Willamalane Adult Activity Center 215 West C St Springfield, Oregon New Book Now Out A CSWS Road Scholar Community Presentation Modernism and Fashion: Dressing for Work and Play in Jazz-Age Tokyo My talk examines how women’s fashion defined Jazz-Age Tokyo,…
Category: Road Scholars
“The S-Word: The Squaw Stereotype in American Popular Culture”— a Road Scholars lecture by Debra Merskin
Eugene Public Library 100 W. 10th Ave., Eugene, OR Free & open to the public A CSWS Road Scholars Lecture presented by Debra Merskin This presentation explores the term “squaw” as an element of discourse that frames a version of…
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.…
News: Local | “Students examine nature of beauty” | The Register-Guard | Eugene, Oregon
News: Local | “Students examine nature of beauty” | The Register-Guard | Eugene, Oregon. Click on the above link to read an article about a Women’s History Month presentation in a Eugene School District 4J middle school by UO graduate…
CSWS Celebrates Women’s History Month with Presentations at Local Schools
The Center for the Study of Women in Society is playing an active community role in celebrating Women’s History Month this March by sending UO graduate students and professors into Eugene School District 4J classrooms through its Road Scholars Program.…
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…
