Background History and Philosophy

The Center for the Study of Women and Society was established
in 1977 to promote interdisciplinary research and training on
topics related to the experiences and contributions of women in
society.

The goals of the Center, delineated at its inception, remain
the same, although the focus of endeavors has shifted somewhat over

the past several years.

1. To develop, encourage, and/or sponsor research projects
in the study of women and society;

2. To provide assistance to undergraduate and graduate
programs at the senior and the community colleges in the
CUNY family for the development of course work and major
and minor course of study related to women and society;

3. To develop and sponsor programs in community education on
topics related to women and society;

4. To encourage and coordinate the development of doctoral
courses related to women and society in appropriate
disciplines as well as interdisciplinary courses of study
related to women and society;

5. To encourage and coordinate the development of doctoral
courses related to women and society in appropriate
disciplines as well as courses of an interdisciplinary
nature in the CUNY branches.

From its inception, the Center has endeavored to enhance and
expand Women’s Studies opportunities and scholarship within CUNY.
In addition to scholarly presentations, concrete change requires
active organizing, on-going and action-oriented projects and
involvement and leadership in campus based and CUNY-wide Women’s
Studies endeavors. Activities initiated outside of the Center or
those undertaken collectively, benefit from many Center resources
and the Center frequently serves the function of a_ central
clearinghouse, information source, and organizing entity.

The Center for the Study of Women and Society, from its
inception, assumed responsibility as liaison between’ interested
members of the Graduate School community and the Master’s of Arts
in Liberal Studies specialization and interdisciplinary doctoral
concentration in Women’s Studies. The Center’s director served as
advisor to interested students, guided: curriculum decisions,
provided information about job openings, conferences, fellowships,
research awards, publications and the like. The Center director
also worked with the Executive Officers of the disciplinary
doctoral programs to encourage course offerings focused on Women’s
Studies topics.


The CUNY Feminist Network, founded by the Center in 1983 and
regularly updated, facilitated students’ search for appropriate
mentors. Center projects and programs provided the only consistent
forum for discussions on feminist scholarship. It no longer exists.

There was a strong consensus that a Certificate Program in
Women’s Studies for Ph.D. candidates was required to assure the
intellectual integrity of the educational opportunities provided
doctoral students at the Graduate School.

In 1985, under the leadership and initiatives of the Women’s
Center, and with the encouragement and cooperation of the
administration and the Interdisciplinary Studies Committee, faculty
and students were organized and a committee formed with the goal of
renewing efforts to design and establish a Certificate Program in
Women’s Studies at the Graduate School. The proposal was approved
by "Albany" in the Fall of 1988 and the Program was officially
established and operative in the Spring, 1989 semester. A
coordinator, Judith Lorber, was appointed by President Proshansky
and an office and support staff assigned.

With the establishment of the Certificate Program, the Center
was freed of responsibilities which competed for resources that
could be directed more fully toward research and educational goals.

In 1987, in honor of the tenth anniversary of the Center for
the Study of Women and Society, the Center formed the Feminist
Academy in order to encourage individual support and involvement.
Members receive a number of benefits such as a 10% discount on
Feminist Press books, invitations to special events and the CUNY
Feminist Directory. It no longer exists.

An effort is underway to create a full Ph.D. in Women’s
Studies.

Activities/Projects

1984 - 85 Curriculum Development focused on facilitating the
integration of scholarship related to gender, race,
ethnicity and class into the curriculum at all the CUNY
branches, with the Community Colleges the major target of
this project. A two-year Ford Foundation grant was given
to integrate Women’s Studies scholarship into the
curriculum of the Community Colleges.

Reactivated the Feminist Student’s Organization at the
Graduate School. The Center organized a committee of
Graduate School faculty and students with the goal of
designing and implementing a Certificate Program in
Women’s Studies at the Graduate School.


1991

1995

1996

Established the annual Nina E. Fortin Memorial Fund
Dissertation Award to be given to a Ph.D. candidate in
any program at the Graduate Center who submits an
outstanding dissertation proposal addressing issues that
are important to women.

Renewed linkages to Women Studies’ coordinators on other
CUNY campuses (through joint meetings, events, invitation
to cCenter’s annual Book Party). In the process of
developing a "Women’s Studies Discipline Council" for all
programs within the CUNY system.

Collaborated with Graduate Center and campus-based
colleagues through co-sponsorship of events.

Developed Web Site for the Center for the Study of Women
and Society

Developed a new interdisciplinary course entitled Women,
Community and Public Voice offered Spring 1996

Women, Community and Public Voice: Urban Internships in
Activist Women’s Organizations in New York City.
Developed and funded 8 graduate student internships at
women-led community NYC-based organizations. Students
prepare community profiles and oral histories.

Preserving the Diverse Voices of Activist Women - an oral
history is being created.

Created an external Advisory Board for the Center
Proposed a technological link to create another kind of
dialogue linking activist women with one another and with
the university community

Developing a Women’s Studies Ph.D. proposal


Directors of the Center

Mary Parlee 1979 - 1984

Sue Rosenberg Zalk 1984 - 8/93
Roz Bologh 9/93 —- 12/31/93

Joyce Gelb 1/94 - present

Visiting Scholars

1984-85

Paola Zaccaria (Italy)
Yolande Cohen (Canada)
Magula Giri (Nepal)

1986-87
Margaret Fine-Davis (Dublin)

1987-88
Delila Amir (Israel)
Joan Rothchild (Lowell University)

1988-89

Fran Hopenwasser (Denmark) Fall 1989
Ellen Jacobs (Montreal)

Corinne Squire (London) 1989

1990
Tatyana Mamonova (Soviet Union)

1991-92
Sharon Roach (Australia)
Wilhemina Orosco (Manila)

1992-93
Wilhemina Orosco (Manila)

1996-97
He Shu (China)
Keiko Katsukata (Japan)


Study Groups

Women and Health Group had monthly meetings often with speakers
representing a psychological, sociological and economic perspective

1979

Feminist Methods of Inquiry
Feminist Theory

Women and Health Working Group
Women and Work

Multi-National Corporations

1980

Women and Urban Environments
Women and Health Research
Feminist Methods of Inquiry

1984-85
Curriculum Issues


Publications
Newsletter October 1979 to the present
Feminist Directory

1983
1985
1988
1992/1993
1995

Gender-Balancing the Curriculum: A Handbook for Community Colleges
(1987) Funded by the Ford Foundation.

Library and Information Sources on Women: A Guide to Collections in
the Greater New York Area (1988)

Compiled and edited by The Women’s Resources Group of the Greater
N.Y. Metropolitan Area Chapter of the Association of College and
Research Libraries and the Center for the Study of Women and
Society

Revolutions in Knowledge: Feminism in the Social Sciences (1989) by
Sue Rosenberg Zalk and Janice Gordon-Kelter. Book is an outcome of
a basic lecture series sponsored by the Center.

Sex Roles: A Journal of Research

Poor Urban Women: Their Working and Living Environments,
proceedings of two international symposia/workshops (1992)

experts on women’s issues (1995)
The Center for the Study of Women and Society brochure (1995)
Expanding the Women’s Activist Agenda: Uniting Activists,

Researchers, Funders and Policymakers Summary of Conference
Proceedings (1995)


Funding

1983 -85

1984

1986-87

1987-88

1988-89

1989-90

1989-1991

1991

1991-1992

1992-1993

Ford Foundation grant to mainstream new research on
women and minorities into the liberal arts curriculum
of NYC’s Community Colleges

"Sisterhood is Global: A Symposium on the

Changing Status of Women Throughout the World"

funded by grants from the New York Council for

the Humanities, Chemical Bank ($2,000), the Ford
Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation

Contributions ($1,685)

National Endowment for the Humanities "The Family in
Classical and Hellenistic Greece" summer institute
($66,066)

Graduate School and University Center ($18,000)
Contribution ($2,618)

Graduate School and University Center ($18,610)
Contributions ($2,224)

National Institute on Drug Abuse Reentry Women Students:
Substance Use and Role of Strain ($115,877)

National Endowment for the Humanities "The Family in
Classical and Hellenistic Greece" summer institute
($73,220)

Graduate School and University Center ($10,000)

National Institute of Health Biomedical Research Support
Grant ($3,325)

Ford Foundation ($100,000) continuation of earlier
grant project

Japan Institute on Women’s and Minor’s Problems ($39,000)
and UNIFEM ($18,000) paid for "International Symposium:
Women, The Working Environment and Sustainable
Development in Urban Communities"

Graduate School, CUNY Dean’s Grant ($17,000)

The Feminist Academy of the Center - membership and
contributions ($4,000)

Sex Roles: A Journal of Research ($23,000) from Plenum
Press


1992-93

1992-93

1995

1995-96

1996-97

The Japan Institute for Minor’s Problems ($40,000)
supported the International Symposium/Workshop Poor Urban
Women: Improving Their Living and Working Environments

Dean’s Grant ($17,000)

Japan Institute for Women’s Minorities’ Problems
($50,000) and the Asia Foundation ($5,000) supported
presentation on Poor Urban Women and the Sustainable
Environment in Bejing

AT & T ($25,000), New York Foundation ($5,000), the
Sister Fund ($3,000), The New York Foundation ($5,000),
The New York Women’s Foundation ($1,000) contributed to
an October conference "Expanding the Women’s Activist
Agenda: Uniting Activists, Researchers, Funders and
Policymakers". Con Edison paid for the reception.

AT & T’s contribution also paid for stipends for urban
interns who worked at and profiled activist women-led
New York City organizations.

Aspen Foundation ($25,000) project on Organizational
Change and Transformation: Success and Survival of
Feminist Groups in the 1990s

Research Foundation of City University of New York
($21,000) for research on mobilization of Japanese women
in local communities "Roles in Conflict: Japanese Women
and Political Mobilization"

Research Foundation of City University of New York

($3,000) for equipment

AT & T ($25,000) Continuation of the internship project
and:technological network communication

Governance

1984-85

1996

Center consisted of a Director (or Co-Directors) and an
Executive/Advisory Board which was appointed by the
Director. The Board consisted of CUNY faculty and four
student representatives and its members were not
compensated for their participation.

An independent Advisory Board is being formed.
The Name The Center for the Study of Women and Sex Roles

was changed in 1982 to the present Center for the Study
of Women and Society.


Facilities

Since 1986, the Center has been housed in a three room suite
located at 25 W 43rd Street. One room is used by the Deputy
Director and the Administrative Assistant. A large room is used by
the computer technician, the newsletter editor, visiting scholars
and has a conference table used for brown bag lunch speaker series.
The library is contained in the large room and in the entry area
which also houses the copier machine.

Speaker Series 1979 - Present

1979

11/15 Susan Bourke "Women of the Andes"

11/16 Panel "Women and Health" seminar

1980

2/14 Gerald Speal "Child Custody: The Needs of Children, The
Rights of Fathers" and Ellen Ross "Marriage in the Me
Generation: A Marxist-Feminist Review of Modern Advice
Manuals"

2/28 Naomi Weisstein "Fair Science, Feminism and the Reigning
Truth - ‘How Can a Little Girl Like You Teach A Great Big
Class of Men?’ The Chairman Asked--Adventures and Further
Adventures of a Woman in Science"

3/20 Heidi Hartmann "Housework as an Example of Gender, Class
Political Struggle"

4/24 Rayna Rapp "A Feminist Anthropological Approach to.the
History of Sexuality"

10/08 Catharine Stimpson "The New Scholarship about Women: The
State of the Art"

11/14 Judy Walkowitz "Murder, Murder, Mutilation Whitechapel:
Jack the Ripper and Outcast London"

12/12 Linda Nochlin "The Imagery of the Working Woman in the
Nineteenth Century"

1981

1/08 Herbert Beinstock "The Future of Women in the Labor

Force"

3/06 Lois Verbrugge "Women and Health: Issues of the 80’s"


3/18

4/16

4/29

5/01

1985-87

2/26

3/20

4/09

Spring

5/01

5/09

1987

Spring

Alice Kessler Harris "Thinking About Women in the U.S.
Labor Movement"

Jacqueline Fleming "Sex and Race Differences in the
Impact of the College Environment: Institutional
Implications"

Roger Waldinger labor issues and unionization

Rosalind Rosenberg "Social Sciences and Feminism: 1890-
1920"

"A Revolution in Knowledge: Feminist Scholarship
Transforming the Disciplines" lecture series addressing
the ways the academic disciplines have been shaped by the
new scholarship on women. Each lecture featured a renown
scholar and all lectures were co-sponsored by the
appropriate discipline and where applicable, Center or
Committee at the Graduate School. Speakers included:
Catherine Stimpson, Rutgers University (Literature); Joan
Tronto, Hunter College (Political Science); Dorothy
Helly, Hunter College (History); Cheryl Gilkes, Colby
College (Sociology); Rebecca Blank, Woodrow Wilson

. School, Princeton University (Economics; Mary Parlee,

Graduate School, CUNY (Psychology); Rayna Rapp, New
School for Social Research (Anthropology); Virginia Held,
Hunter/GSUC (Philosophy); and John Bird, Middlesex
Polytechnic, London (Art History).

"Changing Perspectives in Philosophy" Virginia Held,
Hunter /CUNY

"Art History and Hegemony" by Jon Bird, Middlesex,
England

"Feminist Criticism Today" Catherine Stimpson, Rutgers

"Journalism from a Feminist Perspective: An International
View"

"The Psychology of Women and Mainstream Psychology:
Challenges for the Future" Mary Brown Parlee, CUNY

"Anthropology: Science of Men?" Rayna Rapp, New School

"Libraries and Porn-Access or Censorship" co-sponsored
with the Library Association of CUNY


1988

March

on

Spring

Fall

1989

3/02

3/08

3/29

4/06

5/05

1991

3/16

3/30 & 5/4

"The Black Womanist Challenge to Marxist Theory" by
Cornel West was one of a number of presentations co-
sponsored with the Minority Students Association and the
Feminist Students’ Organization

"State and Opposition: Feminism in Military Brazil" by
Maria Helena Moreira Alves

Reading by Louise Meriweather from her book in progress
Civil War and Reconstruction co-sponsored with the
Women’s Resource Group of the New York Metropolitan
Chapter of the ACRL

Readings by Blanche Wiesen Cook from her book on Eleanor
Roosevelt and by Clare Coss from her play "Lillian Wald:
At Home on Henry Street"

"In the Canon’s Mouth" lecture by Lillian Robinson co-
sponsored with the Ph.D. Program in English

"Eleanor Roosevelt" presentation by Blanche Wiesen
Cook as part of the celebration of the new Women’s
Studies Certificate Program at the Graduate School

"Women Alone: Confronting Old Myths, Embracing New
Possibilities" co-sponsored with the NYC Coalition for
Women’s Mental Health and the Division of Women’s Issues,
NYS Psychological Association

"Women and War in Literature" by Jane Marcus ce-sponsored
with The Feminist Press

"Premenstrual Syndrome" co-sponsored with the Center for
Health Promotion

"Women & Alcohol: A Critical Women’s Issue" co-sponsored
with the Center for Health Promotion

"Evolving Theories on the Psyckelogy of Women: How
Changing Perspectives Have Influenced Therapy" co-
sponsored with the New York City Coalition for Women’s
Mental Health

Series of concerts co-sponsored with the Project for
the Study of Women in Music and the Ph.D. Program in
Music and the Center


4/06

5/06

10/21

1993

2/11

2/18

2/19

2/22

2/23

2/25

2/26

3/11

4/12

4/22

4/23

4/29

Teaching about AIDS

Marilyn Gittel "Blue Collar Women and Volunteerism" as
part of Women and Work Proseminar

"African-American Studies and the Impact of Scholarship
on Women" co~sponsored by the CUNY Academy for the
Humanities and Sciences

"Writing Women’s Lives in Africa" Molara Ogundipe-
Leslie, Chair in Women’s Studies, Rutgers University

"Women in ‘IMUT’: Profiles of a Jewish and Arab
Psychologist and their Role in Promoting Dialogue and
Equality" Tamar Zelniker co-sponsored by the Center for
Jewish Studies

"Mothering in the Movies: Race, Psychoanalysis and
Feminism" E. Ann Kaplan, Film Studies Humanities
Institute, SUNY, Stony Brook co-sponsored by English

"Out of the Academy and into the World with Carolyn G.
Heilbrun" 4 part panel series in conjunction with
screenings of videos from the 1992 conference

"Cuban Women Writers" Marta Eugenia Gomez, English
and Women’s Studies, College of Mexico

"Sarah Fielding’s Familiar Letters and the Case of
Literary Misrepresentation" Joyce Grossman, English

"The Tools of the Master: Black Women, White Women, and
the Language of Abstraction" Ann Gibson, Art History
SUNY, Stony Brook

"Tda B. Wells and the Beginning of the Modern Civil
Rights Movement" Paula Giddings, Visiting Professor of
History, Princeton

"The Private ‘I’: Subjectivities in Feminist Crime
Fiction" Elizabeth Wright, Girton College Cambridge,
England co-sponsored by Comparative Literature

"Sirk’s Imitation of Life: Sentimentality and Sado-
Masochism" Laura Hinton, English, CCNY co-sponsored by
English

Susie Tharu, Central Institute of English in Hyderabad,
India Feminist Press at CUNY

"Race/Gender Inequality in the Professions" Natalie
Sokoloff, Sociology John Jay College


4/30

5/06

5/13

9/21

9/23

9/30

10/01

10/08

10/22

10/29

11/04

11/05

11/09

11/18

"Where is My Father?: The Interracial Homoerotics of
Contemporary African-American Fiction" Robert Reid-
Pharr, English Pforzheimer Fellow, CCNY co-sponsored by
English

"Apparatus Aside: Production, Reproduction, and the
Mirror: Photographs of Florence Henri" Carol Armstrong,
Art History, CUNY

"The Poetics of Disembodiment:: Imaginary Geographies and
Diasporic Cinemas" Ella Shohat, Theatre/Film and Women’s
Studies

"Sado-Masochism in Everyday Life: Dynamics of Power and
Powerlessness" Lynn Chancer ‘co-sponsored by Sociology

"Black Women in the Academy" Forum co-sponsored by UDI
and Cultural Studies

"Pro~Sex Feminism Post AIDS" Jane Gaines Cinema Studies,
Duke University co-sponsored by Film Studies Certificate
Program

"Harpo’s Blues: Alice Walker and Black Male Discourse"
George Cunningham Africana Studies, Brooklyn College
co-sponsored by English

"Was Huck Black? Mark Twain’s Black Informants" Shelley
Fisher-Fishkin English, University of Texas-Austin co-
sponsored by English

"Return of the Repressed: Feminism and Freud" Ellen
Willis Journalism, New York University

Panel discussion with Helke Sanders, German filmmaker
Co-sponsored by Film Studies Certificate Program,
Deutsches House of Columbia University, Modern German
Studies, and Goethe House New York

"Motherhood and Madness: Mary Chauzet, Buchi Emecheti,
Toni Morrison" Regine Latortue, Africana Studies,
Brooklyn College

"The Case of the Jewish M-Other: Men Stereotyping Women"
Gladys Rothbell, Freelance Sociologist and
Psychotherapist

"Public Fantasies" Judith Barry, Installation Artist
Co-sponsored by Art History

"Piecing the Self: Diasporism as Ends and Means"
Lorraine O’Grady, Black Feminist Conceptual Artist
co-sponsored by Art History


11/30

12/07

12/09

1994

2/10

2/17

2/23

3/04

3/22

4/08

5/29

4/29

5/06

9/13

9/20

"The Illusion of the Gender Neutral Family: The Need for
the Re Organization of Intimacy" Martha Fineman,
Columbia Law School

"Forum: Interdisciplinary in Women’s Studies"

"Serial Killers: The White Boy Next Door” Philomena
Mariani

"In Search of Pharoah’s Daughter: An Exploration of Black
Single Motherhood" Patricia Williams, Columbia Law
School

"Writing Chicago: Modernism, Ethnography, and the Novel"
Carla Capett, English, The City College

"Amy’s Beach’s World" Adrian Fried Block, Brooklyn
College

Forum/Panel "Women in Eastern Europe and the Effects of
Post-Communism" Moderator: Ann Snitow, Literature, New
School for Social Research Co-sponsored by the Ph.D.
Program in Sociology

"White Lies: The Missing Discourse of Male Sexual
Accountability" Michelle Fine Co-sponsored by the Ph.D.
Program in Psychology

"Shame at the Threshold" Eve Sedgwick, English, Duke
University Co-sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in English

Panel: "The Politics of Childbirth: Mystery, Symbol, and
the New Reproductive Technologies" Co-sponsored by the
Ph.D. Program in Anthropology, the Women’s Studies
Certificate Program, and the Bildner Center for Western
Hemisphere Studies

"The Couple in a Cage" Coco Fusco, Cuban cultural/art
critic Co-sponsored by the Film Studies Certificate
Program

"Rich Metaphysics: A Critique of Adrienne’ Rich’s
Disloyalty to Civilization, Feminism, Racism, Gynephobia"
Kriemild Sauders

"Representing Truth: Sojourner Truth Knowing and Being
Known" Nell Painter History, Princeton University Co-
sponsored by History Department

"Community Mobilization of Women in Japan" Joyce Gelb
Co-sponsored by Political Science Department


9/29

10/05

10/07

10/19

11/03

11/04

11/10

11/15

11/22

12/08

1995

3/16

4/27

"The Absence of Women . and Blacks in Abstract
Expressionism: Norman Lewis and Louise Bourgeois" Ann
Gibson Art History, SUNY Stony Brook Co-sponsored by Art
History Department

"The Patriarchy is Dying" Barbara Ehrenreich
Co-sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies and the
Union of Democratic Intellectuals

"Zoara Neale Hurston:-A Critical Overview" Caria Capetti
English, City College Co-sponsored by the English
Department

"Jiang Qing, Mao’s Wife: The Wages of Power" Roxane
Witke Co-sponsored by the History Department

"Still Learning After All These Years: Race and Gender in
The Banjo Lessons of Henry O. Tanner and Mary Cassett"
Judith Wilson Art History, Yale University Co-sponsored
by Art History

"Unnatural Selection? The Peoples of Darwin’s Beagle
Voyage" Gillian Beer Co-sponsored by English Department

"Confession and Transgression: How Political is the
Personal?" bell hooks English, City College Co-
sponsored by the English Department and the Center for
Cultural Studies

"Theorizing Black Feminisms: Performance, Transcription
and the Language of the Self" Abena Busia English,
Comparative Literature and Women’s Studies, Rutgers
University Co-sponsored by Comparative Literature

Panel: "Women in Eastern Europe: The Video" Moderated by
Ann Snitow English, Eugene Lang College

Co-sponsored by the Genter for Cultural Studies and The
Network of East-West Women

Panel: Women and Foundations: Funding for Girls, Women’s
Studies, and More" Moderated by Kathleen McCarthy,
Director, Center for the Study of Philanthropy, Graduate
Center, CUNY

Lunch-time series highlighting "Feminist Scholars Abroad:
International Perspectives"

"The Vitality of Feminism in India" Florence Howe and
Meena Alexander

"Women and the Latin American Church: From Bastions of
Humility to Religious Activism" Electa Arenal, Audrey
Glynn and Bernadette Desmond


9/21

10/19

10/26

11/01

11/02

11/08

12/05

1996

2/07

2/13

2/28

3/01

3/06

3/07

3/07

3/12

Use of CUNY TV including "Post-Beijing Wrap-Up"

"The Man Who Never Was: Teenage Memories, Teenage Gods"
Janet Sayers

"Pornography Geography" breakfast in conjunction with the
New York Women’s Agenda

"Labor Policy and Women’s Work in Italy in an
International Context" Daniela Del Boca co-sponsored
with the European Union Studies Center and The Department
of Economics

"Three Women from Beijing" Weili Ye, Ma Xiaodong, Lin
Chun

"Japanese Women’s Under-representation in Decision-
making" The Honorable Tamako Nakanishi

"Changing Palestine for Rome’: Shakespeare, Cary, and
the Bodies of Dead Kings" Elizabeth Mazzola SSWR
meeting

"Post-Beijing Roundtable" panel
"Glass Ceilings and Open Doors: Women in the Law"

Cynthia Fuchs Epstein co-sponsored with Sociology,
Graduate School

"Jane Austen and the Movies" Patricia Laurence and panel

"On Stage: Russian Women Artists Design for the Theatre,
1914-1924" co-sponsored with the Ph.D. Program in Art
History

"On the Postpartum Document" co-sponsored with the Ph.D.
Program in Art History

"Embodied Visions: A Symposium on Feminist Cultural
Studies" moderated by Nancy Miller

"Eleanor Roosevelt: Women and Power" Blanche Wiesen Cook
co-sponsored by the Ph.D. program in History

"Israeli-Palestinian Women’s Movements: Pathways to
Progress"

""Emblems of Female Authorship" SSWR meeting
"The Making of Female Sanctity: Hildegard of Gingen and

Guibert of Gemloux" co-sponsored by the Ph.D. program in
History


3/20

3/26

4/11
4/16

4/29

"Charlotte Delbo’s Triple Courage" Rosette Lamont co-
Sponsored with the Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust
Studies

"Affirmative Action: A Relevant Public Policy?" moderated
by Kristin Booth Glen

"Coming of Age in Japan" Beate Sirote Gordon
"Bobse Mayse, A Tale of Washington Square" Nancy Bogen
"Cornerstones of Peace: Jewish Identity Politics and

Democratic Theory" Maria Brettschneider co-sponsored
with Ma’yan: The Jewish Women’s Project

Film Screenings

1979
11/15

12/19

1980
12/19

1987-88

1989

4/12

1993

2/22

3/01
3/18

9/30

10/28

10/29

"Blow for Blow"

"Babies and Banners", "A Man’s Place", "Social Change#
and "The American Woman"

"Birth" and "All My Babies"
Film series of movies and documentaries directed by

women, on feminist themes co-sponsored with the Feminist
Students’ Organization

"Reel Women: Pioneers of the Cinema" co-sponsored with
the Humanities Institute, the Department of Film and the
Women’s Studies Program

"Out of the Academy and into the World with Carolyn G.
Heilbrun" 4 part screening of the 1992 conference

Yvonne Rainer presentation of "Privilege" and discussion
"Finding Christa" by Camille Billops

"Spy in the House That Ruth Built" Vanalyne Greene
co-sponsored by Film Studies Certificate Program

"Redupers" Helke Sander, German filmmaker

"Liberators and Liberated" Helke Sander, German filmmaker


1994

3/11 "Greetings From Out Here" (Spiro) and "Uh-Oh" (Zando)
Lesbian Feminist Video Co-sponsored by the Film Studies
Certificate Program

11/17 "The Other Side of the Fence: Anti-Abortion, Planned
Parenthood, and the Religious Right" Lynn Estomin

1996

5/9 "Small Happiness: Women of a Chinese Village" brown bag
lunch speakers, film and discussion

Conferences

1980

3/14 - 16/80

5/2

5/12

1981

11/12

1984

11/17 and 18

1985

March

"Asian/Pacific Women on the Move: Strategies for
Educational Equities"

co-sponsored with Asian Women United, Center and the
Women’s Educational Equity Act
"Public and Private Spaces: Conference on Women
Composers"

Conference on "Women’s Words: A Workshop on Feminist
Publishing" sponsored by the newly created Feminist
Students Organization

The C.U.N.Y¥Y. Feminist Network Conference cy-
sponsored by the Feminist Students Organization’
and the Center

"Sisterhood is Global: A Symposium on the Changing
Status of Women Throughout the World". Twenty-two
prominent women from twenty-two naticns
participated.

"Women’s History through Poetry: An International
Program" co-sponsored by the Center and the Feminist
Press


5/30

6/18

1986

3/14

1987

March

7/6-10

Summer

Fall

1987-88
Spring

"Gender and Race in the City University of New York:
Strategies for Change" sponsored by the Center for
the Study of Women and Society, Friends of Women’s
Studies at CUNY and The CUNY Women’s Coalition

Seminar on Women and Economic Planning co-sponsored
by the Center and the Young Women’s Business and
Professional Organization

"Women’s History through Poetry: An International
Program" symposium co-sponsored with the Feminist
Press

CUNY’sS women Presidents spoke about their own
experiences as professional women and about their
agendas for enhancing Women’s Studies and supporting
women students. The event was co-sponsored with CUNY
Women’s Coalition and Friends of Women’s Studies

"Women Writing on Women", a dialogue with CUNY
women authors, is a two-part symposium presented
annually as part of the CUNY Academy for the
Humanities and Sciences’ lecture series.

Co-sponsored the 1987 Third International
Interdisciplinary Congress on Women held in Dublin,
Ireland

Institutes on the family in classical antiquity and
on women and music

Sex Equity Programs targeted to school
administrators, teachers, students, and the general
public and the private sector sponsored by the
Center and the NYC Board of Education Office of
Equal Opportunity and the Division of Curriculum and
Instruction

In collaboration with John Jay College’s Inmate
Education Program and Department of Sociology, the

Center offered Introduction to Women’s Studies

course

Assisted the Rockland County Family Shelter, a
multi-service providers for victims of family
violence.


1988

March

Spring

1989

Spring

1990

3/16

3/24

4/20

5/09

5/17

June

November

11/15

1991

1/25

Discussion group organized for students with Barbara
Katz-Rothman and Judith Lorber, moderated by Mary
Parlee, on in-vitro fertilization co-sponsored with
the Feminist Students’ Organization ©

"Women and the Law: Case Analyses and Conversations
with Psychotherapists and Lawyers", a panel of
lawyers and psychologists co-sponsored with the New
York City Coalition for Women’s Mental Health and
the Division of Women’s Issues of the New York State
Psychological Association

"Women Alone: Confronting Old Myths, Embracing New
Possibilities" panel co-sponsored with the New York
City Coalition for Women’s Mental Health and the
Division of Women’s Issues of the New York State

Psychological Association.

"Women in War and Peace I: The Space of Female
Heroism"

"Race and Ethnicity: Sameness and Differences in

Psychotherapy" co-sponsored with NYC Coalition for
Women’s Mental Health

"Decolonizing Feminism"

"Women in Peace II: Amazons and Saints"

"Gender and Other Dualities in Mwgic History: A
Musical Debutante? Feminist Theory and Music"

Fourth International Interdisciplinary Congress on
Women held at Hunter College - Center co-sponsored

"Knowing Herself: Women Tell Their Stories in
Psychotherapy"

Series of four seminars on "Women of Color in the
Curriculum"

"Love and Violence: Victims and Perpetrators"


1/31

February

3/16

March

9/20-21

1992

3/06

6/08

10/25

11/30
3/1/93

10/30

12/07

"Women’s Health Agenda for the 21st Century:
Research, Practice, Policy" co-sponsored by the
Division of the Psychology of Women of the American
Psychological Association

Contemporary Women Composers Concert

"Discrimination: A Focus on Italian-American Women
in Higher Education" co-sponsored with the National
Organization of Italian American Women and the John
D. Calandra Italian-American Institute-CUNY

"Changing Theories in the Psychology of Women"

"International Symposium: Women, The Working
Environment and Sustainable Development in Urban
Communities" co-sponsored by the Japan Institute on
Women’s and Minor’s Problems

"Incest: Identification, Healing and Prevention" co-
sponsored by the New York City Coalition for Women’s
Mental Health and the Division of Women’s Issues of
the New York State Psychological Association

"Poor Urban Women: Improving Their Living and
Working Environments", Held at the NGO Forum, UN
Conference on Environment and Development

Seminar series on Scholarship and the Curriculum:
The Study of Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Class co-
sponsored with the CUNY Academy for the Humanities
and Sciences:

Literature
History
Sociology

"Out of the Academy and Into the World with Carolyn
G. Heilbrun" co-sponsored with the GSUC Women’s
Studies Certificate Program and the English Ph.D.
Program

"Violence and Gender: A Discussion of Violence ina
Socio-Cultural Context" co-sponsored with the CUNY
Academy for the Humanities and Sciences


1993

5/13

5/26

1994

10/28

5/22

1995
3/03

3/04

3/08

3/24

5/05

May

"Gender and Science: An Introduction to Some of the
Issues" co-sponsored with the GSUC Women’s
Certificate Program

"Sexuality and Menopause" co-sponsored with the New
York City Coalition for Women’s Mental Health

Symposium on the Future of Women’s Studies

Panel: "Feminism for the Year 2000? Views from the
Humanities" Moderator: Nancy Miller English, Lehman
College and Graduate Center, CUNY Co-sponsored by
the English Department

Official U.S. Region II Meeting for the United
Nations Fourth World Conference on Women "Women
Thinking Globally Acting Locally" Co-sponsored by
the Women’s Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor, Region
II, U.S. Department of State, New York and New
Jersey Federal Executive Board. Held at the Graduate
School, CUNY.

"Theory, Methodology, and Historical Background"

"Colonial Policies and Colonizers and
Colonizeda"

Workshop on Women and German Colonialism

"Women for Women: Against the Contract" Moderated
by Frances Fox Piven. Experts, including Borough
President Ruth Messinger, examine the "Contract
with America".

"Dominican Women: Approaching the 21st Century"
Magaly Pineda co-sponsored with The Bildner Center
for Western Hemisphere Studies

"Are Feminist Critiques of Reason Rational?" Linda
Alcoff and "Nomadic Subjects" Rosi Braidotti
co-sponsored with the Society for Women in
Philosophy

First Annual Book Party honoring CUNY women
authors


8/30-9/5
10/6-10/7
10/16-17
1996

5/16

June

Three-day workshop and.symposium "Women in the Urban
Environment: Creating Sustainable Working and Living
Conditions" held at the 1995 Fourth International
Women’s Conference in Beijing, China

"Lesbian and Gay History: Defining a Field" co-
sponsored with The Center for Lesbian and Gay
Studies

"Expanding the Women’s Activist Agenda: Uniting
Activists, Researchers, Funders and Policymakers"
co-sponsored with the Howard Samuels State
Management and Policy Center and New York Women’s
Foundation

Second Annual Book Party honoring CUNY women authors

Presentation at the UN sponsored Habitat II NGO
Forum in Istanbul. Goal is to establish a US-Asian
network/clearinghouse on "Poor urban women: their
living and working conditions."