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Book Release: Daniel HoSang
Gerlinger Alumni Lounge 1468 University St. University of Oregon campus
Book release event for Daniel HoSang’s new work, Racial Propositions. Refreshments will be served.
The S-Word: Discourse, Stereotypes, and the American Indian Woman
The S-Word: Discourse, Stereotypes, and the American Indian Woman http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a929749074~frm=titlelink
Modern Girl Culture and Working-Class Women in Interwar Japan
Saturday
McKenzie Hall, Room 375
UO campus
A workshop talk by Barbara Sato, Professor of History at Seikei University in Japan
The Mobile Family: Protecting the Children of Same-Sex Parents Within and Across State Borders
Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus
Peggy Pascoe Memorial Lecture—Scylla, Charybdis, and “Path to Citizenship”
Knight Library Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St.
UO campus
Please join us for the Ethnic Studies Inaugural Peggy Pascoe Memorial Lecture
Feminist Publishing in the Digital Age: Gender, New Media & Technology Symposium
Knight Law Center, Room 184 University of Oregon campus 3 p.m.–6 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Saturday
Gender, New Media and Technology Symposium: Feminist Publishing in the Digital Age
Racial Propositions—Daniel HoSang
Racial Propositions: Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California a new book by Daniel Martinez HoSang
Now available from University of California Press
2010-11 Lorwin Lecture Series
Women's Rights in a Global World
CSWS Initiates the Lorwin Lectureship on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties with a Series of Lectures, Workshops, and Symposia Focused on Women’s Rights.
In Memoriam: Peggy Pascoe

, whose research and teaching focused on the history of race, gender and sexuality, was the Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History and professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon. With family and friends at her side, she died from ovarian cancer on July 23, 2010, at home in Eugene, Oregon.
UO Anthropology Professor to Be Interviewed on The Jefferson Exchange
Cultural anthropologist Lamia Karim, author of Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt i
Celebrating Research by Women of Color
Place: Gerlinger Alumni Lounge
This event will honor University of Oregon women of color faculty whose articles and books were published from 2008 - 2010.
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society’s Women of Color Project.
Men, Women, Muxe: Mexico’s Third Gender
CSWS Executive Committee member Lynn Stephen recently appeared on the CNN program “Men, Women, Muxe” in the series “The World’s Untold Stories.” Stephen—director of the University of Oregon’s Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies (CLLAS) and distinguished professor of anthropology and ethnic studies—provided background and commentary on the Muxes of Juchitán, Oaxaca. The Muxes are a Zapotec indigenous third gender who have a long history in southern Mexico. Stephen has conducted research on gender and sexuality in southern Mexico and published an article in 2002 on this topic.
Animating the Archive—Tara McPherson
Digital Scholars 2010 Collaboration Center, 22A (part of the Computer Lab suite) Erb Memorial Union (EMU), UO campus
Gender Differences in First Jobs for New Ph.D.s in Mathematics
“An Update: Are Women Getting All the Jobs?”
by Mary E. Flahive, Department of Mathematics, Oregon State University, and Marie A. Vitulli, CSWS faculty affiliate and professor, UO Department of MathematicsA preprint of this article, submitted to the Notices of the American Mathematical Society, can be viewed on Vitulli’s Women in Math website.
Bodies in Crisis—new book from CSWS fellowship winner
Sutton, Barbara. 2010. Bodies in Crisis: Culture, Violence, and Women’s Resistance in Neoliberal Argentina (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press).
News: Local | "Students examine nature of beauty" | The Register-Guard | Eugene, Oregon
News: Local | "Students examine nature of beauty" | The Register-Guard | Eugene, Oregon.
Click on the above link to read an article about a Women’s History Month presentation in a Eugene School District 4J middle school by UO graduate student Mickey Stellavato. The talk was sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society through its graduate Road Scholars Program.
Welfare Reform in a Time of Crisis
Browsing Room, Knight Library A moderated talk and book celebration with authors Sandra Morgen, Joan Acker, and Jill Weigt
CAS Dean Talks About Fatherhood
Sociologist Scott Coltrane, dean of the University of Oregon College of Arts and Sciences, spoke about research on parenting, gender equity and the evolving role of fathers to a noon-time audience of about 75 people Wednesday, January 13, at a lecture sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society.
Oregon Daily Emerald story
Institutional Ethnography: Dorothy Smith

“Institutional Ethnography,” a talk by (delivered November 13, 2009), is now available online.