"Women in the Middle: Borders, Barriers, Intersections"

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Women in the Middle:
Borders, Barriers, Intersections
June 17 – 20, 2004, Milwaukee, WI

Hosted by: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Center for Women’s Studies, in collaboration with The University of Wisconsin-System Women’s Studies Consortium

Conference Site: Hyatt Regency Hotel, Milwaukee, WI

Opening Keynote: Plenary Generations of Feminism
Featured Speakers: Gerda Lerner, Lisa Jervis, Ellen Bravo, Barbara Smith
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FRIDAY PLENARY SESSION: Feminist Uses of Science and Technology
Featured Speakers: Rita Arditti,  Adriane Fugh-Berman, Cindy Pearson
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SATURDAY PLENARY: Women and Globalism
Plenary for the Embedded Conference:
Coalitions and Conflict Across Difference
Featured Speakers: M.Jacqui Alexander and Cynthia Enloe
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The general conference theme, Women in the Middle: Borders, Barriers, Intersections, reflected the many ways that women may find themselves caught in the middle — between generations, between demands of family and work, or aging parents and children, between various aspects of their own identity, between groups in which they are active — but also highlights ways in which women have used their position creatively.

In keeping with the idea of borders, barriers, and intersections, the embedded conference theme was Coalitions and Conflict Across Difference. Some of the richest conversations among feminists have been about building bridges across differences, yet these differences still present significant points of conflict and struggle.