megan Elizabeth Sibbett, Universityof Texas, San Antonio r focus on how queer comedians shape public response within the frameworkof the "war on terror:' Queer theorist Jose Munoz argues that dlsidentlfication "transform{s) cultural logic from within" and 'enactls) permanent structural change" through everyday resistance. I explore the performances of Wanda Sykes, Marga Gomez, and Margaret Cho and consider their intersectional critiques. In particular, 1 draw attention to Wanda Sykes's White House Correspondents Speech and showhowthrough a queer, feminist, disidentificatory lens one can look beyondwhat is declared outright and begin to grapple with the multiple representationswhich are played with even as they are contested. 112. FashionTalks: Undressing the Power of Style 2:20 to 3:35 pm • Governor s Square J 0 Dressing Left:Conforming, Transforming and Shifting Masculiue Style. Shira Tarrant, California State University, Long Beach This paper explores the mutability of masculinity and the ways by whichfashionreflects this instability, or the constructed characteristics, of gender. This paper takes up the gendered anxieties and the tensions between agency and constraint, stasis and change. While assumptions about the meanings of masculinity and femininity are deeplyentrenched in our politics and laws, our religions, schools, and our mythologies, these gender ideologies are also deeply reinforced through our fashions and styles. The paradox, however, is that while masculinity is semiotically styled and entrenched, its expression through fashion is temporal, temporary, changeable. Going Rogue: Fashion Rule-Breakers and the Rhetoric of Feminine Authenticity. Marjorie folies, Roosevelt University This paper identifies an emerging cultural rhetoric of feminine authenticity: breaking fashion rules. In contemporary mainstream fashion editorials and advertisements, breaking conventional rules of fashion is uncritically celebrated as a creative expression of female empowerment. This conflation of fashion non-conformity with social power reveals the way both feminist and postfeminist ideology is negotiated in hegemonic fashion discourse. Fashioning a Feminist Style, Or, How I Learned to Dress from Reading Feminist Theory. Astrid Henry, Grinnell College Thispaper weaves together an autobiographical narrative of the author's relationship to both feminism and fashion with an analysis of feminist theorizing on fashion since the late 1960s. Providing an overview of the feminist debates about fashion-and in particular, feminine dress styles-the paper also explores how feminist writers have explored the pleasuresof clothing and of fashion in their memoirs. Moderator:An" Braithwaite, University of Prince Edward Island 113. Hip Hop Feminism and Critical Pedagogy: We are SOLHOT 2:20 (0 3:35 pm » Governor oS Square / / Our Raison d'etre: A Performance Manifesto. Durell Maurice Callier, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Treading in the footsteps of other Black, queer, and othered artist- scholarswho have utilized their lives and performative works as a means NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE- fRIDAY 2:20 P.M. - 3:35 P.M. to educate, and speak back to larger oppressive societal structures, this paper focuses on the ways in which performance can be used as a pedagogical and organizational tool to empower. Furthermore this text utilizes performance as a healing counter narrative. Utilizing empirical data by black girls and those that love them, this paper will illuminate the possibilities of the creative to create new analytics and transgress disciplinary boundaries necessary for the actualizing of a more socially just world. Race, Gender, Class and the Law. Christina Carney, University of California, San Diego Analyzing the 'New Jersey 4' court case involving four queer Black women accused of assault and attempted murder, I argue that this case is not exceptional but endemic of Black subjectivities as negotiated and maintained within the court system and society. Non- white heteronormative subjects under purview of the law are denied hummanness whereas whiteness will always depend on the detection of blackness. Therefore, I interrogate how the creation of Buckle as a proper victim serves interests of the court and how power in the courtroom affects the material reality of Black women, underscoring the need to envision emancipatory political possibilities. A Return to the Fundamentals: Three Rs, SOLHOT & Hip Hop Feminist Media Studies. Aisha S. Durham, Texas A&M University SOLHOT a transgenerational, multiethnic community-based group structured by hip-hop feminism is one example where media-powe and people's empowerment converge. Utilizing pedagogical approa called the Three Rs: Recall, Re-member and Represent the panelist wi demonstrate ways in which the popular can be employed. Specifically utilizing examples from class instruction and community workshops the panelist will highlight how Black girls use hip-hop to make the past present by- (i) recalling symbolic and lived realities of black girls, (ii) re-membering the creative-intellectual labor of black girls, and (iii) representing diasportc cultural practices and aesthetics by black girls. Space, Place, and Bodies. Dominique Hill, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Writing is a space of ownership where I define, deconstruct, analyze, and become. Specifically, poetry is my tongue and instinctive expression of my thoughts, feelings, and analyses-it is my native voice. Yet, poetry faces trial as a legitimate form of expression, analysis, and vessel for knowledge production at the hands of scholars and disciplines grounded by positivist and early post positivist ideas. Drawing on the works of black feminists and feminists of color, I offer poetry as a site of knowledge production and to "blast" omnipresent ideologies that mark, confine, sculpt, and appraise my body throughout the educational process. Black Women in the Academy. Chamara Jewel Kwakye, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign This paper focuses on the ways in which Black women academics collectively produce knowledge. Using life history methods to mine the life stories of 3 dynamic and disparate Black female professors, this paper will discuss research findings based on 6.eldnotes, researcher journal, email correspondence and interview transcripts. Theoretical insights from Critical Race Theory, Queer Theory, Black Feminist Thought, and Narrative Inquiry will inform this paper to create an engaging and educational experience th.at blurs boundaries between traditional modes of academic demonstration by actively engaging the art of story-telling. Moderator: Rulli Nicole Brown, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign 105 CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS 114. Girls and Education: (Re)defining Public Education 2:20 to 3:35 pm » Governor's Square /2 Girls, Feminist Pedagogy, and Public Education. Michel/e Lee Tichy, University a/Northern Iowa This research project examines what is needed in teacher education and public education institutions to reclaim the role of public education in creating a society that is just, equitable, and hopefully peacefuL Particularly how claiming feminist pedagogy in teacher education programs empowers young women seeking to become teachers and creates schools that are more conducive to serving the varied needs of girls in our schools. When pre-service teachers are trained in feminist pedagogy and other forms of critical pedagogy they are more likely to challenge the social status-quo in their future schools, thus are more likely to advocate for girls in these schools. Female Sexual Expression and Repression in School-Based Sexuality Education: Adult Women Reflect on Their 7-12 Grade Educational Experiences in the Midwest. Jacque Daugherty, University oj Cincinnati The absence offemale desire within sexuality education has been linked to a perpetuation of subjugated feminine roles in sexual relalionships (Fine 1988, Fine and McClelland 2006). This study attempts to expand the qualitative base by using in-depth interviews in which a diverse sample of women enrolled in human sexuality courses at a Midwest university reflect on their 7-12 grade school-based sexuality education experiences. Some themes explored are desire and gender expression in school-based sexuality education and perceived impact of sexuality education on adult sex and relationship decisions. School Configuration for Early Adolescents as an Unexamined Factor in Unplanned Teen Pregnancy. Monica D. Lange, California State University, Long Beach This paper will interrogate two basic school formats used to educate U.S. middle-aged children over the last 100+ years and their possible link to unplanned pregnancies. When the junior high school format was established in the early 1900s one of the major reasons for adopting this model was to move 9th graders from the senior high school environment and curriculum to a more developmentally compatible arrangement. But the middle school movement of the '60's and '70's returned 9th graders to senior high campuses which increased risk for unplanned teen pregnancy. Preaching in Primetime: (Re)presenting Adolescent Female Sexuality on a Popular Television Program. Elena Frank, Arizona State University This research focuses on the representation of adolescent female sexuality on the popular adolescent drama, The Secret Life of the American Teenager. Based on an analysis of the four main intimate adolescent relationships through 35 episodes, I examine the value placed on sex and portrayal of its consequences for adolescent girls. I argue that not only does an abstinence-only, pro-life agenda appear to be advocated to young female viewers, but that Secret Life also portrays negative historical stereotypes about gender, race, and sexuality. Also, sexual risk or responsibility is rarely addressed and a diversity of sexual practices or possibilities is not represented. Moderator: Dorma Marie Johnson, Education Consultant llS. The Crisis in Funding for Public Higher Education: New Challenges for Women's Studies Departments 2:20103:35 pm « Governor S Square 14 This round table brings together chairs and faculty from large women's studies departments to discuss the challenges we face as a result of the crisis in public higher education funding. We will discuss; accelerated moves toward corporatization of public universities; requirements that departments "raise revenues;" focus on student enrollment while reducing lines; declining prospects for jobs for graduate students; the possibility of mergers of small and interdisciplinary programs under the guise of cost saving; and others. Presenters: Mary Margaret Fonow, Arizona State University Jill M. Bystydzienski, Ohio State University Moderator: Arlene Voski Avakian, University of Massachusetts ll6. Autoethnography in Feminist Pedagogy, Theory and Writing 2:20103:35 pm » Governor :~,Square 15 Asacon tested method ological and th eoreticaI approach, autoethnography seeks to interrogate disembodied, objectivist productions of knowledge and to offer instead situated knowledges that bridge the personal, politica.l and structural. Autoethnography is a creative act that demands risk and vulnerability, and holds potential for new insights into relations of power at multiple scales and how to interrupt them. In this roundtable, participants will consider autoethnography as one form of creative feminist praxis, explore diverse definitions and applications of autoethnography, and stimulate lively audience discussion on the topic. Presenters: Kristi R. Branham, Western Kentucky University Danielie M. DeMuth, Grand Valley State University Sheila Hassell Hughes, University of Dayton Kelli Zaytoun, Wright State University Moderator: LeeRay M. Costa, Hollins University 117. Jewish Feminism as Insider/Outsider Feminism 2:20103:35 pm » Governor's Square /6 Refusing to be an Outsider. Janet Lois Freedman, Brandeis University The paper "Refusing to be an Outsider" will provide an overview of the diverse theoretical and practical work constituted by the term "Jewish feminism;' work that is too often missing from feminist genealogies. From the path breaking writing in Susannah Heschel's 1983 anthology, On Being a Jewish Feminist. Lilith Magazine (1976-), Bridges; a Jewish Feminist Journal (1990-) and many other publications, to today's extraordinary coalition-building work of Keshet, a group serving GBLT people who identify Jewishly, Jewish feminists have refused to be outsiders and have created a more vibrant, inclusive religious and cultural Jewish community. Jewish Feminist Studies: Pedagogical and Political Possibilities. Meghana Nayak, Pace University "Jewish Feminist Studies: Pedagogical and Political Possibilities" focuses on the reading of Jewish feminist studies as "whiter" and more "privileged" than "outsider" feminisms, such as Arab, South Asian, Chicana, Black, African, etc. As Katya Glbel Azoulay notes in Black, Jewish, and Interracial, identities "surface" at the very moment that their potentiality is "denied." This paper explores how to use the work of Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, Helene Meyers, Ella Shohat, and others to think through the Othering of Jews and concomitant concerns such as whiteness, feminism. racialization, and class. Further, jewish feminist studies can help LIS better understand another "outsider" practice: feminist spiritualities. Too Jewish to be Feminist?: Revisioning Orthodoxy. Helene Meyers, Southwestern University "Too Jewish to be Feminist?: Revisioning Orthodoxy" builds upon Sara Horowitz's critique of the equation of Judaism with patriarchy by exploring Orthodoxy's positioning as beyond the feminist pale. Dismissive responses to Stephanie Levine's study of Hasidic girls NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS F exemplify a tendency to code "real" feminism as secular and religious feminists as trading in false consciousness. Thus Christian cultural hegemony is rendered invisible and the policing function of "too Jewish" is mobilized. Using such works as Haviva Ner-David's Life on The Fringes, this paper relocates the debate between feminism and Orthodoxy as not only within Orthodoxy but also within feminism. Moderator: Helene Meyers, Southwestern University 118.Challenging Cisgender Privilege/Transphobia in Education and Community-based Programs 2:20 to 3:35 pm • Governor's Square 17 Towards a Cisgender Ally Identity: Complications on the journey. Sarah Joyce Nickels, University of Denver; Using a purposive sample of MSW students who had undergone an intentional exploration of cisgender privilege in a graduate social work course, this study identifies themes that emerged in the excavation of cfsgender privilege and its impact on the professional and personal commitment to being allies. Themes that emerged include (a) naming dsgender identity, (b) systemic invisibility in society, (c) systemic invisibility in (social work) education, and (d) the complication of overlapping identities. The data reveal meaningful themes that can inform education as well as professionals and advocates who desire to understand how cisgender privilege may be impacting their work. Barriers to Full Citizenship: The Experiences of Trans- Identified Students, Staff, and Faculty on Colorado Campuses. N. Eugene Walls, University of Denver Usingdata collected from 30 qualitative interviews of trans-identified students, staff, and faculty who attend or work all Colorado higher education campuses, the author outlines both barriers and supports that the participants encountered in their different campus roles. Themesclustered around the overarching categories of (a) interpersonal violence and microaggressions, (b) institutional neglect, and (c) supportive allies. Implications for building more inclusive campus environments and for future research will be presented. Cis/Transgender in a Predominately Gay Male Context: Interrogating Both Sides of the Coin. Kelly Costello, Independent Author; The two authors - speaking from different social locations in respect to their gender identities - examine the embodiment of cisgender privilege in the context of a community-based socia-recreational group that exists to serve the LGBTQ community. The authors' experiences demonstrate that _. regardless of the well-meaning intent of the members who engaged in them -- members of the LGBQ community often take part in policing gender. By doing so, the authors argue, the system of gender stratification that is oppressive to trans-identified individuals, and ultimately damaging to cisgender people as well gets reinforced. Moderator: Sarah Joyce Nickels, University of Denver 119. Outsider Feminists in Science: The Case For Expanding Science and Gender and Race Discrimination Law 2:20103:35 pm • Plaza Court 3 Outsider Feminists in Science. Banu Subramaniam, U'liversity of Massachusetts, Amherst The first panelist explores the "outsider" status of women in science- outside women's studies and outside male-defined science. She explains "feminist science" by discussing: How do feminist scientists weave their instersectional identities with the intellectual and institutional histories of their disciplines and interdisciplines, with the natural histories of the organisms and objects they study, and with the political and cultural NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE histories of the world? She explores how feminist science embodies the challenge facing all feminist academics―challenging the hierarchy and power of senior male professors or old boys' networks that control all the rewards, and she suggests academic remedies. Expanding Discrimination Law: Blacklisting. Crystal Renee Chambers, East Carolina University The third panelist explores avenues in the law that can protect those who litigate from being blacklisted. In particular, she will explore the potential of anti-trust law to address blacklisting in academe. Decoding Discrimination Law. Adele Mercier, Queens University, Canada The way that semantic and logical claims are used to support discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and how such claims may be used against whistleblowers, especially in relation to the concept of collegiality. Moderator: Sharon Leder, Feminists Against Academic Discrimination 120. Where the Boys Are: Using Feminist Pedagogies to Meet College Men Where They Are 2:20 to 3:35 pm· Plaza Court 4 On the college campus, fraternities, athletic teams, and ROTC provide some college men with a space and place that reaffirms traditional masculinity, a place "outside" of mainstream feminist practice. Staff from three college campuses will address their different approaches to enga these men in anti-rape efforts through feminist and social justice lens examining the impact upon traditional men's groups when membe begin building authentic relationships with one another and the women ill their lives. Panelists will highlight the importance of reflective practice for participant and instructors and feminist pedagogies for engaging men in gender justice where they are. Presenters: Ionathan Karl Grove, Pacific Lutheran University lenn Scott, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Carmen Hotvedt, University of Wisconsin, Madison Moderator: Ross Andrew Wantland, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign 121. Radical Feminists of Color: The Hidden History 2:20103:35 pm • Plaza Court 5 Chicana Por Mi Raza: Uncovering the Hidden History of Chicana Feminism (1965-1985). Maria Catera, University of Michigan in this paper, I will talk about Chicana Par Mi Raza: Uncovering the Hidden History of Chicana Feminism (1965-1985) a web-based archive that documents the development of Chicana feminist thought through an interactive timeline, digitized archival materials (out-of- print books, newspapers, reports, leaflets and other material culture culled from personal collections), oral histories, and secondary sources. The project will not only create new feminist archives, but also interrogate the ways in which archives themselves are constituted. Archival collections are most often figured as both the residue and the primary building blocks of historical memory But they are also partial and idiosyncratic formations, unavoidably subject to the vagaries of chance and the individual interests and predilections of archivists who represent the interests of increasingly corporatized institutions. Moreover, access to archival collections is usually limited to a small cadre of authorized scholars, figured as the interpreters (molders) of the raw materials found in the archive. Is it possible to constitute an archive that can match the libratory potential of its central subject: Chicana feminism? What would such an archive look like? Who would help to create it, and who would have access to it? While I intend to write 2:20 P.M. - 3:35 P.M. FRIDAY CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS a monograph on the development of Chicana feminist thought based on my research, the central goal of this project is to democratize the archive-to push against the privatization of knowledge and envision a model of scholarship The Vietnam Women's Union and Rethinking Global Feminism. Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, The Ohio State University During the U.S. War in Viet Nam, the Vietnam Women's Unions (VWU) of North Viet Nam and its counterpart in South Viet Nam played integral roles in fostering a global women's antiwar movement. Through personal forms of diplomacy, the VWU actively nurtured U.S. women's interest in U.S. policy and military activity in Southeast Asia. Furthermore, the VWU provided models of female engagement in local, national, and international political processes. This paper examines the diplomatic efforts of the VWU in developing personal and political relationships with various groups of American women's activists, including those who identified as "traditional" maternalist peace advocates, second wave feminists, and "third world" revolutionaries based in racialized communities in the u.s. This study offers a different framework for understanding global feminism during the "long decade" of the 19605. Existing scholarship have pointed to the short-comings of western women who embraced the ideology of international sisterhood but whose practice fell far short due to their inabilities to look beyond their own priorities and viewpoints. In contrast, this work will begin with the perspectives and agency of Vietnamese women as they sought to expand the political vision and activism of women in the U.S. These international forms of sisterhood were not free of conflict or misunderstanding. However, this Asia- centered perspective offers the opportunity to frame western women's peace activism as part of a global movement that emerged through dialogue and negotiation, not just through projection and domination. "Have you looked under my bed?": Archiving and Writing Black Feminist Narratives. Sherie M. Randolph, University of Michigan This paper will examine the process of researching and writing Black feminist narratives. The sources for chronicling a history of Black feminism and in particular key Black feminists such as Florynce "Flo" Kennedy> Kay Lindsey and Dorothy Pitman Hughes are scarce and scattered. When I first began this project archivists at the Schlesinger Library had collected some of Kennedy's personal papers and some work on Black feminists during the 1960s and 19705, however much was missing. Often times, scholars engage in the arduous process of resurrecting the depth of their subject's history and have to locate sources outside of traditional archives. In doing so, scholars of Black feminist thought and praxis have created new histories that challenge common historical asswnptions in regard to Black feminists and their relationship to power, movement leadership 311dagency in all its complexity Given that black women continue to have a vexed relationship to conventional archives-sand given that such archives may continue to be constituted in ways that exclude such subjects~~ how does one write histories of social actors whose subjugated status you want to highlight and interrogate? I am especially interested in understanding the ways in which the process of researching in private homes shapes the tenor of the project and the major questions being asked? Moderator: Karen Leong. Arizona State University 122. Fat Studies Interest Group Meeting 2:20103:35 pm « Plaza Ballroom D All those with an interest in the field of Fat Studies, Fat Activism and Pat-Positive Culture are warmly invited to attend our annual meeting. 123. Close Encounters: Depictions of Intimacy in African American Literature and Culture 2:20 to 3:35 pm • Director's Row F Act Like a Lady and Think!: Renegotiating Black Female Intimacy in the Age of Singleness. Brittney Chante Cooper, University of Alabama This paper explore two contemporary tropes-the single lady and the independent woman-as they are represented in contemporary discourses on Black intimacy. Using Steve Harvey's Act Like a Lady, Think Like A Man and Hill Harper's The Conversation, 1 argue these texts run the risk of re-entrenching patriarchy, by promoting a paternalistic disciplining of Black female subjectivity.I argue that Black feminism can make Significant critical interventions by calling for a rethinking and reimagining of Black femininities that are characterized byBlack women's willingness to "act up" and "act out" against patriarchy and recognizing, reclaiming, and reimagining feminist discourses that are accessible to women who would otherwise reject the term. Laboring in Intimacy: Labor Relations and Intimacy among Black Women and White Women in Nineteenth-Century African American Women's Narratives. Do Veanna S. Fulton Minor, University of Alabama TIle narratives of Mattie J. Jackson, Elizabeth Keckley, Louisa Picquet, and Eliza Potter, all set in major U. S. cities, demonstrate Black women as agents of their own Iabor, exploiting urban spaces that afforded interactions with multiple clients, employers, and slaveowners, interactions that yielded freedom, agency, and economic sustenance. Of equal importance, these narratives document relations between Black and white women in the urban cultural landscape where Black women's labor commands white women's wealth, sometimes their respect but rarely their regard as equals. This presentation exposes the complex exchange and the machinations Black women performed to succeed in these environments. "111is is the only way to share and not to rob": The Ethics of Intimacy and Exchange in Jewelle Gomez's The Gilda Stories. Susana M. Morris, Auburn University I argue that through the trope of the "exchange" Gomez both challenges traditional vampire mythology and offers an epistemological shift concerning the ethics of intimacy and family in the face of apocalypse. Gomez's delineation of the "exchange" is not only how vampires nourish themselves, but is a way of knowing and experiencing the world and of reconfiguring intimacy that is profoundly anti-racist, anti-colonialist, and feminist. TIle exchange, and all that it connotes, is presented as the most viable means of both living in the novel's dystopias also of surviving the apocalypse that plagues the world at the novel's end. Moderator: Heidy M. Gonzalez, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 124. Nation, Gender, and Global Citizenship in an Era of Climate Change 2:20 to 3:35 pm • Director's Row H Crossing borders: Global Women Acting to Reduce the Risks of Climate Change and Disasters. Elaine Enarson, 11,e Women' College of the University of Denver This presentation highlights cross-currents (theoretical, political, practical) between gender relations and climate change adaptation and the social construction of the emergencies, disasters and catastrophes of our future. Drawing on two decades of research on women's sex- and gender-based capacities as well as vulnerabilities, the discussion both joins and distinguishes the gender dimensions of disasters and climate change. Prospects for feminist organizing around both are considered. NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE • CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS Gender, Race) Privilege and Innocence as Factors in Judgments of the Importance of Climate Change. Kari Norgaard, Whitman College Elaine Enarson, The Womens College of the University of Denver This presentation examines the material and symbolic significance of differences in perceptions of climate change. There is an inverse relationship between concern and potential impacts that exist along the lines of gender, race and nationality. On the one hand, nations with higher carbon emissions are less likely to show concern regarding climate change. Furthermore, the 'climate skeptic' movement (whose followers and key advocates are predominantly male, white and from the United States), negates the seriousness of climate change. Differences in concern are analyzed in terms of their role in reproducing material as well as ideological power relations. Given that impacts of climate change are disproportionately borne, this paper uses eco-feminist theory to highlight how differences in concern work to silence the needs and voices of women and people of color within and across national boundaries. Transnational Perspectives on Environmental Justice: Climate Change and Gender in India. Sonalini Kaur Sapra, Kenyon College International and national policy debates on climate change tend to focus on macro processes and little attention is paid to how these processes will be felt at the local and regional level. TIlls paper seeks to provide a gendered analysis of the first National Action Plan for Climate Change (NAPCC) released in India is June 2008. I argue that the document sets up the issue of climate change and the solutions needed to combat it as primarily a scientific and economic problem. Thismeans that the framework gives little opportunity for inserting socialjustice language or gendered perspectives. Heated Debates: Teaching Climate Change in the Women's and Gender Studies Classroom. Barbara Sutton, State University of New York, Albany Climate change is one of the most significant environmental problems of the day-cone that crosses national boundaries, yet has unequal effects on diverse populations within and across nation-states. As a concerned citizen and scholar interested in how transnational processes and intersecting inequalities shape women's lives, T have started to incorporate climate change as a timely topic in my courses. This presentation will suggest a number of frameworks that can be used to teach about climate change in a variety of women's and gender studies courses. Iwill also share pedagogical materials and resources to helpstimulate class discussion about this vital issue. Moderator: Laura l. Parisi, University of Victoria 125. Creative Conrse Assignments: Expanding Learning and Engagement 2:20 fa 3:35 pm· Directors Row J This roundtable discussion examines the utilization of creative course assignments as a means for students to demonstrate learning. engage in theory-making. support activism. and/or engage students in the learning process. This panel of instructors and students will share their own experiences engaging 'with creative course assignments, with particular attention to how the assignments/activities were designed, enacted, and evaluated, and the impact of the creative process and product on achievement of learning outcomes. Examples of creative projects/ assignments will be shared, as well as a list of additional resources offering further recommendations for creative activities. Presenters: BetsyEudey, California State University, Stanislaus MarileeDurel Sllaw. California State University. Stanislaus NWSA2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE WOMEN OF COLOR CAUCUS BUSINESS MEETING FRIDAY NOVEMBER 12, 3:45 to 5:00 pm • Director's Row J You are invited to attend the Women of Color Caucus meeting The Women of Color Caucus of the National Women's Studies Association is open to, and welcoming of, all NWSAmembers. We are a constituency within NWSA that offers our national association a singular opportunity to look within our own ranks to discover ways to promote broader inclusion of historical, social, cultural, political and economical perspectives of racialized women in the United States (and abroad). We invite you to join the Women of Color Caucus and welcome your participation and leadership. JOIN US IN CELEBRATING THE INAUGURAL YEAR OF Feminist Formations Rebecca Ropers-Huilman, Editor; Amy Kamiusky, Book Review Editor; and Adela C. Licona, Editorial Board President Feminist Formations (formerly the NWSA Journal) cultivates a forumwhere feminists from around the world articulate research, theory,activism, teaching, and learning, thereby showcasing new feminist formations. An interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal, we publish innovative work by scholars, activists, and practitioners in feminist, gender, and sexuality srudies. The first issue of Feminist Formations, published in Spring 2OID, highlighted feminist formations in a variety of contexts and deepened our understandings of gendered lives. Our Summer 20ID issue, The Politics and Rhetorics of Embodiment, illuminated the complicated terrain surrounding the construct of women's bodies. We end this first year with the Fall 20ID issue, which focuses on Women in the Middle East. Guest edited by Drs. Nawal Ammar, Aylin Akpinar, and Salam Hamdan, the issue explores the complex challenges facing women in the region and presents enlightening and enlivening scholarship by authors from around the world. Come celebrate this special issue and our inaugural year as Feminist Formations at our reception at the NWSA conference: Date: Friday, November rarh Time: 4:30-6:30 Place: PLAZA LOBBY LEVEL I Director's Row I Speaking: Fatima Sbaity Kassem, former director of the Centre for Women at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA). Sponsored by: Institute for Women's Srudies & Services, Metropoliran State College of Denver; Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, University of Ontario Institute of Technology; and Feminist Formations, Universiry of Minnesota. Snacks and drinks provided. To learn more and to get involved in the dynamic exchange of ideas fostered by Feminist Formations, please visir www.cehd.umn.edu/ Feminist-Formations. "!it Published by ,~ THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS_-------~----------..,JIIFRIDAY 3:45 P.M. - 5:00 P.M. 126. Fat and Queer Perspectives 3:45105:00 pm • Plaza Court J Fatness and Queerness: Connections to discourse. Candice DarleneBuss, University of North Carolina, Greensboro Whether or not the medical concept of obesity is truly the dire emergency that is touted by many public health officials, the fat female form is still viewed as something that is unfeminine, disgusting, slothful, and amoraL By virtue of a variety of media and social networking vehicles, the fat body (particularly the fat female body) is being reclaimed and celebrated. Books such as Fat'So? (Wann, 1998) and Lessonsfrom the Pat-e-Sphere (Harding & Kirby, 2009) have attempted to normalize and destigmatize the fat body and the fat experience. Along those lines, texts analyzing the biological and psychological impact of weight reduction strategies have declared that dieting contributes to illness and that a "Health At Every Size" approach is an appropriate feminist health ideal. Because of the biopsychosocialimpact of fatness on individuals and society, there are correlations between fat discourse and queer theory. A comparison between the fat acceptance movement and the queer rights movement elicitsa variety of reactions from various theoretical stances. The most poignant comparison is in regards to the biomedical factors involved in both identities.Members of both communities have attempted to use scientificstudies to justify their identities, to attempt to legitimize their existenceby claiming that their fatness (or queerness) is an immutable piece of themselves, "the biological bedrock of contemporary visions of identify."Bysearching for a "fat gene" or a "gay gene:' these people attempt to bypass discussions that would place blame. By placing their identity in the hands of genetics, they derail discussions of morality, choice,behavior, and environmental factors that also shape us. TheConstruction of Political and Erotic Subjects in Laura Aguilar's Photographic Self-Portraits. Stefanie Snider, University of Southern California LauraAguilaris a contemporary Los Angeles-based photographer who has beencomm..ittedto imaging underrepresented and disenfranchised individuals and communities since the start of her career in the late 1980s.Primarily self-taught since she was a teenager, Aguilar took up photography to capture representations of the people around her. As such, Aguilar has deftly created several photograph series that explore issues of visibility, empowerment, and the social intelligibility of people of color, working-class people, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people over the last two decades. In the 1990s, Aguilar turned the camera on herself and produced at least four series of self- portrait photographs that explored her own intersectional identity as a fat, lesbian, disabled Chicana artist. This paper will look closely at two of these photograph self-portrait series, Nature Self-Portrait (1996) and Motion (1999), which picture Aguilar nude, alone or with other women, in desert and forest landscape. Several specific images are analyzed using materials based in cultural studies, queer theory, disability studies, and fat studies i.n order to trace the ways in which Aguilar created photographs that emphasized the corporeal nature of the fat femalehuman body and its tenuous relationships with dominant culture. Because subjects are constituted at the nexus of the gaze and the body,"The body has its invariable public dimension. Constituted as a SOcial phenomenon in the public sphere, my body is and is not mine." Aguilar shines a light into the inquisitive eyes of her audience, forcing them to confront normative notions of the female nude, while positing new political formations of the fat female body that simultaneously appreciates and objectifies them, that insists on their erotic potential and material presence as political goals in themselves. 1. Judith Butler, NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence. (New York and London: Verso, 2004) 26 Queering the Fat Body. Virginia Zolala- Tovar, San Francisco State University Background: Though a queer theoretical framework has been applied to fatness, and fat studies has been discussed as having intersections with the disabilities movement, there has been little discussion of the fat body as a queer entity/space. Summary: During (informal, preliminary) interviews with fat women, participants were encouraged to discuss their childhoods and give open-ended responses to questions about their lives. The women revealed a sense of not feeling female or "like or girl" or "like a woman" during various points in their lives, particularly as children. Participants recalled the points at which they became aware that their fatness was not attractive, that their bodies i.nspired ridicule and shunning, and that these experiences left them feeling that they were not normal girls who could have crushes and do "what girls do." During analysis, I coded for gender. It seemed to me that though the women interviewed had identified as girls/females at points prior to and (for some) following intense ridicule, that they identified as something distinctly not-female at the points of trauma. The proscriptions on their behavior led to ambiguity about whether they were female. Secondly - though my interests do not lie exclusively with heterosexual-identified women, they do make up the majority of my sample - T posit that heterosexuality is a specific construct, not simply defined as an attraction to the opposite sex. Instead, 1argue that it is about being white, thin, and middle/upper class. My interviewees weave a tale far different from that of thin heterosexual women. Th . narratives are far more in line with life on the periphery. I posit th pushing queer theory further in the discussion of fat studies can creat more opportunities for intersectional organizing. Spilling Over onto Paper: Organizing the First Fat, Queer Anthology. Jessica Lynne Giusti, University of Minnesota Queer Studies is renowned for asking theoretical questions of the body, but has often ignored materiality in its theorizations of the ways in which physical, fleshly bodies of varying weights and sizes can be determined worthy sites of knowledge production. While a fairly new and emerging field, Fat Studies seeks to center the corpulent form and examine how fat bodies are i.nferred with particular cultural value attributions, as well as the ways in which these positions might be reclaimed or rewritten. Considering the intersection of these two academic domains allows us to reflect upon how body size and queer sexuality and gender inform one another in various social and cultural manifestations, as well as in lived experience. Delivered by editor, Jessica Giusti, this paper will trace the development to date of the forthcoming collection of scholarship and personal narratives, Spilling Over: A Fat, Queer Anthology, focusing largely on the necessity for a compilation of this sort and of the contributions it is set to make within academic and activist circles alike. Moderator: Slreana Director, Bowling Green State University 127. From Deity to Sapphire: Contextualizing 'Big Mama & Queen Mother' Through Shifting Images of African Women 3:45 to 5:00 pm· Plaza Court 2 Sins of the Mothers: Anger and Ambivalence as Emotional Inheritance in Post Feminist Black Women's Writing. Cynthia Downing Bryant, Southern University-Baton Rouge In her memoir, Baby Love, Rebecca Walker, accuses her mother, Alice Walker, of neglect, narcissism, and misandry. The elder Walker, a 111 3:45 P.M. - 5:00 P.M. FRIDAY prominent leader of second wave feminism, has not responded. It is against this backdrop that I frame my discussion of the crisis that has occurred among and within the daughters of the feminist movement, the "new millennium" mothers. By employing the works of contemporary African American WOmen writers, I analyze the significance of emotional inheritance as a determining factor in how African American women are able (or not able) to negotiate their «liberated" contemporary existence. Sexual Myths and Black Women's Sexual Sense of Self: Importance of Big Mama. Martha Dickerson Dorsey, Kennesaw State The psychological review and discussion of the changing images and psychological implications of these images of African-American women will focus on, the influences of psychological literature that establishes ideas that an individual's sense of self may be influenced strongly by the way in which she is perceived by others (Brown and McNair, 1996). A discussion of the literature that pertains to sexual identities that have been ascribed to African-American women by others will be reviewed. ln this context the historical importance of 'Big Mama' is discussed to illustrate extended family as well as healthy pressure to reconstitute and celebrate Black family unity and community. Deity, Nurturer, Protector, Warrior: Indigenous African Conceptualizations of Womanhood. Ifetayo Iyajoke Ojelade, A Healing Paradigm Historically the image of African women has been conceptualized as a powerful deity giving birth to humanity. She functioned as a nurturer, protector, and warrior. The Yoruba deity Yemonja embodies such an image and is still honored today. Among other groups of African descended peoples, the concept of 'Queen Mother' holds similar meaning and is used to identify community leaders. This paper explores how these historical images have shaped the African concept of womanhood and can be used today to challenge one dimensional media portrayals of this group within the United States. Moderator: Kenja McCray, Atlanta Metropolitan College 128. Women, Political Engagement, and the Artistic Imagination (II) 3:4510 5:00 pnt • Plaza Conn ti 'Everyday Reality Is Not Enough for the Actor': SteUa Adler, Liberal Feminism, and the Politics of Aesthetic Self- Reliance. Christina Larocco, University of Maryland When the actress and teacher Stella Adler established her own studio in 1949, she gained a platform from which to share her theories, which bore an uncanny resemblance to the liberal feminism of her contemporary Betty Friedan. Through her emphasis on self-reliance and self-actualization, Adler engaged with and, I argue, ultimately sublimated into artistic expression the frustrations that led many women to embrace feminism in the 1960s. 1 will explore this ironic relationship between artistic expression and political engagement through an analysis of both Adler's own theories and the experiences of her students in the period between 1950 and 1980. Barbara Kingsolver's The Lacuna: Commitment and its Consequences. Priscilla Ledet; Texas State University, San Marcos In essays and interviews, the novelist Barbara Kingsolver has repeatedly identified herself as a political writer. Her literary activism has led some conservative pundits to label her an America-hating elitist; on 112 the other hand, academics who fault her political rhetoric complain that her works are too optimistic. The Lacuna, her first novel in nine years, retreats from the direct political engagement of her earlier works, a move that expresses both Kingsolver's disillusionment with the Bush years and her reaction to her critics. "Imagine Working This Way": Disrupting Normative Gay and Working Class Narratives and Politics in the Novels of Leslie Feinberg and Maureen Brady. Cynthia Lynn Konrad, Purdue University Despite a proliferation in intersectional analysis, political literature and movements have often prioritized a single identity. However, r argue that, by interweaving the coming out narrative with the strike novel and proletarian bildungsroman, Leslie Feinberg and Maureen Brady disrupt the conventions of these genres and question the boundaries of gay and working class spaces and the processes by which characters understand their sexuality and position in class struggles. Focusing on such intersections allows these writers to complicate class- and sexuality-based alliances, challenging normative forces that marginalize less powerful community members and contributing to a vision of political and literary possibility. Art, Sex, and Censorship on a Catholic Campus: Navigating the Politics of Sexual Representation through Public Pedagogy. Sheila Hassell Hughes, University of Dayton Women's Studies and women's centers at religiously-affiliated institutions face unique challenges for activism outside the "safety" of classroom pedagogy. Similarly, Our arts programs encounter limits on uses of "public" space. How can we employ more radical forms of feminist art to challenge the status quo? I explain how a women's studies program, women's center, and a fine arts student at a Catholic university engaged a strategy of "public pedagogy" to exhibit her anti- pornographic paintings of labia. Moderators: Kim Miller, Wheaton College Heather Hewett, State University of New York, New Paltz 129. The Visual and Performing Arts: Using Creativity to Disrupt Traditional Pedagogical Models 3:45105:00 pm » Plaza Court 7 The Goldsmith Press & Rare Type CoUection - Constructing the Autobiography of a Community. Cynthia Marsh, Austin Peay State University This panelist shows how the Goldsmith Press & Rare Type Collection-s-a collaborative resource within a liberal arts university- creates a community of creators and viewers. The panelist's pedagogical model builds upon feminist ideas introduced in the 1970s to fund and produce contemporary visual projects that bring private voices into public spaces. The politics of Sister Corita Kent, Lucy Lippard, and Sheila DeBretteville informed the creative production of the LA Woman's Building. The collective teachings of these pioneers serve as the foundation for the current teaching practices of the panelist using the Goldsmith Press & Rare Type Collection. Teaching Art Appreciation Using a Workbook Model. Carol A. Eckert, University a/Tennessee, Martin The panelist introduces her workbook-style introductory college textbook designed to facilitate seeing, understanding, making and discussing art-untraditional methods for a large art appreciation lecture-oriented classroom. The format positions students to develop NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCEIL _ ¢ CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS,-----------~---~---_.FRIDAY 3:45 P.M. - 5:00 P.M. their public voice in processing their relationship with art history. a development process articulated in Maher's and Tetreault's The Feminist Classroom (2001). The workbook's section on feminist art conversations among other art history topics engages students in a dialogue between the academic content and their interpretations. This model draws on feminist pedagogical theory that calls for empowering the student as an active agent in his or her learning. Musicas an Agent of Transformation and Cultural Change. Barbara Lee Gray. Austin Peay State University This panelist argues for recognizing the music of Billie Holiday as a source of political discourse in the classroom. Building on Toni Cade Bambara's articulation of the development of an "actional self;' the speaker explains how Holiday's performance of the song, "Strange Fruit," inspires emotional response to the trauma of lynching in the South in the 1930s. Holiday's performance generates a paradigm shift for the listener who shifts from processing lynching as an abstract thought to a lived experience that has affected people in his or her community-local, regional, or national. Embracing the Terror of Speaking the Unspeakable: Developing a Public Voice through Performing Eve Ensler's "TheVagina Monologues". Jill Elizabeth Eichhorn, Austin PeayState University Thispanelist draws on scholarship from theatre feminist pedagogies of changein Radical Acts (2007), demonstrating that students performing Ensler's monologues undergo a transformation of self as they read the script, audition, and then perform on stage. Speaking these stories in public space engages an emotional resonance between the speaker, the story and the audience. The panelist documents experiences of performerswith theatre experience, first-time performers and audience members, building on Basler's own beginning: "When I first read these monologues,my most pressing concern was being able to get the words out ofmy terrified mouth" (xi). Moderator:Dixie Webb, Austin Peay State University 130, Ageism in the Academy - Sponsored Session: Aging and AgeismCaucus 3:45 to 5:00 pm • Plaza Court 8 This panel explores the ways in which Women's Studies' continuing reluctance to acknowledge aging and ageism as important feminist issues affects non-traditional older women students in traditional degree-seeking programs in the academy. Although the connections between institutional social injustice and aging were clearly laid out by feminist scholars such as Barbara Macdonald, Cynthia Rich, and Betty Priedan nearly thirty years ago and continue to be addressed by feminist age critics such as Margaret Cruikshank and Margaret Gullette, this connection has yet to be made explicit in theory, text or in practical programs that challenge the implicit ageism of institutions. Through relating personal experience to hard data, the experiences of others, and various theoretical perspectives on aging as growth/decline, this panelwill make visible how academic institutions routinely devalue and 'ether" the older woman student. Presenters: CarolAnn Gosselink, Missouri State Carmen Samora, University of New Mexico Karen Higgins, University of New Mexico Moderator: Pamela Heath Gravagne, University or New Mexico NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE 131. Gender, Media, and Popular Culture 3:45 to 5:00 pm » Governor s Square 9 Black Female Fantasy Writers, New Media, and Finally Getting the Story Right. Tracy Curtis, University of Wisconsin, Madison This paper considers African American fanstasy writers N.K. (Nora) Jemison, Alaya Dawn Johnson, and K. Tempest Bradford have used both blogs and podcasts to create spaces and audiences for their work. Writing in areas considered neither typically black nor acceptably feminine, each has managed to find audience for topics sometimes taboo in their genres among fans whose response is somewhat conditioned by the media in which they receive the stories. Moral Panics in Media Interpretations of Reality Television. Crystal Leigh Baker, Georgia State University My main area of research looks at the creation of moral panics surrounding childhood sexual violence and the introduction and proliferation of "stranger danger:' or fear of crimes committed by strangers, in the media. (Briggs 14). It is dear that young women are treated as sexual objects in our society. However, the media propagation of such images is complicated by the ways that they are put to use to sell products and maintain certain forms of social control. This issue is integral to the development of young women, particularly in the family environment. Untypical Girls: Feminism and Punk Rock, 1975-1990. Kara Margaret Kvaran, Purdue University Within the Punk Rock subculture women have largely been marginalized. When oppositional subcultures adhere to traditional gender norms feminism becomes an outsider twice over. There are, however, bands that sought to change this by interjecting female and feminist messages into the cultures and communities of Punk Rock. Several of these bands flourished for a brief period in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This paper will examine why European female and feminist Punk Rock bands were more popular and successful than their American counterparts and how the PtU1k Rock communities dealt with feminist issues in the pre- Riot Grrri eras. When Predator Becomes Prey: Tracking the Evolution of Gendered Terminology in Popular Culture, Melissa Rachel Ames, Eastern Illinois University; Sarah Burcon, University of Toledo This paper is drawn from a study we recently completed on the etymology of the terms Puma, Cougar, and M.I.L.F, their use in popular culture (ranging from reality television shows utilizing them as their namesake or coming of age films utilizing them as their punch line), and their overall reception in mainstream culture. Discussion will focus primarily on the latter point, discussing the findings from field research on how different focus groups react to these terms and whether these terms might be instrumental in working against hegemonic narratives concerning female sexuality. Moderator: Heidi Renee Lewis, Purdue University 132. Poetry and Performance as Resistance 3:45 to 5:00 pm· Governor s Square 10 On Being a Woman in a Time of War: The Filipino Comfort Woman in Poetry. Katl1arina Mendoza, University of Iowa This paper is on three Filipino poets' explorations of what it means to have been a World War lJ Japanese military sex slave. Barrios, Mabanglo, and Realuyo use indigenous and religious signs, symbols, 113 • 3:45 P.M. - 5:00 P.M. FRIDAY and rituals to offer insight into the comfort women's experiences while demonstrating how the monsters and saints of Filipino patriarchal culture contribute to the damage done by wartime sexual violence. Unlike courtroom testimony, poetry captures the open-ended nature of the comfort woman's experience. The specificity of these poems' landscapes of myth, religion, and monsoon rains counters the homogenizing force of international, juridical comfort women discourse. On NOT Being a Tool: Audre Lorde's Poetic Challenge to Feminist Theory. Sharon L. Barnes, University of Toledo Much of Andre Lorde's poetry offers concrete, accessible elaboration of the concepts raised in her prose, particularly in Sister Outsider. This presentation highlights a sampling of Lorde's lesser-known poems and explores how they articulate some of her most powerful contributions to contemporary feminist dialogues, specifically on the politics of difference and intersectional identity and on the erotic. Her poems about language and speech, on the other hand, make an equaUy powerful case for poetry as a political weapon and for the use of poetry in women's studies classes. Sister Spit and the Spoken Word: Creating Community through Performance of Literary Texts. Erin Hurt, West Chester University My paper, entitled "Sister Spit and the Spoken Word: Creating Community through Performance" examines the performance of literature as it is located in the subcultural space of a queer traveling road show. The group of mostly queer feminist writers tours in a van, sleeps on floors, and hawks their literary wares to audiences in coffeehouses and bars across the cowHry. This paper explores the Dry strategies this group uses to represent a younger, queer, political feminism through their live performances of literary texts, and how they use this to sustain a seemingly inclusive counterpubljc. "To put your body where your poems are": Performing Black Feminist Engaged Pedagogy. Nicole April Carter. Eastern Michigan University Contemporary black feminists theorize on the poetic stage, during monologues, and on blog sites, affording new possibilities for reflection and resistance. The performance poetry of Jamaican-born poet, Staceyann Chill and Detroit-born poet, Jessica Care Moore inform the academic classroom and a larger feminist community. Chin and Moore contribute to the transformation of feminism as a whole, while adding to the lot of black feminist pedagogical practices. Their artistic contributions support a black feminist engaged pedagogical approach to learning, which fosters an interaction between students within and outside of the academy, while encouraging their conscious participation in the world around them. Moderator: Shawn M. Snidow, University of Oklahoma 133. Agency) Empowerment and Violence Prevention 3:45 to 5:00 pm· Governor j' Square II Aboriginal Women in Canada and Matrimonial Real Property: Searching for Reconciliation in a Broken System. Grant Thomas Buckles, Transylvania University Despite having one of the highest global rankings in gender development, Canadian Aboriginal women have continuaJly experienced systemic inequalities that far outpace other women in the country. Specifically. Aboriginal women face problems stemming from the unequal distribution of matrimonial real property (MRP) on reserves. where women are legally denied property rights after a 114 divorce. This paper explores the historical background of MRP. the current legal milieu surrounding this issue, and recent legislative attempts to resolve the problem. More importantly, it will show how Aboriginal women have organized and acted to combat the systemic failures of institutional attempts at reforming MRP. Domestic Violence in Native American Communities _ Suggestions for a Better Future. Wendelin Hume, University of North Dakota I will examine how serious engagement with indigenous feminisms may shift the questions asked and the methods used particularly when discussing how to treat or help the "victim" and punish the "offender" in domestic violence situations in reservation communities. 111particular I am interested in sharing information about restorative justice processes based on an intersectional analysis of the dominant justice system approaches. When shifting the questions asked about the methods used by officials to combat the problem it can lead to difficult dialogues between and among Indigenous and other Feminists. EKU SAFE: Deconstructing Stereotypes and Designing Peer-led Models of Resistance and Accountability. Marta Miranda, Eastern Kentucky University; Courtney Brooks, Eastern Kentucky University This paper presentation outlines the development, design and evaluation of a comprehensive, culturally competent bystander violence prevention model at a rural comprehensive university. The presenters will address the inherent stereotypes of Appalachia and the place of women/men and citizenship to their immediate and national space. The methods of coalition building, street theater, and story telling are applied as methods of engagement. The programs overarching goal is to create a campus climate and culture that applies critical and creative thought to reconstruct traditional gender roles, challenge personal and societal myths and actively engages students in the eradication of intimate partner violence. Moderator: Tahereh Aghdasifar. Georgia State University 134. Girls&Education2: (Re)learning Through Virtual spaces, Non-profit Organizations and Campus/Community Partnersh ips 3:4510 5:00 pm » Govemors Square 12 Transforming Girls Lives Through Writing) Performance, and Speech: An Ethnographic Study of GirlSpeak. Jamie Lee Huber, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale Several girl-focused creative writing programs are attempting to afford young girls more opportunities to creatively express themselves through the power of words, and empower themselves in turn. This essay examines one such girl-focused writing program, GirlSpeak, from an ethnographic standpoint. The nuances through which the program works to empower girls, as well as how mentors create a safe artistic space that is respectful and diverse, how they encourage seIf- awareness, responsibility. and accountability among the girls. and how they specifically inspire girls to "change the world" is examined. Girls Empowering Together (GET): Fostering Empowerment Through an After-School Leadership Program for High School Girls from Underserved Urban Neighborhoods. Susan Margaret Haworth-Hoeppner, Aquinas College Nationwide research indicates that adolescent girls, particularly those who face economic and social barriers, tend to experience declining levels of academic success, linked to lower levels of self-confidence NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE $ CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS I------------------------'FRIDAY 3:45 P.M. - 5:00 P.M. (Robins et at 2002). 'This contributes to a lack of certainty about performance and reservations about educational and career choices (Se1ingo1998). In a visual documentation of an after-school leadership programthat is designed to address the barriers, this presentation will address the successes and failures of a program that is designed to helpteenage girls from underserved educational areas feel empowered to "keep on track in school," matriculate, and move forward toward successfuUy achieving their future career aspirations. Building Smart-Girls: Creating Opportunities for College Womento Make a Difference in theLives of Adolescent Girls in their Community. Abby 1. Ferber, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs I willdiscuss the Smart-Girl Program, a replicable program for middle school girls, that provides a model for involving college students in community service work. Iwill reflect upon the research foundation that informs the program, and share the results of the program in our community. I will specifically examine the impact on our women's and ethnic studies students who serve as peer mentors with the program. I will provide details regarding how other campuses can use the Smart- Girlmodel to create a program, discuss the impact on college women serving as near-peer mentors, and the program as a model of campus/ community partnership. Gendered Artifacts on 'Webkinz'. Shannon Roper, Marist College A morecontemporary online game by Ganz that appeals to both young boysand girls alike is "Webkinz"- in which a person is only granted entry when s/he physically purchases a plush animal offline. Is the appealof the plush «stuffed animal" enough enticement to bring girls into this online gaming world? Or are other methods of feminization enacted? Using an ethnographic approach, this paper examines some of the gendered artifacts of "Webkinz" in an attempt to see how this particular online system uses its environment to attract and maintain itsyoungfemale base-girls between the ages of 5-12. Moderator:Alice Ginsberg, Educational Consultant/Writer 135. Inside/Outside: What Counts as Women's Studies Work? 3:45 to 5:00 pm • Governor s Square /4 This round table discussion will focus on "outside/inside" tensions in \VS. The presenters will address: the self-identifications of scholars' identities in relation to their WS research, the claims made about intellectualwork in and under the name WS, including the relation ofWS 10 other "disciplinary" languages and sites; institutional and pedagogical decisionsabout what is to be included - or not - in a WS course, from the introductory to the senior levels; and the often unquestioned assumption thatWS is - and is equal to - "feminism." Presenters: Ann Braithwaite, University of Prince Edward Island Annalee Lepp, University of Victoria CatherineM. Orr, Beloit College Moderator:Astrid Henry. Grinnell College 136. Autobiographical/Memoir Practice as a Site for Difficult Dialogues J:4j to 5:00 pm » Governor s Square J5 What does Native Feminism Look Like? [acki Rand, University of Iowa My memoir is one Choctaw woman's experience with race, historical grief,and transformation in the United States. Memoir allows me to NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE examine personal transformative status and power in the context of my community and of the majority world Simultaneously. My story is historically situated in Indian Country and in the spreading use of the "enemy language" as coined by Joy Harjo to reclaim Native women's place in history, in public spaces, in arts production, and in the national consciousness. Methods of Becoming and/or CliffNotes to Perception in the Mode of the Differential. Dawn Rae Davis, Minnesota State University, Mankato The professor suggested we write autobiographically about our relationships with whiteness. That night I posed a simple question: how did I first learn T was white? Seventy pages later, a monograph, Learning Whiteness, had emerged. In those compelling hours of initial writing, I encountered the unavoidability of a trans racial critical framework and my scholarship was deeply altered. This paper explores questions of disciplinary method related to autobiographical feminist criticism in connection with the (re)memory work Iacqui Alexander discusses with respect to learning one another's histories (2005) and the homework-fieldwork-bridgework nexus Aimee Carrillo Rowe analyzes with respect to "differential belonging" (2008). The Feminist Dis-Ease of Pregnancy Loss. Elizabeth Heineman, University of Iowa In Motherhood Lost, anthropologist Linda Layne explores feminists' discomfort with pregnancy loss. That discomfort contributed to the pain and isolation [felt after my full-term stillbirth in an out-of-hospit setting - pain which prohibited me from examining my experience in a scholarly manner. By turning to the genre of memoir. Iwas able to explore my "exile" both from the mainstream medical community for having chosen homebirth and from the feminist homebirthing community because my story is a dangerous one in light of midwifery's precarious position. Moderator: Elizabeth Heineman, University of Iowa 137. The National/Racial/Sexual/Gender Biopolitics of Glohal Restructuring 3:45 to 5:00 pm » Governor's Square 16 This roundtable, consisting of contributors to a new volume on gender and globalization, examines how nation, race, sexuality, and gender are being restructured biopolitically under neoliberal empire; explores the politics offirst, black, and queer nations in resistance to neoliberal empire and its intimate instruments; and ruminates on the current relationships between financial crisis and the crisis of social reproduction in the context of ongoing securitizing violence still associated with the "war on terror" Presenters: Laura]. Parisi, University of Victoria Amy Lind, University of Cincinnati Suzanne Bergeron, University of Michigan, Dearborn Michelle V.Rowley, University of Maryland Moderator: Anne Sissml Runyan, University of Cincinnati 138. The Improper Objects of Latina Feminisms 3:45 to 5:00 pm » Governors Square 17 Problematizing Latina Feminisms as Transnational Feminisrns, Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernandez, The University of Arizona The 200 1publication of _Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios , marks and important moment in the politics of collective theoretical projects amongst Latina scholars in the U.S. As the authors negotiate the 115 _________ ~~ C_H_RO_N_O_L_O_G_IC....AL PROGRAM DESCRIPTlONSj 3:45 P.M. - 5:00 P.M. FRIDAY complexity of Latina lives by talking across latinidades and addressing the ways in which mainstream feminist movements often ignore the tremendous differences among Latinas throught their text, they created the basis for what has now become the field of Latina Feminist Studies. Based on the ground breaking collective work in Telling to Live and the recent publication of numerous books claiming a Latina Feminist practice, this paper explores how the term Latina often takes the place of Chicana in scholarship ill the last 3 years, often to only signal a transnational desire for Chicana feminism but claiming the politics of solidarity through the deployment of the term Latina.The paper will further comment on the absenting of Latina feminisms from both a discussion of field formation in Latina/o Studies and Gender and Women's Studies. The Wages of Happiness: Sex and Commerce in Vers Ie Sud, Sanky Panky and How Stella Got Her Groove Back. Carlos Decena, Rutgers University This paper will explore the politics of leisure and consumption in relation to three cinematic texts about women as romance/sex tourists: Vers Ie Sud (Heading South) by Laurent Cantet (France, 2005), Sanky Panky by Jose Pintor (Dominican Republic, 2007), and How Stella Got Her Groove Back by Kevin Rodney Sullivan (USA, 1998). I will be concerned with the narrative construction of white and black women as sex/romance tourists in the Caribbean. But more importantly, the paper will focus on the degree to which these films invite the identification and complicity of the viewing public with the traveling women characters. What are the operations through which these films critique and/or reproduce a geopolitics of pleasure where North American women are as likely as men to "head south" in the pursuit of sexual adventures and pleasures as escape from the drudgery of their working lives? To what degree might centering women as sex tourists challenge feminist critiques of this industry? Although these films center the experiences of female travelers, I will suggest that their treatment of female consumption or services in "pleasure industries" follows cliched perceptions of traveling women as "romance" seeking tourists. While positioning black male bodies as objects of desire for viewing audiences, these fiLmsfigure female longing for happiness and companionship as the central affect women pursue but never satisfy through travel. In doing so, they disavow the role sexual relations of exchange play in binding mobile women travelers to immobile male workers. Writing about Men: A Latina Feminist Approach. Susana Pena, Bowling Green State University As a Latina scholar whose primary research has focused on Latino gay male cultures, I have often been asked, "Why don't you research Latina lesbians?" While this line of questioning might be motivated by a feminist concern for the lack of research on lesbians of color (a concern I share), I suspect it is more often motivated by what I consider a rather unfeminist assumption: that the "proper object" of study for a Latina feminist should always be Latinas. In this presentation, I argue that Latina feminism should not be defined exclusively by the object of study or automatically by the social location of the researcher. Rather, I argue Latina feminism is a critical perspective that can be productively applied to a range of sociological questions regarding gender, sexuality, and race. My brand of Latina feminism weaves women of color feminism, anti-racist scholarship, and queer of color critiques to ask questions abo lit the interrelationship between state practices, political economy, representations, and identities in relation to gender, sexuality, and race. Using myown work on Cuban American gay male cultures, I demonstrate how a Latina feminist perspective can be productively applied to "improper objects" of study. In addition, r 116 discuss my position as a Latina researcher working with communities that were not always gender inclusive. I discuss the ways in whichmv sexuality and ethnicity were interpreted in a range of ways, sometim~ differently from how r self-identified, and how my gender impactedbr access to range of information about gay male communities. Moderator: Bit/me Luibheid, University of Arizona 139. Difficult Dialogues: Developiug a reader in the Intersection of Indigenous Feminism, Engineering and Feminist STS 3:4510 5:00 pm » Plaza Court 3 Inspired by the call for new perspectives on Indigenous Feminism, this roundtable will use an unconference format to initiate the work on a new edited book on the intersection between Indigenous Feminism, Indigenous Engineering and Feminist Science and Technology Studies (STS), as well as the prospects for Indigenous Feminist Engineering practices. Proposed themes are amongst others: definitions of indigenous knowledge and its relation to engineering practices; importance of the presence of indigenous persons with in the field of feminist studies for the development of theory. The outcome of this session will be the pieces needed for a book prospectus. Presenters: Jane L. Lehr, California Polytechnic State University Johannes Strobel, Purdue University, West Lafayette Moderator: May-Britt Ohmml, Uppsala University - Sweden 140. Effective Responses to Difficult Dialogues: Transforming Conversations from Debate to Dialogue 3:45 to 5:00 pm » Plaza Court 4 Research has shown that women and other margi.nalized populations often do not directly confront incidents of discrimination and delegitimization in higher education settings. However, campus· based Women's Centers frequently challenge and transform critical conversations around socially sensitive and politically charged issues into meaningful learning opportunities. Using tangible, real-life examples, the professional staff of a Women's Center will draw from 3 number of theory-to-praxis models of conversation to offer practical strategies and facilitate discussion on how to actively transform difficult dialogues on campus, in order to convert conflict into understanding, and move from contentious debate to productive dialogue. Presenters: Lysa C. Salsbury, University of Idaho Heather Shea Gasser, University of Idaho 141, Collaborative Feminist Education: Exploring Community and University within Transnational Change 3:45105:00 pill • Plaza Court B And I Thought That I Had It All Worked Out! Reinventing Diversity Work in S.E. Michigan. Rainelle Burton, Independent Scholar As a result of teaching at a charter school and volunteering for a college diversity committee, this feminist presenter learned that real, sustained change can only begin when all members of a community participate in defining and carrying out a social change process. This took her to feminist community-based education and to collaborative projects thai cross community and university lines. Multicultural, community-based education provides a way to revolutionize education in pre-K-12 public and private schools and at the university. This can help create work opportunities that involve students and workers in making decision- and shaping the structures and meanings of work. NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE FRIDAY 3:45 P.M. - 5:00 P.M. "Why Don't More Global Northerners Support Sustainable Fair Trade? Learning for Global Change." Torry Dickinson, Kansas State University Tomove change forward, it is critical to confront the reality that, like most mid-19th century U.S. consumers who continued to buy sugar and cotton made by enslaved workers. most privileged U.S. consumers do not exhibit fair trade buying practices. Cooperative-based fair trade in the global South and North actually grew out of feminist learner- centered collaborative change that addressed transnational relations. Feminist community-based education that is related to the global redistribution of income, wealth, and resources could enable more small producers to own and make decisions about their cooperative businesses and shared civil commons. Simultaneously, more power could be shifted back to Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Prairie and Other Rural Women Aren't So Conservative! Creative Action-Based Education in the U.S, Liberia, and Peru. Charlotte Shoup Olsen, Kansas State University Thispresenter will explore the creative process ofengaging in community- basededucation for social change on the U.S.Great Plains, and in Liberia and Peru. The collective process of unraveling intersecting hierarchies of gender/sexuality, age, race/ethniclry/religion, class, and global location isan integral part of feminist community-based education. Participants developa great deal of creativity and cooperation in the process, as they learnboth how to value resources and practices that have been devalued by the dominant culture and how to deploy these self-named strengths asforces for change. This is part of feminist envisioning in the process of makinglocal-to-transnational change. Moderator: Torry Dickinson, Kansas State University is 1., IS 142. Graduate Student Caucus Business Meeting 3:45 to 5:00 pm • Plaza Ballroom 0 143.Transcending the Borders of Theory and Creativity: The Creative as Everyday Feminist Praxis 3:45 to 5:00 pm • Plaza Ballroom E Queer Media Justice: Approaches to Health and Well-Being in Communities of Color. Andreana Clay, San Francisco State University Thisproject is based on a case of a non-profit organization in the San FranciscoBay Area, run by queer and trans people of color, and focused on using media as a social justice tool. In this historical moment, it is imperative to understand the alternative social justice strategies that are rooted in disenfranchised communities, especially as they relate to structural inequality, health, and well-being. Media representation and access has become essential in the development of both grassroots organizing and public policy initiatives. My goal is to produce and engage in collaborative research that illuminates the relationship among media, public health, public policy, and communities of color. At the same time, r aim to understand a queer of color framework/ approach to social justice activism among disenfranchised groups. Politics of Intersectionality: Applying Anzalduan Theoretical Approaches to Women's Hip-Hop Activism. Mako Fitts, Seattle University Engaging Gloria Anzaldua's theory of 'nepantla; the author seeks to articulate a new form of feminist theorizing across boundaries of identity for women's community organizing, as witnessed in the work ofWOmenin Seattle's underground hip-hop community. The author will describe the case of the monthly Ladies First ("LF") hip-hop showcase NWSA2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE b in Seattle, where women, LGBT and gender queer artists are centerec exposing alternatives to hegemonic cultural narratives of hip-hop ths are reminiscent of early rap music's counter-cultural lyrics and aesthetic This case study is based on participant observation along with in-dept interviews with program organizers, performers and spectators. Upstaging SOciology: Using Critical Dramaturgy to Center the Black, Queer, Female Voice in the Sociological Canon. Gary Kinte Perry, Seattle University This project outlines how the author developed and facilitated dramaturgical pedagogy for aiding undergraduates in challengin: the canon of sociological theorizing. As a queer, profeminist Blacl sociologist, the author will discuss how he uses the art of stree theatre to create a transgressive learning experience that demands hi predominantly white students to embody and employ theories of Black feminist, and queer scholars in an undergraduate theory course il SOCiology.This project will illustrate the potential that a dramaturgica pedagogy has for disrupting power and deconstructing hegemon» knowledge claims in the academy. Moderator: Sera Day, Communities Against Rape & Abuse (CARA) 144. Sex, Anorexia, and Language: Subverting/Converting the Feminist Within Embodied Rhetorics 3:45105:00 pm » Plaza Ballroom F Street Sex Work: Centering a Marginalized Popnlation. Ji McCracken, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg Sex workers have had a controversial and marginalized existence wit} feminism (Overall, 1992; Nagle, 1997; Delacoste & Alexander, 1991) Sex workers have traditionally fallen outside offeminist politics, and yet still participate in feminist practices. I place street sex workers' voices at the center of this conversation, drawing on twenty interviews where street sex workers talk about their lives, relationships, and perspectives on sex work. I offer a perspective of street sex work that can inform and strengthen feminist studies and the ways of connecting with and learning from those who have traditionally inhabited outsider status. Preferring Not To: Choosing Identities and Body Boundaries. Morgan Gresham, University of South Florida St. Petersburg Popular understandings of anorexia often focus on power and control- -that is, anorexia is seen as a disease of young women who don't want to grow up and thereby attempt to wrest control of the chaos of maturity by starving. At its most basic interpretation, anorexia is a separation of mind and meat. I examine these constructs in light of issues of choice, subversion, and resistance. Positing that anorexia is a construct, created in language, we can deconstruct the popular notions of anorexia- -including many feminist responses--by focusing on the language anoretics use to describe themselves on pro-anorexia websites. Moderator: Michelle Jarman, University of Wyoming 145. Fostering Difficult Dialogues by Exploring and Using a Range of Creative Media in the Feminist Classroom 3:4510 5:00 pm· Directors Row F Facilitating Difficult Dialogues in the Women's Studies Classroom: Using Intersectional Autoethnography and Creative Multimodal Projects to Engage Students. Liz R. Canfield. Virginia Commonwealth University At NWSA last year, Maria Lugones posed a resonant concept during her panel. She said, "If you ask a colonial question, you will get a colonial answer." Many of our conversations last year in Atlanta, during sessions, 117 CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS 3:45 P.M. - 5:00 P.M. FRIDAY focused on intersectionality when it comes to identity. and a decolonial praxis when it comes to a theoretical/activist framework. I have been experimenting with such models in the classroom, in order to practice intersectionality and to call to mind how colonial models of research and "knowing" might actually inhibit or dose off dialogue, rather than open it up. My presentation will focus on how engaging students in the practice of working on intersectional autoethnographic projects and incorporating multimedia creative work into their practice during the course attends to such concerns. My presentation also will call into question the dominant forms of "legitimate" research and knowing and will show how Women's Studies can be on the forefront of challenging institutional norms that enforce particuJar forms of research/knowing while marginalizing others. Locating Difficult Dialogues in Feminist Research Methods. Janet Hutchinson, Virginia Commonwealth University I claim that difficult dialogues are at the locus of feminist research methods. Donna Haraway (in Iaggar, 2008, p. 346) writes of the apparatus of bodily production where the "... object of knowledge is pictured as an actor and agent, not as a screen or a ground or a resource, [and] never as a slave to the master that closes off the dialectic in his unique agency and his authorship of 'objective' knowledge" Research is a continual, powerful process of discovery with opportunities to use media as an adjunct to ethnographic approaches. These approaches commonly use oral histories and narratives issuing from deep interviews and participant observation in case studies, participatory studies and action research designs. My project also addresses issues of intersubjectivity, and knowledge production in the research context. Exploring the Nexus of Objectivity and Subjectivity in Documentary Work. Laura Chessin, Virginia Commonwealth University Doing documentary work is to explore the boundaries between objectivity and subjectivity, to engage in dialogue, and to question and challenge our own and each other's assumptions. This paper will present the methodology of an interdisciplinary studio in documentary studies focused on issues of gender and identity. Framing personal experience as political concern is central to the social documentary tradition as well as a feminist viewpoint. The primary focus of this paper is to address the relevance in women's studies of a course which establishes creative activity as a move from personal observation and reflection to a process of intersubjective meaning-making. This unfolding of a co-constructed story is the stuff of the documentary process: a creative process where meaning-building evolves from a classroom where no one view holds the authority, but where all views together build an authority. Through the completion of a personal documentary project. each student explores the creative process as a continual integration of personal experiences within a historical and theoretical framework. Moderator: R. Dianne Bartlow. California State University, Northridge 146. Women's Studies Legacies and Futures: A Tribute to the Work of Elizabeth Kennedy 3:45 10 5:00 pm • Director s Row H Women's Studies in the Thicket of Academe in the 1970s: Liz Kennedy in Buffalo. Ellen DuBois, University of California, Los Angeles This paper will present the origins of Women's Studies through the career of one of its earliest and most influential proponents: Elizabeth Kennedy. As the visionary for Women's Studies College at SUNY! Buffalo, Kennedy provided leadership through some of the formative issues of Women's Studies, including: how and whether to integrate men into the classroom, how to accommodate women's diversity within 118 ) and across cultures versus claims related to the generalizability of the female experience, what constitutes a workable democratic pedagogy. and how should Women's Studies make a place for itself within a set of initially uncomprehending university practices and curricula. Liz Kennedy: Lesbian/Queer Oral History Pioneer. Nan Alamilla Boyd, Sari Francisco State University This paper traces the history of oral history as a methodology specific to queer (feminist) studies by discussing the impact of Liz Kennedy and Madeline Davis' work. Oral history has been a vital method for scholars studying the history of queer lives in the u.s. context. This paper explores the methodology that Kennedy and Davis charted in Boots of Leather for developing a cohort approach to oral history that enables researchers to trust oral history testimony (which is often the case in lesbian and queer historical research) a methodology on which many subsequent scholars have come to depend. Feminist Pedagogy: Learning from Kennedy's Intersectional Approaches. Jessica Nathanson, Augsburg College This presentation will explore Elizabeth Kennedy's work at the State University of New York Buffalo. Beginning with the origins of the Women's Studies introductory course and moving through Kennedy's Feminist Pedagogy course, this paper will explore the contributions she has made in the classroom. More generally, this tribute will focus on the intersectional approach that Elizabeth Kennedy and the Buffalo's Women's Studies Program employed before many others in the country were doing this work Reflections on the History of the Collective Teaching Model: Lessons from SUNY- Buffalo. Trisha Franzen, Albian College This paper explores Liz Kennedy's foundational visions of Women's Studies and the struggle to actualize it at the Women's Studies College (WSC) at State University of New York at Buffalo SUNY at Buffalo in the 1970's. Based on a commitment to non-hierarchical, student-centered education, the WSC's structure included an elected non-faculty staff collective and a democratic governance to which all Women's Studies classes were to send a representative. Its extensive curriculum offered students numerous co- facilitated sections ofWSC 213, a women-only automotive repair class and a women in prison class along with various other offerings. Learning How to Make (tbe most of) It: Liz Kennedy- Feminist Mentor. Ayisha Ashley Al-Sayyad, Emory University Liz Kennedy became my teacher, mentor and advisor at the University of Arizona from the first week 1 was in the department of Women's Studies, and from this point forward she continued to guide my work and my activism. From her seat on the Anti-racism Task Force to her role as my thesis committee chair. Kenney impacted many aspects of my Master's work in positive and important ways. TIlls tribute wi..ll reflect on the ways Kennedy's guidance influenced my own view of Women's Studies as a field and encouraged me to think about how feminism happens in and out of the classroom. Moderator: early Alln TJJOl1Iseu,University of California, Santa Barbara 147. Women of Color Caucus Business Meeting 3:45 to 5:00 pm • Director s Row J 148. Feminist Formations Reception and Speaker 4:30 to 6:30 pm· Director s Row I Feminist Formations, formally the NWSA Iournat, Reception to celebrate the inaugural year. Speaker: Fatima Sbaity Kassem. NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE WOMEN OF COLOR CAUCUS SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS WITH NETWORKING ZONE AND RECEPTION FRIDAY NOVEMBER 12, • 5:30 PM TO 7:00PM. PLAZA BALLROOM 0 Join the celebration at the Women of Color Caucus presentation of three graduate student scholarship awards for 2010. Network with your peers and colleagues at the reception that follows. Everyone Welcome! NWSA GRADUATE STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP AWARD· $1,000 NWSAwill award $1,000 to a student who, in the fall of the year of the award, will be engaged in the research or writing stages of a Master's Thesis or Ph.D. Dissertation in the interdisciplinary field of women's studies. The research project must be on women and must enhance the NWSA mission. NWSA WOMEN OF COLOR CAUCUS AWARDS FOURAWARDS OF$500.00 EACH Four Awards are available in the following categories: • Graduate Students of African descent • Graduate Students of Latina descent • Graduate Students of Asian/Asian-American /Pacific-Islander/ Arab/Middle East Asian descentLESBIAN CAUCUS SCHOLARSHIP· $500.00 The purpose of the annual NWSA Lesbian Caucus Award is to provide a $500 research award in recognition of a Master's Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation research project that resonates with the mission of NWSA and the goals of the Lesbian Caucus. • Graduate Students of African Native American/ American Indian/Alaskan Native descent All scholarship applicants are encouraged to apply for NWSA Conference Scholarship Awards if assistance is needed for NWSA conference participation. The deadline for submissions for all awards is May 1, Each Calendar Year. Applicants must be members of NWSA at the time of application. www.nwsa.org/students/scholarships 149. Queer Patriarchy: Ethics and Politics 5: 1010 6:25 pm • Plaza Court I A Queer Ethics of Care: Redefining Politics and Responsibility in Adoption. Jessica Marie Petocz, University of Minnesota This paper develops a novel conception of queer care ethics as a necessary and appropriate response to the Igbt embrace of transracial/transnational adoption. Because dominant adoption practices neoliberalize affective ties and exacerbate racism, poverty. sexism, and (neojcoloniallsm, I look to queer practices of care to provide new ethical perspectives for the ways in which we are involved as individual, families, and/or communities in adoption. Drawing on the work of care theory, queer theory, and critical adoption studies, I argue for queer approaches that emphasize the multiplicity of relationships of care, caring for and across difference, and non-therapeutic responses to trauma. Child's Play: The Gendered Politics of Queer Childhood. Bradley Houston Lane, Seattle Community College This project explores queer theory's interest in the child by offering feminist readings of two representative queer theorists' work on childhood-- Kathryn Bond Stockton and Judith Halberstam. As a result of the move of queer theoretical attention away from the material lives of queer children and adolescents, I argue that the ability of such scholarship to analyze the dynamics of gender and power is greatly sacrificed and instead call on us to imagine the possibility of a queer theory that better allies itself to feminist analyses of gender. Intersections of Invisibility: African American Lesbians and Intimate Partner Violence. Barbara Suzanne Fisher, Old Dominion University This paper explores experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV) among African American lesbians, and the barriers they face related to help-seeking. The issue of IPV among lesbians presents a paucity of research. The limited studies highlight institutional and personal barriers to help-seeking. Yet, to date, the monolithic construction of lesbian IPV (based largely on samples of white participants) has failed to consider the critical intersection of race on the experience oflesbian IPV and help-seeking. This presentation complicates the discourse on lesbians and IPV, focusing upon the distinct experience of African American women, largely underrepresented in the literature. Is There a Second Shift for All Couples? A Critical Analysis of Gender Roles in Same-Sex Relationships. Maureen Elizabeth Todd, University ofNebraska-Lincolri There is substantial research that indicates gendered roles in relationships can be bad for satisfaction and stability and that an equal sharing of power is linked with relationship success (Johnson, 2003; Gottman & Silver, 1999). This literature, however, is often based on heterosexual couples. This critical analysis addresses gender roles in same-sex relationships to fill this gap. How the issue of division of labor and power play out in GLBT relationships are not only important because the GLBT families are an understudied, marginalized population, but also helps us to better understand the issues of gender dynamics in heterosexual relationships. Moderator: Kryn Freehling-Burton, Oregon State University 150. Views From "Outside": Resisting Universal Womanhood with Global and Local Feminisms of Lived Experience 5: / 0 to 6:25 pm • Plaza Court 2 The Global Fight to Eud Violence Against Women: The Universalizing Effects ofVioleuce and Victimhood. Sara Matthiesen, Brown University In an effort to extend the concerns of feminist activism, NGOs advocating women's rights have adopted the mission of "ending violence against women globally." As a result, there are numerous campaigns, CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS global in their reach and scope. which address various violences against women. Focusing on sex trafficking, this paper will argue that what appears to be global feminist activism acknowledging the difference and specificities of women's lived experiences actually results in a singular Woman. Specifically, campaigns against sex trafficking highlight the threat to (Western) female sexuality, universalizing women's harm and identity as dishonor and victim, respectively. Feminism de la Frontera: Inside Lourdes Portillo's "Outsider» Film. Patricia Perea, University afNew Mexico In her documentary films, Chicana filmmaker Lourdes Portillo offers an "outsider" perspective to the discourse of Euro-American feminism in the United States. This presentation performs a close analysis of Portillo's film Senorita Extraviada (2000) and situates her work in the gaps of U.S. American feminism. This film investigates the murders of several hundred mexicanas in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua. Portillo critiques both the free trade agreements that allow u.Sc-cwned corporations to cross into Mexico and the failure of U.S. feminism to address the situation of women on the U.S.-Mexico border. I argue Portillo's position as both a Chicana and a Mexican immigrant situates her work on the border of an "insider/outsider" U.S. feminist perspective. "Brokers" of Culture: Hearing Children of Deaf Hispanics at the Intersection of Ethnic Identity. Charlene johnson, University of New Mexico I am a "Broker", a non-deaf daughter of Deaf parents. My siblings and 1 were immersed in Deaf Culture, as well as New Mexican Hispanc culture and, American hearing culture. It is standard to hear Spanish and English, and have ASL signed in our home simultaneously. W( act as "Brokers" on behalf of our communities, transmitting at the intersection of very different worlds. The bulk of my research is drawn from interviews with both Deaf and Broker women, uncovering their ethnic and gender identity development, asking if the said grouP! function more flexibly in multiple contexts because of their experiences Moderator: Annette Marie Rodriguez, Brown University 151. 'Special Ladies' and Mad Men: Feminism, Whiteness and Sexual Identity in Popular Culture 5:/010 6:25pm· Plaza Court 6 More Than Just a 'Marilyn': Si.ngle Women and Sexual Politics on AMC's Mad Men. Katherine Lehman, Albright College In the hit television series Mad Men, ad executives navigate thl complicated sexual politics of early 1960s America. Authored by • largely female writing team, the series offers two striking single femah characters: Peggy, a plain copywriter whose talent defies expectations and Joan, a flirtatious yet shrewd secretary. My paper explores how these women navigate everyday sexism, interpret conflicting messages abou sexual morality, and pursue career trajectories typical of 1960swomen I argue that these characters accurately portray single working women; lives prior to second-wave feminism, and pose provocative questions fOJ contemporary viewers about workplace equality and sexual expression. Neoliberal Selfbood and Self-Realization in Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat) Pray) Love. Carolyn McSherr)~ University ofNe'r\ Mexico Elizabeth Gilbert's bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love explores iSSUe:! of female identity and selfhood. Gilbert's writing details her escapt' from a tedious marriage and her desire to "find herself" by traveling tc Italy, India, and Indonesia. In this paper, 1examine how Eat, Pray,Lon describes and questions the process of finding a "self" free from the confines of bourgeois marriage in America and against the backdrop or third world wisdom (i.e. learning how to pray in India). NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS OneVery Special White Lady: Intersections of Feminism andRacism on NBC's "30 Rock". Melanie Cattrell, University a/NewMexico Manywhite feminists express anxiety over their whiteness, sharing thesame fear expressed by Marilyn Frye: "Does being white make it impossiblefor me to be a good person?" This struggle between white guiltand feminist identity is clearly represented within Liz Lemon, thefeminist lead character of NBC's "30 Rock:' By examining several episodeswhich address Liz's reaction to the racialized Other, I argue that "30 Rock" offers both a commentary on the unproductiveness ofwhite guilt/colorblindness and a statement about the hypocrisy of liberalfeminism's attitude toward race. Moderator:Pamela Heath Gravagne, University of New Mexico 152.Rethinking Documentary and Experiment in Feminist Art from the 1970s 5:10to 6:25 pm » Plaza Court 7 TheDocumentary Unconscious in Mary Kelly's Post-Partum Document (1973-79). Kimberly K. Lamm, Pratt Institute MaryKelly's Post-Partum Document (1973-79) is known as a key pieceof feminist experimental art of the 1970s, but is not considered as emerging from the context of the documentary practices that precededit: namely, the exhibition Women and Work, in which Kelly, MargaretHarrison, and Kay Hunt documented how women narrated andperceived their lives as workers and mothers. Rather than reading Women and Work and Post-Partum Document as distinct pieces, myessay will analyze how Post-Partum Document moves between documentary and experimental practices in order to bring the subjectivedimension of women's oppression into visibility, Motherhood, Feminist Subjectivity, and Aesthetic Practice inRiddles of the Sphinx. Shilyh Warren, Duke University ThoughRiddles of the Sphinx (1976) is a fictional, experimental film fromthe U.K. and Joyce at 34 (1972) is a realist documentary from the U.S.,both films share a feminist political commitment to rethinking thepractice, experience, and institution of motherhood for women in theearly to mid-seventies. By reading the films against the grain and forcommonality rather than difference, this paper extracts particular andcomplementary notions of feminist maternal political subjectivity. HerSafety as "Object'T. Discourses of (Non)Personhood in Marina AbramoviC's Rhythm 0 (1974). Kristen Lucia Renzi, Indiana University Abramovic's experiments with artistic consciousness in her Rhythm Seriescame to a notorious conclusion with Rhythm 0; here, Abramovic's explicitstaging of her body as "object" turned mortally hazardous when a loaded gun was held to her head. Critical narratives often interpret this aborted performance in opposition Abraruovic's stated aims- as a humanistic assertion of concern for the "real" person despite her artistic experiment. My paper explores what reading Rhythm 0 as its experiment intended-as the public decision to save a female "object"-says about both the possibilities of performative experiment andthe grim the reality of female "subjects" Tactile/Textile: Extravisual Broadcast, 1974. Amalle Dublon, Duke University Feminist critiques of aesthetics have for the most part concentrated On visual economies; my paper attends to the extravisual in order to reframe questions of realism and experimentation in the feminist 1970s. I consider two videos made for public television in 1974: HermineFreed's Art Herstor y didactically indicts sexism in the history of painting, but its experiments with texture and touch require and NWSA2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE h produce new modes of attention. Stephen Beck's Video Weavings, conversely, attempted to televise pure abstraction - yet, I argue, his work may be better approached through a feminist politics of tactility in art. Moderator: Michael Eng, John Carroll University 153. Embodiment of Resistance: (Re)Constructing Notions of Nation and Identity Through Body Politics and Practices 5:10 to 6:25 pm • Plaza Court 8 Queering the Queer: Gender Nonconformity in Queer Women of Color. Mallory Kiersten Vieira, San Jose State University This paper explores the mechanisms through which one learns gender and how is gender expressed in self-identified gender nonconforming queer female-bodied people of color. Using data collected for my senior research project, 1 examine perceptions of what constitutes a true member of a particular gender category and what mechanisms are seen instrumental in identity development for gender nonconforming queer female bodied people of color. Embodiment of Resistance: Iranian Girls as Fashion Guerrilla. Shahin Gerami, San Jose State University Iranian women have responded vigorously to the national construction of the Islamic patriarchy by either supporting or opposing its gender mandates. Young women, desiring self expression, manipulate the Republic's complex dress code from size, color, texture to shape, cut, and accessories. Deviation form the official code is referred to as "bad hljabi" which has become a form of political expressions, examples of civil disobedience, and embodiment of resistance. In this paper I will explore the many aspects of this resistance from everyday clothing to the representation of Green Movement by young women and men in Iran. Beyond Choice: Reimaginings of Reproductive Politics in an Era of Globalization. Tanya Sara) Bakhru, San Jose State University Contributions to reproductive polities by women of color have articulated that reproductive bodies are embedded with social and political meaning. Particularly within an era of expanding global capitalism, laws, policies, and cultural or religious practices go beyond understandings of reproductive "choice" and convey how particular women's bodies and lives are perceived and valued as individuals and communities. 1 will explore the ways in which incorporating notions of reproductive justice and the reproductive experiences of women of color have dramatically impacted human rights discourses within the context of globalization. Moderator: Tanya Saroj Bakhru, San Jose State University 154. Western Interpretation of Muslim Feminist Analysis and Women in Time of War 5:10106:25 pm » Govemors Square 9 Feminisms and the 'War on Terror': Race, Gender and the Politics ofthe (trans)National. Sunera 'Ihobani, University of British Columbia In this paper, I examine the responses of North American feminists to the War on Terror. The historical relation between feminism and imperialist projects has been fraught by the tensions of the various forms of accommodation and contestation articulated by women to colonialism, postcolonial ism and the politics of the national. Focusing on key texts produced by feminist scholars, I will trace the historical continuities and discontinuities in this troubled relation for the early twenty-first century. - ---- - ----------------------------------'- Wailing the Veil in the Time of War: Neo-Colonial Rescuers And Liberal Interpreters Of Muslim Women. Huma Dar, University of California, Berkeley Examining current contestations in popular media - including recent articles written by Naomi Wolf and Phyllis Chesler et al and the poster designed by Alexander Segert, which was integral to the success of the anti-minaret Swiss referendum - this paper will investigate whether, how, and where the neoconservative, neoLiberal, and the feminist discourses converge, diverge, and intersect. With insights from feminist theory and critical race theory, I undertake to deconstruct the ongoing debates that obsessively revolve around the veil or the sexuality that is variously professed to be suppressed, annihilated, or even "discovered" beneath the veil by some liberal explorers. An insider-(in)betweener arabyyah-muslimah feminist interrogating the hijab discourse. Manal Hamzeh, New Mexico State University Drawing on critical feminist theories, the purpose of this paper is to interrogate the hijab discourse as a hegemonic-gendering discourse challenging muslimat-muslim females. From the positionality of an insider-(in)betweener arabyyah-muslimah feminist, I use traditional Islamic tools of research to deconstruct the linguistic and textual meanings of the hijab in the Qur'an and the Hadīth-the fundamental and primary texts of Islam. I expose the hijab discourse as a central nonnative discourse that regulates muslimat's bodies not only by restricting their dress with the notorious headscarf, but also by limiting their mobility and way oflife in public. Navigating Postcolonial Spaces in Muslim Feminism(s): Women's Agency and Sharl'a in Aceh, Indonesia. Reed W Taylor, Virginia Tech The province of Aceh, Indonesia, presents an especially difficult case for feminist scholars/activists from the Global North because of the matrifocal customs, the equally important Islamic traditions, and the colonial legacies that continue to affect women's lives. It is the aim of this paper to theorize the potential applicability of the term 'Muslim Peminismts)' given the context of Acehnese society and the recent expansion of a Sharta, as a legal code. Moderator: Laura R. Woliver, University of South Carolina 155. Feminist Fitness: The Critical/Creative Through Power, Pleasure, and Movement 5: 10106:25 pm » Governor s Square 10 Experience a fitness class that brings together the critical and the creative combining feminist ideas and music with movements that blend belly dancing, hip hop, and modern dance as well as yoga and the Nia technique to create a fun, powerful, and empowering workout. This is an interactive, activity-driven workshop so please be prepared to move but no da.nce or fitness experience required! While we explore the creative and critical through our physical movement we will also consider how fitness might be a site of resistance and how the creative allows us to intervene in dominant/hegemonic stories, histories, and ideologies. Presenter: Sarah Hentges. University of Maine, Augusta 156. Science and Social Change: Employing Science in Feminist and Anti-racist Struggles 5: 10 to 6:25 pm • Plaza Court 3 Good Science/Bad Science. Banu Subramaniam, University of Massachusetts, Amherst This paper explores the relationship between what scientific institutions call "good" science and what progressive institutions call "progressive social change:' Can good science also produce progressive social change? This paper explores the particular epistemological and political CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS conditions and the role of insider/outsiders in framing such definitions across diverse institutional spheres. The Dangers of the Technocratic Approach to Environmental Justice Scholarship: Implications for Climate Justice. Diana Pei Wu, Amherst College The environmental justice (E1) movement comes from struggles of working-class and poor communities of color against environmental harms "where we live, work and play." In the 2000s, technical studies of polluting facilities reified problematic assumptions about race and environment while claiming to be "El analysis." What did the collapse of a social movement worldview into statistical analysis do to the power and promise of the EJ movement? Feminist, participatory and decolonizing research methodologies, and science, ethnic. and cultural studies offer successful examples ofliberatory research in relation to social movements. What lessons might they hold for the climate justice movement? Reading Government-based Science Policy Initiatives Through the Lens of Progressive Science-based Social Movements. Gwen Durcangelis, Univeristy of California. Los Angeles This paper explores discursive appropriations of the aims of progressive science-based social movements--e.g. women's health and environmental justice movements-unto recent U.S.government science policy. One 2001 policy--the National Nanotechnology Initiative-- incorporates both "public engagement" protocols and environmental health and safety research in order to center public needs and safety in new technological development. I analyze the extent to which the Initiative reflects (or neglects) the aims of social justice movements to distribute the benefits of new technologies equitably and to prevent the displacement of hazards of new technologies onto marginalized communities (women, the poor, communities of color). Moderator: Gweu Darcangelis, Univeristy of California, Los Angeles 157. Embodied Pedagogy Workshop: Applying Gestalt Techniques and Decolonial Practice in Women's Studies Classrooms 5: 10 to 6:25 pm » Plaza COllr14 In recent decades, feminist theorists have criticized the academy's tendency to privilege knowledge that is linguistic, discursive, and cerebral over that which is non-verbal, creative, and bodily. However, feminist pedagogy has been slow to realize the full potential of this theoretical insight. This experiential workshop is designed to fill this gap by cultivating pedagogical techniques that speak to bodily ways of knowing. Drawing on methods derived from Gestalt psychology, phenomenology, postcolonial theory, indigenous spiritualities. and consciousness-raising practices, the facilitators will model key aspects of embodied pedagogy for participants and organize exercises that invite the participants to tryout these techniques themselves. Presenters: Che N.). Sandoval, University of California, Santa Barbara len McWeeny, John Carroll University 158. Fat Women's Bodies 5:1010 6:25pm • Plaza Court 5 Challenging the Conventional Wisdom: Fat Women's Sexual and Dating Histories. Jeannine A. Gailey, Texas Christian University The fat female body is often viewed at opposing ends of a sexual continuum, either asexual or overly sexualized. However, the women's narratives are largely absent in the literature. r interviewed 36 women involved in the fat acceptance movement about their dating and sexual histories. There were some reports of sexual abuse, feeling used by NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS their sexual partner, but there were just as many. if not more, reports of positive sexual experiences, satisfying sexual relationships, and healthy partnerships. r focus on positive relationships and how the fat acceptancemovement has enriched and changed many of the women's lives Iinterviewed. Feederism: A Content Analysis of Erotic Weight Gain on the Web. Ariane Prohaska, University of Alabama The purpose of this research is to explore the depiction of a behavior called feederism, which involves the desire to either gain weight or encourage a partner to gain weight for the purpose of fulfilling sexual desires (e.g. Bestard 2008). Because feeders and feedees have a large presence on the web, a content analysis of feederism or erotic weight gain websites will give us a more accurate description of feeder ism as either a sexual desire, fetish, or form of abuse. I analyze these websites and place them into meaningful categories, using feminist theories to explain the content of these websites. Hot Moms, Impossible Standards: Resisting Oppression Through Fat Acceptance Discourse. lohnanna Ganz, Universityof Northern Iowa Iexamine the ways in which popular culture actively shapes American viewson motherhood; advertising and magazines coerce women into being "sexy moms" who are thin, young, and attractive. The Image of sexualized mothers both creates and reinforces unrealistic body sizestandards for women, particularly after giving birth. "Sexy mom" culture places women In the precarious position of choosing drastic measures to maintain their integrity within the gaze or risk becoming ostracized, relegated to the status of "fat". However, fat scholarship and activismoffers tools to combat women's oppression through embracing fatness,ultimately resignifying culture's view on women's bodies. "I'm Not Skinny:" Reclaiming Fat Latina Body(s). Patricia Valladolid, San Francisco State University ChicanaFeminist theories provide me with the tools to imagine a space whereIcan locate the personal relationship between body and self. In this paper, I discuss representations of fat Latlnas through a deconstruction of space(s) and bodies. I have located visual and performing art/artist whoare engaging in a decclonial space of resistance. My paper attempts to explain how fat Latinas negotiate public space. This paper seeks to decolonize the ignored body and bring fat Latinas front and center. In doing so.my analysis will challenge hegemonic constructions ofbody(s) that have relegated our bodies to the margins. Moderator: Virgie Tovar, San Francisco State University 159. Teaching and Learning Feminism: Critical Reflections 00 Teaching Introduction to Women's Studies as Graduate Teaching Assistants 5:10 to 6:25 pm » Plaza Ballroom E Creating Feminist Classrooms throngh TA Self-Disclosure. Kate Livingston, Independent Scholar Women's Studies TAs negotiate paradoxical expectations within the university: the need to establish credibility as pedagogues and the need to decentralize hierarchies in a feminist classroom. For Women's Studies TAs, this conflict is clearly manifested in the negotiation of self-disclosure. How do TAs promote learning and discovery through self-disclosure without undermining their tenuous credibility within the university system? This paper considers how theories of relational psychologymay inform TAs' decisions to self-disclose. 'Unpacking the Invisible" Ability "Knapsack" Wanda Ann Baugh, University of Cincinnati This paper explores how I teach about disability issues using my Own experience as both a person with a disability and as a child of two NWSA2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE parents with disabilities. How do we utilize our own (dis)abilities as teaching moments as both teachers and students? How do we facilitate these difficult conversations without alienating the students in the class who have their own, mostly undisclosed relationships to (dis)ability? Expanding on Peggy Mcintosh's famous work on white privilege, I attempt to "unpack the invisible' ability "knapsack". Negotiating Authority and Power in a Feminist Classroom. Jacquelyn Arcy, University of Cincinnati r explore my own experiences with complex power dynamics as a new instructor of Introduction to Women's Studies through the lens of feminist pedagogical theory and practice. Ispecifically address the way expectations and assumptions pertaining to yOWlg,female professors, Women's Studies professors, and TAs play an important role in determining authority inside and outside the classroom. How do these power dynamics undermine the development of a feminist classroom? Moderator: Pratima Upadhyay, University of Cincinnati 160. Getting Rid of Gender: Mnltip1e Perspectives on the Eradication of Sexual Difference 5: 1010 6:25 pm • Directors Row F For many years, feminist theory, and more recently trans and intersex studies, have engaged in postmodern deconstructive analyses of sex, gender and sexuality. However, with few exceptions, little work has dealt head-on with the push to get rid of gender entirely from our SOCiety.Is gender such an oppressive and essentially meaningless categorization that a progressive analysis would seek to root it out from our SOCiety?Or are there productive meanings to gender that are central to people's understanding ofthemsel and those around them? This round-table provides multiple viewpoints a the complex question of the eradication of gender. Presenters: Jade Aguilar, Willamette University Julia Hafen, California State University Channel Islands Kristel Hladky, University of Kansas Jeff Nail, Florida Atlantic University Kelley Winters, GID Reform Advocates Moderator: ]oelle Ruby Ryan, University of New Hampshire 161. Women of Color Awards and Reception 5:30 to 7:00 pm » Plaza Ballroom D Doctoral Program Chairs Reception 7:00 to 9:00 pm « Director's Row J 162. Shabbat Service 7:30 to 9:30 pm • PlaZ{1Ballroom F Rabbi Tirzah Firestone. All are welcome to attend. "In this probing and path-breaking book Craig-Henderson goes where few scholars have gone before, to a deep examination of daring interracial relationships black women have with white men. Using in-depth interviews, she shows that even in the midst of omnipresent racism and internal community critiques, black women increasingly break out of racist stereotypes and expectations to cross the intimate color line...." -Joe R. Feagin, Texas A&M University According to the most recent U.S. census, twice as many black men are involved in interracialrelationships as black women. Do black women consciously resist such involvement? Black Womenin Interracial Relationships includes in-depth, unstructured interviews with a wide range of black women currently involved in interracial intimate relationships. Each individual discusses their relationships with family members, beliefs about the influence of race in America, unique problems associated with interracial intimacy, as well as sexual attraction, racial identity, and children. This book will be of particular interest to specialists in race, gender, family, and sexual issues, this work is also accessible and appealing to general readers. ISBN: 978-1-4128-1128-6 (cloth) 2010 181 pp.$34.95/£31.50/$C41.95 K II' Me' H d is currently program director at thee ma I raH!'· en erson National Science Foundation and has been professor of psych~ogy at Howard University. Her research interests include aggression, violence, and cross-cultural gender and racial stereotyping. Craig- Henderson is also author of Black Men in Interracial Relationships, which was featured on FoxNews.com; Washington Post; "Women Body &Soul" (99.5FM);Glamour magazine. "There really isn't this exodus of Black men running to White women. Because we don't see a lot of Black men and Black women together as couples, it stands out in our minds when we do see Black men in interracial. relationships!' -Kellina Craig-Henderson, Ebony Magazine, 2007 CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS 164.Militarization and the Emergence of Feminist Movementsin Ireland, Israel, Nepal and the Phillipines 8:00 to 9: 15 am • Plaza COLIn I Jobnik!: Representations of Sexual Violence, Militarization) andthe Nation-State in an Israeli-American Graphic Novel. Lailli Kasia Kavaloski, Edgewood College Thisproject examines the ways that nationalistic constructions of individualism ultimately feed nationalistic projects and institutions (prisons,war, immigrant policies, rhetoric of insiders and outsiders) thatare constituted through gendered, sexualized, national, and class hierarchies.These notions of individualism are continually interrupted inAmerican-lsraeli Miriam Libicki's graphic memoir [obnikl. Precisely becauseMiriam's position as woman and non-native Hebrew speaker (chulnik) in the highly militarized and patriarchal space of the Israeli Armyposition her as a subordinate, we are able to see the human fall outof this system. Militarization in the Philippines and the Emerging Role ofNational and International Women's Groups. Sharon Advincula Caringal, University of the Philippines Militarization is one of the by-products of the long standing armed conflict in the Philippines. Using the limited resources, creativity and determination of the members of the various women's groups that were organized, they grappled and tested different concepts and theoriesand in the process achieved major milestones in their struggle to achieve a more just and humane society.The multi-disciplinary approachproved to be most successful in pushing the overall women's agendaand addressing the various concerns of women. Republicanism, Militarized Motherhood, and Activism: Women'sExperiences during the Northern Irish Troubles. JenlliferLynn Earles, University of South Florida 1 will demonstrate how the Northern Irish Troubles remained a gendered experience for Irish women and how women retained agencyin the face of oppression. Just as British colonialism imprinted patriarchy onto the historical experiences of the Irish, growing nationalist sentiments defined womanhood in terms of motherhood and otherness. As war persisted, civil usefulness became defined as strength, public leadership, and willingness to face death, while femininity became identified and constrained into terms of sacrifice, passivity.and dedication to the family. However, the participation by women within public spaces certainly helped to redefine h.istorical conceptswhich confined them. 165.Narratives of Motherhood 8:00 to 9:J 5 am • Plaza Court 2 Quilts:Moral Economies and Matrtlineages. Polly F. Radosh, Western Illinois University; Beth Higgs, Flagler College Across time and culture, women connect generations through traditions. Women often bequeath family mementos to succeeding women.Quilts made by women commemorate. illustrate. or e},--press important events. While these items have economic value. their primaryworth is in the connections they make within families. Quilts arefrequently passed on in matrilineal gifts and bequests. Their value is in the familial networks and reflects a moral economy that embraces matrilineal norms and values. As a nearly exclusively female artistic expression, the meanings imbedded in quilts reflect knowledge across time.The present paper uses feminist analyses to explore matrilineal connections in quilts. NWSA2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE SATURDAY 8:00 A.M. - 9:15 A.M. Stigma, Belonging and Medicine: An Outsiders Understanding of Disability. Jessica Lynn [ennrich, University of Missouri, Columbia Sitting in an overheated nook behind a bustling nurse's station we learned our infant daughter had permanent brain damage. What followed was a queer family's struggle with medical providers, a shift from success to survival, and a near divorce with feminism. But this is not the tragedy of a family or the mourning of a loss, rather it is the real effort two feminist lesbians from the Midwest to understand ability and disability from the uncomfortable location of outsiders as well as advocates. The Language of Silence, Kryn Freehling-Burton, Oregon State University This paper highlights an excerpted scene from aplay with accompanying narrative ebout the process of using performance as a research method and the process of scripting a play based on interviews. What arises from the dailiness of women's lives (Aptheker 1989) can exist beside traditional theory in our research and classrooms. The interviews that inspired this project elucidate individuals' stories as weU as the variety of ways in which we pass stories on to our daughters, which stories we choose to tell, and how we ask to hear our mothers' stories. "On the Fly": Counter-Narratives) Motherwork, and Literate Selves. Amanda Bethel Richey, Tennessee Technological University This feminist narrative project examines early mothers' construction of literate selves and the counter-narratives they tell about birthing and motherwork. Utilizing feminist narratology and the New Literacy Studies defintion of literacy as a situated (and contested) set of fluid practices, this study foregrounds the complicating factor of birth and the so-called post-partum period as a time of richness and knowing. Moderator: Matt/lew Ray Stewart. Kennesaw State University 166. Between Disability and Desire 8:0010 9:15 all1 • Plaza Court 6 (In)Visibility and (Dis)ability: the Geography of Pain, Gender, and Privilege. Charlotte Loftus, Beloit College This paper focuses on the privileging of the visible within Disability Studies and Women's and Gender Studies, outlining ways in which spaces can be disrupted by outsider identities. Certain assumptions about the correlation between appearance and identity have resulted in an often exclusive focus on visibility as both the basis of community and the means of enacting social change. The existence of chronic pain as a disabling condition problematizes these types of correlations, pointing towards new intersections where Disability Studies and Women's Studies can meet. Reconstructing Prosthetized Women. Reinvigorating Docile Bodies. Amanda K. Booher, Texas Tech University 1n this paper, r examine contemporary media representations of women with prosthetics. considering problematic cultural interpretations of and anxieties about these representations. Utilizing and challenging the work of feminist and disability studies theorists, in addition to the work of Foucault and Canguilhem, I argue that our current conception of "normal" bodies needs to be reconsidered. and furthermore that a new epistemology of prosthetized bodies can create fertile ground for new feminist, bioethical, and disability studies perspectives of bodily alteration and replacement. 125 I 8:00 A.M. - 9:15 A.M. SATURDAY Woman as Outsider: Olive Moore) Gestation) and Monstrous Birth. Erin M. Kingsley, University of Colorado, Boulder My topic and focus is the interrogation of constructed pregnant ontology in literature and theory. I argue that it is mothering itself that is often the basis of feminist criticism, and not the corporeal upheaval experienced in becoming a mother. The blank space of the gestating, birthing and lactating body in critical thought therefore performs as Outsider and Other even as the woman grapples to develop a politics ofintersubjectivity. My goal is to explore traditional and contemporary theories of gestation. parturition, and lactation, and elucidate a poetics of "outsider feminisms" via the literary trope of monstrous birth. Moderator: Tanya Saroj Bakhru, San Jose State University 167. Gendered Perspectives ou Health Issues in the US 8:00 to 9: /5 am • Plaza Court 7 Centering Infant Mortality iu Reproductive Health Care Debates. Lena McQuade, University of New Mexico This presentation foregrounds the interlinkages between reproduction, gendered racism, structural economic inequity, and nation formation asking: What has (not) changed in the United States' public health crisis over infant mortality? Bringing together research from the fields of social epidemiology, medical sociology, and ethnic and women's studies this presentation addresses historical and contemporary contexts for infant mortality. As the nation currently debates health care reform. it is certainly worth considering whether access to health insurance alone-rather than addressing the systemic roots of ill health-will be enough to stem the incidence of infant mortality nationally, Healing Faces, Healing the World? Operation Smile and the Humanitarian Mission. Andrew Homer Sponaugle Mazzaschi, Rutgers University This paper is a critical examination of the discursive practices of the U.S.-based transnational charity Operation Smile, analyzing the discourse of humanitarianism it constructs around the bodies of children with cleft palates. Justifying tbeir humanitarian missions using the concept of human dignity, they simultaneously somatize dignity (representing it as inherently lacking in cleft bodies) and represent cultures where missions take place as not affirming the dignity of cleft bodies. By understanding dignity as both embodied and culturally embedded, Operation Smile exacerbates and depends on the differences it purports to combat. Meat and Potatoes?: WIC Policy, Childhood Obesity, and 'Appropriate' Parenting. April Michelle Herndon, Winona Sta.te University Historically, The Women with Children and Dependents Program (WIC) gave children and pregnant women a staple of nutritious foods, such as breads, milk, cheeses, and cereals. Recent changes have barred access to foods such as white potatoes (including mixed vegetables with white potatoes as an Ingredient) as WIC has become increasingly invested in preventing childhood obesity rather than just feeding the hungry. Families feel financially strained as some of the cheapest foods are no longer allowed and emotionally strained as their parenting skills and their children's diets and bodies are increasingly monitored and regulated by state agencies. 126• CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS The United States' Healthcare Policy and Women: An Abusive Relationship. fill Murray, Southern University at New Orleans This presentation provides a feminist analysis of the US healthcare system, specific healthcare policies. and the politics of the healthcare reform debate. Healthcare is presented as a human right, while the impactofthese policies on women's health. safety,and self-determination is presented as violence against women. The presentation is grounded in womanist, radical and global feminist theories. Participants will engage in a discussion of health care reform needed to end the abusive nature of the US healthcare system, policies, and politics. Implications for direct care, program planning, research, and advocacy for will be discussed. Resources will be provided. Moderator: Sarah Jane Sloane, Colorado State University 168. "Queer" as an Agent of Complication and Trausgression: Rethinking Embodiment aud Subjectivity 8:0010 9: /5 alii • Plaza Court 8 Artistic Interventions in Queer Theory. Elizabeth Veneli. Emory University The first paper, emerging from the disciplinary formations of women's studies and film studies, examines the contributions of contemporary video art and experimental music to the ongoing complications of the "queer:' By taking specific figures (fictional characters, musicians, and filmmakers) into account along with formative theoretical texts from the early inter-animations of feminist theory and queer theory, this paper argues that recent themes in experimental visual culture and music disrupt linear or additive models of subject formation in persuasive and compelling ways. Transgressing "Transgender": Foucault, Bataille, the Limit aud the Law. A. Rez Pullen, Emory University This paper draws from Foucault's and Bataille's work on transgression to reconstruct the category "transgender" in a manner that complicates current configurations which draw on a distinction between sex and gender. This revised framework offers a paradigm shift in the way we understand the "trans" in transgender, and argues that "transgender" must not be defined as a crossing between 1'\.\70 static "sexes." Rather, as this paper argues, "transgender" must be re-defined to include an)· form of persistently deviant gender/sex comportment that solicits a response from medical and juridical apparatuses of power. Caster Semenya, Racialized Gender, and Extraordinary Bodies. David A. Rubin, Emory University Bringing intersex activist critiques of medical normalization into conversation with transnational feminist. intersectional. and disability theories of racialized and extraordinary gender, this paper analyzes the 2009 controversy over South African professional runner Caster Semenya. Examining the linkages between biomedical discourse, international sport, consumer culture. and nationalism in a transnational world, I argue that mainstream media representations of Semenya simultaneously disclosed and effaced ongoing soc.ial anxieties about the contested meanings, materialities. and interconnections between race, gender, sexuality, and embodiment. Moderator: David A. Rubin, Emory University NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE CHRONOLOGICALPROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS 169. African Diasporic Feminism 8:00109:15 am· Governors Square 9 African Diapsora Feminism. Tracy Fisher, University of California, Riverside This paper focuses on the need to examine gender as central to the conceptualizations of the African diaspore. Weaving together ethnographic, historical, and theoretical material, as it applies to Black women's community-based activism in Britain, my paper examines the ways in which a critical race feminist analysis rather movement, mobility or the rubrics of travel-associated with diaspora-is a central, critical lens through which to view and foreground racialized and gendered formations in Britain's African diaspora. Gendered Resistance: Caribbean Slave Women's Sexualities as Modes of Resistance. Emily Rachel Williams, DePaul University In the lives of Caribbean slave women, gender and sexuality shaped the \\'3}'S in which they were punished and controlled by slave masters and overseers; consequently gender and sexuality influenced their modes of resistance. This research aims to focus on the ways in which Caribbean slave women's gender and sexualities functioned as forms of resistance to institutional oppression. In conclusion, this research draws parallels of Caribbean slave women's resistance to those of women within the modern African Diaspora and explores the prospects of illustrating the similarities of modern social oppressions to the oppression of slavery. Haitian Feminism: The Reshaping of a Movement to Meet the Needs of Women. Allie Marie Jones, Claremont School of Theology Thispaper will critically examine the feminist movement in Haiti before and after the earthquake. Itwill look specifically at the role the women's movement has played and continues to play in the lives of Haitian women through their personal stories (gathered through interviews), and textual analysis of narratives and poems. Women now are playing important roles within the tent cities. They are taking shifts at in order to keep their communities safe, and are helping with food distribution in the camps. Tragedy has a way of shifting priorities and establishing a solid group of women working together towards survival. "Oh, You Stepping Outl": Barbadian Women Teachers' Stories on Moving to America. Makini Z. Beck, University of Rochester Thispaper will discuss the challenges immigrant women endure when leaving their homeland to pursue teaching careers in the United States. This study examines the narratives of four Barbadian teachers who were recruited to teach in Louisville, Kentucky. Their stories provide insight on the strength and courage it takes to uproot one's family to move to the United States. Moderator: Brian R. tara, The Pennsylvania State University 170. Putting Intersectionality into Practice: Ella's Daughter's and the Politics of 'Political Quilting' in 2010 8:00 10 9: /5 am • Governor s Square 10 Thisworkshop/ panel will offer an overview of the political teachings of legendary civil rights organizer Ella Baker and lessons for this generation of activist women and the practice of "political quilting" as a formof movement building work, grounded in the writings and practice of feminists of color. More specifically, presenters and performers will outline the work and vision of Ella's Daughters, a network of women artists, activists and scholars working in Ella Baker's tradition. We NWSA2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE SATURDAY 8:00 A.M. - 9:15 A.M. will talk about our new organizing campaign called "Seven Sisters, Seven Struggles, Seven Stories;' which is weaving together connections between the issues of domestic workers, inunigrant rights, Palestine solidarity, Haitian self-determination, youth violence, prisons and torture, and the concerns of LBGTQ youth of color. The workshop will include a creative performance, short presentations and a structured interactive discussion. Presenters: Premilla Nadasen, Queens College, CUNY; Barbara Ransby, University of Illinois at Chicago; Leena Odeh, Ella's Daughters; Dara Cooper, Ella's Daughters. Moderator: Barbara Ransby, University of Illinois at Chicago 171. Fuzzy Lines 8:00 to 9: /5 am • Governor s Square J 2 This workshop explores the "fuzzy lines" between LGBT and gender programming. Who gets to control the programming on these issues or should it be controlled? In a world where feminist activism and LGBT activism are so interrelated how do Centers deal with territoriality? Presenters will discuss methods and troubles encountered while trying to walk this fine line. Additionally, we will explore ways that LGBT and gender programming can form a symbiotic relationship rather than competitive. Presenters: Lettie Morgan, Northern Illinois University Jill Dunlap, Northern Illinois University Moderator: Kate Schaab, Northern Illinois University 172. What Counts as Queer? Disorderly Musings on Race, Diaspora, Religion and Indigeneity 8:00 to 9: J5 am • Governor s Square 14 Feminist Interventions: Queering Diaspora/Diasporizing Queer. R. Cassandra Lord, University of Toronto This paper asks what a relational reading of 'queer' and 'dlaspora' can offer to the study of queer cultures in the contemporary period. I draw on a number of feminist interventions and critiques, from the limits of queer theory's engagement with gender and sexuality to femi.nists of color who integrate discussions with race and class. Feminists of color have complicated conversations on diaspora by problematizing moderni.st formations of the nation-state predicated on heteropatriarchal models of home and family. The messiness of a "queer diaspore" model provides interesting ways for understanding how queer dlasporic people of color re-make spaces of belonging. Portraits of (Uu)Belonging: Queering Iodigenous and Diasporic Masculinities in Canada. Ruthann Lee, York University My paper considers the contemporary artwork of Singaporean- born and Toronto-based queer diasporic painter Dominique Hui and Toronto-based queer-identified Aboriginal/Cree multi-media artist Kent Monkman. r integrate queer and transnational feminist frameworks to explore how the presence of queer racialized bodies unsettles heterononnative settler, (im)migrant and diasporic community narratives in Canada. Correspondingly, I suggest that visual representations of queer indigenous and diasporic masculinities not only problematize dominant codes of masculinity and femininity, but simultaneously disrupt and consolidate a nationalist narrative of white settler colonialism and (neo- )Iiberal multiculturalism. 127 I I CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS 8:00 A.M. - 9:15 A.M. SATURDAY Imperialism, Sexuality and Liberation: Queer and Muslim. Guizar Raisa Charania, University a/Toronto I use this paper as an opportunity to consider the ways in which Muslim queers negotiate their sexuality within a complex terrain of gender, race and imperialism. Drawing on my own personal experience, [ attend to the larger geo-political contexts which Muslim queers in the West are negotiating and the desire for our stories to fit within specific discursive frameworks that are central to reproducing imperial practices. I draw on feminist queer of color critiques to argue that race and imperialism are required to more adequately theorize sexuality and queer studies. Moderator: Erica Lorraine Williams, Spelman College 173. Critiquing Hegemony, Creating Food, Crafting Justice: A Roundtable on Feminist Pedagogy and Food 8:00 to 9: 15 am • Govemors Square 15 Food is a complicated terrain where gender and race are implicated in its production and consumption. We use food as a critical venue for exploring race, class, and gender with students in community-based social justice projects that examine global inequality. This work is experiential, cross-disciplinary, and creative by necessity, crossing boundaries. Panelists discuss pedagogy with a focus on work with farms, urban gardens, food banks, and restaurants. We are interested in ways that the material process of growing and producing food offers creative solutions and resources to people whose position within the matrices of power are not always optimal. Presenters: Arlene Voski Avakian, University of Massachusetts LeeRay M. Costa, Hollins University Elisabeth Brownell Armstrong, Smith College Moderator: Alice P. lulier, Chatham University 174. Disciplinary Convergences. Displacements. Erasures 8:00 (0 9:/5 am » Governor's Square 16 Rhizomatic Divergences: Queer Studies. Women of Color Feminism, Women's Studies & Ruptures in US Feminist Consciousness. Ednie Kaeh Garrison, University of South Florida The concept of "rhizomatic divergences" derives from an earlier hermeneutic exercise to re-conceive the "waves" in feminist thinking as radio wave rather than ocean waves, although the purpose here is to propose a vocabulary derived from the language of radio technology that radio waves as a metaphor did not. In this paper I am more broadly concerned with questions of interdsctplinariry, methodology, epistemology, and U.S. imperialism in relation to conversations and debates that construct "queer studies:' "women of color feminism:' and "women's/gender studies" as sometimes overlapping, sometimes conflicting fields of inquiry often caught up in claims to identity. The Politics of Space: How Tangible Feminist Spaces Facilitated Activism Across Difference in 1970's-Era U.S. Social Justice Movements. Stephanie Rytilahti, University of Wisconsin, Madison What role does space play in forging collaboration amongst multiple movements for social justice? This local history of feminist and lesbian feminist activism in the 1970's examines the ephemeral existence of a feminist restaurant in Madison, Wisconsin: Lysistrata. During its four years of operation, the restaurant served as a tangible point of cohesion for feminists from multiple socioeconomic positions, straight women, lesbians, trans men, and other local organizations fighting for racial, economic, and social justice. Through a strong focus on the politics of 128 I space, this paper underscores the centrality of visible feminist places 10 local, national, and transnational activist networks. Where in the Transnational World Are Lesbians? Rachel An.n Lewis, Cornell University From the mid to late 1990s onwards, the field of queer studies has become increasingly preoccupied with the question of what it means to think sexuality "trans nationally". Despite the newly emerging body of litera ture devoted to theorizing sexuality from a transnational perspective, however, there has been a significant lack of attention 10 the ways in which the category "lesbian" emerges within transnational locations. In this paper, I ask why the study of lesbianism has fallen outside the domain of transnational sexuality studies and what this might have to teDus about the relationship between feminist and queer studies more generally. Romancing Malintzin: Queering Times and Color Lines in Xicana Performance. Aimee Carrillo Rowe, University of IOlVa Chicana feminists have reclaimed the figure of Malintztn, the defiled mother of the Mexican race, for the resistive potency of her treacherous tongue and sexuality. To "romance Malintztn" is to queer the desire between feminist (fore)mothers and queer daughters; thus it is to queer the straight line between past, present, and future. This paper reads Adelina Anthony's "La Angry Xicana" performance through theories of queer time and Chicana and U.S. third world feminisms to consider moments in which the sacred and the erotic converge to produce rich temporalities that enable Xicanas to heal imperial trauma (susie) across generational divides. 175. Advancing Fat Feminisms 8:00 to 9: 15 am • Governor s Square 17 Fat Denigration and Claims to Citizenship among Suffrage Activists, 1870-1920. Amy Farrell, Dickinson Callege As the organizers of this panel recognize in their call for papers' "Advancing Fat Perninisms," fat continues to be a "contentious issue among feminists." This paper explores the roots of that tension through an exploration of 19th and 20th century suffrage and anti-suffrage propaganda i.n both the United States and Britain. Both suffragists and anti-suffragists drew powerfully on existing body typing and physiognomy within their publicity. While scholars have written extensively about the use of racist techniques among white activists, there has been little attention paid to the use of fat denigration within first wave feminism. This paper draws on materials gathered at the Fawcett Library, the Schlesinger Library, the Sophia Smith Archives and the Alice MarshaJl Women's History Collection to explore the various ways activists disparaged the opposition by painting them as fat. Anti-suffragists portrayed suffragists as fat, big Upped, and mannish. Suffragists responded by portraying themselves as svelte, youthful. and alluringly feminine and heterosexual, and by presenting the anti- suffragists as aging, ugly, and fat. In addition to sharing some of these images with the audience, this paper will explore the reasons for this use of fat denigration. Within 19th century scientific and popular literature. fatness was a key marker of inferior status, a sign of an uncivilized bodv and atavistic traits. For suffragists, a thin body was a sign of a body able and worthy of the rights of fuUpublic Citizenship. For anti-suffragists- portraying the suffragists as fat "proved" that they were the very epitome of uncivilized beasts. While no one today speaks about the importance of phrenology and physiognomy in the passionate terms of activists like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, these ideas, 1 argue, continue to have salience and haunt contemporary feminist activism. NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE J CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS Policing the Body: Fat and Second-Wave Feminism Through the Lens of Seventeen. MaryAnn Kozlowski, Eastern Michigan University Fat feminism continues to be on the margins of mainstream feminism and Women's and Gender Studies. But why is it still an outsider feminism? Weight and fat are undoubtedly feminist issues. "By becoming large ... she implicitly violates the sexual roles that place her in physical subordination to the man." (Cecilia Hartley. Letting Ourselves Go, 2001) Fat ".'Omen violate the rules of femininity by taking up more space than is allotted to them. As transgressions of prescribed femininity is the territory cffeminists, it seems counterintuitive that fat feminism remains in the margins. This paper suggests an explanation forthis tendency to marginalize the fat body within feminist and gender studies using an empirical study of Seventeen Magazine's treatment of weight and fat in the late 1960s and 1970s. According to Naomi Wolf, as American women gained social, economic and political power through feminism, there emerged more subtle ways of regulating the female body. 111is regulation manifests as weight obsession and fat phobia. Since the female is no longer perceived to be passive, she must be controlled in new ways. As women began to take up more social space, they were encouraged to make their bodies smaller and smaller. Ironically, feminism failed to notice these new cultural standards and perhaps even internalized them as "normal." This study will look at Seventeen, a magazine for teen girls, during the formative years of second-wave feminism between 1967 and 1978, to evaluate how fat and weight were represented. The study will use various measures of fat-thin to evaluate articles, pictures, and ads within Seventeen. More attention to thinness would suggest that outside forces, perhaps feminism, resulted in a backlash that attempted to reduce the female body as a means of punishment and control. On learning to teach fat feminism. Patricia Bowling, Purdue University As a feminist theorist interested in bodies and embodied experience, I have found myself reluctant to broach the topic of fatness. Lots of issues related to body image, social messages about appropriate femininity, gender performance, eating disorders related to thinness, attacks on dualism, etc. have made it into my repertoire. But not fat- related issues and social movements. Why is this, and what might II we learn from paying attention to the discomfort many femi.ni.stshave in sympathizing with size discrimination and embracing fat feminism? r start from the position that fatness and thin privilege are revealing social phenomena; worrying about getting fat and losing weight are preoccupations for enormous numbers of Americans. Where does this intense preoccupation with body size come from? What's made us as a society so obsessive about body size and shape? What sort of reflection and action is called for (by all of us, me, my students, people of every shape)? Why is fatness a scary and intimidating topic to teach? Am r worried about offending or embarrassing my students, or misrepresenting a position or experience I don't fully understand? Am I concerned about the line between genuine health issues and a moralizing, blaming discourse? How might these worries and fears themselves be useful and illuminating to explore? How are feelings about fatness connected to moral judgments about fat people? An awful lot of blame is mobilized and directed toward fat people. Why is this, and again, what can and should be done about it? How are all people in Our society implicated by fat-phobia and discourses that treat "obesity" as a moral panic? Linda Bacon offers some clues about this in a speech titled "Reflections on Fat Acceptance" given ill August 2009,where she develops the notions of "thin privilege." This paper is intended to further the panel's goals of engaging and utilizing critical NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE SATURDAY 8:00 A.M. - 9:15 A.M. discourses on fatness and furthering attempts to integrate fatness into feminist/women's studies teaching, in part by interrogating why there is so much resistance to doing so and exploring the payoffs of understanding the American obsession with size. Making Fat Feminisms Intelligible and Useful to Feminist Scholars and Pedagogues. Michaela A. Null, Purdue University Despite the fact that I reside in a Women's Studies department which is very supportive of my research and teaching in the areas of fat studies and fat feminism, there are still many awkward silences when I bring up fat-related topics. If it's not within the frameworks with which most feminist teachers and scholars are quite familiar-body image, beauty imperatives, etc.-talking about fat bodies seems to make these feminists uncomfortable. After a recent awkward moment, a colleague suggested to me that she, and my other colleagues, are just not sure what to do with the information J give them about these issues. Why does fat feminism remain somewhat unintelligible among modern feminist scholars and pedagogues? Does the discomfort of talking about such a taboo issue prevent them from fully engaging in the topic? How does the disconnect between cultural discourse about fatness and obesity and fat feminist discourse cause strain? Has fat feminism failed to make itself intelligible to feminist scholars at large? What can account for the gap between awareness/interest and engagement? And most importantly, how might we close this gap? I plan to address the issues by creating and holding a workshop at my university called, "Making Fat Peminisms Intelligible to Feminists At Large: How to Use Fat Studies in the Classroom:' The first goal of this workshop will be to address the discomfort "speaking fatness" causes people of all sizes precisely because of the fear of fat embedded in our culture. The second goal of the workshop will be to familiarize participants with fat studies, particularly fat feminist issues and ideas. The third goal will be to demonstrate ways in which they can use these issues and ideas i.n the classroom. The final goal of the workshop will be to provide them with resources from which they can draw and continue to educate themselves. Through this workshop, I hope to develop strategies for advancing fat feminism in the academy-particularly in the classroom. The (E)Racializations of Fat Feminism: Rhetorics of Difference in U.S. Fat Feminist Movements, 2000-2010. Sheana Director, Bowling Green State University This paper considers the ways in which the contemporary fat feminist movement in the U.S. is all-tao-often typified by an extraordinary resistance to critical discussions of race, ethnicity and nation as they are employed and (circumjnavigated within the movement. Looking at two key "moments" or artifacts within contemporary fat feminism - the 1000 Fat Cranes project, as well as the 2008-2010 discussions of race within the "fatosphere," this paper suggests that, through the tokenization of women of color, practices of cultural imperialism and a marked desire to enshrine, either implicitly or explicitly, the "whiteness" of fat feminism and fat activism, white, U.S. fat feminists have actively excluded both non-US. and women of color feminists from engagement with the movement. The paper draws parallels between such exclusions and discourses of difference and race within the broader, mainstream feminist movement in the US., where a disengagement with concepts of difference (especially surrounding race, sexual orientation and gender diversity) has been endemic to said movement, even at times blatantly disregarding calls for a critical rethinking since the 1970's. By drawing such parallels, this paper seeks to avoid future pitfalls within the fat feminist movement, articulating ways in which fat feminism might progress with greater attention to 129 8:00 A.M. - 9:15 A.M. SATURDAY racial, ethnic and national diversity, forging a politics of coalition and appreciation of difference, rather than a flattening and, ultimately, erasure of such differences. Moderator: Michaela A. Null, Purdue University 176. Queering Feminism, Feministing Queer: Beyond the "Sex Wars" 8:0010 9: /5 am • Plaza Court 3 Swallowing: Toward Trans/Elemental Feminism. Peter Cava, Florida Atlantic University Mary Daly is one of the most highly esteemed feminist philosophers. At the same time, Daly is one of the most notorious feminist critics of transfemininity, Because of the latter, transfeminists have, with seeming univocaliry, characterized Daly as lransmisogynistic. However, this paper seeks not only to critique Daly from a transfeminist perspective, but to reclaim Daly for transfeminism. This paper proceeds by comparing and contrasting the deployment of "swallowing" as a metaphor for transfeminine initiation in Daly's philosophy with the deployment of "swallowing" as a metaphor for transfeminine initiation in transfeminine autobiography. Headed for Wholeness: GLBT, BD5M, and Feminist Movement Toward New Consciousness Through "Common Difference". Megan Halena, Florida Atlantic University Drawing on Eli Clare, Gloria Anzaldua and Gayle Rubin, I argue that the word "pervert" in Catherine Opies photograph "self portralt! pervert" is intended to forge a politics of inclusion within mainstream gay and feminist cultures rather than to forge a separate "fetish/kink! BDSM" politics. [ then propose Maura Reilly's concept of "common differences" as a strategy through which to construct this politics of inclusion. Lastly, I draw from feminist critiques ofBDSM to complicate the potential realization of this polities of inclusion. "where's My Orgasm?": Teaching the Sex Wars within a New Politics of the Personal. Suzanne Mary Kelly, State University oj New York, New Paltz The forty-year pleasure/danger impasse of the "SexWars" is reflected in the stark line drawn between my students in the classroom, where the politics of personal pleasure garners the most followers. When it comes to talking about sex, "the personal is political" is often abandoned in favor a new politics of the personal. My paper will discuss the challenges of teaching the "Sex Wars" after decades of unresolved division, and within a context or heightened popular narratives of depoliticized pleasure and delegitimized questions of danger. Moderator: Lauren AtJn Walleser, Florida Atlantic University 177. The Nueva Latina Consciousness: Three Critical} Performative Perspectives on Latina Identity 8:00 to 9: J S am » Plaza Court 4 This performative piece is a conversation between three friends. In it, they explore the question of what it means to be a Latina today. It is a spoken word performance that brings together critical theory and personal experience. It is presented in three different voices and is informed by three different theoretical frameworks. Presenters: Michelle Nasser, Grinnell College Melissa Vasquez, Grinnell College Moderator: Lakesia Denise Iotmson. Grinnell College 130• 4 CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS 178. New Forms of Old Forums: Creating Effective Spaces for Dialogues across Difference 8:0010 9:15 am· Plaza Court 5 Meaningful Conversations: The Small Consciousness- Raising Group as a Tool for Collaboration across Differences. Janet Lois Freedman, Brandeis University 'The small consciousness-raising group can be a useful tool to provide structure for difficult dialogues and facilitate meaningful collaboration across difference to advance feminist activist projects. Ubiquitous in the late 19605 and early 1970s, consciousness raising has since been largely overlooked or ignored as a feminisl practice. This paper suggests that consciousness raising be revised as one approach to link new theoretical insights to feminist praxis. Women's and multicultural centers on campus and in communities may be ideal settings for revitalizing c.r.groups. Women's Studies/Women's Center Collaborations: Decentering White Experience. Kelli Zaytoun, Wright State University; Amber 1. Vlasnik, Wright State University While it is commonly asserted that women's centers are locations where students make meaning of what they learn in women's studies classrooms, little is published in this area. This paper will explore how women's centers and women's studies work together to facilitate the meaning-making process, particularly as it relates to identity and decenteting White experience. When exercised intentionally, centers provide spaces to help students and other participants understand how oppressions intersect. In addition to exploring the processes engaged, this paper will discuss what students report they learn as a result of participating in women's studies collaborations with campus-based centers. Using Consiousness-Raising for Difficult Dialogues in Women's Centers. [uli 1. Parker, University oj Massachusetts. Dartmouth I will discuss models of consciousness-raising utilized via her women's center work. "Check-in" has been used for 1Syears to build a community with her women's resource center staff, providing them an opportunity to use c.r. as a tool to study their own lives, as well as to foster difficult dialogues around race, sexual violence, and fostering sisterhood. "Cupcakes and Consciousness" is a new endeavor to provide a forum to develop c.r. with students. This event, developed with her student staff, is focused weekly on specific topics. She will discuss what her students have learned through this process. Working across Difference. Brandy Ota, University oj Oregon As women's center staff members, we seek to work outside traditional feminist spaces in order to collaborate and build community. At times, this process can be messy as meta-philosophical and cultural differences shape how we work with one another and the relationships we create. To overcome these differences and foster meaningful relationships, a sense of trust must be established and tended to. This conversation will explore the ways in which a commitment to an intersectional approach is applied in various spaces and the lessons learned along the way. specifically when working with Men's Centers, Multicultural Centers, academic departments, and community organizations. Moderator: Rebecca Ropers-Huilrnan, University of Minnesota! Feminist Formations Journal NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE 7 CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS _.com/womensStudies I 179.Difficult Dialogues and Resounding Silences: The TwilightCultural Phenomenon from Indigenous Feminist Perspectives 8:00 to9:15 am. Plaza Ballroom E White Beauty and the Native American Beast: Examining the Captivity Narrative in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga. Melissa N. Miller, Georgia State University Media helps reinscribe dominant positions of power and authority (Althusser,1971: Gitlin, 1980: Hall, 1982) with ideological and political implications (Gerbner, 1992). Themes of power, justification of violence, and emotional maturation surrounding the Bella/Jacob relationship in Twilight reproduce destructive discourses of racism, heteronormativtty, and sexism to recreate the captivity narrative in which an honorable White woman is degraded by a lustful savage (Bird, 1999). Since media discourse of Native Americans is created by and for White audiences (Bird, 1999), the captivity narrative In Twilight may complicate not only audience attitudes about interracial relationships, but a myriad of indigenous feminist issues. Got Vampire Privilege?: The Whiteness of Twilight. Natalie Kate Wilson, California State University, San Marcos Referencing the work of Andrea Smith, Leslie Marmon Silko, Paula Gunn Allen, Gloria Anzaldua, and Peggy Mclntosh, this paper will explorehow white privilege depends on a silencing and delegitimizing if indigenous culture and theory. The paper will examine how what ShermanAlexie calls a "colonial gaze" colors both the Twilight texts and the surrounding fandom. Examining interviews with contemporary Quileute women in relation to indigenous feminist theory, the paper enactsa "difficult dialogue" between the white privilege that permeates the texts, the fandom, and the existing response with the reality of continuing indigenous disenfranchisement. Moderator:Natalie Kate Wilson, California State University, San Marcos 180. Epistemdc Violence, Post Colonial Melancholia and Womenof Color Living a Politics of Transformation 8:00109: J5 am • Plaza Ballroom F "I Don't Talk Lilce That": Rethinking the Margins, Pedagogy and How Language Matters in the Classroom. Reina Rodriguez, University of Minnesota In "Choosing the Margin" bell hooks asserts, "I make a definite distinction between that marginality that is imposed by oppressive structures and that marginality one chooses as a site of resistance-as a location of radical openness and possibility:' This paper will explore how language as a site of marginality, has the potential to resist and transform uneven power dynamics in the classroom. Gloria Anzaldua affirms,"If you want to really hurt me, talk badly about my language." I contend that theorizing from a location of "radical openness" allows one to be conscious of validating multiple voices while centering womenof color as producers of knowledge. NWSA2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE SATURDAY 8:00 A.M. - 9:15 A.M. Risky Maneuvers, Productive Utterances, and Postcolonial Thought Across Borders. Karla Padron, University of Minnesota In this paper, I argue that turf wars between academic fields of inquiry often entrap women of color in a cycle of epistemic violence where we are hailed by white feminists to explain what are often perceived as erratic moves. Situating the works of Barbara Christian, bell hooks, Cherrie Moraga, and Gloria Anzaldua, in conversation with Edward Said, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak this paper calls for a move towards strategic border crossings as means to engage in liberatory epistemic/activist practices. Eye-to-Eye: Black Feminists Facing Epistemic Violence and the State Through Radical Partnerships. Brittany Lewis, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis The continual recycling of essays by Black feminists who aim to name the racist and sexist neoliberal politics of knowledge production and appropriation within the University system has left Black feminism in a state of melancholy and "inaction:' Contemporary radical black feminists recognize the importance of their foremother's rearticulation of this "invisible" politics, but are critical of this historiographical recycling and its damaging effects on the future of feminism and the transformation of U.S. society as a whole. The concepts of visibility and substantiality have taken on new meanings for feminists -Blac feminist political subjects within the Post Civil Rights Era specifically, argue that through the creation of risky partnerships between feminists of color and the adoption of a new politics of solidarity grounded in radical ideals we have begun to break from this state of "inaction;' expose epistemic violence and reconfigure social hierarchies. "My Peminism Is Not Your Feminism": The Politics of Translation & Speaking Our "Truths". Thomas X. Sarmiento, University of Minnesota Critically reflecting on the particularities that have informed my peminist consciousness (drawing on a body of work by Pilipina American feminists), this paper explores alternative ways of knowing negotiated on academic terrain. 1 argue that the praxis of oppositional consciousness not only involves challenging hegemony from without but also the painful unlearning of dominant epistemologies from within across {inter)disciplines. But before those of us who are marginalized can even begin to deconstruct, decolonize, destruct, de- etcetera, we must first attempt to make legible our embodied realities-risking failed translations-in order to live Other-wise-to occupy a viable space of knowing. Moderator: Zenzele lsoke, University of Minnesota 181. Law and Public Policy Interest Group Business Meeting 8:00 to 9: 15 am· Director S Row F Law and Public Policy Interest Group Business Meeting 131 I CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS 183. Queer Bodies and Feminist Margins 8:00 to 9: / 5 am • Director s Row H Gender Faith, Trans Gender Epistemology. Amy Marvin, West Chester University of Pennsylvania Using drama, dialogue, and prose, this paper seeks to establish a transgender and transsexual studies epistemology built upon the validity of trans people's identities. By framing gender as a matter of faith, I sidestep theories that demonize transgender and transsexual people or that appropriate their situation as merely a means to an end.l then sketch an epistemology that centers the standpoint of trans people while simultaneously acknowledging differences within the group. Distance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: Celebrating the Separation of Mind and Body during Sex. Alexandra Lauze, West Chester University of Pennsylvania; Meg Panichelli, West Chester University For some groups-namely sex workers. people with eating disorder), and transsexuals-emotional and mental detachment during sex isa necessary form of protection. keeping the mind safe from the corporeal experience. This detachment is typically seen as a necessary evil, butisir possible to understand disassociation during sex in a more constructive light? In this paper, we discuss the positive potential of disassociative sex. We ask: can the detachment of mind from body during the act of sex be viewed as empowering. even as potentially liberating? The Subjected Abject and the Abjected Subject: Altering the Positions of Spectatorship. Elizabeth A. Ruchti, West Chester University ill feminist theories of spectatorship, the subject objectifies the object In performance theory, the audience objectifies the subject of the performance. But what of the non-subject or non-object, the abject? This paper introduces the role of the abject in disrupting ncrmatire gender subjects and asks the following questions: Can the abject become empowered to perform a subjective gaze? Can the abject, in essence, "abjectify" normativity? Moderator: Lisa C. Ruchti, West Chester University of Pennsylvania 185. ACADEMIC PUBLISHING IN WOMEN'S STUDIES: BOOKS 8:00 to 9:15am· Director's Row I This session will offer practical advice about how to get published in books and edited collections. Get tips on developing a full academic book proposal. Understand how the submission process and timeline works, and gain insight into interpreting reviewer reports. Learn the best strategies for identifying a press, approaching an editor, developing a proposal, and understanding the publishing market. Presenter: Larin McLaughlin, University of Illinois Press Larin McLaughlin has many years experience in academic publishing and was recently hired as the Senior Acquisitions Editor at University of Illinois Press. Prior to this she was the Acquisitions Editor at State University of New York Press. NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE •Australian Feminist Studies www.tandf.co.ukljournals/cafs Gender & Development www.tandf.co.ukljournals/cgde Journal of Gender Studies www.tandf.co.ukljournals/cjgs NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research www.tandf.co.ukljournals/swom Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts www.tandf.co.ukljournals/cswa Women: a cultural review www.tandf.co.ukljournals/rwcr Women's History Review www.tandf.co.ukljournals/rwhr Women & Performance www.tandf.co.ukljournals/rwap Routledge has a wide variety of journals in the field of Gender Studies. Visit the journal homepages to: Register for table of contents alerts Order back issues Submit your research Find out about special and themed issues Recommend the journals to your library Read an online sample copy • Discover free articles • • • • • Find out more about Routledge Gender Studies Journals: www.informaworld.com/gender gl Routledgei\.Taylor & Francis Group •9:25 A.M. -10:40 A.M. CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS------------_--:.,;;,;,,;,.....:.-- SATURDAY 188. From Brazil to U. S. Mestizas and Latinas: Feminist Resistance, Citizenship and Notions of "Home» 9:25 to 10:40 am· Plaza Court J Linking Transnational Feminism and Intersectionality: the Interplay Between the Brazilian Women's Movement and Global Feminism Agendas. Solange Simoes. Eastern Michigan University In this paper I seek to demonstrate that the women's rights included in the 1988 Federal Constitution (regarded as one of the most progressive in the world today), and the current fourth wave agenda focusing on reproductive and sexual rights reflect a) the racial and class diversity of the movement's local and national organization as well as b) Brazilian women's vigorous participation in the transnational women's movement. Theoretically and methodologically, my paper presents a case study of the interplay of the national and transnational dimensions in shaping an intersectional agenda for the feminist and women's movements. Planting Roots and Making Claims: Chicanas Navigating Notions of Home and Belonging in the Midwestern "Borderlands/La Frontera." Kandace Creel Falcon, University of Minnesota Based on the collection of several Midwestern Mexican American women's oral histories, this paper explores Gloria Anzaldua's theoretical concepts of the "borderlands" and "mestiza consciousness" in the context of women's experiences that lie outside the intended imaginary of the US Southwest/Mexican borderlands. The paper questions how mujeres in the Midwest specifically and purposefully engage with the "borderlands" in the many ways that they claim space and build homes in the Midwest. Though illuminating their experiences of claiming space in the Midwest we gain stories about women's resistance, commitment to familia, and community building in an often isolating Midwest. Rupture in the Tradition, Daily Fissures: Rural Women Making a Difference in the Brazilian Semiarid. Loreley Gomes Garcia, Temple University We investigate the (ormation of new gender attitudes in the rural area. This research evaluates to which extent women-focused projects of development are able to promote changes in the gender relations in the rural area, contributing to a larger social change. This research has been developed in the region of Cariris da Parafba, in the agrarian reform settlements and agro-villas. Here, the Project Dom Helder Camara (PDHC) of the Brazilian Minister of Agrarian Development has been developed under the responsibility of feminist NGOs with the purpose of promoting autonomy among women and guaranteeing income-generating alternatives in the rural area. Walking Contradictions: Immigration Meets Sexual Citizenship Among Latina Lesbianas. Candace Lopez, University of Texas, Austin The research presented reflects the fieldwork conducted for my Master's Thesis with Latina Lesbian Immigrants living in California. The objective of the project is to understand how these women conceptualize and envision themselves within ideas of citizenship, sexuality, gender and home. I seek to expose or understand the many contradictions they may feel as sexual and national minorities living in a country in which they view themselves as limited yet liberated. Ultimately, I ask where immigration and sexuality collide among this group of Latina lesbianas. Moderator: Pauline Rankin, Carleton University 134 189. Ethnography of Gender Disruption 9:25 10 10:40 am • Plaza Caliri 2 A Utopian Fairyland Crossing Gender and Sexual Lines: An Empirical Study of Dan Mei Culture in Mainland China. Yi (Charlie) Zhang, Arizona State University Findings show that though crossing the (homo/hetero)sexual line with traditional laudatory discourses of homosexuality, the informants reinforce thegendered line of sexuality byexduding lesbians. Hybridity, a thermometer of social changes, is found in their gender identity and cultural products. Fluidity of gender and sexual identities is revealed in their socializing process. By romanticizing male homosexuality, they challenge hereto-conjugal relationships corrupted by the glcbalizlng capitalism. Bycorrelating feminized bodies with desirable masculinity, fans disrupt the unity of heteronormative gender ideology and appropriate men's symbolic power. By reconstructing traditional soft masculinity, they resist the transnational hegemony of reproduction of Anglo-American masculinity. Gender, Sexuality and Marginal Positioning of the Pengkids and their Girlfriends. Yuenmei Wong; University of Maryland This article focuses on the study of non-heterosexuality and non- normative genders with an emphasis on the socio-cultural and political processes that underpin its construction or reproduction. Recent stud)' of non-normative genders and sexualities, especially in anthropology and history had introduced new interpretations to enlighten our understanding of the dynamics, fluidity and diversity of genders and sexualities. This article aspires to deconstruct the assumed "naturalness" and "timelessness" of the binary sex/gender and heteronormativity, and to provide a more nuanced understanding of gender and sexual diversity, and its implication on the choices of those who embody such gender and sexual identities. Is It a Girl or a Boy? Trans-Identified Butches in the New York City Butch/Femme Society, 1989-Present. Arlene Holpp Scala, William Paterson University 'This paper presents an oral history of trans-identified butches in the New York City Butch/Femme SOciety. It is part of an oral history project documenting the Butch/Femme Society. Since this paper explores generational as well as race, class, and gender differences among butches, I situate it as third wave feminist research. Performing the Grade: Urban Latino Youth, Gender Performance, and Academic sSuccess. Andriana M. Foiles Sifuentes, University of Massachusetts, Amherst This paper will discuss the findings from a 2-month ethnographic research project conducted at a charter higher school in Houston, TX, that examines urban Latino youth gender expression and academic performance. The gendered performance of these Latino youth is associated with stereotypes of crime, violence, and harm, and is impacting teachers' perceptions of student learning abilities, social values, and academic desires. Subsequently, students are falling victim to misinterpretations of their academic capacity causing many to succumb to the violence of social stigma and surrender their learning potential. Moderator: Untut Ozkafe1i, Cyprus International University NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS~"":;';';';";"';"""';'-----_...J SATURDAY 9:25A.M. - 10:40 A.M. 190. Claiming the «(F"Word: Indigenous Women, Feminism, and Globalization 9:2510 /0:40 am· Plaza Court 6 "Property. Power, and the Dispossession of Indigenous Women". Elizabeth Ann Archuleta. Arizona State University Embedded within many visual and rhetorical images of Indigenous women are social and legal understandings of property, propriety, ownership, and entitlement that shape everyday activities and articulate unequal power relations often enforced through literal and physical threats of violence. Using the lens of Indigenous feminist theory, this paper broadens notions of intersectionality by combining a reading of the visual and textual images of Indigenous women, both Native and non-Native. alongside conceptions of property as a social institution and regulatory regime to show how property operates as a category of difference. "On the Tyrannies of History: Navajo Nationalism) Feminism, and Gender Constructs)'. Jennifer Denetdale, Northern Arizona University This presentation examines how Navajo "traditional" practices such as polygamy disappeared after American militarism and the modern Navajo government's establishment. Although Navajos had once practiced polygamy and acknowledged a third gender, their adoption of. and incorporation into, the American polity, has led to silences and gaps which historians and scholars have re-inscribed through the "cultural production of ignorance." Denetdale examines the erasures and gaps in Dine history, including how violence remains Littleremarked upon and revealed in writings about the creation and establishment of the modern Navajo government. "Witnessing and Accountability: Sexual Violence against Native Women!' Mishuana Goeman, University of California, LosAngeles This paper will primarily be concerned with effects on communities of witnessing violence. By examining various writings, I will examine modes of accountability and healing through elements of cultural practices. How do these stories witness and hold us accountable for the violence? What is the impact on communities and families in these moments of overwhelming violence? How does violence against Native women become mundane and contribute to silence! Looking to the stories as imaginative modes which construct new possibilities rather than reiterate colonial modes of violence is a necessary part of addressing the epidemic rates of violence against Native women. Moderator: Kristin Jean Jacobson, The Richard Stockton College of NewJersey 191. Performing the Historicized Body: Women in the Image of Culture 9:25/0 10:40 am • Plaza Court 7 Sailing Away from The Jersey Shore: Ethnic Nullification and Sights of the Italian American Female Body from Connie Francis to Lady Gaga. Roseanne Giannini Quinn, Santa Clara University Within the context of teaching this material in a classroom, "Sailing Away from The Jersey Shore: Ethnic Nullification and Sights of the Italian American Female Body from Connie Francis to Lady Gaga" takes as it starting point the degrading representation of Italian American women in the current popular television reality show The JerseyShore. I move backward to examine critically the creative work of performers Connie Francis. Madonna, Gwen Stefani, and Lady Gaga NWSA2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE as feminist and gay cultural icons who have embodied both relief from destructive stereotypes as well as often participated in the mass media reinforcement of them. "La gran Iucha": Luchadoras, Spectade and Performance in the Photographs of Lourdes Grober. Maria Ruiz, Saint Marys College My paper will examine Mexican photographer Lourdes Grober's series taken over a IS-year period chronicling women's experience in lucha libre. Through their insistently "public bodies;' luchadoras challenge traditional models of beauty, gender, sexuality, motherhood, and identity. Grober's photographs frame working class women within and outside of hegemonic constructions of Mexican national identity in order to alter spectator expectations about women's roles. As much the public sphere is gendered, the wrestling ring is even more so wi spectacle and visual consumption. 1will also focus on texts produced by aficionados and cultural "observers" such as Salvador Novo and Xavier Villaurrutia. Madmen/Madwomen: Retro- Revolution and the Female Body. Denise Witzig, St.Mary's College "Are you a Joan or a Betty?" This online query for fans of the tv show, Madmen, says as much about historical indicators of feminist politics as it does about visual representation, gender, sex role stereotypes, class, and consumerism. Each of these characters has her 0\'111 story, but it is her "look" that is carefully constructed to embody a specific kind of female experience in the 1960s U.S., inviting viewers to participate in a feminist analysis that is at once ironic and nostalgic. I will analyze how popular representations of hyper-femininity also implicitly critique current anti-feminist trends in socio-political discourse. Moderator: Gloria-Jean Masciarotte. Rhode Island School of Desig 192. Gender) Race) Sexuality) and Documentary Filmmaking 9:25 10 10:40 am • Plaza Court 8 Documenting Ourselves: Creative Scholarship on the Margins. Theresa Renee White, California State University, Northridge The use of documentaries is a reflexive process for interpreting ourselves and culture, and is a means to document unrehearsed events as they unfold, thus becoming useful as a source of data to those who study expressive manifestations of culture. Documentary films, as a social scientific method, are torn between the scientific approach and an artistic one. Most qualitative methods do not consider the ways in which women of color approach their research and what exactly may inform this approach. This paper examines the intersection of feminist epistemologies applied in creative documentary filmmaking to the "scientific" approach of data analysis. Iltezam and the Women)s Contingent in Budrus: Documentary Film as Feminist Intervention and Solidarity Praxis. Jessica DevaneYI Just Vision As associate producer and assistant editor of Just Vision's 2010 documentary Budrus, I will explore filmmaking as both an act of solidarity and an intervention resisting the dominant historical narrative that often excludes Palestinian nonviolence and the critical role of women in the movement. After deconstructing the chorus of voices telling the story, I will interrogate the possibilities for filmmaking as an act of solidarity. 135 CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS 9:25 A.M. -10:40 A.M. SATURDAY Of Rights and Representation: A Transnational Feminist Analysis of "Lakshmi and Me." Swati Bandi, State University of New York, Buffalo This paper examines Nishtha Jain's documentary film "Lakshmi and Me" (2007) as a document of hierarchies embedded within domestic servitude and documentary filmmaking in the Indian context. Reading the narrative of the employer/filmmaker Jain documenting the life of her domestic worker Lakshmi within it's global circuits of financing and distribution (it was funded by various European television networks), I argue that "Lakshmi and Me:' celebrated around the world as a film that exposes the realities of domestic workers, delivers a set of 'truths' about class, caste and gender in the Indian context. Queering the Good Book: Analyzing Itineraries of Emotion in "For the Bible Tells Me So". Elizabeth A. Gailey, The UniversityafTennessee This paper analyzes "For the Bible Tells Me So" (2007), a documentary that not only addresses feminist epistemological concerns related to the construction of sexuality in religious discourses, but foregrounds the intersection of racist, sexist and heterosexist ideologies in these accounts. Analysis of the film reveals that the documentary's formal properties-including reliance on "talking-head" interviews-are offset by the filmmaker's skill in evoking "a cumulative sequence of emotional responses" (Bruno, 2007) i.n which memory, intimacy, and movement are used to map the terrain of sexual oppression and rework the "psychogeography" of Christian family values. Moderator: lenn Posner, Women In Media & News 193. Creative Approaches to Black Women's History 9:2510 /0:40 0111 • Governor s Square 9 Repetitious Dailiness: Using the Pocket Diary of a Freeborn Black Woman to Explore Womanist Activism and Cultural Resistance. Kaye Wise Whitehead, Loyola University Maryland This paper examines the epistemological dimensions of diary writing as a form of creative identity assertion, womanist expression, and intellectual practice through an intense analysis of the 1863 pocket diary of Emilie, a freeborn Black woman. This research analyzes her entries as textual negotiations of womanist activism and cultural resistance. Therefore, by exploring the liminal spaces, between what she wrote and what was happening at that time, the paper deconstructs the recurrent tropes and narrative elements of her writing and uses her diary as a prism through which the lives of 19th Century Black women are illuminated and deconstructed The Literary Fantastic as Alternative Historical Knowledge: Octavia Butler's Kindred. Lauren f. Lacey, Edgewood College How can an utterly un-realistic novel help us to understand the brutality of slavery? What role can fantastic literature play in representing how women's lives are shaped by traumatic history? This paper looks at Octavia Butler's time-travel novel Kindred in order to explore how the literary fantastic can provide important ways into understanding the problems of historical representation and the need to cope with cultural trauma. Further, it argues that the blending of history and fantasy can provoke important rethinking about the relationship between past and present, and about the way representation shapes reality. 136 ) • "Jubilant Spirits of Freedom": The Lindy Hop as Freedom for Black Working-Class Women. Kendra Rae Unruh, Purdue University In my paper, I examine the ways in which the Lindy Hop provided a means of escape, freedom, and rebellion for black, working-class women during the swing era. Many of these women worked long hours as kitchen mechanics or in other low-paid jobs, and dancing provided one of the main ways for joy and escape. Using both scholarly texts as well as literary texts like Rudolph Fisher's "The Lindy Hop" and Ann Petry's TIle Street, I argue that the Lindy Hop and jazz culture held a great deal of power for black, working-class youth. Dominican American Women's Fiction: Violence, Blackness} and Resistance. Sobeira Latorre, Southern Connecticut State University My study analyzes the fictional representation of black and mulatto female bodies in Dominican American women's writing. I address specifically the ways in which women writers in the Diaspora challenge the historical and cultural processes that have led to the erasure! disavowal of Afro-descended women's bodies in both the Dominican and US contexts, as well as women's resistance to domestic and state repression. My study focuses on literary works by Angie Cruz, Ana Maurine Lara, and Loida Maritza Perez. Moderator: Kristine Byron, Michigan State University 194. Troubling Institutionalized Gender Normativity: Public Space} Binary-Busting and Trans Activisms- Sponsored Session: NWSA Transgender Caucus 9:2510 /0:40 am » Governor s Square 10 As the field of transgender studies continues to grow, researchers are beginning to move beyond the question of whether or not trans people "trouble gender" to investigate the ways that identity negotiation, inclusion/exclusion, and social transformation occur within the relationship between trans people and institutions. Through practical applications of queer theories of hybridity and intelligibility/abjection, trans studies aims to complicate and expand upon feminist frameworks that rely upon the stability and uniformity of identity categories. In this session, panelists present papers that examine the ways in which institutionalized forms of sex-segregation and heteronormativity uphold biologically essentialist notions of sexual difference and create serious problems of access for trans, genderqueer and gender non-conforming individuals. Institutions and facilities included are bathrooms. the workplace, rape crisis centers, and schools. Contributors to the panel address the ways in wh..ich trans people and allies use their agency to challenge such gender normative policing, the limits to their agency, and how these issues intersect with issues of race, class. sexuality, nation, age and disability, among other categories. Presenters: Reese C. Kelly, State University of New York, Albany Elisabeth Morgan Thompson, University of Arizona Moderators: faime L. Phillips, State of New Mexico Human Rights Bureau joelle Ruby Ryall, University of New Hampshire NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS SATURDAY 9:25A.M. -10:40 A.M. 195.SOLHOT The Mixtape: Revolutionary Acts 9:15to 10:40 am· Governor s Square 1/ Thissession interrogates the question Toni Carle Bambara asked in TheSalt Eaters (1980), "Are you sure, sweetheart, that you want to be ....'ell.. in context of Saving OUf Lives Hear Our Truths (SOLHOT), a spatial intervention/research site that celebrates the complexity of black girlhood. Theoretical insights from Performance Studies. Queer Theory, BlackFeminist Thought. Womanism, and Narrative Inquiry will inform the performance offered in response to Bambara that blurs boundaries between traditional modes of academic analysis, performance, and story-tellingwhile contributing to academic and popular discourse on Black Girlhood. DureflMaurice Callier, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Chomara/ewel Kwakye, University ofIlJinois, Urbana-Champaign Moderator:Tricia Lin, Southern Connecticut State University 196.Stepping Into the Institution: LGBT, Queer and New SexualityStudies. 9:25to 10:40 am • Governor's Square J 2 Overthe past several decades, numerous universities and colleges have begun to offer programs in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, queer, and/or new sexuality studies. These programs are often considered cutting-edge in terms of classes offered, and thus controversial. This workshop will overview these types of programs and institutional structures, and then open conversation for participants to share their experiences and visions of 'complicating the queer' through institutionalization in the academy. Discussions of curriculum, pedagogy,and institutional successes (and stresses) are expected. Presenter: CathyConuolly, University of Wyoming 197.The Contested Terrain of Queer) Feminist Debates aboutSame-Sex Marriage 9:25 to 10:40 am • Governor's Square /4 Taxing:A Feminist and Queer Analysis of the United StatesInternal Revenue Code. Mary Bazemore, University of Maryland This paper presents a critique of the marital unit rendered in the United States Internal Revenue Code (IRC). Through an analysis of tax legislative histories, case law, and IRe provisions, I argue that the "facially neutral" provisions of the IRC are imbued with assumptions about normative marital arrangements that are reinforced Witheconomic incentives for the marital unit at the cost of married secondary wage earners (typical1y women) and "unmarried" citizens. Icontend that the current gay political agenda of "marriage equality" revealsa far-reaching, uncritical belief in the moral propriety, gender- equity,and naturalness of the marital unit. "Whatever Happens) This Is": Same-Sex Marriage Apprehensions. Julie R. Enszer, University of Maryland, CollegePark Through textual analysis of The Ladder (1956-1972) and two poetry sequences,one by Adrienne Rich and one by Marilyn Hacker, from the late19705,I create a more nuanced genealogical history about marriage asa social and political issue for lesbians. I argue first that marriage has beena site of dialogue. consideration, and engagement for lesbian and gay people for a long time; it did not emerge in the new millennium; andsecond that dialogues about marriage within the queer community donot necessarily invoke marriage as normative. NWSA2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE Should Same-sex Queer Women Get Married? Making a Home on the Contested Terrain of Feminism) Queer politics, and Gay Rights Legislation. Kathryn Ziegler, Eastern Michigan University This paper-in-progress explores intersections of feminist and queer views on same-sex marriage rights. I work with feminist views that marriage is oppressive to women, but also an opportunity to challenge traditional gender roles and allow sex equality. Queer views generally challenge social institutions such as marriage and generally reject the notion that sexuality must be kept private. Gay rights movements advocate for protection of sexuality and gender identities, also saying marriage is a right that should be queer folks should have. The contested terrain of these intersections involve our queer identities, relationships, and politics. This Isn't About Registering at Crate & Barrel: Remapping Race, Class, and Marriage Rhetoric in Washington D.C. Justin Maher, University of Maryland Combining ethnography and media analysis, this paper examines the discourse surrounding the recent legalization of same-sex marriage in Washington, D.C.l argue these debates became a platform to parse out issues of territory, gentrification, racism, and classlsm amidst uneven urban development. Focusing primarily on LGBQ residents of color, I contend that valuable critiques of marriage rhetoric's neoliberal and homonormativite impulse must be complicated with an exploration of how individuals theorize same-sex marriage on the ground in their everyday lives. While these debates often reinforced reductive identity assumptions and marginalization, they also offered an opportunity for LGBQ residents to tie marriage equality into a broader, activist- oriented framework that worked against neoliberalism and towards intersectional social justice. Moderator: Mel Michelle Lewis, University of Maryland, CoUege Park 198. Circuits of Nation-Building: Transnational Asian Feminist Critiques 9:25 10 J 0:40 am • Governor s Square 15 Indian Immigrant IT Workers in the us: Intersections of Racial Feminization and Hetero-patriarchal Masculinities. Payal Banerjee, Smith College Complex gender dynamics underscore the material and discursive practices informing the large-scale employment of Indian immigrant IT workers in the US. These immigrants' employer-dependent visa status, fragile bargaining power, and recurrent irregularities with employment and income reveal some of the exploitative conditions that shape this group's subordination to capital and the state in highly racial and feminized terms. This paper discusses how this racialized and feminized context of employment for this overwhelmingly male and highly skilled professional immigrant group, exists within a contrasting gender discourse that subscribes to a hetero-masculine aura of power and pride manifested in both the Indian nationalist and global characterization of the emergence and international success Indian's IT sector and its professionals, abroad and at home. The Anti-imperialist Women)s Movement in Asia & Internationalism in the Women's International Democratic Federation. Elisabeth Brownell Armstrong Smith College 'TIleWomen's International Democratic Federation (WIDF) began in 1945 as an international forum for socialist women's groups around the world. Scholarly attention to WIDF's importance in Europe is well underway, but with a few notable exceptions, little research has 137 The Legacy of EUa Deloria and Waterlilly. Jennifer William~ University of Colorado, Denver Jennifer Williams examines female Dakota ethnographic work through the example of Ella Deloria and her classic novel WaterWr New challenges in Dakota Studies increasingly study a society that bas moved well beyond the civil rights struggles of the previous generation. yet the work of Ella Deloria continues to inform feminist tribal intellectual contributions 9:25 A.M. -10:40 A.M. CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS------------------- ....SATURDAY explored what role WlDF played in the independence movements in colonized countries in Africa, Latin America. the Caribbean, or in Asia. Those scholars who have begun research on Asian and African anti-imperialist women's movements intimate complex anti-colonial and women's rights linkages that demand more attention. This paper charts the solidarity built in anti-imperialist networks of the socialist Asian women's movement, describing an Asia that far exceeds its usual geographic and geo-political boundaries. Gendered Transnational Politics of Family, Work And Motherhood in the Asian Diaspora. Miliann Kang, University of Massachusetts, Amherst State policies and ideologies of both sending and receiving countries are deeply implicated in the ways that migration shapes commitments to family and work, even into the second generation. Inter-generational politics in Asian American families illuminate the long reaches of the state into patriarchal family structures. ideologies of filial piety and responsibilities to care for extended families through remittances and visa sponsorship. Although these negotiations of employment, family and community ties are often framed as personal or cultural struggles of assimilation, they reflect much larger contexts of gendered transnational politics in the Asian diaspora. Contesting "Bases of Empire": Feminist Responses to U.S. Military in Asia. Diana Yoon, University of Massachusetts, Amherst U.S. military presence in Asia dates back to the occupation of the Philippines in 1898 and has been a critical component of American participation in 20th-century wars and occupations in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. In addressing the military build-up and its consequences, feminist scholarship and activism have developed critiques of how the politics of nations and bodies are understood and debated. This paper examines feminist mobilization around the impact of U.S. military bases ill Asia, focusing on the formation of transnational networks, construction of rights discourses, and mobilization of juridical and normative frameworks that challenge liberal paradigms. Moderator: Banu Subramaniam, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 199. Collaborative Feminisms: Academic Activism Impacting Long-Term Survivorship of Human Trafficking. 9:2510/0:40 am· Governor's Square /6 The Need for Multidisciplinary CoUaborations in Victim Services for Human Trafficking Survivors. Lauren Croucher, CoLorado Organization for Victim Assistance Due to the complex needs of survivors of human trafficking, collaborative efforts are needed from a feminist perspective. This paper will provide cultural and community context for the creation of services for human trafficking survivors in the U.S., funded by the U.S. Dept of Justice Office for Victims of Crime. Comprehensive victim services offered by the Colorado Network to End Human Trafficking will be featured, including review of its inception and victim-centered mission developed out of collaborations between government and non-governmental agencies. Drawing Collaborations Between Academics and Field Practitioners. Amanda A. Finger. Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking As a charter member of the Colorado Network to End Human Trafficking, the Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking collaborated with colleagues to assist in capacity building and research via the 138 Colorado Statewide Needs Assessment Project. Collaborative polkv and advocacy efforts at the state level will be shared in this paper, including specific partnering efforts with the Instiute for Women's Studies and Services to 1) create a human trafficking course; 2) develop a working paper series; and 3) co-create victim service protocols for long term survivorship. Institutionalizing Long-term Survivors Resources inHigher Edncation. Annjanetre Alejano-Steele, Metropotiton State College of Denver The unique model of the Institute for Women's Studies and Services will be featured, in providing higher education resources to human trafficking survivors. We will review our mutually-beneficial partnership with LCHT and CoNEHT in the development of protocols for college-specific case management protocols gleaned over the last four years. Our model of training departments and creating academic response teams for trafficking survivors will be featured. Moderator: Donna M. Bickford. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 200. "Outsider" Feminist Thought 9:25 to 10:40 am· Governor s Square /7 Women's Spoken Word: US Imperialism Revealed. Faye Caronan, University of Colorado, Denver Dr. Faye Coronan chalJenges Women Studies scholars to rethink dominant paradigms of gender in the United States within a context oi colonial relations. She explores the kind of subtle, everyday colonialism that is unconsciously perpetuated in mainstream and feminist organizations, and the collective artistic responses which provide formidable resistance. Lncille Clifton: The Poetry of Triple-Consciousness. Rachel E. Harding, University of Colorado, Denver Dr. Rachel Harding examines the poetic legacy of Lucille Clifton. Clifton's writings clearly stand out among the greatest texts in the field of racial studies. With great clarity and in very accessible form, Lucille Clifton draws readers' attention to their own involvements with social issues. Wilma Mankiller: American Indian Feminist Political Writings. Donna C. Langston, University of Colorado. Denver Dr. Donna Langston outlines American Indian feminist standpoint theory with an examination of the writings of Chief Wilma Mankiller. Starting with the principle that tribal politics are not a matter of separate entities but of systems of social relations (which encompass many groups), it unpacks how gender and racial domination actualf operate in the political and economic systems of internal colonialism, tribalism, and self-determination. Moderator: jennifer Williams, University of Colorado. Denver NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS _------------- --1 201. More than Cyborgs: Integrating Science & Technology Studies into Feminist Classrooms 9:15 to 10:40 am » Plaza Court 3 Wbat pedagogical strategies exist for "doing" feminist science & technology studies (5TS) in the classroom? This roundtable provides tangible tools for educators interested in integrating feminist-S'TS into general education and specialized courses in multiple disciplines: Women's/Gender Studies, Ethnic Studies, Composition, Biology. We explore the pedagogical, institutional, and curricular barriers that push feminist-STS conversations to the margins of these and other classrooms. Each of us shares strategies, grounded in teaching experiences at the interfaces of gender-face-science, to transform barriers into avenues of integration. We situate these transformative strategies in feminist-STS commitments to civic engagement. responsible knowledge production, and social justice. Presenters: Jane L. Lehr, California Polytechnic State University Chikako Takeshita. University of California, Riverside Jodi Kelber-Kaye, University of Maryland. Baltimore County Clare Ching len, University of Maryland Moderator: Carole McCann, University of Maryland, Baltimore County 202. Performance) Performatlvfty, and Feminism: The Critical and Creative 9:25 to 10:40 am » Plaza Court 4 Performances of Care and Intersectionality. Maurice Hamington, Metropolitan State College of Denver The analysis begins with a brief, but fresh look at the elements of care ethics in order to highlight the physicality of caring human performances. Then a foray into ontology is offered to suggest that as relationally established selves, humans can be conceived as caring corporeal beings rather than the traditional atomistic abstract agents of traditional political theory. Given this framing of human ontology, care is described as a performance of the body, and how embodied care can spark understanding across intersectional divides. The conclusion addresses the implications for moral development and moral education if the body is indeed a vital participant in our moral knowledge and performance. From Housewife to Superhero: Theorizing Productive Creativity as Feminine Subject Formation. Jenny Carlson, University of California, Berkeley 1his paper proposes an alternative way to understand gender difference in terms of subject formation and questions the account of gender subject formation provided in Judith Butler's work on performativity. If we understand creativity as a defiance of strict boundaries and stable truth. then in contrast to the boundary-conscious demands associated with masculine subject formation, contemporary femininity in the US has an affinity with productive creativity. I argue that this new way of understanding gender may provide relevant Insights into gender agency, particularly regarding Butler's formulation of gender performativity, 1 suggest that Butler's analysis implies a masculine mode of subject formation and that the forms of gender resistance she advocates may not necessarily provide subversive potential for feminine subjects. The proposed theoretical framework calls for a gendered theory of performativity beyond a theory of gender perfcnnativity that can account for alternative forms of creative agency beyond those that Butler offers. NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE Theatre of Abjection: The Power of Feminist and Queer Performatives. Elizabeth A. Ruchti, West Chester University Whether in the theatre, coffee house, or night club, feminists and queers have each capitalized on the power of the performative (in both the theatrical and Butlerian senses) to alter audience views of the normative world order. This common ground has led to a great deal of crossover between the two theatrical worlds fraught with tension- both negative and positive. In this paper. I explore how the tension generated between feminist and queer perfcrmatives has the power to create a "Theatre of Abjection;" a style of performance that alienates, or queers. the audience in such a way as to refocus their gaze from a hegemonic masculine to a feminist point of view. Nature or Virtue? Gender, Embodiment and Failed Performance. Kate Mason, University of California, Berkeley In this paper. I examine the dynamics of performance and "pas in the realm of normalized embodiment: body size. Contrary t gender, bodies that exist outside of the (slender-bodied) norm tend to be hypervisible. TIle active accomplishment and performance of normative-bodiedness, particularly through dieting and exercise regimes, is a common topic of public discourse. Using "success stories" on commercial dieting websites as my text, 1 examine the logics by which some bodies are pronounced "good" and others "deviant;' and find that these rationales are based oat in assumptions about natur (as is the case for gender, according to Butler), but on judgments 0 personal virtue and diligent performance. In closing, I return to Butler's claim about the subversive potential of gender non-normative performances. Will the exposure of bodily and behavioral norms as performance work to discredit them? Or, might it Simply replace one logic (nature) with another (hardworking, int.entional performance), while keeping gender norms firmly in place? Moderator: Susan Richmond, Georgia State University ( 203. (Em)bodying Disabilities: Exploding Difference & Inclusion 9:25 to 10:40 am • Plaza Court 5 Ableist Colonizations: What We're Missing When We Diminish Disability Studies in Gender Studies. Cindy Marie Lacorn, Slippery Rock University TI10ugh Disability Studies scholars have made progress in Gender Studies, disability is still too often reduced to identity politics or understood as a metaphor for gendered or queer oppression. Such "dissings" of disability can lead to subjective colonization, whereby we diminish the lived realities and political issues faced by people with disabilities. We need to more carefully consider the dangers of such a conflation and tease out how disability complicates notions of intersectional identity. I discuss how we might negotiate our own ideological biases in working to honor such complexities in integrating a Disability Studies perspective into Gender Studies. 139 9:25 A.M. -10:40 A.M. CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS 1..- _ SATURDAY Disabled Women, Parenting, and Reproductive Intrusions: Recent Activist and State Intervention in Illinois. Michael Gill, University of Connecticut This presentation explores a recent court case in Illinois where a young adult woman with an intellectual disability petitioned the court to stop an involuntary sterilization procedure. 11,e court ruled that permanent sterilization would cause psychological damage to the young woman even though the court was convinced she did not have the capacity to parent. Activists emboldened by the court case petitioned the State Legislature and Governor to pass a law preventing involuntary sterilization. This paper offers tentative observations about the reproductive rights for women with intellectual disabilities Jiving in an ableist, racist, classist, sex.ist, and heteronormative society. TIle Power of Passivity and the Embodied Technology of Disability and Dolls. Eunjung Kim, University of Wisconsin This presentation brings films, Lars and the Real Girl (2007 US) and Air Doll (2009 Japan) to explore the boundaries of human agency and bodies as well as the ideology of ability and sexuality. The representations of dolls as disabled and nondisabled raise a question about what it means to be human and what it means to have (and be) bodies within the systems of recognition. J discuss the agency of passivity as radical to which the community around them has to either reject or surrender. 1 explore the gender dyna.mics of disability and passivity through their relationship with dolls. Moderator: Ednie KaeIJ Garrison, University of South Florida 204. Teaching Radical Feminist Pedagogy: Women of Color in College Classrooms 9:251010:40 am· Plaza Ballroom E This roundtable will provide participants with the opportunity to discuss issues pertaining to classroom dynamics, curriculum development and strategies to facilitate feminist and critical thinking in college classrooms. We will offer examples from our own experiences as female faculty of color, highlighting the complexities of our daily negotiations with race, class, gender, sexuality and language, inside our classrooms. The voices of women of color engaging in radical feminist pedagogy are at the center, and we will engage in a dialogue to address issues such as strategies when negotiating student resistance and our own authority. Presenters: Dalia Rodriguez, Syracuse University Himika Bhattacharya, Syracuse University Deepti Misri, University of Colorado, Boulder lrmary Reyes-Sautes, University of Oregon Danika Medak-Saitzman, University of Colorado, Boulder Celiany Rivera- Velazquez, New York University Moderator: Bianca Williams, University of Colorado, Boulder 140 205. Oh, How I Love Being a "Special" Girl!: Examining the Politics of Gender, Disability and Inspiration 9:25 to 10:400111 • Plaza Ballroom F Demons! Demons! Demons! Tulle! Tulle! Tulle!: On not Exorcising the Teenage Girl. Danielle Pofunda, University 0/ Wyoming This paper explores the subject position girl, and the way she is received by and ostracized from US culture. Even among feminists, girl can be a dirty word, girl culture suspect. In psychological, medical. and theoretical discourse girl bodies appear targets for violation and possession, girlhood a disease we must outgrow. Examining fictional and non-fictional stories of possession, the relationship between cuteness and violence, and the peculiar appeal of Edward Cullen (Twilight's vampire hero), I'll unearth the ways in which we\e demonized the teenage girl, and speculate: what mjghr happen if, rather than overcoming girlhood, we embraced it? Getting Precious: To Pity the Girl or to Rise Up With Her. Michelle Jarman, University of Wyoming Through an analysis of Sapphire's 1996 novel Push and Lee Daniels' 2009 filmic adaptation, Precious, this paper considers the limitations and promise of inspirational "overcoming" narratives to resist oppressive structures. Drawing upon disability studies scholarship, I investigate how the body of Precious Jones (and actress Gabourey Sidibe) is represented and culturally read. In many ways, Precious Jones is pathologized-by poverty, abuse, illiteracy, obesity, and disease- and we wonder what exactly she is being asked to overcome. Finally, I suggest a dialogic process where audience members/readers not only feel inspired, but engage in overcoming attitudes of their own. (Dis)abling Motherhood: Alternatives to the "Overcoming" Narrative for Mothers of Children Labeled Developmentally Disabled. Alison Quaggin Harkin, University of Wyoming As the mother of a child labeled developmentally disabled, I've read several "overcoming" memoirs by other mothers. Many indicate we "specialmorns" often accept that the maternal female body is the origin and site of disability. A common narrative theme is that we must atone for our flawed bodies a.nd inadequacy through efforts to overcome our "special" child's disability, In my paper, I discuss how my own creation of auroethnographic texts has allowed me to explore alternatives to this "overcoming" narrative. In doing so, I refer specifically to the feminist poststructural approaches of Susanne Gannon (2008) and Chris Weedon (1997). References Gannon, S. (2008). Flesh and the text: Poststructural theory and writing research. Saarbrucken: VDM Verlag Dr. Miiller. Weedon, C. (1997). Feminist practice and posrstructuralist theory (znd ed.). Malden, MA Blackwell Publishing. Moderator: Colleen DentJey, University of Wyoming 206. Ethics, Equity, Diversity and Accessibility Committee Business Meeting 9:25 (0 10:40 am· Director s Row F NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE pCHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS---~----------------SATURDAY 9:25A.M. - 10:40 A.M. 207.The Pedagogical is Political: 'Outsider' Feminisms 10 De-center Western Discourses of Feminism Within the Academy. SponsoredSession - NWSA International Task Force 9:15/0 10:40 am· Director's Row H Half-SisterOutsider: Toward an Ethics of Diverse Feminisms. Stephanie Troutman, Pennsylvania State University Asawoman of color. the primary text for my Introduction to women's Studiescourse (at a majority institution) is a multicultural anthology. J have deliberately selected this text because it de-centers white, westernized feminism and allows me to introduce then build upon several"outsider" feminisms such as: black feminist perspectives, girlhood studies, transnational feminism/s, and masculinity/ies- amongothers. My presentation is part narrative- with me reflecting on myown"outsider" positionality within the classroom; the other part of thispresentation draws on students' responses (through assignments and projects) to learning about "outsider" feminisms as presented withinthe course. Outsider's Within: Latino/a Feminisms and the Politics of Pedagogy. Alyssa Garcia, Penn State University Basedon Chicana feminist scholar Patricia Zavella's idea "Feminist Insider Dilemmas:' this presentation will explore the meanings of ethnic/racia1 identities and issues of power/privilege in relation to whatwe define as our feminist politics in the field, in our classrooms, and in our hallways. In an attempt to transcend dichotomies of insider/outsider, I will present examples from my course on feminist perspectivesto situate how we simultaneously occupy and (relnegotiate thesestatuses. I discuss the ways in which the position of "outsider within"allows us to draw on our personal/cultural background and socialocations to analyze gender amidst interlocking oppressions. TheBorder Crossing Classroom: African Feminisms and the Curriculum. Gabeba Baderoon, Penn State University AsanAfrican feminist scholar, I am intent on practicing a transnational feministpedagogy, which means ensuring that my syllabi include the workof activists and scholars based not solely in the North but also in Africa,Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America. My teaching draws on the"practical theorizing" of creative and activist work in addition to academicpublications. The university has been a space where we can contestone-way flows of global power and ensuring that our teaching includesthe theories and experiences of our fellow feminists across the globeexpands and enriches our conception of feminist work. LocalizingGlobal Feminisms: A Socialist, Transnational Perspective. Irina Aristarkhova, Penn State University In this presentation I outline critical challenges and pedagogical rewards that insist on opening up a Feminist Theory classroom to multiplepoints of departure. My emphasis will be not only on the curriculum, but also on institutional (dis)connections, specifically, With labor and ethnic studies. I will present examples of Women's Studiesand Feminist Theory syllabi that J taught in Russia. Singapore, andthe US, unpacking how the concept of'outsider' feminisms shifted depending on geographical location and student diversity or lack thereof,remaining at the center. however. of the project of challenging mainstream paradigms of knowledge and its production. \1oderator:Katina Sawyer, Penn State University NWSA2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE 208. ACADEMIC PUBLISHING IN WOMEN'S STUDIES: JOURNALS 9:25 to 70:40 am. Director's Row I This session will offer practical advice about how to get published in women's studies journals. Understand how the journal submission process and timeline works, and gain insight into interpreting reviewer reports. Learn the best strategies for approaching an editor and submitting an article. Presenters: Karen Alexander, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society Claire G. Moses, University of Maryland, College Park RebeccaRopers-Huilman, University of Minnesota/Feminist Formations Journal Karen Alexander is Senior Editor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society and an affiliate faculty member of the Rutgers University Women's and Gender Studies Department as well as a founding editor of Films for the Feminist Classroom. Claire G. Moses has been the Editorial Director of Feminist Studies since 1977. Moses is also Professor and former chair of Women's Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. Rebecca Ropers-Huilman is the chair of the Dept. of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development at the University of Minnesota, and the Editor of Feminist Formations. 141 CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS--------------_.....:.;,;;,;,:";,;,,;,,..-10:50 A.M. - 12:05 P.M. SATURDAY ) 209. The Visual and The Performance 10:50 to /2:05 pm » Plaza Court 1 Real Girl Dances inMummer Throng: Towards a Poetic Understanding of Women in History. Cora B. Leighton, Rowan University Despite the fact that the Philadelphia Mummers Parade is one of the oldest and largest in the country, few people know about it or understand it. In particular, women's historical roles in the community are still unclear today, and many of the contemporary rules about women's participation in the parade equally reflect this same confusion. This essay is an attempt to solve a problem in researching women in history via a poetic approach. By performing my embodied experiences through poetic narrative I hope to implicate the importance of the embodied experience in this research specifically and in historiography in general. Running In(to) the Family: Stories of Sex Workers, Johns and Wives. Ummni Khan, Carleton University, Ottawa In women and gender studies, one of the most difficult dialogues has been on the legal and ontological status of sex work/prostitution. In this creative-critical project, 1 explore the familial dimension of this dialogue. 1 take the reader through a series of socio-legal stories that suggest the ideology of the family is deeply embedded in the legal regulation and cultural production of sex work. 'TIle stories trace the different (and often contradictory) narratives that demonstrate the intersubjectivity of sex work and family and highlight the difference between sex workers and wives, Johns and husbands and marital sex and sex work. Subverting Slander: Iconography of Mary Magdalene and the New Story It Tells. Louise Marie Doire, College of Charleston For centuries Mary Magdalene was characterized as 'the penitent whore: and yet, before the 6th century there is no such association in the written record. This paper will examine how this ancient misconception evolved and how medieval Christian art contributed to its perpetuity. As Biblical scholars construct a different hagiography, the contemporary iconography of Mary of Magdala has changed as well. Through a visual presentation of the iconography, this paper will track the role and power of artistic depictions of Mary's story and their subversive contributions to the history of this much maligned disciple and apostle. Texturing Identity: Frida Kahlo and Politics of Representation Through Appearance. Maricela Teresa DeMlrjyn, Colorado State University, Fort Collins; Bulanda Annette Sanders, Colorado State University The topic of this work addresses how constructed methods of appearance (dress and the body) playa role in developing self-representation and identity for a visually noted woman of color. By analyzing stages of performance, use of artwork and textiles in contrasting methods of establishing gender, sexuality, class and racial/ethnic identification will be asserted. Moderator: Liz R. Canfield, Virginia Commonwealth University 142 ) 210. The (Re)creation of Girlhood Discourses by Girls & Adult Feminist Activists 10:50 to 12:05pm • Plaza Court 2 "Saying What I Want To Say, My Way:" Girls Doing Participatory Action Research. Laura Boutwell, Virginia Tech This presentation explores the impact of youth-centered participatory research designs in promoting social justice. I draw from my research encounters with a group of African and Afro-Caribbean refugee girls and young women, ages 12-22. Their very identities are embedded in complex and intersecting inequalities: as Muslims in a post-9/1l U.S.. as refugees in the face of increasing debates over immigration and who belongs in the nation-state. Though the participants do not self- identity as black, they are cast as black in a country where blackness is foundational for race and racism. Throughout om research encounters. girls and young women explore strategies of engagement and resistance. Slow Motion Interviewing: A New Method for Listening to Girls. Dana Edell, New York University In response to this challenge of an adult interviewer questioning a teenager in a clinical space, 1 developed a new participatory methodology for interviewing with teenage girls. Giving girls tape recorders, blank cassettes, and a list of question, I invite them to record their responses in their own time and space, gaining a degree of power as co-creators of the interview. I've noticed that without the structure oflooking me in the eye or sitting in a semi-public place, the transcripts from these girls' tapes are illuminating and suggest a different, deeper and more candid response to interview questions. Teaching Girls Studies in the Composition Classroom. Martha Pitts, Louisiana State University This paper will answer the question: How does an African American feminist graduate teaching assistant develop and promote an interdisciplinary gender studies course while placing the experiences of African-American girls at the center of analysis while simultaneously maintaining its relevance to all students? This essay provides answers by explaining how a course's title, perspective, structure, and assignments were developed in ways that attracted students in the social sciences, humanities, women's studies, and African American studies. Additionally, the course was taught at a state institution in a rural setting with approximately 21,000 undergraduates, 15.9 percent of whom are minorities and students of color. Immersed in Girl Culture: Teaching Girl Studies through Service-Learning. Janel Badia, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne I will explore the ways our understanding of girl culture is transformed by students' immersion in current and local girl cu.lture itself and the challenges involved in on-site, community-centered learning for students and as a teacher and program director. Hoping to strengthen both our program's connection to the local community through service- learning activities and our curriculum's attention to transnational feminism, r want to highlight how a course in girl studies centered on community-based projects can serve as an opportunity for students 10 think critically about the dominant trope of margin and center thaI have come to define the current field of women's studies. Moderator: SIWrll1011 Roper, Marist College NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS~_::"":":":""';";"-------------~---' SATURDAY 10:50 A.M. -12:05 P.M. 211.Transgender Perspectives on Gender Performance 10:50to 12:05 pm • Plaza Court 6 Quantifying the Meaning of "Passing" to Male to Female Transsexuals. Stephanie M. Dykes, Independent Scholar For many male to female transsexuals, "passing" is viewed by many as an end-all and be-all that ensures a life free of social ostracism or worse. At the same time. some authors have stated that efforts of transgender women to pass have a negative impact on all women by reinforcing gender stereotypes. The issue of "passing" has been researched and published in many academic disciplines. Using a transfeminist perspective. and building on qualitative research findings presented at the 2009 NWSA conference. this quantitative research presentation will detail how transgender women view, define, and negotiate the issueof passing, The researcher, who is herself a transsexual, uses a transfeminist point of view in her research. RayleBourbon: Performing Transgender Cosmopolitan Citizenship. Don Romesburg, Sonoma State University what kinds of performance make possible a full, long transgender existence! Exploring comic and female impersonator Rayle Bourbon's life (l892?-197l) through concepts of transgender cosmopolitan citizenship and transtextuality showcases how Bourbon managed so ably for so long within compromised. changing circumstances. Part of the act. onstage and off, was performing privilege and a global network of contacts. Transient identities, transborder discourses, and shiftinggendered and racialized performances and embodiments were also crucial as more than playful camp or transsexual displacement- to-destination renarrativizaticn. Yet these techniques could not, ultimately,allow the performer to transcend systems that, in the end, trapped Rayle into a grim immanence. Moderator: Tracy Lynn woodard-Meyers, Valdosta State University 212. WomenJs Centers Developing Feminist Voices and Communities Through Social Media 10:50to 12:05 pm » Plaza Court 7 lncreasingly, students, faculty, and staff in Women's Centers are using online tools to explore who they are and to "tryon" different identities. Theseonline identities are changing the way we think about community and feminism, as well as how we can use these tools to better serve our constituents. This session will address these questions, as well as open space for audience participation and sharing of best practices. We will alsodiscuss the use of social media tools from a practical, professional, and feminist perspective, including how to effectively understand, addressand use these tools in our women's center work. Presenters: BrendaBethman, University of Missouri, Kansas City KateSchaab, Northern Illinois University Juli L Parker, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth JoannaSnawder, Metropolitan State College of Denver Anna LoMascolo, Virginia Tech Moderator: Jennifer Graham, Georgia College & State University NWSA2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE 213. Latin American Feminist and Queer Liberation Theologies in Translation: New Perspectives for Queer Studies in the United States 10:50 to 12:05 pm » Plaza Court 8 The First Visibilities ofHomosexuales in Mexico: A Challenge to Conservative Catholic Culture. Antonio Ortega, Augsburg College This paper will present original research on the first visibilities of "homosexuals" in Mexico between 1900 and the 1950s, thereby providing greater visibility to the long history of gay activism outside of the U.S. in contexts such as Mexico, where activists have taken great risks despite conservative Catholic opposition. The research is framed by the author's own coming out story as a Mexican LCBTQ activist and ex-Catholic seminarian who celebrates the December 2009 passage of a gay marriage law in Mexico City while continuing to fight against the influences of the Catholic hierarchy which are trying to overthrow that law. Combating U.S. Centrism in Gender Studies & Queer Studies: Using Feminist Pedagogies & International Education to "Complicate the Queer" Ann Lutterman- Aguilar, Center for Global Education at Augsburg College This paper will draw on original research regarding former students' perceptions of the impact of a cross-cultural gender studies program on their understandings of their own identities, gender, LGBTQ issues, and religion. It will argue that the findings are directly related to the implementation of experiential, critical, and transnational feminist pedagogics that seek to deconstruct master narratives and complicate ~ queer studies by fomenting boundary-crossing dialogues with Lati~ ~ American indigenous and mestizo queer people whose voices are not typically heard in the U.S. academy. Some of the outcomes will be demonstrated in the three student papers that follow this one. Bridging Gaps: Identity Formation, Community Organizing and the Radical Potential of Queer and Feminist Liberation Theologies. Cecilia Marquez, Swarthmore College Latin American feminist and queer liberation theologies build offof and critique older generations, offering new lenses of analysis and potential for liberation of all. Learning about them has been important for my own spiritual journey as a queer, mostly secular U.S. Jewish woman and my development as a community organizer who seeks to build coalitions with faith communities. Through the exploration of queer and feminist liberation theologies in Latin America J have learned to reconcile many of my beliefs of being a Jewish woman and a feminist, and a queer person, identities that I previously thought incompatible. Questioning Queer Liberation Theology in a U.S. Context. Amelia Fortunato, Oberlin Coilege This paper explores queer and feminist Latin American Liberation Theologies through the hermeneutical lens of a white, queer, 110n- Christian agnostic from the U.S. It draws on the work of feminist and queer liberation theologians Guadalupe Cruz Cardenas, Pilar Sanchez, Rebecca Montemayor, Ivone Gebara, and Marcella Althaus-Reid,. Using personal experiences and the case-study of a young, Puerto Rican, transgender sex worker who was the victim of a brutal hate crime as a point of departure. this paper grapples the potential of queer and feminist liberation theologies within a U.S. context and looks to organizing in queer communities as sites of liberation. ( 143 J ) CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS 10:50 A.M. -12:05 P.M. SATURDAY Challenges From Within: Re/imagining the Christian Church as a Home for Feminist Queers. Maxwell N. Beshers, Oberlin College This creative piece brings together diverse voices in an imagined conversation about gender, sexuality, and religion in Mexico. Building on the work of scholars such as Ivane Gebara, Elsa Tamez, and Marcella Althaus-Reid, the piece argues that being feminist/queer and Christian is not necessarily a contradiction in terms. Queer and feminist theologies have opened up spaces for oppressive aspects of the Church to be challenged from within, by activists who also claim a Christian identity. Finally, the piece explores how the central issue of bodily autonomy encompasses many forms of gender and sexuality- based oppression in the Church. Moderator: Lucreshia Grant, Augsburg University 214. Alternative Pedagogies and the Classroom as a Space of Feminist and Anti-racist Learning /0:50 (0/2:05 pm· Governor's Square 9 Women's studies classrooms often analyze cultural texts (visual and narrative culture) for what they can tell us about systems of oppression and strategies for resistance. In recognizing the classroom as already politicized, we explore alternative pedagogical models of learning and teaching in the production of feminist inquiry and action. We reflect upon the classroom as a space of cultural production and emphasize the classroom's radical capabilities for feminist and anti-racist pedagogy. By exploring the creation of cultural texts as a mode of learning, we seek to recognize digital storytelling, graphic narratives, collective painting, etc., as pedagogies for understanding feminist concerns. Presenters: Chonel Craft, Emory University Kelly Hudgins Ball, Ohio State University Noemi Yoko Molitor, Emory University Lisa R. Frazier, Emory University Moderator: Noemi Yoko Molitor, Emory University 215. Reconfignring Archetypes of the Female African American Body 10:50 to /2:05 pm • Governor's Square /0 "Don't Call Me a Victim": Rethinking Pnblic and Feminist Discussions of Prostitution. Samantha Ann Majic, john jay College/City University of New York In the United States, public policy debates about prostitution are dominated by views that it exploits and victimizes women. To challenge these hegemonic conceptions, this paper utilizes feminist anti-essentialist and standpoint theories to analyze in-depth interviews with Gloria Lockett, an African American former prostitute and current executive director of the California Prostitutes Education Project, the nation's first prostitute-run nonprofit HIV/AroS prevention organization. While Lockett's story cannot be universalized, it complicates the trope of the "prostituted victim" and reminds us that prostitution-. like many economic options for women-is often a complex experience that requires multi-dimensional, non-judgmental and empowering policy solutions. "I Want to be Evil" - Eartha Kltt's Feminist Interventions and the Outsider Within. Francesca Royster, DePaul University This paper will explore Eartha Kitt's radical feminist interventions in the politics of race, gender and class of Hollywood and through performance. The essay will consider how Kitt's stage, television and )144 I recorded performances are both extraordinary- - self-fashioned according to her own quirky sense of self, and ordinary: part ofa shared history of black women migrating North from the U.S.South10 the mid-twentieth century. Intersectionality and Nanny-hood: How Race, Gender, Nationality, and Class Show Up in the Mid-day Playground. Melissa Marie james, Graduate Theological Union Despite gains for women in many professions, the care ofdependennn the home has not ceased to be constructed as "women's work." Someone must care for the children; that someone is most often women of color. This paper utilizes cultural theory explore the ethical implications of transferring work from one group of women to another. Using the works of sociologist Evelyn Nakano Glenn and Womanist-theologian Emilie Townes, T will examine the intersections of race, gender, dan religion, and citizenship on division of reproductive labor. Writtenb~' a nanny and academic, this paper reads this dialogue against voicesof nannies. Reinscribing Patriarchy Throngh Film: A Critique of Tyler Perry's Movies and Plays. Linda Strong Leek, Berea College Tyler Perry's plays and movies have captured the heart of the African American community. While many focus on the endearing and domineering character, Madea, Perry's movies focus on relationship's between African American men and women. Most of the successful women in his movies meet the stereotypical "Sapphire" model, the castrating Black woman. These women ultimately "lose" their men as they climb the corporate ladder; the message is c1ear--African American women must remember their "place." Moderator: Linda Marie Perkins, Claremont Graduate University 216. (Re)defining the 'Sexnalization' of Girls /0:50 to /2:05 pm • Governor S Square /l Girls and Sexualization: Incitements to Discourse? jjJ{ial1 Hernandez, Rutgers University In this paper I will conduct textual, visual, and discursive analyses of publications targeted primarily to parents; So Sexy So Soon: The Ne\\ Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can Do About It (2008) by Diane E. Levin and Jean Kilbourne, The Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualization of Girls and What We Can Do About It (2008) by M.Gigi Durham, and the American Psychological Association's 2007 Reportof the APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls. 1 draw from Staneh Cohen's conception of moral panic and Michel Foucault's "incitement to discourse;' to emphasize the discursive, on what these texts do. Acting out Abstinence, Acting out Gender: Limits on Adolescent Moral Agency in Abstinence-only Education. Melissa Browning, Loyola University Chicago This paper explores faith-based, performance-oriented abstinence education through the lens of feminist theories and feminist theologie by drawing on qualitative fieldwork with an urban, young adult dance and drama team who promote abstinence through performances at high schools and church rallies. I examine abstinence education hI looking at the way gender is performed on stage and in everyday W·r r argue that these performances can provide a space to examine the gendered nature of abstinence pledges and the gender binaries present within these programs couJd be the greatest obstacle in encouraging a healthy delay of sexual debut among adolescents. NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE CHRONOLOGICALPROGRAM DeSCRIPTIONS._----------------------1 ituating Teen Pregnancy as a Symptom of Sexual Coercion. GanivaReyes.University of Texas at Austin This paper is based on qualitative data from a larger project regarding teen pregnancy in Brownsville, Texas. Through the narratives of mothering teens-regarding their first sexual experiences, relationships with boyfriends. and the pressure encountered from their peers to have sex-I learned that the young Mexicanas not only had unprotected sex, but also unwanted sex. Hence. using feminist informed poststructuaiist theory and Nicola Gavey's concept of the cultural scaffolding of rape, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the narratives of the young Mexicanas to elucidate gendered normative discourses which situate teen pregnancy as a symptom of sexual coercion. The Status of Girls Bodies in Contemporary Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Kelly H. Ball, Emory University In 2009, Kentucky's residential psychiatric hospital, Brooklawn Child and Family Services, extended their treatment population from boys age 5-18 to include girls age 6-11. The addition of girls to Brooklawn brought significant changes through reorganizing and adding residential units, altering the spatial distribution of campus staff, and updating psychiatric treatment procedures in accordance with the construction of new buildings. Using preliminary field research, this paper addresses how changes in psychiatric architecture coincide with changes in psychiatric treatment plans through organization of treatment space in relation to the ordering of girls' bodies and girls' sexualization. Moderator; lacoue Daugherty, University of Cincinnati 217. The Critical and the Creative as Transnational Feminist Practice: Narratives of Labor, Illness, and Diaspora 10:501012:05 pm • Governor s Square 12 Audre Lorde's Inheritors: Breast Cancer Narratives as Transnational Feminist Theory. Mary K. DeShazer, Wake Forest University This paper engages creative and critical texts that document breast cancer experiences by building upon Lorde's influential feminist analysis in "The Cancer Journals": US theorist Zillah Eisenstein's "Manmade Breast Cancers;' Canadian-born theorist S. Lochlann Jain's "Cancer Butch" and "Living in Prognosis;' and Lebanese-born theorist Evelyne Accad's "The Wounded Breast: Intimate Journeys through Breast Cancer:' These memoirists challenge the US medical establishment and global corporate cancer industries, investigate links between cancer and environmental degradation and racism, challenge US breast cancer culture's emphasis on prosthesis and reconstruction, and question lesbian invisibility in transnational cancer discourses. Writing in Public Places: Myriam J. A. Chancy's Narratives of Diaspora and Self-Creation. Sarah Barbour, Wake Forest University Born in Haiti and living in exile in Canada and the US since the 1970s, Chancy has documented through the study of Caribbean diasporic women like herself the power of narrative to resist domination and the erasure of identity. This paper considers how Chancy, by writing herself into existence as a critic and a novelist, foregrounds her own identity and personal history through an interplay of the creative and the critical: how she tells stories from within, without, between, and beyond Haiti, Canada, and the US in works that blend narratology, historiography, and mythology NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE l· 219. The Tyranny of Inclusion: South Asian Conversations on Feminlsms, Secularism and Nation-building /0:5010 12:05 pm • Govemors Square /5 Cultural Expression as Secular Resistance in Pakistan. Fawzia Afzal-Khan, Montclair State University This paper will discuss cultural interventions of female artists into the body politic of state and society in Pakistan as feminist secular acts, whether they are named such or not. These cases allow for an opportunity to think through the concept of "secular resistance"- which is conveyed through the content-and form-of artistic interventions, some of which have taken on, very consciously, a Sufi Muslim coloring, others a more "profane" embrace such as the songs/ lyrics/public and private acts of the late Noor ]ehan; and yet others, singing the leftist, progressive poetry of Faiz Ahmed Faiz at crucial moments of political upheava1. Poetry Networks: Subjugated Knowledge, Cultural Politics and the Writings of Sri Lanka's Global Garment Workers. Sandya Hewamanne, Wake Forest University This paper focuses on garment workers' poetry published in NGO magazines and written in their private journals. It analyzes how they express oppositional consciousness and resistance to global cultural flows and the dominant culture while managing respectability and gender and working-class identities. A focus on subaltern creative expression fills a gap in critical knowledge of how globalization affects marginalized women. This paper also investigates how networking through poetry can lay the foundation for grassroots forms of transnational solidarity, which may be an important step toward initiating democratic dialogue and concrete action. Moderator: Catherine E. Harnois, Wake Forest University 218. Contesting Narrative in Maternal Studies Sponsored Session: NWSA Feminist Mothering Caucus /0:5010/2:05 pm· Govemors Square /4 The purpose of this session is to interrogate research and epistemic outcomes of narrative writing in maternal studies and whether they function as sites of resistance. Responding in part to critiques of early Third Wave writing, and in part to the parallel growth of both Motherhood Studies and the textualizing of personal experience in the online mamapshere, many contemporary feminist narrative writers on mothering/motherhood have focused on more pointedly grounding their personal experience, autoethnographic, or narrative work in stronger theoretical frameworks and a clearer politics of change (see for example Kinser, O'Reilly, O'Brien Hallstein and O'Reilly). Panelists here employ creative, narrative form as a way of interrogating that same (narrative) form. More specifically, they explore some dimension of mothering/motherhood experience through narrative, and graft onto this a contestation of that narrative that examines its usefUlne:~~ for functioning as a way of knowing that also intervenes in dominan hegemonic stories and histories. Presenters: lenna Elizabeth Vinson, University of Arizona Abigail Louise Palko, University of Notre Dame Amber E. Kinser, East Tennessee State University Moderator: Arlene Arlene Sgoutas, Metropolitan State College of Denver ( 145 qCHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS 10:50 A.M. -12:05 P.M. SATURDAY Minority Women in Bangladesh: Socio-cultural Barriers to Poverty Alleviation. Fauzia Elfan Ahmed, Miami University of Ohio This paper uses an intersectional approach to investigate the socio- cultural barriers faced by Hindu and untouchable women as they try to overcome poverty in Bangladesh. Problems of minority women in Muslim societies have been little studied. As the minority within a minority, these women are invisible. An ethnographic study of Hindu, untouchable, and Muslim women (Grameen Bank loanees) illustrates that different groups of minority women face discrimination as they seek work opportunities and thus have different needs (inheritance rights, contractual marriage, protection against domestic violence). This paper will also analyze the multisectoral policy recommendations for the government, NGOs, and women's movement. Female Iconicity In Indian Popular Media: Public Discourse and Secular Feminist Space. Shreerekha Subramanian, University of Houston, Clear Lake This paper will examine how contemporary Indian popular media inspires a public discourse that displaces secular feminist constructions of gender relations and ideas about "Indian woman" that have long struggled against revivalist or nativist nationalism. Consequent to the rise of late twentieth century rightwing Hindu fundamentalism in India, televised spectacles arrive at our threshold having paid their dues to ideologies of the right. This paper will attend to the performance of women's sorrow on satellite television, shared at once at home and in dlasporic spaces, and how these enactments reify nationalist anti- feminist ideologies through spectacles that also signal modernity and globalization. "Islarnically Appropriate') women's Rights: The New Challenge for Secular Feminism in Pakistan. Afiya Shehrbano Zia, Independent Feminist Scholar This paper will explore both the tension and the symbiosis between nee-imperialist motifs ("donor-driven Islam") and the romance with 'indigenous' and 'culturally appropriate' (Islamic) women's development. The effect this has is on squeezing out secular feminist struggles and possibilities in Pakistan. At the same time. the secular feminists have not conceptualized nor worked on the meaning, neither possibilities nor implications of secular feminism in relation to these challenges. In Pakistan, this means something very different ~ no fatwas, pockets of lay resistance within Islamist movements and legal arena. as well as the attitude to Islamic punishment and resistance to Talibanisation. Moderator: Vidya Kalaramadam, William Paterson University of New Jersey 220. Creative Expressions) Cultural Constructions and Politics: Women and food practices 10:50 to 12:05pm· Governors Square 16 Cultural Memory and Individualized RecoUections: Cooking and the Ones We Loved. Erika Derkas, New Mexico Highlands University Women's food activities surpass the everyday nature of nutritional necessity and often become important sites far individualized recollections. Such practices move memory beyond the mind and engender an artistic experienced sense of self and relationships. This presentation explores the ways in which food is used by women to preserve and memorialize those individuals important in our lives. In so doing, women use food as memory texts, literal embodiments of culture, personal relationships, and community. 146 Two generations of northern New Mexican women: Food and the preservation of culture. Crystal Montoya, New Mexico Highlands University This study explores two generations of women's food preparation, cultivation, and preservation as influenced by culture in rural northern New Mexico. Since the region has such a unique. mixed culture this presentation aims to share a better understanding of what gender differences exist within the household and the community through the culinary sphere. Food is used as a gateway into understanding the standardized roles of women but this presentation goes beyond looking at food simply as a tool for patriarchal oppression and recognizes how it may be used for change and empowerment. Tasting Loyalties: Nurses, food, and the Civil War. Kristie Ross, New Mexico Highlands University Historians increasingly recognize the importance of food to ritualistic occasions and to the creation or affirmation of connections between people and political communities. This paper examines food as an integral part of just such an alliance between female nurses and their soldier-patients during the American Civil War. Good. familiar food became the foundation on which nurses and Union soldiers buill an unlikely wartime alliance. one that bound them to the nation state and yet suggested the healing power of home. Moderator: Valerie Maestas, New Mexico Highlands University 221. Indigenous Feminist Thought 10:50 to 12:05 pm » Governors Square 17 Wilma Mankiller: American Indian Feminist Thought. Donna C. Langston, University of Colorado, Denver outlines American Indian feminist standpoint theory with an examination of the policy of Chief Wilma Mankiller. Ln spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination American Indian women have developed a rid) intellectual tradition that is 001 widely known. Their leadership is affected by gender. race, and tribal perceptions. Roles of American Indian Women in Women Studies. Grace Sage, US Department of Justice Displays an excellent understanding of American Indian women and their strong sense of tribal sovereignty. This is the story of tribal communities in all their complexities, contradictions. and subtle- interactions with feminism, which contributes to the larger literature emphasizing the positive, proactive, agency of tribal women. Native Women and the Native Voice in Public Policy and Politics. Karen Wilde, Fort Lewis College Harnesses the diverse and complex story lines of cultural values and public policy. Her experience as a politician offers a journey with surprises and unexpected insight sufficient to shake the most comfortable and settled of assumptions regarding women, politics, and tribal identities Indigenous Microenterprise Models. Jennifer Williams, University of Colorado, Denver The political economy of the Rosebud and Pine Ridge reservations and the role of women in micro enterprise. These women-led NGOsare ke\ tribal responses to internal colonialism. The paper draws on theories of colonialism. to show how the Lakota creatively respond to the challenges of U.S. expansion and domination. while at the same time revealing how U.S. power increasingly limits the autonomy of Lakota communities. Her research is central to understanding the ability of NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS---------------------~-' SATURDAY 10:50 A.M. - 12:05 P.M. Indigenouswomen to participate in the mainstream economy and then to use the proceeds from such participation to protect and defend Indigenous culture. Moderator: Jenllifer Williams, University of Colorado, Denver 222. Indigenous Organizing in Multiple Geopolitical Contexts 10:50to /2:05 pm • Plaza Court 3 "Indigenous Ways of Knowing: Organizing in Cairo)'. Diane Harriford, Vassar College In this paper, we examine the successful shift in leadership strategies from mainstream white feminist organizing (by the antiwar organization Code Pink) to Indigenous principles of organizing modeled by the South African contingent during the 2009 Gaza Freedom March in Cairo.The principles of recognizing communal knowledge, making decisions in circles, practicing humility, and grounding the organizing in the land enhanced unity among the delegates, strengthened ties with community leaders in Gaza, and made possible the writing of the International Declaration to End Israeli apartheid. This shift in strategy is illuminating for future organizing both domestically and internationally, "One For All": Palestinian and First Nations Hip Hop". Crystal Rizzo, Simmons College In this paper, Iemploy the social theory of Paula Gunn Allen, Vine Deloria, Jr., and Andrea Smith to analyze the social, political, and cultural parallels between North American Indigenous hip hop and the hip hop of Palestinian youth. I explore the relevance of adopting an Indigenous feminist lens in understanding how both groups use hip hop to counter devastating stereotypical images while offering life- affirming values and practices that have been central to Indigenous culture. "Electronic Skins: Community Building and the Digital Diaspora," Maria Valezquez, University of Maryland In this presentation, I will examine the ways in which Indigenous feminism is configured and co-opted in cyberspace. By doing so, I hope to illustrate the utility of the concept of a "digital diaspore" in creating solidarity and community across race, class, and gendered lines. I'd also like to highlight the ways in which community facilitated through technology becomes enmeshed in structures of privilege, both epistemological and material. In order to examine these issues, I will be working with the ethnic blogosphere, particularly the community fosteredby Blue Corn Comics and with various other blogging sites. "Ihe Black Mesa Water Institute: This Generation's Indigenous Organizing". Alvin Chee, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs In this presentation I will examine the history, contributions, and current initiatives of the Black Mesa Water Coalition. Founded in 2001 in response to Peabody Coal's abuses of Navajo water rights in Arizona, the Coalition recently designed an Institute to pass on knowledge about indigenous organizing to younger Native activists. As: a recent participant in the first Institute, r will speak about how the use of art, humor, story telling, and talking circles-vas well as the carefulattention to holding the Institute in a sacred space--created an indusive gathering that upheld respect for women, two spirited people, and traditional leadership. r will also address generational differences in organizing and how they might shape activist strategies in the future. Moderator:Becky Thompson, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs NWSA2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE 223. Women, Gender, Feminism and Judging: Women Judges Engage the State 10:5010 12:05 pm • Plaza Court 4 The Backlash Against Women Judges. Sally Jane Kenney, Tulane University The first woman appointed to the federal bench, Florence Allen, enjoyed a chilly reception from her colleagues on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. The first woman appointed to the California Supreme Court, Rose Bird, was removed from office through a retention election, as was Penny White from the Tennessee Supreme Court. Are women judges more likely to face electoral challenges? Data from Canada, Australia, and the U.S. suggests litigants challenge women judges' impartiality more frequently than men's in the form of motions to recuse. In the U.S.,women nominees take 50 days longer than men to be confirmed by the Senate. As President Carter's pioneering appointments retire from the bench and write their reflections, their memoirs also give evidence of the blatant discrimination at the hands of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on the Judiciary. In this paper, Iexplore how we can use a gender analysis to think about hostility to women judges, as potential nominees, as sitting judges, and as candidates for retention and re-election. Judicial Gender Perspectives in Resolving FMLA Conflicts. Elaine Martin, Eastern Michigan University Despite decades of progress in women's rights, it continues to be true that deep-seated social differences encourage men and women to make very different choices about work and family. Thus, it is no surprise that 80 percent of the leaves taken under the Family Medical Leave Act of I (FMLA) are taken by women, despite the gender neutral language of Bill. The FMLA seeks to balance the needs of employers with the needs employees and their families facing health care issues with new babies and other family members. The Act is very detailed with respect to employee leave entitlements and employer rights. Since its passage, employers and employees have heavily litigated the Act, often because companies are reluctant to re-instate employees in their positions post-leave. Our previous research finds that judicial gender is a primary predictor of state high court judges' votes in divorce-related case. The present paper expands on this work through an examination of FMLA decisions by federal Courts of Appeals. Because the majority of FMLAcases involve multiple claims (e.g discrimination, ADA, Workmen's Comp) and complicated facts, we employ a male-female matching scheme, in order to reveal whether men and women judges make different decisions, given similar contexts and controls. Moderator: Sally Jane Kenney, Tulane University 224. Situated Feminisms, Production of Knowledges & Transnational Feminist Challenges to U.S. Rescue Narratives of Women J 0:50 to J2:05 pm • Plaza Court 5 Transnational Feminist Challenges to U.S. Rescue Narratives in Anti-Trafficking Discourse. Carrie N. Baker, Berry College The anti-trafficking movement in the United Statesflourished under the Bush administration, generating a broad public discourse on global sex trafficking. This paper will analyze various rescue narratives emerging out of U.S.-based anti-trafficking discourse. The paper will dissect the Orientalist and neo- colonialist tropes used in this discourse, explore the varying motivations of these different constituencies, including religious, nee-imperialist, nationalistic, and capitalist agendas, and discuss the implications of this discourse for women's lives. The paper will conclude with suggestions for how a transnational feminist perspective can offer alternative frameworks for understanding and dealing with human trafficking. 147 CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONSI-.,.,~-------------10:50 A.M. -12:05 P.M. SATURDAY 228. GROWING, CHANGING, EVALUATING: TEN YEARS OF THE WOMEN'S STUDIES PH.D. AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND Transnational Feminist Challenges to Rescue Narratives of Pakistani-Muslim Women in Fox News' Portrayal of Honor- Based Violence in the U.S. Autumn Marie Reed, University of Maryland, Baltimore County This paper will examine FoxNews' portrayal of the honor-based murders of Pakistani-Muslims Sandeela Kanwal and Aasiya Hassan. Drawing upon Edward Said's (1978) theoretical framework of Orientalism, and its reworking by feminists such as Lata.Mani (1987), the presenter will demonstrate the manner in which FoxNews uses Pakistani women's bodies as the symbolic terrain upon which they make nationalist arguments of u.s. cultural superiority. To challenge this hegemonic discourse and refocus our attention on addressing the issue of honor-based violence, the panelist will offer transnational feminism as a useful framework which recognizes Pakistani agency while avoiding the reification of Orientalist gestures. Violence and the Everyday: Occupation and Militarization in the WestBank, Palestine. Rana Sharif University of California, Los Angeles This paper explores the architecture of occupation and militarization in the West Bank of Palestine and the consequent rupturing of the every DIRECTOR'SRow H • 10:50AM - 12:05PM This roundtable/panel discussion explores ten years of the Women's Studies Ph.D., with a focus on the Ph.D. at the University of Maryland. We will each focus briefly on different issues. Claire Moses will discuss the program's origins and curricular evolution over the years. Bonnie Dill and Seung-kyung Kim will focus on efforts to build, sustain, and train students within a genuinely multicultural doctoral degree program, including challenges of recruiting, funding, retaining, and advancing students of color. Deborah Rosenfelt has recently conducted a learning outcomes assessment of the Ph.D. based on four years of data gathering, and will discuss and critique the process. We will include time for questions and discussion with the audience. This panel contributes to discussions about future trajectories in women's studies. 148 day lives of women. Through an intersectional analysis of gender and power, it asserts that occupation has fragmented the temporal and material lives of women in the West Bank, producing life in a state of constant contingency. Drawing on ethnographic research along with archival material, this paper highlights the creative processes used by Palestinian women to renegotiate, shift and re-shift elements of the everyday commonly taken for granted. Women's Self-articulation of 'Honor': Subaltern Agency, 'Honor' Consciousness and Body Politics. Naazneen Diwan, University of California, Los Angeles This paper examines South Asian women's reclamation of honor and body politics. Imperialist accounts of 'honor killings' and satis have been traditionally constructed through patriarchal discourses and practices of 'honer' Imperialist imageries foreclose theorizing agency while its knowledge production of indigenous cultures silence women's evocations of cultural conceptions of 'honor' This paper seeks to disrupt imperial narratives and re-center women's self-articulation of 'honor' and agency through feminist theories of Gayatri Spivak and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. Moderator: Jaime Madden, Independent Scholar Presenters: CLAIRE G. MOSES, University of Maryland, College Park BONNIE THORNTON DILL, University of Maryland SEUNG-KYUNG KIM, University of Maryland, College Park DEBORAH SILVERTON ROSENFELT, University of Maryland, College Park Moderator: BONNIE THORNTON DILL, University of Maryland UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS_---~-------------~-I SATURDAY 10:50 A.M. - 12:05 P.M. 225.AreMy Politics Showing?: Teaching Multiple Perspectives 10:50to 12:05 pm • Plaza Ballroom E 00 jour biases show when you teach? Should you use your identity in theclassroom? How do students' identities affect their learning? Buildingupon the conference subtheme "Outsider Peminisms," this workshopconsiders how to engage diverse perspectives in the Women andGender Studies (WGST) classroom and how to use or not use identity when teaching contested WGST topics among differently positioned WGST and nOll-WGST learners. Presenters: Barbara LeSavoy, State University of New York, Brockport Ayana Weekley, Grand Valley State University 226.Science and Technology Task Force Business Meeting 10:5010 12:05 pm » Plaza Ballroom F 227.Community College Caucus Bnsiness Meeting 10:50{O 12:05 pm • Directors Row F Neh't'orking, resource-sharing and professional development for community college-affiliated personnel and partner organizations/ institutions. 229.Queering Qneer Visibility: (Re) Reading Pornography, Harems,Assemblage, and Civil Rights 10:50to 12:05 pm • Director's Row I The Queer Harem and the Politics of Colonial Heternormativity. Yarsha Chitnis, The Ohio State University Thispaper examines the reasons behind the definition of the harem as a space of moral, social, and political decay in the context of colonialism and the rise of a heteronortuative nuclear family ideal. Whilethe bodies of the women within the harem became the tropes for the excticization and eroticization of the 'Orient', the harem itself came to represent an 'un colonized' space within the colonies. Using the discourseson visibility within contemporary queer theory, I investigate the politics of colonialism in emphasizing the visibility of 'the veiled woman'and in the reification of the harem as a queer space. Porn for Pussies: Representations of Queer Female Sexuality in Shine Louise Houston's Pornography. Nicole Engel, The Ohio State University Shine Louise Houston's pornography exemplifies the new genre of 'woman-made, dyke-made" pornography. Her work provides queer female-bodied individuals with visual images of "lesbian" sexual practices for much-needed practical, social, and erotic purposes. Examining Houston's films and their accompanying materials, I find that Houston simultaneously produces images of lesbian desire and then explodes the very meaning of lesbian almost to the point of incoherency, as queer theorists such as Butler demand. Houston's pornography does more than simply fill a gap; her work uses both feminist and queer theories to transform - or "queer" - the pornographic genre, lesbian identity, and representational politics. "Her Own Islam": Queerness inMichael Muhammad Knight's The Taqwacores. Taneern Husain, The Ohio State University Michael Muhammad Knight's The Taqwacores, a novel about a house of Muslim punks - self-proclaimed taqwacores - living in Buffalo, presents a narrative of two scenes generally thought as antonymic to one another. Thus, the characters of the novel, fitting in nowhere save their own space, provide an interesting and perhaps resistant discourse to the hegemonic structures in which they are situated. Taking up such possibilities in his article, "Sodomized by Religion': Fictional Representations of Queer Muslims in the West:' Ibrahim Abraham writes about Muzammil a friend of the housemates - as a queer character in Knight's novel. However, Abraham's analysis prioritizes a rather normative vision of gay characters in Muslim diasporic texts. I intend to show that The Taqwacores presents the possibility for greater resistance in its representation of characters' queerness, visible, for example, in the relationship between Jehangir Tabari and Yusef Ali and the character of Rabeya. Focusing on Rabeyas queerness and Iasbir K. Puar's concepts of suicide bombers and terrorist assemblages, I will demonstrate how Knight opens up the potential for resistance through non-normative, uncategorizable behaviors and the creation of Rabeya as an assemblage, only to end the novel by firmly asserting a heteronorrnative framework, thus completely foreclosing any chance for queer resistance. Black Femme Representations, Aggressive Femininity, and Black Feminist Theory: Reading Melba Patillo Beals' Gun-Toting Granny. Anne Michelle Mitchell, The Ohio State University Melba Patillo Beals' Warriors Don't Cry is ripe with enunciations of black femme and aggressive femininity subjectivity, and their intersection with Black feminist theories of representation. Specifically, I seek to continue the theorizing ofKara KeeJings 'TIleWitches Flight by considering the relationship between black femme/aggressive identity, black feminism, and black women's cultural production. A close reading of Melba Beals and her Grandmother India creates a space to explore the subject position of the black femme, its relationship to black feminist theories of representation, Civil Rights struggles, and the politics of respectability. Moderator: Anne Michelle Mitchell, The Ohio State University #nwsa2010 NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE 149 -------------------------------------_.- Queer Reflections on Workplace Well-being. Trevor Gates, University of Illinois, Chicago Well-being has been described as the "ultimate" dependent variable in social science. Well-being in the workplace has been explored by social scientists and philosophers alike, yet absent from the discussion is often a queer analysis. While human beings have not reached a consensus about what constitutes the good life, social scientists have come to the conclusion that well-being generally consists of both meaningful relationships and material comforts. Th..is poster presentation will contribute to our discourse on well-being by examining workplace well-being through a queer lens. Queering the Gaze: Lesbian Representation in the Queer New Wave and Contemporary Lesbian Cinema. Erin Christine Tobin, New York University "The gaze" is a foundational aspect of feminist film theory and remains a Significant area of analysis for feminist and queer film criticism that encourages an exploration of how spectatorship, identity, and cinematic structures, shape and inform representation of lesbians and queer female sexuality on screen. This poster examines how queer (lesbian) female sexuality and race are depicted in New Queer Cinema and Contemporary Lesbian Cinema through a destabilization and reappropriation of the (male) gaze and manipulation of traditional cinematic filming conventions. Crossing the Border: A Story of Sexual Violatiou. Allie Marie [ones, Claremont School of Theology Individuals from Latin America cross the U.S.-Mexico border daily with hopes of a better future. Some leave behind families and friends. others leave behind a life of poverty and abuse. Crossing the border has proven to be especially dangerous for women who experience Widespread sexual violence. The increased militarization of the border since 1994 has had a devastating impact on women. This paper will analyze the way the militarization of the border has created a war zone where rape and sexual violence become acceptable and how communities along the border are trying to help. Public Policy & Sexual Geography in Portland, Oregon, 1969-2007. Elizabeth Eckman Mylott, Portland State University Drawing on the concepts of sexual geography and structured inequality, I explore the social and political meanings of sexualized spaces in the urban geography of Portland, Oregon between 1969 and 2007. The sexual geography of urban spaces is a deliberate construct resulting from official and unofficial public policy and urban planning decisions. Sexual geographies, the collective and individual constructions of sexuality, are not static. Nor are definitions of deviant sexual practices fixed in the collective consciousness. Both are continuously being reshaped and reconstructed in response to changing economic structures and beliefs about sex, race and class. «'Choice' on Television: Talking about Pregnancy, Abortion, and 'The Juno Effect' in Twenty-First Ceutury Popular Culture" Pamela Thoma. Washington State University This visual media/paper presentation contends that reproduction remains a central concern in contemporary US society not primarily because of unbridgeable cultural or religious differences among Americans. as frequently suggested in the ''culture wars" thesis. but because the global neoliberal economy of the US relies heavily on the continual reinvention of the modern individual self through 150 ) commodity consumption. Anxieties about consumer subjectivity. especially to what extent it demands participation in commodified forms of reproduction, are addressed through popular media and require that feminist critics closely analyze these texts and relate them to urgent political questions about "choice" and "citizenship." Connecting Women's Studies and American Ethnic Studies: Developing a Community Space for Faculty. Valerie Carrol, Kansas State University This poster will examine the results of a project to develop a community space for multicultural and gender inclusion in Women's Studies and American Ethnic Studies Programs at the presenter's university. This project sought to create an authentic inclusion of race/ethnicity and gender in both programs by developing an interdisciplinary. co-creative community space. This poster will present the structure developed and issues that arose in this project including how the relationships between the disciplines and faculty grew and how to promote an environment of equality where faculty can share strategies and experiences and develop collaborations. NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE Does Gender Still Matter?: Women Physicians' Self- Reported Medical Education Experiences. Katherine Marie Butler, Grand Valley State University This poster presents an in-depth analysis of self-reported medical school experiences of women generaJ practitioners. In addition to questions about blatant acts of harassment and discrimination, the analysis includes overall experience. course content, curricuJum and mentorship programs, and preparedness for interaction with female patients. Drawing on research from girls' studies. gay and lesbian/ queer studies, and disabiJity studies. this presentation identifies areas for improving medical education in order to increase the delivery of quality healthcare for women. Hypercommercialism aud Activist Publishing: Selling Feminism, Selling Feminists: The Case of Ms. Magazine. Rebecca [urisz, University of Minnesota This research seeks to understand the significance of the economic and industrial conditions that shaped the emergence of Ms. as a kind of consolidated, public "house organ" for feminists, as well as how and finally at what cost capitalism and the profit-motive defined the contours of the long-standing publishing enterprise. r argue that as long as Ms. is taken to symbolize the struggle against patriarchal oppressions in the US, the enterprise's compromises in its struggle toward solvency make for a distorted and sometimes problematic political project. Studying Women iu Transnational Settings: Transferability of Indian Feminist Theories to the US Curricula. Aditi Mitra, University of Colorado This research investigates how feminist literature from India, its theories, models and methods can effectively contribute (or transfer) to studying Indian WOmen and debunking stereotypes by impacting Feminist Sociology (FS) and Women's Studies (WS) curricula in the US. Further, this study allows Women's Studies researchers in a transnational setting to understand the actual conditions of Indian women using an indigenous theoretical lens rather than western theoretical lenses. The Feminist Standpoint methodology is used ro trace the development of FS and examine its curricula in India to str how it can broaden the scope of the existing WS curricula in the Us. CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS------------------- .....- _._----------------.SATURDAY 12 NOON - 1:30 P.M. 230. POSTER SESSION • PLAZA BALLROOM FOYER TheRole of Gender Studies as an Educational Practice in TeacherTraining in Ukraine. Tetiana Grytsenko, Eastern Michigan University ill this paper I focus on the role of gender studies as an educational practice in teacher training in Ukraine. Gender studies creates a new viewof the world, of the role of each person in a society, of relations with other people. with representatives of an opposite sex that leads to serious changes in the outlook of people, their valuable orientations and self-identification. This study stands on post-soviet and foreign experiences to prove the importance of the introduction of gender studies into educational practices in Ukraine. 'We Are Not Disposable": Hearing Voices of Psychiatric Survivors. Carol f.Moeller, Moravian College Psychiatric survivors - like many minoritized peoples - are treated as disposable in imperial globalized capitalism -- as problems, not people. Their/our experiences can yield knowledge, as Paula Moya argues generally about minoritized people. Survivors critique everyday violence and emphasize liberatory values, e.g.: a) human interdependence, b) our shared hwnanity (rejecting able- ism), c) everyone's "whole" selves - body/mind/spirit. d) emotions' contributions to producing knowledge. e) well-being of all versus profit for the few. Yet, such "outsider" feminist voices remain unheard. r suggest contributions from psychiatric survivors on feminist. cross- minoritized people's praxis and ways to facilitate their/our access to democratizing conversations. "TheEdible Body': a Poetic Exploration: Food and Sex as Pleasure, Disorder, and Commodity. Lena Judith Drake, Grand ValleyState University Food and sexuality are linguistically and culturally linked, especially through society's representations and perceptions of human bodies. "The Edible Body" explores the tntersectionality of food and sex, through merged or juxtaposed poems about the pleasure, disorder, and commodity of the two topics. The feminist question of how bodies are viewed in terms of food and sex is proposed, especially with regard to women's bodies as consumable. The presentation form of poetry is used to express researched knowledge-. including extensive readings and structured interviews-. in terms of emotions and small details of individual lives, rather than merely academic statements. Community Involvement Through the Media: The Experience of Women's and Students' Teams. Amnon Boehm, Universityoj Haifa; Esther Boehm, Zejat Academic College The poster presents a study that explores four television reports produced by teams of women and social work students. The reports dealt with the promotion of women's status in a Bedouin village, single parents' rights, women's health, and with violence against women. The study examined both the teams' ability to adopt media technology during the various stages of production and their creative and critical utilization of the production for the purpose of community involvement and influence. Gender and Power in Restaurants. Samantha Lynn Adams, Louisiana State University In this study I examine how men and women perform gender in the workplace. how and when they challenge gender, and what result challenging gender has for them, their coworkers, and the wider world. This study also builds on previous research by looking at the ways that sexuality interacts with gender norms in the workplace. Specifically, I NWSA2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE look at how heteronormativity colors the construction of masculinity and femininity and is associated with power in social interactions that take place in workplace settings. I will look to see how ideas about sexuality are entangled in constructions of gender identity. Lost Earrings and Life Stories: A Feminist Visual Research Project. Laura M. Carpenter, Vanderbuilt University Most women in the United States wear - and have lost - earrings. Lost earrings often are linked with life experiences: major life stages and transitions (adolescence, coming out), friendships, romances, commutes, physical assault. This project explores women's life histories through narratives about lost earrings and photographs of the remaining" earring. Data from 30-40 women from diverse social backgrounds will be analyzed using inductive methods and a life course perspective. How are ostensibly mundane losses related to deeper I losses and gains? The usefulness of this material object/photography/ narrative approach for women's studies teaching and community organizations will be discussed. Women Finding their Voice Through Real Time Statos Updates: Micro-blogs as Sites of Resistance. Julia Kaihryne Daine, University oJOklahoma Real time status updates on sites like Twitter and Facebook allow women who are oppressed because of their sex the opportunity to express themselves, their struggles, victories, and calls for action to a global audience. By finding a voice online, these once silenced individuals are able to write their own stories providing current researchers and activists and future generations with an archive of women's thOllgh:~. The stories they tell in the form of micro-blogs online often relate th day-to-day, hour-by-hour, and even minute-by-minute lives of women in their own words. Zines and Women's Studies 101: Fostering a Creative Approach to Research Assignments through Zine Workshops at the Library. Annie Marie Knight, Chapman University Zines (referred to also as mini-magazines) are independently published works which often embody a collage of original text and images. This creative medium can provide an alternative to the traditional research paper assignment, allowing students to incorporate a more authentic writing voice and visual representation of a topic. This poster illuminates the development and instructional components of a zine workshop created by this presenter, a librarian and zine publisher, that is designed to support a Women's Studies 101 research assignment requiring students to create a zine about a Women's Studies related topic. Actually, I Don't Like What I See: Refashioning Magazines for the Gaze of Teenage Girls. Anne Marie Rooney, DePaul University Teenage girls in America interact with magazines in print and via the internet with great regularity. Magazines read by teen females are unique in that they suggestively educate young minds. From a feminist perspective, there are aspects of popular magazines that reinforce dominant societal attitudes on both girlhood and womanhood. This project explores the affects of such media and uses the findings to lay the foundation for the creation of an alternative feminist, multicultural and counter-cultural magazine for teenage girls. ( 151 ----I 12 NOON - 1:30 P.M. SATURDAY 230. POSTER SESSION • PLAZA BALLROOM FOYER q Exploring Interdisciplinary Environmental/Place-based Art and Community Art from a Feminist Perspective. Rhonda R. Janke, Kansas State University ill the past 30 years, an art form known as environmental art has developed into a movement that takes art out of the galleries and into the fields, rivers, mountains and even farms. In the last 10 years, an exponential growth in the number of artists, venues, on-line resources has attracted the attention of non-artists, community groups, and even environmental scientists in a new art form sometimes called "ecovention," or art done with the intent of bio-remediation. Women as activists and artists are often at the forefront of these movements. This poster examines contemporary environmental art [Tom an eco- feminist perspective. Subversive Scrawling. Kristina Louise Parthum, Winona State University Bathroom scrawling is an activity very often negatively associated with juvenile delinquency. People assume it to be an act of vandalism, or defacing of public property and for that reason the act is condemned. However, bathroom graffiti is not only an act of vandalism, but can be a means of communication between strangers, particularly women. Instead of being used to deface public property, women scrawl to ask questions, pass 011 warnings, gain information, and have open, honest dialogue. This poster will explore bathroom scrawling as a form of site of women's resistance all a small college campus. The Personal is Political in the 21st Century: Consciousness- Raising via Online Social Networks. Jennifer Lynn Motter, The Pennsylvania State University Implications of Hanisch's (1969) theory, "The Personal is Political", in the new media driven 21st century are explored through an analysis of women's virtual world activism via online social networks. Consciousness-raising efforts in physical and virtual spaces are compared in order to identify the potentials and limitations of women's participation in online social network. PostSecret (http://postsecret. blogspot.coml), a project that encourages the public to anonymously submit a postcard creation containing an intimate revelation, is specifically considered as a potential site for virtual consciousness- raising. Women)s Studies Students as College Teachers: Reflections on a 35 Year Feminist Pedagogical Experiment. jane Anne Hassinoer, University of Michigan This poster, prepared with four undergraduates from the University of Michigan Women's Studies Program, describes an innovative course, facilitated in small groups by advanced WS majors. Through engaging the role of teacher, facilitators experiment with feminist pedagogical practice by assisting their students in exploring attitudes about gender, authority, the classroom as a site for knowledge production, and community activism. Examples of lesson plans, experiential learning strategies, materials from a facilitator-developed course manual, and excerpts from student writing assignments and activism projects will be illustrated. Video-taped reflections-con their personal growth and development as feminist teachers-vwill also be included. «Wounds) Scars) and Feminist Healing in Selected Works by Postmodem, Multiethnic Women". Pamela Beth June, Paille College "Wounds, Scars, and Feminist Healing" explores postmodern novels by multiethnic women (Toni Morrison's Beloved, Theresa Hak Kyung 152 ) Cha's Dlctee, Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata, Gayl Jones's Corregidora, Emma Perez's Gulf Dreams, Paula Gunn Allen's The Woman Who Owned the Shadows, and Kathy Acker's Blood and Guts inHigh School and Empire of the Senseless), and demonstrates how postmodem, disjointed text reflects wounded and scarred female bodies. The wounded and/or scarred body emerges from various intersecting forms of oppression, including patriarchy, racism, and beteronormativity However, women's recognition of shared wounds and scars generates the possibility for healing. June! Discovering the Tools of an Activist Teacher. Stacy Shotsberger Russo, Chapman University How does one become an activist reacher? This poster will inspire participants through a presentation of the poet June Jordan's class assignments, reading lists, and syllabi spanning several decades. Jordan, often described as the most published African American writer in history, taught Women's Studies, African American Studies, and English. She combined creativity with critical analysis of social justice issues concerning gender, sexuality, race, and class. Jordan used poetry, assignments celebrating self-expression, and other means to craft a unique learning space. All materials for this presentation were examined during the presenter's recent research with the June Jordan Papers at Radcliffe Institute. 231. PLENARY SESSION: COMPLICATING THE QUEER 72:55 to 2: 70 pm • Plaza Ballroom EF Juana Maria Rodriguez is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at UC Berkeley where she is also the Director of the Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Gayatri Gopinath is Associate Professor and Director of the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. Presenters: Gayatri Gopinath, New York University Juana Maria Rodriguez, University of California Berkeley Moderator: Jian Chen.New York University NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE PRESSJ~[D)OD join us at our booth for a Book Celebration and Signing, Saturday 2:30-3:30 Who Should Be First? FeministsSpeak Out on the 2008 Presidential Campaign BeverlyGuy-Shertall and johnnetto Betsch Cole,editors Feminists speak our on race and gender in the 2008 presidential campaign. WINNER OF 2008 SUNY PRESS DISSERTATION/FIRST BOOK PRIZE IN QUEER STUDIES Unequal Desires Race and Erotic Capital in the Stripping Industry Siobhan8rooks Fighting for Girls New Perspectives on Gender andViolence Medo Chesney-Und and Nikki jones, editors Speaking Lives, Authoring Texts Three African American Women's Oral Slave Narratives DoVeanna S. Fulton Minor and ReginaldH. Pitts, editors Displaced at Home Ethnicityand Gender among Palestinians in Israel Rhoda Ann Konoaneh and Isis Nusair, editors Foreword by Ufo Abu-Lughod Mothers Who Deliver Feminist Interventions in Public and Interpersonal Discourse jocelyn Fenton Stitt and Pegeen Reichert Powell, editors New titles for 2.0I0 Visit us at Booths 5 I & 52! 20% pb I 40% he conference discount on all titles Free shipping for orders placed at the conference W,NNER OF THE 2008 SUNY PRESS DISSERTATION/FIRST BOOK PRIZE IN AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES Something Akin to Freedom The Choice of Bondage in Narratives by African American Women Stephanie U My Life at the Gym Feminist Perspectives on Community through the Body jo Malin OverTen Million Served Gendered Service in Language and Literature Workplaces Michelle A. Masse and Katie j. Hogan, editors Women's Spiritual Leadership in Africa Tempered Radicals and Critical Servant Leaders Faith Wambura Ngunjiri Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline, Second Edition Factory Women in Malaysia Aihwa Gng Interdisciplinarity and Social Justice Revisioning Academic Accountability Joe Parker, Ranu Samontrai, and Mary Romero, editors Governing the Female Body Gender, Health, and Networks of Power Lori Reed and Paula Saukko, editors Imagining Black Womanhood The Negotiation of Power and Identity within the Girls Empowerment Stephanie D. Sears Ideologies of Forgetting Rape in the Vietnam War Gina Marie Weaver DiscipliningWomen Alpha Kappa Alpha, Black Counterpublics, and the Cultural Politics of Black Sororities Deborah Elizabeth Whaley African Americans Doing Feminism Putting Theory into Everyday Practice Aaronette M. White join us at our booth for a Book Celebration and Signing, Friday 5:00-6:00 Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis Amanda Lock Swarr and Richa Nagar, editors Investigates the theory and practice of transnational feminist approaches (0 scholarship and activism. 2:20 P.M. - 3:35 P.M. SATURDAY CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS L....... ~_~ _ 232. Media, Representation and Gender Roles: Cases from West Africa, Iran) Iraq, Afghanistan & the U.S. 2:20103:35 pm· Plaza Court I Melodrama, and HIV Prevention inWest Africa. Christine Cynn, Barnard College/Columbia University The minl-telenovela AIDS in the City produced by Population Services international and broadcast throughout West Africa in 1995 to 1997 and 2003 enlists the melodramatic mode to educate audiences about HIV prevention. The melodrama, and the soap opera and telenovela in particular, have been the subject of extensive revisionist critique by feminist film critics, much of it centering around attempts to reclaim melodrama denigrated as vulgar, excessive, feminized form of low/ mass culture. My paper complicates and contributes to attempts to reclaim the melodrama, especially as they center around definitions of US American national, sexual and racial identities. Neoliberalism, Satellite Television, and Nudity: The Future of Homosocial Space in Iran. Tahereh Aghdasifar, Georgia State University Despite contemporary rhetoric of resisting Western imperialism, the Iranian state actively pursues neoliberal economic policies in order to access and participate in Western markets. This paper will explore the irony of the anti-imperialist rhetoric of the Iranian state when juxtaposed with its economic policies, and how cultural imperialism via globalization allows Iranian citizens to become compliant in the destruction of female homosocial spaces. Veiled Propaganda: Representation and the Circulation oflmages of Women in the War on Afghanistan and Iraq. Robin 1. Riley, Syracuse University TIle US media utilizes Orientalist narratives about women of color as mysterious, sinister, and dangerous. This is particularly apparent in representations of Muslim women in the current wars waged by the US. Even as the wars are waged, citizens in the US are rarely treated to images of ordinary Afghan and Iraqi women who attempt to go about their lives while the bombs drop around and sometimes on them. Instead, the women who have received significant press attention are three particular women who were characterized as evil in the US press. These women, came to represent all Muslim women. Moderator: }oylette ElizabetlJ Williams, City University of New York, Graduate Center 233. The Journey of Girls' Health and Wellness Through Body Acceptance, Development & Social Identities 2:20 to 3:35 pm· Plaza Court 2 Am I Fat Or Am I Pretty?: National Health Initiatives and the Struggle for Girls' Body Acceptance. Marie Ilene Drews, Augusta State University As the First Lady's fight against childhood obesity continues to garner public attention, feminist thinkers must decide how they will balance their efforts to teach girls about healthy eating with their efforts to teach girls how to celebrate their bodies, no matter their size. This paper explores the complications of finding this middle ground in an era when body acceptance initiatives are consistently trumped by the cultural fear of the rising the body mass index. Attention will be paid to the historical debates among feminist scholars about food, eating, and body consciousness as well as the rhetorical complexity of discussing girls' wellness without disparaging their bodies. What I Saw but Momma Wouldn't Say: Listening to daughters and their critiques of strong Black womanhood. Tamara Michelle Beauboeuf, DePauw University While strength is increasingly recognized as an exacting standard of goodness, less understood is how it is experienced and perhaps questioned and resisted by young girls expected to follow in their mothers' footsteps. I explore the relational and psychological dimensions of Black girls learning to "pick up" their mothers' strength. In the process, I detail an adolescent critique of strength that is noticeably similar to some adult women's voiced resistance to the silence, stoicism, and selflessness of the strength mandate. I maintain that girlhood struggles with strength provide an incisive yet often overlooked examination in its costs to adult Black women's wellness. I Am Girl: An Invocation of Native Girls' Power. Patricia M. Clarke, Athabasca University Many Native girls face the Pocahontas Princess vs. the Squaw Drudge dichotomy and the concrete reality of systematic oppression in their dally lives which ultimately endangers their mental, emotional, and spiritual health and well being. Canadian Native feminist theory and practice is a source of strength and empowerment for Native girls' health. The multiple layers of generational trauma faced by man}' Native girls can be restored and eased th rough empowering and healing Native mental health methods such as storytelling, the medicine wheel, wisdom from the elders, and traditional Indigenous philosophies with Native as the traditional practitioner. Moderator: Lynne Byall Benso", Bunker Hill Community College 234. Indigenous Feminist Engineering: Potentials of Theoretical Cross-fertilizations and Prospects for Changes in Engineering Practices 2:20 to 3:35 pm • Plaza Court 6 Supra disciplinary Conversations on Security, Risk and Resilience around Dams in Sub Arctica, May-Britt Ohman, Uppsala University - Sweden In this paper, the focus is on what a supradisciplinary approach to aspects of security, safety and risk in regard to large dams within Sub Arctica could be. The question is how the current narrow and technically oriented dam safety concept might be broadened to include differing attitudes and values, from different perspectives depending on gender, ethnicity, perceived Indigeneiry and situated knowledge. Examples are drawn from a study of the Lule River in Sapmi (Sweden), displaying voices by local reindeer herders and actors within the Swedish current setting of dam safety. A Conversation about the Potentials, Challenges, and Definitions of Indigenous Engineering. Johannes Strobel, Purdue University, West Lafayette We posit that an indigenous engineering, centered in the context of each particular tribe, has an array of different empowering potentials to support their (I) lives, (2) capacity building, (3) culture, (4) education, (5) sustain, and (6) protection of their resources. In addition, the worldview and respect for nature that indigenous groups have preserved may help "modern" society's recent focus on sustainable engineering We will express our perspectives on the potentials and challenges, as a way to start a conversation that will shed the light needed to shape indigenous engineering. ethno-mathematics and ethno-sciences m tbe service of each particular indigenous peoples' needs. NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DeSCRIPTIONS Engineering as a Caring Discipline: Theoretical Foundation for a Profession to Change. Johannes Strobel, Purdue University.West Lafayette; Melissa Dyehouse, Purdue University; Niro[eWeber, Purdue University, West Lafayette Engineering is often perceived as object-oriented rather than people- oriented. As the world becomes more integrated culturally and environmentally, engineers have to adapt to the challenges with responsible innovations that embrace the ethical and ecological contexts. Traditional engineering focused on a set of technical skills;while these skills are important, future engineering graduates need specific character qualities and habits of mind. Being able to understand the experience of others - a widely accepted definition of empathy is vital to understanding problems, designing solutions, effectivecommunication, multicultural competency, and relationship- building.This contribution argues for caring as a key desired attribute of engineering and demonstrate the role of empathy in other disciplines. Alternative Engineering: Account of Own Attempts in Terms of Methodology Development. Maria Uden, Lulea University of Technology In my doctoral thesis 1 investigated if one would find traces of "difference" in women engineering students' graduation theses. But distinguishable traits in cultural expressions are developed as result oflong term co-action, within a group that has means to recruit new members and leave to each new generation a heritage of language and practice. For reaching to more sophisticated alternative engineering practices, one cannot start from scratch. In the session I will talk about own attempts, with on the one hand guidance from feminist STS (Kellerand Barad) and on the other from Arctic women's movements. Moderator: Eva-Lotta Tlnmqvist, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm,Sweden 235. "From Canvas to Community Stage to Curricular Reform: Intersectional Interventions" 2:2010 3:35 pm • Plaza Court 7 Messages to Papa (or You, or Me): Self-representation and Resistance in the Art of Kay WalkingStick. Susan G. Cumings, Georgia College & State University Because not every woman who tells her life story does so in print, this presentation establishes performance analysis (Hymes, Flueckiger) as a means for approaching the visual arts and retrospective art exhibitions as sites of autobioexpressive work. As an example, r will discuss a slide-illustrated talk and two artists's books by Cherokee painter and sculptor Kay WalkingStick, highlighting both the multiplicity of her self-representations (realistic and abstract) and her strategies of engagement and resistance both to conventions in art production/ display and to reified and imposed ideas of what constitutes Native Americ-anidentity. From Where We Stand: 'Michiana Monologues; Transforming Silence into Action through Reader's Theater. April Lidinsky, Indiana University, South Bend "From Where We Stand" analyzes a locally developed, written and produced original performance, Michiana Monologues, modeled on Ensler's Vagina Monologues. Feminist memoir, feminist performance theory, and intersectional critiques of Ensler's work contextualize my argument about "translating" university pedagogy into creative production and public/community activism. Community writing Workshopsand reader's theater performances in three distinct settings NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE unsettle town/gown divides, open debates about charged topics (GiST life, racial identities, local abortion politics, etc.) Conclusions explore the transformative aspects (and limitations) of creative activism in a Catholic/Mennonite community often hostile to feminist or intersectional conversations. Contextualizing Intersectionality: Unsettling the Voice of a Mountain Man. T. Christine Jespersen, Western State College of Colorado The paper argues that context is important in rethinking curriculum from the perspective of intersectionality Theorists such as Gloria Anzaldua, Cherrie Moraga, bell hooks, and Mike Rose demonstrate the importance of validating personal voice and creativity, especially for disenfranchised students. Through an examination of curriculum reform and a course in Environmental Justice literature, I illustrate how privileged students needed to identify outside of their subject positions through literary analysis, before they could reincorporate personal voice and creative writing. Moderator: Julia K. Willis, University of Colorado 236. Engendering Knowledge and Resistance in Subaltern Women's Writing: Signing, Representing, Reading, and Telling 2:20103:35 pni» Plaza Court 8 American Indian Sign-Language Autobiographies and the Embodiment of Indigenous Feminisms. Kay Ann Yandell, University of Wisconsin In this presentation, I will examine American Indian Womer' autobiographies given in Indian Sign Language. In such autobiographi as Frank Linderman's Pretty-shield, Medicine Woman of the Crow (1932), I show how Linderman's analyses of Pretty Shield's signs themselves, along with Pretty Shield's explanations of the traditionaJ culturaJ roles for the sign talk, work together to explain how the sign talk enacts indigenous feminist relationships between tribal people, animals, and land; among tribal nations; and even across some of the many colonial gulfs that Linderman and Pretty Shield encounter as they work to increase cross-cultural understanding. Writing Resistance. Gendering Identities: Reading Chimamanda, Dangarembga, and EI Saadawi. Drucilla Barker, University of South Carolina This paper uses the fiction of three different African authors to answer in the affirmative the question famously posed by Gayatri Spivak, can the subaltern speak. They speak, not as homogeneous, authentic subjects, but rather as hybrid intellectuals contributing their stories to the project of articulating resistance to the colonial encounter and negotiating the contradictions of postccloniality. Women's voices are necessary because of the historical intersections between colonialism and patriarchy. These intersections persist in the postcolonial processes of nationalism and economic development. Telling Knowledges: Narrative as Theoretical Mediation in Mayra Montero's In the Palm of Darkness. Laura Gillman, Virginia Tech Ongoing feminist debates concerning the validity of marginalized and postmodern epistemologies find a privileged forum in soctal, political and philosophical theory. I argue, however, that narratives centering on marginalized experiences are a privileged site for illuminating the effects of dominant discourses on marginalized people, as well as for '2w) P.M. - 3:35 P.M. SATURDAY CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS L-,...................-------- ......-----------.. revealing how stories function as 'theories' that engage prevailing epistemologies in order to investigate, verify, discount or revise their epistemological claims. I illustrate theoretical mediation processes in two narratives of the Cuban diaspore: Cristina Garcia's The Aguero Sisters and Mayra Montero's In the Palm of Darkness Moderator: Kay Alln Yandell, University of Wisconsin 237. Lesbian &Women of Color Caucuses Co-Sponsored Session - Queer Complications: Teaching Queer Art, Media) and Popular Culture in the Women)s Studies Classroom with Tina Takemoto 2:20 to 3:35 pm» Governor's Square /0 Queer art, media, and popular culture often explore sexual desires and gender identities that do not conform to socially constructed norms. This workshop will focus on how to teach queer art and visual culture in light of feminist and queer theory and popular representations of queer identity. We will examine an array of visual works by LGBTQI artists and communities and will discuss the challenges of thinking beyond simple binaries of straight and gay, positive and negative images, visibility and invisibility in order to engage with the complexity of representing alternative sexualities, genders, and desires. Presenter: Tina Takemoto, California College of the Arts Moderator: Mel Mic!lelle Lewis, University of Maryland, College Park 238. Sex and the State: The Regulation of Reproduction in Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Century United States" 2:20 TO 3:35 prn » Govemors Square l I Abortion on Trial: The Changing Nature of Abortion in Maine's Rural Communities. Mazie Hough, University of Maine In 1851 the Maine Legislature passed one of the first laws in the country prohibiting abortion in the first trimester, "before quickening" Nevertheless, the evidence suggests that abortion was widely practiced and Widely accepted until the first two decades of the 20th century. Drawing on court records, newspaper accounts, and attorney general reports, this paper will highlight the way in which five highly visible and Widely publicized trials of doctors accused of murder in an attempt to procure a miscarriage changed the nature of abortion in Maine. Prior to these trials, the evidence suggests, , community members helped young women in their pursuit of abortion. Following them, the fear of possible punishment left community members hesitant to become involved. While historians have identified as the key role doctors have played in criminalizing abortion, this paper will explore how professionals in the criminal justice system were key in implementing the new laws. Free Lovers Quashed: State Attempts to Suppress Free Discussions of Sexuality and Calls for Gender Reform. Andrea Weingartner, University of Missouri, Columbia In the late nineteenth-century, a small group of Free Lovers believed that many social ills, including overpopulation in industrial cities and the marital abuse of women, could be solved by freer discussions of sexuality, a reform of marriage, and the availability of contraceptive devices and information. They believed that only by allowing gender relations to be more equitable and giving women access to birth control information could women's lives, and society as a whole, be improved. However, their reform attempts ran counter to state attempts to suppress the public discussion of sex and sale of contraceptive devices via the Comstock Act of 1873. Those in power at the state and federal level sought to maintain male hegemony in marriage and disallo, .., women the choice to control their fertility. Subsequently, Free Loven such as Moses Harman were arrested for publishing and mailing "obscene literature" which concerned sex, women's freedom from "sex slavery;' and contraception. ControUing Poverty: Population Growth, Urban Poverty, and Government Family Planning Programs, 1965-1972. Josie Rodberg, Harvard University This paper looks at the history of federal government support for family planning programs in the United States beginning in 1%5, examining the ways lawmakers and activists framed their arguments about government birth control programs. From 1965-1972, these conversations centered on idealized notions of family and the question of whether birth control could help a poor family lift itself out of poverty. Broad support for family planning grew out of concern about the perceived threats population growth posed to America's economic stability, democratic institutions, and natural resources, but lawmakers chose to target low-income women's fertility as the potential solution to all these problems. The state solution to urban poverty and population growth was to encourage poor women and couples to embrace voluntary family planning. 1 ask readers to think about the multiple ways the U.S. government has tried to influence family formation, down to the most basic decisions about childbearing. Moderator: Dr. Shannon M. Risk, Niagara University 239. Writing in Community: an Alternative Metbod of Feminist Praxis 2:20 to 3:3j pm· Governor's Square 12 In this roundtable, we will discuss the process of creating a productive communal feminist writing collaboration. We will model a four-step method adapted from Louise Dunlap'S Undoing the Silence: Six Tools for Social Change Writing (2007). Included in this discussion will be articulations of how we negotiate bridging the personal and the theoretical in om writing; integrating our activist, creative and academic voices, as well as the ongoing process of creating transformative critique. Presenters: Aimee Carrillo Rowe, University of Iowa Am' Russo, DePaul University Lalla Farah, DePaul University Christine Keating, Ohio State University Moderator: Prancesca Royster, DePauJ University 240. Feminism, Violence, and the State 2:20 to 3:35 pm » Governors Square /4 Feminist Anti-trafficking Activists' Problematic Reliance on the State. Carrie N. Baker, Berry College The anti-trafficking movement in the United States flourished under the Bush administration after passage of the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act. This movement has framed the neoliberal state, particularly the criminal justice system, as central to addressing the problem of sex trafficking. This paper will argue that this state-centered framing of solutions to trafficking has strengthened the discipllnarv structures of the state in ways that restrict women's mobility and sexual freedom and enhance U.S. nee-imperialism around the world. Tbe paper will conclude with suggestions for alternative solutions based on transnational and intersectional frameworks. NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS Violenceand Young Women in Oakland: Victims, Advocates orCriminals. Crystatlee Crain, California Institute of Integral Studies Healthe Streets, of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, is a violence preventionprogram that trains youth ages 15-18 to advocate for a 000- violent Oakland. In this paper, the director of Heal the Streets will explorethe role of women in working towards non-violence and the trend of foundations and organizations to shift towards a conversation with young boys and men of color. The paper will discuss the local political climate and how it connects to structural changes in the stateand federal government, as well as the consequences of violence prevention policy for women in California. Mother-Activism: Harnessing the Radicalizing Experience ofMotherhood to Create Anti-Violence Activists. Susan OzrolLogsdon-Conradsen, Berry Col/ege Around the world mother-activism has utilized the symbolic power of motherhood to demand justice and is an alternative to state- centered solutions to violence. Such groups unify women of various backgrounds, garner public support, and capitalize on how the mothering role radicalizes women to intensify their activism and find their voices to advocate for others. New organizations promote mother-activism and mothers have spontaneously formed groups to protest violence within their community. Mother-activism as a social movement can build coalitions around a broader politics of rights when motherhood is defined as a collective experience that transcends race.nationality, religion, and social class. TheModern (re)Production of Slaves: Why Our Economy Depends on the Incarceration of Pregnant Black Women. Hannony Leanna Eichsteadt, University of Texas at Austin This paper examines the Widespread practice ofincarcerating (primarily Black)women for being pregnant and testing positive for illegal drugs. ..\0 examination of the state rationale, prison conditions, effects on the mothers and children, as well as the laws and policies surrounding this practice reveal its chilling similarity to t.he breeding/raping of Black WOmen slaves in order to produce free slave/prison labor. The paper concludes with an exploration of the possibilities and limitations of both current. and potential strategies for resistance ~loderator:Maria Bevacqua, Minnesota State University, Mankato 241. Re-Centering the Nation? Transnational Feminism, Race, and Human Rights :10 to 3:35 pm • Governors Square IS Secularizing Religious Difference: Making Muslim Women Legible as Subjects of Human Rights During the 1990s Civil War in Bosnia. Neda Atanasoski, University of California, Si>ntaCruz This talk addresses the impact of the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina on U.S. feminist thought. It suggests that mainstream U.S. felItinist discourses produced a gendered perspective on ethnic and religious difference in the Balkans t.hat has been constitut.ive of post- Cold War American liberalism, humanitarianism, and militarism. Contending with several prominent explanations about the origins of the conflict that contrasted ethnic and religious formations in the Balkans to an idealized vision of American secular tolerance, the talk cplores how conceptions of Balkan difference shaped the prosecution of rape as a war crime for the first time. HWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE Trafficking Feminisms: Race, Nation and US Anti- Trafficking Efforts. Julietta Hua, San Francisco State University Critical of the rescue narrative implicit in US anti-trafficking efforts, this paper examines the repercussions of framing trafficking through gendered and racialized lenses, specifically the casting of Eastern European and Asian women as victim to their own cultural practices of patriarchy. Uncovering the visual cues used to represent and mark nationally 'other' trafficking subjects reveals the ways nationalist articulations of liberal feminisms as well as discourses of racial pluralism shape US governmental anti-trafficking projects, which naturalize constructions of the US nation as a leader of global anti- trafficking efforts. Biometrics at the Border. Felicity Schaeffer-Grabld, University of California, Santa Cruz The war against migrants by the U.S. state has been launched as a war of visibility, of making "known" the illicit or underground movements of migrants who pass the border undetected and outside the rule of law. In conjunction with the heightened military response to noncitizen migrants, the U.S. increasingly contracts out military and corporate technologies of surveillance - Biometrics, DNA, and globally positioned webcams - to develop ever more "sophisticated" methods of apprehending and sorting migrant bodies. How do these technologies articulate state power and definitions of the illicit and what kinds of counter-movements - especially feminist human rights paradigms - emerge to disable or reassemble the technological gaze at the border? Moderator: Julietta Hua, San Francisco State University 242. Feminists Rethink Activism and the State 2:20 to 3:35 pm • Governor's Square /7 Making Mamas Militant: Gender and the Politics of Dissent in the U.S. Welfare Rights Movemeut. Holloway Sparks, Emory University This paper theorizes the "dissident citizenship" of activist women of color in the 1966-74 U.S. welfare rights movement. I develop this concept via critical engagements with three distinct feminist theories of women's activism and political agency: Linda Zerilli's Arendtian framework (2005), Barbara Cruikshank's Foucauldian framework (1999) and Saba Mahmood's post-colonial Butlerian framework (2005). My case study complicates these theories of gendered activism by highlighting the crucial role classed and racialized discourses of incivility and even violence played in the welfare mothers' efforts to address the democratic state as "militant mamas" trying to protect their children from harm. Collective Action Beyond Coalition. Michaele Ferguson. University of Colorado, Boulder To conceptualize "feminists" as a collectivity t.hat can act as one in spite of differences and disagreements, feminist theorists have turned to strategic essentialism (Spivak 1987), coalition politics (Reagon 1983, Lyshaug 2006, Mohanty 2003), and solidarity (hooks 1986, Heyes 2003). I examine the 2006 U.S. immigrant protests as a critical alternative to these approaches. I read protestors' use of flags of other nationalities as apolitical expression that aimed to reconfigure dominant. conceptions of American identity. These protests express a vision of political unity that cannot be adequately described by feminist theories, and so provide an intriguing model for feminism. •CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS"":7::::-::-::-~~3':"':-::=~~~~~~~ Violent Exclusions: Feminist Grievances Beyond the Power of the State. Lisa Catherine Knisely, Emory University In 1970, political theorist Hannah Arendt strenuously argued against instrumentalist uses of violence for political ends. In her words, "Violence does not promote causes, neither history nor revolution, neither progress nor reaction; but it can serve to dramatize grievances and bring them to public attention" (79). In this paper, 1will explore the work of feminist democratic theorists working in an Arendtian vein to think about how violence may be used by feminist activists to "dramatize grievances;' particularly grievances that contest the consolidation of democratic power in the form of state controL Performing Law: The Case of a Trans-Inclusive ENDA. Nikki Karalekas, Emory University In this essay, I use Judith Butler's theory ofperformativity(1990, 2004) to challenge the implication that law is not an appropriate activist tool for enacting protection (Brown 1995). Viewing the formulation of gender identity in the latest version of the Employee Non-Discrimination Act through Butler's theory, 1 show that the law can be more capricious and less tied to state power than Brown suggests. This case demonstrates that feminist political theory's current skepticism of using the law for activist projects is, in certain contexts, misplaced. Moderator: Pamela Scully, Emory University 243. Gender and Globalization: Patterns of Women's Resistance 2:20 (a 3:35 pm » Plaza Court 3 Global Apartheid and women's Resistance: An Overview. Erica G. Polakoff, Bloomfield College Global labor exploitation, unemployment, poverty, displacement and migration have been exacerbated as a direct consequence of economic globalization-what some have referred to as neo-liberal globalization, corporate globalization or perhaps more accurately, 'global apartheid' The economic policies comprising global apartheid have penetrated virtually every community, everywhere in the world. In this introduction to the panel, I will provide an explanation and overview of these policies, highlight the ways in which women worldwide have organized to resist them and their consequences (e.g., declining standards of living and deteriorating work conditions) and discuss the contributions of women's resistance today, to transnational feminisms. Waves of Resistance in the Colombian Flower Industry. Olga Sanmigue/- Valderrama, University of Cincinnati Based on the author's ongoing relationship with workers and NGOs in the Colombian flower industry, this paper focuses on processes of resistance in the industry, including unionization, transnational consumer campaigns, green trade campaigns, codes of conduct and how Asocolflores, the Colombian Association of Flower Growers, has responded to these forms of resistances. After highlighting the characteristics of these processes, the paper refers to the theoretical implications of the case study, while considering feminist political economy thought and by Latina feminist thought. Women's Rights in a Global Context: The Women of MARKETPLACE/SHARE in Mumbai, India. Margaret McLaren, Rollins College e classical liberal theories of rights overemphasize individual autonomy. Feminists from a variety of approaches criticize this individualistic model. Other feminists argue that rights discourse is essential to help end discrimination against women. However, these proponents of international women's rights too often focus on legal and political rights at the expense of economic rights. In a global context, it is important to recognize the interconnections between different kinds of rights. A case study of the cooperative organization Marketplace/ SHARE illustrates the importance of economic empowerment to the overall goal of advancing the cause of women's rtgh ts and equality. A Place to Speak Our Minds: Locating Women's Activism Where North Meets South. Mary Frederickson. Miami University Eighty years ago, a sizable cohort of activists, scholars and labor organizers argued that the future of the North American labor movement depended on the successful organization of women workers in the U.S. South. Today, activists. scholars and labor organizers make markedly similar arguments about the role of young women entering the maquiladoras in the Global South. Divided by time and place, these two groups of workers share the legacy of paying the human costs of industrialization and globalization. In the United States in the mid-20th century, a significant minority of women responded to the economic and social changes confronting them by turning to activism and fighting back. I argue that collective organization, workers' education and feminist cooperation are the hallmarks of women's activism for social and economic justice today, just as they had been in the previous century, and that the success of these efforts among maquiladora workers depends on women locating places where thev can develop historical consciousness, find their voices and openly 'speak their minds.' Moderator: Erica G. Polakoff, Bloomfield College 244. Language and Power: Intersectionality and Women's Talk about Sexual Assault 2:20 (0 3:35 pill • Plaza Court 4 Feminists have long examined the power and role of language in constituting and perpetuating institutional sexism, racism and interlocking systems of domination. We'll look at "talk" as sites where intersecting and unequal power relations are created, negotiated, resisted, and/or maintained. lntersectionality theory and linguistics can help us develop pedagogical and activist responses to violence against women. This workshop is designed for sexual assault educators and researchers. We will provide resources and practical tools adaptable for educational and other settings. Using theater and small group exercises. we will explore implications of intersectionality theory for language, sexual assault and women's voices. Presenters: Judith Ann Parker, University of Mary Washington Deborah Malllstedt, West Chester University of Pennsylvania NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS 145.Excluding Nature in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies :::0 (0 3:35 pm • Plaza Court 5 Wbo'sAfraid of Environmental Feminism? Anti-Essentialist Feminismsand the Denial of Nature. Greta Gaard, University o/Wisconsin, River Falls introductory textbooks for Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies show a startling silence around environmental feminisms. Despite fivedecades of feminist activism and theorizing within the feminist, environmental.animal rights, and environmental justice movements, theimportance of nature and environment in Women, Gender, and SexualityStudies is still ignored or backgrounded. Why? A new wavein feminist theory is now interrogating the anti-essentialism of the 19905. Variously called "feminist environmentalisms," "material feminisms," or "postcolonial ecocriticism," a resurgence of feminist theories argue for restoring the environment in Women, Gender, and SexualityStudies, offering more inclusive, intersectional perspectives onoppression and liberation. Theoretical Anorexia in the Academic Body. Jacquelyn N. lita, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Iexamine two approaches to a feminist study of food: a postmodern perspective,which attends to the simulacra of food and the discursive materializations of the body through commodity form and cultural practices;and a feminist materialist environmental theory, focused on the transcorporeal body as located in the nexus of material flowsof food, air, water, and other materialities of trade, migration, pollution,climate shredding and global transport. While both modes oftheorizing the material body have something to offer, the second analysisreturns feminist theoretical work to questions of ontology and mitigatesagainst theoretical anorexia. Another ( N' Word: Coming to Terms with Nature in Contemporary Feminism. Gretchen Legler, University of Maine,Farmington Environmental feminism has long offered us the opportunity to explore the problem of "the real" -the real body, the real natural world, the realness of gendered experience. Those opportunities, however, have often been thwarted by the demands of an academic feminism that insistswe theorize "the real" sometimes to within an inch of its life. In this presentation I examine the ways that in my own work as a feminist naturewriter I've encountered conflicts with postmodern feminisms- conthcrs that challenge the legitimacy of personal experience and, as Thoreauwould say, of the solid earth itself. Dualism and Naturalization: Strategies of Critique in Feminist Theories of Environmental Justice Cultural Studies. Nod Sturgeon, Washington State University Thereis a history of tension between ecofeminist theory and feminist theory. Most discussions of that tension focus on questions of essentialism. I propose a different angle, one which shifts this debate awayfrom a framework of confrontation, accusation, and defense, and instead explores the relationship between two feminist/ecofeminist theoretical tools: the critique of dualism (most closely associated with feminist philosopher Val Plumwood) and the critique of naturalization (afeminist Marxist and deconstructionist tool). \toderator: Lori Baralt, California State University, Long Beach NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE 246. Aging and Ageism Caucus Business Meeting 2:20 to 3:35 pm • Director s Row F The Aging and Ageism Caucus welcomes all attendees to our business meeting, which will include a discussion of directions for the following year. The Caucus is committed to resisting ageism within and without the NWSA, educating people about ageism, and furthering the field of age and aging studies as an area of academic inquiry. 247. Worse than Death: Rape Victim Erasure and Responsibility 2:20 to 3:35 pm· Director s Row H The Queer Periphery: Renegotiating Definitions of Rape in American Society. Crystal Marie Rodgers, Georgia State University This paper argues for increased agency within the queer community through the imagining of a more effective prevention of rape within the United States. Applying the postmodern queer theorizing of Michel Foucault and Judith Halberstam, along with Sharon Marcus, 1 intend to describe the ways in which rape functions within heteronormative, naturalized concepts of space-circulating and reinforcing belief systems about what constitutes rape, who can be raped, and who rapes. Iwill collapse these dominant ideologies of sexual violence in order to illuminate how they erase non-heterosexual assault, or that which occurs along the queer periphery. «Boys Will Be Boys": Masculinity and Rape Prevention. Amanda Lynn Mills, Georgia State University This presentation utilizes original research on leading online sexual assault prevention programs' verb choice. Despite finding these programs have increasingly incorporated feminist aims, an overemphasis on enhanced communication skills and cautionary tactics directed at potential future victims remains. College femal overwhelmingly occupy the central space of preventative responsibilit Femininity is described as a risk factor, and the role of masculinity in rape prevention is largely ignored. Attempts to pinpoint identifiable rape-risk scenarios are problematic. I posit current emphasis on female psychological preparedness is detrimental and argue that programs would benefit from exploring how masculinity can become part of rape prevention. Failures of Fearlessness: Girl-Power and Self-Defense. Brittany Elyse Biake, Georgia State University Using the first installment of the young adult fiction series titled Fearless (Pascal 1999), this paper examines intersections between Girl Power and Self-Defense rhetoric. The heroine, Gaia Moore, demonstrates how strength and discipline are coded as masculine while insecurity and self-loathing are coded as feminine. Gaia's story, a bildungsroman of the Girl Power era, presents a girl's initiation into the responsibility of rape and sexual assault. The constant anxiety of being raped ingrained in girls figuratively manifests itselfin Gaia. Girl Power and Self-Defense ultimately fail to combat assault due to greater anxiety surrounding gender and sexuality performance. Moderator: Megan Sinnott, Georgia State University CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS 248. Cisters in the Struggle: Exploring Trans Families, Relationships and Communities from the Cisgendered Ally Perspective(s). 2:2010 3:35 pm » Directors Row I Identity Negotiations among Partners of Trans gender People. Carey Jean Sojka, University at Albany, SUNY Partners of transgender people are a diverse group with a multitude of experiences and identities. In some cases, partnering with a transgender person can particularly complicate the construction and maintenance of gender a.nd sexuality identities by creating a rift between preferred and perceived identities. Based on qualitative interviews with a small sample of people of varying genders and sexualities who are partnered with transgender people, this paper addresses the potentially complicated identity negotiations that partners may encounter. Building Alliances through Knowledge: Integrating Transgender Perspectives inWomen's Studies Curriculum. Amy Eisen Cislo, Washington University, St. Louis r am a cisgendered feminist scholar who established a transgender course at my university. I have also worked to integrate transgender issues into all introductory Women's Studies courses and I've volunteered to provide educational information to the LGBT groups on campus. My talk will be both autobiographical and theoretical. It shall be organized in three sections. First, I'll address the benefits and ways of integrating transgender identity into a women's studies curriculum. Second, I'll address how to move beyond the classroom and educate the LGB community to promote alliances and lastly, reflections on my own personal experience of being a cisgendered, heterosexual Ally. Providing Room For Partners. Sarah Wagner, TransOhio Board of Directors 1 discuss the community activism work others and I are doing to create programs and educational opportunities that provide a partner- focused public platform and support. As a wife of a trans woman I personally understand the effects an individual's transition can have on their partner. I will discuss the prior lack of local partner support, why I chose to become involved, and how local programming has developed since my initial work with the creation of the partners' group in January 2009. Finally, I will conclude with an analysis of resulting positive changes occurring within the local trans and ally communities. Moderator: Catherine O. Jacquet, University of Illinois, Chicago 248A Pregnant Women: The Outsiders in the Women's Rights Discourse 8:00 to 9:15 am • Govemor's Square 16 Birth Activism as Feminism. Jessica Clements, George Mason University Speaker one discusses the history of birth activism as it relates to feminism and explores the impact of political movements during the 20th century on women's perceptions of their bodies. reproductive choices, and identities as mothers. She then turns to contemporary issues in birth activism and theorizes why feminist work to advance birth choices is largely neglected by American women. Most importantly, she addresses why many in the contemporary feminist movement distance themselves from choice as it pertains 10 childbirth. Pregnancy Portrayal in the Media. Laura Possessky, Gura and Possessky, PLLC Speaker two examines the portrayal of pregnancy and birth in media as a commentary of how society perceives gestation. labor and birth. Media representations of birth also send messages about how women should act, how women should be treated and what is expected of women in the early years of motherhood. These images often create unreasonable expectations and frequently drive misconceptions that women have about the experience of pregnancy and birth. She will argue that popular media images hinder a public discourse in improving maternal care and enforcing legal rights of pregnant and laboring women. Feticide Laws: At What Cost for Women? Sarah f. Gareau. Lenoir-Rhyne University Speaker three argues that feticide laws. such as Unborn Victims of Violence Act, promoted as improving the livelihood of pregnant women, in actuality set the precedence to deny women their rights to privacy and bodily integrity by establishing the legal personhood of a fertilized egg, embryo, or fetus, therefore undermining the foundation for Roe v.Wade. Similar laws have also been used to prosecute women who suffered stillbirths under fetal homicide statutes. This approach ignores the relevance of the shared maternal-fetal relationship and the importance of the pregnant woman as a person in her own right from conception to birth. Promoting the Civil Rights of Pregnant Women. Lisa Pratt, University of the District of Columbia Speaker four discusses how current laws fall short of protecting the rights of pregnant women and argues the need for a new civil rights statute to codify the rights of child bearing women. The unequal power positioning between a doctor and the woman, coupled with the relatively short duration of a pregnancy, create a prime opportunity for systemic abuse. Although pregnant woman can refuse treatment, they are often unaware of their rights and fearful of retaliation for not complying. Panelist will discuss procedures forced on pregnant women, the historical violation of pregnant women's rights. and examples of retaliatory practices against noncompliant women. Moderator: Drucilla Barker, University of South Carolina International Task Force Business Meeting 2:20 to 3:35 pm • Governors Square 9 The International Task Force welcomes all attendees to our business meeting. NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE pI New and outstanding titles in Women's Studies Remaking Citizenship Latina Immigrants and New American Politics NOW IN PAPERBACK The Precious Raft of History The Past, the West, and the Woman Question in ChinaKATHLEEN M. 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This crisis - both secular and spiritual - demands that we cook with a mindful feminism to nourish our bodies and souls. Taking Back the Kitchen as Visionary Resistance. Peggy Rivage-Seul, Berea College The world food crisis calls feminists to fe-engage the struggle for global justice. But the venue has moved from the streets to the home space- -the kitchen. This movement of taking back the kitchen is a visionary feminism that challenges the usurpation of the kitchen by the global, industrialized food economy. Moderator: Tricia Lin, Southern Connecticut State University 250. Transnational Girls Studies 3:45105:00 prn » Plaza Court 2 Girls' Studies Grows Up. Ettine Lipkin, University of California, Berkeley I will talk about the historyofgirls' studies, from theAAUW's incendiary reports in the early 1990s to consideration of where this field is now branching out, tracing the field's encroachment into whether Of not learning is gendered. How is girls' studies stil! experiencing growing pains, particularly now that this subject is not new within academe or the public's imagination - but there is still inequity alongside evolving gender differences. I will track currents in this developing field, exploring the most recent arguments and movements, both within academic discussion and the perception of girls within popular culture. (Re)Thinking Rights from the Perspectives of Adolescent Girl. Emily Christine Bent, National University of Ireland, Galway This study will explore the complexities of girl as the subject of human rights and feminist discourses. As a contemporary subject of study, adolescent girls continue to appear at the forefront of international agendas, institutional policies, and the global media. Yet despite their increased visibility, research continues to show "just how little we really know about the lives of girls" (PLAN 2007: 121). Specifically, the ways in which girls actualize human rights in the everyday remains largely unexplored and under-theorized. This study offers unique and critical insights into the conceptualization of human rights based on the perspectives of CSW54 girl delegates. Girls Rights: A Progression Across The Life Course or One That Never Begins? Hara Bastas, University of Cincinnati Contextualizing rights as a process that occurs over the life course can offer insight into the ways that support/denial of rights can be part of the larger discussion of social inequality. This dialogue though is a tenuous one. where the debate continues as to whether human rights includes women's rights and whether children's rights includes girls' rights. Using the children's rights index and the women's rights index. both girls and women are linked in the same way through multiple forms of systemic discrimination by the mere fact of their location in the gendered structure. 162 Worlds Apart: How Social Networking Technologies Blur the Boundaries Between Sexual Assault Prevention and Perpetration. Christina Marie Stoltz, American University of Central Asia By examining international trends in social networking as they relate to community activism, outreach, and education, this paper aims to explore the cross-cultural successes and challenges of crisis centers, like WISE Women's Resource Center in New Hampshire. USA and the Sezlrn Crisis Center in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan and Sezim, in establishing a professional "presence" online and in broadening the scope and range of victim-survivor support services. Creating and nurturing virtual communities has not only provided W1SE and Sezim with new spaces for social action, but has also caused the organizations themselves to reconsider the crisis intervention and education methods they currently espouse for girls. Moderator: Katy A. Strzepek, St. Ambrose University 251. Negotiating from the Outside: Dominant Texts and Feminist Performances 3:45105:00 pm » Plaza Court 6 Another Staging of the Draupadi Story: Perform alive Feminism from Bengal. Srimati Mukherjee, Temple University This paper addresses Bratati Bandyopadhyay's recitation of the poem "Draupadi [anma" which reconceptualizes, as a protestor, the wife Draupadi of the Indian epic The Mahabharata. Draupadi was wagered by her husbands in a game of dice, and assaulted by her husbands' rivals. In her recitation Bandyopadhyay uses staged gestures and movements, such as walking towards men on a period set as she poses piercing questions or makes assertions. While Mahasweta Devi's and Spivak's re-writing of Draupadi's story brought one kind of revolutionary figure from Bengal i.nto the American academy. Bandyopadhyay's performance, despite its outsider status, could bring in another. Revealing Venus: The Spectacle of the Black Female Body (Re)Made Spectacular through the Black Female Neo- Burlesque Performer. Sydney Lewis, University of Washington Frequently linked to riot-grrrl post-feminism and sex-positivity, nee- burlesque isconsidered a re-appropriation of the 'classic art of striptease,' allowing women to control and perform their sexuality. Through critical theories of the black female body as abject spectacle. this paper uses three case-studies of black nee-burlesque pe.rformers to explore how their performance manipulates and intervenes in dominant discourses around black female sexuality. These performances represent a radical black female sexual subjectivity that does not simply reverse established hierarchies. but i.nstead demand a new disorder by rejecting both the dominant narrative of sexual objectification and the counter-narrative of bourgeoisie respectability. Moderator: Basuli Deb, University of Nebraska-Lincoln 252. Difficult Dialogues With/in the Indian-American Diaspora: Investigations of the Gendered, Religions) and Classed Aspects of Cultnral Nationalisms 3:45 to 5:00 pm • Plaza Court 7 "A Khan in New York": Gender. Religion, and Bollywood post- 9/11. Priyo J. Shah, University of Canfomia. Irvine Studies of Bollywocd's growing corpus of "diasporic" films hart illuminated the gendered logic of marriage and capital flow as a means by which "corrupted" diasporic Indians can gain spiritual and cultural rejuvenation in/through India. Not only is this logic d~' NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS---------------------. ..... heteronormative, but it is centered on North lndian immigrants whose religiousidentities are represented as slipping easily between Hindu and Sikh. However. the events of 9111 and the 11/08 Mumbai terror attackshave shifted both the unilinear trajectory of diasporic plotlines and made Indian American Muslims newly visible as diasporic subjects. This paper traces shifting Bollywood narratives of diaspora andcultural citizenship within t.he context of a transnational "war on terror" DomesticWork, Affect and the Production of ABCD Identity.Neha Vora, Texas A&M University The term ABeD (American Born Confused Desi) circulates widely in US and Indian contexts to reference subjects who supposedly fallbetween two different cultural contexts. This paper brings in an aspectof ABCD identity that has been understudied in South Asian daspora scholarship: the role of migrant domestic workers. I argue that individualized accounts of South Asian racial experience in the US and political economic approaches to this population leave out the important role of domestic workers' affective labor within changingdefinitions of family, negotiations of cultural identity, and the 'confusions" that mark middle-class diasporic narratives. 'Where Did You Learn to Apply Make Up Like That?": Consumer Feminisms, Banditry, and the "Indian') American GirlDoll. Vanita Reddy, Texas A&M University This paper examines the production of a contemporary diasporic 'girl-feminist" consumer subject. I read the marketing practices and historicalconstruction of Neela, a Bengali-Indian "American Girl" doll. Thepaper situates Neelas proto-feminist subjectivity within gendered performances of passing (as a boy street urchin, an upper-class elite Bengali girl, and a diseased body) and discourses around Indian revolutionary "terrorism." I thus track the emergence of a consumer feministsubject shaped by post 9-11 South Asian racialization and by anti-colonial and religious nationalisms. TheTransnational Turn: Gendered Articulations of Space andPlace. lnderpal Grewal, Yale University Thispaper interrogates the transnational turn in diaspora theory and migration studies, examining ensuing shifts in method and gendered articulations of space and place. For example, how does the fact that all migration is now referred to as "transnational migration" both engender possibilities (e.g., by drawing attention to how the pressures ofglobalization shape the movements of gendered and classed bodies) and limits (e.g. precluding a consideration of "internal migration). How does the particularity of disapora space, as Brah theorized it, Conned with the spatiality of transnational network and connectivities? Incorporating feminist theories of diaspora and transnational ism, this paper will examine the problems and possibilities of these approaches. Moderator: Sima Shakhsari, Stanford University 253.Creatively Chronicling "His'ttories and "Her'tstortes: 1V0menof the Military 3:4j 10 5:00 pm » Plaza Court S Re-Presenting the Navy WAVES: A Performance of Oral History. Jamie Lee Huber, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale Delia Pollock establishes a strong link between performance and oral history. stating "[p ]erformance-whether we are talking about the everyday act of telling a story or the staged reiteration of stories-c-is an especially charged, contingent. reflexive space of encountering the complex web of our respective histories" (2005, p. 1). I draw upon NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE this link by discussing the process of engaging in an oral herstory project of women who served in the Navy WAYES during World War II and transforming collected narratives into a staged performance that is representative of WWII Waves' experiences. I explore both the possibilities of and difficulties with this approach to chronicling and raising awareness of women's herstories. Pollock, D. (Ed.). (2005). Introduction: Remembering. Remembering: Oral history performance (pp. 1-17). New York: Palgrave Macmillan. From Interview to Screen to Web: Thickening Multimedia Storytelling. Kathleen M. Ryan, University of Colorado, Boulder This self-reflexive essay will consider the transformation a project takes as it moves from an academically-based oral history to documentary film and associated on-line content. The project in question is tracing the history of the WAVES of World War 11,and uses material gathered by the researcher as well as interviews and historical documents found in archives. In oral history, researchers aim for something known as "thick conversation": detail-laden discussions which reveal the narrator's motivations and interpretations of history. But how to maintain that detail while still adhering to the time constraints and storytelling conventions of film? Deciding which stories to include, and which ones to leave out, can be wrenching acts of balance, requiring the oral historian/documentarian to consider both how to best serve the overall project while also determining how to best represent an individual life. "Note: One of the World War n WAVES interviewed for this documentary will be joining us via Skype interview to discuss her role in and reaction to the interviewing and docwnentary proces Interpreting the Ahsent Speaker: Navigating Digital and Existing Oral History Collections. Tanya L. Roth, Washington University, St. Louis The digitization of oral history collections in recent years Significantly expands researchers' access valuable interviews with servicewomen. Using these materials requires creative listening and interpretation, because researchers cannot ask their own questions and because in transcripts, at least, it is difficult to gather details such as intonation or body language. I discuss my experiences in accessing, analyzing, and incorporating previously-collected women veterans' oral history interviews for my dissertation 011 women's service from 1945 to 1978. Institutions utilized include the Library of Congress Veterans History Project, the Women in Military Service for America memorial, and the University of North Carolina - Greensboro. Moderator: Teri Ann Bengiveno, Las Posttas College 254. Migration and the Sex Trade: Transnational Feminist Critique 3:45105:00 pm » Governor j. Square 9 "I am not like foreign brides from other countries!": The Internal Politics among Foreign Brides in Taiwan. Tzu-Hui Chen, Arizona State University This study aims to utilize situational analysis (Clarke, 2005) to explore the internal political complexity among a group of oppressed women- the "foreign brides" from different Southeast Asian countries who married Taiwanese men based on econom.ic reasons. Even though the immigrant women all share the same identity as "foreign bride" and suffer the same oppression tied to the "foreign bride" stigma, the solidarity among them is difficult to build because of the complicated and dynamic politics attached to their countries of origin, the discourses in society, and different material situations in which they are situated. 163 CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONSL.- ~-------_ 3:45 P.M. - 5:00 P.M. SATURDAY Intimate Migrations: Narrating Gender and Sexuality in (Trans)national Contact Zones. Samantha Nicole Pi/1tO, Georgetown University 'This paper looks at the innovative rea.lism performed in relationship to the state regulation of gender and sexuality in the African Diaspora in Zoe Wicomb's YOU CAN'T GET LOST IN CAPETOWN and Pauline Melville's THE MIGRATION OF GHOSTS. In doing so, it argues that aesthetics and reading aesthetics can provide a new basis for challenging institutional constructions of Third World Women as subjects of transnational feminism. Sex and Migration of Color in Spain: The Ultimate Crimes in Today's Neoliberal World. Sandibel Borges, University of California, Santa Barbara Due to the growing globalization and thus, migration from the global South to the global North, sex work is increasingly an issue of immigrant women of color in wealthier and whiter countries. This paper will focus on the way in which "feminist" organizations in Spain assist sex workers coming from Latin America. It wiJl address the ways in which many feminist groups in Spain are taking the role of'savior' in their attempts to 'help' migrant women who sell sex. It is also critical of the emphasis on discourses of trafficking of women. Moderator: Marie Anne Cartier, Claremont Graduate University 255. Technologies of Feminist Pedagogy: Digital Scholarship with Ning, Podcasts, YouTube and Zotero 3:45 to 5:00 pm • Governor s Square 10 Social Networking as Feminist Pedagogy. Elizabeth Ann Archuleta, Arizona State University My presentation will discuss how and why I use ning, a social networking platform, in the classroom. This tool makes the learning environment a more public experience than a private, closed classroom management system (such as Blackboard). I will outline materials 1 include on the site (e.g., videos, photo slideshows with media that pertain to my course topic, forum topics, etc.) and demonstrate how students can also shape the platform and the learning environment in significant ways (e.g, through their own additions and their own profile pages). Podcasts and Creating an Original Feminist On-line Archive. Kristin lean Jacobson, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey This presentation will describe and analyze the podcasting assignments students in my lower level women's studies course complete. The primary assignment asks students to digitally record and post to our class website student definitions of feminism. Students anaJyze the archived responses, comparing them with scholarly definitions. I will cover assignment descriptions and rubrics (all materials will be available in pdf format online) and show sample projects. I will also discuss the pedagogical chalJenges and rewards of assigning and evaluating feminist activist and public research projects in a course where not all the students subscribe to feminism. avigating a Feminist Video Pedagogy. Brian R. lara, The ennsylvania State University is presentation will focus on the pedagogical appropriation of video- based technologies as a vehicle for students to design, develop, produce, and critique provocative public service announcements (PSAs) situated in undergraduate general education courses centered on race, class, gender and sexuality. Students apply their course material to produce works that have a legacy beyond anyone course or semester, 164 and also face unexpected challenges when "capturing" footage of the social problems they themselves intend to challenge. Utilizing these nontraditional types of assignments have the potential to empower Our students as scholars, pedagogues, and engaged citizens. Training Students in Digital Scholarship: Zotero and Online Research Communities. Adeline Koh, Richard Stockton College The landscape for humanities research is rapidly evolving. The goalof my presentation will be to show how students can be trained as digital scholars, specifically through the use of shared, public bibliographies created by the research application known as zotero. The shared bibliographies provide a valuable tool and resource for feminist and critical race scholarship. In addition, they offer a new platform for students to learn to critically engage within new forms of global research communities. Moderator: Marla [aksch, The College of New Jersey 256. Feminista Science Studies 3:45 to 5:00 pm • Governor j' Square 11 Layers of Absence: Women of Color in STEM. Angela Beatri. Ginorio, University of Washington Layers of absence mark most of the work published on women of color in science, technology, mathematics and engineering (STEM). From the time of the first conference on women of color i.n science, "The Double Bind: The Price of Being a Minority Woman in Science" i.n1976 to the present, much has changed in terms of conceptualizations but not much has changed in terms of the knowledge generated about women of color in STEM. This paper will explore the layers of absence that make the study of women of color in STEM Simultaneously necessary and difficult. Feminista Science Studies. Sara P. Diaz, University of Washington In this paper I caJl on feminist science studies scholars to adopt a femi.nista critical perspective in order expand the boundaries the field to include the intersectional identities of women of color scientists. I begin with an analysis of the methodological and theoretical boundaries of feminist science studies which have made the study of women of color particularly difficult. Then, J detail what 1 call a "feminista science studies" methodology which integrates interdisciplinary case study methods, critical cultural studies of science. and US third world feminist theories. Playing at Science: Theatrical Consciousness-Raising about Women in Science. Noralis Rodriguez-Cess, University of Washington Is theater an effective tool for feminist political action? Can performance transform the audience? In this paper,1 discuss the struggles of Puerto Rican women in science and suggest performance as a strategy for theil advancement. German mathematician Emmy Noether's life inspired the play "Emmy Noether: The Poem of the LOgical Ideas," developed in Puerto Rico as a feminist consciousness-raising tool for women's issues in science and academia and to raze false perceptions of women in science. Audience responses suggest that the past intersects withihe present when the experiences of Emmy Noether are sti.Uconfronted b women scientists today. Moderator: Banu Subramaniatn, University of Massachusetts, Amherst NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE f"" CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS-------------------SATURDAY 3:45 P.M. - 5:00 P.M. 157.Stop (Saving' Us: Feminist Responses to the Canadian State'sRescue Narratives 3:4510 j:OOpm • Governor S Square /2 Sex, Gender and Rescue Narratives: Linking Haiti) Helena Guergis and Feminist Theorization in Canada. Pauline Rankin, Carleton University Speaker One surveys para.I.Jel usages of 'rescue narratives' by the Canadian federal government to justify foreign policy interventions in Haiti and Afghanistan and the simultaneous dismantling of gender equality policy domestically. More specifically, the paper interrogates bow the recent deployment of these 'rescue narratives: albeit in \'"erydifferent policy arenas, together signal a dramatic discursive abandonment of 'gender equality' in favour of a return to 'sex equality' arguments as justification for government action. Using the work of IrisYoung, Sherene Razack, Jill Vickers and [anine Brodie, the paper considers feminist theoretical responses to the consequences of these "rescuenarratives' 'Rescuing) Disability from the Activists: The Canadian Government interprets the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities," Christine Kelly, Carleton University Speaker Two considers the Canadian government's ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Like many countries, Canada's ratification will include interpretative declarations and reservations that represent a "rescue narrative" with which the government 'protects' Canadians through maintaining legal and political structures. thus undermining activist efforts and obscuring the ongoing government-sponsored segregation of Canadians with disabilities. Care shouJd be a central civic value (Williams), but this scenario requires what feminist Garland- Thomson terms "intellectual tolerance" in order to account for the oppressive side effects of 'caring' stateactions and disability activists' aversion to the concept of care. Rescuing Multiculturalism) Rescuing the Nation-State. Mihaela Ecaterina Yieru, Carleton University Speaker Three explores Canadian multiculturalism as a space of national security at the levels of signification and institutional practice. Drawing from Bourdieu, Walters and feminist discourse analysis, she problematizes multiculturalism policy, notably post 9/11. The paper examines the narrowing of multiculturalism policy as now exclusively about immigrants, particularly non-white minorities and women. With its specific focus on 'at-risk' categories, multiculturalism functions as a 'rescue narrative' targeting racialised populations who must be 'domesticated' to enhance national security. The paper argues that these developments reconfigure the relations between citizenship, state, and diverse populations in order to serve the new nationalistic enterprise. Moderator: Pauline Rankin, Carleton University 258. Lesbian Caucus Meeting 3:4510 5:00 pm • Governor s Square /4 The Lesbian Caucus of the National Women's Studies Association is a constituency within NWSA open to, and welcoming of, all NWSA members. Join us for the Lesbian Caucus Yearly meeting! Meet and greet colleagues and friends, congratulate the winner of this year's lesbian Caucus Graduate Student Scholarship Award, and make your 'lJice count as we plan for the future! .\-f.d Michelle Lewis, University of Maryland, College Park NWSA2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE 259. Bringing women's Studies into Feminist Media) and Feminist Media into the Classroom 3:45 to 5:00 pm • Governor s Square 15 The feminist media can serve as a double resource for women's studies professors in revealing how the state affects women in such critical areas as militarization, incarceration, religious fundamentalism, immigration and land rights. First, women's studies scholars bring their research into public discourse through feminist media, and secondly, feminist media can be brought into the classroom as learning material. In this roundtable, case studies of such resource-sharing interactions will be given, showing how women's studies scholars have published in the popular feminist press and also used feminist publications to enhance classroom study. Presenters: Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Spelman College Natalie Kate Wilson, California State University, San Marcos Patricia Trujillo, University of Colorado, Pueblo Moderator: Katherine Spillar, Ms. Magazine 260. "In this here place": Embodied Creativity in Black Women's Lived Experiences 3:45 to 5:00 pm » Governor's Square 16 Expanding the Black Sacred Cosmos: A Troeltschian- Afroferncentric Analysis of the Life and Work of Alison S Erica Kierulf, Union Presbyterian Seminary, Richmond The African American spiritual universe must encompass a spectrum of Black religious extrachurch forms that push theologic boundaries and force a re-evaluation of our limited understandings of "Black religion." I contend that an expansion of the Black sacred cosmos can be realized through a Troeltschian-Afrofemcentric analysis of religious experiences and cultural expressions of Alison Saar, African American visual artist. Saar's visual artifacts are highly potent sites of accessibility to symbolic systems of Black cultural and religious meaning. She fashions her material reality into symbols which signify, express, and locate the spiritual strivings of Black folks. While I have Breath in my Body: African American Women Remember Lynching. Angela D. Sims, Saint Paul School of Theology Drawing on oral histories of African American women, aged seventy or older, this paper examines the relationship of oral history as a methodology which can be used to engage "difficult dialogues". With specific attention given to "reports of critical conversations" as a pedagogical approach, three foundational principles function as a framework from which to employ a womanist theological ethical assessment: 1) evaluating the critical role of language in shaping a religious identity, 2) addressing intersections of race, class, gender. and other social constructions, and 3) analyzing narratives of and about lynching and a culture of lynching. Saving the Life that is Onr Own: A Contextnal Approach to Pastoral Counseling and Reconnection. Elizabeth Johnson Walker, Loisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary Employing a pastoral reflective process, this paper addresses relational issues that contribute to disembodied concepts about women. Using a process of reconnecrion, specifically guided by womanist sensibilities, I will discuss ways in which therapeutic healing is an effective and creative means of intervention for persons who suffer from traumatic effects caused by patriarchal structures and systems in Western society. These womanist strategies for pastoral counseling intervention help victims of 165 262. Feminist Disability Studies as a Tool for Addressing Injustice 3:45 to 5:00 pm • Plaza Court 3 "Gastrolntestlonal Pornography": Women and/in IBS Advertising. Amy vidau, University of Colorado Denver The positioning of chronic and episodic disorders in disability studies is of particular consequence for women, who frequently experience chronic pain. In this presentation, I consider the representation of women with lrritable Bowel Syndrome in advertising for prescription Zelnorm and Dannons Activia yogurt. In the context of work on women with chronic disorder (Cindy LaCom, Susan Wendell) and personal experience, I question the hyper-sexualized depictions of painful female bodies in these ads. Though cast by one blogger as "gastrointestinal pornography:' this advertising urges serious consideration of women with chronic pain in feminist disability studies. Mothering Disability. 'en Silverman. Queens College, City University of New York Approximately 17% of children in America have some sort of disability, from learning disabilities to cerebral palsy and autism. Despite this, parents of children with disabilities often find ourselves without needed resources. M studies from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Pakistan have shown, women take on especially high responsibilities for caring for children with disabilities, and we face disproportionately higher rates of stress and depression and are less Ukely to be able to earn an income compared to fathers. This paper will discuss the gender imbalance, ways in which mothers are already addressing these issues, and better solutions. Fear and Love. Alison Piepmeiet; College of Charleston Disabilities studies scholars observe that mainstream responses to disabilities are often fear-based. Having a child with a disability may challenge this fear. Scholars such as Eva Feder Kittay, Michael Berube, and Gail Heidi Landsman explore how their understanding of the meanings of disability changed when they had a child with a disability-when they loved someone with a disability. This paper will participate in that conversation, exploring the trajectory from fear 10 love. I will consider both my relationship with my daughter, who has Down syndrome, and my own experience of disability because of a brain tumor. CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DeSCRIPTIONS---~--------~---------...3:45 P.M. - 5:00 P.M. SATURDAY oppression realize true agency as they take brave redemptive and creative steps to engage with others; becoming fulJ participants in community. "Blessing (OUR) Boats": Black Women's Agency in the Work of Lucille Clifton. C. S'thembile West, Western Illinois University This paper looks at how Lucille Clifton's poetry nuances African American women's lives and opens a space for them to show their authentic selves as they tell their stories. In the varying rooms of Black women's lives - kitchens, towns, relationships, family - Lucille Clifton's work challenges discourse that undervalues African American women. Working the margins of mainstream culture, Clifton's images reveal the power, perseverance, wisdom and spiritual prosperity embedded in the live-experiences of Black women. Moderator; Angela D. Sims, Saint Paul School of Theology 261. Complicating the Rural: Intersections of Queerness and Geography 3:45 10 5:00 pm • Governor s Square J 7 Community, Identity, and Coming Out: New Models for Understanding Rural Queer Existence. Katherine Schweighofer, Gender Studies, Indiana University Are current constructions of coming out and the closet appropriate for understanding LGBTQ subjectivities in rural-identified spaces? Specifically looking at the concept of the "community of the closet;' I trace the metronormative implications of this theory and explore alternatives. David Bell and Gill Valentine theorize a "community of the cottage," formed through sexual encounters at roadside restrooms. Does the closet model negate elements of rural identities like community connections, travel, alternate visibilities, family, and insider/outsider divides? Analyzing material from the Lesbian Herstory Archives alongside SOciological accounts of rural LGBTQ life, this paper addresses these issues central to modern queer identity. City Bear, Country Bear: Space, Masculinity, and Feminist Possibility. Nick Clarkson, Indiana University While gay bear styles and narratives often reinscrlbe a primitive. natural masculinity, Ron Sureshas "Bear Roots" in The Bear Book points to other possibilities by crediting Radical Faeries and lesbian feminists as crucial influences in bear community formation. This paper interrogates this narrative to ask if it opens up new possibilities for progressive masculinities, or if Suresha forecloses this potential by relying too heavily on rural/urban, past/present binaries. Though Sureshas connections to feminism admittedly leave some crucial gaps, his desire to draw connections with feminism might nevertheless be leveraged towards a more substantively feminist masculinity. Dragging Success Out of the City. [enna Basiliere; Indiana University Narratives of drag king performance often work under the assumption that drag relies on urban spaces. Halberstams In a Queer Time and Place illustrates how metronormative ideals about queer space have limited readings of "successful" drag performances to those that take place in major queer epicenters. This paper will challenge the idea that urban-identified space is a necessary precursor for the success of a drag king performance. Drawing on theoretical considerations of drag as well as ethnographic data, this project ultimately concludes that drag kings in non-metropolitan spaces are not unsuccessful, but rather require a different framework of success. Moderator: Colin R. Johnson, I.ndiana University Bloomington 166 Moderator: Catherine M. Orr, Beloit College 263. An Embodied and Social Justice Approach to Sexual Assault Prevention 3:45 to 5:00 pm· Plaza Court 4 Although several prevention programs utilize theatrical approaches. our model is distinguished by our commitment to social justice pedagog)", proactive performance and activism. Informed by critical pedagogues such as bell hooks and Friere and performance activist Augusto Boal,our program reaches approximately 2,000 audience members throughout the U.S. each year. In this experiential workshop we will demonstrate our approach to challenging masculinity, building empathy for survivors and facilitating bystander interventions. We will also discuss our ongoing qualitative and quantitative assessment of the program. Presenter: Marc Rich, California Slate University. Long Beach NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS-----------------~_--!SATURDAY 3:45 P.M. - 5:00 P.M. 264.Art as Resistance: Countering Hegemonies 3:45 to 5:00 pm • Plaza Court 5 JihadAgainst Violence. Afzal-Khan Fawzia, Montclair State College "jihad against Violence" is meant to jolt us out of OUf complacency with violence. It speaks to issues of Muslim womanhood in a patriarchal worldas well as issues in the first world, all caught in the neoimperial moment, which knows no past or present, but an existential void, which calls desperately for survival. ABitler Inheritance. Alka Kurian, University of Puget Sound, Washington This excerpt from my novel, A Bitter Inheritance, takes us into the belly of violence itself and lays bare the vulnerabiltiy of gendered bodies linked by blood and circumscribed by patriarchal paranoia, violence, and a global economic meltdown. OneWoman's Life: Surviving Oppression through Poetry. Pramila Venkateswaran, Nassau Community College The poems archive a woman's life in early twentieth century Lndia, narrating how she used art to survive colonial and patriarchal violence. Recreating this artist's life in poetry demonstrates the idea of witnessing asa way of entering and dismantling oppressive structures. Art as Community: Separate Stories) Common Kinship. Shreerekha Subramanian, University of Houston, Clear Lake Thesepoems bear testimony to feminist survival against the violence of muJtiple patriarchies, kinships, nations. citizenships. Here is the diaporic female poet's attempt at poetics inspired through finding community and kinship with women who come with their own separate stories, wounds, and strategies of emergence. Moderator:Sboba Shorad Rajgopal, Westfield State University 265. Iota, Iota, Iota - Women's Studies Honor Society Meeting 3:45 to 5:00 pm • Director S Row F Iota, Iota, Iota - Women's Studies Honor Society Networking. Metro StateCollege of Denver is the Alpha Chapter of Iota, Iota, Iota (Triota), theWomen's Studies Honor Society. We welcome all chapters to come and network. We also welcome those interested in starti.ng a chapter and their institution. 266. The Production and Distribution of Micro Media: lines, Mini-comics, Wheatpasting, and Stickering 3:45 to 5:00 pm • Director S Row H Workshop participants will view various samples of posters, stickers, mini-comics, and zines directed at issues related to power, privilege, and oppression. These forms of "low culture" offer an inexpensive, easy to consume/produce, way to reach the general public. 'TIley will then worktogether to create a zine to be reproduced and distributed at the COnference.Participants will leave with pedagogical resources related to theproduction of these forms and a list of artists who have used them to get across political messages. Presenter: Rachel Williams, University of Iowa NWSA2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE 267. The Paradox of Queer in (De)Colonial Orientations 3:45 to 5:00 pm » Director's Row 1 What's Human in Human Rights: Disorienting Colonial Censors, Textual Bodies and Punitive Policies. Caroline M. Tushabe, University of California, Riverside The current anti-homosexual bill in Uganda is emblematic of the modern/progressive sexuality that emerged in colonial regimented Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries. In its representation of nationalism, the bill also denies human rights to certain bodies and impedes the fight against HIV/AIDS. The lack of dialogue on human rights between international donor agencies and the Uganda government reveals the colonial practices i.mplicit in the liberal capital deal. This paper interrogates the debate emerging from the bill, its relation to colonial agency and the challenges to global queer politics of human rights. The Queer Time of Antiwar Dance. JessicaDellecave, University of California, Riverside Queerness destabilizes time, just as it destabilizes heteronormativity. On the surface level, antiwar protest, postmodern performance, queer temporality, and war suggest divergent projects. Analyzing two antiwar choreographies emergent from the (queer) activist hotbed of the Bay Area this essay discusses how activism can work parallel to queer time, and how dance can be a medium for effective activism. This use of queer potentially undermines the reclamation of the word queer from an epithet against homosexuality to a positive umbrella term for all that is different or odd. The recuperation of this paradox in the antiwar dancer's body proffers resistance to wartime in the least suspecting place. Bodies on Trial: Juries of Matrons and Corpo/Reallties in Seventeenth-Century America. Emily Mattingly, University California, Riverside This speaker's presentation explores how discourses of vision circulated amongst seventeenth-century British colonial juries of matrons-c. groups of women appointed by communities to examine other women's bodies. She argues that recent queer and feminist early American scholarship overlooks how, by sanctioning such juries, communities recognized-c-on some level-that the corporeal norms these juries were to "uphold" through their verdicts were flexible and not absolute. Examining how one jury's "collective vision" functioned within the case of Thomas/Thomasine Hall, an indentured servant whose corporeal ambiguities incited fear in her/his community, invites new ways of thinking about colonial domestic and judicial spaces. The (Anti)colonial Politics of Queer Azaadi. Shireen M. Roshanravan, Kansas State University Postcolonial queer theorists indicate how the analytic - queer - can function to erase the colonial criminalization of same-sex social arrangements accepted within indigenous cosmologies prior to the colonial encounter. This paper examines the (anti)colonial politics of Mumbais 2008/2009 Queer Azaadi march which took place on India's Day of Independence from the British (Auguest lSth). Given that the march acknowledges the damages of colonialism, what concept of sexual freedom does the analytic "queer" advance in this case? Does it reinforce Western paradigms of individual rights or give birth to a politics that revitalizes remnants of indigenous worldviews? Moderator: Chikako Takeshita, University of California, Riverside 167 5:10 P.M. ·6:25 P.M. SATURDAY CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS ":""""'~ .....------------------- 268. Building Feminist Community-Academic Partnerships for Critical Reflection, Creative Scholarship) and Community Resilience 5:10 to 6:25 pm· Plaza Court l Metaphors and Realities of Transformative Recovery and Community Re-Building in Post-Disaster Service-Learning. Bea Calvert. Tulane University What is feminist about helping rebuild a city one house at a time as part of a university-based service-learning curriculum? As a popular service-learning course passes to a second generation of university instructors, what difficult dialogues have become critical? What do course media archives reveal about how participants so far engage metaphor, narrative, and media tools, to complicate institutional and cultural narratives? What has the second-generation instructional team learned while revising the course? On University Collaboration Exploring and Documenting the Art) Performance) Teaching) History) and Politics of a Root Cultural Community. Cnerice Harrison-Nelson, Guardians of the Flame Cull ural Arts Collective What does it mean for an established artist, educator, and performer dedicated to the development of programs and activities focusing on root cultural traditions and community resilience to work as a "community partner" of a major research university in a post- disaster context? Through reflection on work accomplished from the perspective of how the "partner community" values and benefits from such university collaborations, this paper considers how communities and institutions evaluate co-teaching, co-research, and co-documentary practice, as well as the meanings of sharing of our know ledges, experiences, and skills. Long-Term Community-Academic Partnership for Undertaking Collaborative Creative Work via a Communication Department/women's Studies Service Learning Classroom. Betsy Weiss, Tulane University Many university-based service learning courses switch "community partners" each semester. What happens in a feminist documentary classroom when partners spend three years practicing together? The instructor will discuss collaboration, community, new media production, and the challenges of her work. We Can Rebuild Her, or A Leap of Faith in Exploration of Feminist New Media and Academic-Community Practice. Crystal Kile, Tulane University New media reflection in feminist service learning in is easy to imagine, but difficult to develop as practice. It is fraught with difficult dialogues, in part because its function is to document, provoke, and moderate difficult dialogues, including the dialogue about support for new media literacyolearnlng and creative interdisciplinary scholarship. This paper is a critical reflection on the successful emergent pedagogical and content production practice interface of an institute for women's education-based media lab with her university's service learning initiative via multicultural feminist community partnership with faculty and root culture- and arts-based community first responders, institutions, and individuals. Moderator: Nancy Mock, Tulane University 269. Feminist Geography and the Politics of State and Nation 5: 1a to 6:25 pm • Plaza Court 2 "Unworthy to Return": Engaging Black Geographies to Examine the Effect of Reconstruction Efforts in Eost- Katrina New Orleans. ingrid M. Butler, Syracuse University Using New Orleans as a case study, I engage Black geographies to understand the construction of racialized residential spaces before the storm and what the treatment of these spaces by the State means to impacted communities. Advancing existing knowledge, I employ narratives from a sample of Black lesbian residents of New Orleans. Black residential patterns reveal that New Orleans is socially and spatially organized by racial segregation" which produces racialized spaces and their contingent social networks. Poor treatment of racialized spaces by the State negatively affects their social networks: effects are exacerbated when combined with other socially stigmatized identities. Feminist Political Geographies: Embodying Alaskan Ghosts, Embodying 'the State' Kate Coddington Senner, Syracuse University Feminist political geographers' focus on the everyday (Mountz 2004; Painter 2006) has pushed studies of 'the state' beyond territory towards stories, lives, and bodies. Indeed, drawing on feminist standpoint theories (e.g. HilI Collins 1990) and performative understandings of states (e.g. Aretxaga 2003), feminist political geographers have positioned embodiment as a critical methodology and epistemology for investigating how everyday practices become state effects. This paper examines the usefulness of embodiment for bringing to life nOI only the bodies through which 'the state' becomes materialized, bUI also for animating the ghostly traces of the colonial state in present-day Alaska. State Territorialization and the Politics of 'Rescue) and 'Salvation' at the US-Mexico Border. Jill M. Williams, Clark University Within the US context, the US-Mexico border has been identified as a key site at which processes of state territorialization and nation-making converge (Luibheid 2002; Sundberg and Kaserman 2007). While much attention has been paid to the literal and symbolic violence associated with border enforcement, little attention has been given [0 the 'humanitarian' component of recent border policies and practices. Drawing on postcolonial and poststructural feminist insights, this paper suggests that particularly gendered and racialized narratives of humanitarian intervention have become key to both the material practices of US-Mexico border enforcement and the accompanying (re)production of US national identity. Moderator: Tina Catania, Syracuse University 270. Rethinking Feminism: Sex Positive Research and Activism 5: 10 to 6:25 pm • Plaza Court 6 Sex work is a vexed issue for many feminists and has produced its own versions of "outsider feminisrns." This roundtable is comprised of activists and academics who suggest that sex positive research and activism can help us rethink ideas about sex work and feminism, Participants will discuss transgendered sex workers; women's sexualanJ emotional labor within Nevada's legal brothel industry; how a.J'Thut can be used to explore the connections between the sex industry anJ NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE i CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS'.rJ!l'I~--__ ~_--,.------------'"_DAY 5:10P.M.-6:25P.M. thebroader economy; and the role of activist organizations in providing support and outreach 10 sex workers. presenters: Susan Lopez, Desiree Alliance Barbara G. Brents, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Crystaljacksotl, University of Nevada, Las Vegas !Durt"n McCubbin, University of Nevada, Las Vegas -'toderator: Lyml A. Comella, University of Nevada, Las Vegas lil. "In the Spaces We Create ...The Self is Made Visible": ThreeBlackWomen Artists Map Identity, Formnlate Methodologies, and Challenge Medinm 5: /0 to 6:25 pm • Plaza Court 7 Gesturing Cartography and the Examination of a Personal Epistemology. Sarah Stefana Smith, University of Toronto ill this body of work, Gesturing Cartography and the Examination of a Personal Epistemology, 1 use cartography as a tool in which to map identity while exploring ways of knowing and its imaginings in visual form. We Be the Space You Find is a photo-ethnographic work using the experience of six LGBT people of African descent. Using the conversations of collaborators I construct a series of photo based collages that explore race, gender, sexuality and Diasporas while situating these intersectionalities with in a geographical place and time. Thus, cartography as metaphor becomes a practice of de/constructing location and as a means in which to interrogate identity by situating personal experiences within the context of belonging in the larger world. Goldface Does Academia: Miko Kuro's Midnight Tea. Natasha Marin, 45West Studios Natasha Marin's Mike Kuro's Midnight Tea is an experimental performance art space that aims to be an experience that affects all of the senses. Marin, a Trinidadian born Canadian who lives in Seattle, acts as alter-ego Miko Kuro (Japanese for dark priestess) within the context of a traditional Japanese tea ceremony. Through ritual performance and poetry, Marin utilizes the color red to encapsulate a host of experiences with identity, racialization and nationhood. In her red poem series, and in her use of the color in Miko Kurds midnight tea red becomes a placeholder for a number of effectual experiences. Red is an interchangeable adjective that describes the effects of colonialism, of personal loss, of collective loss, release, sexual desire, and vulnerability to name a few. "How to Measure Pain»: Affects, Black Feminist Critique and the Methodology of Patient. Bettina A. Judd, University of Maryland In my multidisciplinary creative work Patient. the research process as an academic meets my creative process as a visual artist and poet through the embodied experience of racialization, sexism, and heterosexism. In this work, I explore not only the experience of two historical "patients" of racist medicine: Joice Heth, and Anarcha westscott. but 1 also explore the experience of the researcher who is haunted by these figures through her own experiences with medicine and academia. As an artist and scholar methodologies emerge as complex and intertwined modes of research and execution. By utilizing theoretical works in affect and Black feminist criticism along with the creative mediums of visual art and poetry, wildly different disciplines meet and demand new forms of academic and creative methodologies. Here, I discuss these methodologies as they meet in the creative work Patient. and emerge in my academic work. ~1oderator: Ana M. Perez, University of Maryland NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE 272. Exploring Social and Politicallssnes through Women's Literature 5: 10 to 6:25 pm « Plaza Court B Lessons Learned and Unanswerable Questions: Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People" as a Feminist Parable. Kristina Marie Streiff, Winona State University Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People" introduces three memorable women, Mrs. Hopewell, Mrs. Freeman, and Hulga, who live in the 1950s and survive an encounter from a conman, aptly named Manley Pointer. This paper takes an in-depth look at the characters and events in the story as a feminist parable deeply connected to the status of women in the1950s and the forthcoming women's movement. "Good Country People" begs its reader to dig deeper within the characters to understand archetypal women before the movement and how the second-wave might affect them. Will these women stay in the kitchen or set themselves free? Ontdoor Girls and Motor Maids: Early 20th Century Yonng women's Adventu.re Fiction. Shealeen A. Meaney, Russell Sage College I examine an overlooked archive of adolescent girls' literature that embodies the gaps and contradictions within U.S. constructions of femininity during the decades leading up to suffrage. Specifically concerned with what might be called "adventure stories" for girl and young women, I analyze several short-lived series including th "Outdoor Girls" and "Motor Girls" books. Published decades before the familiar "Nancy Drew" series, they expose the social anxieties and libra tory potential of the era's "modern girls:' I contextualize the fiction within traditions of prescriptive literature, media debates over the "modern girl's" engagement in outdoor sport and travel, and conversations about feminism. Poetry as Activism: Frances Harper and Audre Lorde. Rabia Hakima, University of Alabama, Birmingham This paper is a comparative examination of the poetry of Frances Ell Watkins Harper and Audre Lorde. I seek to chart connections betwee the two authors' writings which demonstrate nineteenth-century underpinnings of twentieth-century African American feminist activist poetry and which demonstrate marked differences between the religious but not necessarily the racial or gendered influences of these time periods or the authors' responses. The authors both write in response to a patriarchal Christian tradition and both respond to questions about motherhood, sisterhood, and the African-American's woman's body. (Beyond Courage and Economic Enlightenment': Australian Feminist Miles Franklin's Unpublished Marriage Protest Stories. Janet Lee. Oregon State University This presentation addresses conference theme "The Critical and the Creative" through analysis of two little-known unpublished stories {"Uncle Robert's Wedding Present" [1908J and "Teaching Him" [1909]) written by Australian feminist Miles Franklin during her time in Chicago with the National Women's Trade Union League. She refused distinctions between creativity and theoretical analysis by crafting feminist protest stories critiquing marriage, domesticity, and the double standard of sexual conduct. In this presentation r address key themes situating these stories in the intellectual history of Chicago and in broader cultural patterns associated with the rise of socialism and feminism that shaped Franklin's life. Moderator: Rachel Lara Dean-Ruzicka, Bowling Green State University 169 5:10 P.M. - 6:25 P.M. SATURDAY CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONSI------~-------------- 273. Naming Violence: Violence Against Women and the Politics of Nation Building 5: 10 to 6:25 pm » Governor s Square 9 Gender) Democracy and Citizenship in India's Northeast: A Postcolonial Feminist Analytics of Power. Papori Bora, University of Minnesota On 15 July 2004, women in the Northeast Indian state of Manipur staged a protest to oppose the rape and custodial killing of a young woman by soldiers of a counter insurgency paramilitary battalion, who suspected her to be a militant. At this protest, several women appeared nude. holding a banner that read "indian army rape us," I analyze the protest as a postcolonial feminist articulation that intervenes in the political debates in the Northeast through terms of a feminist debate. Naming Violence: Strategic Women's Rights Frames and the Policy Process. Peace Medie, University of Pittsburgh UNSC Resolution 1325 frames violence against women (VAW) that occurs during and after con.flict as a security issue. Researchers argue that the security frame has prompted the UN and other international organizations to mainstream women into all areas of peacekeeping and peace-building operations. These studies however, do not address how this new frame affects how states approach the problem. In this paper, I study how the Liberian government's adoption of UNSC 1325 has affected how it creates policies on YAW.I argue that the security frame has led to the prioritization of certain types of YAW on the national agenda. The Politics of National Purification: Exploration of the Case of a Bangladeshi "Rehabilitation» Campaign. Nafisa Tanjeem, Rutgers University During warfare between masculinised states, women's bodies become the site where states implement the nationalist project of destroying or protecting the racial purity. This paper analyzes the post-war (1971 onwards) history of Bangladesh in order to explore how the state occupied bodies of women, who were raped by the Pakistani army, in different rehabilitation camps through its initiatives for cleansing "polluted" traces inflicting by the racial Other. By utilizing the methodological directive of the spatiality of gendered and racialized power relations (Razack, 2009), this paper eventually uncovers gendered and racialized implications of nationalist rescue narratives on their target group of population. Needed but not Wanted: The Intersection of Policy and Preference for Taiwan's Foreign Laborers. Jeanine Emiko Yutani, University of Southern California Migration is one of the 1110sthighly contested policy challenges for many countries, both in the domestic and international arenas. This paper will demonstrate that while Taiwan claims that its foreign labor policy is primarily based on its domestic unemployment rate and labor needs, perceptions of gender, class, religion a.nd country of origin are central to foreign labor policy construction and the specific targeting of certain groups of foreign workers. Moderator: Papori Bora, University of Minnesota 274. Uses of Women in Contemporary Films 5:10106:25 pm • Governor's Square 10 Pedro Almodovar's Representations of Straight Spanish Women and Male-to-Female Transsexuals: Healthy Queering or Post-feminist Co-optation? Jill Franks, Austin Peay State University Pedro Almodovar films have become more traditionally oriented in the last few years in their portrayals of women (such as Volver). In his earlier movies, many of his gay male characters rely heavily on women to orient and nurture their lives, but these women are so performatively "female" that it would be difficult to conceive of them as feminist. By queering his characters' femininity, Almodovar purports to suppon female solidarity, but other, less savory readings emerge. In the "Twilight" Zone: An Exploration of Teen Dating Violence. Shireen Sarah Ghorbani, The University of Utah Twilight films and novels serve as powerful texts to explore unhealthy relationships and dating violence. Scholars have begun to examine the Twilight texts to understand their popularity. Some argue that the films hypersexualize abstinence, others that they reflect women's desire to have sex with gay men. Others have examined the powerless and objectified position of the story's female protagonist. I propose that Twilight serves as a useful tool for exploring aspects of teen and young aduJt dating violence. I will offer suggestions for workshop models to engage this text in dialogue with undergraduate college students. Re-Reading Female Masochism: Unveiling the Challenges of the Perverse Heterosex. Estelle Yvette Noonan, University of Sydney This paper re-considers how the increasingly mainstreamed practice of female heterosexual masochism within western culture (Attwood: 2009) can challenge subversive or hegemonic structures of feminist intellectual enquiry. Itanalyses how female masochism as it is portrayed in the films 'Secretary' (2002) and 'La Pianiste' (2001) complicates singular interpretations of patriarchal subordination or feminist liberation. Using Bakhtin, it concludes by advocating a feminist dialogic approach to interpretation which positions female masochism as narratively complex: capable of inhabiting traumatic. empowered, and multiple affective states not only by linear progression, but also simultaneously. Moderator: Jill Elizabeth Eichhorn, Austin Peay State University 276. The State of Justice: Feminism, Activism and Alternative Justice Programs 5: 1010 6:25 pm • Plaia Court 4 A Feminist Critique of Restorative Justice. Jennifer K. Wood, Penn State. New Kensington This paper uses feminist theory as the foundation for a critique 01 restorative justice principles and practices. Feminist theory offers the opportunity for a "sympathetic critique" of restorative justice in thata feminist approach caUs for examining the ways that restorative justice practices attend to power relations. foster fluid expression of identitv, and challenge assumptions about crime and its consequences. While this critique begins with the assumption that restorative justice holds promise, the paper argues for restorative justice practices to mere consciously incorporate feminist ideals. NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE TCHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS Compassion and Restorative Justice: Toward a Feminist Politics of Affect. Lisa Langstraat, Colorado State University Drawing from the work of feminist emotion scholars (e.g., Berlant ~; Spelman 1997; Nussbaum ZOOI}. this paper considers the ethical dynamics of compassion within restorative justice practices. Addressing both the generative and perilous features of compassion, 1 recommend for restorative justice a feminist politics of affect that can promote active compassion that resists "compulsory" empathy and engages the real political and social possibilities of compassion. Composing Alternatives: Women's Prison Writing Projects asSocial Justice. Tobi Jacobi, Colorado State University This paper will situate incarcerated women's literacy and writing programs as opportunities for engagement in both individual reflection and soda! justice. Drawing upon program models from across the U.S., I argue that these literate moments create feminist space for fostering critical learning, collaborative disclosures, and institutional critique. Facilitated ethically, such programs have the potential to influence public and institutional assumptions about prisoner identity, motive, and dvic responsibility Under Lock and Key: Liberating the Power of Culture forWomen Prisoners. Nichol Irene McNeill Weizenbeck, University of Denver This essay reflects the personal journey of a feminist instructor's first teaching experience inside a women's prison. I will discuss my belief in using literature and culture as sources of empowerment for women; in particular, women who have previously been barred access because of gender, race, socio-economic status, or any combination of those factors. The paradox of perceived gender value in a female to female student-teacher relationship within prison walls will also be given a frank exploration. Lastly,I willoffer my conclusions of the effectiveness of using asophisticated curriculum with disenfranchised, "superfluous" women. Moderator: Jennifer K. Wood, Penn State, New Kensington 277. Difficult Dialogues: Feminism aud Religion-A Panel inHonor of the Early Work of Mary Daly 5:10to 6:25 pm • Plaza Court 5 TheConstruction a New Religious Feminist Ethic through a Reconstruction of the Iconography of Mary. Lisa Holthausen, Metropolitan State College of Denver This paper addresses the philosophical underpinnings of a new feminist religious ethic through a process of reconstructing the iconography of Mary. Because imagery is so important to the religious imagination, this paper suggests that new poetic expressions and artistic work can facilitate the development of a feminist religious morality. In particular, the philosophical foundation of the new ethic and Mary's new image will be based on reframing and reconceptualizing the meaning of wirginity and motherhood. This paper draws from the writings, art ,,"uri and life of Meister Eckhart, Simone de Beauvoir, WilHam Blake, JaneAddams, and Maurice Harnington. Theda: Oracle, Prophet, Feminist Figure. Joel Guttormson, Metropolitan State College of Denver This paper examines the feminist themes, imagery and interpretation of the Acts of Paul and Thecla. Written in the 2nd century ce, the Acts of Paul and Thecla was a popular albeit ncncanonical text recounting the public life of the early Christian saint, Theda. A strong woman ~WSA2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE who maintained her independence through itinerancy and virginity, Thecla's stories describe miraculous defeats of attempts to kill her and even the public rebuffing of an attempt at rape. Thecla became the source of devotion among many early Christian women's communities. Surprisingly little has been written about Thecla by contemporary feminist scholars of religion. This presentation explores the potential for empowering messages in Acts of Paul and Thecla and interrogates the historic suppression of this religious narrative. Buddhism and Christianity: Patriarchy and Liberation in Scripture and Practice. Alison Coombs, Metropolitan State College of Denver This paper analyzes the role of interpretation in the function of religious scripture as it informs individual religious experience and communal, organizational religious practices. Hegemonic interpretations of scriptures from each tradition that frame women as essentially different from, and inferior to, men are highlighted in the first section. Then, practices such as restriction form ordination and decrees for subordinate statuses as practitioners in each tradition are analyzed. The conclusion presents critical feminist analyses of hegemonic interpretations of scriptures, reveals frequently overlooked scriptural passages that have liberatory messages for women, and proposes changes in both Buddhist and Christian religious contexts as means of including and empowering women. Religion and the Limits of Womanhood. Kassie Seddon, Metropolitan State College of Denver The religious traditions that inform our morality, endorse limited forms of womanhood. Although shifts in moral paradigms are met with new definitions for female identity, the overall sentiments hinder individual self-definition, and facilitate nonnative beliefs that are unnecessaril accurate or inclusive. 'This essay will suggest that the standard created by religious traditions, have routinely disconnected women from themselves. Forgoing their individual transcendental nature for a fairy-tale facade, they become an actress: goodness, measured by the accuracy of the performance. Epistemic expansion, inclusive of women's experiences, can help amend the negative archetypes by demonstrating the inaccuracy of normalized beliefs endorsed by the patriarchy. Moderator: Maurice Hamington, Metropolitan State College of Denver 278. Feminists Against Academic Discrimination Business Meeting 5: 10 to 6:25 pm • Director s Row F 279. Membership Assembly Meeting 5:/0 PM to 6:25 pm » Director s Row H Presidential Transition Celebration Plan to attend a celebration to honor Beverly Guy-Sheftall's leadership in the National Women's Studies Association and Bonnie Thornton Dill's incoming presidency. Members can also learn about the state of the organization, make recommendations in support of the NWSA mission, and talk with NWSA leaders. 171 qSATURDAY EVENING EVENTS 280. Girls & Their Allies Caucus Reception 6:30 PM 108:00 pm » Plaza Ballroom D Attend the reception celebration and meet with leaders and members of this vibrant NWSA Caucus. 281. University of Colorado and Friends) Welcome Reception 6:30 pm 10 8:00 pm· Plaza Ballroom D A special reception for members of the local and regional universities and colleges attending this conference. 282. PLENARY SESSION: ANANYA DANCE THEATRE 8:00 to 9:30 pm • Plaza Ballroom EF "Kshoy!lOecay" Kshoy! explores femininity, power, and social-justice issues affecting women around the globe through a kinetically dynamic blend of the classical dance form Odissi (from Orissa, india), breath-driven yoga movement and the marital art form Chhau (from eastern India), performed by a company of women of color committed to artistic excellence. Co-directed by founding artistic director Ananya Chatterjea, lauded by Women's ENews as one of "21 Leaders for the 21st Century," and OBIE Award- winning theater artist Laurie Carlos. 283. NWSAGeneral Reception 9:3010 11:00 pm » Plaza Ballroom Foyer Relax with other conference goers after the penary. Come to a conference reception, engage in conversations and enjoy an offering of select light fare including cheese. anti-pasta, desserts and coffee. NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE Gloria E. Anzaldua Book Prize The Gloria E.Anzaldua Book prize includes $1,000, itetime membership in NWSA and recognition for groundbreaking scholarship in women's studies that makes significant multicultural feminist contributions to women of color/transnational scholarship. The prize honors Gloria Anzaldua, a valued and long- active member of the National Women's Studies Association, whose pioneering scholarship includes La Frontera/Borderlands, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Women of Color, and this bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation . . • • • to a generous bequest from Sara A. Whaley, will offer two $2,000 Sara A. Whaley book on the topic of women and labor. This prize Sara Whaley, who owned Rush Publishing as the editor of Women's Studies Abstracts. these awards will go to a senior scholar record of publication of at least two books. er award will go to a junior scholar with oming book (i.e. signed a contract with a her or book in the press). Women of color of the U.S. and/or of 'ntemational origin are encouraged to apply. 8:00 A.M. - 9:15 A.M. SUNDAY 284. Gender, Embodiment, and Performance 8:00109: /5 am » Plaza COli!'! J Blood, Bruises. Bandages, and Beauty: The Reincarnation of Saint Orlan as Disidentified Feminist Utopia. Alexandra Nicole Fernandez, Claremont Graduate University This paper explores the performance piece. The Reincarnation of Saint Orlan, by French artist Orlan. Via cosmetic surgery. Orlan transforms her face and body mirroring idealized feminine forms in Renaissance art created by male artists but she subverts the notions of Western female beauty by creating a deviant, grotesque corporeality. It can be considered that this performance is not only a feminist critique of cosmetic surgery -- a re-appropriation of it -- but her transforming physical identity is also a prime example of the embodiment of feminist utopian ideals; essentially, Orlan's body becomes a physical manifestation of disidentified 'feminist utopia' Feminism ill my Belly: Lady Gaga and Critical Performance. Sabrina Boyer, University of North Carolina, Greensboro; Carrie Elizabeth Hart, University of North Carolina, Greensboro; This paper explores how the performer Lady Gaga embodies Kristevas notion of abjection and Creed's notion of monstrous -feminine combined with the grotesque to conflate the divide between the critical and creative. This is important because she allows a connection to marginalized groups through her performances, which is the scope of historical women's studies. Reflections on "For Women of Rage and Reason:' Tamara Lynn Xavier, Moun Wisdom Dances "For Women of Rage and Reason" is one- third of a triptych of experimental and traditional dance performance included in a 2006 documentary. Although the film was completed some time ago, the dancer has continued exploring questions related to modern dance as a "Statement of Belief" (Cohen, 1966). Reflections on "For Women of Rage and Reason" is a critical review of choreography devised to deconstruct pedagogic principles from dance aesthetics. "Rolling Around in the Sensual:" Feminist Poetics, Gurlesque, and 'Feminine Writing' as Means of Creative Subversion. Caitlin Elizabeth Newcomer, Florida State University TIlls paper explores the connections between the cutting edge "Gurlesque" movement in feminist poetics, and earlier feminist interventions in the traditionally mascuJine category of the lyric. It contends that both movements offer up new modes of writing the female embodied subject, over and against traditionally masculine poetic frameworks. As such, these two different feminist poetic movements both offer up new opportunities for addressing the silencing of female lived experience in traditionally masculine creative modes, and provide feminist thinkers interested in bridging the gap between critical and creative discourses with new expressive approaches for intervening in dominant (masculine) critical discourse. Moderator: Bdnie Kaeh Garrison, University of South Florida 174- CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS 285. Outsider Feminist Indusionist Perspectives on the Body 8:00 to 9: 15 am • Plaza Court 2 A Fat Studies Approach to Teachiog about Body Image. Patti Lou Watkins, Oregon State University; Andrea Doyle, Oregon State University Women's Studies has historically examined how systems of oppression affect women's Jives, including their psychological and physical health. The course. Women, Weight, & Body Image, examines body image distress and its sequelae, considering social institutions as they may contribute to these problems-c-particularly their gendered nature. Indeed, women disproportionately experience body image disorders as well as weight discrimination. Unlike many courses on body image, this class positions weightism as a social justice issue, examining intersections with other forms of oppression such as sexism, racism, classism, heterosexism, and ageism. This study examines the course's impact on student responding around these issues. Fuzzy Wuzzy Was a Woman: The Politics of Public Hair Removal. Michelle Brae Murray, University of New York, Albany Bush. Fuzz. Jungle. Carpet. Yes, I am talking about pubic hair. Feminist theorists such as Bartley, Young, and Gengenbach have provided us with provocative and compelling work on the body and the performance of gender. The trend of pubic hair removal is yet another "standard" of womanhood and femininity that cannot be viewed outside the realm of gender politics. My paper uses a well- established theoretical framework to examine this trend and to call for greater research on the continuation of study of the ways that bodies (of ALL identities) are modified to reflect the construction of beauty and femininity. The Indusionist Perspective: A Fat, Vegan, Queer, Feminist, Academic Looks for Community Lillian C. Taylor, American Public University System In this paper, I will examine my experience as a self-identified queer. fat, vegan, feminist, professor, working at an online university and how these roles are often in conflict. It is this conflict, this isolation, that led me to a new perspective that I call, inclusionism, or the inclusionist perspective. Moderator: Michelle Brae Murray, University of New York. Albany 286. Women's Transformative Narratives 8:00 to 9: 15 am • Plaza Court 6 Inventing Guatemala: Invention, Appropriation, and Ethics in Creative Nonfiction. Sarah Jane Sloane, Colorado State University Naming ourselves and telJing OUI experiences of the real are among the most powerful narrative strategies feminist writers can employ However, there are questions regarding the ethics and effects of telling stories when some of the material writers include is «true" or "real" but isn't their own experience. When does "representation" become "appropriation"? The speaker grounds her discussion in a lie-based memoir of life in a gang in Los Angeles (Margaret Selzer) and her own experience co-authoring a memoir about Guatemalan women and men guerrillas fighting the US-supported military there. NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS • Reinventing Epistolarity: Contemporary Women's Writing and Human Rights. Carrie]. Walker, University of Nebraska, lincoln Though critics who study the epistolary novel have customarily directed their attention toward texts written by 18th and 19th century European writers, a resurgence of the form among contemporary authors-particularly Third-World women-demands a new way of looking at this classic genre. This paper expands previous notions of eptstolartry, exploring how 20th and 21st century transnational women writers "revise" the classic epistolary form in ways which undermine Western narrative conventions and address issues of nation, human rights, and self-hood. VoicesFrom Prison: The Composition, Revision, and Re- envisioning of Self. Kathleen T. Leuschen, Roosevelt University In my paper, "Voices from Prison: The Composition, Revision, and Re-envisioning of Self" I explore the social, ethical. and epistemic functions of personal narratives and narrative-telling, as well as how larger dominant cultural narratives can be transformed by the telling of self-reflective narratives. More specifically, I examine the dominant cultural narrative of literacy as transformative through an analysis of the PBS documentary What 1 Want My Words To Do To You. I look specifically at what narratives of literacy as transformarive mean for incarcerated women. What Counts As Knowledge. Cornelia Maude Spelman, independent Scholar In this presentation, I will focus on diary and letter-writing by women and girls as a vital source of knowledge of female experiences. Women and girls' diaries and letters are important archives of memory and ought to be central to women's studies programs. They are key to understanding women and girls' experiences in different cultures and times in a particularly vivid and compelling way. Diaries and letters offer a wealth of female wisdom that may not be culturally valued as knowledge, having been largely relegated to the sphere of "private" texts. Moderator: Kerrita Kimberly Mayfield, Elmira College l87. "Playing the Player": Understanding Masculinity through Girls' Performances as Boys 8:00 /0 9:15 am •Plaza Court 7 Through a series of physical theater activities involving writing, performing and analyzing male characters. this workshop, Inspired br work with a teenage girls theater company, will guide participants [(l an embodied understanding about how and when girls challenge and perpetuate gender and ethnic stereotypes about boys of color and masculinity. Presenter: DanaEdell, New YorkUniversity 288. Indigenous Feminisms: Always Already Breaking White Feminism Linear History &:00 to 9:15 am· Plaza Court 8 Theorizing Chicana/Indigenous Genders Through Cherie Moraga's "Giving up the Ghost," Casie C. Cobos, Texas A&M University In Giving Up the Ghost, Cherrie Moraga contextualizes difficult gender dialogues between not only Chicanas but also Chicanas and audience. an audience who appears as "the people" in the list of characters. Unlike critics that seek to normalize hegemonic gender NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE SUNDAY 8:00 A.M. - 9:15 A.M. and sexuality formations for political capital, Moraga queers gender constructions that act as "universal" sexual identities, and positions her characters and audience as "performing [MesoAmerican indigenous] cultural memory" (Diana Taylor). This paper disrupts gender theories that position sexuality as being a person's main identity marker, and, instead, (re)positions Moraga's plays as theoretical Chicana-Indigenous frameworks that asks what being "woman" looks like. Queering Gender Norms through Disability Studies. Stephanie Wheeler, Texas A&M University Through an analysis of pre and post contact American Indian and Amerindian narratives, this paper will show how the European "civilizing" of Indigenous gender constructions renders the Indigenous body disabled. Disabling - or rendering a body abnormal and unfit for a "civilized" society - is evidenced through the ways in which gendered bodies are expected to perform in a heteronormative society. This paper argues that disability studies offers a productive framework for inciting difficult dialogues about how colonial gender and sexuality are constructed and normalized on and against "queer" Indigenous bodies. Open Up the Cipher, Vate: Intersections of Indigeneity and Gender in Chicana Hip-Hop. Marcos Del Hierro, Texas A&M University Gender scholars of hip-hop music and culture often relyon the common critique that the art form promotes sexism and misogyny through limited readings of female participation to marginal roles. My paper demonstrates how, through the constructions of mestizaje and chola identity by artists like Ms Krazie, Ms Sancha, and Kid Frost, Chicana rap complicates assumed hegemonic frameworks of hip-hop cultur based on Western notions about gender and power. Situating Chican hip-hop through an indigenous, mestiz@ mode of analysis allows for a difficult dialogue that examines how Western scholarship that produces what Chandra Moha.nty calls, "ethnocentric universalism" contributes to the subjugation of resistant cultural productions like Chicana hip-hop. Moderator: Gabriela R. Rios, Texas A&M University 289. Engendering Nations: The Politics of Narrative 8:00 to 9: 15 am • Governors Square 9 Found in Translation: Cumulative Effects of Translating Race and Gender in Maryse Conde's I, Tltuba, Black Witch of Salem. Christina Anne Lux, University of Kansas This paper analyzes the cumulative effects of translating race and gender. What is the overall effect of translating a rape tn the passive voice when it occurs in the active voice in the original? What does it mean to focus on destination points instead of duration when translating the Middle Passage? The purpose of this paper is not so much to critique the translator but to raise awareness of what may be "lost" or "found" in translating race and gender, particularly for those who may be teaching texts in translation as part of a women's studies curriculum. Framing National Silences: Jose Luis Cuerda's Filmic Adaptation of Alberto Mendez's "Los Girasoles Ciegos". Lisa Renee Di Giovanni. University of Oregon Mendez's novel encompasses four interconnected stories set in post- war Spain. I focus on the final story, which portrays the Franco regime's alliance with the Church. In the original version, the child protagonist grapples with memories of the attempted rape of his mother by his Catholic schoolteacher (a former fascist soldier). The teacher seeks 175 I ----I CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS 8:00 A.M. - 9:15 A.M. SUNDAY to justify gender-based violence by drawing from an ideology shaped by gendered, ultra right-wing Catholic discourses that legitimized repression of the Republican vanquished. In Cuerda's adaptation, the child's struggle to verbalize these events and the teacher's justification are lost when the violence is made visually explicit. Rosealba : Themes and Forms of Acadian Humo. Nicole Boudreau, University of Kansas Through a close reading of the Rosealba monologues, 1 will show how Michel Thibault uses the heterogeneous nature of the Acadian language in tandem with discombobulating imagery to create bumor. Thibault's comic monologues are narrated from the standpoint of the fictional character Rosealba, who humbly takes the stage in mismatched clothing and invariably has audiences in stitches with the story of her life as an Acadian woman in the mid-20th century . Middle-aged, economically disadvantaged and mother to 19 children, Rosealba mocks educated French speaking do-gooders as well as the English speaking majority, which remain important governing forces in Acadian communities. Moderator: Tanya Hart. University of Kansas 290. Investigating Troubling Sisterhood 8:0010 9: /5 am • Governor .s Square J 0 Indigenous Americans and Quaker Women: Mary Vaux Walcott and the U.S. Bureau of Indian Commissioners. Marjorie G. lones, Mercy College. Dobbs Ferry Known as the Audubon of Botany, Mary Vaux Walcott (I860-1940), a devout and prominent Quaker, was a member of the u.s. Bureau of Indian Commissioners. Based on conscientious reports she filed with Washington regarding her visits to Indian reservations in the 1920s and 1930s, this paper will examine the patriarchal Protestant attitudes that shaped Indian policy and set out to encourage assimilation while destroying Indigenous traditions. Native and Black Feminist Formations. Tiffany Lethabo King, University of Maryland, College Park This paper analyses three discussions that took place between Native and Black feminists in Toronto, Canada from 2006-2008 about the term "Black Settler': In 2006 this term was uttered at an academic conference focusing on scholarship on the Black diaspora. Between 2006 and 2008, Black and Native women in a number of contexts discussed whether this term was politically useful as a discourse for talking about how settler colonialism structures the relationship between Black and Native people on Turtle Island. Women of Colour and Indigenons Solidarity in North America: Privilege vs. Complicity. Beenash lafri. York University This paper considers how non-native women of colour are situated in relation to indigenous sovereignty in North America. In particular, I ask how we might understand how, despite their marginal status, women of colour can become implicated in ongoing colonial violence. While some have used the notion of privilege to conceptualize this relationship - evident in the suggestion, for instance, that people of colour have "settler privilege", I argue that the concept of complicity may be a more useful way to think through the often inadvertent participation of women of colour in settler colonialism. 176• Indigenous Peminlsms, African Femlnisms, and the Patenting of Genetic Material in South Africa. Laura Foster, University of California, Los Angeles This paper discusses the congruencies and tensions between "Indigenous fenuuisms" and "African feminisms" as they relate 10 struggles over the patenting of biologicaJ and genetic material in South Africa. It particular, it asks how Indigenous feminisms shift feminist theory towards a critique of patent law. Such critiques open up new insights for examining relations of power within neo-liberal globalization, which involves the appropriation of resources from Indigenous peoples' lands and bodies. Furthermore, it examines how Indigenous feminisms are defined differently within South Africa, and urges scholars to engage with Indigenous feminisms with careful consideration of particular histories and geo-politicallocations. Moderator: Marjorie G. tones, Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry 291. Feminist Pedagogies of the Transnational: Conflicts. Contexts and Solidarity 8:00109:15 am • Governor s Square I J This proposal for teaching transnational feminisms is in the service of transitioning from the 1492 paradigm of global politics into the next evolution of global co-existence. With a focus on structural power, the framework includes an overview of paradigmatic movements: 1648 and the establishment of the sovereign state system; the transition from feudalism to capitalism in Europe; Euro-cclonial occupations; and the Atlantic Slave Trade. Establishing this metatheoretical framework for understanding contemporary globalization allows for a comprehension of the 'coloniality of power'; and for an understanding of the relationship between gender, race, sexuality. nation and empire. Presenters: Elora Halim C/rowdlmry, University of Massachusetts, Boston Elizabeth Philipose, California State University Long Beach Michelle V. Rowley, University of Maryland Meera Sehgal, Carleton College Moderator: Irline Francois, Goucher College 292. A Decolonial Mode of Consciousness: Praxical Thinking in Maria Lugones'sPilgrimaging / Peregrinando. (PanelI) 8:00109: Ijam· Governor s Square /2 "Locating Worlds of Sense in the Streetwalker's Body" len Me Weeny. John Carroll University This paper considers a rarely explored, yet recurring theme in Maria Lugones's work: her radical epistemology. With reference to one of her more recent essays, "Tactical Strategies of the Streetwalker/Estrategias Tacticas de la Cnllejera," I examine the conception of knowledge- operative in Lugones's philosophy I argue that hers is an embodied epistemology, which locates the possibility of knowing at "street-lever in the formation of those relational, organizing structures that obtain between a particular body and its situating social and political frames. Viewed that way human knowing is thus practical and praxicak it is both what we hold in our bodily habits and emotions, and the- political action that guides our liberatory modes of resistance and transformation. NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS Emptied Selvesand "Playful 'World' -Travel". Shireen M. RoshallravQn, Kansas State University This paper examines Maria Lugones's conceptions of self and subjectivity in her theorizing of Women of Color coalition. For Icgones, the possibility of Women of Color coalition (as a coalition of deep understanding across differences) necessitates a conception of the self as multiple, interdependent with others, always context- dependent and in process. Specifically, I investigate how "emptied selves,"produced through processes of colonial mimicry and passing- as-if white/Anglo impact the ease or difficulty with which one can ·playfully 'world-travel" in an effort to forge larger resistant senses of self in deep coalition. Maria Lugones's Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes and the Thirding ofthe Spatial Imagination. Pedro Jose Javier Di Pietro, Binghamton University This paper examines Maria Lugones's praxicaJ theorizing on the production of resistant spatiality. Studies placed at the intersection of materialist philosophies of space and postcolonial critiques have claimed Lugoness engagement with spatial theorizing as an exploration of thirds pace. Within this vein, in the accounts that Lugones provides of pilgrimages/peregrinajes, we are offered vivid insights on the ways that body-to-body engagements open marginal relationality beyond the narrowing of modern and colonial territories. In this presentation, I argue that Lugones's spatial theoretics puts forth a decolonial imaginary where center/margin, the core spatial coordinates introduced by colonial modernity, are produced differentially by the scrambling of Eurocentered temporality -pasr and present- and asymmetric contiguity -there and here. Moderator: Gabriela B. Diaz de Sabates, Kansas State University 293. "Outsider» Feminist Movements) Reframing from the Outside In 8:00 to 9:J5 am • Governor s Square j 4 Blurring the Outsider/Insider Divide: Race, Class, and Gender in the Welfare Rights Movement. Cynthia Edmonds- Cady, Illinois State University This paper focuses on the history of the Welfare Rights Movement, utilizing oral history and archival work and using an intersectional lens toexplore how race and class have (re}framed feminist work, especially the work of poor women and middle class women, in the Welfare Rightsmovement. Feminists for Life: Reframing or Co-opting Feminist Principles! Jeannie Ludlow, Eastern Illinois University This paper examines the work and success of a well-funded movement that embraces the name and the ideals of feminism as they work to make abortion (and sometimes contraception) illegal in the US. Paying particular attention to the ways Feminists for Life deploy feminist discourses of race and class, the paper argues that this movement is not simply co-optive but works to reframe feminist principles. Dangertalk--Pushing Back on the Pro-Choice/Pro-life Discourse: Abortion Providers) Narratives. Jane Anne Hassinger, University of Michigan This paper reports on a qualitative/quantitative study focused on the experiences of teams of abortion workers. Participants tell of coping ~'ithstigma, of emotional distress associated with repeated exposure to economic and personal suffering of women, and of feelings of disconnection and abandonment from the politicaJ movement that NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE SUNDAY8:00 A.M. - 9:15 A.M. made abortion legal in 1973, strongly suggesting a need for re-fraining abortion discourse to focus on the needs and rights of women, Working from the Margins or Sitting in the Corner in a women's Studies Minor. Patricia Pedroza, Keene State College This paper discusses Chela Sandoval's methodology of the oppressed, to clarify the need for curricular changes in dominant White mainstream feminism in the U.S. and to integrate Third World u.s. feminist perspectives that are still described as outsiders, in order to reframe what counts as "real academic activism," Moderator: Janice Marie Collins, Eastern Illinois University 295. Citizenship) Personhood) and State Structures of Power: Gendered and Racialized Transnational Formations of Belonging 8:0010 9: J5 am • Governor s Square /6 (Re} Shaping Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in the 'home): Irish and African American domestic workers in New York, 1880-1940. Danielle Taylor Phillips, Rutgers University The first presentation, "(Re) Shaping Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in the 'home': Irish and African American domestic workers in New York, 1880-1940:' analyzes the historical connections between citizenship, migration, and women's labor through a comparative study of Irish and southern African American who worked as domestic servants after migrating to New York. Although both groups of women were clearly marginalized because of their racial, gender, a.nd class status, they moved to the center of debates across the nation ab the meaning of race, gender, and American citizenship during the I nineteenth and early twentieth century. Expulsions and Receptions: Palestinian Refugees find Belonging in the Brazilian Nation-State? Bahia Micheline Munem, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey The second presentation, "Expulsions and Receptions: Palestinian Refugees find Belonging in the Brazilian Nation-State?" moves the panel's discussion of immigration and citizenship to a later period and different geographical location by exploring the complicated resettlement processes of Palestinian refugees who were forced to migrate to Brazil as a consequence of the Iraq War. The presenter traces gendered distinctions in refugee resettlement and community building in two areas of the Brazilian nation-state. She analyzes the role that NGOs have in the resettlement process while examining the historical, but much contested notion that Brazil is rooted in a harmonious racial plurality. Employing Intersectionality: Black women legislators and Anti-Domestic Violence Legislation. Nadia Elizabeth Brown, St. Louis University The final paper explores how women, who might not even identify themselves as feminists, are using feminist theories to devise approaches to addressing women's issues through the State. The paper entitled "Employing lntersecricnaiity: Black women legislators and Anti- Domestic Violence Legislation;' uses Kimberly Crenshaw's concept of political intersectionality to detail how Black women legislators combine descriptive and substantive representation in their policy preferences by employing an intersectional analysis of anti-domestic violence legislation. Moderator: Zenzele Isoke, University of Minnesota 177 8:00 A.M. - 9:15 A.M. SUNDAY 296. Working from the Periphery: Feminism on the Outside 8:00 to 9: J5 am • Governor S Square 17 Not a Women's Libber, Just One of the Guys: Women in the Woods. Carla Fishel; Purdue University This presenter studies the entrance of women and minorities into the United States Forest Service workforce beginning in the 19705. Women and minorities faced resistance from a white, male-dominated agency and adopted various strategies to challenge the traditional hegemonic structure of the organization. Their entrance into the workforce impacted the mission and priorities of the agency and altered the national conversation about the environment. Fisher argues that understanding the impact of workers within natural resource agencies provides an opportunity to examine the relationship between feminism and the environment Sister Outsider/Insider. Alexandra Elizabeth Michaelides, Loyola University Chicago This presenter explores the relationship between Catholic and secular feminists in the 1980s. I argue that Catholic feminist activists were influenced by the larger feminist movement and considered themselves a part of it, even if Catholic feminism was considered an oxymoron to many. Catholic feminists fought tirelessly to pass the Equal Rights Amendment, to secure reproductive rights for women, and to reform the Catholic church. Though at times misconceptions and disagreements between mainstream and Catholic feminists hindered progress and cooperation. Also, I argue that while there was a decline in mass demonstrations during the J 980s, feminist activism thrived with various outlets for exploration and protest, including Catholic feminism. Women and Glohal Solidarity. Renee Searfoss, Purdue University This presenter studies the impact of global economic changes on the relationship between workers and employers and the role of women in the creation of global unionism. The quest for global solidarity presents women with opportunities to not only take part but the lead in unionization. Many do not see themselves as feminist, however, through their employment and involvement in the labor struggle, they often create their own feminist movements, providing an opportunity for scholars to continue to build bridges between labor and women's studies, asking vital questions about how feminist theory can aid the continued survival and success of 21st century unionism. Moderator: Scott Randolph, Armstrong Atlantic State University 297. Is the Personal Still Political! Perspectives from Young Feminists Today 8:00 to 9: J5 am • Plaza Court 3 In this roundtable, undergraduate students will grapple with the relevance of one of feminism's most famous statements: "the personal is political" Using their classroom experiences of connecting feminist theory and practice to create social justice activism projects, students wiU reflect on their experiences, values, and interests to interrogate what kinds of social justice projects are most important to them and what relevance the "personal is political" has in their work. Presenters: Carmen Wicker, University of Richmond Katie Lambeth, University of Richmond Alexandra Croushore Rooke, University of Richmond Gabrielle Misiewicz, University of Richmond Moderator: Melissa Ooten, University of Richmond 178 CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS 298. States of Militancy and Militarized States 8:00 to 9: 15 am • Plaza Court 4 Militarizing the Familial. Kimberly Peig, University of Calijomialrvme Taesong-dong is the only village that resides inside the southern section of the Korean Demilitarized Zone as such the villagers must abide by strict military rules. This paper investigates how the South Korean military militarizes Taesong-dong while also pointing to the ways that the villagers themselves are complicit in such militarization. Further, this paper not only interrogates the various rules that are imposed on the villagers, arguing that these rules are highly gendered and thus play out differently on various bodies, but also how the rules are used to promote a specific South Korean national project. Militarizing Desire: Violence and Embodiment in the U.S. Military. Jennifer Kosakowski, University of California, Irvine Militarization not only involves the mobilization of bodies and populations, but also the mobilization of affective modalities of belonging such as desire. This paper investigates the orientation and reorientation of desire within the U.S. military during its current operations in Iraq, and probes the ways that certain desires and subjects are rendered impossible or unimaginable within conventional nationalist imaginaries. By examining the structural and physical violences extant within the military, this paper interrogates how violence affects and effects realities and worlds, and makes precarious the lives of queer and female subjects within the military. Militarizing Politics: National Quarantines and Transnational Currencies in Spain and the Basque Country. Veronica Rose Ora Riglick. University ofCaliforllia, Irvine This paper focuses on a specific crystallization of national desire and anxiety in 1986 as ETA members disciplined Basque society to the point of national crisis. By appropriating normative values as the means to achieve national revolutionary ends, Basque nationalists privileged the trappings of ownership, patrimony and community while anxiously foreclosing extraordinary social transformations in the Basque Country. I argue that ETA's killing of Marla Dolores Gonzalez Katarain signaled the insolvency of the Basque nation in 1986 and offers a lens through which to study the desires, anxieties and limits of national norms In contemporary Spain and the Basque Country. Moderator: Nikki Karalekas, Emory University 299. The Other Hahits of Nationalism - Policing Vulnerahility, Gendering Morality, and Outsourcing Responsibility 8:00 to 9: 15 am • Plaza Court 5 Surveilled Crossings, Pedagogies of Rescue, and Anti- Trafficking Carceral Protectionism. Jennifer Lynne Musto, University of California, Los Angeles ''Abused'' and "traumatized" are watchwords invoked by feminists and human rights activists to advocate for persons who have been forcibly trafficked between and within nation state boundaries. Yet such grammars of vulnerability have been simultaneously harnessed by law enforcement agencies to bolster surveillance of irregular border crossing more generally. Drawing upon ethnographic fie.ldworkin the Netherlands and the United States, this paper explores the merger of human rights and national security approaches to protecting persons juridically marked as "trafficked." By mapping these newly assembled. carceral protectionist logics, I argue that such efforts emerge as J NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE r CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DeSCRIPTIONS technique of governmentality for the more widespread implementation of gendered, anti-immigrant and racially exclusionary politics that reinforce trafficked persons' vulnerability Consuming Ethics: Disciplining Gender and Sexuality for the ext Generation. Evangeline M. Heiliger, University of California, Los Angeies One current habit of nationalism involves disciplining American consumers to purchase goods that claim to make the world-and nation-more equitable. I argue that discursive uses of girl children in ethical marketing campaigns invoke anxieties of exclusion compelling 'ethical consumers" to shop in order to protect a future place in the nation. This moral imperative to consume has particular implications for women, queers and people of color, who are targeted to practice collective "individual consumer choice" while hiding the hauntingly nationalistic sense of duty underlying the call to protect and "properly" train their children as heterouorrnative capitalist ethical consumers. Affective Vulnerability: Ethnic Nationalisms and Gendered Life in Contemporary Reactionary Movements. Kathryn Oliviero, University of California, Los Angeles Theambivalenceaccompanyi ng visual and ontological pronouncements of vulnerability is also effectively used by contemporary reactionary groups to compose core ideals of nation and personhood as threatened. By examining how sensationalism is deployed by anti-immigration groups such as the Minutemen and anti-abortion campaigns like the Genocide Awareness Project, this paper critically considers staging bodily need as the moral basis for anti-democratic politics. These groups mobilize an explicitly gendered and racialized vocabulary to construct the boundaries of the body-politic and life as unprotected. This produces an affect of vulnerability that justifies various forms of moralized violence under the guise of protectionism. All Czechs, but Particularly Women: Disciplining Women and the Female Body and Building a Resilient National Community in the Early-Nineteenth-Century Bohemia. Daia Franiikovd, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor My presentation analyzes a variety of publications through which Czech nationalists between the 1820s and the 1850s proposed the gender-specific ideas to ensure the correct reproduction, resilience, and prosperity of their national community. I show how in the context of classical liberalism and absence of the nation-state, women's bodies, reproductive potential and responsibility for their own health as well as the health of their families become the most critical assets of the national construction. r show that while this made women crucial, the responsibility for the future existence and fitness of the national community simultaneously represented a great burden. ..lcderator: Sarudzayi Matambanadzo, Tulane University #nwsa2010 twitter.com/nwsa SUNDAY8:00 A.M. - 9:15 A.M. 300. Negotiating the National and Regional 8:00 to 9: /5 am • Dlrectors Row / "It's Not About Religion": LGBTQ-related Problems, Uganda, and Managing Intersectionality Under U.S. Foreign Policy. Alicia luskewycz, Princeton University In late 2009, Uganda's proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill drew great foreign policy attention, followed by escalated problems in nearby countries. It simultaneously made more visible relationships between specific dominant cultural formulations of religion as a social category and LGBTQ-related problems via the mechanisms of foreign policy and global inequality. I draw on experience working in the Office of International Religious Freedom at the U.S. Department of State while conducting dissertation research to trace oppositional use of the concept" of "religious freedom" in managing intersectional relationships between religion as a social category, geographic and material inequalities, and LGBTQ-related problems. Queering the civil rights movements in Japan: the Zainichi- Korean and transgender activisms in the 1970's - 1990's. Tomomi Kinukawa, University of the Pacific This paper analyzes the intersection of two "self-help" movements to fight for civil rights in Japan in the 1970's -1990's: one among Zainichi- Korean (resident Korean) activists and the other by transgender activists. Both movements critiqued a set of laws that Japanese imperial government had promulgated, in order to solidify the ideology of the hetero-patriarchal empire founded on individual families headed by patriarchs and topped by the Father Emperor. This paper aims to explore what strategic alliances between the two movements could entail and to critique the ideology of hetero-patriarchy throu combining the critical vantage points of the two movements. A Queer Transnational Feminist Reading of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity. Ann Russo, DePaul University TI1is paper offers a queer transnational feminist reflection on, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity, by Nicholas Kristof and Shirley WuDunn. Interrogating the heteronormative, neoliberal, imperialist, and racist assumptions that frame the book, I offer a re- thinking of "common differences" across borders of gender, sexuality, race, class, and nation. Moderator: Alicia luskewycz, Princeton University 301. Delegate Assembly Meeting 8:00 to 9: 15 am • Director j' Row J Delegate Assembly members meet to learn about the state of the organization, make resolutions, and deliberate on Membership Assembly recommendations in support of the NWSA mission, and to talk with NWSA leaders. _.com/womensStudies I NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE 179 • Parenting Out of Control An.xiOIl,S Pa,rents in Uncertain Times MARGARET K. NELSON $27.95010111 Is Breast Best? Taking on the 8reas~fe.edirtg Expel'tS and the New High Stakes of Motherhood JOAN B. WOLF $29.95 CIOlh 810polillcI, Medicine, To~hnQ5cIQ,",O, oed Iloalln In lho Twenty·Fl.S! Century Serlos Violence Against Latina Immigrants Citizenship. Inequality. and CommlJ.nity ROBERTA VILLALON $23.00poplr Strip Club Gender, Power, and Sex Work KIM PRICE-GLYNN $22.00 paper> 3 tablos IntersecTions.: Transdlsclpnnary Porspoell"" on Gondors and Suuantles So.los NYU Press Is BllEA5f Bt:ST? "...... ', '.."'-...... ., ......- The Price of Progressive Politics The Welfare Rights Movement in an Era, ofCa/.orblind Ra,cism ROSE ERNST $45.00 cloth> 8 flgurOi, IOlables Against Health How Health Became ine New Morality edited by JONATHAN M. METZL and ANNA KIRKLAND $22.00 paper BlopGliticl. Medlclnl. Tichtlllstllnce.lnd Hoahh In the Twonl"j-fl"t Century $ariGs Why Girls Fight Female Youth Violence in the Inner City CINDY D. NESS $21.00 p~per Toilet Pub/,ic Restrooms and the Politics of Sllaring edited by HARVEY MOLOTCH and LAURA NOREN $18.95 popor ~ 64l11uSlrltlc", NYU s"r1esln $11<:111and CultUrl1 An.alylls Babies Without Borders Adoption and Migration. across the Americas KAREN DUBINSKY $20.00 papar ~ 4mustraliGus Another Country QueerAnti~Urbani.sm SCOTT HERRING $23,00 papo," 37m"strallons Spu"1 Cullu,o. Sorlo. The Captain's Widow of Sandwich Self-ln.vention an.d the Life of Hannah Rebecca Burgess. 1834-19'7 MEGAN TAYLOR SHOCKLEY $45.00 tloth" 8 ngure •• 2 mlp •. 2lRhioi Getting in the Game Title IX and the Women's Sports Revolution DEBORAH L. BRAKE $39.00 clGlh CrllH:11AmGrlta s"rliS NEW IN PAPERBACK FORTHCOMING Rebel Girls YouthActivism and Social Clw.ngeAcross theAmericas JESSICA K. TAFT $22.00papo, b.llalIlo O_mbet20IO Raising Brooklyn Nannies. Childcare. and Cari bbeans Creating Community TAMARA MOSE BROWN $22.00 pap .. " B t.hlls Aullabla January 2011 Radicalism at the Crossroads AfricanAmenoon Women Activists inlhe Cold War DAYO F. GORE $39.00 tloth " 7 muslralions A.. nlblo ftllruary 2011 When Gay People Get Married What Happens When Societies Legali2.e Same-Sex Maniage M.V. LEE BADGETT $22.00 pi,",'" 2511l0.tratlGns Courting Change Qu.eer Poren.l,s.Ju.dges. (l,nd tILeTransfannotion. of American Family Law KIMBERLY D. RICHMAN $22.00 papo," 311go," After the Cure nte Untold Stori,es of Breast Can.cer Swvivors EMILY K. ABEL and SASKIA K. SUBRAMANIAN Victory Girls, Khaki-Wackies, and Patriotutes The Regutatwn of Femflle Sexuality dllringlVorld War II MARILYN E. HEGARTY$20.00 papor $22.00 papo, " 9l11ust"lions Our Bodies, Our Crime The Policing of Women. 's Reproduction- inAmeriro JEANNE FLAVIN $23.00 pape' Allamarive CrlmlnolOlY SerlIS The Political Thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Women.·s Rights and IheAmencan Pohtic:al Trad.tw/lS SUE DAVIS $23.00 pa~.f NYU Press CHAMPIOH OF GR'AT ID'AS SINC' 1916 > WWW,NYUPR'SS,ORG CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS----------------------SUNDAY 9:25A.M. -10:40 A.M. 304. Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis: Geopolitics, Knowledge Making and Collaboration I 9'25 to 10:40 am • Plaza Court 1 Transnational Peminisms as Politics of Alliance. Amanda Lock Swan; University of Washington; Richa Nagar, University of Minnesota OUfintroduction to Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis considered approaches of feminist academics to the "transnational" and reflected on the meanings and implications of three dichotomies-individualism and collaboration, academia and activism, and theory and method- in relation to feminist praxis. In this presentation, we extend the discussion to begin to identify some critical points of engagement and departure for feminist alliances and solidarities. In conjunction with ongoing collaborative journeys of our contributors, we discuss ways in which feminist methodologies can grapple in sustained ways with struggles for justice, thereby opening news spaces of possibility and scrutiny in transnational feminist theory and praxis. Difficult Translations: Antiracist Feminist Praxis and its Geopolitics. Piya Chatterjee, University of Calijornia, Riverside In this paper, J consider the ways in which categories of "race" and "antiracist feminist" work in the u.s. academy traffic dialectially across national borders and engage the specificities of categorical violence in other national locations. Using experiences from plantation women's organizing in eastern India, as well as work with TNCITE, I will push at the following questions: 1) What are the tensions and problems in attempting such translations ill areas where questions of difference and power marked by ethnoracial/sexual and gendered positions are understood and engaged in other ways? 2) How can we imagine the possibilities of "crosshatchings" across these different languages of social exclusion; and 3) What are the tensions within the u.s. academic feminisms in recognizing these "other languages" of exclusion as co- eval to the work of u.s. anti racist theorizing and practice? The Work of the "Transnational" in Women's Studies. Danielle M. Bouchard, University of North Carolina, Green.sboro; Diane Detoumay, University of Minnesota Following from our chapter in Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis, this paper inquires into the conceptual work of the "transnational" in the discipline of women's studies. It focuses specifically on how certain articulations of trans nationalism have been reliant upon an understanding of knowledge that forwards democratic community as an ideal model of feminist collaboration. Questioning the ways in which this understanding of community can implicitly position the US as a global power and center of knowledge production, we then consider other articulations of transnational feminism which work against this production of the us as the archetypal democratic nation. Moderator: Chandra Mohanty, Syracuse University l05. The Progressive and the Profane: Identity Performance andRepresentations of Masculinity in Mass Mediated Popular Cnlture 9:25to 10:40 am • PLaza Court 2 Performing Progressive Masculinities: The 'Subversive Confusion' of TV's Modern Family. Margaret Chojnacki, Barry University Mass media's replications of a particular femininity or masculinity make it appear more authentic than others at any given time (Gaunrlett, 2008). However, as gender is a performance. our gender norms can be challenged and subverted through the proliferation of alternative NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE performances (Butler, 1990). Byproviding aberrant variety to our daily performances of gender, popular media affect our understanding of masculinity and femininity and expose the fluidity of gender identity. Relying on queer theory, this paper proposes TV's Modern Family provides Butler's "subversive confusion" by troubling our established norms about masculinity. Virile Bodies, Docile Subjects: The Representation of Caribbean Masculinities in International Women)s Magazines. Nickesia Stacy-ann Gordon, Barry University The paper presents a semiotic analysis of the portrayal of Caribbean male identities in international women's magazines such as Essence, Cosmopolitan and Glamour. Using Foucault's notion of the body as "political anatomy:' the author looks at how particular meanings of Caribbean masculinities are produced by the narratives of these publications, meanings which are inextricably linked to the political economy of tourism in the region, and which create a reality in which the male body becomes a site for the codification of the Caribbean as a sexual wasteland. In this regard, the male body, disciplined and dissociated from power, becomes a potent symbol for the economic utility/exploitation of the Caribbean as a "tourist destination." Exploring the Complexity of Emerging Gender Identities in Finding Nemo. Juliana Maria Trammel, Savannah State University TIle purpose of this paper is to analyze how certain masculinities are created in the animated film Finding Nemo released in 2003, which features an epic father-son relationship. The film is based on a story of a widowed father, Marlin, who cares for his physically chaJJen son, Nemo, who is abducted by a scuba diver. The paper expl the complexity of emerging gender identities as represented in t Bildungsroman in which masculinity 'grows up" but not necessaril within the traditionally defined social order. A qualitative textual analysis will be employed to look at how progressive forms of masculinity are performed by various characters in the film. Moderator: Nickesia Stacy-ann Gordon, Barry University 306. Film, Intersectionality, and Looking Relations 9:25 10 10:40 am • Plaza COUl'l 6 Bringing Intersectionality into the Heart of Film Studies. YaeLD. Sherman, Spelman CoLLege In this paper, I draw on bell hooks' article "The Oppositional Gaze" to theorize spectatorship from an intersectional perspective. Leaving behind the gender essentialism of psychoanalytic film theory, I retain their focus on looking relations and subjectivity. I argue that the position one assumes to access the dominant pleasure offered by the film is not bounded by identity, though it is defined by identity. I name this the normative/normalizing spectator position: anyone can access the preferred viewing position offered by the film, but taking up this position requires (temporarily) identifying with and seeing via a particular subjectivity, thus shaping subjectivity. Precious and the Possibilities of Moving Towards a Hip Hop Feminist Visual Aesthetic. Treva Lindsey, University of Missouri, Columbia What is a hip hop feminist visual aesthetic? What images, narratives, forms, and styles resonate with contemporary black feminist politics that invest i.n the possibility of hip hop culture providing a progressive space for exploring the experiences of the dispossessed? Thinking about Precious within the context of hip hop feminism offers a point of departure for exploring the limitations of existing visual aesthetics for presenting black women's stories. 181 ...... CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS-----------------------9:25 A.M. - 10:40 A.M. SUNDAY Transnational Feminism in the Visual Media: A Critical Look at Women and Globalization. Sohyun Lee, University of Kansas This paper examines how transnational feminist engagement with the visual media critiques the neoliberal, gendered discourses of globalization, providing a critical understanding of the relationship between women and globalization. Looking at feminist media projects about globalization, such as Remote Sensing (Ursula Biemann, 2001). Maid in America (Anayansi Prado. 2004), and Nalini By Day, Nancy By Night (Sonali Gulati, 2005), this paper suggests that transnational feminist perspectives enable media activists to raise critical questions about the complicated influences of globalization on marginalized communities of women, and to develop transnational feminist alliance. (Behold the Man!": Constructing the Masculinity of Jesus of Nazareth in Mainstream American Film, 1961-2004. Joey Eschrich, Arizona State University Films depicting the life of Jesus of Nazareth appear simple and easily readable, and this understanding of the films as mere dramatic interpretations of the gospels contributes to a lack of attention to issues of social identity. This study add.resses the gap in critical inquiry, locating a profound anxiety about gender at the center of these religiously- oriented films. Close readings of five mainstream American films reveal that the texts are structured by binary oppositions with other characters that position Jesus as the epitome of a divine masculinity defined against femininity, homosexuality, and hypermasculinity. Moderator: Danielle M. DeMuth, Grand Valley State University 307. Transgender/Queer Archives 9:2510 10:40 am » Plaza Caliri 7 Digging For Queers: Disrupting Boundaries with Archeology. Jenny D. Grubbs, American University Within the neoliberal academic diatribe, the politics of inclusivity and competition perpetuate the difficulties for dialogue among feminists across disciplines. The demarcation of what counts as "feminist" and who is included in the Women's Studies course syllabi further marginalize feminists in other disciplines as "outsiders". Queer archeologists, as "outsider feminists" dismantle the historical normative narratives that construct contemporary understandings of sexuality, gender, and human- animals relations. Queer archeology provides a unique way to engage feminism from outside Women's Studies, and emphasizes dialogue across disciplines. This paper uses queer archeology to iJlustrate how feminists can disrupt the individualization of knowledge through dialogue. Queering Hurston: Reading Gender and Sexuality in Zora Neale Hurston's Ten My Horse. Jennifer Lynn Freeman Marshall, Purdue University Zora Neale Hurston's intellectual interest in the social construction of gender and sexuality as cultural phenomena are under-theorized in her anthropological work and are overshadowed by intersectional analyses that include race, class, and gender and elide sexuality. My paper, titled "Queering Hurston," presents some of the critical possibilities for exploring Zora Neale Hurston's ethnography Tell My Horse (1938) via a queer lens. Queerness in the Wilderness: Gender Transgressions on the U.S. Frontier, 1901-1911. Emily Skidmore, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign This paper interrogates newspaper stories of "deathbed discovery; wherein individuals who had lived their adult lives as men were revealed to lack the requisite male genitalia. In the first ten years of the twentieth century, at least eleven such cases appeared in U.S. newspapers, and significantly, the majority of these stories emanated not from the 182 nation's growing cities, but from small towns and villages. This paper grapples with the local narratives produced around such moments of "revelation:' and in the process, interrogates how local communities negotiated with national discourses of gender and sexuality, TransTube: Transmen, YouTube, and Biomedical Discourse. Erica Leigh Hougland, Grinnell College Transmen form a global community on YouTube. This study examines 40+ transmen's video blogs (or "vlogs"} 011 YouTube to analyze the ways in which transrnen resist and comply with biomedical discourse, In particular, I examine the following questions: how do transmen negotiate the definition of "transsexual" in the Diagnostic a.nd Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; how do they employ Foucault's narrative of the confessional to gain access to the benefits of biomedical discourse; how do they develop transdiscourse and transautcnomy within biomedical discourse; and how do they employ the phenomenological body as a site of resistance. Moderator: Emily Skidmore, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 308. Intimacies, Women's Work and the Politics ofuHome" 9:2510 10:40 am • Plaza Court 8 Citizenship in the Home and in the Cosmopolitan World: Women's Work and Rights. Cheryl O'Brien, Purdue University Citizenship rights lay at the heart of the state. How do we define citizens and their rights? How do we make claims in public life that are legitimate? How do make legitimate claims for social welfare benefits? How does gender in.flect citizenship? I discuss the history of gendered citizenship, social citizenship rights, and states' embedded preferences that mask a legacy of mascullnist bias, continuing with neoliberal welfare state policies. The concept of social citizenship rights travels well to the human rights discourse for a global citizenship, which can open venues of cosmopolitan resistance for women to improve social citizenship rights. Reproducing Intimacies: Indian IT workers and the Transnational Family. Amy Pradip Bhatt, University of Washington 1 examine how gendered notions about sexuality, marriage and reproduction offer strategic ways for temporary Indian migrants to make claims on their "host" nation, the U.S., and their "home." Their social reproduction and the transnational organization of kinship work in concert and in contradiction to the needs of the U.S. state and the technology corporations that hire temporary workers. Iuse ethnographic and blog evidence from migrants to examine how family, friendship and romantic relationships become strategies for renegotiating the value of national citizenship through an emphasis on the futurity, rather than the present, of belonging mediated through the family. "Horne of the Heroes": Pueblo, Colorado's Forgotten Rosie the Riveters. Fawn-Amber Montoya, Colorado State University. Pueblo Pueblo, Colorado embraces its title "Home of the Heroes" named for four Medal of Honor recipients. The convention center, streets, and its veterans' bridge remind residents and visitors military veterans' contributions. Pueblo is also home to Colorado Puel and Iron's steel manufacturing plant. In the 1940s, CF&I embraced the wartime movement and increased production, women flooded the labor pool. In order to encourage production and efficiency the US government gaw out medals honoring the service of these women, but their contributions are not remembered as part of the legacy of the "Home of the Heroes" Moderator: Joyletle Elizabetll Williams, City University of New York. Graduate Center NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS---------~---------- 309.Feminist Interventions on the Politics of Care 9:2510 /0:40 am • Governor s Square 9 BeyondBurnout: Feminist Explorations of Resilience in WomenMental Health Professionals. Diane Turner, Oregon State University Women practitioners in early childhood mental health are among the most gendered, underpaid, and vulnerable professionals in contemporary society. Incessant stress, emotional demands, and limited support lead to burnout and turnover at alarming rates. Although research has shown evidence of professional experiences of secondary traumatic stress, racism, sexual harassment, and horizontal hostility and personal experiences of domestic violence, health, and mental health issues (Turner, 2009), such concerns have rarely been studied through a feminist lens. This paper illuminates how feminist theories and conceptual models generated women's knowledge and uncovered new understandings in research on resilience in women mental health professionals. TheNeed for Feminist Palliative Care Policy and Practice. Kristen Lynn Payne, Port/and Veterans Affairs Medical Center Palliative care, or noncurative comfort care, has been a fixture in the continuum of American healthcare since the hospice movement was brought to the United Stated by Cicely Saunders in1963. Feminist thought has yet to make substantial contributions in this area despite the opportunities to examine the intersectionalities of oppressions (e.g., age, race, class, gender, disability) in a particularly vulnerable population. Recent research on palliative care disparities will be discussed as well as systematic biases in policy that foster such outcomes. The paper will end with suggestions for future feminist theorizing and action that could contribute to the field. Victim Erasuref Questioning the de- and re-gendering of sexual assault prevention programs. Susanne Beechey, Whitman College While historically sexual assault prevention programs on u.s. college campuses have been focused on outreach to and education for women as (potential) victims, recent years have seen a rise in interventions targeted at men or sanitized of gender. Through a content analysis ()f program materials we identify the ways in which these programs construct gender, sexuality and violence and interrogate the implications of the messages they send. Moderator: Heidi Renee Lewis, Purdue University 310. Women of Color, Shifting the Frames ~.2.5to 10:40 am • Governor's Square 10 "Consciousness-Raising) Race) and African-American Feminist Activism in 19705 Chicago». Yoichita Nachescu, Grand Valley State University This paper compares the consciousness-raising groups organized by the ~ationaJ Alliance of Black Feminists with the small groups of Women's Liberation and discusses the relevance offeminlst consciousness-raising for African American women's activism in Chicago during the 1970s. '1:he 'Masculine' Black Lesbian Feminist: From Margin to Center. An Insider's Point of View" Janice Marie Collins, Eastern Illinois University This paper interrogates the positioning, within feminism, of the socially constructed masculine, black, female, lesbian on the margins, where they have not only found knowledge and power, but have moved center NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE L to an "insider's point of view." This location becomes a place where feminism and lesbianism are complicated by a gender presentation that incorporates masculinity and issues of race. "Toward Feminisms that Include Us All: An Intercultural Relations Perspective" Nancy O'Brien, University of Minnesota This paper reports on a global dialogue on feminism, drawing on the stories of twenty-seven exemplary women in the field of intercultural relations whose collective cuJtural wisdom transcends race, sexual orientation, and national boundaries and whose attention to feminism inspires significant questions about its practices, theories, and politics. Moderator: Jeannie Ludlow, Eastern Illinois University 311. The (Bio) Politics of Nation, Science, and Medical Technology 9:25 to 10:40 am • Governor's Square 11 Shifting Politics ofthe (Trans) Nation and of Reproduction. Rajani Bhatia, University of Maryland Using the topic of sex selection as an optic through which to theorize and potentially reframe the meanings and interconnections among reproduction, transnational, and inequality, 1address these triangulated processes in tight of an expansion of new reproductive technological innovations and practices. These occur alongside inconsistent mechanisms of regulation, which provide the impetus for changing {transjnational processes and circuits since 1995. The shifting terrains of nation and reproduction reveal multiple, varied and overlapping worlds - new forms of lac all global, new social relations, and new forms of inequality. Analyzing Social Histories of Cervical Cancer and HPV Vaccine Politics) Determining Informed Choice. Julie Ann Slater, Metropolitan State College of Denver The social historical relationship between sexual morality and cancer politics determines protectionist and right-to-know "informed choice" discourses as public perceptions of medical innovations are often overshadowed by corporate interests. In the face of sexism in the history of traditional health care, feminist bioethics emphasizes female empowerment, autonomy and the right of women to knowledge about their bodies. This paper addresses women's exercise of informed choice, particularly the distinctive differences between the paternalist protectionist discourse and the feminist right-to-know discourse, regarding cervical cancer prevention and the use of the recently introduced humanpapilloma virus (HPV) vaccine. Interest Groups) Morality Politics and State Vaccination Policies. Erica Kimberly Taylor, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Scholars of morality politics posit that when issues of morality are involved the policy process is altered allowing for a new array of actors to weigh in on policy decisions. In 2007, 41 state Jegislatures had bills regarding the administration of the HPV vaccine to adolescent girls. This paper applies Banchoff's path-dependent model for value-driven issues to the legislative activity concerning HPV vaccine mandates in effort to understand the differences in how states contend with similar policy challenges. It also examines influence of interest groups on policy outcomes as mitigated by policy legacies and state characteristics. Moderator: Joanna Snawder, Metropolitan State College of Denver 183 CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS--------------_.....:....:._~ 9:25 A.M. - 10:40 A.M. SUNDAY 312. Disciplinary Outsiders: Transnational Feminisms and the Liberal Arts Education 9:25 to 10:40 am • Govemor's Square 12 Speaking in Tongues: Transnational Feminisms and the Teaching of Languages and Literatures. Marta Sierra, Kenyon College This paper addresses how transnational feminist epistemologies offer transformative challenges to the teaching of languages and literatures in the context of liberal arts education. I examine disciplinary assumptions about the neutrality of this teaching practice, usually tied to notions about language proficiency or cultural competency that leave out political implications of complex processes of gender, race, or class origin. From my experience of teaching language and literature along with a course on transnational feminisms, 1 explore instead how being on the margins of a discipline allows for a cultural and linguistic decentering that helps both students and teachers to understand symbolic and material locations of knowledge. Interlingualism: Chicanalo Studies and the Silencing of the "Other') America. Clara C. Roman-Odic, Kenyon College Chicana/o culture is a vast field often neglected or underrepresented in undergraduate curricula. Even so, Chicana/os' contributions to cultural theory, political activism, and the arts are among the richest in the U.S. This absence is symptomatic of a larger societal reality, namely, a history of cultural and economic oppression, which resuJts in a silencing of this "other" America. Persistently, dominant culture reflected in mainstream academia considers cultural traits differing from its own to be deficiencies, which, in turn, has served to justify power differentials and asymmetries between areas of inquiry in academia. As disciplinary outsiders, this paper will illustrate the challenges we face when addressing hegemonic epistemologies in a small liberal arts institution as well as the strategies used to change that way we talk about difference in academia. Transforming Pedagogies: Teaching Globalization through a Gendered Lens. Sonalini Kaur Sapra, Kenyon College in designing my course on "Gender and Globalization;' I wanted students to have an understanding of globalization that included not only an examination of global trade policies and international institutions, but also one that analyzed the feminization of migration practices and labor. However, how does one deal with student resistance to critiques of global politics, u.s. foreign and economic policy, and its gendered effects since 9/11? How does one's own positicnallty as an immigrant, foreign, nonwhite, middle-class feminist influence classroom discussions and dynamics? This paper addresses these questions and offers some pedagogical strategies for teaching about economic and political globalization through a gendered lens. Moderator: Marta Sierra, Kenyon College 313. (Re)Conceptualizing Ideologies of Power and Rhetoric: Identity and Gender in (Trans)National Discourses 9:25 to 10:40am. Govemor's Square /4 Reimagining Discourses of the US Nation-State in the Literature of Edwidge Danticat and [unot Diaz. Laini Kasia Kavaloski, Edgewood College Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker and 'TIle Farming of Bones are well known for their representations of transnational ism. In particular, her memoir Brother, I'm Dying becomes a location for reinscribing identity and history through the eyes ofwomen and the disenfranchised. Similarly, Iunot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao reflects a 184 ghetto-steeped, hyper-masculine narration making visible rhetorics of power that operate in hegemonic culture. Within these texts, language has the ability to represent separateness and uphold hegemonic systems nationhood but holds the same potential to resist oppositional binaries and to imagine safe, communal sites for transnational migrants. Representing Sexual Otherness, Southernness: Same-Sex Desire and the Deep South in Hubert Creekmore's The Welcome and Thomas Hal Phillips's The Bitterweed Path. Jaime Lynn Cantrell, Louisiana State University Here I will utilize Julia Kristeva's theory of abjection in relation to Mikhail Bakhtin's writings on grotesque for the purposes of identifying tropes of the backward U.S. "South" and the marginalized groups embodied in Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road. Drawing upon analysis from Leigh Anne Duck's TIle Nation's Region, I intend to illuminate temporal and spatial boundaries surrounding (Imjpenetrable discourses between private and public, social and cultural, and individual and national identities for the purposes of broadening our understandings of regional narratives in national rhetoric. White Men Behaving Badly: The Terror oflmperial Whiteness. Jennifer Christine Musial, Trent University Using the Laci Peterson and Lori Hacking murder cases, I look at how their murderer-husbands, Scott Peterson and Mark Hacking, were constructed as "white men behaving badly" in news narratives. However, when news coverage about the Peterson and Hacking murders is juxtaposed against other stories printed In the same newspapers (actions in the name of "homeland security" and the "War on Terror"), a continuum of white male violence becomes apparent. Individualizing white male violence as "men behaving badly" effaces the colonial American past and legacies of slavery and furthers recent incarnations of Orientalisru that racialize "Muslim-looking" men of color. "Don't Monopolize the Good": Development Aggression and Kankanay Women. Stephanie D. Santos, University of California, Los Angeles In this paper, I engage with Gayatri Spivak's concept of "the new subaltern" to study how neoliberal economic development policies have spatiaUy and economically displaced indigenous Kankanay women in the northern Philippines. I discuss how indigenous Southeast Asian women are organizing translocal against this onslaught, and articulating forms of development based on their eplstemes of ub- ubbo (working and sharing), alluyon (cooperative, community), and Innabuyog (sharing the good). This paper will therefore examine how marginalized populations such as indigenous women become fodder for nationalist development discourse, and how women-centered coalitions are reconceptualizing development in non-developmentalist, non-nationalist, and non-Western ways. Moderator: Lisa King, Edgewood ColJege 314. Crossing Boundaries, Crossing Genres: Transcending Immigrant Women's Experiences Through the Critical in the Creative 9:25 to 10:40am. Govertlors Square 15 Saving the World Two Lives at a Time: Alvarez's Meditations on Medical Missions) Colonialism, and Other Fictions. Amy K. Levin, Northern Illinois University In Saving the World, Julia Alvarez twins narratives about females: the first, the story of an immigrant from Latin America to the United States, a writer like the author, whose husband is caught in a terrorist attack at an AIDS hospital in her home land; the second. about a nun NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE d CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS--~----------~-----SUNDAY9:25A.M. -10:40 A.M • who accompanied an expedition of orphans serving as live carriers of the smallpox vaccine to the Spanish colonies. Alvarez uses the inl:e.rrelationshipsof the two stories to meditate on how women's experiences may be inflected by colonialism, disease, and political violence, even as she probes the conventions that traditionally separate history from fiction. II:Where is the beginning? And what is everything?": Adapting Autobiography iu Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close and In America. Kathleen Turner, Northern Illinois University The novel Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2005) by Jonathan Safran Foer and the film In America (2002) directed by Jim Sheridan blend elements of biography to create a critical space which examines how body and power are affected by trauma for women immigrants. In Peer's novel, the grandmother must cope with the bombing of Dresden and the September 11 attacks. After she leaves Dresden, she attempts erasure, typing her story by hitting only the space bar. When sheloses her son in the Twin Towers, she regains voice by writing her grandson. Similarly, the protagonist of In America loses her younger brother before her parents illegally immigrate to America, and film allows her to recontextualize her life. By blending biography with variousgenres and media, these women narrate themselves into spaces ofempowerment and survival. Reading Right to Left: Cooptiug Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, Colette Morrow, Purdue University, Ca.lumet Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novels, Persepolis: The Story ofa Childhood and Persepolis: The Story of a Return, which relate her childhood in Iran, circulated Widely in the u.s. when the W. Bush administration was considering military action against Iran. Satrapi says that she wrote the books to counter the West's demonization of Iran, humanize Iranians, and prevent a U.S.attack. But their representations of women's and girls' lives in the Islamic Republic and Satrapi's adolescence in Europe undermine this project. In fact, conservatives, nee-liberals, and some feminists have coopted these representations, deploying them in ways that fuel anti- Iranian sentiment. \Ioderator: Amanda Hope Littauer, Northern Illinois University 315. Transnationalizing the 'Official' Feminist History 9.-15 to 10:40 am • Governor:') Square 16 The 'official' narrative of feminist history starts from the West without J historic discussion of women's movements in Africa, Latin America, Middle East and Asia. Even the current discourse of transnational enurusm begins with the UN conferences in the 70s, with the discussion of 'international' feminism in 1800s mainly through Euro- American organizations such as the International Council of Women, !be International Woman Suffrage Alliance, etc. Befitting the "outsider" zminisms, through examples from women's movements in Turkey, illdia. Egypt. Mexico, Peru, and the Caribbean, and border crossings, 1i'e will disrupt this official history. discussing indigenous women's aovements in transnational context. Presenters: .-lyse Dayi. Towson University 8ureu Borhan, Center for Transnational Women's Issues Arlene Arlene Sgoutas, Metropolitan State College of Denver Torry Dickinson, Kansas State University ftJylette Williams Samuels, SUNY, Nassau Community CoUege Pramifa Vell.kateswara1l, Nassau Community College Mit: Laut, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign '·toderator: Brigitte Marti, Independent Researcher/ PNHP Maryland -hapter NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE b 316. The Creative is Critical 9:25 to 10:40 am. Governors Square 17 Biology as Consent: Problematiziug the Scieutific Approach to Seducing Women's Bodies. Amanda Denes, University of California, Santa Barbara Exploring the ways that scientific narratives are used to create scripts for heterosexual men to enact when performing the role of "seducer;' this paper details how research on the hormone oxytocin is appropriated by the "player" community. Using kinesthetics as a tool for seduction, these guides teach heterosexual men to increase women's oxytocin levels (the "trust hormone") through touch and to thus convince women to engage in sexual relations. These problematic texts privilege biological responses as "truth" and position women's bodies against themselves by teaching men to believe physical arousal equals consent. The Practitioner's Body, The Other's Voice. Annika Speer, University of California, Santa Barbara Verbatim theatre is often employed as a vehicle toward social justice and has been described by practitioner, David Hare, as "giving a voice to the voiceless" (2008, 128). While "giving voice" to marginalized populations is fraught with power dynamics, worthy of investigation is the role of the body. Verbatim theatre privileges the literal words of the 'other: but mediates them through the body of the practitioner. Utilizing Physical Theatre Company DV8's production To Be Straight With You, this paper examines the intersection of the materiality of one's text with another's body as a critically creative method of resistance and social! political commentary. "Resistant Readers": Performing Theory in the Work of Split Britches. Kellyn Johnson, University of Catifornia, Santa Barbara Performance group Split Britches re-scripts American myths, exposing hegemonic-narratives which maintain gender inequality in both society and theatrical practices. Enacting Jill Dolan's definition of a feminist critic as a "resistant reader;' they resist not only heteronormative discourse but traditional theatrical paradigms. Their performances emerge as embodied theory through which they both present and validate arguments for social change. Using their 2009 production Miss America 1 will investigate and explain how their process of deconstructing the American mythic provides a theoretical framework upon which they enact non-normative gendered identities to undermine established "truths:' thus creating new social and theatrical possibilities. Creating Theory through Lived Experiences: Contemporary Transgeuder Performance. Jessica Caldwell-O'Keefe, Boise State University Focusing on transgender performers S. Bear Bergman and Scott Turner Schofield, this paper illustrates how their performances refute theories of essentialism and social constructionism and creates a synthesis grounded in lived experiences. Having spent the entire performance encouraging the audience to accept them as their chosen sex, many transgender performers remove their clothing at the show's end. Revealing his/her/hit naked body, the performer dares the audience to define him/her/hir by an atypical body. This exposure, highlighting where their physical selves diverge from societal expectations, confronts audiences with unfamiliar bodies attempting to alter perspectives on sex, gender, and sexual orientation. Moderator: Jessica Caldwell-D'Keeje, Boise State University 185 CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS'-------------------- 9:25 A.M. - 10:40 A.M. SUNDAY 317. Building luclusive Campus Communities: Student-led Activism in Response to Critical Issues 9:25 to 10:40 am· Plaza Court 3 This panel brings together students from three very different institutions with a common bond: each campus offers students a program (WILL) that combines an academic women's studies minor with social justice activism and leadership opportunities outside of the classroom. Panel members will provide a briefoverviewoftheir respective WILL programs and give examples of the creative activism they have participated in as well as the effect that activism has had on their respective universities, communities, and on their own collegiate experiences. The panelists will then engage roundtable members around efforts to build inclusive communities in their respective institutions. Presenters: Kristina Louise Parthum, Winona State University lodi Kelber-Kaye, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Kara Eggers,Winona State University Alex Vlasic, University of Richmond [amaica Akande, University of Richmond Moderator: Holly Blake, University of Richmond 318. Gendering National Political Spaces: Empowerment, Representations and Citizenship 9:2510 10:40 am » Plaza Court 4 Gendering National Political Spaces: Explicitly Gendered Marches on Washington in the Early 21st Century US. Elizabeth Currens, College of William & Mary Idiscuss the production of political demands in Marches on Washington by a coalition of feminist and reproductive rights groups (The March for Women's Lives) and a gun control lobby organization (The Million Mom March) in 2004. Participants in these events claim citizenship rights through bringing issues coded as private into national public spaces. Utilizing the framework of affective citizenship, 1 explore the challenges to the idea of a rational public sphere provided by these two women-dominated groups as well as the ways that they each reinforce and challenge racialized gender norms. Sisters as Symbols: Symbolic Representation and Women's Empowerment in Sub-Saharan Africa. Andrea Nicole Messing-Mathie, Northern Illinois University This exploratory work addresses a relatively unexamined outcome of the implementation of gender quota policies by investigating the symbolic value of representation on constituent women in sub-Saharan Africa. The research asks two primary questions, addressing each with a mixed methodological approach: first, does increased female representation, introduced by means of fast track gender quotas, positively affect the political engagement of women? Second, have there been any changes in the perceptions of women and women's issues due to the increased numbers of women in office at both the local and national level? Transnational Networks and the Virtualscape: An Alternative Space to Exercise Citizenship? Nuning Suliasih Purwaningrum, State University of New York, Buffalo As excluded citizens because of their marital status to foreign nationals, Indonesian women found an internet-based transnational network as a social space to exercise their citizenship rights. The author found that the experiences and idea sharing among these individual women had reconstructed their sense of identity and belonging, and gradually helped them to possess the power to influence national public policy in their home country. This transnational network is also challenging the classical notion of nation-state membership by looking at the 186 virtualscape as a territory to reconstitute the meaning of citizenship. Transfronteriza: Gender Rights at the Border and 'La Colectiva Perninistat Michelle Tellez, Arizona State University To think about the ways in which transnational processes and the neoliberal state have created new forms of political organizing and community formation, this project focuses on women centered activism projects at the U.S/Mexico border. Building on the idea of transfronterismo (Ruiz 1992), or transborderness • and by analyzing the Colectiva Feminista Binacicnal (Binational Feminist Collective), I highlight how the actual border should not be seen just as a site of passage but also as a site for gendered transformation where a politicized transfronteriza identity can emerge. Moderator: Suzann Panek Robins, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 319. Who Owus Ethnography?: Women of Color Negotiating the Politics of Research from the (Margins) 9:25 to 10:40 am. Plaza Court 5 A Feminist in My Head: One Woman's Reflection on Fieldwork in Jamaica. Bianca Williams, University of Colorado, Boulder As a lone twenty-something, Jamaican-American woman doing research in Jamaica, my body and actions were read through a multiplicity of gendered, sexualized, nationalized, and classed lenses. Everyone from my grandmother to the taxi drivers on the corner had something to say about the ways I should police and protect my "womanhood" from potential dangers I might encounter in the communities in which I lived and worked. This paper examines these "warnings" in order to discuss the interesting obstacles women of color stumble upon while doing fieldwork, the ways sexist ideologies impact our research methods, and challenge assumptions about what constructs "the field." (Is Alright, You is One of We': Positionality in the Field. rami Navarro, Duke University This paper explores the complexity of being multiply-positioned during fieldwork. Born and raised on St. Croix, I was excited and hesitant to do fieldwork on economic development at 'home: While my lifelong 'insider' role afforded me crucial iiq\ody ...... ted '0 0ll".. 1l>o JUcI- ~~.,. ochoI.nlIifI., .he ""-of ,...Dk priaoo. SpeakOut events open eyes, challenge minds and inspire activism. We address the most pressing issues facing young people and educators in today's society and the forces that shape our future. • Lectures • Workshops • Exhibits • Films • Theater • Spoken Word • Music • Hip Hop • Comedy info@speakoutnow.org • 510-601-0182 www.SpeakOutNowoorg CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS------------------- 323.Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis: Geopolitics) KnowledgeMaking and Collaboration II 10:50to 12:05 pm. Plaza Court 1 SoMuch to Remind Us We Are Dancing on Olber Peoples' Blood:Moving Toward Artistic Excellence, Moving from Silenceto Speech, Moving inWater, with Ananya Dance Theatre. Ananya Chatterjea, University of Minnesota; Hui Niu Wilcox, College of St. Catherine; Shannon Gibney, Minneapolis Community & Technical College Usingtheir essay by the same title in Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis as a jumping off point, members of Ananya Dance Theatre exploretheir critical and creative engagement in this women of color dancecompany and community, as well as possibilities for conducting this work in other sites. Specifically, and through dialog and multimedia (powerpoint, slides, video, etc.) participants will discuss buildingalliances across communities of color, brown postmodernism, the politics of authenticity, oppositional artistic production and the nonprofit industrial complex, organizing through art-making, and the intersection of feminisms and dance. Conflicts and Collaborations: Building Trust in Transnational South Africa. Amanda Lock Swan; University of Washington; Sam N. Bullington, University of Missouri In contemporary South Africa, progressive coalitional politics are extremely fraught and contentious due to deep divisions and distrust resulting from centuries of colonization and decades of apartheid repression.This presentation explores our navigation of this complicated terrain in our fourteen year relationship to two social movements in SouthAfrica (one promoting rights for lesbian and gay South Africans and the other advocating equitable access to AIDS medications for poorpeople). Our presentation takes the form of a dialogic exchange, considering what it has meant to cultivate transnational relationships of collaboration over space and time, within an ever-shifting political and material context, marked by ongoing negotiations concerning the meaningsof these collaborations. Churnings of a Movement: Sangtin's Diary. Richa Nagar, University of Minnesota This presentation considers the relationships among silence, insight, violence, and possibilities in the context of movement making. It works through stories and vignettes associated with the lives of those whoconstitute a growing movement of peasants and laborers in the Sitapur District of Uttar Pradesh to explore the power of affect in shapinga political struggle. In so doing, the paper grapples with some difficultquestions: What kinds of silences and sacrifices are borne out of struggles and how do they empower the relationships that make a movement? What violence may occur because of the political choices that a movement makes? And how does a movement find the hope and inspiration to grow in the face of non-stop violence? Moderator:Piya Chatterjee, University of California, Riverside 324.Keep Your Laws off My Zeitgeist: Notes from the New MediaRevolution on Teaching Reproductive Justice and ~""rtion Rights through Documentary Film 10:5010 J 2:05 pm • Plaza Court 2 In the age of new media, this panel will explore how documentary film is an indispensable tool for teaching about reproductive rights and reproductive justice in today's Women's Studies classroom. Features dips from "The Coat Hanger Project" directed by Angie Young and 'AbortionDemocracy: Poland/South Africa" directed by Sarah Diehl. Presenters: ·4ngieYoung, Feminist Studies/The Coat Hanger Project Sarah Diehl, filmmaker NWSA2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE 325. Intersection: Race, Class, Feminisms, Incarceration, Citizenship and Educating on the 'Inside' 10:50 to 12:05 pm • Plaza Court 6 Facing the Nation: Education in Women's Prisons. Patricia Ann Darling, Metropolitan State University While the "prison industrial complex" has had boom growth the past 15-20 years, the quality of the reform aspect of corrections has suffered. This paper will survey the types of social and educational programming offered in women's prisons. It's no secret that two-thirds of women in American prisons are women of color and that the majority of women inmates are incarcerated for non-violent crimes. 29% of women in state prisons nationally are mentally ill, and nearly 8 in 10 female mentally ill inmates report having experienced physical or sexual abuse. Most of the women were poor or held no job prior to incarceration. paper analyzes the social and institutional barriers to offering programming and reports on prison education that works. Promise and Practice of Prison Education. Linda Green, Normandale Community College, emeritus Drawing from a 25 year career as education director in the Minnesota Correction, this presentation will discuss policy and practice from the point of view of a career "insider." What works? What doesn't work? Why funding is always an issue? Why Minnesota limited education to a basic GED? What prison education programming was like when college degrees were offered. What it has been like to be female and feminist in this very male-dominated institution. Where things are headed. Understanding Female Ex-Offender Re-Entry into the Workfurce: Connecting lbe Local to lbe Global. Brittany Noel Dernberger, Grand Valley State University Female ex-offenders face unique challenges in finding employment :lo they transition from prison to the community. This study utilize groups and interviews to understand the unique barriers fem offenders face in finding employment. Focus groups were con with about twenty-five female ex-offenders currently transition back into society and seeking employment. Ten interviews were conducted with employers from a variety of industries to understand their expectations and attitudes when considering employment of ex- offenders. This action-oriented research aims to bridge the gap between employers and ex-offenders, and will be used for ex-offender program development and evaluation by local organizations. Of Oppression and Resilience: The Experiences of Women Formerly on Death Row in the Philippines. Diana Therese Monte)o Veloso, Loyola University Chicago This paper examines the circumstances that led to the incarceration and sentencing of women formerly on death row in the Philippines, and the impact thereof on their families and other Significant relationships. My research also looks into the impact of the June 2006 abolition of capital punishment on these women's situation. I incorporate a gender and rights-based perspective in my analysis. Moderator: Terri Berthiaume Hawthorne, Metropolitan State University 326. Challenging the Hetero/Queer Divide 10:50 fO 12:05 pm » Plaza COliI'I7 "And Then I Met This Woman": Women Coming Out After Marriage and The Challenge to Queer Theory. Susan Blanche Harper, Texas Womans University This paper discusses the ways in which the queer identities of women who come out after marriage are sometimes obscured or ignored within broader queer studies. Women who come out after heterosexual marriage have a different experience than do those who identify as 189 I CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS,------ 10:50 A.M. 12:05 P.M. SUNDAY queer over more of the lifespan. The importance of studying such ' California State University, Northridge Jennifer Goett, Michigan State University Courtney Desiree Morris, University of Texas, Austin Moderator: Suyapa Portillo, California State University, Northridge 357. Fatness, Gender and Popular Cultnre: Critical Interventions) Creative Resistances 12:15 to 1:30 pm » Plaza Court 5 "Mama, I'm a Big Girl Now": The BIG Problem with Hairspray. Deirdre O'Rourke, University of Pittsburgh This paper demonstrate that, despite its best intentions, Hairspray and its mass appeal contributes to the compartmentalization of fat actresses into their "appropriate" place in musical theater. Creating a place for the woman of size through the character of Tracy Turnblad reinforces, rather than troubles, typecasting and public discrimination against plus-size women. A critical eye must be turned towards Hairspray and other attempts to limit the presence of women of size in pop culture, particularly in Fox's television series, More To Love. The pa challenge is to ferret out faJse "fat-positive" pieces in a desire to dev cultural representations that advance a truly pro-fat feminism. "I Want a Fat Girl Tonight'): Rhetorics of Fatness in Caribbean Popular Cnlture. Andrea Elizabeth Shaw, Nova Southeastern University The African Diaspora has historically displayed a resistance to the idealization of slenderness evident in the West, and the Diaspora, including the Caribbean, has been less prone to indulge in North America and Europe's recent expressions of "fat anxiety:' This resistance features a clear opposition to the notion that slenderness and desirability are equivalent, and songs from the Caribbean such as the Heprones' "Fatty, Fatty" and MacheJ Montano's "Big Fat Fish" have continued this tradition of celebrating the fat woman's body as an agent of desire. Fatties of the World Unite!: Sex-Positive Resistance. Virginia Zolala- Tovar, San Francisco State University This paper is about creative resistance through fat-positive and sex- positive visual art and writing as pursued through the author's graduate studies and artistic endeavors. The talk centers around two projects: First, the author's MA thesis research, which began as a zine entitled "Fatties of the World Unite;" it pursues the re-telling and owning of our "fatstory" The second element of the talk focuses on a photography project in which fat women of color are portrayed in 50s~style pin-up poses. Both the thesis and the photography series deal integrally with the intersections of gender, fatness, race, sexuality and popular culture. 12:15 P.M. -1:30 P.M. SUNDAY The Subtle Forms of Resistance Utilized by Self-Identified Fat People as a Response to Lookism and Sizeism-Based Marginalization. Anna Puhakka, University of lyvdskyla, Finland This paper is about the research the author conducted during the summer 2009 within the Yahoo Groups Fat Studies Iist serve, wh.ich is an "important area of academic scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. The fat studies group is a discussion forum for people engaged in academic work on this topic and for people who seek to create social change around weight oppression" The purpose of said research was twofold: first, to find out whether self-identified fat people utilize so-called subtle, or everyday forms of resistance as a response to the marginalization they face on the grounds of their appearance and/ or body size; and second, if they do, to examine and thematize these types of resistance - and if they do not, to critically analyze why this is so. Moderator; loelle Ruby Ryan, University of New Hampshire 358. Outsiders Within: Bringing Visibility to Intersections of Feminism, Sexism and Ableism 12: 15 to 1:30 pm • Director's Row E Politics, Gender, and "Invisible Disability:' Nancy Hirschmann, Penn State Disability is generally conceived by nondisabled people as highly visible. Speaker One explores various ways in which disability is invisible, through circumstance, the nature of disorder, epistemic frameworks, and individual choice. Gender is a powerful variable in this invisibility, not only because women's disabilities are denied episternic and political status, such as when women's pain is ignored, but women are under greater social pressure to keep their disabilities hidden due to the compounding effects of discrimination and the paradoxical relationship between disability and "the feminine:' Sanger v. Palin: Applying the Birth Control Review's Representations of Disabled Children to Contemporary Reproductive Justice Movements. Layne Craig, University of Texas, Austin Speaker Two examines articles in Margaret Sanger's Birth Control Review that focus on the "degeneration" of large families, exemplified by physically and mentally disabled children. These articles reveaJ a rhetorical tension between mothers and their disabled children, a tension that remains unresolved within contemporary reproductive rights discourse. Analyzing the Review's creation of conflict between women's choices and family responsibilities, this paper raises questions about contemporary feminist approaches to mothers who carr)' and raise disabled children within the vexed climate surrounding reproductive choice. Disability, Self-Advocacy, and Feminist Accounts of Agency. Stacy Anne Clifford, Vanderbilt University Speaker Three examines theoretical conceptions of the self - that hinge political agency on the cognitive capacity to recognize oneself as a political agent and articulate one's political needs in a public sphere _ and how this concept of the self is problematic for people with cognitive disabilities. Using participant observation of a local self-advocacy organization, this paper focuses on the hard question prompted by members whose disability rna)' preclude them from adopting a self- conscious political identity. Building on other feminist critiques of subjectivity, Speaker Three argues that self-advocacy activities offer an embodied understanding of politicaJ agency. CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS Locating Feminist Disability Studies. Kristina Knoll, University of Washington, Seattle Finally, through eleven in-depth interviews with established scholar, activists whose work overlaps women studies and disability studies, Speaker Four reflects on dominant trends and directions within this burgeoning scholarship. Emergent themes from her interviews include: defining feminist disability studies; writing oneself into resistance and liberation; identity politics and pathology; creative resistance to ableisrn and sexism; community, barriers, and encouraging spaces; research and disability oppression; and what still needs to be addressed by feminist disability studies scholar-activists (such as transnational ableism). Moderator: Christine Kelly, Carleton University 359. Social Action by Women of Religious Communities 12:15 to 1:30 pm » Director's Row I A Living Legacy: American Catholic Nuns and Social Justice. Carol K. Coburn, Avila University For American nW1Sin the mid-twentieth century, it was to be a hard- won and at times painful transition from insular, controlled private lives to outright public strivings to live their spiritual values. As sisters' educational and real-world life experiences coalesced with religious and secular events, the social justice groundwork was laid when the "Sisters of Selma" marched as nonviolent protesters into the public eye and the national news in 1965. The effect of this public witness was profound - both inside and outside the convent walls. The ministries of Catholic sisters exploded into a vast myriad of programs and services focusing on the marginalized of society and the signature social justice issues of the twentieth century, U.S. Christian Women Waging War and Advocating Peace: The Complex Relationship between Cbristian Women and Their Militarized Spiritual Beliefs since 1945. David E. Settje, Concordia University Chicago; Michelle Markert, Concordia University Chicago This paper examines American cultural responses to war from two distinct, yet interrelated fields; history and women's studies. Genderings of religious affiliation and militarization influence the local and the global, the personaJ lives of individuals and macro level political systems. As a transformative process. militarization relies on and fuels the gendering of the political, religious, sociaJ and cultural processes that are so personal in the lives of Americans. Our research in post- 1945 America demonstrates that militarization requires women's and men's acceptance of religiously defined and traditional gender roles to strengthen militarism's influence on nationalistic beliefs. We will discuss our comparative analysis between the genderings of Lutheran women's militarized and spiritualized beliefs from the end of World War II to the present in order to investigate the ways that their religious ideology influenced the ways that they thought about gender roles, patriarchy, and militarism. NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE r CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS WomenMembers of Megachurches: Evaluating Female Participation and Resistance in Contemporary Religious Practice. Cara Tuttle Bell, Northwestern University upon feminist standpoint theory to consider the benefits and disadvantages of the megachurch for its female practitioners. Megachurches are a relatively new, growing phenomenon in conservative Christianity in the U.S., and while there is an emerging body of scholarship on megachurches, little to none of this research focuses on women. This study aims to begin filling that gap, using face-to-face interviews with women members and participant observation. The project compares women's megachurch experiences with women's traditional church experiences and examines the benefits obtained through megachurch membership. The women found the megachurch to be more conservative than smaller churches and more politically involved and listed the many opportunities offered as the primary benefit. This project also reveals how the women resist their church's emphasis on conservative gender roles and concludes by suggesting avenues for future research. Inadvertent Social Action: Online Muslim American Women)sConversion Stories as Social Action. Katie Mathews, Saint Louis University Utilizing feminist discourse analysis to examine online Muslim women's conversion stories, I highlight the situational and cultural context of the narrators to argue that they (unintentionally) engage in social action. The social action is manifested as social acts of communication as well as acts that have the potential to catalyze change by promoting an alternative discourse about Islam and Muslim women. Such a reconstructed discourse that comes from the voices of American Muslim women converts staking subjective space in a virtual forum challenges the mainstream discourse about Islam and Muslim women that perpetuates negative stereotypes and images of Muslims. Moderator: Michelle Morkert, Concordia University Chicago NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS First Peoples is a four-press initiative that publishes books that exemplify contemporary scholarship and research in Indigenous studies. A Return to Servitude Maya Migration and the Tourist Trade in Cancun M. Bianer Castellanos A Re/llf1! fa Servitude is an ethnography of Maya migration within Mexico that analyzes the foundational role Indigenolls peoples play in the development of the modern nation" state. Focusing on tourism in the Yucatan Peninsula, Castellanos examines how Cencun came to be equated with modernity, how this city has shaped the political economy of the peninsula, and how Indigenous communities engage with this vision of contemporary life. More broadly, she demonstrates how indigenous communities experience, resist, and accommodate themselves to transnational capitalism. Paper, $25.00/ Cloth, $75.00 UNMRSlTY Of MlNNESOTA PRESS Indigenous Weitings from the Convent Negotiating Ethnic Autonomy in Colonial Mexico Monica Diaz The author examines ways in which Indigenous women participated in one of the most prominent institutions in colonial times-the Catholic Church-and what they made of their experience with convent life. This book will appeal to scholars of literary criticism, women's studies, and colonial history, and to anyone interested in the ways that class, race, and gender intersected in the colonial world. Cloth, $50.00 UN1VER.SITY Of ARIZONA PRESS Lumhee Indians in the Jim Crow South Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation Malinda Maynor Lowery With more than 50,000 enrolled members, North Carolina's Lumbee Indians are the largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi River.Malinda Maynor Lowery, a Lumbee herself, describes how, between Reconstruction and the 1950s, the Lumbee crafted and maintained a distinct identity in an era defined by racial segregation in the South and paternalistic policies for Indians throughout the nation. They did so against the backdrop of some of the central issues in American history, including race, class, politics, and citizenship. Paper, $21.95 / Cloth, $65.00 UNIVERSITY Of NORTH CMOLtNA PRESS Facebook and Twitter (Firstpeoplesbks) www.firstpeopIesnewdlreCtIons. 0 r g PARTICIPANTS A Abdurraqib, Samaa, 030 Adams, Samantha Lynn, 230 Adams, Sharon, 096 Afzal-Khan, Fawzia, 219 Aghdasifar, Tahereh, 133, 232 Aguilar, Jade, 160 Ahmed, Fauzia Erfan, 219 Akande, Jamaica, 317 Akers, Alyx, 020 AI Dabbagh, May, 093 Al-Hassan Galley, Nawar, 093 Al-Orairni, Suaad Zayed, 093 AI-Qasimi, Noor, 015 AI-Sayyad, Ayisha Ashley, 063, 146 Alamilla Boyd, Nan, 146 Albright, Alison Marie, 05 I Alder, Kristin Marie, 009 Alejano-Steele, Annjanette, 199 Alexander, Karen, 108, 208 Alexander, M. Jacqui, 105 Allen, Stephanie Andrea, 068 Ambrose, Madeline, 057 Ames, Melissa Rachel, 131 Amrnar, Nawal, 093 Amponsah, Nana Akua, 102 Apple, Jennifer Coleen, 326 Arango Vargas, Carolina, 334 Archuleta, Elizabeth Ann, 190,255 Arcy, Jacquelyn, 159 Aristarkhova, Irina, 0 18, 207 Armstrong, Elisabeth Brownell, 173, 198 Arruda, Elisabeth Nicole, 338 Atanasoski, Neda, 241 Avakian, Arlene Voski, 115, 173 Ayoub, Dirna, 015 Azeb, Sophia, 0 II B Babic, Karolina Sonja, 346 Baderoon, Gabeba, 207, 349 Badia, Janet, 210 Baker, Carrie N., 224, 240 Baker, Crystal Leigh, 13I Bakhru, Tanya Saroj, 153, 166 Ball, Kelly H., 216 Ball, Kelly Hudgins, 214 Balen, Julia, 160,341 PARTICIPANT INDEX Bandi, Swati, 192 Banerjee, Payal, 198 Baralt, Lori, 245 Barbour, Nancy, 019 Barbour, Sarah, 2 I 7 Barker, Drucilla, 236 Barki, Roberta Frances Elizabeth, 042 Barlow, Karole Raquel, 022 Barnes, Sharon L., 132 Barrera, Irina, 017 Bartgis, Lindsey, 057 Bartlow, R. Dianne, 145 Basiliere, Jenna, 261 Bastas, Hara, 051, 250 Baugh, Wanda Ann, 159 Baumgardner, Jennifer, 354 Bazemore, Mary, 197 Beauboeuf, Tamara Michelle, 233 Beck, Makini Z., 169 Beechey, Susanne, 008,309 Beliso de Jesus, Aisha, 3 I9 Bengiveno, Teri Ann, 253 Benitez, Michael, 062 Benson, Lynne Byall, 082, 233 Bensonsmith, Dionne, 353 Bent, Emj Iy Christine, 104, 250 Berger, Kimberly, 338 Bergeron, Suzanne, 100, 137 Bernhardt, Mark, 102 Bertonazzi, Judy Marie, 068 Beshers, Maxwell N., 213 Bethman, Brenda, 212 Bevacqua, Maria, 240, 341 Beyerbach, Barbara, 065 Bhatia, Rajani, 311 Bhatt, Amy Pradip, 308, 327 Bhattacharya, Himika, 204, 334 Bickford, Donna M., 199 Bird, Sharon, 095 Birky, Beth Martin, 054 Black, Christina Laura, 050 Blake, Brittany Elyse, 014, 247 Blake, Holly, 317 Blithe, Sarah Jane, 083 Babel, Chris, 109 Bodhran, Ahimsa Timoteo, 347 Boehm, Arnnon, 230 Boehm, Esther, 230 Boggs, Abigail, 332 CONFERENCEINDEXES Booher, Amanda K., 166 Bora, Papori, 273 Borges, Sandibel, 254 Borhan, Burcu, 315 Boris, Eileen, 012, 082 Bouchard, Danielle M., 304 Boudreau, Nicole, 289 Boutwell, Laura, 210 Bowling, Patricia, 175 Bowser, Rachel, 064 Boyer, Sabrina, 284 Boyle, Margaret E., 025 Bragg, Beauty L., 068 Braithwaite, Ann, 054, 112, 135 Brandt, Maria, 092 Branham, Kristi R., 116 Brents, Barbara G., 270 Brettell, Anne, 022 Brinkman, Britney, 043, 104 Brinkman, Kandie, 043,104 Bromwich, Rebecca Moira, 352 Brooks, Courtney, ]33 Brown, Adriane, 010 Brown, Nadia Elizabeth, 295 Brown, Rutb Nicole, 066, 113, 195, 335 Brown Adelman, Rebecca, 333 Browning, Melissa, 216 Bryant, Cynthia Downing, ]27 Buckles, Grant Thomas, 133 Buelow, Robert w., 321 BulJington, Sam N., 323 Bullock, Mark, 350 Burcon, Sarah, 131 Burford, Arianne Lynne, 094, 332 Burton, Rainelle, 141 Buslig,May, 104 Buss, Candice Darlene, 126 Butler, Ingrid M., 269 Butler, Katherine Marie, 230 Byrd, Merry, 104 Byron, Kristine, 107, 193 Bystydzienski, Jill M., 095,115 204 . NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE CONFERENCE PARTICIPANT INDEXES PARTICIPANTS C Cajka,Karen, 340 Caldwell-O'Keefe, Jessica, 316 Callier,Durell Maurice, 113, 195, 335 Calvert, Bea, 268 Canfield, Liz R., 145,209,326 Cantrell, Jaime Lynn, 313 Capuzza, Jamie Colette, 075, 349 Caringal, Sharon Advincula, 164 Carlson, Jenny, 202 Carminati, Genevieve, 054 Carney,Christina, 113 Caronan, Faye, 200 Carpenter, Laura M., 230 Carrillo Rowe, Aimee, 174,239 Carroll, Tamar w., 343 Carroll, Valerie, 230 Carter, Nicole April, 132 Cartier, Marie Anne, 007, 049, 254 Castagnetto, Susan Y, 054 Catania, Tina, 269, 334 Cattrell, Melanie, 151 Cava, Peter, 037, 176 Cerretti, Josh James, 0 I J Chakravarty, Debjani, 006 Chambers, Crystal Renee, 119 Charania, Guizar Raisa, 172 Charania, Moon, 014 Chatterjea, Ananya, 323 ChatteDee,Piya,304,323 Chavez, Sarah A., 345 Chee, Alvin, 222 Chen, Jian, 231 Chen, Tzu-Hui, 254 Chessin, Laura, 145 Chitnis, Varsha, 229 Chiu, Mignonette, 326 Chojnacki, Margaret, 305 Chowdhry, Pritika, 036, 080 Chowdhury, Elora Halim, 291 Christensen, M. Candace, 333 Cislo, Amy Eisen, 248 Clare, Stephanie, 053 Clarke, Patricia M., 233 Clarkson, Nick, 261 Clay, Andreana, 143 Clements, Jessica, 248A Clifford, Stacy Anne, 358 Cobos, Casie C., 288 Coburn, Carol K., 359 Collins, Janice Marie, 293, 310 Comella, Lynn A., 270 Conrad, Kindra Dawn, 041 Cooley, Sara Alicia, 009 Coombs, Alison, 277 Cooper, Brittney Chante, 045, 123 Cooper, Dara, 170 Costa, LeeRay M., 116, J73 Costello, Kelly, 118 Cotera, Maria, 121 Cothran, Dee Lisa, 022 Coyne, Colleen Anne, 043 Craft, Chanel, 214 Craig, Layne, 358 Crain, Crystallee, 240 Craven, Christa c., 035 Creel Falcon, Kandace, 188 Croucher, Lauren, 199 Crump, Helen 1., 344 Cuevas, Jackie T., 086, 345 Cumings, Susan G., 235 Currans, Elizabeth, 070, 318, 340 Currier, Danielle M., 340 Curtis, Tracy, 131 Cynn, Christine, 232 o D'Ooge, Charlotte, 106 Daine, Julia Kathryne, 230 Dar, Huma, 154 Darcangelis, Gwen, 156, 338 Darling, Patricia Ann, 325 Daugherty, Jacque, J 14, 216 Davidson, Maria D., 082 Davidson, Shaynii, 338 Davis, Dawn Rae, J 36 Davis, OpheraA., IlJ, 174 Davis-Faulkner, Sheri Dione, 045 Day, Sera, 143 Dayi,Ayse, 018, 315 de Finney, Sandrina, 069 Dean-Ruzicka, Rachel Lara, 272 Deb, Basuli, 251, 346 Decena, Carlos, 138 Del Hierro, Marcos, 052, 288 Dellecave, Jessica, 267 DeMlrjyn, Maricela Teresa, 209 DeMuth, Danielle M., 076, 116,306 Denes, Amanda, 316 Denetdale, Jennifer, 061, 190 Denney, Colleen, 205 Derkas, Erika, 220 Demberger, Brittany Noel, 325 DeShazer, Mary K., 217 Detournay, Diane, 304 Devaney, Jessica, 192 Di Giovanni, Lisa Renee, 289 Di Pietro, Pedro Jose Javier, 292 Diaz de Sabates, Gabriela B., 104,292 Dickinson, Torry, 14J, 315 Diehl, Sarah, 324 Dill, Bonnie Thornton, 228, 322 DiPrince, Dawn M., 330 Director, Sheana, 126, 175 Diwan, Naazneen, 224 Dixon, Laura J" 025 Do, Chi, 023 Doire, Louise Marie, 209 Dorsey, Martha Dickerson, 127 Douglas Roberts, Susan, 342 Douglass, Patrice, 351 Doyle, Andrea, 007, 019,285 Drake, Lena Judith, 230 Drews, Marie llene, 233 Dublon, Amalie, 152 DuBois, Ellen, 146 Dunlap, Jill, 171 Durban, Erin Leigh, 332 Durham, Aisha S., 113 Dyehouse, Melissa, 234 Dykes, Stephanie M., 044, 211 Diaz, Sara P., 256 E Earles, Jennifer Lynn, 164 Eckert, Carol A., J 29 Edell, Dana, 210, 287 Edmonds-Cady, Cynthia, 293 Edwards, Linda, 027 Eggers, Kara, 317 Eichhorn, Jill Elizabeth, 129,274 Eichsteadt, Harmony Leanna, 240 Enarson, Elaine, 124 Eng, Michael, 152 Engel, Nicole, 229 Enszer, Julie R., 197 Erai, Michelle Frances, 053, 061 Erickson, John Michael, 039 NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE 205 PARTICIPANTS CONFERENCE INDEXES Eschrich, Joey, 306 Estrada, Alicia Ivonne 356 Eubanks, Virginia, 074 Eudey, Betsy, 054, 094, 125 Evans, Maggie, 050 F Fahs, Breanne, 109 Falzetti, Ashley Glassburn, 053 Farah, Laila, 239 Farrell, Amy, 175 Fawzia, Afzal-Khan, 264 Fehlbaum, Amanda E., 104 Feig, Kimberly, 298 Ferber, Abby L., 099, 134 Ferguson, Michaele, 242 Fernandez, Alexandra Nicole, 284 Field, Corinne, 077 Finger, Amanda A., ]99 Fish, Jennifer, 07] Fisher, Barbara Suzanne, 102, 149 Fisher, Carla, 296 Fisher, Tracy, 169 Fitts, Mako, 143 Fitzpatrick, Angela, 104 Flores, Anel 1., 086 Foiles Sifuentes, Andriana M., 189 Fojtovil, Simona, 348 Fonow, Mary Margaret, 012, 115 Ford, Elissa, 350 Fortney, James Michael, 083 Fortunato, Amelia, 213 Foster, Chassey, 022 Foster, Frances Smith, 091 Foster, Laura, 290 Frahm, Jill, 350 Francikova, Dasa, 299 Franco, Nicholas, 024 Francois, J..r1ine,29] Frank, Elena, 114 Franks, Jill, 274 Franzen, Trisha, 090, 146 Frazier, Lisa R., 214 Frederickson, Mary, 243 Freedman, Janet Lois, 117, 178 Freehling-Burton, Kryn, 007, 040,149, 165 Freeman Marshall, Jennifer Lynn, 091, 307 Frueh, Joanna, 066 Fulton Minor, DoVeanna S., ]23 G Gaard, Greta, 245 Gailey, Elizabeth A., 192 Gailey, Jeannine A., 158 Ga1usca, Roxana, 348 Galvan, Marlene, 037 Ganz, Johnanna, 158 Garcia, Alyssa, 207 Garcia, Loreley Gomes, 188 Gareau, Sarah 1., 248A Garrison, Ednie Kaeh, 174, 203, 284 Gasser, Heather Shea, 089, 140 Gates, Trevor, 230 George, Julie Ann, 019 Gerami, Shahin, 153 Ghorbani, Shireen Sarah, 274, 333 Gibney, Shannon, 323 Gill, Michael, 203 Gillman, Laura, 236 Ginorio, Angela Beatriz, 256 Ginsberg, Alice, 134 Giusti, Jessica Lynne, 126 Glaser Danton, Maria Fernanda, 0 I] Godfrey, Phoebe c., 337 Goeman, Mishuana, 190 Goett, Jennifer, 356 Gonzalez, Heidy M., 123 Gopinath, Gayatri, 231 Gordon, Nickesia Stacy-ann, 042, 305 Gosselink, Carol Ann, 130 Gott, K.C. (Kristina), 340 Graham, Jennifer, 2]2 Grant, Lucreshia, 213 Gravagne, Pamela Heath, 077, 130, ]51 Gray, Barbara Lee, 129 Green, Linda, 325 Greenwood, Ashley, 024 Gresham, Morgan, 144 Grewal, Inderpal, 252 Grove, Jonathan Karl, 120 Grubbs, Jenny D., 307, 337, 353 Grytsenko, Tetiana, 230 Guidotti-Hernandez, Nicole M., 138 Guirdy, Jessica, 335 Gupta, Soumitree, 036 Gutierrez, Christina, 078 Guttormson, Joel, 277 Guy-Sheftall, Beverly, 259 Guzaitis, Chris, 008 H Habell-Pallan, Michelle, 091 Haddad, Jenelle, 016 Hakima, Rabi'a, 272 Halena, Megan, 176 Hamington, Maurice, 202, 277 Harnzeh, Manal, 154 Harding, Rachel E., 028, 200 Hardy, Corie, 039 Harkin, Alison Quaggin, 205 Harnois, Catherine E., 104, 217 Harper, Susan Blanche, 326 Harriford, Diane, 222 Harrison, Summer Gioia, 030 Harrison-Nelson, Cherice, 268 Hart, Carrie Elizabeth, 284 Hart, Claudia, 087 Hart, Tanya, 289 Hassinger, Jane Arme, 230, 293 Hawkesworth, Mary E., 013 Haworth-Hoeppner, Susan Margaret, 134 Hawthorne, Terri Berthiaume, 325 Hayes-Conroy, Jessica, 090, 108 Heiliger, Evangeline M., 299 Heineman, Elizabeth, 136 Helfrich, Gina, 075 Helmbold, Lois Rita, 081 Henry, Astrid, 112, 135 Hentges, Sarah, 155 Hernandez, Jillian, 084, 216 Herndon, April Michelle, 167 Herzog, Melanie Arme, 084 Hewamanne, Sandya, 217 Hewett, Heather, 108, 128 Higgins, Karen, 130 Higgs, Beth, 165 Hill, Dana Michelle, 334 Hill, Deneil, 009 Hill, Dominique, u 3, 335 Hirschmann, Nancy, 358 Hladky, Kristel, 160 Hobson, Janell, 110 Hoffman, Crystal, 088 Holmes, Christina, 010 Holthausen, Lisa, 277 Horowitz, Katie Rebecca, III Hoskins, Deb, 054 Horvedt, Carmen, 120 Hough, Mazie, 238 206 NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE CONFERENCE PARTICIPANT INDEXES PARTICIPANTS Hougland, Erica Leigh, 307 Howells, Elizabeth, 064 Hua, Julietta, 241 Huber, Jamie Lee, 096, 134, 253 Hubler, Angela Elizabeth, 344 Hudson, Kimberly Dree, 070, 326 Hufnagel, Glenda, 054 Hughes, Sheila Hassell, 128 Hughes, Sheila Hassell, 116 Hume, Wendelin, 054, 133 Hurt,Erin,042,132,330 Husain, Taneem, 229 Hutchinson, Janet, 145 I limuro Van Ausdall, Mimi, 050 llano, Roseli, 023 Isoke, Zenzele, 180,295 J Jackson, Crystal, 081, 270 Jacobi, Tobi, 276 Jacobson, Kristin Jean, 190, 255 Jacquet, Catherine 0., 248 Jaffer, Abbas, 047 Jaffer, Sadaf, 047 Jafri, Beenash, 290 Jaksch, Marla, 255, 321 James, Melissa Marie, 215 Janke, Rhonda R., 230 Jara, Brian R., 008, 169,255, 321 Jarman, Micbelle, 144,205 Jen, Clare Ching, 20 I Jennings, Patricia Kathleen, 097 Jennrich, Jessica Lynn, 165 Jespersen, T. Christine, 235 Johnson, Charlene, 150 Johnson, Colin R., 261 Johnson, Donna Marie, 114 Johnson, Justine Ann, 016, 096 Johnson, Kellyn, 316 Jobnson, Lakesia Denise, 177 Johnson, Merri Lisa, 054 Johnson, Rachael, 085 Jolles, Marjorie, 071,112 Jones, Allie Marie, 169, 230 Jones, Marjorie G., 290 Judd, Bettina A., 038, 271 Julier, Alice P., 173 June, Pamela Beth, 230 Jurisz, Rebecca, 230 Juskewycz, Alicia, 300 K Kalaramadam, Vidya, 072, 219 Kane, Kathryn, 037 Kang, Alice, 071 Kang, Miliann, 198 Kaplan, Carey, 077 Karalekas, Nikki, 025, 242, 298 Kashef, N iku, 087 Kavaloski, Laini Kasia, 164,313 Kay, Gwen, 350 Keating, Christine, 010, 239 Keener, Rachel Wi Ison, 090 Kelber-Kaye, Jodi, 201, 317 Kelly, Christine, 257, 358 Kelly, Kristy Elizabeth, 104, 349 Kelly, Reese C., 044, 194 Kelly, Suzanne Mary, 176 Kelow-Bennett, Lydia, 351 Kennedy, Tanya Ann, 110 Kenney, Sally Jane, 223 Khan, Azmat, 047 Khan, Darakhshan, 327 Khan, Ummni, 209 Khanna, Nishad, 069 Kheel, Marti, 337 Kheshti, Roshanak, 015 Khondker, Habibul Haque, 093 Kierulf, Erica, 260 Ki Ie, Crystal, 268 Kim, Eunjung, 203 Kim, Seung-kyung, 038, 228 King, Lisa, 008, 313 Kingsley, Erin M., 166 Kinser,Amber E., 079, 218 Kinukawa, Tomomi, 300 Knight, Annie Marie, 230 Knisely, Lisa Catherine, 025, 242 Knoll, Kristina, 358 Kock, Stacia L., 010 Koh, Adeline, 255, 350 Koikari, Mire, 072 Konrad, Cynthia Lynn, 128 Kosakowski, Jennifer, 298 Kozlowski, MaryAnn, 175 Kozlowski, Tanya, 335 Kubala, Juliana Marie, 014, 056 Kumar, Elakshi, 035 Kuntz, Susan, 077 Kurian, Alka, 264 K varan, Kara Margaret, 13 j Kwakye, Chamara Jewel, 113, 195 Kwan, Samantha, 109 Kyler, Carolyn, 330 L Labuski, Christine, 109 Lacey, Lauren J., 193 Lacom, Cindy Marie, 203 Lamb, Erin Gentry, 077 Lambeth, Katie, 297 Lamm, Kimberly K., 152 Lane, Bradley Houston, 149 Lange, Monica D., 114 Langston, Donna C., 200, 221 Langstraat, Lisa, 276 Larocco, Christina, 128 Larrimore, Ellen, 072 Latorre, Sobeira, 193, 339 Laut, Julie, 315 Lauze, Alexandra, 183 Lawrence, Sidra Mereditb, 102 Leder, Priscilla, 128 Leder, Sharon, 119 Lee, Eunsung, 336 Lee, Janet, 019,272 Lee, Jo-Al1J1e, 069 Lee, Ruthann, 172 Lee, Sohyun, 306 Leek, Linda Strong, 215 Legler, Gretcben, 245 Lehman, Katherine, 15 j Lehr, Jane L., 074, 139, 20 I Leighton, Cora E., 209 Leong, Karen, 121 Lepp, Annalee, 135 LeSavoy, Barbara, 092, 225 Lethabo King, Tiffany, 038, 290 Leuschen, Kathleen T., 286 Levin, Amy K., 314 Lewis, Abram 1., 027 Lewis, Brittany, 180 Lewis, Heidi Renee, 13 I, 309, 330 Lewis, Mel Michelle, 197,237,258 NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE 207 PARTICIPANTS CONFERENCE INDEXES Lewis, Rachel Ann, 174 Lewis, Sydney, 251 Li berman, Rachael Anne, 083 Licona, Adela c., 062, 103 Lidinsky, April, 235 Lima, Floridalma Elizabeth, 356 Lin, Tricia, 032, 147, 195,249,339 Lind, Amy, 100,137 Linder, Chris, 046 Lindsey, Treva, 306 Lipkin, Elline, 250 Lisberger, Jody, 029 Littauer, Amanda Hope, 314 Livingston, Kate, 159 Loe, Meika, 063 Loftus, Charlotte, 166 Logsdon-Conradsen, Susan Carol, 240 Loiselle, Elicia, 069 LoMascolo, Anna, 212 Long, Yan, 353 Lopez, Candace, 086, 188 Lopez, Susan, 270 Lord, R. Cassandra, 172 Ludlow, Jeannie, 293, 310 Luibheid, Eithne, 138 Lutterman-Aguilar, Ann, 104,213 Lux, Christina Anne, 289 Lyman, Jaquelyn, 329 M Madden, Jaime, 224 Maestas, Valerie, 220 Magers, Layli, 336 Maher, Justin, 197 Mahlstedt, Deborah, 244 Majic, Samantha Ann, 215 Marin, Natasha, 271 Marouan, Maha, 328 Marquez, Cecilia, 213 Marsh, Cynthia, 129 Marti, Brigitte, 018, 315 Martin, Courtney Elizabeth, 067 Martin, Elaine, 223 Martin, Nina, 342 Martinez, Shantel, 335 Martucci, Jessica, 104 Marvin, Amy, 183 Masciarotte, Gloria-Jean, 191 Mason, Carol, 057 Mason, Kate, 202 Matambanadzo, Sarudzayi, 299 Mathews, Katie, 359 Matthiesen, Sara, 150 Mattingly, Emily, 267 May, Vivian M., 070, 105 Mayfield, Kerrita Kimberly, 286 Mazzaschi, Andrew Homer Sponaugle, 167 McCaleb, Nona Middleton, 342 McCann, Carole, 074, 20 I McCracken, Jill, 144 McCray, Kenja, 127 McCubbin, Laurenn, 270 McDonald, James, 083 McDonnell, Maureen, 343 McKeage, Kim, 249 McLaren, Margaret, 243 McLaughlin, Larin, 185 McQuade, Lena, 167 McSherry, Carolyn, 151 McWeeny, Jen, 157,292 Meaney, Shealeen A., 272 Medak-Saltzman, Danika, 204 Medie, Peace, 273 Mehran, Laleh, 080 Melbourne, Lucy Lauretta, 346 Mendoza, Katharina, 132 Mendoza Covarrubias, Alexandra, 336 Mercado-Lopez, Larissa M., 078 Mercier, Adele, 119,320 Messer, Susan, 084 Messing, Tanja, 349 Messing-Mathie, Andrea Nicole, 318 Meyers, Helene, 117 Michaelides, Alexandra Elizabeth, 296 MicieLi, Jacque, 036 Miller, Kim, 108, 128 Miller, Melissa N., 179 Miller, Shae, 044 Mills, Amanda Lynn, 247 Miraglia, Sarah, 036, 334 Miranda, Marta, 133 Misiewicz, Gabrielle, 297 Misri, Deepti, 204 Mitchell, Anne Michelle, 229 Mitra, Aditi, 230 Mitra, Durba, 025 Mock, Nancy, 106,268 Moeller, Carol .1., 230 Mohanty, Chandra, 105, 304 Mokkil, Navaneetha, 348 Molitor, Noemi Yoko, 214 Moncrief, Emily Meredith, 041 Montegary, Liz, 332 Montes, Amelia Maria de la Luz, 345 Montes Ireland, Heather, 019, 104 Montoya, Crystal, 220 Montoya, Fawn-Amber, 308 Morgan, Lettie, 048, 171 Morkert, Michelle, 359 Morri II,Angela, 061 Morris, Courtney Desiree, 356 Morris, Susana M., 045, 123 Morrissey, Megan, 027 Morrow, Colette, 314 Moses, Claire G., 013, 208, 228 Motter, Jennifer Lynn, 230 Mount, Elizabeth, 031 Mukherjee, Srirnati, 251 Mukhopadhyay, Sarnhita, 067 Munem, Bahia Micheline, 295 Murray, Dara Persis, 090 Murray, Jill, 167 Murray, Michelle Brae, 285 Murty, Madhavi, 327 Musial, Jennifer Christine, 076, 313 Musto, Jennifer Lynne, 299 Mylott, Elizabeth Eckman, 230 N Nachescu, Voichita, 075, 310 Nagar, Richa, 304, 323 Nail, Jeff, 160 Nam, Victoria Eunkyung, 339 Nasaden, Premilla, 170 Nash, Shondrah Tarrezz, 097 Nasser, Michelle, 177 Nathanson, Jessica, 110, 146 Navarro, Jerrell, 061 Navarro, Jose Alfredo, 039 Navarro, Tami, 319 Nayak, Meghana, J 17 Newburg, Blythe, 016 Newcomer, Caitlin Elizabeth, 284 Nickels, Ashley Elizabeth, 096 Nickels, Sarah Joyce, 118 Noonan, Estelle Yvette, 274 Nordrnarken, Sonny, 020 208 NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE CONFERENCE PARTICIPANT INDEXES PARTICIPANTS Norgaard, Kari, 124 NuH, Michaela A., 175 Nzinga-Johnson, Sekile, 092 Nunez, Joanna, 017 o Ohman, May-Britt, 139,234 0'Brien, Cheryl, 308 O'Brien, Ellen, 071 O'Brien, Nancy, 310 O'Reilly, Andrea J., 079 O'Reilly Herrera, Andrea, 099 O'Rourke, Deirdre, 357 Oaks, Laury, 063 Oberhauser, Ann M., 344 Odeh, Leena, 170 Ofori-Atta, Akoto, 351 Ojelade, Ifetayo Iyajoke, 127 Olin, Ferris, 084 Oliviero, Kathryn, 299 Olsen, Charlotte Shoup, 141 Ooten, Melissa, 297 Orr, Catherine M., 135,262 Ortega, Antonio, 213 Osei-Kofi, Nana, 062 Ota, Brandy, 054, 178 Otanez, Shannalee, 043 Ott, Kate, 028 Ozkaleli, Urnut, 189 p Padron, Karla, 180 Pafunda, Danielle, 205 Palko, Abigail Louise, 218 Panichelli, Meg, 183 Parent, Nancy B., 347 Parisi, Laura 1., 124, 137 Parker, Joe, 006 Parker, Judith Ann, 244 Parker, Juli L., 178,212 Parr, Adrian Lisa, 337 Parthum, Kristina Louise, 230, 317 Patheja, Jasmeen, 080 Pawley, Alice, 074, 095 Payne, Kristen Lynn, 309 Pedroza, Patricia, 293 Peleg, Kris, 054 Perea, Patricia, 150 Peretz, Tal Raim, 321 Perez, Ana M., 038, 271 Perez, Emma, 086 Perkins, Linda Marie, 039, 215 Perry, Gary Kinte, 143 Peterson-Wahl, Savanna Grey, 016 Petocz, Jessica Marie, 050, 149, 170 Pefia, Susana, J 38 Philipose, Elizabeth, 291 Phillips, Danielle Taylor, 295 Phillips, Jaime L., 194 Pieprneier, Alison, 262 Pinto, Samantha Nicole, 254 Pitts, Martha, 210 Place, Lissa Denielle, 062 Polakoff, Erica G., 243 Portillo, Suyapa, 356 Possessky, Laura, 248A Power, BrownFemi, 110 Pozner, Jenn, 192 Prado, Carolina, 107 Pratt, Lisa, 248A Pres too, Leandra, 075 Prohaska, Ariane, 158 Pu, Xiumei, 107 Puhakka,Anna,357 Pullen, A. Rez, 168 Purvis, Jennifer, 054 Purwaningrum, Nuning Suliasih, 318 Q Quinn, Roseanne Giannini, 191 R Radosh, Polly E, 165 Raimist, Rachel A., 045 Rajgopal, Shoba Sharad, 264 Ramalho, Tania, 065, 104 Ramirez, Renya, 032, 033 Rand, Jacki, 136 Randolph, Scott, 296 Randolph, Sherie M., 121 Ranft, Erin, 078 Rankin, Pauline, 188, 257 Ransby, Barhara, 170 Red, Magdelana, 083 Reddy, Vanita, 252 Redlin, Meredith Margaret, 097 Reed, Autumn Marie, 224 Reed, J enn ifer, I II Reich, Jennifer, 109 Rellihan, Heather, 329 Renzi, Kristen Lucia, 152 Revilla, Anita TUerina, 081 Reyes, Ganiva, 216 Reyes-Santos, Innary, 204 Rich, Marc, 263, 333 Richards, Amy, 354 Richards, Rebecca S., 072, 103 Richey, Amanda Bethel, 165 Richmond, Susan, 040, 202 Riglick, Veronica Rose Ora, 298 Riley, Jen, 054 Riley, Robin L., 232 Risk, Dr. Shannon M., 238 Ritter, Carol, 018 Rivage-Seul, Peggy, 249 Rivera-Velazquez, Celiany, 204 Rizzo, Crystal, 222 Robertson, Kimberly, 061 Robins, Suzann Panek, 3.18 Rodberg, Josie, 238 Rodgers, Crystal Marie, 247 Rodriguez, Annette Marie, 150 Rodriguez, Dal ia, 204 Rodriguez, Juana Maria, 231 Rodriguez, Reina, 180 Rodriguez-Coss, Noralis, 256 Roman-Odio, Clara C., 312 Romesburg, Don, 2 JJ Rooke, Alexandra Croushore, 297 Rooney, Anne Marie, 230 Roper, Shannon, 134, 210 Ropers-Huilrnan, Rebecca, 013, 103, 178,208 Rosenfelt, Deborah Silverton, 228 Roshanravan, Shireen M., 267, 292 Ross, Jamie Pauline, 007 Ross, Kristie, 220 Ross, Kristin, 350 Rosser, Sue V, 095 Roth, Tanya L., 253 Rotramel, Ariella Rabin, 020 Rowland, Allison Lockwood, 083 Rowley, Michelle V, 100, 137,291 Roy, Deboleena, 074 Royster, Francesca, 215, 239 Rubin, David A., 168 NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE .. 209 PARTICIPANTS CONFERENCE INDEXES Ruffin, Valerie L., 050, 091 Ruiz, Maria, 191 Runyan, Anne Sisson, 137 Russell, Hope L., 05 I Russo, Ann, 239, 300 Russo, Stacy Shots berger, 230 Rutter-Jensen, Chloe, 100 Ryan, Joelle Ruby, 160, 194, 357 Ryan, Kathleen M., 253 Rytilahti, Stephanie, 174 Rios, Gabriela R., 052, 288 Ruchti, Elizabeth A., 183,202 Ruchti, Lisa c., 183 S Sabik, Natalie Jane, 104 Sagara, Reid T., 035, 070 Sage, Grace, 221 Saint Jacques, Jillian, 066, 087 Saldivar-Hull, Sonia, 078 Salsbury, Lysa C., 089, 140 Samayoa, Andres Castro, 075 Samora, Carmen, 130 Samuels, Dena, 099 Sanders, Eulanda Annette, 209 Sandoval, Che N.J., 157 Sanmiguel- Valderrama, Olga, 243 Santos, Stephanie D., 313 Sapra, Sonalini Kaur, 124,312 Sarmiento, Thomas X., 180 Saucedo, Leticia, 081 Sawyer, Katina, 207 Scala, Arlene Holpp, 189 Schaab, Kate, 048, 171, 212 Schaeffer-Grabiel, Felicity, 241 Schenk, Samantha, 096 Schewe, Elizabeth Anne, 030 Schleck, Julia, 346 Schweighofer, Katherine, 261 Schwyzer, Hugo B., 321 Sciachitano, Marian, 007 Scott, Jenn, 120 Scully, Pamela, 242 Searfoss, Renee, 296 Seddon, Kassie, 277 Seethaler, Ina Christiane, 042 Sehgal, Meera, 291Seibelt, Stevie Kaye, 024 Senner, Kate Coddington, 031, 269 Settje, David E., 359 Sgoutas, Arlene Arlene, 041, 088, 218, 315 Shah, Priya J., 252 Shakhsari, Sima, 015, 252 Sharif, Rana, 224 Shaw, Andrea Elizabeth, 357 Shaw, Ines, 278, 320 Shaw, Marilee Durel, 094, 125 Sherman, Yael D., 306 Shiu, Janice, 104 Sibbett, Megan ELizabeth, III Sierra, Marta, 312 Silverman, Gillian, 080 Silverman, Jen, 262 Simmons, K. Merinda, 076 Sims, Angela D., 260 Sims, Christy-Dale L., 027 Simoes, Solange, 188 Singh, Gitanjali Kaur, 342 Sinnott, Megan, 014, 247 Skidmore, Emily, 307 Slater, Julie Ann, 311 Sloane, Sarah Jane, 007, 167,286 Smith, Andrea, 032, 033, 061 Smith, Sarah Stefana, 271 Snawder, Joanna, 088, 212, 311 Snider, Stefan ie, J 26 Snidow, Shawn M., 008, 068, 132 Sojka, Carey Jean, 248 Sparks, Holloway, 242 Speer, Annika, 316 Spelman, Cornelia Maude, 286 Spencer, Sandra L., 009, 054 Spillar, Katherine, 259 Spoor, Suzanne Jacqueline, 329 St.Gennain, Tonia P., 320 Stanger, Anya, 031 Stevens, Bethany, 020 Stewart, Matthew Ray, 027, 165 Stitt, Jocelyn Fenton, 344 Stoltz, Christina Marie, 250 Streiff, Kristina Marie, 272 Strobel, Johannes, 139, 234 Strzepek, Katy A., 250 Sturgeon, Noel, 245 Subramaniam, Banu, 1J 9, 156, 198, 256 Subramanian, Shreerekba, 219, 264 Sugguiyao, Natividad, 104 Sullivan, Sharon L., 094 Sundar, Pavitra, 036, 343 Sutton, Barbara, 124 Swan, Amanda Lock, 304, 323 Swartz, Anne, 066, 087 Syedullah, Jasmine, 351 T Takemoto, Tina, 237 Takeshita, Chikako, 201, 267 Tanjeem, Nafisa, 273 Tarrant, Shira, 112 Tate, Natalye, 057 Taylor, Erica Kimberly, 311 Taylor, Lillian c., 285 Taylor, Reed w., 154 Taylor-Garcia, Daphne, 053 Tellez, Michelle, 318 Thobani, Sunera, 154 Tholen, Minjon, 009 Thoma, Pamela, 230 Thompson, Becky, 222, 331 Thompson, Elisabeth Morgan, 194 Thompson, Mary, 104 Thomsen, Carly Ann, 063, 146 Thunqvist, Eva-Lotta, 234 Tichy, Michelle Lee, 114 Tigeriily, Diana Lynn, 355 Tobin, Erin Christine, 230 Todd, Maureen Elizabeth, 149 Torres Narvaez, Beliza, 086 Tovar, Virgie, 158 Trammel, Juliana Maria, 305 Trench, Carolyn Jean, 040 Trevenen, Kathryn E., 035 Troutman, Stephanie, 147, 207, 258 Trujillo, Patricia, 259 Tucker, Susan, 106 Turner, Diane, 309 Tumer, Kathleen, 314 Tushabe, Caroline M., 267 Tuttle Bell, Cara, 359 Tzu-Chun Wu, Judy, 121 210 NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE d PARTICIPANTS CONFERENCE INDEXES Ruffin, Valerie L., 050, 091 Ruiz, Maria, 191 Runyan, Anne Sisson, 137 Russell, Hope L., 051 Russo, Ann, 239, 300 Russo, Stacy Shots berger, 230 Rutter-Jensen, Chloe, 100 Ryan, Joelle Ruby, 160, 194, 357 Ryan, Kathleen M., 253 Rytilahti, Stephanie, 174 Rios, Gabriela R., 052, 288 Ruchti, Elizabeth A., 183,202 Ruchti, Lisa C., 183 S Sabik, Natalie Jane, 104 Sagara, Reid T., 035, 070 Sage, Grace, 22 I Saint Jacques, Jillian, 066, 087 Saldivar-Hull, Sonia, 078 Salsbury, Lysa c., 089, 140 Samayoa, Andres Castro, 075 Samora, Carmen, 130 Samuels, Dena, 099 Sanders, Eulanda Annette, 209 Sandoval, Che NJ., 157 Sanmiguel- Valderrama, Olga, 243 Santos, Stephanie D., 313 Sapra, Sonalini Kaur, 124, 312 Sarmiento, Thomas X., 180 Saucedo, Leticia, 081 Sawyer, Katina, 207 Scala, Arlene Holpp, 189 Schaab, Kate, 048,171,212 Scbaeffer-Grabiel, Felicity, 241 Schenk, Samantha, 096 Schewe, Elizabeth Anne, 030 Schleck, Julia, 346 Schweigbofer, Katherine, 261 Schwyzer, Hugo 8., 321 Sciachitano, Marian, 007 Scott, Jenn, 120 Scully, Pamela, 242 Searfoss, Renee, 296 Seddon, Kassie, 277 Seethaler, Ina Christiane, 042 Sehgal, Meera, 291 Seibert, Stevie Kaye, 024 Senner, Kate Coddington, 031, 269 Settje, David E., 359 Sgoutas, Arlene Arlene, 041, 088, 218, 315 Shah, Priya J., 252 Shakhsari, Sima, 015, 252 Sharif, Rana, 224 Shaw, Andrea Elizabeth, 357 Shaw, Ines, 278, 320 Shaw, Marilee Durel, 094, 125 Sherman, Yael D., 306 Shiu, Janice, 104 Sibbett, Megan Elizabeth, III Sierra, Marta, 312 Silverman, Gillian, 080 Silverman, Jen, 262 Simmons, K. Merinda, 076 Sims, Angela D., 260 Sims, Christy-Dale L., 027 Simoes, Solange, 188 Singh, Gitanjali Kaur, 342 Sinnott, Megan, 014, 247 Skidmore, Emily, 307 Slater, Julie Ann, 311 Sloane, Sarah Jane, 007, 167,286 Smith, Andrea, 032, 033, 061 Smith, Sarah Stefana, 271 Snawder, Joanna, 088, 212, 311 Snider, Stefan ie, 126 Snidow, Shawn M., 008, 068, 132 Sojka, Carey Jean, 248 Sparks, Holloway, 242 Speer, Annika, 316 Spelman, Cornelia Maude, 286 Spencer, Sandra L., 009, 054 Spillar, Katherine, 259 Spoor, Suzanne Jacqueline, 329 St.Germain, Tonia P., 320 Stanger, Anya, 03 1 Stevens, Bethany, 020 Stewart, Matthew Ray, 027, 165 Stitt, Jocelyn Fenton, 344 Stoltz, Christina Marie, 250 Streiff, Kristina Marie, 272 Strobel, Johannes, 139,234 Strzepek, Katy A., 250 Sturgeon, Noel, 245 Subramaniam, Banu, 119, J 56, 198, 256 Subramanian, Shreerekha, 2 J 9,264 Sugguiyao, Natividad, 104 Sullivan, Sharon L., 094 Sundar, Pavitra, 036, 343 Sutton, Barbara, 124 Swarr, Amanda Lock, 304, 323 Swartz, Anne, 066, 087 SyeduJlah, Jasmine, 351 T Takemoto, Tina, 237 Takeshita, Chikako, 201, 267 Tanjeem, Nafisa, 273 Tarrant, Shira, 112 Tate, Natalye, 057 Taylor, Erica Kimberly, 311 Taylor, Lillian C., 285 Taylor, Reed w., 154 Taylor-Garcia, Daphne, 053 Tellez, MichelIe, 3 J 8 Thobani, Sunera, 154 Tholen, Minjon, 009 Thoma, Pamela, 230 Thompson, Becky, 222, 331 Thompson, Elisabeth Morgan, 194 Thompson, Mary, 104 Thomsen, Carly Ann, 063, 146 Thunqvist, Eva-Lotta, 234 Tichy, Michelle Lee, 1I4 Tigerlily, Diana Lynn, 355 Tobin, Elin Christine, 230 Todd, Maureen Elizabeth, 149 Torres Narvaez, Beliza, 086 Tovar, Virgie, 158 Trammel, Juliana Maria, 305 Trench, Carolyn Jean, 040 Trevenen, Kathryn E., 035 Troutman, Stephanie, J47, 207, 258 Trujillo, Patricia, 259 Tucker, Susan, 106 Turner, Diane, 309 Turner, Kathleen, 314 Tushabe, Caroline M., 267 Tuttle BeJl, Cara, 359 Tzu-Chun Wu, Judy, 121 210 NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE CONFERENCE PARTICIPANT INDEXES PARTICIPANTS U Uden, Maria, 234 Uman, Deborah, 092 Underwood, Kathleen, 054 Unruh, Kendra Rae, 193 Upadbyay, Pratima, 100, J 59 V Valentine, Shari L., 347 Valezquez, Maria, 222 Valladolid, Patricia, 158 Van Deven, Mandy L., 056 Vasko, Elisabeth T., 028 Vasquez, Melissa, 177 Veloso, Diana Therese Montejo, 325 Venell, Elizabeth, 168 Venkateswaran, Pramila, 264, 3J5 Viau, Jeanine Elizabeth, 107 Vidali, Amy, 262 Vieira, Mallory Kiersten, 153 Vieru, Mihaela Ecaterina, 257 Vigil, Ariana Elizabeth, 346 Vigil, Jennifer C., 084 Vinson, Jenna Elizabeth, 218 Viteri, Maria Amelia, 100 Vitorino, Sarah, 104 Vias ie, Alex, 317 Vlasnik, Amber L., 178 Vora, Neha, 015, 252 W Wagner, Sarah, 248 Wagner-Lawlor, Jennifer Ann, 330 Wahl, Donnae N., 047 Walker, Carrie 1., 286, 333 Walker, Elizabeth Johnson, 260 Walleser, Lauren Ann, 037, 176 Walls, N. Eugene, 1J 8 Wantland, Ross Andrew, 120 Wanzo, Rebecca Ann, 012 Warburton, Theresa Anne, 0 II Warren, Shilyh, 152 Warthen, Danielle, 030 Watkins, Patti Lou, 285 Webh, Dixie, 129 Weber, Nicole, 234 Weekes, Karen E., 054 Weekley, Ayana, 225 Weingartner, Andrea, 238 Weiss, Betsy, 268 Weizenbeck, Nichol Irene McNeill, 276 West, C. S'thernbile, 260 Wheeler, Sarah c., 024, 040 Wheeler, Stephanie, 288 White, Melissa Autumn, 063,332 White, Theresa Renee, 192 Wicker, Carmen, 297 Wilcox, Hui Niu, 323 Wilde, Karen, 221 Willey, Angela, 014 Williams, Bianca, 204, 319 Williams, Emily Rachel, 169 Williams, Erica Lorraine, 172,319 Will iams, Erin Rose, 104 Williams, Jennifer, 200, 221 Williams, Jill M., 269 Williams, Joylette Elizabeth, 232, 308 Williams, Rachel, 266 Williams Samuels, Joylette, 315 Willinger, Beth, 106 Willingham, Christine Marie, 009 Willis, Julia K., 235 Wilson, Natalie Kate, 179,259 Winslow, Barbara, 082 Winter, Jasmine, 009 Winterhalter, Teresa, 064 Winters, Kelley, 160 Wi nters, Kelly T., 103 Wise Whitehead, Kaye, 193 Witzig, Denise, 191 Wlodarczyk, Justyna Ewa, 336 Woiwode, Megan, 048 Woliver, Laura R., 154 Wong, Yuenmei, 189 Wood, Jennifer K., 276 Woodard-Meyers, Tracy Lynn, 211 Woodbury, Alicia, 347 Woolson, Carol in, 329 Wu, Diana Pei, 156 X Xavier, Tamara Lynn, 284 y Yandell, Kay Ann, 236 Yee, Jennifer A., 339 Yoon, Diana, 198 Young, Angie, 324 Yutani, Jeanine Emiko, 273 Z Zaytoun, Kelli, 1J 6, 178 Zhang, Yi (Charlie), 189 Zia, Afiya Shehrbano, 219 Ziegler, Kathryn, 197 Zimmerman, Amber L., 355 Zita, Jacquelyn N., 245 Zolala- Tovar, Virginia, 126,357 NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE 211 SUBJECT INDEX CONFERENCE INDEXES SUBJECT INDEX ABORIG[NAL: 094,133,290 ACADEMIA: 026, 028, 061, 068, 095, ] 04,130, ]80, 199,207,230, 239,291,320,340,345 ACTlV[SM: 008, 009, 010, 016, 017, 020, 040, 041, 048, 056, 057, 061,065,067,080,082,085,089,090,092,096,107,121,124, 128,156,158, ]67, 169, 174, 192, 193, 198,214,222,230,242, 244,255,264,266,270,276,284,291,297,317,318,321,331, 334,354,356,357,359 AFRICAN AMERICAN: 039, 050, 068, 082, 104, 113, 123, 127, 131,132,149,170,193,195,215,271,272,306,326,330 AFR[CAN FEM[NISMS: 042,102,127,236,290,318 AGE/AGING: 049, 077,130 ANTI-FEMIN[SM: 245 ANTlRAC[ST FEMIN[SMS: 011, 050, 066, 082, 087, 150, 154, 172,178,272,292 ARAB FEMINISMS: 03], 093, 154,230,328 ARTIVISUAL CULTURES: 007, 023, 036, 040, 041, 052, 06], 062, 065,066,074,080,084,087,104,108,112,125,128,129,152, 155,165,192,209,214,220,230,235,237,266,271,284,306, 324,329,330,342,345 BODY: 102, 104, 126,144,152,153,154,155,158,166,167,175, 203,230,232,233,267,273,284,285,316,335,342 CANADIAN FEMINISMS: 133,257,352 CARIBBEAN FEMINISMS: 169 CHINESE FEMINISM: 326 COAL[TION-BUILDING: 017, 020, 038, 042, 052, 080, 084, 089, 092,133,140,166,178,230,290,331,341 COLONIALISM: 042, 053, 104, 107, 154, 164, 169, 179,200,203, 229,236,267,300,329 COMMUNITY: 030, 057, 075,106,141,165,188,220,239,248, 268,285, 351 DIASPORAS: 068, 127, 169, 172,193,217,229,252,254,290,308, 351 DISAB[LITY: 150, 165, 166, 167,203,205,230,236,262,272,358 DISCR[MINATION: 008, 044, 082, 119, 194,223,285,320 EAST EUROPEAN FEMIN[SMS: 230, 336 ECOFEMIN[SM: 107, 141, 188,230,236,249,337,347 ECONOMIC JUSTICE: 010, 017, 081, 104,243 EDUCATION: 007, 009, 019, 065, 082, 114, 120, 134, 159, 165, 170, 189,230,275,325,347,350 EMBODIMENT: 026, 027, 036, 068,109,153,157,166,168,220, 260,284,331,337,355,357 EMOTION: 020, 329, 330 ENVIRONMENT: 050,107,124,156,230,245 ETHICS: 025,149,215,277,341,347 FEMINISM/FEM[NISMS: 006, 007, 026, 027, 038, 042, 05[, 056, 070,075,078,084,091,099,102,104,106,112,117,123,131, /32,144,145,154,155,158,159,160,169,174,175,189,192, 199,230,240,256,270,272,306,320,325,339,351,358,359 FIRST NATION: 133,221, 222 GENDER: 022, 039, 068,131,138,140,149,154,160,164,189, 203,205,209,230,253,284,298,307,313,316,319,325,330,35° GENDER EXPRESSION: 008, 027, 040, 044, 111,153,189,211 GIRLS: 043, 051, 066, 069, 087, 090, 104, 113, 114,134,170,195, 210,216,230,233,247,250,272,286,287 GLOBAL SOUTH: 236, 264, 315, 344 GLOBALIZATION: 071, 137, 188, 189,232,243,254,306,308,336 HISTORY: 027, 053, 102, 104, 167, 169,190,193,209,230,238, 253,272,290,296,307,315 HIV/AIDS: 232 HOMOSEXUALITY: 049, 326 IDENTITY POLITICS: 008, 019,035,046, 082, 104, 170, 177, 183, 193,202,225,230,236,248,271,284,319,326,340 IMMIGRATION: 081,169,177,188,198,230,273,295,299,332, 336,356 IMPERIALISM: 006, 008, 011,104,137,174,198,232,300 INDIGENOUS FEMINISM: 006, 061, 094, 104, 107,133,139,179, 221,222,234,236,288,290,347 INEQUALITY: 189,337 INSTITUTIONAL RACISM: 167 INTELLECTUAL HISTORY: 200 INTERDISCIPLINARY ITRANSDISCIPLINARITY: 007,031, 043,069,149,164,215,230,236,241,251,273,292,307,309, 312,339,346,356 [NTERSECTIONALITY: 016, 035, 039, 056, 067, 069, 070,099, 103, 104, 145, 149, 168, 183, 188, 191, 204, 215, 230,244, 245, 273,295,300,306,307,309,310,335,338,353,354,355 INTERSEX: 027 LATIN AMERICAN FEMINISMS: 157, 188,213,230,286,288, 314 LAW: 119,209,223,290,308 LESBIAN: 050, 068,149,174,188,189,197,230,237,345 LGBTQ: 008, 022, 037, 063,102,110,126,132,149,171,192,194, 196,197,213,230,247,274,300,326,347 LITERATURE: 024, 029, 039, 042, 050, 068, 078, 104, 108,123, 128, 132, 164, 193, 236,251,272,284, 286, 289, 314, 330,344 MARGINALIZATION: 008, OIl, 070,104,109,118,130,175,183, 207,250,295,310,318,340 212 NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE CONFERENCE PARTICIPANT INDEXES SUBJECT INDEX MASCULINITY: 027, 035, 039, 075, 085, 120, 189,215,247,287, 305,306,309,321 MEDICINE: 167,230,307,309,311 METHODS/METHODOLOGY: 053, 062, 076, 083, 097, ll6, 145, 210, 230, 255 MIDDLE EASTERN FEMINISM: 015, 093, 164,232,314,330 MILITARIZATION: 164, 230, 298 MOTHERHOOD: 064,104,131,149,165,167,218,262,294,336, 352,358 NARRATIVE: 019, 029, 030, 050, 064, 102, ll3, 146, 165, 169, 192, 193,205,217,218,230,286,289,313,330 NATIONALISM: 009, 039, 072, 154,164,188,219,224,254,257, 269,289,298,299,308,313,327,334,336,347,350 NATIVE AMERICAN: 061,133,136,179,190,290 NEW MEDIA: 007,015,052,103,110,13],212,230,259,268,324 ORGANIZING: 007, 045 PATRIARCHY: 230, 300 PEDAGOGY: 007, 070, 071, 077, 091, 094, ]04, 116, 124, 125, 129, 132,143,146,157,170,173,180,191,196,201,204,214,225, 230,235,259,285,291,312,333,343 PERFORMANCE: 086,096,102, Ill, 112, 129, 132, 143, 152, 165, 174, 177, 193, 195,202,209, 2ll, 215, 230, 235, 263, 264, 284, 285,286,287,288,316,333,338,342,346,355 POLITICS: 010, 030, 072, lll, 137, 200, 215, 223, 230, 242, 269, 286,299,308,318 POPULAR CULTURE: 007, 024, 035, 037, 088, lll, 131, 151, 191, 193,215,230,232,251,266,285,305,306,307,330,357 POVERTY: 293 PRISONS/INCARCERATION: 104, 276, 325 PRIVILEGE: 046, 085,118,290,321,341 PROSTITUTION/SEX WORK: 104,209,215,254,348 PUBLIC POLICY: 008, 018, 167,215,230,240,257,273,309,311, 318 QUEER THEORY: 008, 014, 015, 035, 040, 063, 086, 100, 107, Ill, 126, 149, 160, 168, 172, 174, 189,229, 230, 261, 267, 300, 307, 326,332 RACE: 006, 014, 035, 038, 040, 169,230,254,284,310,319,343, 347 RATIONALITY: 070, 236 RECOVERY: 230 RELIGION/SPIRITUALITY: 028,049,076, 104, 107, 117, 192, 209,213,230,249,260,277,290,300,306,359 REPRESENTATION: 104, 131, 165, 193, 203, 209, 232, 305, 308, 327,328 REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH/JUSTICE: 018, 057,104,136,167, 230,238,293,294,324,336 SAME SEx/SAME GENDER RELATIONSHIP: 022, 047,149, 197,326 SCIENCE: 074, 095, ll9, 139, 156,201,234,256,347 SEX: 144,238, 270 SEXUALITIES:024,025,027,063,081, 100, 104, 131, 132, 151, 154,176,196,203,216,261,272,307,326,335,336 SOCIAL JUSTICE: 027, 028, 050, 108, 143, 173,230,263,276,285, 286,296,297,300,333,348 SOUTH ASIAN FEMINISM: 047, 219, 230, 273, 327 SPACE/PLACE: 040, 103, 133,230,249, 261, 268, 269, 330 STUDENT(S)/CLASSROOM/EDUCATION: 077, 089,104,125, 176,192,230,297,338,344 SUBORDINATION: 215 TECHNOLOGY: 007, 045, 064, 067, 074, 095, 104, 139, 166,201, 212,234,255,330 THEORY: 006, 029, 070, 116, 166,202,277,292,306,309,330,347 THIRD WAVEFEMINISMS: 035, 037, 088, 218, 230, 274, 352, 354 THIRD WORLD WOMEN: 042,104,154,188,230,254,306,318, 325,349 TRANSGENDER: 008, 027, 044, ll8, 176, 189, 194, 2ll, 248, 300, 307 TRANSNATIONAL FEMINISM: 006, 007, 014, 018, 036, 100, 104, 107,138,141,154,174,192,207,217,224,236,241,243,250, 252,254,286,304,306,308,312,315,318,323,328,332,334, 346,348 VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: 023, 025, 047, 061, 104, 106, 120, 132, J 33, 150, 167, 190, 199,224, 240, 244, 263, 273, 309 WAR/MILITARY: 102, 104, 132, 154,232,253,273,308 WHITENESS: 031, 050, 136, 151, 318 WOMANISM: 104, 193,209,221,260 WOMEN OF COLOR: 042, 045, 046, 078, 086, 091, llO, 121, 132, 138, 174, 180, 192, 204, 241, 254, 256, 290, 326, 339, 347, 353 WOMEN'S CENTERS: 048,140, ]71,178,212,275 WOMEN'S HEALTH: 090, 104, 109, 167, 230, 309, 31 I, 353 WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP: 072, 088 WOMEN'S LIBERATION: 230 WOMEN'S MOVEMENTS: 016, 039, 121,219,230,296,349 WOMEN'S RIGHTS/HUMAN RIGHTS: 023,102,104,164,192, 273,286,294,308,349 WOMEN'S STUDIES: 007, 041, 043, 062, 071, 076, 092, 093, 099, 115,131,135,146,149,159,225,230,237,259,275,286,293,343 YOUTH: 131, 149,230 NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE 213 BOOK READINGANDSIGNINGSCHEDULE CONFERENCE INDEXES~==.:::..:::=====-------_------.:::=.:..::-=----~--. BOOK READING AND SIGNING SCHEDULE THURSDAY NOVEMBER 11 9:00 - 11:00pm Renya Ramirez & Plaza Andrea Smith Various Titles FRIDAY NOVEMBER 12 9:00-9:30am Dawn Schiller The Road Through Wonderland 9:30-1O:00am Laura Gillman Unassimilable Feminisms: Reapproising Feminist, Womanist, and Mestiza Identity Politics 10:00 - 1O:30am Maurice Hamington TheSocial Philosophy of Jane Addams, Feminist Interpretations of Jane Addams, & Feminism and Hospitality: Gender in the Host! Guest Relationship 10:30 - 11:00am Tamara Beauboeuf Behind the Mask of the Strong Black Woman: Voice and the Embodiment of a Costly Performance 11:00 - 11:30am Crystal Jackson & Barbara Brents The State of Sex: Tourism, Sex, and Sin in the Newamerican Heartland 11:30 - 12:00pm Cornelia Maude Spelman MISSING - a memoir 12:00 - 12:30pm Deborah Meem Finding Out: An Introduction to LGBTStudies, & Realities (by Eliza Lynn Linton, 7857) 2:15 - 3:15pm M. Jacqui Alexander & Plaza Chandra Talpade Mohanty Various Titles 2:30 - 3:00pm Amy Cislo Paracelsus's Theory of Embodiment: Conception and Gestation in Early Modern Europe 3:00 - 3:30pm Siobhan Brooks-King Unequal Desires: Race and Erotic Capital in the Stripping Industry 3:00 - 4:00pm Amanda Lock Swarr, SUNY Press Richa Nagar Booth 51,52 Editors: Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis 3:30 - 4:00pm Christa Craven Pushing for Midwives: Homebirth Mothers and the Reproductive Rights Movement 3:45 - 4:45pm Elline Lipkin Perseus Booth 35 Shira Tarrant Amber Kinser Courtney E. Martin Girls 'Studies Men and Feminism Motherhood and Feminism Click 4:00 - 4:30pm Randi Epstein Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the S erm Bank 4:30 - 5:00pm Jocelyn Stitt Mothers Who Deliver: Feminist Interventions in Public and Interpersonal Discourse 5:00 - 5:30pm Barbara Sutton Bodies in Crisis:Culture, Violence, and Women's Resistance in Neoliberal Argentina 214 NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE CONFERENCEPARTICIPANT INDEXES BOOK READING AND SIGNING SCHEDULE SATURDAYNOVEMBER13 9:30- !0:00am Priscilla Leder Seeds of Change: Critical Essayson Barbara Kingsolver 10:00-10:30am Jennifer Silverman My Baby Rides the Short Bus: the Unabashedly Human Experience of Raising Kids with Disabilities 10:30- 11:00am Noel Sturgeon Environmentalism in Popular Culture: Gender, Race, Sexuality and the Politics of the Natural 11:00- 11:30am Kristine Byron 11:30- 12:00pm Amy K. Levin 12:00- 12:30pm Miliann Kang 12:15- 12:45pm Holly Kearl AAUWBooth 48 2:15 - 3:15pm Juana Maria Rodriguez Plaza & Gayatri Gopinath 2:30 - 3:00pm Fawzia Afzal-Khan 2:30- 3:30pm Beverly Guy-Sheftall and SUNY Press Johnetta Betsch Cole Booth 51 52 3:00 - 3:30pm Chris Bobel 3:30 - 4:00pm Susan Lopez-Embury 4:00 - 4:30pm Erica Polakoff 4:00 - 4:30pm Judith Parker and Routledge Deborah Mahlstedt Booth 33 4:30 - 5:00pm Julia Jordan-Zachery 5:10- 6:10pm Jennifer L. Pozner Perseus Booth 35 5:30 - 6:00pm Angela Sims Women, Revolution, and Autobiographical Writing in the Twentieth Century: Writing History. Writing the Self Gender, Sexuality, and Museums TheManaged Hand: Race, Gender and the Body in Beauty Service Work Stop Street Harassment: Making Public Places Safe & Welcoming for Women Various Titles Lahore With Love: Growing Up With Girlfriends Pakistani Style Who Should Be First?Feminists Speak Out on the 2008 Presidential Campaign New Blood: Third-Wave Feminism and the Politics of Menstruation Prostitution: Sex Work, Policy and Politics Gender and Globalization: Patterns of Women's Resistance Language in the Real World: An Introduction to Linguistics Black Women, Cultural Images and Social Policy Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV SUNDAYNOVEMBER14 Ethical Complicatians of Lynching: Ida B. Wells's Interrogation of American Lynching 9:00 - 9:30am Yvonne Johnson Feminist Frontiers: Women Who Shaped the Midwest 10:00 - !0:30am Katherine Amato-von Hemert Out West:Seeking Home 11:00- 1l:30am Suzann Robins Exploring Intimacy: Cultivating Healthy Relationships Through Insight and Intuition Sky Fire: Photography. History & Culture of Fireworks All readings and signings take place in the Exhibit Hall at TheTattered Cover,Booth # 68& 69 unless otherwise noted NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE 215 EXHIBIT HALL MAP CONFERENCE INDEXES EXHIBIT HALL MAP AND PARTICIPANTS ~ PLAZA BALLROOM • •L/I'- A L ~ - 51 50 33 32 15 - 52 49 34 31 16 ~I 13 2 53 48 35 30 17 12 3 L- j 54 B • 55 47 36 29 18 56 46 37 28 19 EEJ Lr- 57 45 38 27 20 • '------, 58 10 5 L 59 44 39 26 21 9 6 C 60 43 40 25 22 • 61 42 41 24 23 8J C \J\V1 c=J 68 69 cc EXIT EXIT EXIT EXIT EXIT EXIT NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE216 CONFERENCE PARTICIPANT INDEXES EXHIBIT HALL PARTICIPANTS BOOTH # 21 48 46 11 12 8 29 36 49 4 28 3 16 57 19 56 17 45 26 22 13 15 50 37 40 27 24 38 30 14 25 32 35 10 33 47 20 1 51,52 2 68,69 44 39 34 53,54,55 31 18 ORGANIZATION/COMPANY A-Mark on the World AAUW AFSCME Association Book Exhibit Aunt Lute Books Aura Photo & Reading Center for Global Education at Augsburg College Claremont Graduate University, Applied Women's Studies Program Creative Well Duke University Press Feminist Majority Foundation Feminist Studies Feminists Against Academic Discrimination Frameline Gale Cengage Learning Girl Scout Research Institute H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College Institute atTulane University IIE-Council for International Exchange of Scholars Institute for Women's Studies and Services Metropolitan State College of Denver Jayce's Navajo Jewelry Jennifer Joy: Comedy with Elements of Science Manifesta/Soapbox: Speakers Who Speak Out, Inc. McFarland Publishers Media Education Foundation Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement Ms. in the Classroom National Women's Studies Association NYUPress Oxford University Press Palgrave Macmillan Paradigm Publishers Pearson Perseus Books Group Project MUSE Routledge Soroptimistlnternational of the Americas South End Press SpeakOut-the Institute for Democratic Education & Culture SUNYPress Syracuse Cultural Workers Tattered Cover Bookstore The Edwin Mellen Press The Feminist Press at CUNY The Johns Hopkins University Press The Scholar's Choice University of Colorado at Colorado Springs/ Women's & Ethnic Studies Women's Studies librarian's Office 217NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE ADVERTISER INDEX CONFERENCE INDEXES ADVERTISER INDEX AAUW AFSCME Andrea Gibson Association Book Exhibit Aunt Lute Books Aura Photo & Reading Claremont Graduate University, Applied Women's Studies Program Cornelia Maude Spelman Cornell University Press Creative Well Duke University Press Feminist Majority Foundation Feminist Studies Feminists Against Academic Discrimination First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies Frameline Free Press Gale Cengage Learning Girl Scout Research Institute H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College Institute at Tulane University IIE-Council for International Exchange of Scholars Indiana University PresslJournals Institute for Women's Studies and Services Metropolitan State College of Denver Jennifer Joy: Comedy with Elements of Science Manifesta/Soapbox: Speakers Who Speak Out, Inc. McFarland Publishers Media Education Foundation Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement Ms. in the Classroom National Women's Studies Association New Day Films NYU Press Oxford University Press Palgrave Macmillan Paradigm Publishers Pearson Perseus Books Group Project MUSE Reproductive Health Matters Routledge Routledge Journals Seal Press Soroptimist International of the Americas South End Press SpeakOut - the Institute for Democratic Education & Culture Stanford University Press SUNY Press Syracuse Cultural Workers Temple University Press TexasWoman's University The Edwin Mellen Press The Feminist Press at CUNY The Johns Hopkins University Press The Scholar's Choice The University of Chicago Press The Voices and Faces Project Third World Newsreel Transaction Publishers University of Colorado at Colorado Springs/ Women's & Ethnic Studies University of Illinois Press Waveland Press, Inc. Women Make Movies Women's Review of Books Women's Studies Librarian's Office 218 NWSA 2010 ANNUAL CONFEREt THEME: Feminist Transformations Program Co-Chairs: Bonnie Thornton Dill NWSAPresident 2010-2012 Professor and Chair Department of Women's Studies, Founding Director, Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity University of Maryland Nikol Alexander-Floyd Assistant Professor Department of Women's and Gender Studies School of Arts and Sciences Rutgers University ~o.....; NWSA 2011 will focus on feminist transformations - how much has feminist scholarship transformed the academy and society, and how much has feminism been transformed by the academy and society. SUBTHEMES: Transforming the "Master's" Tools Deploying Feminisms Women's Studies Without Walls Creative Interventions The Politics of Crisis Watch for full details in the Call for Proposals coming soon Deadline to submit proposals: February 15,2011 Journal (ultur@ • of Women in and Soci@ty ... publishes pathbreaking articles addressing gender[ r ac e, cultur e, c la ss, nat l o n, and/or sexuality as central focuses or as constitutive analytics After the Ram by Bongl Kaslkl Special rate for NWSA members: $46.00 Student electronic-only rate: $29.00 Published Quarterly Order online or by phone at 1.877.705.1878 or 1.773.753.3347 WWW.JOURNALS.UCHICAGO.EDU/SIGNS Mary Hawkesworth Editor THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS JOURN lS D VIS 0