Saturday
April 16, 2005
1:00 p.m.
Radisson
Hotel & Conference Center
Cromwell, CT
I-91, Exit 21
Sponsored
by:
Veteran
Feminists
of America
Co-Sponsors:
CT Women's Education and
Legal Fund
Permanent Commission on the Status of Women
American Association of University Women
Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame
Connecticut National Organization for Women (NOW)
Women's Studies Centers and Programs from area colleges.
Feminism
and Its Values:
An Intergenerational Dialogue
Afternoon Panels and Discussion
1:00 –
1:15
Welcome and Opening Remarks: Helen Z. Pearl, co-chair
1:15 –
2:15: Panel 1
Reproductve Rights and Politics
Moderator: Jennine Gorman, Masuk High School, feminist activist
Speakers: Atty. Catherine Roraback,
Susan Yolan, Planned Parenthood;
Lucy Goddard, Medical Students for Choice
2:30 –
3:30: Panel 2
Feminism and Work: Paid, Unpaid, and Underpaid
Moderator: Joyce Jacobsen, Wesleyan University, economist and women’s
studies professor
Speakers: Lucille Dickess, Past-president of Local 34
Leslie Gabel-Brett, Conn. Permanent Commission on Status of Women
Mary McDaniel, former Middletown teacher who won first pregnancy discrimination
case in 1970s
Liza Featherstone, author of Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle
for Workers’ Rights at Wal-Mart.
3:45 –
4:45: Panel 3
Women’s Roles and Images: Sports, Popular Culture, the Arts
Moderator: Sheila Tobias, former Assoc. Provost, Wesleyan University
Speakers: Robin Sheppard, Prof. of Physical Education, Trinity
College
Jackie Arsenuk, Talk Show Host “The F-files”
Yolande Spears, Director. Education and Community Initiatives, Bushnell
4:45 –
5:00
Summary and Closing Remarks
Tricia Lin, SCSU Women Studies Director,
Amy Kesselman, historian, women’s studies professor, SUNY New Paltz
5:00 – 6:30: Reception (all attendees invited)
6:30 –
9:30: Awards Dinner to Honor Second-Wave Pioneers, Connecticut Feminists
of the Second Wave (1969-1979)
Dinner tickets required.
Afternoon
Panels and Reception -$15. $5 for students or persons with special needs.
Awards Dinner $50/person
