CSWS Research Matter, Winter 2012

Partner Violence and Girls’ Educational and Vocational Development:
In-depth interviews reveal a broad range of violence against girls—with far-reaching and enduring effects

by Krista M. Chronister, associate professor, College of Education, Counseling Psychology Program

“National data show that nearly 10 percent of adolescents reported physical violence from a dating partner in the previous year, and nearly three of every 10 adolescents reported psychological abuse victimization in the previous year. Girls experience a broad range of dating abuse from their partners. continue reading….

From InsideOregon—Bryna Goodman, a professor of modern Chinese history and executive director of the University of Oregon’s Confucius Institute, has been offered a membership at the Institute for Advanced Study beginning next fall. The title of her project is “Economics and the New Chinese Republic: Sovereignty, Capitalism, and Freedom in the Shanghai Bubble of 1921-22.” For more of this story, see the February 7, 2012 edition of InsideOregon.

Bryna Goodman is a CSWS faculty affiliate. Her article “Capitalism, Politics, and Gender: A Suicide in Shanghai” appears in the 2011 edition of the CSWS Annual Review. This essay relates a legal drama at the center of the author’s CSWS-supported book project, “‘Stained with Spots of Blood’: The Dream of a Bourgeois Public in 1920s Shanghai.”  2011_Annual_Rvw_Goodman

from “A Herstory of the Oregon Women’s Land Trust”

Currently on exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver Colorado

West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965-1977

November 10, 2011–February 19, 2012

with a contribution on the Womyns Lands of southern Oregon from Special Collections and University Archives, UO Libraries.

See a related story about the research of 2011 Jane Higdon Scholarship winner Shelley Grosjean.

CSWS Offers $1,000 Jane Higdon Senior Thesis Scholarship

Applications now being accepted
Deadline: February 10, 2012
Funding Amount:  $1,000
Students Must Meet Financial Need Criteria in Order to Apply
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For the third straight year, CSWS invites UO undergraduates to compete for the $1,000 Jane Higdon Senior Thesis Scholarship. This award is intended to support students at the University of Oregon who are preparing a senior thesis in any department on campus on issues related to women and/or gender. CSWS will also consider projects with either the scholarly rigor or a research component comparable to that of a thesis. Students must meet financial need criteria in order to apply. CSWS is now accepting applications. The application deadline is February 10, 2012.

See news about previous awardees. continue reading….

Lillis, Room 282
955 E. 13th Ave.
UO campus

A documentary film showing cosponsored by the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society, Social Sciences Feminist Network (SSFN) Research Interest Group.

Not Just a Game
Power, Politics & American Sports

from the documentary website:

“We’ve been told again and again that sports and politics don’t mix, that games are just games and athletes should just “shut up and play.” But according to Nation magazine sports editor Dave Zirin, this notion is just flat-out wrong. In Not Just a Game, the powerful new documentary based on his bestselling book The People’s History of Sports in the United States, Zirin argues continue reading….

Lorane Valley, Oregon—wine country

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330 Hendricks Hall
Jane Grant Conference Room
UO campus

FITF Works-in-Progress Series

Sponsored by the Food in the Field Research Interest Group, UO Center for the Study of Women in Society.

Jim Meacham, Senior Research Associate and Administrative and Research Director, InfoGraphics Lab, “A New Epicurean Atlas of Oregon” roundtable. Join us for a lively discussion at a roundtable with Jim Meacham (director, UO InfoGraphics Lab) and Lindsay Naylor (PhD candidate, UO Department of Geography) to discuss budding plans for a new epicurean atlas of Oregon. continue reading….