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Women’s Committee
Report of the Women’s Committee
Kandice Chuh, Chair
The Women’s Committee continues to work to find ways of effectively representing its constituency. In 1999-2000, that has included maintaining close ties with the Minority Scholars Committee and generating new links with the Disabilities Studies Caucus and the President’s Advisory Task Force on Ethnic Studies.
The 1999 Women’s Breakfast featured speaker, Sara Horowitz, offered attendees thoughtful insights on the topic of women and the Holocaust.
For the 2000 Women’s Breakfast, the Women’s Committee has decided on a different format, one designed to encourage interaction among attendees and ASA members more generally. Focused around the topic of “Working Conditions,” the Committee has invited statements from a range of women academics for circulation in the September 2000 ASA Newsletter as a way of initiating conversation at the breakfast. The statement submitters are invited to offer comments at the breakfast as well. This format change is in part catalyzed by the awareness of the Women’s Committee that its function in the present moment differs significantly from its mission in the past. While continuing the traditions of working to sustain the visibility and hard-fought positions gained by women in the ASA, the Committee at this time engages in deliberation as to how it can best work for its constituency given current conditions, as articulated during the Committee Meeting at the 1999 conference.
Having offered a special session at the 1999 conference entitled “Feminism: A Class Act,” in 2000, the Women’s Committee co-sponsors two sessions with the Disabilities Studies Caucus, “Witnessing Trauma” and “The Art of Trauma.” Co-sponsoring also a reception with the Minority Scholars Committee and the Sexual Minority Scholars (hip), the committee’s conference activities speak to its commitment to working collaboratively across different kinds of boundaries in different kinds of ways, which is also a commitment that recognizes the complexities that a category like “women” may problematically cover over.
Accordingly, the Committee will again meet jointly with the Minority Scholars Committee at the Detroit conference, and ensure that communication with other committees remains open and well.
The Women’s Committee welcomes new members Julia Ehrhardt and Danille Taylor-Guthrie, and bids farewell to Alvina Quintana and Angela Winand. The Committee noted with gratitude especially Alvina Quintana’s innumerable contributions as a member and former chair of the Committee. In its newly configured form, the Women’s Committee looks enthusiastically forward to the events and challenges of the upcoming year.
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