NWSA SALES CATALOG: VIDEO/DVD

Political Women and Political Power
How do the realities of political women and political power play out across boundaries of nation, class, race, culture, and sexuality? This plenary taps the experience and expertise of women in politics in diverse roles -- theorists, officeholders, and aspirants, party workers, and grassroots activists-- in an effort to frame the salient issues involved in that frequently invoked but little understood triad ”women, power and politics.”

Speakers/Speeches:
Nadine Strossen,
President, American Civil Liberties Union
The ACLU and Women’s Rights
Eleanor Smeal,
President, Feminist Majority Foundation
Maximizing the Political Power
of Women’s Movements
Sonali Kolhatkar,
Vice President, The Afghan Women’s Movement
The Impact of U.S. Intervention of
Afghan Women’s Rights

$25

V24

Body Politics
What is the role of “the body” in feminism? How does feminism resist, recast, or reproduce dominant theories, images, and ideas about bodies? This presentation addresses questions theoretically, historically, politically, cross culturally, and through the analysis of contemporary issues such as race, disability, sexuality, appearance discrimination, and embodied forms of resistance.

Speakers/Speeches:
Catherine Holland, Associate Professor of Political Science and Women’s Studies, and Director of Graduate Studies in Political Science, University of Missouri-Columbia.
Confessional Citizenship: Gender and Political
Universalism in The Age of “The Federalist”
Ann Russo, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies,
DePaul University.
White Innocence/White Accountability:
Body Politics and Feminists Movements
Rosemarie Garland Thomson, Emory University
Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory

$25

V25

NWSA: Women of All Colors Building an Inclusive Organization Together
This plenary seeks to challenge white supremacist systems, attitudes, and behaviors that prevent the realization of a bold and courageous vision while also discussing the NWSA's power to transform and dismantle interlocking systems of oppression.

Speakers/Speeches:
Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Founding Director, Women’s Research and Resource Center, Spelman College.
Disloyalty to Whiteness: Practicing What We Preach
Lisa Albrecht, Immediate Past Chair, Minneapolis Commission on Civil Rights, Professor of Writing, University of Minnesota
New Paradigms for Social Justice:
21st Century Feminisms at Work

$25

V26