Center for the Study of Women in Society

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The Center for the Study of Women in Society was founded at the University of Oregon in 1983. Its precursor, the Center for the Sociological Study of Women, was founded in 1973. This multidisciplinary research center generates, supports and disseminates research on gender and on all aspects of women's lives. A member of the National Council for Research on Women (NCRW), CSWS is one of 95 women's research and policy centers in the United States and among 300 centers in more than 80 countries. CSWS is the only University of Oregon research entity focused specifically on women and gender. Sandra Morgen, director, and CSWS were honored March 2004 by NCRW at their awards dinner "Women Who Make a Difference."

Center Goals

Initiate research that addresses gender-related issues facing society today.
Stimulate and increase knowledge about how gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexual identity and culture shape women's lives.
Study and evaluate the impact of policies related to women and gender.
Improve the dissemination and use of new scholarship on women and gender.
Create collaborating communities of scholars that enrich the intellectual environment of the university.
Improve the climate for women faculty members and graduate students.
Create alliances with other universities and outside organizations sharing interests in women and gender-related issues.
Create bridges between research, teaching, public understanding, and discussion about women's lives.

To learn more about the Center and its work, visit the CSWS Web site.

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Episode 1: Christen Smith, University of Texas – Austin
(Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, 2024) McKinley, Michelle; Roach, Shoniqua
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Episode 2: Mireille Miller-Young, University of California – Santa Barbara
(Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, 2024) McKinley, Michelle; Roach, Shoniqua
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Episode 3: Rhaisa Williams, Washington University in St. Louis
(Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, 2024) McKinley, Michelle; Roach, Shoniqua
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CSWS Annual Review: 2024
(Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, 2024) Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon
2024 Annual Review for the Center for the Study of Women in Society.
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CSWS Annual Review : 2023
(Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, 2023-10) University of Oregon. Center for the Study of Women in Society
Our 50th anniversary event programming team has spent the last year collaborating with schools, departments, programs, and other units on campus to bring you invited speakers, exhibits, performances, and events that speak to intersectional feminist research and the ways in which gender, race, class, ability, and sexual orientation intersect and inform our visions of social justice. See the full schedule on the outside back cover and go to csws.uoregon.edu for event details. You can also sign up for our bi-weekly newsletter to have updated event information sent directly to your inbox; see the bottom of our website home page for a link.
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CSWS Research Matters: 2023: (Winter)
(Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, 2023) Presto, Jenifer
From a Boarding House in Tianjin to a Home in Eugene: The Extraordinary Story of Antonina Riasanovsky and Her Family
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CSWS Annual Review : 2022
(Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, 2022-10) University of Oregon. Center for the Study of Women in Society
In this issue, we check in with some of our affiliates’ responses to the Dobbs decision in the feature story “On the Implications of Overturning Roe.” Plus, CSWS Director Sangita Gopal, cinema studies, considers the challenges of our current social and political climate, and how the center can meet those challenges as we approach five decades of support for feminist research at UO. The past year also marked a return of regular CSWS programming, with a virtual noon talk series featuring graduate student research (see back cover) and the long-delayed 2022 Acker-Morgen Lecture with Dr. Raka Ray, professor of sociology and South and Southeast Asia studies and dean of social sciences at UC Berkeley. Political science doctoral student Olivia Atkinson shares her reflections on Raka’s talk in this issue. In other stories, we look at how CSWS has expanded support for graduate students, and we check in with former Jane Grant Dissertation Fellow Baran Germen, assistant professor of film and media studies at Colorado College.
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CSWS Research Matters: 2022: (Fall)
(Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, 2022) Huang, Helen; Valiani, Arafaat A.
Modernizing Bananas: Cookbooks, Literature, and Mass Entertainment. Chinese Birth Tourism in Canada and the United States.
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CSWS Annual Review : 2021
(Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, 2021-10) University of Oregon. Center for the Study of Women in Society
Law professor Michelle McKinley opens the issue with “A Year In Review,” which marks her final report as CSWS director after five years of service. Interim Director Sangita Gopal, associate professor of cinema studies, discusses in an interview her goals for CSWS during this transition year. Rather than investing in programming while pandemic conditions make in-person gatherings uncertain, Gopal will focus on strengthening the Center’s infrastructure for the next director and starting the first stages of planning for our 50th Anniversary in 2023. Two feature stories explore some of the Center’s activities over the last year. The first story dives deeper into the origins and outcomes of the Caregiver Campaign, a CSWS advocacy project seeking policy changes to ameliorate impacts of the pandemic for caregivers in the UO community. Beginning with an open letter to UO leadership in June 2020, the campaign helped to increase awareness of how institutional practices have historically rendered certain labor invisible and left women and minorities more vulnerable. The second story focuses on our 2021 Women of Color Books in Print virtual event series and features reflections from our graduate students. Anthropology PhD candidate Polet Campos-Melchor shares how she was moved by Ana-Maurine Lara’s discussion of Black feminist practice in her work and life during the Jan. 29 book event for Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic and Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty. Anthropology student Kiana Nadonza discusses her increased confidence in her beauty pageantry research because of Oluwakemi Balogun’s work and the Mar. 5 discussion of Beauty Diplomacy: Embodying an Emerging Nation. Education PhD student Roshelle Weiser-Nieto appreciates the practical tools for culturally relevant teaching in Leilani Sabzalian’s Indigenous Children’s Survivance in Public Schools, featured April 23 in the virtual book event series. Finally, English PhD candidate Teresa Hernández reflects on her own relationship to digital game play and its racial discourse after listening to a May 7 discussion of Tara Fickle’s The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities. In a related story, we also introduce our new WOC Project convenor, anthropology professor Gyoung-Ah Lee. While many of our recent research grant recipients have had to delay their research due to the pandemic, we include in this issue reports from two faculty who were able to continue work last year. Judith Raiskin, associate professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, gives us an update on the Eugene Lesbian History Project website, Outliers and Outlaws, and how the digital humanities project came into being. Also, sociology professor Ellen Scott shares her research team’s co-authored report, “#ForeverEssential: What Does it Mean to be a Low-wage Essential Worker in the Age of COVID-19?” Seven graduate students report on their research progress and the impacts of the pandemic on their projects. Jane Grant Fellowship winner Cristina Faiver-Serna, geography, explains the origins of her PhD dissertation and how the pandemic changed her approach in “M(other)work of Survival and the Pandemic as Teacher.” Doctoral candidate Parichehr Kazemi, political science, describes her online research into Iranian women and girls who are defying the nation’s strict hijab mandate by posting publicly unveiled images of themselves in “‘My Stealthy Freedom’: Feminist Resistance through Social Media in Iran.” Doctoral candidate Molly McBride, anthropology, tells how her research with a Michigan women’s chorus unfolded in surprising ways over the past year in “Tempos of Zoom Ethnography: Singing with a Women’s Chorus in the Pandemic.” Doctoral candidate Stephanie Mastroefano, English, describes her research into the role of women in the unionization of animation workers and the 1941 Disney Studio strike in “Breaking the Celluloid Frame: The Women at the Margins of Disney Animation.” Doctoral candidate Lara Boyero Agudo, Romance languages, describes how her research shows Spanishspeaking immigrant women are exposed to more racial discrimination in Oregon in “Soy mujer, inmigrante y latina: An Intersectional Study of Linguistic Capital among Latina Women Immigrants in Oregon.” Doctoral candidate Polet Campos-Melchor, anthropology, discusses her research on how trans asylum seekers in Ciudad Juarez look out for each other in “El Noa Noa: Strategies of Love and Care at the U.S.–México border.” Finally, doctoral candidate Katherine M. Huber, English, reflects on how the pandemic and racial injustice protests influenced her research on Ireland’s complex history as a colonized nation in “Urgent Pauses: A Reflection on My Renewed Commitment to Rigorous Research.”
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CSWS Annual Review : 2020
(Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, 2020-10) University of Oregon. Center for the Study of Women in Society
Director Michelle McKinley opens the issue with her annual report, “A Year In Review,” examining last year’s theme of “Gender, Power, and Grief” in light of our present circumstances and their effects on the Center and our community—including the premature ending of our Lorwin Lecture series and other talks scheduled for spring term. She also takes time to celebrate the achievements of our faculty and graduate student affiliates and the fierce feminist actions of our community to support caregivers. Two feature stories in this issue delve deeper into the theme of “Gender, Power, and Grief.” The first story, “Reflections on Gender, Power, and Grief,” offers personal commentary from four of our affiliates in response to Lorwin Lectures that took place in the fall and winter. In these reflections, introduced by McKinley, digital and editorial content editor Jessica T. Brown, School of Journalism and Communication, shares how she felt deeply affected by Rhaisa Williams’ Oct. 25 talk “Screaming to Dream: Toni Morrison, Emmett Till, and Black Maternal Grief.” Associate professor and director of the global health program Kristin Yarris, Global Studies, gives her take on Sylvanna Falcón’s Feb. 6 talk, “Finding ‘light born in darkness’: The Urgency of Feminist Activism in these Times.” Doctoral student Martha Ndakalako-Bannikov, Comparative Literature, shares her thoughts on Tina Campt’s inspiring Feb. 17 talk on “The New Black Gaze.” And doctoral student Jalen Thompson, English, explores how Karla Holloway’s Mar. 4 lecture “From Fact to Fiction: A Colored Life in Letters” impacted his thinking during a time of crisis for Black Americans. In our second feature story, fiction author and career instructor Ulrick Casimir, English, conducts an in-depth interview with Karla Holloway, who was his teacher as an undergraduate student at North Carolina State University. Casimir talks to Holloway about her eighth book and debut novel, A Death in Harlem (2019). While this detective story was originally inspired by Nella Larsen’s classic novel Passing (1929), Holloway shares how the story and its characters took on a life of their own. The story follows protagonist Weldon Thomas, Harlem’s first and only “colored” policeman, as he picks through racial intrigue and thick layers of class, lies, and familial deceit to solve a murder mystery, while the author explores whose deaths really count in Black Harlem, and why. Articles by two of our 2019 graduate student research grant award winners reflect on their projects’ significance during a time of social and political unrest and antiracist protests. In “‘Two Sides of the Same Story’: Colonial Violence and Erasure in the University of Oregon’s (Fallen) Pioneer Statues,” doctoral candidate Marc J. Carpenter, History, considers the legacy of UO’s Pioneer and Pioneer Mother monuments that inspired years of controversy, culminating with protesters toppling the two statues in June. Also, in “The Work of Black Feminist Liberation: Writing Erotic Freedom in Black Feminist Fiction and TV,” doctoral candidate Carmel Ohman discusses what it means to engage creative texts by and about Black women in this historic moment of collective action. Other reports from our 2019 graduate student research grant award winners include: Daizi Hazarika, Anthropology, “Witch-Hunting in Colonial Assam”; Jane Nam, Philosophy, “Radical Korean Feminism: Women’s Movement Seeks to #escapethecorset”; Amna Javed, Economics, “In the Name of Honor? Evaluating the Impact of Weather Variability on ‘Honor’ Killings in Pakistan”; and Emily Masucci, Anthropology, “The Struggle Continues: Gender-Based Violence and the Politics of Justice and Care in Brazil”. One of our faculty reports also connects her research on Black writing to the current crises. In her article, “The ‘Loophole of Retreat’: Seclusion, Privacy, and the Intimate Geographies of Black Life,” Assistant Professor Faith Barter, English, considers when seclusion, withdrawal, and retreat are not merely forms of confinement and isolation but also potential tools of Black survival—both in 19th-century Black writing and under today’s conditions of pandemic and state-sanctioned violence. Associate Professor Sangita Gopal, Cinema Studies, provides an update on the CSWS Women of Color Project, while I offer a profile of one donor's longtime association with CSWS. Other faculty research reports include: Assistant Professor Diana Garvin, Romance Languages, “Food Under Fascism”; Associate Professor Kristin Yarris, Global Studies, “The Alaska Mental Health Act: Tracing the Development of Public Health and the Nation-state”; and Professor Alisa Freedman, East Asian Languages and Literatures, “How I Gained 100 Japanese Grandmothers: Reflections on Intergenerational Conversations Inspired by CSWS”.
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CSWS Research Matters: 2020: (Spring)
(Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, 2020) Wilde, Jenée
Diving into Big Data: Humanists bridge the qualitative vs. quantitative divide with help from Knight Library Data Services. Understanding Data Management: Researchers get help planning for the data lifecycle.
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CSWS Annual Review : 2019
(Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, 2019-10-02) University of Oregon. Center for the Study of Women in Society
This issue marks the final year for our three-year theme “Women and Work.” We are delighted to feature several articles that reflect this theme, including one by Lamia Karim, associate professor, Department of Anthropology, which focuses on the research for her current book project about female garment workers in Bangladesh. Another, by the research team of Alaí Reyes-Santos, associate professor in the recently renamed Department of Indigenous, Race, & Ethnic Studies, and Ana-Maurine Lara, assistant professor, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, is about women healers in the Caribbean. Maria Fernanda Escallón, assistant professor, Department of Anthropology, reports on her CSWS-supported research, describing the invisibility of women in Colombia who sell fruit and traditional sweets in an area declared by UNESCO as Intangible Heritage of Humanity. Although one of the tourism industry’s most marketable characters in Cartagena’s historic city center, these Palenqueras earn little and are often harassed by police. Michelle McKinley and I interviewed Angela Joya, assistant professor, Department of International Studies, about her research projects in the Middle East and North Africa in the male-dominated field of political economy. And there are many more research articles by faculty members and graduate students whose research CSWS has supported through our research grant program, as well as news about upcoming events, previous events, honors, awards, and book publications.
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CSWS Annual Review : 2018
(Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, 2018-10-04) University of Oregon. Center for the Study of Women in Society
CSWS continues to feature events and research related to our three-year theme "Women and Work." Our theme acknowledges the need to keep a focus on pay equity and poverty as well as pay tribute to past CSWS directors Joan Acker and Sandra Morgen, both of whom passed away in 2016. We also remain vigilant in the face of the international refugee crisis, the rise of fascism, the Black Lives Matter and #MetToo movements, the struggles for equity and diversity for LGBTQ peoples, and basic human rights issues. The list goes on. In this edition of CSWS Annual Review ethnic studies professor Ernesto Martinez writes about the film adaptation of a children's book he recently wrote, which is being supported by a CSWS faculty research grant. This applied research storytelling project "responds to the severe underrepresentation of queer Latinx youth in contemporary cultural production." Shoniqua Roach, an assistant professor in the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies writes about her CSWS-supported research, "Black Sexual Sanctuaries," an in-depth analysis of how race, class, gender, sexuality, and space coalesce to produce and foreclose possibilities for sexual citizenship and erotic freedom. We take a look at sociology professor Eileen Otis's ongoing research on labor practices and worker unrest at Walmarts in China. Psychology research professor Michelle Byrne describes research she and her team are doing on the relationships between mental health and the immune systems of adolescent girls. We also learn about the Lesbian History Project being carried out by librarian Linda Long and WGSS professor Judith Raiskin. "A conversation with Walidah Imarisha" focuses on one of our most successful events of last year, the packed presentation Imarisha gave on why there are not more black people in Oregon. Graduate student Kenneth Surles and several of his students discuss the impact for students from Princeton scholar Regina Kunzel's lecture on the psychoanalytic treatment of queer patients at an infamous hospital in Washington, D.C. Topping off the issue are informative articles written by graduate students whose research has been supported through CSWS graduate research grants, including Jane Grant Fellow Laura Strait. Her dissertation research explores pro-life feminism, legible politics, and the edge of women's liberation.
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CSWS Annual Review : 2017
(Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, 2017-10-03) University of Oregon. Center for the Study of Women in Society
Faculty and students affiliated with CSWS generate and share research with other scholars and educators, the public, policymakers, and activists. CSWS researchers come from a broad range of fields in arts and humanities, law and policy, social sciences, physical and life sciences, and the professional schools.
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CSWS Research Matters: 2017: (Spring)
(University of Oregon, Center for the Study of Women in Society, 2017) Bohls, Elizabeth
Writings of colonial women shed light on the gendered and politicized construction of home in the context of British slavery.
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CSWS Research Matters: 2017: (Winter)
(University of Oregon, Center for the Study of Women in Society, 2017) Balogun, Oluwakemi M.
Through the medium of beauty pageants, this book project examines how women’s bodies symbolically represent Nigeria’s aesthetic center and signal the country’s economic potential within the region.
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CSWS : Research Matters: 2016 : (Fall)
(University of Oregon, Center for the Study of Women in Society, 2016) Luk, Sharon
The Life of Paper, a Poetics: Letters and Mass Incarceration in Global California This book aims not only to denaturalize the geographic borders, political-economic laws, and civic norms that expose people to state-sanctioned violence but, more critically, to privilege a sense of the activities and worldviews of disenfranchised populations who struggle to transform existing conditions
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CSWS Annual Review : 2016
(Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, 2016) University of Oregon. Center for the Study of Women in Society
Faculty and students affiliated with CSWS generate and share research with other scholars and educators, the public, policymakers, and activists. CSWS researchers come from a broad range of fields in arts and humanities, law and policy, social sciences, physical and life sciences, and the professional schools.
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Wikipedia: The Basics
(2015-03-06) Stierch, Sarah
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CSWS Annual Review : 2015
(Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, 2015) University of Oregon. Center for the Study of Women in Society
Faculty and students affiliated with CSWS generate and share research with other scholars and educators, the public, policymakers, and activists. CSWS researchers come from a broad range of fields in arts and humanities, law and policy, social sciences, physical and life sciences, and the professional schools.

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