Boundaries in Question, March 4-5, 1995

[Carlos Fernando Camargo]

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Boundaries In Question Fifth Annual Graduate Conference, March 4 and 5, 1995
Wheeler Hall UCB Campus

All events are Wheelchair Accessible
Child Care provided by Diana Young, 121 Wheeler, Saturday and Sunday, 10AM-5PM
Chat Room: 305 Wheeler will be available both days of the conference for
informal meetings.

Sponsored by:
Sponsored by: Graduate Assembly, Doreen B. Townsend Center for the
Humanities, Beatrice M. Bain Research Group, Women's Studies Department,
College of Natural Resources, College of Environmental Design, Boalt School
of Law, School of Public Policy, Departments of English, Education, Art
History, French, Near Eastern Studies, Spanish & Portuguese and Slavic
Languages & Literatures.

1994-1995 Collective Members:
Maude Adjarian, Comparative Literature, U of Michigan
Candida Ellis, English, UCB
Andrea Feeser, Art History, City University of New York
Carolina González, Comparative Literature, UCB
Donna Hunter Tompt, English, UCB
Ruti Kadish, Near Eastern Studies, UCB
Daphne Lamothe, English, UCB
Cynthia Liu, English, UCB
Pamela Mery, Institutional Researcher, UCSF
Lauren Muller, English, UCB
Laurie Osher, ESPM Ecosystem Science, UCB
Theresa Tensuan, English, UCB
Caroline Webber, Comparative Literature, UCB

Boundaries in Question is an annual feminist conference organized by a
collective of women graduate students at the University of California,
Berkeley, graduate women from other institutions and women working within
institutions of higher learning. This conference originated in the spring
of 1990 as part of an effort to restructure the programs sponsored by the
Beatrice M. Bain Research Group, then headed by Prof. Elizabeth Abel.
Among these programs was an essay contest for graduate students on feminist
topics. The restructuring committee, which included Kate McCullough and
Stephanie Smith, then graduate students in the UCB English Department,
decided the prize money could be more fruitfully used to sponsor a
student-organized yearly conference as a space which would encourage a
campus-wide community of undersupported graduate student feminists-a
community which was expanded by later collective members to include
feminists on other campuses and activists far and wide-and a forum for
debating issues of interest and importance to women in and out of the
campus.

The 1995 Boundaries in Question Collective would like to thank Agy Lejman,
Norma Alarcón, Dorothy Lazard, Liz Rivera, Alice Jordan, Cynthia Dobbs,
Liza Kramer, Nina Markov, Nina Messina, Kay Bock, Ellis Avery, Nicole
Berner, Antonio Chávez, Tim Factor, Lisa Osher, Jay Tompt, and all past
collective members.

Poster and program design: Avivit Graff G.
"Steeltown," detail from S.F. Mime Troupe mural "Para las Rosas" by Juana
Alicia © 1985
Panels
SATURDAY, 10:00-11:15AM
A1. 19th c. Heroines Critical Perspectives on Cultural Capital
330 Wheeler Hall
All from Department of English, UCB
1) "Sister Carrie: Reading and the Material Girl," Nina Markov
2) "Balancing the Books: Harriet Jacobs as Radical Feminist Economist,"
Liza Kramer
3) "Engendering Cultural Literacy in Harper's Iola Leroy and Callahan's
Wynema," Lauren Muller
--Candida Ellis, Moderator
A2. The Production of Women in Culture
122 Wheeler Hall
(1) "Reproductive Reading: The Harlequin Romance," Catherine Henney, Dept.
of French, UCB
(2) "Construction of Femininity in 1920s Paris: Josephine Baker and the
New Woman Campaign," Jackie Barshak
(3) "Seeing is Believing: An Examination of How Advertising Impacts
Self-Perception" Patricia Philbin
--Daphne Lamothe, Moderator
A3. Models for Producing Asians: Some Contentions
210 Wheeler Hall
(1) "Polynesian Women in Western Lore," Pia Anderson, Anthropology
Department, UCB
(2) "'You Guys Ain't Developed Yet': National and Narrative 'Development'
in Lois-Ann Yamanaka's Poetic Novellas," Candace L. Fujikane, English
Department, UCB
(3) "History and the Post-Modern: Negotiations of Space and Nation in
Hualing Nieh's Mulberry and Peach, " Jeannie Chiu, English Dept, UCB
(4) "Persistences within the Multiple: The Disparate Weightings of Voice
in Recent Representations of Asia," Heather Brown, English Dept., UCB
--Carolina González, Moderator

SATURDAY, 11:30-12:45PM
B1. Examining Barriers to a Woman-Centered Practice: the Case of Midwifery
210 Wheeler Hall
1) "Regulation and the Legitimization of Lay Midwives," Marina V. Pascali,
School of Public Health, UCB
2) "Doctors and Midwives: Differences in Care," Kim Judson, School of
Public Health, UCB
3) "The Role of the Insurance Industry in Undermining Private Practice
Midwifery," Beth Mercer-Taylor, Graduate School of Public Policy, UCB
4) Practicing midwife (TBA)
--Nicole Berner, Moderator
B2. Current Debates within Feminist Theory: Looking Beyond the Binaries
122 Wheeler Hall
All from Department of English, USC
(1) "Does the 1995 Republican Congress Mean the Gender Quake is Over? Sex,
Fear and Feminism Off Campus," Nikki Senecal
(2) "Feminism at an Impasse: Exploring Alternatives to the
Essentialist/Postmodern Debate," Jennifer Walsh
(3) "The Difference/Equality Debate: Are We Just Repeating History? Can We
Move Beyond the Binaries?" Janna Smith
--Daphne Lamothe, Moderator
B3. Shards of the Subject: Race and Post-Colonialism Do Psychoanalysis
330 Wheeler Hall
(1) "Hidden Desire in Ruth Benedict's Cultural Relativism," Alisha
Siebers, Dept. of English, UCB
(2) "The Re-visionary Mestiza: Gloria Anzaldúa's Rewriting of the
Psychoanalytic Subject," Eliza Noh, Dept. of Ethnic Studies, UCB
(3) "Rethinking Therapy, Rethinking Culture: Questions of Gender, Sex and
War," Karyn Gladstone, visiting scholar, Beatrice Bain Research Group
--Donna Hunter Tompt, Moderator

SATURDAY, 1:00-2:00
LUNCH (on your own)

SATURDAY, 2:15-3:30PM
C1. Premeditated Pedagogy (Roundtable)
122 Wheeler Hall
(1) Francesca Bavuso, Women's Studies Dept., S.F. State
(2) Lesha Ewers, Adult Education Dept., S.F. State
(3) Sharon Fleming, Women's Studies Dept., S.F. State
(4) Julie Shayne, Women's Studies Dept .and Sociology Dept., S.F. State
(5) Cristin O'Neal, Women's Studies Dept., S.F. State
(6) Beth Lilach, Women's Studies Dept. and Jewish Studies Dept., S.F. State
--Andrea Feeser, Moderator
C2. Writing Home: Feminism and the Question of South Asian Diasporas
330 Wheeler Hall
All from Department of Ethnic Studies, UCB
(1) "Viewing Subjects: Questions of Audience and Representations of the
U.S. South Asian Diaspora," Amarpal R. Dhaliwal
(2) "Strategic Identities: South African Contexts," Hershini Bhana
(3) "Writing My Way 'Home': Politicizing South Asian Diasporic
Experiences," Jasbir Puar
--Cynthia Liu, Moderator
C3. Social Welfare, Social Control and the American Family: Feminist
Perspectives on Welfare Mothers & Queens
210 Wheeler Hall
All from Department of Jurisprudence and Social Policy, UCB
1) "Are Women Workers or Mothers? The Limits of the Family and Medical
Leave Act for Poor Working Mothers," Catherine Albiston
2) "Feminism on Welfare: A Conspicuous Silence," Kaaryn Gustafson
3) "Welfare Reform as Social Control of the American Family: Race, Gender
and Class Issues," Laura Beth Nielsen
--Bronwen Morgan, Moderator

SATURDAY, 3:45-5:00PM
D1. Representations of Japanese Women in Literature and Film I
330 Wheeler Hall
All from Department of East Asian Languages, UCB
(1) "Japanese Women of the Occupation Period in Japanese and US Film," Kim Kono
(2) "Complicity or Resistance: Reconstructing the Sexual Identity of
Postwar Japanese Mother Images," David N. Averbach
(3) "Alternative Identities Envisioned: The Role of Fantasy in
Contemporary Japanese Women's Fiction," Gretchen Jones
(4) Respondent, Donna Storey, Visiting Professor of East Asian Languages
Nina Markov, Moderator
D2. Challenging the Mind/Body Duality
210 Wheeler Hall
(1) "The Structure of the Symptom: Eating Disorders, Language, and Culture
in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions," Sarah Liu, Dept. of English,
UCB
(2) "Theory on the Market: Panic, Incorporating," Jackie Orr, Dept. of
Sociology, UCB
(3) "Cost Containment, Emotional Containment and other Dilemmas of Nursing
Under Managed Care," Debora Bone Davis, Dept. of Sociology, UCSF
--Daphne Lamothe, Moderator

D3. Blindspots and Traveling Feminisms
122 Wheeler Hall
1) "Writing Against Boundaries: The Literary Discourse of Turkish Women
in Germany," Heike Hofmann, Dept. of German, UC Davis
2) "Border Crossing: Feminsim, Postcolonialism and the (Im)possibility
of Travel," Revathi Krishnaswamy, English Dept., San Jose State University
3) "Opening Gabriella's Box: Feminist Interpretations of the Practice of
Prostitution in the Phillipines," Sandra Teresa Hyde, Dept. of
Anthropology, UCB
--Lauren Muller, Moderator

SUNDAY, 10:00-11:15AM
E1. Ethics and Women's Writing in Latin America
200 Wheeler Hall
All from Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, UCB
(1) "Representation of Marginality in Diamela Eltit's Por la Patria,"
Pilar Alvarez
(2) "Feminist ethics in Elementos de la literature según el reglamento de
instrucción para uso del bello sexo," Rocío Ferreira
(3) "The Ethics of Narration in Clarice Lispector's A Hora de Estrela,"
Susan Martin
(4) "The Ethics of Social Climbing in Blanca Sol : Marriage and Narrative
Structures," Oswaldo Voysest
--Carolina González, Moderator
E2. Representations of Japanese Women in Literature and Film II
330 Wheeler Hall
All from Department of East Asian Languages, UCB
(1) "Craft and Authorship in Fiction by Enchi Fumiko," Marilyn Bolles
(2) "The Housewife Syndrome in Contemporary Japanese Literature," Anne
Sokolsky
(3) "Madness and Motherhood in Sumidagawa," Christine Shippey
(4) Respondant, Donna Storey, Visiting Professor of East Asian Languages
Caroline Webber, Moderator
E3. Queering the Straight and Re-naming Modernist Desire
210 Wheeler Hall
1) "Belle Reprieve: A Queer Deconstruction of Tennessee Williams's A
Street Car Named Desire, " John Lawton-Haehl, Dept. of Women's Studies, UC
Davis
2) "Towards A Politics of Queer Straight: The Case of Orlando," Mark
Cochrane, Dept. of English, University of British Columbia
3) "Thinking Backward: Modernity and History in the Writing of Rennée
Vivien and Virgina Woolf," Leslie Ann Minot, Dept. of Comparative
Literature,UCB
--Lauren Muller, Moderator

SUNDAY, 11:30-12:45PM
F1. Rethinking Feminist Analyses of Popular Culture (Roundtable)
200 Wheeler Hall
Department of Sociology, UC Santa Barbara
(1) Noreen Begoray
(2) Wendy Marks
(3) Dana Collins
(4) Robert Caputi
(5) Joan Weston
--Frances Montell, Moderator
F2. The Ecofeminist Vision: Is it Necessarily Exclusive?
330 Wheeler Hall
All from Department of Political Science, University of Oregon
(1) "The Political In/viability of Ecofeminism," Linda Shafer Hancock
(2) "The Impact of Political and Economic Changes on Women and the
Environment in Eastern Europe: Can Ecofeminism Shed any Light?" Patricia
Wolff
(3) "Partial Perspectives Across Ecofeminism(s): Can Inevitable Exclusion
be Addressed?" Max Brown
--Stephanie Burkhalter, Moderator

F3. Who is Speaking? Power, Ethnicity & Speech
210 Wheeler Hall
(1) "The Interviewer and Interviewee Meet: Power and the Making of
Subjectivities," Lisa Hoffman, Sociology Dept., UC Davis
(2) "Speaking Through the Gap: Free Space Behind the Language of
Inscription in Louisa Picquet," Monica Payson, English Dept., UCB
(3) "Between History and Culture: Boundaries in Focus," Birgit
Rasmussen, Dept. of Ethnic Studies, UCB
(4) "Cara a Cara: Reading at the Intersection of Three Women's Worlds,"
Maude Adjarian, Comparative Literature, Univ. of Michigan
--Candida Ellis, Moderator

SUNDAY, 1:00-2:00PM
Disabled Women
330 Wheeler Hall

(1) "Are We Invisible? Women with Disabilities Confront the Eraser," Emily
Kolker, Women's Studies Dept., S.F. State

(2) "Disabled Women are Abused Too," Leslie Gordon

--Laurie Osher, Moderator

Lunchtime performance

315 Wheeler Hall
"Isadora Duncan's Vision," Maria Villazana-Ruiz, Director, Isadora Duncan
Dance Center

SUNDAY, 2:15-3:30PM
G1. Generation X and the Color Line: Teaching and Talking Race (Roundtable)
200 Wheeler Hall
Department of Sociology, UC Santa Barbara
(1) Peter Chua
(2) Darcie Vandegrift
(3) Susana Peña
(4) Paulette Haban
(5) Judy Taylor
--Candida Ellis, Moderator
G2. Surreal Women, Supernatural Women
330 Wheeler Hall
(1) "Notes From a Phantom," Carole Harris, Dept. of Comparative
Literature, Yale Univ.
(2) "The Female Body in Zeami," Takeyoshi Nishiuchi, Dept. of Rhetoric, UCB
(3) "Japanese Women in Surrealism," Miryam Sas, Dept. of East Asian
Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature, Yale Univ., and
Visiting Exchange Scholar, UCB
--Andrea Feeser, Moderator

G3. Bridges and Breakthroughs: Artists at the Edge
210 Wheeler Hall
(1) "Breakouts, Breakthrough and Break-In: One Woman's Odyssey," Adriana
Díaz, Institute in Culture and Creation Spirituality, College of Holy Names
(2) "My Song is My Own: Reclaiming a Woman's Voice," Betsy Rose,
Artist-in-Residence, UCB/Wesley Foundation
(3) "Cherokee Tradition: A Living Culture," Sarah Bates, American Indian
Contemporary Arts Institute
--Nancy Nenno, Moderator

Art Exhibition
Saturday and Sunday, 315 Wheeler Hall
CCAC "Boundaries" Project

Evening performances/presentations:

Catered Reception and Performances Saturday March 4,
5:30-9:00 PM Berkeley Hillel, 2736 Bancroft Way

Lobes of the Lungs: Baby Talk on the ICU by Maria St. John

In Our Own Write by Poetess Pranksters: Shanti Bright, Xochi Candelaris,
Ananda Esteva, Elizabeth Meyers, Kelly Navies, Paloma Martinez, Shelly
Smith, Shelly Teves

I've Been Crawling on Back to You, God by Rebecca Levi

Closing Event
Sunday March 5, 5:30 PM, 315 Wheeler Hall
Fat of the Land Project
Nicole Cousino, Sarah Lewison, Gina Todus, Julie Konop and Florence Dore