The Hidden Ways Microfinance Hurts Women | Brandeis Magazine.
Lamia Karim’s book, Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh, (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) is featured in the Fall 2012/ Winter 2013 issue of Brandeis Magazine. An associate professor of anthropology at the University of Oregon and the former associate director of the Center […]
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“Latinas and Citizenship in Oregon”: an essay by Marcela Mendoza
“Latinas and Citizenship in Oregon”
Author(s): Marcela Mendoza
Oregon Historical Quarterly, Vol. 113, No. 3 (Fall 2012), pp. 444-451
Published by: Oregon Historical Society
Abstract: Marcela Mendoza considers the relationship between family and citizenship in Oregon’s Latino community, particularly by looking at how women’s work both maintains the continuity of cultural heritage and facilitates settlement into new communities. Drawing […]
CSWS Noon Talk: Karyn Lewis on Women in STEM
[ April 24, 2013; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] 330 Hendricks
Jane Grant Rm
1408 University
UO campus
Read the Around the O story
“When Hard Work Doesn’t Pay Off: Exploring Self-Perceptions to Understand the Underrepresentation of Women in STEM”
Karyn Lewis is a Ph.D. candidate in the UO Department of Psychology. She received a 2010 CSWS graduate student research grant for her work on this research.
From the 2012 CSWS […]
CSWS-funded project takes a close look at traditional Western discourse surrounding female genital cutting
Who Defines “Mutilation”? Challenging Imperialism in the Discourse of Female Genital Cutting
Courtney Smith (back row, center)
by Courtney Smith / From: Feminist Formations / Volume 23, Issue 1, Spring 2011 /pp. 25-46 | 10.1353/ff.2011.0009
See also: global.gender.current » Blog Archive » Unpacking female body “mutilation” in Senegal and the U.S.
Courtney Smith received a CSWS Graduate Student Research Grant […]
Lauren Kessler: Watching My Daughter Drive
“My daughter drives.
“Are there three scarier, more exciting words in the English language?”
Read UO journalism professor Lauren Kessler’s new post on the mom.me blog. Kessler is professor & director of the UO Multimedia Journalism Master’s Program and a member of the CSWS Women Writers Advisory Board.
Kessler will be a leading an afternoon workshop at the 2013 […]
Celebrate International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month by Writing Women into Wikipedia!
[ March 8, 2013; 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm. March 9, 2013; 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_15998" align="alignright" width="210"] Sarah Stierch Will Lead Free Workshop March 8 (Matthew Roth, Wikimedia Foundation)[/caption]
Celebrate International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month by teaching and encouraging our community members to become Wikipedians and by adding women to Wikipedia’s content.
Friday, March 8, 3-5 pm, Knight Library Browsing Room: Sarah Stierch, who trained as a fellow […]
