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Report of the Women’s Committee
The Women’s Committee continued to work closely with the Minority Scholar’s Committee during 1998-1999. During the middle of this term Chair, Shirley Lim, who also served as Chair for the Minority Scholar’s Committee stepped down from her position in order to prepare for an upcoming temporary geographical academic relocation in Hong Kong. Alvina Quintana (also a former Chair of the Minority Scholar’s Committee who was serving as a member of the Women’s Committee) agreed to take over the duties of Chair midway through the year.
The 1998 Women’s Breakfast featured speaker, Angela Davis, was cosponsored by the Minority and Women’s Scholars Committees and with Professor Davis’s focus on women in Cuban prisons emphasized the support both committees maintain for the Task Force on International Women’s affairs. Following the model put forth in the 1997 convention, the Women’s Committee worked to emphasize “common ground” with Minority Scholars by joining with the Sexual Minority Scholar (ship) Caucus in sponsoring a reception on the first night of the convention. Although the Women’s Committee did not meet formally at the 1998 convention in Seattle, Washington with the help of electronic communications and the telephone, the committee members were able to arrive at a number of decisions regarding the committee’s activities for the annual convention and in regards to cooperative ventures with the Minority Scholar’s Committee.
This year the Women’s Committee welcomes new members’ Nancy Hewitt and Erin Smith and offers many thanks to outgoing members Shirley Lim and Rosemarie Thomson. The committee remains true to its fundamental mission to bring to the fore the kinds of cultural and scholarly work that advances women’s social causes. Thus, the invitation to have Sara Horowitz to speak on “Sexual Violation and the Holocaust” at the Women’s Breakfast in 1999. Also the committee’s special session “Feminism: A Class Act” featuring a panel composed of former members of both the Minority, Women’s Committees reflects the on-going commitment to research interests that take into account the intersections of women, class, nation, and ethnicity that pose challenges facing American Studies.
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