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Panel Discussion S. Paige Baty (listed in program as Page Baty; University of California, Santa Cruz) introduces and explains her research on the misconstructured telling of Marilyn Monroe's life. Next, Thyrza Goodeve (University of California, Santa Cruz) explains her research on movie star Frances Farmer and her analysis of the history of hysteria. Next, Suzan Gevirtz (University of California, Santa Cruz) looks at the fictions modern women (poets) have constructed for themselves. Part of the afternoon sessions at the Scholar and Feminist Conference XIV. This tape is continued on BC13-58_SFAudio_209. Papers presented or name of session: "The Post-Mortem Condition: Re-membering Marilyn Monroe"; "The North Polar Expeditions of Robert E Curry, Matthew Henson and Frederick Cook: A semiology of American Nationalist and Masculanist Discourses"; "Pilgrimage as Poetics: Dorothy Richardson"; "Frances Farmer and the Legacy of Hysteria" .

Workshop led by Carolyn Burke, University of California, Santa Cruz, and Jane Gallop, Miami University during the Afternoon Workshops Session at The Scholar and the Feminist VI. Papers presented or name of session: "Psychoanalysis and Feminism in France".

Welcoming Remarks from Jacquelyn Anderson Mattfeld and a panel discussion with Nancy Chodorow, University of California-Santa Cruz; Josette Féral, University of Toronto; and Monique Wittig, writer of The Opoponax, Les Guérillères, The Lesbian Body. Moderated by Alice Jardine, Columbia University. Papers presented or name of session: "Difference, Relation, and Gender in Psychoanalytic Perspective"; "The Powers of Difference"; "The Straight Mind".