Recent blog entries on the websites for Inside Higher Ed and the American Historical Association provide details of an amicus brief filed March 1 in US v. Windsor, a case before the U.S. Supreme Court contesting the validity of the…
Month: March 2013
WikiWomen Event Media Archives | Fembot Collective
WikiWomen Event Media Archives | Fembot Collective Fembot WikiWomen Event Fembot coordinated an effort to write women into Wikipedia. Archived live streams are available on http://fembotcollective.org The CSWS Fembot Project produces the Fembot website.
“Modern Girls on the Go” — new book edited by Alisa Freedman now available
Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan, Edited by Alisa Freedman, Laura Miller, and Christine R. Yano (Stanford University Press, March 2013) This book comes out of a conference held at the University of Oregon in…
Institutional betrayal magnifies post-trauma effects of unwanted sexual activity
Institutional betrayal magnifies post-trauma effects of unwanted sexual activity | UO Communications EUGENE, Ore. — (March 8, 2013) — A study of 345 female university students found that 233 of them had experienced at least one unwanted sexual experience in…
Writing Women into Wikipedia
Allen Hall Room 221 1020 University St. UO campus Eugene, OR In celebration of International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month Fembot, in collaboration with the ASUO Women’s Center, the Center for the Study of Women in Society, the School…
Dr. Cheryl Mattingly — “Hope, Suffering and the Play of Possible Selves: A Narrative Perspective on the Good Life”
Gerlinger Lounge 1468 University St. UO campus Dr. Cheryl Mattingly is a professor of anthropology in the Division of Occupational Science and Therapy at the University of Southern California. Her talk will draw on a 15-year research study with African-American…
