1A. "Rejecting Pygmalion: The Social and Cultural Capital of Working Class Women Ph.D. Students"
Susan Mary Paige - Buffalo State University
Gillian Richardson - Canisius College
Diana Lawrence Brown - St. Bonaventure University
1B. Discourse on Family Politics
"The Political and Social Climate of the US in the 1980s: an Examination
of the Discourse Around Family"
Janiene Langford - UC Berkeley
"Saving the Unborn: ProLife Art in the US"
Jeanie Ludlow - Bowling Green State Univ.
"A Historical Look at Reproductive Liberty and the Socio Economic
Implications of Roe V Wade Being Overturned."
Tara Prairie - Middle Tennessee State Univ.
"A Star is Born: Fetal Imaging and the Cuilture of Family Photography"
Angela Laflen - Marist College
1C. Remembering Home
"Sentiments of Hope: Relations of Rescue Remembered/Reinterpreted at a
Shanghai Mission"
Sue Gronewald, Kean University
"Its all in the Dance: A Body Project in the Jamaican Dance Hall"
Amy Tate Lesley University
Female Circumcision"
2A. Its Feminist
"Women's Reflections as Feminist Inquiry"
Kathy Desmond - Endicott College
"Iris Murdoch: Romantic and Feminist"
Megan Laverty - Columbia Teachers College
"Contemporary Feminist Aesthetics: One Artist's Perspective"
Lauren O'Neal Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
2B. Balancing Power: Race Gender and Identity
"Leap Year 1908: Cupid at Gunpoint"
Katherine Parkin - Monmouth Univ.
"Transracial Adoption: The Matching of the Unmatchable"
Evelyn Rodriguez - Monmouth Univ.
"Skirted Soldiers Get the Messgae Through: an analysis of the gender
integration of the US Signal Corps WWII"
Melissa Ziobro - Monmouth Univ.
2C. Maternal Presence
"A Good Mother is a present Mother: the Significance of Gender Roles in
the Determination of 'Good' Parenting"
Kirsten Paap and Tammy Kegebein - SUNY
"Solas, Marginality, Maternity and Liberation"
Lauren Shaw - Mt. St. Mary College
"What to Expect When you are Expecting...at 35 or older"
Michelle Napierski - Prancl Sage Colleges
Student Center Performing Arts Room
7:30-9pm Student Center Caberet
3A. Maternal Presence ReDux
"Feminine Freedom: The Need for Reproductive Choice in a Patriarch Society"
Danielle Izzo - St. Johns University
"Grappling with the Question 'So When are you Going to Have a Baby' While Trying to Conceive"
Shannon Roper - Marist College
3B. TechnoWomen
"Engendering Technology in Laura Esquivel's Swift as Desire"
Louise Detwiler - Salisbury Univ.
"Bitches, Blowjobs and Bad Mommies: How Blogs are Re-Defining and Reinvigorating Dialogue in the 21st Century"
J. Elizabeth Clark - LaGuardia Community College CUNY
"Girl Power in the Digital Promised Land: Exploring Gender and Race in Commerical Websites Designed for Yound Women"
Elley M. Prior - York University
3C. Positioning Women
"Shattering the Glass Ceiling: Feminism in Ridley Scott's Thelma & Louise and G.I. Jane"
Claire Semder - Marist College
"Women (and Men) in Management Positions in the Czech Republic"
Radka Dudova - Czech Academy of Science
"Sweet Sweat: Taiwanese Women Entrepreneurs, Self-made Tycoons"
Chyong Ling (Judy) - Chen Feng Chia University, Taiwan
3D. Its Feminist, Too
"Feminist Inference as Feminist Epistemology"
Sharin Elkholy, Hunter College- CUNY
"Feminist Inquiry into a Just Praxis of Sexuality"
Jane Marie Grovijahn - Our Lady of the Lake University
4A. Violence Against Women
"The Use of Victim Impact Statement in Cases of sexual Assault"
Karen-lee Miller - University of Toronto
"Tacit Agreement: Male Violence and Female Complicity in Frances Burney's Evelene"
Dawn Goode - Univ. of Conn- Storrs
"Stalking in the 20th and 21st Centuries: The security of Women in Question"
Joanne Ardovini - Metropolitan College CUNY
"Could Commodities Speak: A Marxian Analysis of Pornography"
Georganna Ullary and Lynn Eckert - Marist College
"Why I Cannot Come Home: African Women Immigrants Write about Ending
Female Circumcision"
Natashia Gordon-Chipembere - Medger Evers CUNY
4B. Women In Between (The Class of 1966): "If I Knew Then What I Know Now"
Kathryn Sajdak - Marist College
Lucille Pritchard - Culinary Institute of America
Susanna Margolis - Ind't Writer
4C. Collegial Women
"Moving Women's Studies: How Women Fought for (and Wond) a Place at the Curricular Table"
Milaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur - NYU
"Women's Colleges Today"
Stacey Peterson - College of Notre Dame MD
"Women in Academia in Kazakhistan"
Khalida Nurseitova - Pavlodar State University
4D.
"Hysterical History and Cases in Literature"
April Zaat - UC San Francisco
"The Visible: Gender and Race Giving an Account of an Other Tradition of Representation"
Nathalie Nya - UC Santa Cruz
"Zadie Smith and the Controlling Images of Black Womanhood"
Tracey Walters - SUNY Stony Brook
"Kinship and Paradigms of Religion and Marriage"
Maya Machacek Marist College
5A.
5B. Drumming Circle and Workshop
Al'Kebulan Drumming Circle Girl Scouts Of Dutchess County
5C. Breaking Stereotypes (at Both Ends of the Spectrum)
"Coming of Age with Disabilities: How is the Transition to Womanhood Different for those with Disabilities"
Lauri Hyers and Nishidia Akemi - West Chester University
"The Impact of Cultural Stereotypes of Menopausal Women on Decisions Concerning Hormonal Replacement Therapy"
Stacey Carvalho - Univ. of Mass
"Women's Particpation in Freemasonic Orders"
Lilith Mahmud - Harvard University
"Investigating the Gendered Relationships between School Success and Life Success"
Nancy Niemi - Nazareth College
5D. "The Grail: A Study in the Application of Feminist Principles in a Women's Spiritual Community" A Workshop
Sharon Thomson - The Grail
Simonetta Romano - The Grail
6A. The Images of Love and Marriage
"Media, Marriage and Black Women/Men, Too"
Carmala Pattillo - Georgia State University
"Marriage and Materialism on HBO"
Karin Fry - Univ Wisc Stevens Point
"Gendered International Marriage Migration Under Globalization: Filipino Wives of South Korean Husbands in Rural Communities"
Kim Minjeong - SUNY Albany
"Why Do Women Love Convicted Killers?"
Sheila Isenberg - Ind't Writer
"Marriage Kinship: A Deconstruction of Gender Paradigms"
Maya Machacek - Marist College
6B. Nomenclature and Women's Titles
"The Naming of an Institution"
Rudolfina Lackner - Univ of Vienna
"What's in a Name? Naming is not Yet a Move in the Language Game"
Aloisia Moder - New School
"The Soveignty of Naming Oneself"
Maria Bussmann - Artist
"Changing Name Changing: Framing Rules and the Future of Marital Names"
Elizabeth F. Emens - Columbia Law School
6C. Power Plays
"Conceptualization of Power in Lesbian Relationships"
Kelley Anne Malinen - Dalhousie University
"A Choreography of Talk: Overlaps, Interruptions and Breakins"
Diane Berkowitz - Queensborough Community College- CUNY
Andi DeCapua - College of New Rochelle
"An EcoFeminist Perspective on Ridley Scott's G.I.Jane"
Paula Willoquet-Maricondi - Marist College
