2002 Feminist Workshop

Convention Theme: “Connecting the Text and the Street”

Convention Chair: Shirley Wilson Logan

Feminist Workshop Theme and Location: "Versions of Reality: Textual Intersections between Feminine/Feminist Discourse (s) and the Street," Chicago, IL

Special Interest Group Theme: "Material Conditions of Women's Lives: Negotiating Contradictions of an Academic Career" (Sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession)

Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession Chair: Heather Bruce, University of Montana (Business Meeting held Friday, 7:30-8:30 a.m.)

• Feminist Workshop CFP:

Workshop Chairs:

• Maurine Magliocco, Western Illinois University, Macomb

• Hallie Lemon, Western Illinois University

• Alice Robertson, Western Illinois University

Special Interest Group Chair:

• Joy Ritchie, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Presenters:

• Pat Belanoff, State University of New York, Stony Brook, "Academic Language and Feminism: Are They Compatible?"

• Pearlie Strother-Adams, Western Illinois University, Macomb, "Invisible Giants: Civil Right 'Shero' Warriors Tell Their Stories"

• Patricia Sullivan, University of New Hampshire, Durham, "When Women Became 'Girls'"

• Mary Ann Cain, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, "Taking Feminist Argument to the Streets: Why 'Alternatives' Aren't 'Alternative'"

• Barbara Smith, College of Mount St. Vincent, Riverdale, New York, "Learned helplessness as a Conditioned Response: An Analysis of Feminine Characters"

• Judith Morel, Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana, "Exploring Gender-Related Differences: A Study of Writing in a Math Class"

• Carol Reeves, Butler University, Indiana, "Exploring Gender-Related Differences: A Study of Writing in a Math Class"

• Paige Schumaker, Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C., "Society's Gendering of Rhetoric"

• Christina Wherley, Western Illinois University, Macomb, "Young Female Musicians: Using Feminist Language/Lyrics to Promote Positive Female Images"

• Cheryl Johnson, University of Idaho, Lewiston, "Argument as Pow-Wow: The Multigenre Approach"

• Jayne Moneysmith, Kent State Star, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, "Argument as Pow-Wow: The Multigenre Approach"

• Jane Detweiler, University of Nevada-Reno "Transgender, Transex, Intersex: Streetwise Intersections for Feminist Invervention[sic] in the Classroom"

• Leslie Chilton, Arizona State University, Tempe, "Gender Effects on the Confidence of First-Year Students"

• Margrethe Ahlschwede, University of Tennessee-Martin, "'I'm so glad it's not called women's literature': Women's tets in the Composition Classroom"

• Christina McCaslin, Western Illinois University, Macomb, "Nature as Spiritual Mother: Pantheism in Mary Morris's Nothing to Desire"

• Tobi Jacobi, Syracuse University, New York, "Women Writing in Prisons: Voices from 'The Box'"

• Therese Trotochaud, Western Illinois University, Macomb, "Hearing the Silent Students: Strategies for Responding to Their Version of Reality"

• Janine DeBaise, SUNY-Environmental Science and Forestry, NY, "Empowering Women in the Classroom, Empowering Women in the Community"

• Cindy Moore, St. Cloud State University, Indiana, "So You're a Feminist Academic Now: Maintaining Connections with Home and Past"

• Susan K. Hahn, Depauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, "Our Version of Reality-Feminism on the Street: The Importance of 'Being There ' as Career Mentor/Friends"

• Jody Millward, Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, California, "Our Version of Reality-Feminism on the Street: The Importance of 'Being There ' as Career Mentor/Friends"

• Diane Chin, University of Illinois, Chicago, "You're Nobody Until Somebody Publishes You"

• Janice Neulieb, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois, "What's in a Name?"

• Beth Burmeister, University of Illinois, Chicago, "An Argument Against Metaphors of Violence in our Discourses: Exploring Feminist Alternatives for Teaching and Practicing Argumentation in the Graduate Curriculum"

• Maria Montaperto, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, "The History of CCCC's Feminist Workshop: Have We taken It to the Street?"

• Virginia Crisco, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, "The History of CCCC's Feminist Workshop: Have We taken It to the Street?"

• Leanne Washauer, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York, "WAC Myths and Feminist Realities"

• Mary Queen, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, "Declaring Resistance and Rights: A Rhetorical/Historical Analysis of Feminism(s) and (Trans)Nationalism(s)"

• Tracy Robinson, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, "Feminist Counseling Practices vs. Patriarchal Conceptions of Power"

• Heather Bruce, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana, "Public Literacy: Feminist Analyses, of Texts on the Street"

• Tonya Stremlau, Gadaullet University, Washington, D.C., "The Ideal Women: Deaf Women in Media Texts"

• Kathleen R. Winter. Morehead State University, Morehead, Kentucky, "The Superbowl, Superwoman, and Superfunds: The Beauty Myth Revisited"

• Janice Welsch, Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois, "Reality vs. Romance: Recognizing narrative Constructions"

Workshop Program