Books & Films by CSWS Affiliates and Staff published in 2010-11.
We include here books that relate to our mission: generating, supporting and disseminating research on women and gender. Many of these projects received CSWS funding.
Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh
by Lamia Karim
University of Minnesota Press
(March 2011)
296 pages
Lamia Karim is the associate director of the Center for the Study of Women in Society and an associate professor in the University of Oregon Department of Anthropology.
Markets and Bodies: Women, Service Work, and the Making of Inequality in China
by Eileen M. Otis
Stanford University Press
(October 2011)
232 pages
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Eileen Otis is an assistant professor in the University of Oregon Department of Sociology and a CSWS faculty affiliate.
Identity Complex: Making the Case for Multiplicity
by Michael Hames-García
University of Minnesota Press
(August 2011)
304 pages
Michael Hames-García is a professor, UO Department of Ethnic Studies, and a CSWS faculty affiliate.
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Becoming Who We Are: Temperament and Personality in Development
by Mary K. Rothbart
Guilford Press
(March 2011)
304 Pages
Mary K. Rothbart is a distinguished professor emerita, UO Department of Psychology, and a CSWS faculty affiliate.
Beyond the Islands
translation of a novel by Alicia Yánez Cossío
by Amalia Gladhart
UNO Press (University of New Orleans)
(March 2011)
226 pages
Amalia Gladhart is associate professor, Spanish, UO Department of Romance Languages and a CSWS faculty affiliate
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Memoirs of Scandalous Women
edited by Dianne Dugaw
London: Pickering & Chatto
(2011)
a five-volume annotated edition
Dianne Dugaw is a professor, UO Department of English, and a CSWS faculty affiliate
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The Aroma of Righteousness: Scent and Seduction in Rabbinic Life and Literature
by Deborah A. Green
Penn State University Press
(2011)
304 pages
Deborah A. Green is Greenberg Associate Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature, UO Department of Religious Studies, and director, Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies. She is a CSWS faculty affiliate.
Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader
edited by Michael Hames-García and Ernesto Javier Martínez
Duke University Press (April 2011)
384 pages
Michael Hames-García is professor of Ethnic Studies at UO. Ernesto Javier Martínez is assistant professor of Ethnic Studies and of Women’s and Gender Studies at UO. Both are CSWS faculty affiliates.
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Media, Minorities, and Meaning: A Critical Introduction
by Debra L. Merskin
New York: Peter Lang
(2011)
449 pages
Debra L. Merskin is associate professor of Communication Studies in the UO School of Journalism & Communication and a CSWS faculty affiliate.
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Unruly Girls, Unrepentant Mothers: Redefining Feminism on Screen
by Kathleen Rowe Karlyn
University of Texas Press
(January 2011)
320 pages
Kathleen Rowe Karlyn is professor in the UO Department of English and a CSWS faculty affiliate.
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