Category: Women in the NW

Homelessness and Home: videos on homeless women in Eugene

Homelessness and Home is the website of the Community Philosophy Institute in the UO Philosophy Department. The purpose of the website is “to support creative, intellectual, and practical address of the problems of homelessness. The UO Community Philosophy Institute seeks…

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,…

Salmon Is Everything

The Play: May 20 – June 4, 2011 Miller Theatre Complex University of Oregon; Eugene, OR UO Ticket office: (541) 346-4363 The story of the 2002 Fish Kill must be told again and again … and be remembered…. A community-based…

Community-Based Theatre Around Native Issues

Hope Theatre 1109 Old Campus Lane University of Oregon campus A pre-play lecture for Salmon Is Everything Marcie Rendon, playwright and member of the White Earth Anishinabe Nation Sponsored by the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society…

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,…