Jason Lindo

“Gender-Specific Measures of Economic Conditions and Child Abuse,” the Spring 2013 issue of CSWS Research Matters, examines data collected from California counties, with stark results. Written by Jason Lindo, assistant professor, University of Oregon Department of Economics, the paper takes a different tack than previous studies. Lindo writes that “by focusing on aggregate measures of economic conditions, prior studies have been missing the story.” Instead, his study, funded in part by a 2012 CSWS Faculty Research Grant, takes a close look at the role of gender. “Male layoffs increase rates of child abuse,” he writes, “while female layoffs reduce rates of child abuse.”

Charise Cheney’s research expands Civil Rights debate | Around the O.

Institutional betrayal magnifies post-trauma effects of unwanted sexual activity | UO Communications

EUGENE, Ore. — (March 8, 2013) — A study of 345 female university students found that 233 of them had experienced at least one unwanted sexual experience in their lifetime, and 46 percent of those victims also experienced betrayal by the institution where incidents occurred. In the final analysis, researchers found, those who experienced institutional betrayal suffered the most in four post-trauma measurement categories, including anxiety and dissociation.

The study by the University of Oregon’s doctoral student Carly Parnitzke Smith and Jennifer J. Freyd, professor of psychology, introduces a 10-item analysis tool — the Institutional Betrayal Questionnaire — designed to assess institutional betrayal and involvement. The study appears in the Journal of Traumatic Stress and comes in the same month that Blind to Betrayal, a new book co-authored by Freyd and UO psychologist Pamela Birrell, was published. Read more…

Freyd is a CSWS faculty affiliate whose research has been supported in part by CSWS. See her paper, “Exposure to Betrayal Trauma and Risks to the Well-Being of Girls and Women,” in the fall 2009 issue of CSWS Research Matters.

Charise Cheney

“Brown v. Board of Education,” by Charise Cheney, Associate Professor, University of Oregon, Department of Ethnic Studies

By complicating the story of the Topeka lawsuit, Cheney’s study engages and expands current historical debates over the modern Civil Rights movement.

Charise Cheney’s paper is now available online as the Winter 2013 issue of CSWS Research Matters.

From her paper:

UO’s Livingstone offers feminist analysis of museum communication

Phaedra Livingstone writes about her research in the fall 2013 issue of CSWS Research Matters.

“Touchstones, Touchscreens and Timeless Tall Tales: A Feminist Analysis of Communication Practice in Exhibitions,” by Phaedra Livingstone, Assistant Professor, University of Oregon, Arts and Administration Program (AAD) School of Architecture & Allied Arts (A&AA) and Coordinator, Museum Studies

Phaedra Livingstone’s paper is now available online in the Fall 2012 issue of CSWS Research Matters.

From her paper:

“I suspect many of you might not have read this sentence had I used the word ‘museum’ in my title! Yet, museums are fascinating microcosms and surprisingly under-researched organizations. I am working on a book, tentatively entitled Touchstones, Touchscreens and Timeless Tall Tales, which offers a feminist analysis of communication practice in public museums.

The Fembot Collective launched its long anticipated online publication Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology in early November. The inaugural issue, “Conversations Across the Field,” features articles by Anne Balsamo and Alex Juhasz, Mia Consalvo, Sarah Kember, Krista Geneviève Lynes, Vicki Mayer, Lisa Nakamura, Kim Sawchuk, and Carol Stabile. Fembot invites you to read the articles at http://adanewmedia.org/.

Fembot hopes that you’ll join us in this conversation by commenting on the contributions. As the first open-access, open source, online feminist journal on new media and technology, we are invested in sharing and increasing the conversation started by our published articles. We look forward to this and future lively conversations.

The University of Oregon Libraries and the Center for the Study of Women in Society contribute to the support of Ada. The CSWS Fembot Project produces the Fembot website.