2017 Annual Review

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Publication Year
2017

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Articles
Activist Leshia Evans stands her ground while offering her hands for arrest as she is charged by riot police during a protest against police brutality outside the Baton Rouge Police Department in Louisiana, USA, 9 July 2016. Evans, a 28-yearold Pennsylvania nurse and mother of one, traveled to Baton Rouge to protest the shooting of Alton Sterling. Sterling was a 37-year-old black man and father of five, who was shot at close range by two white police officers. REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

A Year in Review: 2016–17

by Michelle McKinley, Director, CSWS, and Dena Zaldúa Frazier, Operations Manager, CSWS

What a year…in many ways for CSWS and for the UO campus community as a whole, this past year was the best of times and the worst of times. 

Author
Michelle McKinley
Dena Zaldúa
Publication Year
2017
Publication type
Annual Review
Mérida, Venezuela from a distance / photo by Reuben Zahler.

Did You Kill Your Baby?: Gender, Race, and Religion in the Early Venezuelan Republic

by Reuben Zahler, Associate Professor, Department of History

In January of 1811, María Isabel Ribas found herself in jail, charged with murdering her own baby, one of the most heinous acts imaginable for a Catholic woman. A few days earlier, in her neighborhood of Mérida, Venezuela, locals had found the cadaver of a newborn infant in a field, being eaten by vultures. Officials searched in the area for women who had recently been pregnant, and questioned María. She admitted that the baby was hers but also insisted that she was innocent of murder. 

Author
Reuben Zahler
Publication Year
2017
Publication type
Annual Review
Thomas Schmidt

Developing Style: How The Washington Post Discovered Women’s Issues

by Thomas R. Schmidt, PhD, Research Fellow, Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics

In 1969, the Washington Post was the first major American newspaper to replace its women’s pages with a lifestyle section. Introducing the Style section was one of the most lasting legacies of famed Post editor Ben Bradlee. As he later described the launch of Style, “We wanted to look at the culture of America as it was changing in front of our eyes. The sexual revolution, the drug culture, the women’s movement. And we wanted to be interesting, exciting, different.”1

Author
Thomas R. Schmidt
Publication Year
2017
Publication type
Annual Review
Sandra Morgen

Remembering Sandra Morgen

March 31, 1950 – September 27, 2016

Friends and colleagues held a memorial service for Sandra Morgen in November 2016 at the Ford Alumni Center Giustina Ballroom on the UO campus. Remembrances are recorded on the CSWS website at: csws.uoregon.edu/about/history/sandra-morgen/

Author
Ann Bookman
Publication Year
2017
Publication type
Annual Review