2015 Annual Review

Features

Special Section: Supporting Research

Highlights from the Academic Year

Looking at Books

Publication Year
2015

Articles

Articles
Students, faculty, and staff jammed the lobby of Johnson Hall and spilled onto the front steps to protest reporting on sexual assault allegations / May 2014.

Facing Up to Institutional Betrayal

by Michael Hames-García, CSWS Director 2014-15, Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies

I am sitting in my therapist’s office. Long after my first women’s studies course, after learning the basic tenets of feminist critique, I hear myself say the words, “I mean, I really shouldn’t have had so much to drink. I should have known better than to get into his car. It was partly my fault for being so stupid.” She interrupts me: “It wasn’t your fault, Michael.” The exchange is so clichéd. Bad dialogue from an episode of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit.

Author
Michael Hames-García
Publication Year
2015
Publication type
Annual Review
Cover of "Global Bollywood" by Sangita Gopal

Sangita Gopal Joins CSWS Staff

by Alice Evans, CSWS Research Dissemination Specialist

Author
Alice Evans
Publication Year
2015
Publication type
Annual Review
Gabriela Martínez talks about the making of the documentary Agents of Change at the opening ceremony of the CSWS 40th Anniversary Celebration in November 2013 / photo by Jack Liu.

Retrospective

by Gabriela Martínez, Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Communication

I am honored to have served as the associate director of the Center for the Study of Women in Society for the past three years (2012-2015). CSWS has been, for me, one of the most intellectually nurturing places on campus, a place where I was allowed to explore and learn about the significance and complexities of running a research center at a university. 

Author
Gabriela Martínez
Publication Year
2015
Publication type
Annual Review
Margaret Hallock spoke from the audience at the opening ceremony of the CSWS 40th Anniversary Celebration in November 2013 / photo by Jack Liu.

A Fruitful Collaboration

by Margaret Hallock, Director, Wayne Morse Center

The Center for the Study of Women in Society has been a big part of my career at the University of Oregon. I had the honor and pleasure of working with nearly all of the center’s directors—Joan Acker, Cheris Kramarae, Sandra Morgen, and Carol Stabile in particular. 

Author
Margaret Hallock
Publication Year
2015
Publication type
Annual Review
Priscilla Peña Ovalle

Re-thinking Research Time

by Priscilla Peña Ovalle, Associate Professor, UO Department of English

Author
Priscilla Peña Ovalle
Publication Year
2015
Publication type
Annual Review
Michelle McKinley

Contingent Liberty in the Americas

by Michelle McKinley, Bernard B. Kliks Associate Professor of Law, School of Law

In 1672, Catalina Conde, a mulata slave, asked the ecclesiastical court in Lima, Peru, to issue censuras, summoning any witnesses who possessed knowledge or evidence about her paternity. Catalina used the process of censuras—akin to spiritual subpoenas—to strengthen her case against her father’s widow, who refused to honor her husband’s promise to free Catalina after his death.

Author
Michelle McKinley
Publication Year
2015
Publication type
Annual Review
Jenée Wilde

Bisexuality: Materials for Class

by Jenée Wilde, PhD, Department of English (Folklore)

My graduate work was shaped in part by a noticeable absence. In my gender and queer studies courses, I read theoretical and sociological studies of lesbian, gay, transgender, and queer people, often shorthanded as LGBTQ. Wait a minute . . . something is missing. What happened to the “B” in all this theory and research?

Author
Jenée Wilde
Publication Year
2015
Publication type
Annual Review
Megan M. Burke

Gender, Time, and Sexual Violence

by Megan M. Burke, PhD, Department of Philosophy

My research is a reflection on how sexual violence is encrusted into bodily life and norms of gender. 

Author
Megan M. Burke
Publication Year
2015
Publication type
Annual Review
Kathryn Miller

Immigration and Gendered Violence

by Kathryn Miller, PhD candidate, Department of Political Science

Author
Kathryn Miller
Publication Year
2015
Publication type
Annual Review
Samantha King (left) with Dominican farmer / photo by Justin King

Visualizing Women’s Roles in Agriculture: Gender and the Local Food Economy in the Commonwealth of Dominica

by Samantha King, PhD candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The Commonwealth of Dominica is a rural island nation in the Eastern Caribbean in which most households depend upon agriculture, both for subsistence and exchange. Production is dominated by small family farms that supply global export markets as well as the intra- and inter-island trading networks that comprise a robust yet poorly-understood local food economy. 

Author
Samantha King
Publication Year
2015
Publication type
Annual Review