NWSA’S 40TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE Protest, Justice, and Transnational Organizing 2019 NWSA ANNUAL CONFERENCE: Protest, Justice, and Transnational Organizing NOV 14–17, 2019 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA NOVEMBER 2018 14-17, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 2020 NWSA Chair and Director Meeting About Friday March 6th The 2020 Chair and Director meeting will be focused on the different responses Chicago, IL to external pressures experienced by departments, programs, and centers. This event is intended to promote field- building by bringing together program and department chairs and women’s center directors for a day-long meeting as an added benefit of institutional membership. Participants will exchange ideas and strategies focused on program and center administration, curriculum development, and pedagogy, among other topics. Participation requirements: • 2020 institutional membership • Chair and Director Meeting registration fee $125 • Registration form DEADLINE The fee includes participation in the event and TO REGISTER: breakfast and lunch the day of the meeting. It does not include travel. NWSA will cover one night’s FEBRUARY 15, 2020 accommodations for those who require it. 2019 NWSA ANNUAL CONFERENCE: Protest, Justice, and Transnational Organizing NOV 14–17, 2019 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA Table of Contents President’s Welcome ........................................... 4 A Brief (and Incomplete) History of the NWSA Women of Color Caucus ................................... 43 Conference Maps ............................................... 5 NWSA Receptions and Events ............................ 45 Conference Services ........................................... 9 Constituent Group Meetings .............................. 46 Keynote Session .............................................. 10 Exhibit Hall Overview ...................................... 47 Plenary Sessions ............................................. 12 NWSA Member and Leader Meetings ................. 49 Authors Meet Critics ......................................... 20 Pre-Conference Schedule .................................. 50 Presidential Sessions ....................................... 30 General Conference ......................................... 58 General Information ........................................ 34 Participant Index ............................................ 154 Acknowledgements and Awards ........................ 35 Subject Index ................................................. 178 Curatorial Statement ........................................ 41 Advertiser Index ............................................. 181 NWSA’S 40TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE BOLD Women’s Studies, ESSENTIAL Reading Treacherous Texts U. S. Suffrage Literature, 1846–1946 QUICK TAKES MOVIES & POPULAR CULTURE Transgender Cinema REBECCA BELL-METEREAU Edited by Mary Chapman and Angela Mills TREACHEROUS TEXTS POSTFEMINIST WAR REFORMED AMERICAN LIVING WHEN YOU’RE DOING IT TRANSGENDER An Anthology of U.S. Women in the Media- DREAMS EVERYTHING CHANGED WRONG! CINEMA Suffrage Literature, Military-Industrial Welfare Mothers, Higher My Life in Academia Mothering, Media, and Rebecca Bell-Metereau Complex Education, and Activism Mary Kay Thompson Medical Expertise paper $17.95 1846-1946 A volume in the Quick Takes: Movies Edited by Mary Chapman & Mary Douglas Vavrus Sheila M. Katz Tetreault Bethany L. Johnson & and Popular Culture series Angela Mills paper $28.95 paper $28.85 cloth $29.95 Margaret M. Quinlan A volume in the War Culture series paper $24.95 paper $29.95 ASIAN AMERICAN WOMEN FIGHTTHE SCHOLARS’ RESISTANCE Edited by Bahiyyah M. Muhammad & Melanie—Angela Neuilly AND RENEWAL MOTHERING IN THE ACADEMY EDITED BY KIEU LINH CAROLINE VALVERDE FROM THE TOWER AND WEI MING DARIOTIS THE END OF Putting Their Hands on Race INTERNATIONAL IRISH IMMIGRANT AND SOUTHERN BLACK FIELD DOMESTIC WORKERS THE IMPACT OF MOTHERHOOD Danielle T. Phillips-Cunningham ADOPTION? ON SITE—BASED RESEARCH An Unraveling Reproductive Market and the Politics of Healthy Babies Estye Fenton BEYOND REPAIR? THE END OF THE VISUAL IS PUTTING THEIR HANDS MOTHERING FROM THE FIGHT THE TOWER Mayan Women’s INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ON RACE FIELD Asian American Women Protagonism in the ADOPTION? Feminist Photography Irish Immigrant and The Impact of Scholars’ Resistance Aftermath of Genocidal An Unraveling and Countercultural Southern Black Motherhood on Site- and Renewal in the Harm Reproductive Market Activity in 1970s Britain Domestic Workers, Based Research Academy Alison Crosby & and the Politics of Na’ama Klorman-Eraqi 1850-1940 Edited by Edited by Bahiyyah M. Muhammad & M. Brinton Lykes Healthy Babies paper $29.95 Danielle T. Phillips- Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde Melanie-Angela Neuilly paper $34.95 Estye Fenton Cunningham & Wei Ming Dariotis A volume in the Genocide, Political paper $29.95 Violence, Human Rights series paper $28.95 paper $34.95 paper $44.95 A volume in the Families in Focus series MEDICAL Entanglements SHALL NOT BE DENIED Rethinking Feminist Debates About Healthcare Women Fight for the KRISTINA GUPTA Vote Library of Congress MEDICAL KICKING CENTER TOUCHED BODIES LOVE, ANARCHY, & paper $24.95 IT NEVER GOES AWAY ENTANGLEMENTS Gender and the The Performative Turn in EMMA GOLDMAN Gender Transition at a Rethinking Feminist Selling of Women’s Latin American Art Candace Falk Mature Age Debates about Professional Soccer Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra paper $24.95 Anne Lauren Koch Healthcare Rachel Allison paper $34.95 cloth $28.95 Kristina Gupta paper $27.95 A volume in the Critical Issues in Sport paper $29.95 and Society series THE POLITICS OF MARRIAGE AND GENDER: TRANSITS: LITERATURE, THOUGHT & GLOBAL ISSUES IN LOCAL CONTEXTS CULTURE 1650-1850 VISIT OUR BOOTH #3212! QUEER OBJECTS 30% Conference Edited by Chris Brickell & Discount plus Judith Collard free shipping! Use paper $39.95 HONOR AND THE COURTING DESIRE JANE AUSTEN AND INTELLIGENT SOULS? discount code POLITICAL ECONOMY Litigating for Love in COMEDY Feminist Orientalism OF MARRIAGE North India Edited by Erin Goss in Eighteenth-Century RNWSA19. Violence against Rama Srinivasan paper $34.95 English Literature Women in the Kurdistan paper $34.95 Samara Anne Cahill Region on Iraq paper $34.95 Joanne Payton Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by paper $29.95 Rutgers University Press. Sign up for news and special offers Also available as ebooks eNewsletter Sign Up rutgersuniversitypress.org Receive free email alerts eNewsletter Sign Up Receive free email alerts transparent PRESIDENT’S WELCOME September 26, 2019 Dear Colleagues, It has been an exciting year of transition for NWSA. We have a new office in Chicago and three new staff members, Deana Lewis, Jennifer Ash, and Victoria Agunod, who have done an incredible job putting together what we know will be a stellar conference. Many, many thanks for their hard work to attend to every detail of this conference, from childcare to the quiet room to accessibility services. I have had the privilege and honor of working with two amazing co-chairs, Dána-Ain Davis and Robyn Spencer, and a wonderful roster of review chairs who were critical in shaping the content of the conference. This year, NWSA had its largest number of proposal submissions ever (over 1300!); congratulations to everyone, from participants to reviewers, who labored to ensure an intellectually stimulating and inclusive conference. #NWSA2019 will prove to be a busy and enlightening conference with 600 sessions, over 2300 presenters, and over 400 moderators. In addition to our keynote conversation between Keeanga-Yamhatta Taylor and Arundhati Roy, we are thrilled to have as featured speakers Cherríe Moraga, Mishuana Goeman, Margaret Noodin, Aren Aizura, Lynn Roberts, Noura Erakat, Michelle Téllez, Thenmozhi Soundarajan, and many more. The Bay Area is an especially inspiring place to hold this conference given the confluence of organizing and activism around indigenous, LGBTQ+, Palestinian, Latinx, immigration, and labor issues. In addition to panels and papers highlighting Bay Area politics, this year, for the first time, NWSA has formed a local arrangements committee to partner with community organizations and offer locally oriented events. Conference attendees will have the opportunity to attend a tour of the Comfort Women Memorial Statue and a closing celebration at the San Francisco Women’s Building. We have worked with writer, performer, and artist Rosamond King to curate an Arts@ NWSA program with a selection of dance by the Sarah Bush Dance Project and visual arts (including DJ Emancipation at the Welcome Reception!) Finally, we have strengthened NWSA’s commitment to creating a welcoming space for activists, through inclusion on panels and plenaries and financial support with our activist travel fund. We encourage people who are able to make a donation to support travel for participants with limited resources. You can do so on the NWSA website: www.nwsa.org And a sneak preview for #2020NWSA: Our conference theme for next year is “The Poetics, Politics, and Praxis of Transnational Feminism.” We hope it will be an opportunity to reflect on the theory and praxis of the past and future of transnational feminism in a rapidly shifting global landscape. The call for proposals will be issued shortly. In the meantime, mark your calendars for November 12-15, 2020 in Minneapolis! Sincerely, Premilla Nadasen President, NWSA (2018–2020) 2019 NATIONAL WOMEN’S STUDIES ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE 4 HILTON UNION SQUARE MAPS TOWER 1, 2 & 3 / LOBBY LEVEL Tower 1, 2, &