We include here books and documentaries by faculty affiliates, particularly ones that relate to our mission: generating, supporting and disseminating research on women and gender. Many of these projects received CSWS funding.
“Gender, Sex, Liebe in poetischen Dialogen des frühen zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts” (Gender, Sex, Love in Poetic Dialogues of the Early Twentieth Century)
by Dorothee Ostmeier
Dorothee Ostmeier, University of Oregon professor of German and Folklore. She is a CSWS faculty affiliate. Her book project was supported by a 2006 CSWS Faculty Research Grant.
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Agents of Change: A legacy of feminist research, teaching, and activism at the University of Oregon
by Gabriela Martínez & Sonia De La Cruz
Published by CSWS / copyright Creative Commons
(November 2013)
Documentary running time: 52 minutes
YouTube link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztY7jiHgCKQ&feature=youtu.be)
Gabriela Martínez is associate director, CSWS, and associate professor, School of Journalism and Communication; Sonia De La Cruz is a PhD student, SOJC.
Keep Your Eyes on Guatemala
produced and directed by Gabriela Martínez Escobar
(Creative Commons, 2013)
YouTube link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMsNtNn50Fs)
This 54-minute documentary tells the story of Guatemala’s National Police Historical Archive (Archivo Histórico de la Policia Nacional—AHPN) intertwined with narratives of past human rights abuses and the dramatic effects they had on specific individuals and the nation as a whole. In addition, it highlights present-day efforts to preserve collective memories and bring justice and reconciliation to the country. This documentary is the result of a collaboration between academic units at the UO and AHPN.
Gabriela Martínez is associate director, CSWS, and associate professor, School of Journalism and Communication.
We Are the Face of Oaxaca: Testimony and Social Movements
by Lynn Stephen
Duke University Press
(September 2013)
368 pages
Lynn Stephen is director, Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies and distinguished professor, Department of Anthropology.
Women’s Work: Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women’s Novels
by Courtney Thorsson
University of Virginia Press
(June 2013)
240 pages
Courtney Thorsson is an assistant professor, Department of English.
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Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan
edited by Alisa Freedman, Laura Miller, and Christine R. Yano
Stanford University Press
(March 2013)
304 pages
Publisher’s Synopsis
Alisa Freedman is associate professor, Japanese Literature & Film, Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures.
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Blind to Betrayal: Why We Fool Ourselves We Aren’t Being Fooled
by Jennifer J. Freyd and Pamela J. Birrell
John Wiley & Sons
(March 2013)
201 pages
Jennifer Freyd is a professor, UO Department of Psychology.
Life Writing and Schizophrenia. Encounters at the Edge of Meaning
by Mary Elene Wood
Rodopi Press /Amsterdam/New York, NY
(2013)
353 pages
Mary Wood is a professor, UO Department of English and a member of the CSWS Advisory Board. Gender is a major focus of the analysis in this book.
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Development Challenges Confronting Pakistan
edited by Anita M. Weiss and Saba Gul Khattak
Kumarian Press
(2013)
280 pages
Publisher’s Synopsis
Anita Weiss is professor and head, Department of International Studies.
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Otros Sabreres: Collaborative Research on Indigenous and Afro-Descendant Cultural Politics
Edited by Lynn Stephen and Charles R. Hale
SAR Press, Santa Fe, litics.
Edited by Lynn Stephen and Charles R. Hale.
Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research Press, 2013; 264 pp
PDF available at: http://lasa.international.pitt.edu/members/special-projects/files/OtrosSaberesLASA.pdf
Lynn Stephen is director, Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies and distinguished professor, Department of Anthropology.
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Romantic Literature and Postcolonial Studies
by Elizabeth Bohls
Edinburgh University Press
(2013)
224 pp
Elizabeth Bohls is an associate professor, Department of English.
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Trafalgar
by Angélica Gorodischer; translated by Amalia Gladhart
Small Beer Press
(February 2013)
256 pages
Amalia Gladhart is head, Department of Romance Languages, professor of Spanish.
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Prowler
by Amanda Powell
Finishing Line Press
(2013)
Amanda Powell is a senior lecturer in Spanish, Department of Romance Languages.
