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Registration required at no cost.

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<bold><bigger><bigger>Latin American Studies Program


</bigger>presents


<bigger><bigger><bigger>Rethinking Feminisms=20

in the Americas


</bigger></bigger>April 2-3, 1999, 701 Clark Hall,=20

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY


=46riday, April 2, 1999


</bigger></bigger>2:00 - 4:00 pm Emerging Issues in Feminisms in the
Americas

</bold><fontfamily><param>Symbol</param>=85 </fontfamily>Breny Mendoza:
"Unthinking State-centric Feminism in Latin America

<fontfamily><param>Symbol</param>=85 </fontfamily>Mary Garc=EDa Castro:
"Limits of Politics of Identities and Possibilities of Identities in
Class Based Internationalist Politics- A Reading from Brazil"

<fontfamily><param>Symbol</param>=85 </fontfamily>Maribel Ledezma :
"Chicana Feminism and Evolving Discourse 1965-1995"

<fontfamily><param>Symbol</param>=85 </fontfamily>Kathleen Martin: "An
Indigenous Maya Feminism - a not so "Invisible" Feminism"


<bold>4:30 - 6:00 	</bold>Virginia Vargas: "Latin American Feminism:
Dilemmas and Prospects for the Future"


<bold><bigger>Saturday,  April 3, 1999


</bigger>9:00 - 11:05	am Interweaving the Global and Local

</bold><fontfamily><param>Symbol</param>=85 </fontfamily>Rosa Mendoza
Garc=EDa: "Estrategias de la Cooperaci=F3n Internacional en la
Incorporaci=F3n del Enfoque de G=E9nero en los Proyectos de Desarrollo"

<fontfamily><param>Symbol</param>=85 </fontfamily>Millie Thayer :
"Negotiating the Global: Rural Brazilian Women and Transnational
=46eminism"

<fontfamily><param>Symbol</param>=85 </fontfamily>Patricia Price: "The
View from the Very Local: Starting from Bodies to Think about Change in
the Americas"

<fontfamily><param>Symbol</param>=85 </fontfamily>Kelley Ready:
"Contradicting Machismo: Feminism in Postwar El Salvador"


<bold>11:30 - 1 pm Feminism Globalization and International Political
Economy

</bold><fontfamily><param>Symbol</param>=85 </fontfamily>Lourdes Beneria
"Globalization, Markets, and Feminism"

<fontfamily><param>Symbol</param>=85 </fontfamily>Luisa Gabayet:
"Pol=EDticas de g=E9nero y mujeres obreras en Guadalajara, Jalisco,
Mexico"

<fontfamily><param>Symbol</param>=85 </fontfamily>Savitri Bisnath:
"Towards an Alternative Concept of Women's Empowerment"


<bold>1:30 - 3:30	Relationships Between Feminist Movements and the
Neoliberal 		State

</bold><fontfamily><param>Symbol</param>=85 </fontfamily>Lucila Diaz
R=F6ner: "El Pensar-Hacer Feminista Como Aventura"

<fontfamily><param>Symbol</param>=85 </fontfamily>Amy Lind: "Remaking the
Nation: Neoliberalism and Feminist Cultural Politics in Ecuador"

<fontfamily><param>Symbol</param>=85 </fontfamily>Alyssa Cymene Howe:
"Representing (Repressing) Revolution: Lesbian Human Rights Movements
in a Post-Sandinista Era"

<fontfamily><param>Symbol</param>=85 </fontfamily>Patty Hipsher: "The
Revolutionary Left and Feminism in El Salvador, Then and Now"


<bold>3:45 - 5:15	Feminist Cultural Politics

<fontfamily><param>Symbol</param>=85 </fontfamily></bold>Marta Savigliano
"Cinematic Sex Tours in Buenos Aires"

<bold><fontfamily><param>Symbol</param>=85
</fontfamily></bold>Echevarria, Ana "Performing Feminisms:  Levels of
Cross-Dressing and Audience Awareness in the Theater of Luisa
Capetillo"

<bold><fontfamily><param>Symbol</param>=85 </fontfamily></bold>Juana
Suarez: "Florecitas Rockeras: =BFHay un Espacio Para el Feminismo en el
Rock en Espa=F1ol?"

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<bold>5:30 - 7:00 Literary Reflections of Feminism

</bold><fontfamily><param>Symbol</param>=85 </fontfamily>Debra Castillo:
"Refiguring Feminism in the Literary Context"

<excerpt><bold><fontfamily><param>Symbol</param>=85
</fontfamily></bold>Ana Forcinito "Politicas culturales del cuerpo:
Hacia un feminismo corporal"

<bold><fontfamily><param>Symbol</param>=85 </fontfamily></bold>Elvira
Sanchez-Blake "Testimonio voz alternativa en la construcci=F3n
mujer-naci=F3n"


</excerpt><bold>Sponsored by the Cornell University/University of
Pittsburgh

<excerpt>U.S. Department of Education Title VI Consortium on Latin
American Studies.

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<excerpt><bold>Cosponsored by</bold> CIIFAD, The Mario Einaudi Center
for International Studies, the Latino Studies Program, the Society for
the Humanities, the Women's Studies Program, the Department of Romance
Studies, the Peace Studies Program, The Department of American Studies,
the Women's Planning Forum, the Government Department, and the
International Students Programming Board.


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<bold>To register contact Maite at (607) 255-3345 or
maa24@cornell.edu.


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Mary Jo Dudley

Associate Director

Latin American Studies Program

190 Uris Hall

Cornell University

Ithaca, New York  14853

tel: (607) 255-3345

fax: (607) 255-8919

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