Resistance and The Everyday: The Role of Income Earning in Zapatista-Aligned Autonomous Communities
by Lindsay Naylor, PhD Candidate, Department of Geography
CSWS Annual Review
Rural Gentrification and the Production of Immigrant-Centered Precarious Labor Regimes
by Lise Nelson, Associate Professor, Department of Geography
We Are the Face of Oaxaca: Testimony and Social Movements
by Lynn Stephen, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, Director, Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies, (CLLAS)
Witnessing In the Americas: A Conversation with Gabriela Martínez
Whether she is documenting the deadly effects of open-fire cooking and heating on children and women in Mayan homes in highland Guatemala, recording the history of indigenous women in Mexico, or writing about the geographical expansion and institutional growth of the Spanish telecommunications company Telefónica, UO associate professor and documentary filmmaker Gabriela Martínez (SOJC) carries out her work with a mixture of heart, intelligence, and skill that brings life and gravitas to the product.
The Rise and Fall of The Goldbergs
by Carol Stabile, Director, Center for the Study of Women in Society, Professor, School of Journalism and Communication and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies
Talk to Your Kids About Dating: Effects of Mother-Daughter Communication on Adolescent Daughters’ Beliefs and Experiences of Teen Dating Violence
by Kali Lantrip, UO Department of Counseling Psychology
Experience, Confidence & Vision
by Miriam Abelson, PhD candidate, UO Department of Sociology
Change is Slow to Come for Women in Zimbabwe
by Easther Chigumira, PhD candidate, UO Department of Geography
Revolutionary Foodways: a Set of Paths and Practices
by Courtney Thorsson, Assistant Professor, UO Department of English
My first book, Women’s Work: Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women’s Novels, has one chapter on cooking as a practice of nationalism in the works of poet, playwright, and novelist Ntozake Shange. When that chapter became twice as long as any other, I realized I had a second project on my hands and began compiling the notes and stacks of books that became the skeleton for my new project, Revolutionary Recipes: Foodways and African American Literature.
Is Feminist Poetry a Thing of the Past?
by Maggie Evans, PhD graduate, , UO Department of English
Tasked with composing a short riff on the future of feminist research in American poetics, I set out, naturally, for the library, determined to explore a few beginning questions that sprang to mind. Among them: How do contemporary women poets enact or represent feminism(s) in their poetry? How have the changing political and social goals of feminism affected the thematic and formal choices of feminist writers? How do feminist writers depict or imagine the future? Library, here I come!