8:30 a.m. Registration opens, coffee available. Day Lounge

9:00 Welcoming Remarks: Commonwealth Room

Dr. Hilary M. Lips, Director,

Center for Gender Studies

Dr. Douglas Covington, President,
Radford University

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Integrating Inspiration: An Art Exhibition of Work by RadfordUniversity Students, Faculty, and Alumni. Curated by Charmagne M. Dutton with the assistance of Professor Anna Fariello. See listing of artists and titles at the end of this program.

Highland Room

Computer Research Demonstration: Examples of how computers can be used in research on gender. Come and watch...or try it. Computer equipment provided on loan by Hewlett-Packard.

Commonwealth Room

Poster Display: Student research projects on gender. See listing of projects and presenters at the end of this program.

Commonwealth Room

Book Display and Sale, Radford University Bookstore

Day Lounge

SOCIAL STEREOTYPES AND POWER Blue Ridge Room

Dr. Hilary Lips, Radford University, presiding

A. Perception of Power Across Two Cultures. Lori Wilson. Radford University.

B. Helping as Power: Women and the "Caring" ProfessionS. Claudia Diaz Zuniga. Radford University.

C. Power and Perceptions of Powerful Others. Leigh Shannon. Radford University.

CULTURE, POWER, AND ECONOMICS Lounge B

Dr. Jane Wemhoener, Radford University, presiding

A. "Lifting" the Veil. Tammy Price. University of Northern Colorado.

B. Effects of Gender on Organizational Citizenship Behavior. Dawn Post, Amanda Davidson. James Madison University.

C. Making Choices - Tenure Decisions of Single-Parent Families. Benjamin Kadas. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

VISIONS OF GENDER Radford Room Dr. Felicia Mitchell, Emory and Henry College, presiding

A. Whose Body? Joanna Baldwin. Roanoke College.

B. The Essential Female God: Women=s Empowerment Through Non-Patriarchal Understanding of God in Alice Walker's The Temple of My Familiar. Joanna Gale Harader. Emory and Henry College.

C. Alice Walker's The Color Purple: A Celebration of Culture, not Gender. Heather Amy Horn. Roanoke College.

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10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK Day Lounge

During this break, the authors of the posters displayed in the Commonwealth Room will be available by their posters to discuss their work.

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HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES Radford Room

Dr. Mary Ferrari, Radford University, presiding

A. Virginia Suffrage: Early Liberal Feminism in the South. Jennifer Cumby. Radford University.

B. Women Just Think Differently: An Analysis of Discrimination in the Higher Education of Women. Jennifer Armsey. Radford University.

GENDER AND THE LITERARY Blue Ridge Room

Dr. Rita Kranidis, Radford University, presiding

A. "What Wommen Love Moost": Trust, Truth, and Power in Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale. Koren L. Bakkegard. Wake Forest University.

B. Behn'S "Female Pen": Concealment of Commentary on the Slave-like Plight of Seventeenth-Century Women. Amy K. Huser. Wake Forest University.

C. White Captives: A Gendered Tale of the "Redeemed" Captives. Jennifer Harrison. Virginia Wesleyan College.

VIOLENCE Lounge B

Dr. Raiza Kolia, Radford University, presiding

A. Women's Accounts of Abuse in Their Intimate Relationships. Leigh Faulconer. Radford University.

B. Constructing Meaning in Young Men's Experiences with Sex, Violence, and Romantic Relationships. Jason Marino, Keith Cousins, Lorien D'Acunto, Marcos Di Pinto, Nicole Gallipoli, and Lee Smith. James Madison University.

C. Chemical Castration Versus Shock Therapy: Effects of Aversive Stimuli on Sexual Offenders. Amy Dellinger, Jennifer Maliszewski. Radford University.

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Presentation of the Eleanor Kemp Memorial Awards for Undergraduate Research

Dr. Marie Waters

Keynote Address, Dr. Meredith Kimball

"Constructing Gender Similarities and Differences in Feminist Research"

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2:15 - 2:30 COFFEE BREAK Day Lounge

CULTURE AND MEANING Blue Ridge Room

Dr. Anne Hunter, Emory and Henry College, presiding

A. What the Stories of Female Managers/Executives Communicate about Involuntary Job Loss. Susan Lockwood. Radford University.

B. Effects of Appalachian Culture on Adolescents' Abortion Attitudes. Randee Huber, Patricia Frost. Radford University.

C. Gender-role Stereotyping in Children's Cartoons: Twenty Years Later. Gregory Ward. Emory and Henry College.

WOMEN'S RELATIONSHIPS Radford Room

Dr. Sue Conrad, Radford University, presiding

A. The Influence of Feminist Mothers on Their Adolescent Daughters' Career Aspirations. Susan Shome. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

B. Having People: An Exploratory Study of the Development of Pseudofamilies within Women=s Prisons. Trina Seitz. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

CHALLENGING MAINSTREAM IMAGES Lounge B

Professor Dottie Mercer, Radford University, presiding

A. Blues Queens of the Twenties: Renegotiating Identity. Pamela Gaddy. University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

B. The Changer and the Changed: Looking at the Shifting Face of Feminist Music. Alicia Replogle. Radford University.

C. Political Differences of Heavy Metal Subgenres. Stacy M. Stevens. University of Virginia.

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SEXUALITY AND SOCIAL MYTHS Blue Ridge Room

Dr. Dianne Friedman, Radford University, presiding

A. The Effects of Attractiveness on Homosexual, Heterosexual, and Bisexual Women. J. Alison Bess. Radford University.

B. Don't Press Your Luck. Darlene Papa. Radford University.

C. Attitudes Toward Marital Rape as they vary by Religion, Education, and Age. Celina Williamson. Radford University.

FEMALE-MALE DIFFERENCES & SIMILARITIES Radford Room

Dr. Joseph King, Radford University, presiding

A. Male Versus Female Performance on the Mental Rotations Test. Cheri Cain. Radford University.

B. Sex Differences in Spectral Analysis of EEG During Cognitive Tasks. Derk Replogle. Radford University.

GENDER IN FILM Lounge B

Dr. Mary Atwell, Radford University, presiding

The Piano: Sanctuary, Pseudo-voice, Coffin. Dr. Susan E. Hensley, Melissa Blankenship, and Bill Summers. Radford University.

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"Integrating Inspiration: An Art Exhibition by Radford University Students, Faculty, and Alumni." I have chosen this title for the exhibition for several reasons. First of all, these artists have conceptualized in their visual art the necessity to integrate aspects of gender that are not necessarily categorized as "male" or "female", but encompass universal characteristics. The need to see and understand the other, rather than ignore and deny creates a basis for inspiration, whether the issue is the self, the body, the home, art history, religion, etc. Also, in their formal aspects, many of these works employ mixed-media techniques to convey concepts, further adding to the integration of traditionally classified imagery. Charmagne M. Dutton

During this time, the artists whose work appears in the exhibition will be available to discuss their work.