Category: Research

“Revisiting The Stranger Next Door: Reflections on Sexual Politics and Human Dignity in the New Millennium”—Arlene Stein

Knight Law Center Room 110 UO campus A Talk by Arlene Stein This talk celebrates the 10th anniversary of the publication of The Stranger Next Door: The Story of a Small Community’s Battle Over Sex, Faith, and Civil Rights (which…

CSWS Chooses Two Winners For Jane Higdon Senior Thesis Scholarship

Shelley Annette Grosjean (History) and Sara S. Quinn (Anthropology) are co-winners of the 2010-11 Jane Higdon Senior Thesis Scholarship.  Following an open competition among University of Oregon undergraduates working on a senior thesis on issues related to women and/or gender,…

Lamia Karim’s New Book about Microfinance on Huffington Post’s “Most Anticipated” List

CSWS Associate Director Lamia Karim’s upcoming book has made it to the Huffington Post’s Most Anticipated List of Books for 2011. Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh is due out from University of Minnesota Press the end…

Business Girls & Two-Job Wives—Jane Marcellus

Business Girls & Two-Job Wives: Emerging Media Stereotypes of Employed Women by Jane Marcellus (Hampton Press, October 2010) Jane Marcellus is an associate professor at Middle Tennessee State University and a graduate of the University of Oregon. She was awarded…

The S-Word: Discourse, Stereotypes, and the American Indian Woman

The S-Word: Discourse, Stereotypes, and the American Indian Woman http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a929749074~frm=titlelink a paper by Debra L. Merskin, Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon Online publication date: 19 November 2010, Howard Journal of Communications The Center for the Study…