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…
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“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…
2011 Surrency Prize to Michelle McKinley for “Fractional Freedoms”
Surrency prize to McKinley, “Fractional Freedoms”. November 15, 2011 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…
“From Suffrage to Citizenship: Empowering Oregon Women in the 20th Century and Beyond,” a Symposium
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…
Queer Experiments in Pedagogy, a Roundtable
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…
“The S-Word: The Squaw Stereotype in American Popular Culture”— a Road Scholars lecture by Debra Merskin
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…
