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…
Category: Publications
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…
UO Today #473: Lamia Karim
UO Today #473: Lamia Karim UO Today week of August 8, 2011: Lamia Karim, Anthropology and Associate Director of CSWS, discusses her forthcoming book Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh, the first feminist critique of the much-lauded…
Memoirs of Scandalous Women: edited by Dianne Dugaw
Dianne Dugaw’s Memoirs of Scandalous Women (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011), a five-volume annotated edition of life-writings by 18th-century British women, surveys the period from 1740 to 1808 in six narratives that span social class from subaltern to aristocratic milieus.…
Bollywood’s Global Push—UO Professor Interviewed in The Christian Science Monitor
June 13, 2011—The Christian Science Monitor: Bollywood’s global push. The Christian Science Monitor contacted Sangita Gopal, UO associate professor of English and a Bollywood expert, for a feature article on India’s prolific film industry. “Sangita Gopal attributes the enduring popularity…
Stretched Thin—Book About Welfare Reform Written by UO Researchers Is Up for Prestigious Award
A book about poor families and welfare written by three feminist scholars—an anthropologist and two sociologists—is a finalist for the prestigious C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Stretched Thin: Poor Families, Welfare Work,…
