Month: November 2010

Media, Minorities, and Meaning: A Critical Introduction—Debra Merskin

Media, Minorities, and Meaning: A Critical Introduction Merskin, D. (2010), New York: Peter Lang. ISBN 978-1-4331-1140-2 pb. US-$ 49.95 Order online: www.peterlang.com Debra L. Merskin is associate professor of Communication Studies in the School of Journalism & Communication at the…

The S-Word: Discourse, Stereotypes, and the American Indian Woman

The S-Word: Discourse, Stereotypes, and the American Indian Woman http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a929749074~frm=titlelink a paper by Debra L. Merskin, Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon Online publication date: 19 November 2010, Howard Journal of Communications The Center for the Study…

Modern Girl Culture and Working-Class Women in Interwar Japan

Saturday McKenzie Hall, Room 375 UO campus A workshop talk by Barbara Sato, Professor of History at Seikei University in Japan This talk and open discussion is connected to the recent “Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor…

The Mobile Family: Protecting the Children of Same-Sex Parents Within and Across State Borders

Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus Joan Heifetz Hollinger is a leading American scholar on adoption law and practice, as well as on the psychosocial aspects of adoptive family relationships. She is centrally involved in efforts to…