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2002 FromCenter the AUTUMN CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF WOMEN IN SOCIETY · UNIVERSITY OF OREGON Creativity, Collaboration, Communities— Celebrating the Past, Looking to the Future n this issue of the newsletter, we announce our new annual membership campaign and new Icommunity programs. As we look toward the future, we also look back on three decades of energy, enthusiasm, and innovative scholarship that have built a research center with an international reputation for excellence. Generating, supporting, and disseminating research on women—many readers of this newsletter will recognize these now familiar goals of CSWS. But what does it mean to gener- ate, support, and disseminate research on women? It means forming initiatives to increase knowledge about how gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexual identity, and culture shape women’s lives and affect their social well being. It means publishing groundbreaking studies on welfare reform and poverty that are enabling activists and legislators to make informed decisions. It means developing a virtual library of resources on women and history for teachers, students, and researchers, enabling scholarly collabora- tions and classroom access to reproductions of rare manuscripts that were unthinkable before. It means receiving $4 million in government grants to conduct research on women’s reproduc- tive health and to sponsor educational trials for young minorities at risk. It means awarding more than one and one-half million dollars in grants to UO faculty members and graduate students, resulting in completed Ph.D. dissertations, books, and articles. It means more Ph.D. degrees and more tenured and promoted women faculty mem- bers. It means making possible more equitable gender content across the curriculum. It means providing an opportunity for local, national, and international scholars and INSIDE community members to pursue topics of major social impact and common interest—on campus through Research Interest Groups, conferences, presentations, and teaching semi- centerview ............ 2 nars—and across Oregon through a new community lecture series. It means obtaining a four-year Rockefeller Foundation Grant, providing a forum for scholars upcoming .............. 3 and activists from all over the world to engage in dialogue about ecology, spirituality, femi- nism, and the future, a meeting of people and ideas otherwise impossible. rig profiles.............. 4 It means bringing high school students together for their own Women’s History Day celebra- kudos ....................... 5 tion, an event that inspired a student to remember that “anyone has the power to change the world in some way for the better.” creative center ..... 6 It means looking forward to the future and continuing to build opportunities for creativity and collaboration within and among diverse communities through research, scholarship, and news ....................... 8 dialogue. awards ................ 10 CSWS is the only University of Oregon research entity focused specifically on women and gender, and the above represents a fraction of its accomplishments over the years. CSWS members............. 11 makes a difference in the lives of women every day. Won’t you join us? Please join us and help make a difference in the lives of women every day. author’s note ..... 12 2 centerview Talking with Linda Fuller Q: Do you remember your first encounter implications that some people at the center with CSWS? have been involved with for a long, long A: It was when I came for my job inter- time, such as comparable worth. I know that view in [the Department of] Sociology—the that makes a big difference in women’s lives spring of 1989. I began to learn about the outside the university. If the world were up center then, but it didn’t become a force in to me, the center would be even more of a my life until a couple of years later, after I’d presence outside the university. I think that’s been here a while. the situation for every unit on campus. This Q: What has your relationship been with university needs political support among the the center over time? larger populace, and you do that by reaching out. A: I’ve had several formal connections. Since I’m a sociologist, and the director of Q: Do you have more to say about your the center is in the sociology department, I research? participated in the interviews for Sandi A: I’m trying to write about things that Morgen. I received a grant through CSWS literally no one can afford but a very tiny some years later to work on a long-term group of the most wealthy. Emeralds are one project about global inequalities and luxury. of those things. Emeralds are more expensive I was on the executive committee for two than diamonds. Most of them come from years, and on the committee that gives Columbia. Per carat, they’re much more rare, research grants to faculty [members] and and so I’m doing a segment on emerald graduate students. Informally, I’ve been to consumers, and women are the ones that lots of events that either graduate students consume them. They don’t necessarily buy have organized or that the center has spon- them for themselves, but it’s all mixed up sored or cosponsored. with gender and privilege. At the other end Linda Fuller, professor Q: What difference does it make having of the story, of course, there are women and of sociology, is serving men in dire poverty murdering each other as acting director of the the center on campus? over a flick of an emerald. Clean-up people center fall and winter A: I think it’s tremendously important, there are not just cleaning up the bathrooms terms while Sandra recruiting-wise. It’s unique in so many ways. Morgen is on sabbatical. but literally cleaning up bodies. And now We have women’s studies and we have a I’m doing a piece about furs. I’m trying to tell CSWS Faculty and Staff research center. the story of furs from a particular place in Sandra Morgen, director Q: What difference do you think it makes Linda Fuller, acting director the Northwest Territory, from the point of Judith Musick, associate director to faculty [members] and graduate students? view of indigenous people and from the Jan Emerson, research associate A: A lot of graduate students in sociology Shirley Marc, office coordinator point of view of the animal, of the fur-bearer Lin Reilly, accountant have received financial support, but also itself. Environmental, gender, and race Diana Taylor, office specialist through the center they’re learning to work inequalities are all interconnected there. I’m Project Directors together and for one another. In particular trying to show what a fur coat really costs. Feminist Humanities Project the Social Science Feminist RIG has been Judith Musick Q: What would you like to focus on this Welfare Project invigorating for graduate students who have year in your tenure as acting director? Joan Acker and Sandra Morgen been involved in it—intellectually, cer- Research Program A: I don’t feel like I should have a big tainly—but emotionally and politically as on Women’s Health agenda. I’m going to be here twenty weeks. I well. As for the faculty, in addition to Marie Harvey want to make sure things continue in the offering a community of scholars and way people are happy with them continuing. From the Center is published two collaborating opportunities, CSWS grant I think it’s important that we remember—and times a year by the Center for the programs make it possible to spend more Study of Women in Society at the again I’m speaking as a sociologist, but time on research—that is vital to faculty University of Oregon. It is edited by gender in sociology is very western—that Jan Emerson with assistance from [members] at all levels. Cheri Brooks and Shirley Marc, gender is international; gender is about all CSWS, and designed by Lori Q: Does the center make a difference in different kinds of women. There’s a whole Howard and copy-edited by the local community, in Oregon? world out there of women and gender to talk Frances Milligan and Scott Skelton, A: I know that it does. I’m well aware of Office of University Publications. about. So if I had my druthers, I would For more information: some of the research with important policy broaden what gender means. (541) 346-5015 http://csws.uoregon.edu 3 CSWS Fall–Winter Calendar upcoming Wednesdays at Noon Noon–1:00 p.m., Jane Grant Room, CSWS 330 Hendricks Hall, University of Oregon. For more information, telephone CSWS, (541) 346-5015. FALL 2002 October 23 “Southwestern Ecotone: A Zone of Literary Resistance and Environmental Justice— Images of the Land,” Barbara Cook, graduate teaching fellow, English November 6 “Gender, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Hawaiian Women’s Writing,” Judith Raiskin, associate professor, women’s and gender studies November 20 “The Transition to Motherhood: Psychology and the Transmission of Social Vulnerabilities across Generations,” Jennifer Ablow, assistant professor, psychology December 4 “Representations of Sub-Saharan African Women in Colonial and Post-Colonial Novels,” Ramonu Sanusi, graduate teaching fellow, Romance languages WINTER 2003 January 15 “Teenage Mothers in School Tell Their Stories,” Jane Gathoni Njoora, graduate teaching fellow, special education January 29 “Precursors of Men’s Physical and Sexual Abuse of Women and Girls,” Kathryn Becker Blease, graduate teaching fellow, psychology February 12 “Reducing Academic and Social Risks in Middle-School Girls,” Debra Eisert, Left to right: Imelda Bacuda, research associate, Center on Human Development Veronica Brady, Lynne February 26 (tentative) “Innocent Women and Children: Gender and the International Politics Fessenden, and Shirley Marc at the final Ecological of Rescue,” R. Charli Carpenter, graduate teaching fellow, political science Conversations program.

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