Category: Books

Feminist Technology

“Teaching Feminist Technology Design” by Frances Bronet and Linda L. Layne is the title of a chapter (Ch 7: p. 179) in the newly released book Feminist Technology. Frances Bronet is dean of the School of Architecture and Allied Arts,…

Bodies in Crisis—new book from CSWS fellowship winner

Sutton, Barbara. 2010. Bodies in Crisis: Culture, Violence, and Women’s Resistance in Neoliberal Argentina (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press). Barbara Sutton received funding from the Center for the Study of Women in Society to pursue the research on which…

Welfare Reform in a Time of Crisis

Browsing Room, Knight Library A moderated talk and book celebration with authors Sandra Morgen, Joan Acker, and Jill Weigt Join CSWS and the UO Department of Sociology in a discussion and celebration of the publication of Stretched Thin: Poor Families,…

Michelle McKinley Awarded NEH Fellowship

University of Oregon law professor Michelle McKinley has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for her book manuscript, entitled “Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Legal Activism, and Ecclesiastical Courts in Colonial Lima, 1593-1700.” A member of the CSWS Women…

Changing Images of Japanese Workingwomen

by Alisa Freedman, Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature and Film Editor’s Note: In 2009, Professor Freedman received a CSWS Faculty Research Grant of nearly $4,000 to support her research in Japan. On October 28, she will offer a CSWS Noon…