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Scholar and Feminist IX: Towards a Politics of Sexuality, Barnard College Women's Center Project

The Scholar and Feminist Conference on the Politics of Sexuality, also referred to as the Barnard Sex Conference and the Barnard Sex Scandal was held at Barnard College in April 1982. It was the ninth conference in a series that, as of this writing in 2019, had its 44th iteration this year. The conference was coordinated by then-Columbia anthropology Ph.D. student Carole Vance and volunteers who responded to her invitation to serve on the planning committee. Vance and the other organizers detailed their process in a conference diary, an artifact that was confiscated by the Barnard administration before the conference and eventually reprinted with the Barnard College and Women's Center and Helena Rubinstein Foundation affiliations removed.

The diary confiscation was the result of pressure from anti-pornography protesters who felt that their point of view was not represented at the conference. The conference sexuality theme, per Vance's invitation to participate, focused on sexual pleasure under the patriarchy, sexual pleasure and danger for people holding marginalized identities, feminist vs. right wing analyses of women's sexuality, when is a "good" time to discuss sexuality in the current political climate, sexual nonconformity vis a vis Betty Friedan-influenced feminism, and conflicts between "social purity" and "libertarian" feminist factions.

The conference program reports plenary, workshop, art, and poetry presentations led by scholars, activists, artists, and poets. The Wikipedia entries for the conference, participants, and topics may be missing or could use attention, including adding references to the conference.

Individuals

• Hannah Alderfer - conference diary
• Dorothy Allison
• Judith Butler
• Peg Byron
• Mary Steichen Calderone
• Pat Califia
• Claudette Charbonneau - not Claudette Charbonneau-Tissot
• Diane Corbin
• Alice Echols
• Barbara Ehrenreich
• Ellen Futter
• Hattie Gossett
• Jane Gould - Women's Center director at the time
• Amber Hollibaugh
• Beth Jake - conference diary
• Janie Kritzman - Women's Center
• Barbara Kruger
• Nancy K. Miller
• Kate Millett
• Cherríe Moraga
• Diane Moss - Helena Rubinstein Foundation
• Marybeth Nelson - conference diary
• Joan Nestle
• Sharon Olds
• Lisa Orlando - Village Voice writer
• Marcia Pally
• Fanette Pollack
• Quandra Prettyman - Barnard professor
• Gayle Rubin
• Ann Snitow
• Hortense Spillers
• Carole Vance - conference coordinator
• Judith R. Walkowitz
• Ellen Willis

Organizations

• Barnard Center for Research on Women
• Barnard College
• Coalition for a Feminist Sexuality and Against Sadomasochism
• Helena Rubinstein Foundation
• Heresies
• Lesbian Herstory Archive
• Lesbian Sex Mafia
• No More Nice Girls
• off our backs
• Samois
• The Scholar and the Feminist
• Womanews
• Women Against Pornography
• Women Against Violence Against Women

Themes

• Academic freedom
• Anti-pornography movement
• Butch and Femme
• Consent
• Feminist pornography
• Feminist Sex Wars
• Lesbian sexuality
• Lesbian S&M
• Libertarianism
• S&M
• Sex-positive feminism
• Social purity

Articles to Edit

• List of Columbia University alumni and/or List of Columbia University alumni and attendees (indicate who is a Barnard alum, link to List of Barnard College people or to Barnard College page)
• List of Barnard College people (clean up, add more)
• Barnard College (add more citations)
• Seven Sisters (colleges) (more information)
• Barnard Center for Research on Women (more links to other articles, more information from secondary sources)
• 1982 Barnard Conference on Sexuality (images from the Archives)

Articles to Add

• Dance Uptown
  • Secondary sources: "Concert Dancers Elicit Warmth", "GYM IS THE SCENE OF DANCE UPTOWN: Keen and Lamhut Creations Make Full Use of Space", Dance Uptown Adds Zest to Program II With Creative Edge, "Review/Dance; Barnard Looks Ahead With a Retrospective", "NEW WORK DANCED IN BARNARD SERIES", "DANCE: BARNARD COLLEGE"

Barnard Alum/Faculty/People pages to improve

• Ida Rolf (categorize as Barnard alum)
• Dean Spade (categorize as Barnard alum)
• Grace Lee Boggs (in-line citations; started this but more citations needed)
• Edie Parker (categorize as Barnard alum, add more information and sources)
• Joan Vollmer (in-line citations)
• Mirra Komarovsky (add photograph from Archives, more from secondary sources like "Mirra Komarovsky: Another Appreciation"
• Louise Rosenblatt (photograph from Archives)
• Elizabeth Hardwick (writer), faculty (image from the Archives)
• Tama Janowitz (image from the Archives)
• Daphne Merkin (image from the Archives)
• Annie Nathan Meyer (image from the Archives, maybe other materials from secondary sources)
• Ellen V. Futter (image from the Archives)

Barnard Alum/Faculty/People pages to add to Wikipedia

• Jean Blackwell Hutson (draft submitted for review)
  • The Archives will bring an image and print secondary sources
  • Additional secondary sources: "Jean Blackwell Hutson, Ex-chief of Schomburg Center, dies", "Center for Black Culture Is Given New Hope as Federal Aid Nears", "Jean Hutson, Schomburg Chief, Dies at 83"
• Millicent McIntosh
  • The Archives will bring an image and print secondary sources
  • Additional secondary sources: "Millicent Mclntosh, 102, Dies; Taught Barnard Women to Balance Career and Family", "Feminist's Centennial: Barnard Salutes a Past President Who Balanced Career and Family", "Barnard's New Dean: Mrs. McIntosh makes a career of teaching while bringing up a family of five ...", Chief Administrators page on the Barnard Archives site
• Gladys Reichard
  • The Archives will bring images and print secondary sources
  • Additional secondary sources: "MEMORIAL AT BARNARD: Service to Be Held Tonight for Dr. Gladys A. Reichard", "REICHARD, GLADYS (1893–1955)"
• Thulani Davis
• Mary Dublin Keyserling
• Ruth Bunzel
• Lee Goodwin (will need to disambiguate from Lee Goodwin)
  • Secondary source: "Lee Goodwin, Ex-State Housing Chief"

Barnard-related art and architecture organizations to add to Wikipedia

Files needing Metadata

Trustees Meyer Nathan ca1885 on Commons