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Carrie Menkel-Meadow (left)
Acting Co-Director, 1988 - 1990
Letitia Anne Peplau (right)
Acting Co-Director, 1988 - 1990 |
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Carrie J. Menkel-Meadow is a Professor of Law; A.B. Chettle, Jr., Chair in Dispute Resolution and Civil Procedure, at Georgetown University. Menkel-Meadow received her A.B. from Barnard College, Columbia; her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania;and her LL.D. from Quinnipiac College of Law. Her expertise includes alternative dispute resolution (mediation, negotiation), legal ethics, feminist legal issues, procedure, legal education. She was a Professor of Law at UCLA from 1979 to 1996. She also taught in the Women's Studies program and was Co-Director of UCLA's Center on Conflict Resolution. |
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Letitia Anne Peplau is a Professor of Social Psychology at UCLA. Her research and teaching interests include Social psychology, close relationships, gender issues, gay and lesbian relationships. |
Accomplishments:
1989
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In winter quarter of 1989, Letitia Anne Peplau (Psychology) and Carrie Menkel-Meadow (Law) became Acting Co-Directors. The number of faculty and graduate students affiliated with the Center grew, extramural funding continued at an encouragingly high level for a new center, and a wide variety of lectures and conferences provided ways for UCLA scholars to learn about new scholarship and to disseminate their own work.
Together with the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History, the Women's Studies Program, and the Gender and Politics Project, CSW cosponsored the Capitalist Development and Women's Liberation Conference, held on May 15, 1989. This conference, which close to 200 people attended, featured individual presentations and panel discussions on women and Third World development, the origin of women's oppression in capitalist societies, and women's current economic and social status.
CSW also helped to organize a three-year series of interdisciplinary programs on gender and politics, directed by Professor Ellen DuBois (History). In May 1989, the Gender and Politics group brought Dr. Heidi Hartmann, former director of Women's Studies at Rutgers and currently Director of the Institute for Women's Policy Studies in Washington, D.C., to campus to discuss feminist research being conducted outside universities.
In April of 1989, the Friends of CSW hosted a festive event honoring UCLA Women Who Were First. |
1990
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CSW applied to and was funded by the Ford Foundation for an endeavor called the Ford Ethnic Women's Curriculum Transformation Project (or FEW), a programmatic effort to focus research on ethnic women. In 1990 FEW offered curriculum development seminars for faculty and graduate students, including seminars in Psychology and cognate fields, History, and interdisciplinary studies.
In addition to the Feminist Research Seminar (formerly the Faculty Research Seminar on Women) and the Public Lecture Series, CSW facilitated a one-day symposium on domestic labor, entitled A Conference on Domestic Workers: Feminist Perspectives, co-presented by the Gender and Politics Project, in May 1990. CSW also cosponsored (with the 1789/1989 French Revolution Bicentennial Program) the Women and the French Revolution Conference, held on October 20-21, 1990, and cosponsored (with the Center of Pacific Rim Studies) an international workshop entitled The Construction of Gender and Sexuality in Southeast Asia, a workshop that brought together an interdisciplinary group of fifteen Asian and North American scholars over three days (December 9-11, 1990).
CSW sponsored two large events for graduate students, a faculty panel and discussion session entitled On the Cutting Edge: Feminist Research Today on February 26, which attracted over seventy-five graduate students, and a series of five practical workshops, entitled Career Strategies, held on April 24th. |
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