Category: Books

“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 2010 and organized by Alisa Freedman, UO associate professor of Japanese Literature & Film in the […]

Dr. Cheryl Mattingly — “Hope, Suffering and the Play of Possible Selves: A Narrative Perspective on the Good Life”

[ March 6, 2014; 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Gerlinger Lounge
1468 University St.
UO campus

Dr. Cheryl Mattingly is a professor of anthropology in the Division of Occupational Science and Therapy at the University of Southern California. Her talk will draw on a 15-year research study with African-American families in Los Angeles. This study explores the experiences of parents of children with chronic illness, and formed […]

“How to Get Your Latino/Latin American Studies Academic Book Published” with Gisela Fosado, Duke University Press

[ March 6, 2014; 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Erb Memorial Union (EMU)
Walnut Room
1222 E. 13th Ave.

Gisela Fosado, Duke University Press Editor for Gender, Latin American and Latino Studies

This workshop will cover some of the common challenges of turning the dissertation into a first book (some of which also tend to crop up in the second book), the complicated state of the publishing industry […]

Book by UO Psychologists Jennifer Freyd and Pamela Birrell Opens Eyes on Betrayal

Book by University of Oregon psychologists opens eyes on betrayal | Communications.
EUGENE, Ore. — (Feb. 27, 2013) — “Betrayal violates us,” write University of Oregon psychologists Jennifer Freyd and Pamela Birrell in the preface of a new book that tackles the devastating act and probes the deep underpinnings of why people cover it up.
Blind to […]

American Sexual Histories second edition | Around the O

In PRINT: American Sexual Histories second edition | Around the O.
“The second edition of Elizabeth Reis’ popular American Sexual Histories has recently been published and is as well received as the first edition. Reis is a professor of history and of women’s and gender studies at the University of Oregon.” — From Around the O,  […]

Upcoming Reading: “The Missing Italian Girl,” by Barbara Corrado Pope

[ March 2, 2013; 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm. ] Browsing Room
Knight Library
1501 Kincaid St.

Now out in hardback and available in eBook Formats Online, The Missing Italian Girl (Pegasus Books, February 2013) is the third crime novel in the Bernard Martin mystery series of Barbara Corrado Pope, professor emerita, UO Department of Women’s and Gender Studies.

March 2 at Knight Library marks the first reading from […]