8:30 - 9:05

Coffee, Juice, and Pastries

9:05am - 9:55am

Literary Feminisms in 19th Century England

Jenna Garland, The Feminist Ideal in Jane Eyre: Creating a New Eden

Sara Steger, Women on Display: Reading Pictures in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette

Sarah Winchell, “Heaven Mocks the Short-sighted Views of Man:” Feminine Weakness as a perpetuated Form of oppression in the Gothic Novel

10:10am - 11:00am

Masculinity at the Mall, on the Screen, and in the Mirror

Robbie Quinn, Shopping to Win: Consumer Masquerades and the “Great Male Renunciation”

Jorge Catalá Carrasco, An Analysis of the Film Lola (María Novaro, 1989): Subversion of Traditional Roles as a Means of Acquiring Self-Identity for Women

Abigail Snyder, Body Dissatisfaction Among Men: Muscles and Cultural Mediators

11:15am - 12:05pm

Gender Construction within a National Perspective

Jeremy Johnson, Otzma: Sexuality, Empowerment and change in Israel (1988-200)

María Elena Bermúdez, El pensamiento hostosiano sobre la educación cientifica de la mujer

Dessa Cosma, Both a Feminist and Realist Perspective on the Creation of the Taliban

12:20pm - 1:10pm

Live performance by The Athens Boys Choir (Katz & Rocket) Recently signed by Daemon Records (30 min.)

And, learn more about the Institute for Women’s Studies! Stay for a brief information session led by Assistant Director of the Institute, Dr. Mary Carruth (20 min.)

Construction of Women in the Media: Brides, Bodies, & Becoming a "Better" You

Lisa Herbert and Amanda Hall, When Makeup is not Enough: An Analysis of the Social Construction of Female Body Image

Addison Godel, “ArtBabes.Net”

Amanda Hall, Constructing the “Ideal” Wife: An Analysis of the Representation of Women in the ABC Reality Television Show, The Bachelor

1:25pm - 2:15pm (concurrent sessions)

Mothers, Children, and Development of Self

Tiffany Adams, Women Reconciling with Home in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory and The Farming of Bones

Angela R. Black, The Intersection of African American Womanhood with Motherhood: Redefining Role Strain of African American Mothers

Christa Tinsley, “A Sad and Secret Story”: the Mother-Daughter Truth in Steedman’s Landscape for a Good Woman

2:30pm - 3:20pm

Gender, Patriarchy, and Violence in Latin America

Ana M. Prats-Rodríguez, Gender and Memory: Modes of Insubordination to Authoritarianism and Patriarchy in Murat, Valenzuela, and Puenzo

Allison Prickett, Journalism as a Form of Feminist Activism in Ciudad Juárez

Karen Díaz Reátegui, The Transcendence of Feminine Imagery in Spite of the Hyper-Masculine Self in La ciudad y los perros

3:35pm - 4:25pm

Feminism Isn't Dead: New Approaches to an Old Classic

Sarah Graham, Third Wave Music: Gender Construction, Queer Theory, and Punk Rock

Chantal Stepney, Black Lesbian Feminism: A Contemporary Perspective of its Agenda and Activism, and of the Exclusion it Faces Due to Homophobia in the Black Community

Tara A. Richardson, They Don’t Know Who We Be!: Third Wave and Hip-Hop Feminism