Category: Women’s History

UO Today #526: Brenda Frink

UO Today #526: Brenda Frink | University of Oregon Video.
Brenda Frink, research associate at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University, talks about pioneer societies and Pioneer Mother monuments in the American West.
Dr. Frink lectured on “Pioneer Mother: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Public Monuments in the U.S. West,” at the […]

CSWS-funded project takes a close look at traditional Western discourse surrounding female genital cutting

Who Defines “Mutilation”? Challenging Imperialism in the Discourse of Female Genital Cutting
Courtney Smith (back row, center)
by Courtney Smith / From: Feminist Formations / Volume 23, Issue 1, Spring 2011 /pp. 25-46 | 10.1353/ff.2011.0009
See also: global.gender.current » Blog Archive » Unpacking female body “mutilation” in Senegal and the U.S.
Courtney Smith received a CSWS Graduate Student Research Grant […]

Celebrate International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month by Writing Women into Wikipedia!

[ March 8, 2013; 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm. March 9, 2013; 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_15998" align="alignright" width="210"] Sarah Stierch Will Lead Free Workshop March 8 (Matthew Roth, Wikimedia Foundation)[/caption]

Celebrate International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month by teaching and encouraging our community members to become Wikipedians and by adding women to Wikipedia’s content.

Friday, March 8, 3-5 pm, Knight Library Browsing Room: Sarah Stierch, who trained as a fellow […]

Brenda Frink—“Pioneer Mother: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Public Monuments in the U.S. West”

[ November 1, 2012; 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Many Nations Longhouse
1630 Columbia Street
UO campus
Pioneer Mother: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Public Monuments in the U.S. West
Dr. Brenda Frink, Research Associate, The Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University, will lecture on “Pioneer Mother: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Public Monuments in the U.S. West.” The Pioneer Mother monument […]

Love Magic in the Kitchen—Scholars Share Research on Dangerous Dependencies, Domestic Slavery and Servitude

(l to r): Nara Milanich; Nicole von Germeten; Russ Tomlin; Kris Lane; Michelle McKinley; Law School dean Michael Moffitt; Rachel O'Toole; and Elizabeth Kuznesof (photo by E. Hoffman).
May 4, 2012—Dozens of faculty members, administrators, visiting scholars, and students participated in a roundtable organized by law professor Michelle McKinley and held at the UO Knight Library […]