The
Fourth Wave: What is the New Feminism?
Speakers
Dr.
Pia de Solenni is Director of Life
and Women's Issues - Government Affairs at Family Research
Council. Her expertise covers issues relating to women's
health, life issues, the new feminism
and culture and is an active contributor to publications
such as National Catholic Register, Our
Sunday Visitor,
and National Review Online.
As
an ethicist and moral theologian, Dr. de Solenni has
participated in many radio talk shows and discussions
on various topics. She
has been quoted in various newspapers nationwide, including
The New York Times, The Washington Times, and The
Associated Press and has testified on cloning before the Massachusetts
State Legislature.
Dr. de Solenni received her doctorate in sacred theology
summa cum laude from the Pontifical University of the
Holy Cross, Rome. Her dissertation was published in the
university series Dissertationes. On November 8, 2001,
she received the 2001 Award of the Pontifical Academies
for her doctoral work. The award was presented by John
Paul II.
Elizabeth
Fox-Genovese is the Eléonore Raoul
Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History
at Emory University, where she was also the founding
director of the Institute for Women's Studies. She
was educated at Bryn Mawr College (BA) and Harvard
University
(MA, PhD). Her most recent publications include: Women
and the Future of the Family (2000); and Reconstructing
History: The Emergence of a Historical Society,
co-edited with
Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn (1999).
She
and Eugene Genovese are completing The Mind of
the Master Class, a study
of the intellectual and cultural life of the slaveholders
of the Old South, and she speaks and publishes widely
on public policy, educational, pro-life, history,
literature, and women's issues in scholarly journals
and in the popular
press. Dr. Fox-Genovese is a member of the Governing
Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
She edits The Journal of the Historical Society,
and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Fellowship
of Catholic Scholars. She served as an expert witness
for the
Virginia Military Institute and The Citadel.
Mildred
Jefferson, M.D. was the first African American woman
to graduate from Harvard Medical School. She helped
found the National Right to Life Committee
and three times served as that organization's president.
In
1996 she ran for the United States Senate. She currently
heads National Right to Life Crusade.
Angela
Lanfranchi, M.D. has
a private practice devoted exclusively to breast surgery
in Bound Brook, NJ. A 1975 graduate of Georgetown School
of Medicine, she is a Clinical Assistant Professor
of Surgery at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, a
fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a diplomate
of the American Board of Surgery.
She
is also a member of the Expert Advisory Panel for the
New Jersey Board
of Medical Examiners.
Katherine
M. McElaney, Director of the Chaplains' Office at the
College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA., has been
involved in professional ministry for the last
20 years at both Fairfield University and Holy Cross.
Appointed Director in 1992, Kim is the first woman to
serve in this capacity at Holy Cross.
She
also serves on the Executive Committee of the Directors
of Campus Ministry for the 28 Jesuit Colleges and Universities
in the United States. A Holy Cross graduate of the class
of 1976, Kim holds a Master of Divinity from Weston Jesuit
School of Theology, Cambridge, MA.
Maria
L. Sciannameo, EdD is teacher of
mathematics, computer applications and science
to middle school and high school at-risk students classified
as having severe emotional and behavioral difficulties.
She provides both individual and small group instruction.
She
is also a member
of the Curriculum Development Committee in Mathematics
(Grades K-12) Worcester Public Schools and
Leaders for Urban Mathematics Reform (LUMR), a series
of conferences, lectures and classes designed to bring
together mathematics teachers throughout the USA
to design and implement reform in teaching mathematics in urban schools.
Janet
E. Smith, visiting Professor in Life Issues,
Sacred Heart Seminary, Detroit, MI, and visiting Professor
of Philosophy, Ave Maria College, Ypsilanti, MI, is
currently on leave from the Department of Philosophy,
University of Dallas. She is author of Humanae
Vitae: A Generation Later and editor of Why
Humanae Vitae Was Right: A Reader. She has also
published widely in the area of virtue ethics and bioethics.
She
serves on many boards,
among them the Our Sunday Visitor Advisory Board
and the Baylor University Medical Center Ethics Board
and speaks nationally and internationally. She is
a columnist for The Amy Syndicate and has
published in many Catholic journals. She has received
the Haggar
Teaching Award from the University of Dallas, the
Prolife Person of the Year from the Diocese of Dallas,
and
the Cardinal Wright Award from the Fellowship of
Catholic Scholars. Over 400,000 copies of her tape,
Contraception:
Why Not have been distributed.
