CONFERENCE PLANNING COMMITTEE Helen Klebesadel, Director, UW System Women’s Studies Consortium Kathryn E. Kujawa, Technology Department, UW-Stout Nancy Worcester, Women’s Studies Outreach Coordinator, UW-Madison Laura McCullough, Department of Physics, UW-Stout Susan Turell, Women’s Studies Director, UW-Eau Claire Crystal Huang, Department of Social Science, UW-Stout Deanna Applehans, Stout Solutions • Continuing Education Margarita Hendrickson, UW-River Falls Susan McClelland, Stout Solutions • Continuing Education Sandy Stokes, UW-Green Bay Janet Polansky, Women’s Studies Director, UW-Stout Trista Glover, Vice-President, Stout Student Association Sue Hunt, Department of Art and Design, UW-Stout Eric Furtney, Women’s Studies student, UW-Stout Jan Hare, Department of Human Development, Family Living, and Bao Thao, Women’s Issues Organization, UW-Stout Women's Sphere: Community Education Services, UW-Stout Jana Reeg Steidinger, Memorial Library, UW-Stout Reconfigured Traditions REGISTRATION FORM Taking back—taking over WOMEN’S SPHERE: RECONFIGURED TRADITIONS Name ____________________________________________ University of Wisconsin asks that you voluntarily respond to the questions Engaging, redefining, Self-description ______________________________________ below. The cumulative demographic information will be used to enhance our Mailing Address (please check one - J home J business) programming efforts. and reconstructing __________________________________________________ Gender gendered space Street Address J Male J Female __________________________________________________ City State Zip Race/Ethnicity Black (African American, not of Hispanic origin) Phone (home) ______________________________________ J J Asian or Pacific Islander Email ______________________________________________ J American Indian or Alaskan Native Fee: Through October 10 After October 10 J Hispanic J White (not of Hispanic origin) J Entire Conference $75 $85 Includes attendance and all events: Friday lunch and reception, Age Saturday brunch, four speakers, choice of workshops and breaks J under 18 J 18-34 J 35-49 J 50-64 J 65+ J Friday only $50 $60 Are you enrolled in this program for career purposes? 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Women’s Studies Conference Return your completed registration form to: Stout Solutions • Continuing Education October 24 - 25, 2003 University of Wisconsin-Stout P.O. Box 790, 140 Vocational Rehab Bldg University of Wisconsin-Stout Menomonie, WI 54751-0790 Menomonie, Wisconsin You may FAX your registration to us if you are paying by charge card or purchase order. Our FAX number is (715) 232-3385. the US, Mee Moua represents St. Paul’s Senate District 67. An 1G Jessie Jack Hooper: From Oshkosh Suffragist to FEATURED SPEAKERS attorney with a BA from Brown University, a master’s from the International Peace Activist Lynn Peril, Pink Think First Plenary Session 9:45 Friday Welcome Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs from UT- Panel with Carmen Heider, Helen Bannan, and Donna Stoddart, UW- Author of Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons Austin, and a University of Minnesota law degree, Moua’s spe- This 28th Annual Conference of the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, on their research into Hooper’s career as a suffrage (Norton), Lynn Peril studies the material history of women’s cul- cial legislative concerns are protecting education, building System Women’s Studies Consortium will bring together acade- activist, political strategist, and social feminist reformer. ture as it appears in the artifacts, self-help books, and home eco- strong communities by supporting workers and saving housing, mics, teachers, students, community leaders and activists, and Moderator Carmen Heider, UW-Oshkosh nomics texts of the mid-twentieth century. Her column “The and fighting to ensure quality of life with public health and others whose lives have been enriched by Women’s Studies. Museum of Femoribilia” appears regularly in Bust magazine. Lynn safety and keeping Minnesota green. Mee escaped war-torn 1H Playing Like a Girl: Sexism and Homophobia in Each person attending the conference will have the opportunity earned her BA in art history from UW-Milwaukee in 1985 and an Laos in 1969 and resettled in the US in 1978. Sen. Moua will to attend the event of choice during each of the six workshop Women’s Basketball MA in history with a concentration in gender from San Francisco be introduced by UW-Stout graduate Bao Thao. sessions offered in the two day conference, and four sessions Briana Smith, Lea Robinson, and Lindsey Hewitt, UW-Milwaukee apply a State University. She now lives in Oakland, California. Lynn, with featured speakers. The Women of Color Award Ceremony queer-theory perspective to players’ and coaches’ first-hand whose talk with be illustrated by vintage slides, will be intro- concludes the conference. experience of fan and media expectations and limitations. duced by Kathryn Kujawa, UW-Stout Department of Friday. October 24 Moderator Leslie Koepke, UW-Stout Technology. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE WORKSHOP SESSION 1 8:00 - 9:30 AM ORKSHOP ESSION AM PM Friday, October 24, 2003 Sherrie A. Inness, Chicks Who Kick Butt: The New World of W S 2 11:15 - 12:30 Eight choices are available in four workshop sessions. the Action Heroine Lunchtime Plenary Session 12:30 Friday 1A Service Learning as Engaged Pedagogy in Women’s 2A Space for a Community of Leaders Studies: Who is Serving Whom? The Self-Sufficiency Program: Creating Spaces for ‘Mind 7:30 am Registration and Coffee Miami University professor of English, American studies, histo- Panel on women’s studies interpretation and practice of service Hunger’ Amy Sullivan, UW-La Crosse describes an innovative pre- 8:00-9:30 am Workshop Session 1 ry and women’s studies, Sherrie A. Inness writes about food, learning and community activism with Kathy Miller-Dillon, UW- college program for low-income women using feminist theory 9:45-11:00 am Welcome Helen Klebesadel, Director politics, and popular culture. Her new book Action Chicks: New Milwaukee; Thomas Schnaubelt, Wisconsin Campus Compact; Anne Statham, and results-oriented strategies. UW System Women’s Studies Consortium Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture, will appear later this year. UW-Parkside; and Nancy Worcester, UW-Madison. Moderated by Helen The Generations: Retrospections by Older Women Leaders, Speaker Lynn Peril Other recent works include Disco Divas: Women and Popular Culture Klebesadel, Women’s Studies Consortium, UW System Administration Implications for Younger Women A study of 82 women leaders 11:15 am-12:30 pm Workshop Session 2 in the 1970s; Cooking Lessons, The Politics of Gender and Food; Dinner by Susan Turell, UW-Eau Claire, shows the significance of early 12:30-2:00 pm Lunch Roles: American Women and Culinary Culture, and Kitchen Culture: experiences and different paths for young women’s leadership Welcome: John Murphy, Dean Popular Representations of Food, Gender, and Race. Sherrie’s work on 1B Media Realities and Reflections development. Moderator Sandra Krajewski, UW-La Crosse College of Arts and Science, UW-Stout girl culture explores “bad girls,” Nancy Drew, and the American Women’s Words: Redefining News Kimberly Wilmot-Voss, Southern Speaker Sherrie Inness Girl doll versus the Barbies. Her 1997 book The Lesbian Menace: Illinois University Edwardsville, tells how the style, editing, and fem- 2B Material Space: Culture and its Icons 2:15-3:30 pm Workshop Session 3 inist content of 60s and 70s “women’s sections” transformed Ideology, Identity, and the Representation of Lesbian Life was voted one Kathryn Kujawa, UW-Stout uses startling visual images and femi- 3:45-5:00 pm Workshop Session 4 news reporting. of 1997’s Outstanding Academic Books and was a finalist for the nist analysis to show the many ways the apron acted as a signi- 5:30-6:30 pm Speakers Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Gender in the Grass: Images of Men and Women in 1950s Judy Grahn award in non-fiction. Sherrie will be introduced by fier in its mid-century heyday and until now in “Apron Strings: Richards Lawncare Advertisements by Ellen Hostetter, University of Kentucky, Janet Polansky, UW-Stout Women’s Studies. Imagery and the American Housewife.” In an adjacent presenta- 6:30 pm Reception and Art Exhibit (Furlong examines the American front lawn delivering messages of gen-