Sebastian Strangio: Is Microfinance Pushing The World’s Poorest Even Deeper Into Poverty? | The New Republic. December 14, 2011—CSWS Associate Director Lamia Karim quoted in The New Republic: …“Skepticism of microfinance and its benefits, meanwhile, has migrated to the academy…
Category: Books
Markets and Bodies—new book by Eileen Otis
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…
“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…
Women and the Broadcast Blacklist—Carol A. Stabile
Carol A. Stabile, “Women and the Broadcast Blacklist,” Communication Currents: A Publication of the National Communication Association (Volume 6 , Issue 5 – October 2011) “In June 1950, an organization called American Business Consultants published Red Channels: The Report of…
River in the Sea: Tina Boscha’s novel now available as an e-book
Tina Boscha, instructor of composition in the University of Oregon Department of English, recently took matters into her own hands and self-published her novel as an e-book. “A few years back, I was a very fortunate recipient of a CSWS…
Identity Complex—a groundbreaking new book by Michael Hames-García
Identity Complex: Making the Case for Multiplicity Michael Hames-García, Professor, University of Oregon Department of Ethnic Studies University of Minnesota Press (August 2011) From the publisher: “Grounded in both theoretical and political practices—in the lived realities of people’s experience—Identity Complex…
