March 27, 2013—The Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon has awarded more than $70,000 in graduate student and faculty research grants to support research on women and gender during the 2013-14 academic year.…
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Prominent UO historian among those who filed an amicus brief in US Supreme Court case that contests the validity of the Defense of Marriage Act
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…
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…
