2019 Annual Review

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Publication Year
2019

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Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies brought Judge Yassmin Barrios to campus; CSWS was a cosponsor / photo by Jack Liu.

Gender, Power, and Grief: Announcing Our 2019-2020 CSWS Theme

I started as director of CSWS in the summer of 2016. Sadly for us, CSWS lost two of our founding mothers within months of each other in 2016. Joan Acker and Sandi Morgen, pathbreaking feminist titans, made the Center a focus of research and activism around women’s economic rights and security for over forty years.

Author
Michelle McKinley
Publication Year
2019
Publication type
Annual Review
Chandan Reddy deliverered the Queer Studies Lecture at the Knight Library Browsing Room to a mixed audience of faculty, staff,  and students.  Right: Chandan Reddy listens to a question from the audience / photos by Amiran White.

Women at Work: Speaking Truth in the Face of Evil

In late May, CSWS concluded its three-year focus on “Women and Work” by joining with the recently renamed Department of Indigenous, Race, & Ethnic Studies in a celebration of the publication of a book that had its origins in Hendricks hallowed hallways. Shireen Roshanravan was doing post-doctorate work in the Women and Gender Studies Program at UO during 2009-10 with the mentorship of Lynn Fujiwara—now an associate professor in the Department of Indigenous, Race, & Ethnic Studies at UO—when they began a collaborative relationship in their shared focus on Women of Color feminisms.

Author
CSWS Staff
Publication Year
2019
Publication type
Annual Review
V Chaudhry poses a question to speaker Chandan Reddy / photo by Amiran White, May 2019

V Varun Chaudhry: Reflections on My Year at CSWS

V Varun Chaudhry worked as a CSWS pro tem research assistant during AY 2018-19 while completing his dissertation through the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University.  He is now an instructor in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Brandeis University. V’s research focuses on the institutionalization of “transgender” in nonprofit and funding agencies through ethnographic research in Philadelphia, PA.

Author
V Varun Chaudhry
Publication Year
2019
Publication type
Annual Review
Workers at a compliant factory that has met all safety checks after the 2013 industrial accident. Line supervisor is on the far left.

After Work: Female Workers in the Garment Industry in Bangladesh

An anthropological study of female workers in the global apparel industry in Bangladesh uncovers a zero-sum game. Aged out by 40 with worn-out bodies and younger workers ready to take their place, women often have little or no savings to sustain them.

by Lamia Karim, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology

Author
Lamia Karim
Publication Year
2019
Publication type
Annual Review
Angela Joya

Political Economy of the Middle East: A Conversation with Angela Joya

Interviewed by Michelle McKinley, CSWS Director and Professor, School of Law, and Alice Evans, CSWS Managing Editor 

 With a new book forthcoming from Cambridge University Press, Angela Joya is pressing forward with more projects focused on the Middle East and North Africa. An assistant professor in the UO Department of International Studies, Joya was born in Afghanistan, lived for twelve years as a refugee in Pakistan, and immigrated with her family to Canada when she was sixteen.

Q :Tell us about your book project.  

Author
Michelle McKinley
Alice Evans
Publication Year
2019
Publication type
Annual Review
Elena Perez, one of the women leaders of the Cacao Cooperative in the community.

Decolonizing Knowledge: Caribbean Women Healers Project

by Alaí Reyes-Santos, Associate Professor, Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies, and 
Ana-Maurine Lara, Assistant Professor, Department of  Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Author
Alaí Reyes-Santos
Ana-Maurine Lara
Publication Year
2019
Publication type
Annual Review
Palenquera vending fruit in Cartagena / photo by Maria Fernanda Escallón.

Palenqueras and the Trap of Visibility

By Maria Fernanda Escallón, Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology

Author
Maria Fernanda Escallón
Publication Year
2019
Publication type
Annual Review
Celeste Reed presenting "Closed Captioning: Reading Between the Lines"

Closed Captioning: Reading Between the Lines

by Celeste Reeb, Doctoral Candidate, Department of English

[gentle harpsichord jingle] [music reminiscent of the Jaws theme playing] [exotic percussive music]

Author
Celeste Reeb
Publication Year
2019
Publication type
Annual Review
Planting for food and jobs in Ghana.

On the Backs of Women: Participatory Communication for Livelihood Empowerment of Women under Ghana’s ‘Planting for Food and Jobs’ Program

by Elinam Amevor, PhD Student, School of Journalism and Communication

The nineteenth century colonial legacy of the British in the Gold Coast—now Ghana—which ensured that men produce cash crops for export to keep the engines of the Industrial Revolution running, while women engage in food-crop production to feed the home, continues to determine the gendered nature of Ghana’s agricultural sector in the twenty-first century. 

Author
Elinam Amevor
Publication Year
2019
Publication type
Annual Review
Patients at the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia are all treated free of charge: copyright: WHO/P. Virot /2012.

A Study of NGOs’ Strategies To End Fistula in Senegal

by Layire Diop, PhD Candidate, Media Studies, School of Journalism and Communication

The figures released by the World Health Organization (WHO) are staggering. Even though fistula was eliminated in developed countries a century ago, it still affects two million women around the world (WHO, 2018). 

Author
Layire Diop
Publication Year
2019
Publication type
Annual Review
Doctoral student Peter P. Ehlinger presented initial themes from his work at the 2019 Collaborative Perspectives on Addiction conference in Providence, Rhode Island.

Seeking Understanding of the Experiences of Non-Cis Students: Developing an Affirmative Substance Use Preventive Intervention

by Peter P. Ehlinger, PhD Student, Counseling Psychology, College of Education

“They’re tired of waiting for things that aren’t going to come.” — Non-cisgender student

“I drank a lot as a young teenager…I think a lot of that came from a strong sense of lack of belonging and social anxiety.” — Non-cisgender student

Author
Peter P. Ehlinger
Publication Year
2019
Publication type
Annual Review
A black and white image of a crowd in a room with "San Fransisco Transgender Film Festival" projected on a screen

Minor Genre, Major Revolution: Queer & Punk Histories of the San Francisco Transgender Film Festival (1997-2017)

by Andrew Robbins, PhD Candidate, Media Studies, School of Journalism and Communication

With funding from a CSWS Graduate Student Research Grant, I was able to travel to the GLBT Historical Society Archive in San Francisco in November 2018 to explore the unsorted collection of “Tranny Fest,” the original name of what is now known as the San Francisco Transgender Film Festival. The collection was donated by the festival’s original co-founders, media lawyer Alex Austin and late filmmaker Christopher Lee, who started the festival in 1997. 

Author
Andrew Robbins
Publication Year
2019
Publication type
Annual Review