UpDate - Vol. 14, No. 28, Page 5
April 20, 1995
Annual Research on Women Conference next week

     The annual Geis Student Research on Women Conference will be held
in the Perkins Student Center from 8:30 a.m.-3:50 p.m., Thursday,
April 27, in the Kirkwood Room, and from 10 a.m.-4 p.m, Friday, April
28, in the Ewing Room. A welcome will be given each morning by Kate
Conway-Turner, women's studies.
     The program is held each year to recognize student excellence in
research. A five-minute discussion will follow each 15-minute
presentation.


Thursday
   Literature
   Undergraduate Division
     8:45 a.m.-"Truth, Language and Identity in The Quest for Christa
        T," Eve Nilenders
     9:05 a.m.-"A Picture of Society as seen in Virginia Woolf's Mrs.
        Dalloway and The Waves," Joseph Fruscione
     9:25 a.m.-"Paula and Her Other Voice," Dawn Smith

   Literature
   Graduate Division
     9:45 a.m.-"Dis-Placing the Feminine: Landscape as Maternal Body
        in Emily Bronte's Poetry," Mary Ellen Bellanca
     10:05 a.m.-"The Femme Fatale Stereotype Updated for the 1990's:
        Feminist Film Theory in an Era of `Post Feminism,'"Kristel R.
        Smentek
     10:25 a.m.-"`I'm in Love With This All': Female Desire in
        Feminist Psychoanalytic Criticism and To The Lighthouse,"
        Gregory M. Weight
     10:45 a.m.-"Mary Edith Durham: Seeing Difference Sketching
        Reality," Stephanie Batcos
     11:05 a.m.-"An Actor's Revision of All's Well That Ends Well: The
        Feminist Reader of The Shakespearean Stage," Sue Anne Beyer
     11:25 a.m.-"A Mother's Imprisoning Past: The `Death' of A Child
        and Female Identity in Morrison's Beloved and Ozick's The
        Shawl," Zahra Farrokh
     11:45 a.m.-"The Romance of Medicine: Fictions of The Woman
        Doctor,"Lisa Kochanek

   Social Issues
   Undergraduate Division
     1:30 p.m.-"Differences in Ideal Dating Characteristics Between
        the Sexes," Alexandra Weinberg
     1:50 p.m.-"Battered Women and The Law," Erin Wilson
     2:10 p.m.-"Allocation of Domestic Labor Among Spouses," Leslie C.
        Bauer Berger
     2:30 p.m.-"Cardiovascular Disease: Elderly Women and Coronary
        Artery Disease," Judith Susan Faillace
     2:50 p.m.-"Women and Work," Joanna May
     3:10 p.m.-"Mary van Kleeck: Balancing Faith and Skepticism
        Through The Agency of The Social Gospel," Catherine M. Leonard
     3:30 p.m.-"Spousal Abuse: Theories and Perceptions," Jennifer L.
        Newman


Friday
   Social Issues
   Graduate Division
     10:15 a.m.-"The Importance of Language in Stigmatizing Women as
        Deviant," Rachael E. Bennett
     10:35 a.m.-"Racism, Sexism, and Policy: Dynamics of Domestic
        Violence," Robin M. Beads
     10:55 a.m.-"The Development of A Measure to Assess The Propensity
        to Sexually Harass: The Specific Case of The Hostile
        Environment," Ginger Coman
     11:15 a.m.-"`This Issue is Not Relevant to Our Organization':
        Domestic Violence and Emergency Housing Organizations in
        Delaware," Emily Knearl
     11:35 a.m.-"Women Garment Factory Workers in Bangladesh: An
        Emergent Group of Independent Income Earners," Sania Sultan
     11:55 a.m.-"The Single-Family House as An Architecture of Gender:
        A New Castle County Case Study," Stephanie A. McClellan

   History, Art and Culture
   Graduate Division
     1 p.m.-"The Curse of Beauty: Woman as Victim in The Sculpture of
        Harriet Hosmer," Julie A. Dunn-Morton
     1:20 p.m.-"`I Tell You Husband I Can Live No Longer Here':
        Elizabeth Wirt's Decision to Buy a New House," Jill Haley
     1:40 p.m.-"The Suspicion of Working Women: Jean-Francois
        Raffaelli's Street Vendors," Erika Schneider
     2 p.m.-"Gift Books in Antebellum America: Exchanging and
        Individualizing Refinement," Cindy Dickinson
     2:20 p.m.-"Quilts and Community," Patricia J. Keller
     2:40 p.m.-"More Than `A Pack of Dirty Trash': Women and
        Respectability on The Pennsylvania Railroad," Janet Davidson
     3:15 p.m.-Reception and refreshments, Ewing Room, Perkins Student
        Center. There will be the announcement of the graduate and
        undergraduate winners of the President's Award.


     The annual program is sponsored by the Office of Women's Affairs
and the Women's Studies Interdisciplinary Program, in cooperation with
the Commission on the Status of Women and the Office of the President.