Month: December 2013

A Brief Review: CSWS 40th Anniversary Celebration

Crowd Panorama: A Conversation with Ursula K. Le Guin / photo by Jack Liu
Commemorative Schedule Booklet   40th Anniversary photos   More 40th photos
More than a thousand people attended the 40th Anniversary Celebration of the Center for the Study of Women in Society, which took place November 7 – 9, 2013, at the Erb Memorial Union and […]

CSWS 40th Anniversary Featured in UO’s Student-Run Emerald Media

UO Center for Women in Society celebrates 40th anniversary and strive for equality | Emerald Media. Story by Natalie Maier.
“We’ve come a long way and we’ve got a long way to go,” Jenée Wilde, one of the main organizers of the 40th anniversary said. “What’s very revealing to me is that there are a lot of […]

“Agents of Change”—new CSWS documentary records a legacy of feminist research, teaching, and activism at the UO

Agents of Change: A legacy of feminist research, teaching, and activism at the University of Oregon
by Gabriela Martínez and Sonia De La Cruz (Creative Commons, copyright 2013)
Agents of Change chronicles the development of the University of Oregon Center for the Study of Women in Society and the UO Department of Women’s and Gender Studies within […]

Reviews of Karen Joy Fowler’s “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”

Karen Joy Fowler’s ‘We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves’ – NYTimes.com.
NPR Review: “‘Beside Ourselves’ Explores Human-Animal Connections”
Karen Joy Fowler will be the featured author at the 2014 CSWS Northwest Women Writer’s Symposium, May 1 -3, 2014.
Locations: UO campus
Eugene Downtown Library
http://csws.uoregon.edu/2014-csws-northwest-women-writers-symposium/

CSWS Affiliate Alisa Freedman Interviewed

Fembot’s Books Aren’t Dead (BAD) interview for December 2013 is now available on the Fembot website. In this BAD interview Kate Page-Lippsmeyer (Doctoral Candidate, University of Southern California) talks with Alisa Freedman (Associate Professor, University of Oregon), coeditor of Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, […]

Coltrane’s paternity research in The Atlantic

Scott Coltrane
Coltrane’s paternity research in The Atlantic | AroundtheO
“Interim Provost Scott Coltrane continues to be a prominent sociologist and contributed a commentary to The Atlantic on Dec. 29. ‘The Risky Business of Paternity Leave’ details research by Coltrane and UO GTFs Elizabeth C. Miller, Tracy DeHaan and Lauren Stewart in a study published in the […]