CSWS Annual Review

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. 

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?

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.

by Debra Eisert, Associate Professor, College of Education and Haidee Copeland, PhD

by Judith Raiskin, Associate Professor, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and Alison Gash, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

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

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. 

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. 

by Alice Evans, CSWS Research Dissemination Specialist

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.