Policy Matters

Policy Matters

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

Policy Matters #3

Understanding Medical Abortion: Policy, Politics, and Women’s Healthco-authored by S. Marie Harvey (Director of CSWS’s Research Program on Women’s Health), Christy A. Sherman, Sheryl Thorburn Bird, and Jocelyn Warren, softbound, 66 pp. Eugene, OR: Center for the Study of Women in Society, 2002.

Publication Year
2002

Policy Matters #2

Welfare Restructuring, Work & Poverty: Policy Implications from Oregonby Joan Acker, Sandra Morgen, and Lisa Gonzales with Jill Weigt, Kate Barry and Terri Heath softbound, 66 pp.  Sandra Morgen, editor. Eugene, OR: Center for the Study of Women in Society, 2002.

Publication Year
2002

Policy Matters #1

Valuing Families: The State of Oregon’s Families by Leslie Harris, Dorothy Kliks Fones Professors of Law, softbound, 91pp. Sandra Morgen, editor. Eugene, OR: Center for the Study of Women in Society, 1999.

The first publication in the series, authored by family law expert Leslie Harris, was published June 1999 and is packed with charts, graphs, and text that illustrate the struggles and successes of families in meeting their day-to-day needs such as: