PROGRAM

Conference Program Chair: Francesca Miller

Conference Arrangements Co-Chairs: Suzanne W. Hull Nancy Weiss Friday, May 21 Program Production: Lorrie O'Dell 3 PM Program Committee: Bonnie L. Ford S. Barbara (Penny) Kanner Conference registration opens at The Huntington Frances Richardson Keller Karen Langlois Betsy Perry OVERSEERS 3:15 - 4:45 PM Mary Robertson ROOM The co-directors of the National Women's His- Publicity: Trudy Menz tory Week Media Project present for review and M.K. Beloz comment:

With Special Thanks To: A MULTI-CULTURAL INFUSION MODEL FOR Martin Ridge and Suzanne W. Hull QUALITY EDUCATION, K-12 The Staff of The Huntington The Humanities Faculty of the California lnstitute for Technoloyr The purpose of this production is to motivate The Staff of the Athenaeun Club educators to infuse women's history into K-I2 classrooms, and ultimately to include women's lives in all subject areas of the curriculum. Funded under Women's Educational Equity Act Program/U.S. Department of Education.

ATHENAEUM 6 PM Sherry Party, the Library of the Athenaeum Club

7 PM Dinner, The Athenaeum Club

8 PM Program, The Athenaeum Club

FEMINIST SUBJECT MATTER AND CENTRAL CORE IMAGERY

All daytime sessions will be held at The Huntington. Even~ngevents LINDA LYKE Chair, Department of Art will be held at the Athenaeum Club on the campus of the California lnstitute of Technology. A hospitality room will be open throughout the conference at the Huntington-Sheraton Hotel. 9:30 - 11:30 AM Ill. PATRONAGE AND THE ARTS Saturday, May 22 Chair: Ricki D. Weinberger, Department of Art, 8:30 AM FRIENDS HALL Occidental College B Registration opens at The Huntington Hroswitha's Gallicanus: A Play Fit for a King, Ricki D. Weinberger

A Reevaluation of Eleanor of Aquitaine as 9:30 AM Patroness of the Arts, Maria Eugenia Lacarra, Languages and Linguistics, Occidental Col- WELCOME TO THE CONFERENCE lege

Frances Richardson Keller, Presiding Women in Power: Maria d'Medici and Female Heroic Imagery, Deborah Marrow, Art, California State University,Long Beach 9:30 - 11:30 AM I. THE RESOURCES OF THE HUNTINGTON Patronage and Amateurism in Chinese Paint- ing, Louise Yuhas, Art, Occidental College OVERSEERS Chair and Comment: S. Barbara (Penny) Kanner, ROOM Visiting Scholar, History, University of California, Comment: Carroll Brentano, The Institute for Historical Study

Panelists: Suzanne W. Hull, Director of Ad- ministration and Public Services, The 9:30 - 11:30 AM IV. AMERICAN WOMEN AT THE TURN Huntington OF THE CENTURY

Mary Robertson, Curator, Manuscript FRIENDS HALL Chair: Marguerite Renner, History, California Collection CENTER State University, Los Angeles

Alan Jutzi, Associate Curator, Rare Working Mothers: Married and Widowed Books Women in San Francisco, Portland, and Los Angeles, 1880, Mary Lou Locke, History, Uni- 9:30 - 11:30 AM II. WORKSHOP: RESEARCHING versity of California, San Diego AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE - A DEMONSTRATION OF THE NEW The American Girl to All the World, Mary T. FRIENDS HALL TECHNOLOGY Anderberg, History, University of Sun Fran- A cisco Research techniques, computer searches in the printed and on-line versions of America: Women and the Founding of Libraries in History and Life and Historical Abstracts. California, 1878- 1910, Viki Musmann, School After the initial presentation, computer of Library Science, University of Southern searches will be run for those scholars who California are interested. Comment: Mary Agnes Dougherty, The Institute for Historical Study vl c g,C u .!E 0 2 - 3

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fa,C CC L 0 2 F s 2 &- ;z a0 2-4PM Ill. LOS ANGELES: A CITY OF ETHNIC 4 - 5:30 PM I. COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AND DIVERSITY: INSTITUTIONS, HIGHER EDUCATION: A NATIONAL HOUSING SETTLEMENTS, AND OVERVIEW AND A CALIFORNIA FRIENDS HALL CULTURAL PATTERNS, 1850-1 950 OVERSEERS PERSPECTIVE B ROOM Chair: Lillian H. Jones, History, California Darwin Polishook, President, Professional Polytechnic University, Ponoma Staff Congress, Colleges & Universities of New York State Living in the Margin: Japanese in Pre-World War 11, Kuniko Jane Akutagawa, History, Uni- Jess Flemion, United Professors of Califor- versity of California, Los Angeles nia and History, Son Diego State University

Changing Patterns of Chinese Occupations in 10s Angeles, 1850-1950, Suellen Cheng, Asian 4 - 5:30 PM 11. WOMEN AND THE CULTURAL American Studies Center, University of HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA California, Los Angeles FRIENDS HALL Chair: Nancy Naro, Historia, Pontificia Univer- Changing Institutions: The Effects of Volun- A sidade Catolica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil teerism and Ethnicity on 10s Angeles Schools, 1900-1916, Judith Raftery, History, University of lucillia Guimaraes Villa-Lobos: Brazilian California, Los Angeles Composer, Conductor, and Pianist, Mary Lom- bardi, The Institute for Historical Study Comment: Beth Weisz-Buck, History, University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Isabel Aretz: Venezuelan Pioneer in Ethnomusicology, Education, Research, Per- 2-4PM IV. THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: formance, and Composition, Sharon Girard, EXPLORING IMAGES OF WOMEN IN Musicology, Son Francisco State University AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE FRIENDS HALL Comment: Rosalie Schwartz, History, Son Diego CENTER Chair and Comment: Mary P. Ryan, History, Uni- State University versity of California, lrvine

The Feminist Perspective: A Working Paper, Sandra J. Coyner, Director of Women's Studies, Kansas State University

Researching Images of Women in Popular Culture: Traditional and Computerized Tools, Joyce Duncan Folk, Data Services Co- ordinator, University of California, lrvine

"World War I/ Movie heroines: A Study in Change!" M. Joyce Baker, Director of Educa- tional Services, ABC-Clio Press 4 - 5:30 PM Ill. MORMON WOMEN AND POLYGAMY

Chair and Comment: Maureen Ursenbach FRIENDS HALL Beecher, English, Joseph Fielding Smith lnstitute B of Church History

Effects of Polygamy on Mormon Women, Jes- sie L. Embry, Director, Oral History Program, Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Brigham Young University I

Mormon Women on the Polygamy "Under- I ground", Kimberly Jensen James, American Heritage, Brigham Young University

4 - 5:30 PM IV. THE PROBLEM OF POWER IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN SPAIN FRIENDS HALL WESTERN ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN HISTORIANS BUSINESS MEETING CENTER Chair and Comment: Mary E. Greco, Western European Bibliography, University of California, Los Angeles

An Affair of the Heart: Power, Business and The Humanities Faculty of the California lnstitute of Technology in- Pragmatic Politics in Thirteeth Century vites those attending the WAWH Conference to be their guests at a Catalonia, Leila Berner, History, University of wine and cheese party in the Art Gallery, Baxter Hall, CIT campus California, Los Angeles

Beatas and the Problem of Power in Early Modern Seville, Mary Elizabeth Perry, History, University of California, Los Angeles

Dragonsteeth: The Rebellious Nobles of Jaime 1's Aragon, 1240-1276, Jane C. Wilman, Univer- sity of California, Los Angeles Comment: Jane Jaquette, Political Science, I Occidental College I Sunday, May 23

9- 11 AM I. RESEARCH ONA PLURAL CULTURE: THE EDUCATION OF WOMEN IN ALASKA OVERSEERS ROOM Chair and Comment: Edith L. Piness, Corn- missioner, State of California Student Aid 7:45 PM Commission.

Presidents' Dinner The Education of Women in Alaska and the The Athenaeum Club, Archival Resources for the Research, Donna California Institute of Technology Broderick Gavac, President, Donley Produc- tions, Inc., and former Academic Dean, Honoring the past presidents of the Western Association of Women Anchorage Community Colleges Historians Effective Change Strategies for Women, Pat Annoucement of the Sierra Prize Reeves, Director, Education Opportunity Center, University of Alaska, Anchorage SPEAKER: MOLLIE C. DAVIS 9- 11 AM II. LITERARY FEMINISM: AMBIVALENCE National Endowment for the Humanities and Department of History, AND CONFLICT Queens College FRIENDS HALL Chair: Karen A. Lystra, American Studies, A California State University, Fullerton AMERICAN CIVILIZATION AND THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES The Feminism of Gertrude Atherton, Emily Wortis Leider, San Francisco Review of Books

Life and the Poetry of Life: The Dialogue of Mary Austin, Karen S. Langlois, Claremont Graduate School

Comment: Norma Fain Pratt, American Social History, Mount Son Antonio College 9-11 AM Ill. QUESTIONS OF SEXUAL 11 AM-1 PM I. FRONTIERS OF WOMEN'S HISTORY ENLIGHTENMENT IN TWENTIETH CENTURY SWEDEN Chair: Bonnie L. Ford, History, Sacramento City FRIENDS HALL OVERSEERS College B Chair: Tamsin Hekela, History, University of ROOM California, Los Angeles Reflections on Australian Women's History and Australian Feminist Historians, Louise Wade, Elise Ottesen-Jensen, Advocate of Sexual En- History, University of Oregon lightenment, Doris H. Linder, History, San Mateo College Women in Hawaiian History, Carole Hicke, The lnstitute for Historical Study Changing Attitudes on Motherhood Ellen - I Key and Others, Torborg Lundell, Literary A Continuing Commitment: Political Involve- History, University of California, Los Angeles ment by Utah Women After Suffrage, Kathryn L. Mackay, History, ~eberState College Sex Role Equalify in Sweden: A Progress Re- port, Renee Kogel, History, California State "Your Sisters' Keeper?" Women and Socialism University, Chico in Utah, 1900- 1920, John Sillito, History, Weber State College Comment: Sondra Herman, History, De Anza College Comment: Carol Cornwall Madsen, Joseph Fielding Smith lnstitute for Church )I 9-11 AM IV. WOMEN IN WAR AND PEACE History, Brigham Young University I Women in Peace Movements During 11 AM-1 PM II. WOMEN HISTORIANS IN THE 1 FRIENDS HALL World War I, Blance Weisen Cook, BUSINESS COMMUNITY - A CENTER Visiting Scholar, University of California, DISCUSSION Los Angeles FRIENDS HALL Joan Reitzel, Security Pacific National )I The Accomplishments of Women in World Bank and The Southern lnstitute for 1, War 11: Women Air Force Service Pilots, Historical Research and Services Doris B. Tanner, History, University of I I Tennessee, Martin Lorrie O'Dell, Bank of America and The I lnstitute for Historical Study

Patricia Katsky, Graduate School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION 11 AM-1 PM Ill. NON-TRADITIONAL MODES OF REFORM IN ENGLAND AND FRANCE, Please Join Our Organization! 1550-1800 FRIENDS HALL Name: CENTER Chair: Mitzi Meyers, English/Writing Programs, University of California, Los Angeles Mailing Address: If address has changed, please check here Amazons, Hermaphrodites, and Plain Monsters, Susan C. Shapiro, English, Fairleigh Fields of Interest (1) Dickinson University (2) (3) Marie de Gournay's Challenge to Michel de Montaigne: A Friendship of the late Renais- Fully employed, donor member: $10.00 sance, Maryanne Cline Horowitz, History, Permanently full-time employed: $7.50 Occidental College Part-time employed and graduate students: $5.00 Special fund for graduate students attending WAWH late Eighteenth Century Women and the conference Reform of Popular Culture, Mitzi Meyers Special fund for the Sierra Historical Award

Culture in Transition: Parisian Popular Theater Please send full information about your history field, interests, work, 1785-1794, Michelle Root-Bernstein, Southern and activities to be entered on your membership record to: Institute for Historical Research and Services Betsy Perry, Secretary-Treasurer, 296 Redwood Drive, Pasadena, Comment: Joanne Lafler, The Institute for His- CA 91 105. torical Study

Lunch, The Huntington Restaurant HOUSING

Please contact the Huntington-Sheraton Hotel for WAWH Confer- ence Rates, 1401 South Oak Knoll, Pasadena, CA 91 109 (213) 792-0266

For alternative housing, contact Beth Weisz-Buck, 1720 Camden, Westwood, CA 90025.

Will you require transportation between the hotel and The Huntington?

Yes ..--_. . , No ~. ANNUAL CONFERENCE 1982 WESTERN ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN HlSTORllAN

REGISTRATION, including hospitality refreshments and the tour of Executive Board The Huntington Gardens. PRESIDENT Frances Richardson Keller $5.00, Friday only -$1 5.00, before April 15 - San Francisco State University $ 9.00, Saturday only -$20.00, afier April 15 - . FIRSTVICEPRESIDENT Jess Flemion San Diego State Univers L$7.00, student before April 15 -$5.00, Sunday only VlCE PRESIDENT Jacqueline Barnhart >$ 9.00, student after April 15 in charge of Directory California State University, Chico

*The student registration fee can be waived in return for volunteer VICE PRESIDENT Linda Popoksky help at the conference. Liason with Historica/ Groups Mills College

MEALS - Meal reservations must be received by May 1 GRADUATE STUDEN- Elizabeth Weisz-Buck COORDINATOR University of California, LOS Hngeles.

-$13.50, Friday night, sherry party, dinner at the Athenaeum CONFERENCE PROGRAM Francesca Miller CHAIR University of California, Davis -$14.50, Saturday night wine reception, dinner at the Athenaeum CONFERENCE Nancy Weiss -$10.00, Special Student Rate for Saturday night reception and ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR California State University, Long Beach dinner SOCIAL ACTION Marilyn Boxer -$5.00, Saturday box lunch, The and Gardens COORDINATOR San Diego State Universi

CONFERENCE FUND MEMBERSHIP Ruth Friedlander COORDINATOR The Institute for Historical Study Contribution to subsidize conference scholarships. Please be generous. NOMINATIONS Barbara Dubins COORDINATOR San Jose State University TOTALAMOUNT, check enclosed. NEWS1ETTER EDITOR Carol Hicke Oral History Associates, San Francisco Name: Address: PAST PRESIDE S. Barbara (Penny) Kanner Phone: University of California, Los Ange Return this form, with your check, to Betsy Perry, 296 Redwood Drive, Pasadena, CA 91 105. If you require a receipt or a reply, please enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope.. .