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Research Article| November 01 1990 Conference Call Barbara Christian; Barbara Christian Barbara Christian is Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. She is author of Black Women Novelists, the Development of A Tradition: 1892-1976 (Westport, CN; Greenwood, 1980); Teaching Guide to Black Foremothers (Old Westbury, NY: Feminist, 1980); Black Feminist Criticism, Perspectives on Black Women Writers (New York: Pergamon, 1985); and an editor of Feminist Studies. She had done extensive curriculum development in Afro-American studies and women's studies for high schools and has taught writing for many years. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ann duCille; Ann duCille Ann duCille, a Ph.D. candidate in American Civilization at Brown University, is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Humanitites, Wesleyan University, where she will join the faculty next year with a joint appointment in English and Women's Studies. Her dissertation is a study of the unconventional ways in which African American women novelists from Frances Harper to Alice Walker have rewritten the conventional middle-class marriage plot. She is also a poet, with work appearing in such journals as Panahce, New Letters, Iowa Review, American Poetry Review, and Présence Africaine. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Sharon Marcus; Sharon Marcus Sharon Marcus is a graduate student at the Johns Hopkins University Humanities Center. Her dissertation concerns the relations between gender and space in the nineteenth-century French and British novel. She also works with Baltimore Women's Health Education Associates. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Elaine Marks; Elaine Marks Elaine Marks is Germaine Brée Professor of French and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Colette (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1960, 1981); Simone de Beauvoir: Encounters with Death (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1973); co-editor with George Stambolian of Homosexualities and French Literature (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1979, 1990); co-editor with Isabelle de Courtivron of New French Feminisms: An Anthology (New York: Schocken, 1980-81); and editor of Critical Essays on Simone de Beauvoir (Boston: Garland, 1987). She is currently writing a book on “The Jewish Question in French Writing.” Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nancy K. Miller; Nancy K. Miller Nancy K. Miller is Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the author of The Heroine's Text: Beadings in the French and English Novel, 1722-1782 (New York: Columbia UP, 1980); Subject to Change: Beading Feminist Writing (New York: Columbia UP, 1988); and “Getting Personal: Feminist Occasions and Other Autobiographical Acts” (New York: Routledge, forthcoming). She is the editor of The Poetics of Gender (New York: Columbia UP, 1986); co-editor, with Joan DeJean, of Displacements: Women, Tradition, Literatures in French (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1990); and co-editor, with Carolyn Heilbrun, of the Gender and Culture series at Columbia UP. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Sylvia Schafer; Sylvia Schafer Sylvia Schafer is a graduate student in history at the University of California at Berkeley. She is currently finishing a dissertation on nineteenth-century French culture and public assistance entitled, “Assisting the Natural Family: Children, Parents, and the Guardian-State under the French Third Republic.” Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Joan W. Scott Joan W. Scott Joan W. Scott, founding director of Brown University's Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, is now Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. She is author of The Glassworks of Carmaux (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1974) and Gender and the Politics of History (New York: Columbia UP, 1988). She is co-editor, with Louise Tilly, of Women, Work, and Family (New York: Holt, 1978; New York: Routledge, 1987). She is currently writing a book on feminist claims for political rights in nineteenth-century France. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google differences (1990) 2 (3): 52–108. https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-2-3-52 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Barbara Christian, Ann duCille, Sharon Marcus, Elaine Marks, Nancy K. Miller, Sylvia Schafer, Joan W. Scott; Conference Call. differences 1 November 1990; 2 (3): 52–108. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-2-3-52 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll Journalsdifferences Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF.