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UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE HISTORY DEPARTMENT/WOMEN STUDIES BEYOND THE SECOND SEX:
A SYMPOSIUM CELEBRATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR'S THE SECOND SEX. Friday, 13 AUGUST 1999. 5th Floor Common Room, John Medley Bldg., University of Melbourne.
PROGRAMME:
9.15: FEMINISM AND SEXUALITY IN FRANCE
ROBERT NYE, 'On the Frenchness of Sexuality and Feminism in France'
9.45: DE BEAUVOIR HERSELF
ANN CURTHOYS, 'De Beauvoir's Autobiographies, Women's Liberation and Self
Fashioning'
COLIN NETTELBECK, 'Performing In Her Own Write: De Beauvoir From Jazz to
Gender'
CHIPS SOWERWINE, 'Existentialism, Resistance and The Second Sex'
11.15: MORNING TEA
11.45: HISTORIES OF FRENCH FEMINISMS
MARILYN LAKE, 'The 50 year Legacy of The Second Sex'
JILL ANDERSON, 'French Feminism and the Millennium'
12.45-2.0: LUNCH
2.0: SEXUALITIES AND GENDERS
ELIZABETH MACKNIGHT, 'Lesbian Literary Modernisms: Women Writing in Paris,
1925-1929'
CHRIS FORTH, 'The Scholar, The Soldier and the Jew: Three Characters in
Search of the Phallus'
3.0: AFTERNOON TEA
3.30: THE SECOND SEX AND THE SECOND WAVE
JILL MATTHEWS, 'Simone De Beauvoir's Third Sex'
SYLVIA LAWSON, 'Reading De Beauvoir in Australia'
BARBARA CAINE, 'Kate Millett, Radical Feminism andThe Second Sex '
5.0: SUMMING UP : PAT GRIMSHAW
5.30: DRINKS
6.30: DINNER
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