The Fourth Wave: What is the New Feminism?

Schedule

Saturday, October 25, 2003
Rehm Library, Smith Hall
College of the Holy Cross
Worcester, MA
Sponsoring group: COMPASS

8:30-9:00
Arrival/Registration/Breakfast

9:00-9:15
Introduction

9:15-10:15
Prof. Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Emory University, Department of History
Mulieris Dignitatem and modern feminism

10:15-10:30
Q&A for Prof. Fox-Genovese

10:30-11:30
Contraception: A Woman’s Friend or Foe?
Prof. Janet Smith
University of Dallas, Department of Philosophy
Philosophical approach to the effect contraception has had on women since its proliferation in the 1960s

11:30-11:45
Q&A for Prof. Janet Smith

11:45-12:15
Mass in St. Joseph Chapel

12:00-1:00
Lunch in Crossroads Pub in the Hogan Campus Center

1:00-1:45
"The Right to Life Beyond Genetic Politics, Gender, and Race"
Dr. Mildred Jefferson
First African-American woman graduate of Harvard Medical School
Explanation of the economic and class wars that have been waged against minorities since the inception of the Pill and abortion

1:45-2:00
Q&A for Dr. Mildred Jefferson

2:00-2:45
A Call to Reason: The Breast Cancer Connection
Dr. Angela Lanfranchi, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Breast Cancer Prevention Institute
Abortion-breast cancer link

2:45-3:00
Q&A for Dr. Angela Lanfranchi

3:00-3:15
Break

3:15-4:15
What is the New Feminism?
Panel/Discussion
Panelists (4):
Dr. Pia de Solenni (Family Research Council, Catholic moral theologian)
Dr. Maria Sciannameo (Worcester Public Schools, educator)
Katherine McElaney (Chaplain, College of the Holy Cross)

4:15-4:30
Closing