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The CSWS publications archive houses more than 30 years of research created and supported by the Center for the Study of Women in Society. 

Policy Matters Highlight

Policy Matters #3

Understanding Medical Abortion: Policy, Politics, and Women’s Health
Co-authored by S. Marie Harvey (Director of CSWS’s Research Program on Women’s Health), Christy A. Sherman, Sheryl Thorburn Bird, and Jocelyn Warren
"When mifepristone (RU-486) was approved by the FDA in September 2000 for medical abortion, many in the pro-choice movement hoped that it would improve access to abortion by increasing the numbers of providers and making abortion services more widely available in underserved areas. However, medical abortion has not yet fulfilled these hopes..."
Publication Year
2002

Report Highlight

CSWS 2008 Immigration Conference Report

Proceedings from our 2008 conference on Gender, Families, and Latino/a Immigration in Oregon. The conference was noteworthy in that the organizers used its planning as a means of reaching out to Latino communities throughout the state, a process that resulted in community leaders and advocates committed to playing an active role in this event. The key issues discussed in the panels were identified during a process of community consultation coordinated by a community advisory board.
Publication Year
2008

Archive Contents

The first page of the 2023 Research Matters

Research Matters

This two-page publication complements the CSWS Newsletters, serving as an additional resource of informative research by CSWS affiliates.

Front cover of the Winter 2008 CSWS Review

Newsletters

The previous CSWS online newsletter contains feature articles, interviews, and glimpses at CSWS research and initiatives.

First page of the second Policy Matters

Policy Matters

Policy Matters is a series of papers dedicated to social policy issues in the state of Oregon.

Cover of the 10 year CSWS report

Reports

This collection contains occasional publications from the Center for the Study of Women in Society.

Browse Past Newsletters

2008 Winter CSWS Review

  • "Perspectives on Mesoamerican Cultures: CSWS Faculty Awarded NEH Grant"
  • In Memoriam—Miriam M. Johnson
  • Title IX Turns Thirty-Five
  • The Virgin, The ‘Concubine,’ and the Computer: CSWS hosts a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for Teachers
  • 2008 Spring CSWS Review

  • "Gender, Families, and Latino Immigration in Oregon"
  • Carol Stabile, New Director of CSWS
  • CSWS Director’s Message: CSWS Receives Grant from the National Council for Research on Women for Mentoring Junior Faculty Women of Color
  • First UO Society for Interdisciplinary Feminist Phenomenology Institute on May 28–30
  • 2007 Fall CSWS Review

  • "Planting the Seeds of Excellence: CSWS Awards $2 Million in Research Funding" with Arlene Stein, Scott Harris, Diana Abu-Jaber, and Linda Kintz
  • CSWS Announces Three New Research Interest Groups
  • Composer Libby Larsen’s Women of the Wild West by Ann Tedards