by Shannon Elizabeth Bell, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Kentucky
The future I hope to see for feminist research is more scholars engaging in activist research aimed at fighting the tremendous number of environmental injustices that are devastating the lives of women and other vulnerable populations around the world.
by Miriam Deutsch, Professor, UO Department of Physics, Oregon Center for Optics
by Michael Hames-García, Professor, UO Department of Ethnic Studies
by Yvette Alex-Assensoh, Vice President for Equity and Inclusion, University of Oregon
by Áine Duggan, President, National Council on Research for Women
The future of feminism may be over sooner than we think. So goes talk in the public sphere and blogosphere about how celebrities-du-jour and political women alike are running in horror away from the “F” word. You would think the feminist waves were a plague on all our houses. (Curiously, some of their male counterparts are embracing the word; see Patrick Stewart and Dr. Jackson Katz.)
by Jenée Wilde, PhD candidate, UO Department of English (Folklore)
1973—More than thirty University Feminists loudly take over the steps of Johnson Hall to demand services for women on campus. The Oregon State Board of Higher Education signs off on the state’s first women’s studies program at University of Oregon. A librarian searches out the papers of early feminist Jane C. Grant for UO Library’s Special Collections. And a small core of faculty creates the Center for the Sociological Study of Women (CSSW) to support feminist research on campus.
by Carol Stabile, Director , Center for the Study of Women in Society, Professor, UO School of Journalism and Communication and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies
by Kathryn Allan, PhD, 2013 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship awardee
by Alice Evans, CSWS Dissemination Specialist
CSWS interviewed Kathryn Allan, inaugural winner of the Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship, during her CSWS-supported visit to do research at the UO Libraries Special Collections and University Archives. Allan immersed herself in the archives, reading the letters of Ursula K. Le Guin, Joanna Russ, and other feminist science fiction authors, seeking out conversations about disability and utopia, and delighting in her discoveries.
