"Writing a Feminist's Life: Academics and Their Memoirs":
A Conference in Honor of Carolyn G. Heilbrun
February 11, 2005, 301 Philosophy Hall
Why have so many late 20th century academic feminists turned to the memoir? In
what ways is the genre of the memoir suited for feminist appropriation? What is its relationship to feminism's politics of the personal? Does the memoir offer feminists another way of writing theory or feminist historiography? What narratives of feminism do these memoirs tell? How do differences in generation, race, class, ethnicity, or sexuality inflect feminist memoirs?
Eight feminists will read from their memoirs and comment on the relationship between the writing of memoir and the writing of feminist criticism and theory.
Leila Ahmed (Harvard Divinity School)
A Border Passage: from Cairo to America—A Woman’s Journey
Charlotte Pierce Baker (Duke University)
Surviving the Silence
Mary Ann Caws ( CUNY Graduate Center)
To the Boathouse
Shirley Geok-lin Lim (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands
Nancy K. Miller (CUNY Graduate Center)
But Enough About Me: Why We Read Other People’s Lives and Out of Breath
Deborah McDowell (University of Virginia)
Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (CUNY Graduate Center)
A Dialogue on Love
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Columbia University)
If Only…
This conference is free and open to the public.
Please contact IRWaG at irwag@columbia.edu or 212 854 3277 for more information.
Co-sponsors:Columbia University Dept. of English and Comparative Literature
Institute for Research in African-American Studies
Middle East Institute
Center for Comparative Literature and Society
Office of the Vice-President of Arts and Sciences
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Barnard Center for Research on Women
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