Markets and Bodies: Women, Service Work, and the Making of Inequality in China
by Eileen M. Otis
(Stanford University Press, October 2011, 232 pp.)
Eileen Otis is an assistant professor in the University of Oregon Department of Sociology and a CSWS faculty affiliate.
Publisher’s Book Synopsis
“Insulated from the dust, noise, and crowds churning outside, China’s luxury hotels are staging […]
Author: alicee
“The Economy of Shame”: a review of Lamia Karim’s book “Microfinance and Its Discontents”
“The Economy of Shame” (Women’s Review of Books, Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College, November/December 2011)
Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh
by Lamia Karim (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2011, 255 pp., $25.00, paperback)
Reviewed by Ghazal Zulfiqar
Lamia Karim is the associate director of the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University […]
2011 Surrency Prize to Michelle McKinley for “Fractional Freedoms”
Surrency prize to McKinley, “Fractional Freedoms”.
November 15, 2011
UO law professor Michelle McKinley
University of Oregon law professor Michelle McKinley was named this year’s winner of the Surrency prize, awarded by the American Society for Legal History (ASLH) for the best article published in the Society’s journal, the Law and History Review. McKinley’s winning article is […]
“From Suffrage to Citizenship: Empowering Oregon Women in the 20th Century and Beyond,” a Symposium
[ October 25, 2012; 3:00 pm to 6:30 pm. ] UO Knight Library, Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St.
Keynote speaker: Lauren Kessler, Professor, UO School of Journalism and Communication
A symposium celebrating the centennial of women’s suffrage is scheduled for Thursday, October 25, from 3 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in Knight Library’s Browsing Room on the UO campus.
Linda Long, manuscripts librarian at the UO Libraries and organizer of […]
Queer Experiments in Pedagogy, a Roundtable
[ October 25, 2012; 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm. ] Graduate Student Center
111 Susan Campbell Hall
UO campus
The Queer RIG Roundtable Series presents:
“Queer Experiments in Pedagogy”
Guest speakers:
Chicora Martin, Assistant Dean of Students and Director, LGBT Education and UO Support Services
Mary Wood, Associate Professor, UO Department of English
Drew Beard, Postdoctoral Instructor, UO Department of English
How do we place “queerness” in historical and cultural context in ways that […]
“The S-Word: The Squaw Stereotype in American Popular Culture”— a Road Scholars lecture by Debra Merskin
[ October 23, 2012; 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm. ]
Eugene Public Library
100 W. 10th Ave., Eugene, OR
Free & open to the public
A CSWS Road Scholars Lecture presented by Debra Merskin
This presentation explores the term “squaw” as an element of discourse that frames a version of indigenous female-ness. Speaker Debra Merskin, associate professor, UO School of Journalism and Communication, is developing a theoretical perspective of […]
