Affiliate Books & Film
Recent Books & Films by CSWS Affiliates and Staff
We include here books, film, and other creative publications that relate to our mission: Generating, supporting and disseminating research on the intersecting nature of gender identities and inequalities. Many of these projects received CSWS funding.
Indigenous Women and Violence
(University of Arizona Press, 2021, 280 pages). “Indigenous Women and Violence offers an intimate view of how settler colonialism and other structural forms of power and inequality created accumulated violences in the lives of Indigenous women. This volume uncovers how these Indigenous women resist violence in Mexico, Central America, and the United States, centering on the topics of femicide, immigration, human rights violations, the criminal justice system, and Indigenous justice."
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2021
Japan on American TV: Screaming Samurai Form Anime Clubs in the Land of the Lost
(Columbia University Press, 2021, 168 pages). “Japan on American TV explores political, economic, and cultural issues underlying depictions of Japan on U.S. television comedies and the programs they inspired. Since the 1950s, U.S. television programs have taken the role of “curators” of Japan, displaying and explaining selected aspects for viewers. Beliefs in U.S. hegemony over Japan underpin this curation process."
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2021
Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture
Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture, by Annelise Heinz (Oxford University Press, 2021, 360 pages). “How has a game brought together Americans and defined separate ethnic communities? This book tells the first history of mahjong and its meaning in American culture. Click-click-click.
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2021
Speculative Enterprise: Public Theaters and Financial Markets in London, 1688-1763
Speculative Enterprise: Public Theaters and Financial Markets in London, 1688-1763, by Mattie Burkert (University of Virginia Press, 2021, 296 pages). “In the wake of the 1688 revolution, England’s transition to financial capitalism accelerated dramatically. Londoners witnessed the rise of credit-based currencies, securities markets, speculative bubbles, insurance schemes, and lotteries."
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2021
Stories That Make History: Mexico through Elena Poniatowska’s Crónicas
“From covering the massacre of students at Tlatelolco in 1968 and the 1985 earthquake to the Zapatista rebellion in 1994 and the disappearance of forty-three students in 2014, Elena Poniatowska has been one of the most important chroniclers of Mexican social, cultural, and political life."
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2021
The White Devil
The White Devil, by John Webster (1612), edited by Lara Bovilsky (Bloomsbury, 2021, 224 pages). “This fully re-edited, modernised play text is accompanied by insightful commentary notes, while its lively introduction explains why Webster’s interests in complex female lead characters and questions of social tension related to sexuality, gender, race, and law and equity—unusual for the play’s time—have led to its increasing relevance for modern audiences and readers.
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2021
Beauty Diplomacy: Embodying an Emerging Nation
Beauty Diplomacy: Embodying an Emerging Nation, by Oluwakemi M. Balogun (Stanford University Press, Globalization in Everyday Life Series, 2020, 304 pages). “Even as beauty pageants have been critiqued as misogynistic and dated cultural vestiges of the past in the US and elsewhere, the pageant industry is growing in popularity across the Global South, and Nigeria is one of the countries at the forefront of this trend.
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2020
Gaming Sexism: Gender and Identity in the Era of Casual Video Games
Gaming Sexism: Gender and Identity in the Era of Casual Video Games, by Amanda Cote, (NYU Press, 2020, 274 pages). “When the Nintendo Wii was released in 2006, it ushered forward a new era of casual gaming in which video games appealed to not just the stereotypical hardcore male gamer, but also to a much broader, more diverse audience.
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2020
How a Woman Becomes a Lake: a novel
How a Woman Becomes a Lake: a novel, by Marjorie Celona (Penguin-Random House, 2020). “It’s New Year’s Day and the residents of a small fishing town are ready to start their lives anew. Leo takes his two young sons out to the lake to write resolutions on paper boats. That same frigid morning, Vera sets out for a walk with her dog along the lake, leaving her husband in bed with a hangover. But she never returns."
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2020
Indigenous Children’s Survivance in Public Schools
Indigenous Children’s Survivance in Public Schools, by Leilani Sabzalian (Routledge, 2020, 268 pages). This book "examines the cultural, social, and political terrain of Indigenous education by providing accounts of Indigenous students and educators creatively navigating the colonial dynamics within public schools.
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2020
Living with Animals: Rights, Responsibilities, and Respect
Living with Animals: Rights, Responsibilities, and Respect, by Erin McKenna (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020, 212 pages). “Living with Animals brings a pragmatist ecofeminist perspective to discussions around animal rights, animal welfare, and animal ethics to move the conversation beyond simple use or non-use decisions."
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2020
Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty
Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty, by Ana-Maurine Lara (SUNY Press, Afro-Latinx Futures Series, 2020, 200 pages). “Theoretically wide-ranging and deeply personal and poetic, Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty is based on more than three years of fieldwork in the Dominican Republic.
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2020
Spain, the Second World War, and the Holocaust: History and Representation
Spain, the Second World War, and the Holocaust: History and Representation, edited by Sara J. Brenneis and Gina Herrmann (University of Torronto Press, 2020, 736 pages). “Spain has for too long been considered peripheral to the human catastrophes of World War II and the Holocaust. This volume is the first broadly interdisciplinary, scholarly collection to situate Spain in a position of influence in the history and culture of the Second World War.
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2020
Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic
Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic, by Ana-Maurine Lara (Rutgers University Press, 2020, 258 pages). This book “is an exploration of the ways that lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer persons exercise power in a Catholic Hispanic heteropatriarchal nation-state, namely the Dominican Republic. Lara presents the specific strategies employed by LGBTQ community leaders in the Dominican Republic in their struggle for subjectivity, recognition, and rights.
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2020
HandiLand: The Crippest Place on Earth
HandiLand: The Crippest Place on Earth, by Elizabeth A. Wheeler (University of Michigan Press, Aug. 2019, 274 pages).
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2019
La Serenata
La Serenata
Directed by Adelina Anthony Written by Ernesto Javier Martínez 2019 | Short Film / Aderisa Productions
Synopsis: A Mexican-American boy learns from his parents about serenatas, and why demonstrating romantic affection proudly, publicly, and through song is such a treasured Mexican tradition. One day, the boy asks his parents if there is a song for a boy who loves a boy. The parents, surprised by the question and unsure of how to answer, must decide how to honor their son and how to reimagine a beloved tradition.
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2019
Motivating Students on a Time Budget
Motivating Students on a Time Budget: Pedagogical Frames and Lesson Plans for In-Person and Online Information Literacy Instruction
Edited by Sarah Steiner and Miriam Rigby. Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL). Published 2019, 332 pages
Book Description: https://www.alastore.ala.org/content/motivating-students-time-budget-pedagogical-frames-and-lesson-plans-person-and-online
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2019
Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity
Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity by Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes University of Minnesota Press, 2019
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2019
Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People: Colonialism, Nature, and Social Action
Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People: Colonialism, Nature, and Social Action, by Kari Marie Norgaard. (Rutgers University Press, 312 pages, September 13, 2019)
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2019
Samon and Acorns Feed Our People: Colonialism, Nature, and Social Action
Samon and Acorns Feed Our People: Colonialism, Nature, and Social Action, by Kari Marie Norgaard. (Rutgers University Press, 312 pages, September 13, 2019)
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2019
The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities
The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities, by Tara Fickle (NYU Press, 2019). “Exploring key moments in the formation of modern US race relations, The Race Card charts a new course in gaming scholarship by reorienting our focus away from games as vehicles for empowerment that allow people to inhabit new identities, and toward the ways that games are used as instruments of soft power to advance top-down political agendas.
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2019
A Capsule Aesthetic: Feminist Materialisms in New Media Art
A Capsule Aesthetic: Feminist Materialisms in New Media Art by Kate Mondloch
University of Minnesota Press, 2018
Kate Mondloch is a professor and department head of the Department of the History of Art & Architecture.
Publication
2018
Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics
Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics
Edited by Lynn Fujiwara and Shireen Roshanravan
University of Washington Press
December 2018, 320 pages
Lynn Fujiwara is associate professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, at the University of Oregon.
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2018
Defiant Indigeneity: The Politics of Hawaiian Performance
Defiant Indigeneity: The Politics of Hawaiian Performance
by Stephanie “Lani” Teves
University of North Carolina Press
April 2018, 240 pages
Stephanie “Lani” Teves is an assistant professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Oregon.
Publication
2018
Livestock: Food, Fiber, and Friends
Livestock: Food, Fiber, and Friends by Erin McKenna
University of Georgia Press
March 2018, 264 pages
Erin McKenna is a professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Oregon.
Publication
2018
Philosophy of Race: An Introduction
Philosophy of Race: An Introduction
by Naomi Zack
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018; 258 pages
Series: Palgrave Philosophy Today
Naomi Zack is a professor in the Department of Philosophy.
Publication
2018
Seeing Species: Re-presentations of Animals in Media & Popular Culture
Seeing Species: Re-presentations of Animals in Media & Popular Culture
by Debra L. Merskin
Peter Lang, 2018
Debra L. Merskin is a professor in the School of Journalism and Communications.
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2018
When We Love Someone We Sing to Them
When We Love Someone We Sing to Them
by Ernesto Martínez Reflections Press Fall 201832 pages
From the publisher: When We Love Someone We Sing to Them reframes a cultural tradition to include LGBTQ experience. In this book we learn about the Mexican tradition of singing to family and loved ones through one small boy who naturally assumes the tradition includes him and his experience.
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2018
British Romanticism and the Literature of Human Interest
British Romanticism and the Literature of Human Interest by Mai-Lin Cheng Bucknell University Press (co-published with Rowman & LIttlefield) Bucknell’s Series in Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850 December 2017, 206 pages
Mai-Lin Cheng is an assistant professor of literature, Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon.
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2017
Care Across Generations: Solidarity and Sacrifice in Transnational Families
Care Across Generations: Solidarity and Sacrifice in Transnational Families by Kristin Yarris Stanford University Press August 2017 216 pages
Kristin Yarris is an assistant professor of international studies at the University of Oregon and a member of the Narrative Health and Social Justice Research Interest Group.
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2017
Development Drowned and Reborn
Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans by Clyde Woods; edited by Jordan T. Camp and Laura Pulido
University of Georgia Press, 2017 376 pages
Publisher’s synopsis
Laura Pulido is professor and head of the Department of Ethnic Studies.
Publication
2017
How Development Projects Persist: Everyday Negotiations with Guatemalan NGOs
How Development Projects Persist: Everyday Negotiations with Guatemalan NGOs
by Erin Beck Duke University Press May 2017 280 pages
Erin Beck is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Oregon and a member of the Américas Research Interest Group.
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2017
Introducing Japanese Popular Culture
Introducing Japanese Popular Culture edited by by Alisa Freedman and Toby Slade Routledge December 2017 550 pages
Alisa Freedman is an associate professor of Japanese Literature & Film in the Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures.
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2017
Kohnjehr Woman
Kohnjehr Woman by Ana-Maurine Lara
Redbone Press August 2017 73 pages
Ana-Maurine Lara, Ph.D., is a national award-winning poet and fiction writer and an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Oregon.
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2017
Marriage Vows and Racial Choices
Marriage Vows and Racial Choices by Jessica Vasquez-Tokos Russell Sage Foundation February 2017 388 pages
Jessica Vasquez-Tokos is an associate professor, UO Department of Sociology.
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2017
Somos la Cara de Oaxaca
Somos la Cara de Oaxaca
by Lynn Stephen
CIESAS, 2017
368 pages
Publisher’s synopsis
Lynn Stephen is professor of anthropology at the University of Oregon.
Publication
2017
Special Issue: New Takes on Gender and Development
Special Issue: New Takes on Gender and Development
edited by Erin Beck Studies in Comparative International Development. 52 (2). https://link.springer.com/journal/12116/52/2/page/1 (2017)
This special issue was the product of a conference on globalization, gender, and development that Erin Beck organized in 2014 at the University of Oregon. Erin Beck is an assistant professor of political science at UO.
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2017
The Life of Paper: Letters and a Poetics of Living Beyond Captivity
The Life of Paper: Letters and a Poetics of Living Beyond Captivity by Sharon Luk University of California Press November 2017 328 pages
Sharon Luk is an assistant professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Oregon. She received a 2015-16 CSWS Faculty Research Grant in support of the research for this book.
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2017
Applicative Justice: A Pragmatic Empirical Approach to Racial Injustice
Applicative Justice: A Pragmatic Empirical Approach to Racial Injustice by Naomi Zack
Rowman & Littlefield March 2016 250 pages
Naomi Zack is a professor, Department of Philosophy.
Publication
2016
Directions in Number Theory
Directions in Number Theory coedited by Ellen Eischen
Springer 2016 Series: Association for Women in Mathematics Series, Vol. 3.
Ellen Eischen is an assistant professor, UO Department of Mathematics.
Publication
2016
Economy, Emotion, and Ethics in Chinese Cinema
Economy, Emotion, and Ethics in Chinese Cinema by David Leiwei Li Routledge March 2016 230 pages
David Leiwei Li is a professor in the UO Department of English.
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2016
Exploring Masculinities: Identity, Inequality, Continuity, and Chang
Exploring Masculinities: Identity, Inequality, Continuity, and Change by C.J. Pascoe Oxford University Press 2016
C.J. Pascoe is an associate professor, UO Department of Sociology
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2016
Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Intimacy, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Lima
Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Intimacy, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Lima, 1600-1700 by Michelle McKinley Cambridge University Press October 2016 294 pages
Michelle McKinley is the director of CSWS and the Bernard B. Kliks Associate Professor of Law at the University of Oregon School of Law.
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2016
Gender Violence and Human Rights: Seeking Justice in Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu
Gender Violence and Human Rights: Seeking Justice in Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu coedited by Aletta Biersack, professor, UO Department of Anthropology
Australian National University Press, 2016
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2016
Homeless Tongues: Poetry and Languages of the Sephardic Diaspora
Homeless Tongues: Poetry and Languages of the Sephardic Diaspora by Monique Balbuena Stanford University Press July 2016 256 pages
Monique Rodrigues Balbuena is associate professor of literature in the UO Clark Honors College.
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2016
My Music, My War: The Listening Habits of U.S. Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan
My Music, My War: The Listening Habits of U.S. Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan by Lisa Gilman Wesleyan University Press 2016
Synopsis
Lisa Gilman is a professor, Department of English, Folklore.
Publication
2016
Infinite Awareness: The Awakening of a Scientific Mind
Infinite Awareness: The Awakening of a Scientific Mind
by Marjorie Woollacott
Rowman & Littlefield October 2015 300 pp
Marjorie Woollacott, UO Department of Human Physiology, is a member of the CSWS Healing Arts RIG.
Publication
2015
Sad Happiness: Cinthya’s Transborder Journey
Sad Happiness: Cinthya’s Transborder Journey
Directed by Lynn Stephen
Produced by Sonia De La Cruz and Lynn Stephen Creative Commons 2015 TRT: 39 minutes.
Lynn Stephen, professor, UO Department of Anthropology, is a CSWS faculty affiliate. The development of this documentary was supported in part by a CSWS Faculty Research Grant.
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2015
The Write Path: Essays on the art of writing and the joy of reading
The Write Path: Essays on the art of writing and the joy of reading by Lauren Kessler
Monroe Press September 2015 156 pages
Lauren Kessler is a professor in the UO School of Journalism and Communication and a member of the CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium advisory group.
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2015
UNESCO on the Ground: Local Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage
UNESCO on the Ground: Local Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage co-edited by Michael Dylan Foster and Lisa Gilman Indiana University Press September 2015
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2015
White Privilege and Black Rights: The Injustice of U.S. Police Racial Profiling and Homicide
White Privilege and Black Rights: The Injustice of U.S. Police Racial Profiling and Homicide by Naomi Zack Rowman & Littlefield April 2015 154 pp
Naomi Zack, professor, UO Department of Philosophy, is a CSWS faculty affiliate.
Publication
2015
Interpreting Islam, Modernity, and Women’s Rights in Pakistan
Interpreting Islam, Modernity, and Women’s Rights in Pakistan
by Anita M. Weiss
Palgrave Macmillan(October 2014) 204 pp
Anita Weiss is professor and head, Department of International Studies, and a CSWS faculty affiliate.
Publication
2014
Our Caribbean Kin: Race and Nation in the Neoliberal Antilles
Our Caribbean Kin: Race and Nation in the Neoliberal Antilles
by Alaí Reyes-Santos
Rutgers University Press
(November 2014) 232 pages
Publisher’s synopsis
Alaí Reyes-Santos is an assistant professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, and a CSWS faculty affiliate. Her research was in part supported by a CSWS Faculty Research Grant.
Publication
2014
Salmon Is Everything: Community-Based Theatre in the Klamath Watershed
Salmon Is Everything: Community-Based Theatre in the Klamath Watershed
by Theresa May with Suzanne Burcell, Kathleen McCovey, and Jean O’Hara.
Foreword by Gordon Bettles.First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies, 2014208 pages
Publisher’s Synopsis
Theresa May is an associate professor, Dept. of Theatre Arts, and a CSWS faculty affiliate.
Publication
2014
Sexing the Media: How and Why We Do It
Sexing the Media: How and Why We Do It
by Debra L. Merskin
Peter Lang (May 2014) 342 pp
Debra Merskin is an associate professor, School of Journalism and Communication, and a CSWS faculty affiliate.
Publication
2014
Skein of Light
Skein of Light
by Karen McPherson
Aerlie Press (October 2014)
Publisher’s synopsis
Karen McPherson, professor of French, Department of Romance Languages, is a CSWS faculty affiliate.
Publication
2014
Slavery and the Politics of Place: Representing the Colonial Caribbean, 1770-1833
Slavery and the Politics of Place: Representing the Colonial Caribbean, 1770-1833
by Elizabeth Bohls
Cambridge University Press (October, 2014) 288 pages
Liz Bohls is an associate professor, Department of English, and a CSWS faculty affiliate. She received a 2005 CSWS Faculty Research Grant in support of research for this book.
Publication
2014
Sovereign Masculinity: Gender Lessons from the War on Terror
Sovereign Masculinity: Gender Lessons from the War on Terror
by Bonnie Mann
Oxford University Press(2014 )246 pp
Publisher’s synopsis
Bonnie Mann, associate professor and head, Department of Philosophy, is a CSWS faculty affiliate.
Publication
2014
The Librarian Stereotype: Deconstructing Perceptions and Presentations of Information Work
The Librarian Stereotype: Deconstructing Perceptions and Presentations of Information Work
edited by Nicole Pagowsky & Miriam Rigby ACRL Press(July 2014) 312 pp
Publisher’s synopsis
Miriam Rigby is associate social sciences librarian, Reference & Research Services Dept., UO Libraries, and a CSWS faculty affiliate.
Publication
2014
The Truly Diverse Faculty: New Dialogues in American Higher Education
The Truly Diverse Faculty: New Dialogues in American Higher Education
coedited by Stephanie Fryberg and Ernesto Javier Martínez
Palgrave MacMillan (October 2014) 320 pages
Ernesto Martinez is an associate professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, and a CSWS faculty affiliate.
Publication
2014
Agents of Change: A legacy of feminist research, teaching, and activism at the University of Oregon
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)
Publication
2013
Blind to Betrayal: Why We Fool Ourselves We Aren’t Being Fooled
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.
Publication
2013
Development Challenges Confronting Pakistan
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.
Publication
2013
Keep Your Eyes on Guatemala
Keep Your Eyes on Guatemala
produced and directed by Gabriela Martínez Escobar
(Creative Commons, 2013)
YouTube link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMsNtNn50Fs)
Publication
2013
Life Writing and Schizophrenia. Encounters at the Edge of Meaning
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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2013
Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan
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.
Publication
2013
Otros Sabreres: Collaborative Research on Indigenous and Afro-Descendant Cultural Politics
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
Publication
2013
Prowler
Prowler
by Amanda Powell
Finishing Line Press (2013)
Amanda Powell is a senior lecturer in Spanish, Department of Romance Languages.
Publication
2013
Romantic Literature and Postcolonial Studies
Romantic Literature and Postcolonial Studies
by Elizabeth Bohls
Edinburgh University Press (2013) 224 pp
Elizabeth Bohls is an associate professor, Department of English.
Publication
2013
Trafalgar
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.
Publication
2013
We Are the Face of Oaxaca: Testimony and Social Movements
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.
Publication
2013
Women’s Work: Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women’s Novels
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.
Publication
2013
“Gender, Sex, Liebe in poetischen Dialogen des frühen zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts” (Gender, Sex, Love in Poetic Dialogues of the Early Twentieth Century)
“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.
Publication
2013
American Marriage: A Political Institution
American Marriage: A Political Institution
by Priscilla Yamin
University of Pennsylvania Press (July 2012)
Priscilla Yamin is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Oregon and a CSWS faculty affiliate. CSWS helped support Yamin’s research for this book with faculty research grant.
Publication
2012
American Sexual Histories
American Sexual Histories
by Elizabeth Reis
Wiley-Blackwell
(2012, second edition) 400 pp
Publisher’s synopsis
Elizabeth Reis is professor and head, Department of Women’s and Gender studies, and a CSWS faculty affiliate.
Publication
2012
American Soul Rush: Esalen and the Rise of Spiritual Privilege
American Soul Rush: Esalen and the Rise of Spiritual Privilege
by Marion Goldman
New York University Press
(January 2012) 240 pages
Marion S. Goldman is a professor in the University of Oregon Department of Sociology and a CSWS faculty affiliate.
Publication
2012
Asian American Literature
Asian American Literature
(4-volume set),
edited by David Leiwei Li
Co-published by Routledge and Edition Synapse
(May 2012) 2,240 pages
Publisher’s Synopsis
David Leiwei Li is Collins Professor of the Humanities, UO Department of English, and a CSWS faculty affiliate.
Publication
2012
Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex
Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex
by Elizabeth Reis
Johns Hopkins University Press
(2012, PB edition) 240 pp
Elizabeth Reis is professor and head, Department of Women’s and Gender studies, and a CSWS faculty affiliate.
Publication
2012
Coming to Life: Philosophies of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Mothering
Coming to Life: Philosophies of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Mothering
edited by Sarah LaChance Adams and Caroline Lundquist
Fordham University Press (November 2012) 424 pages
Publication
2012
Conjugations: Marriage and Form in New Bollywood Cinema
Conjugations: Marriage and Form in New Bollywood Cinema
by Sangita Gopal
The University of Chicago Press (January 2012) 240 pages
Sangita Gopal is an associate professor in the UO Department of English and a CSWS faculty affiliate.
Publication
2012
On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility
On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility
by Ernesto Javier Martinez
Stanford University Press (2012) 216 pages
Publisher’s Synopsis
Ernesto Martinez is associate professor, Women’s and Gender Studies, English
Publication
2012
Race and Ethnicity
Race and Ethnicity
by Naomi Zack
Bridgepoint Education, Inc.(2012)
Naomi Zack is a professor, Department of Philosophy, and a CSWS faculty affiliate.
Publication
2012
Readings in Performance and Ecology
Readings in Performance and Ecology
edited by Wendy Arons and Theresa J. May
Palgrave Macmillan (April 2012) 256 pages
Theresa J. May is an associate professor, UO Department Theatre Arts, and a CSWS faculty affiliate. Her play Salmon Is Everything is forthcoming from OSU Press.
Publication
2012
Romani Routes: Cultural Politics and Balkan Music in Diaspora
Romani Routes: Cultural Politics and Balkan Music in Diaspora
by Carol Silverman
Oxford University Press
(April 2012) 432 pages
Carol Silverman is professor and head of the UO Department of Anthropology and a CSWS faculty affiliate.
Publication
2012
Thinking with Theory in Qualitative Research: Viewing Data Across Multiple Perspectives
Thinking with Theory in Qualitative Research: Viewing Data Across Multiple Perspectives
by Alecia Y. Jackson Lisa A. Mazzei
Routledge(2012)
Lisa A. Mazzei is associate professor, Department of Education Studies, and affiliated faculty, Department of Philosophy. She is a CSWS faculty affiliate.
Publication
2012
Twentieth Century Colonialism and China: Localities, the Everyday, and the World
Twentieth Century Colonialism and China: Localities, the Everyday, and the World
edited by Bryna Goodman & David SG Goodman
Routledge
(April 2012) 272 pages
Bryna Goodman is professor and director of Asian Studies, UO Department of History, and a CSWS faculty affiliate.
Publication
2012
Beyond the Islands
Beyond the Islands
Translation of a novel by Alicia Yánez Cossíoby 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
Publisher’s Synopsis
Publication
2011
Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader
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.
Publication
2011
Identity Complex: Making the Case for Multiplicity
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.
Publication
2011
Markets and Bodies: Women, Service Work, and the Making of Inequality in China
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.
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2011
Media, Minorities, and Meaning: A Critical Introduction
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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2011
Memoirs of Scandalous Women
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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2011
Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh
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.
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2011
The Aroma of Righteousness: Scent and Seduction in Rabbinic Life and Literature
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.
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2011
Unruly Girls, Unrepentant Mothers: Redefining Feminism on Screen
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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2011
Cities in Ruins: The Politics of Modern Poetics
Cities in Ruins: The Politics of Modern Poetics
by Cecilia Enjuto Rangel
Purdue University Press (November 2010) 320 pages
Cecilia Enjuto Rangel is an assistant professor of Spanish, UO Department of Romance Languages. She is also a CSWS faculty affiliate and CSWS Women of Color Project affiliate.
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2010
Dance and the Hollywood Latina: Race, Sex, and Stardom
Dance and the Hollywood Latina: Race, Sex, and Stardom
by Priscilla Peña Ovalle
Rutgers University Press (November 2010) 208 pages
Priscilla Peña Ovalle is an assistant professor of film and media studies at UO and a CSWS faculty affiliate.
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2010
Gendered Situations, Gendered Selves: A Gender Lens on Social Psychology
Gendered Situations, Gendered Selves: A Gender Lens on Social Psychology
Second Edition, Series: Gender Lens Series
by Jocelyn A. Hollander, Daniel G. Renfrow, and Judith A. Howard
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. (December 2010) 286 pages
Jocelyn A. Hollander is an associate professor, UO Department of Sociology, and a CSWS faculty affiliate.
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2010
Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture
Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture
edited by Cheryl Suzack, Shari M. Huhndorf, Jeanne Perreault, and Jean Barman
University of British Columbia Press (November 2010) 344 pages
Shari M. Huhndorf is a professor in the UO departments of Ethnic Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies. CSWS awarded Huhndorf a 2010 Faculty Research Grant for her research on Native American women.
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2010
Leonard and Virginia Woolf, the Hogarth Press and the Networks of Modernism
Leonard and Virginia Woolf, the Hogarth Press and the Networks of Modernism
edited by Helen Southworth
Edinburgh University Press
(October 2010)
288 pages
Helen Southworth is an associate professor of literature in the UO Robert D. Clark Honors College and a CSWS Faculty Affiliate.
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2010