2005 FromCenter the WINTER–SPRING CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF WOMEN IN SOCIETY · UNIVERSITY OF Vigilant Attention to Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in Higher Education: A March 1 Panel Discussion Features Three Dynamic Speakers t’s been more than forty years since the will advance ideas and insights about such Mark Your Calendar ICivil Rights and Women’s movements vigilance and compassion. Each has made a demanded equity for all American citizens, significant contribution to the national move- “The Intersection of Race, yet even many of the country’s institutions of ment of gender and race equity. Each is an Gender, and Ethnicity in higher education are still a long way from that outstanding scholar who’s put her vision into Higher Education,” goal. That includes the . practice in diverse institutional contexts. Tuesday, March 1; 3:30 According to the UO Office of Affirmative Ac- p.m.; 175 Knight Law Gertrude Fraser tion, women continue to be underrepresented Center, 1515 Agate St. is currently vice in eleven of the university’s forty-seven job Followed by a reception provost for fac- groups, and people of color are underrepre- in the commons area. ulty advancement sented in fourteen of those forty-seven job at the University of groups. Virginia, and was On Tuesday, March 1, 2005, three scholars formerly a program providing leadership in the arena of racial director special- and gender equity in higher education will izing in education visit the UO to speak about ways to move and scholarship forward in that pursuit. The panel, entitled with the Ford Foundation in New York. She “The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Eth- is a professor of anthropology whose research nicity in Higher Education,” is cosponsored focuses on African American and rural health by CSWS and the Office of the Vice Provost care, including midwifery, African American for Institutional Equity and Diversity. To be women’s domestic dialogues about birth and INSIDE held at 3:30 p.m. in 175 Knight Law Center, their bodies, and mental health care in rural 1515 Agate St., the event is free and open to communities. the public. “I began to think in a new way about ad- centerview ...... 2 In January 2004, Gregory Vincent began ministration and organizational development work in the position of UO vice provost for as requiring critical thinking and the kinds centerview ...... 3 institutional equity and diversity, and a new of approaches I had developed as a scholar.” chapter began in the process of working to —Gertrude Fraser, speaking about diversity rig profiles ...... 4 expand racial and gender diversity among fac- issues at the Ford Foundation. updates ...... ulty, staff members and students. As Vincent 5 Yolanda Moses recently stated, he’s found renewed energy spearheaded efforts creative center ...... 6 around the goal of “raising cultural compe- to promote multicul- tence and sensitivity across campus.” tural curricula as the kudos ...... 8 “When we have a community and an insti- former president of tution with such small numbers of minorities, the City University news ...... 9 we need to be especially vigilant of what it’s of New York, at the like for these individuals,” he added, “and csws ...... American Associa- 11 gain an appreciation of the differing perspec- tion for Higher tives and cultures they bring to campus.” author’s note ...... 12

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c e n t e r v i e w away reinforces the insights about global con- From the Director nections and the struggle for peace and justice By Sandra Morgen that the founders of WILPF sought to inspire. n April 1915, 1,300 wom- At CSWS, we are working to expand re- Ien from Europe and North search and programming that focus on women America founded the Wom- and globalization, international issues and en’s International League for connections, and the effects of militarization Peace and Freedom (WIL- and U.S. foreign policies on women across PF). Long before women had the globe. In addition to activities associ- secured the right to vote, to ated with the program on gender, race, and contraception or abortion, or militarization sponsored by CSWS and the other gains won later in the twentieth century, Women’s and Gender Studies Program, we WILPF understood militarization as a feminist have hired newly minted Ph.D. Barbara Sut- issue and international linkages as an essen- ton, who received the Jane Grant Fellowship tial feminist strategy. last year, to develop and implement plans for Today, tens of millions of women’s lives research and programming about these issues. across the planet are daily affected by war or We invite those of you pursuing research in CSWS Faculty and Staff conflict. Moreover, as we take in news of the these areas to talk with Sutton, 346-5247, or Sandra Morgen, director almost unimaginable death and destruction otherwise share your vision of how CSWS Judith Musick, associate director caused by the tsunami in Asia in late Decem- can best support international research and Shirley Marc, office coordinator ber, the understanding of our deep links to build international collaborations that seek to Peggy McConnell, accountant women and communities thousands of miles understand and better women’s lives. Stephanie Wood, senior research associate Debra Gwartney, research assistant Three Dynamic Speakers Continued from page 1 Initiative Directors Feminist Humanities Project Education, as president of the American A Harvard Law School graduate, Cantu Anthropological Association, and in her cur- worked for fourteen years as regional counsel Judith Musick rent position as special assistant for excel- and education director of the Mexican- Research Program lence and diversity for the chancellor at the American Legal Defense and Education on Women’s Health University of California. Also a professor of Fund. She then went on to serve as assistant Marie Harvey anthropology at the University of California, secretary of education for civil rights in the Women in the Northwest Riverside, Moses conducts research that fo- Clinton Administration. She currently holds Sandra Morgen cuses on education, particularly as it pertains joint appointments in education and law at to cultural change in the and the University of Texas at Austin. From the Center is published two times a year by the Center for in the Caribbean. She recently published a “This is about an American society where the Study of Women in Society monograph entitled, Black Women in Aca- discrimination has no place in the classroom. at the University of Oregon. It is deme, and played a leading role in launching Scholarship without discrimination is es- edited by Debra Gwartney with the national diversity initiative, “Racial Lega- sential. Being able to build leadership skills assistance from Shirley Marc, belongs to both men and women.” —Norma CSWS, and designed by Barbara cies and Learning: An American Dialogue.” Oppliger and copy-edited by John “We must take what we know about stu- Cantu R. Crosiar, Creative Publishing. dent learning environments that support the The gathering of this distinguished panel For more information: success of each one of the students. We need presents a rare opportunity for faculty and (541) 346-5015 to create environments where all students can staff members and students to learn from the http://csws.uoregon.edu be successful.” —Yolanda Moses vision, institutional successes, and cautionary tales of three leaders. Norma Cantu “The idea of the panel is to spark dialogue has, in the course on campus about this critical topic,” says of her career CSWS Director Sandra Morgen. “This is an as an attorney, ongoing discussion with deep roots and high litigated scores ideals. Greg and I hope to see many from the of cases affecting university at the event, as part of our own educational process of dialogue and planning.” funding, disability Accommodations for people with disabili- rights, student ties will be provided. Call Shirley Marc at disciplinary CSWS, (541) 346-5015, one week in advance policies, and racially hostile environments. to make arrangements. 3 It’s Time for a Pro-Woman Tax System u p c o m i n g early half the nation’s taxpayers are Nwomen, yet limited scholarship has “One concern that emerged is that been directed at understanding how women of different racial, ethnic, and class back- tax cuts almost always translate into grounds are affected by tax policy. Given service cuts, and that hurts low-in- the recent prominence of tax issues at the national and state levels, attention to and come and middle class women.” advocacy for a system that treats women taxpayers fairly is long overdue. Why are tax issues specific to women of- tax cuts during the Reagan, Bush, and G.W. ten neglected? Why are women underrepre- Bush administrations—hit women espe- sented among legislators and policymakers cially hard, as these programs help balance who determine tax policy and implementa- employment with the needs of families. The tion? What can ease the erosion of public tax cuts touted by President Bush in his first services that most directly benefit women term, and the large cuts on his second-term taxpayers? Why are reproductive rights and agenda, have done little to help most fami- CSWS Online domestic violence understood as feminist lies, but will result in enormous deficits and Scholars Directory issues, but economic security and tax issues program cuts in coming years. An online searchable relegated to the sidelines? Also, a less visible “fiscal welfare system” database of CSWS affiliated scholars is soon to be launched. A report to be published in early 2005 allows individual and corporate taxpayers The database promises to be a by the National Council for Research on who itemize (mainly moderate and higher valuable resource in supporting Women (NCROW)—an umbrella organiza- income taxpayers) to reduce their tax burden two activities we hold dear— tion of women’s, academic, and public by taking advantage of deductions, exemp- facilitating the development of policy research centers based in New York tions, and credits. While helping higher interdisciplinary communities of scholars united by common City—and co-authored by Hunter College income families, this reduces revenues interests, and encouraging Professor of Social Work Mimi Abramovitz supporting programs and services needed by mentoring of junior faculty and UO Professor Sandra Morgen, docu- low-income families. members by senior faculty ments how the declining progressivity of In 2002, the $609 billion in deductions, members. the current tax system harms women and exemptions, and credits was twice as much All UO faculty members families. The report is a call to action for a as was spent on all domestic discretionary and research associates who pro-woman tax system that more equitably spending, other than defense, including pro- have received CSWS grants and awards, served on CSWS distributes the responsibility for paying for grams that provide assistance for housing, committees, or have a known government services we all need and use. childcare, educational loans and food. interest in the study of women Abramovitz and Morgen examine not Women of color, who earn on the whole and gender are being asked only the three-decade-long erosion of pro- less than white women, are especially af- (via email and this publication) gressivity in the tax system, but they also fected by flat and regressive taxes, such to contribute information about highlight the ways in which women are af- as Social Security, which leaves a smaller their research interests. In addition to brief statements of fected when public services are inadequate- amount of after-tax dollars to cover liv- current research and teaching ly funded by taxes. ing expenses. And women predominate as interests, the directory will “One concern that emerged,” says employees of agencies funded by tax dol- provide scholars’ names, Morgen, “is that tax cuts almost always lars. In 2003, women held 80.6 percent of department and disciplinary translate into service cuts, and that hurts the nation’s elementary and middle school affiliations, current academic ranks, years at the UO, and the low-income and middle class women.” teaching jobs, and 90.2 percent of registered years they were granted tenure. Since 1980, the U.S. tax system has nursing positions. For women working in The directory will be part of placed a growing tax burden on those public sectors, cuts in government funding the center’s official website and with less money by increasingly relying translate into job losses. its links—to the directory itself on earnings and payroll taxes rather than Morgen chaired the NCROW Task Force as well as to a form to use in on wealth for taxation. Such changes have on Economic Security, which envisioned submitting information to the primarily benefited large corporations and and planned the report, and says copies of database—are prominently displayed on our homepage the wealthiest taxpayers. Moreover, cuts the report and how to order it will be avail- (http://csws.uoregon.edu). in state and federal human service, health, able in early 2005 on the NCROW website, Any questions can be and education programs—resulting from http://www.ncrw.org/. directed to Judith Musick, [email protected]. 4

r i g p r o f i l e s Violence, Gender, and Society RIG Celebrating a Successful November Forum n meetings of the Violence, Gender, and included Caitlan Hendrickson, Latina Out- ISociety Research Interest Group, men and reach Program assistant of the Sexual Assault women from a variety of disciplines on the Support Services, and June Sedarbaum Har- UO campus come together to discuss a wide ris, project manager at United Way of Lane range of research. Debra Eisert from the In- County. The goal of the day-long meeting, at- stitute on Violence and Destructive Behavior tended by more than seventy-five community might discuss her work with a community members, UO faculty and staff members, and group that addresses the issues of violence students, was to discuss interests in the area against women with disabilities, or Jeff of gender and violence. Todahl from Couples and Family Therapy “The forum encouraged networking and might discuss the needs of children as they collaboration,” says Olson. “We heard about experience supervised parental visits at Kids cutting-edge research, new programs, and First, a community agency. best practices.” “We recognize that we’re often isolated Olson said the allotted seven-minute pre- To find out how to within our own disciplines, but that we have sentation format was especially popular with form or join a RIG, call much to learn from each other,” says Debo- participants. “It was a way of getting a lot of (541) 346-5015, e-mail rah Olson, coordinator of the RIG. “We also information in a short amount of time. The [email protected], or have come to recognize that academia and format was also low pressure for the present- check our website at community practitioners are often isolated ers, unlike most conference presentations,” http://csws.uoregon.edu. from each other and have much to share.” she said. In an effort to bridge that latter gap, VGS Phyllis Barkhurst, director of the Oregon recently sponsored a second annual forum Attorney General’s Sexual Assault Prevention entitled “Gender and Interpersonal Vio- Task Force, offered the forum’s keynote address. lence: New Challenges to Research, Policy, “We were very pleased to have Phyllis and Practices.” During the November event Barkhurst open the session,” says Jeff Todahl. OTHER CSWS RIGS community workers in the field joined UO “She’s highly regarded for her understanding • Feminist Philosophy researchers such as Jennifer Freyd, Psychol- of sexual assault and sexual assault preven- ogy; Deanna Linville, Couples and Family tion, including Oregon’s current prevention • Gender in Historical and Therapy; and graduate student Anna Sontag, initiatives and related activities around the Transnational China Special Education. Community participants United States.” • Healing Arts • Native American Communities Rebecca Solnit Speaks of Hope • Reclaiming the Past “The future is dark, with a darkness as much of the womb as of the grave.” • Social Sciences Feminist Network his is one of the deeply insightful statements spoken by Rebecca Solnit who, on December 2, delivered the Joy Belsky lecture to a • Violence, Gender, and T packed-in audience in the Alumni Lounge of Gerlinger Hall. Society The author of, most recently, Hope in the Dark, Solnit did fight despair • Work, Welfare, and with her encouragement of intelligent activism, and patience with the Economic Restructuring circuitous routes by which the world is changed. “To hope is to gamble, it’s to bet on the future, on your desire, on the possibility that an open heart and uncertainty are better than gloom and safety. To hope is dangerous—and yet it’s the opposite of fear—for to live is to risk . . . Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky; hope is an ax you can break down doors with in an emergency . . . It will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war and the alienation of the Earth’s treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal . . . Hope just means another world might be possible, not probable, not guaranteed. Hope calls for action, and action is impossible without hope.”—Rebecca Solnit, from the Joy Belsky Lecture. 5 FHP Director Judith Musick. Two of the u p d a t e s Updates historical pictorial manuscripts come RESEARCH PROGRAM ON from the UO’s own Museum of Natural and Cultural History; others have been WOMEN’S HEALTH gathered from other U.S. and international Understanding the Diverse Factors institutions. “Many mapas are predominately Affecting Women’s Health pictorial and almost all have some pictorial embers of the Research Program elements,” says Wood. Mon Women’s Health (RPWH) have Another collaborative study of historical been working on several projects, new manuscripts—this one of a medieval French and continuing. Analysis of data from the manuscript—has been launched by FHP diaphragm study continues. The overall and WHP. The project, directed by Associate goal of the study, which was funded by Professor Barbara Altmann, will place the National Institutes of Health (NIH), digitized facsimiles of the manuscript on was to improve understanding of the a restricted website for a handful of other acceptability of the vaginal diaphragm medieval scholars to collaborate in its for the prevention of HIV/STIs. In recent transcription and translation. months, we have presented results at the Other news: The Medieval Feminist Forum, annual meeting of the American Public the sponsored journal of the Society for 2004–5 CSWS Health Association in Washington, D.C., Medieval Feminist Scholarship, which FHP Executive Committee and have had several manuscripts accepted was pleased to help sponsor for the past seven for publication. We also have revised a years, has moved to Minot State University. Nancy Yen-Wen Cheng grant application for submission to the And, finally, our friend and colleague, Jan Architecture NIH entitled “Relationship Dynamics and Emerson, at one-time the coordinator of Sara Hodges Sexual Risk Behaviors.” The goal of this new FHP and organizer of our very successful Psychology study is to contribute to the understanding “Teaching and Tea” series, has moved to New Lamia Karim of the influence of relationship dynamics York City where she will be teaching. We Anthropology on sexual risk perceptions, intentions, and wish her well and already miss her. Kathleen Karlyn behaviors. It is hoped that results from this English research will help inform new programs WOMEN IN THE NORTHWEST Allison Lau aimed at reducing the spread of HIV among esearch currently being conducted Counseling psychology those at high risk for the disease. Finally, Rby members of the Women in the and human services we will begin analyses of data from the Northwest Initiative focuses on social welfare, Sandi Morgen National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent tax policy, and the economic, social, and CSWS, anthropology Health in January. The focus of these political experiences of different groups of Judith Musick analyses will be to explore the relationship women living in the Pacific Northwest, and CSWS between pregnancy outcomes and women’s particularly in Oregon. Members of the CSWS Julie Novkov psychological well-being over time. Welfare Research team are working on a book Political science, women’s and several journal articles, including “Living and gender studies THE FEMINIST HUMANITIES Economic Restructuring at the Bottom: Mia Tuan PROJECT AND THE WIRED Welfare Restructuring and Low-Wage Work,” Sociology HUMANITIES PROJECT which is forthcoming in a book on welfare Shelley Winship ork continues—under the auspices “reform.” The Welfare, Work, and Economic Development, architecture Wof the Wired Humanities Project—on Restructuring RIG, which is part of the larger and allied arts the Mapas Project, coordinated by CSWS initiative, has begun a series of Wednesday Stephanie Wood Research Associate Stephanie Wood. This colloquia, which include works-in-progress CSWS unusual international collaboration involves presentations and more final papers. For more Colonial Mexican pictorial manuscripts that information, contact RIG coordinator Ellen hold many subtle and sometimes hidden Scott at [email protected]. dimensions. Digitizing the manuscripts, and putting them on line so that other scholars have access, makes it possible for many RESEARCH INFORMATION researchers to work together in achieving For more information about research a sense of the manuscripts’ meaning and conducted by the Center for the Study of historical significance. Women in Society, visit our website at “This is the first of our web-based http://csws.uoregon.edu. ‘distance research environments,’” says 6 creativec r e a t center i v e Feminist Scholar M. Jacqui Alexander to Speak on Transnational Feminism “ he citizen pa- which will include meetings with students Ttriot.” This is a and faculty members, is also supported by term recently coined the Ethnic Studies Program, the Wayne Morse by scholar, activist, Center for Law and Politics, the Departments and writer M. Jacqui of Anthropology and Sociology, the Women’s Alexander in her Center, and the Multicultural Center. timely and relevant “Alexander is one of the leading feminist discussions of the scholars whose examination of transnational- U.S. government’s ism and militarization brings race, gender, empire-building and and sexuality front and center,” notes Sandra move toward militarization, and of the ideal Morgen, director of CSWS. figure—the citizen constructed only as patri- Alexander has facilitated many workshops, otic—that has arisen from the racialized and in this country and abroad, in which she ad- sexualized processes of empire-building. dresses feminist ideas of globalization and race “Since no war can be waged without the issues, urging thoughtful reconsideration of creation of an enemy,” Alexander says, “both both educational practices and pedagogues. external and internal enemy production are “I believe that gender has to be understood crucial in consolidating the work of empire.” as a transnational process, one in which the CSWS Director The concerns of Alexander’s research and different histories of men and women are em- Awarded Eileen activism include the ways in which sexuality phasized,” Alexander recently told a reporter. Basker Prize is indispensable in the creation of both the cit- “We must also pay attention to local and izen patriot and the enemy, and the challenges regional contexts, which enable us to see not A book written by CSWS Director Sandra Morgen, of living in transnational times. The feminist only differences, but also the points of connec- entitled Into Our Own Hands: framework related to militarization is one of tion in women’s lives. It is the case that many The Women’s Health Move- the major themes in Alexander’s work, and it parts of the world are connected because of ment in the U.S., 1969–1990, is part of the body of knowledge she will bring shared histories of colonization. This makes and published in 2002 by to the UO campus when she speaks as part of decolonization a central paradigm in feminist Rutgers University Press, the Rethinking Security: Gender, Race, and transnational work.” has been awarded the Eileen Militarization Program. Drawing on a wide spectrum of theories and Basker Prize from the Society The program, cosponsored by CSWS and scholarship, Alexander offers feminist critiques of Medical Anthropology. The Basker Prize is made annually the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, of imperialism, colonization, and heterosexuali- to scholars from any disci- is supported by the Carlton Raymond and ty with an aim at redefining notions of state, citi- pline or nation, for a specific Wilberta Ripley Savage Visiting Professorship zenship, public policy, and human rights within book, article, film, or other in International Relations and Peace. Currently national and international politics. She has been work judged to be “the most in the first of its two years, it is designed to actively involved in feminist movements in the courageous, significant, and interrogate the consequences of an increas- Caribbean as well as in feminist and lesbian and potentially influential contribu- ingly militarized conception of security with gay movements in the United States. tion to scholarship in the area of gender and health.” a particular focus on how issues of gender Alexander has received numerous awards and race play into those consequences. The including a Guggenheim Fellowship for re- program also seeks out alternative paradigms search that she is conducting on memory and of security that emphasize peacemaking and Kongo spiritual practices in the Caribbean. human rights. She also recently served as the co-chair of a Alexander’s presence on campus will add to project funded by the Ford Foundation, which the lively discussions of those ideas. Her talk, explores the links between sexuality and spiri- entitled “Not Just Anybody Can be a Patriot: tuality, and formerly held the Fuller-Maathai The Militarized State in the Age of Empire,” Chair in Gender and Women’s Studies at Con- will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, necticut College. April 13, in the Ballroom of the Erb Memorial For more information, call Shirley Marc at Union, 1222 E. 13th Ave. The event is free and CSWS, (541) 346-5015, or visit our website at open to the public. Alexander’s campus visit, csws.uoregon.edu. 7 Rethinking Security: Gender, Race, c e n t e r and Militarization Colloquium second dimension of the Rethinking Simona Sharoni, ASecurity: Gender, Race, and Militarization Savage Visiting Program is a colloquium to be held through- Professor in the out winter and spring terms on the UO cam- Women’s and Gender pus. The aim of these gatherings is to involve Studies Program, faculty members and students in a sustained offered the colloqui- dialogue about gender, race and militarization um’s second talk on and security, says Julie Novkov, director of the February 9, entitled, UO Women’s and Gender Studies Program. “Men, Masculini- “The colloquium investigates some of the most ties, and Resistance urgent and pathbreaking critical work on the in Israel-Palestine, the North of Ireland, and intersections of identity and violence. We are the United States.” Considered by some to be excited to feature our distinguished visiting the world’s top expert on gender dynamics in scholars, as well as the scholars on our cam- the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Sharoni is the Wednesday at Noon pus who are most centrally engaged with this author of Gender and the Israeli-Palestinian 330 Hendricks Hall agenda.” Conflict: The Politics of Women’s Resistance. Noon–1:00 p.m. Visiting speakers—including Simona Sha- She also has written extensively on Middle February 23 roni, this year’s Savage Visiting Professor—will Eastern politics, the peace and justice move- Contemporary Women’s offer presentations to the UO community dur- ment, and peace and conflict resolution Movement in Korea: 1980 to ing their visits. Faculty members and students theory. During winter term, she is teaching a the Present will lead discussions, as well, and will offer course on “Race, Gender, and Militarization.” Joo-hyun Cho, CSWS visit- presentations under the umbrella of the col- ing scholar and professor, loquium, creating a campus-wide intellectual women’s studies, Keimyung exchange regarding war, militarization, and the The final three discussions of the col- University, Korea. paradigms of security. loquium will be held from noon to 1:15 April 6 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Jane Grant Colonial Masculinities: Hilary Charles- Conference Room at 330 Hendricks Hall. The British West Indies, worth, who currently Seating is limited to twenty-five. 1770–1833 holds the Wayne Elizabeth Bohls, associate March 9: “Shock and Awe: Masculinity Morse Chair of Law professor, English. and the Justification of America’s War.” and Politics at the Bonnie Mann, assistant professor, April 20 UO School of Law, philosophy An Islamist Victory in NWFP, launched the collo- Pakistan: A Defeat for quium with her talk April 13: “Nation Building/Empire Women’s Rights? entitled, “Gender Building: Waging War at Home and War Anita Weiss, professor, and War: Critiquing Abroad.” M. Jacqui Alexander, professor, international studies. Women’s Studies and Gender Studies, International Law,” on January 19. A director May 4 of the Centre for International and Public Law University of Toronto Preventing Sexual Violence at the Australian National University in Can- May 11: “Women Write War.” Monique Against Women: The Role of berra, Charlesworth has written several books, Balbuena, assistant professor, Robert Self-Defense Training including Writing in Right: Australia and the Donald Clark Honors College Jocelyn Hollander, assistant professor, sociology. Protection of Human Rights and The Boundar- The colloquium is sponsored by the Women’s ies of International Law: A Feminist Analysis. and Gender Studies Program and the Center For more information, call During her month-long stay at the UO, Charles- for the Study of Women in Society, with (541) 346-5015. funding from the Carlton Raymond and Wil- worth also taught a course, with law profes- berta Ripley Savage Endowment for Interna- sor Ibrahim Gassama, on “Sex, Gender, and tional Relations and Peace. Human Rights.” For more information, contact: CSWS at (541) 346-5015, send e-mail to [email protected], or go online to http://csws.uoregon.edu. 8

Empowerment, and Marginalization in the 21st Cen- k u d o s tury” at the Rockefeller Bellagio Study and Conference Kudos! Center in Italy in 2005. The workshop was cospon- Judith Baskin, Judaic studies, has recently pub- sored by the University of California at Irvine. Karim’s lished “Constructions of Women in Rabbinic Mi- research on the intersection of gendered development drash,” in Encyclopedia of Midrash: Biblical Interpre- practices and NGOs resulted in an article, “Democra- tation in Formative Judaism, ed. J. Neusner and A. tizing Bangladesh: State, NGOs, and Militant Islam,” J. Avery-Peck; and “Piety and Female Aspiration in published in Cultural Dynamics (October 2004). The the Memoirs of Bella Rosenfeld Chagall and Pauline article will be reprinted in an edited volume entitled Epstein Wengeroff,” in Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Contesting Nation: Gendered Violence in South Asia. Women’s Studies and Gender Issues,” (Spring 2004). Notes on the Postcolonial Present, edited by Agnana Women Travel Writers and the Language of Aesthet- Chatterji and Lubna Chaudhury, Zubaan Books: New ics, 1716–1818, written by Liz Bohl, English, has Delhi, India, 2005. appeared in a Japanese translation by Professor Junko Shirley Marc, CSWS, had her book of metaphysi- Nagano of Kobe University, published by Arina Shobo, cal and spiritual poetry and photos, Life Sat Up One Inc. Bohl also spoke recently on Mary Shelley’s Fran- Night and Caught Me, published by Flowing River kenstein at the Salem and Portland public libraries in Books, January 2005. In December 2004, she received connection with a traveling exhibit entitled “Franken- a CTM (certified toastmaster) award from Toastmasters stein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature.” International. Gaylene Carpenter, arts and administration, was Anne Dhu McLucas, music, has been nominated as recently appointed director of the Arts & Administration a candidate for the Board of Overseers of Harvard Uni- Program. She also published an article entitled, “Assess- versity, the group that gives policy and oversight advice ing Arts and Cultural Programming in Oregon’s Recre- to that university. All alumni of Harvard may vote for ation Organizations” in a recent issue of CultureWork. candidates, and five of the seven nominees are selected. Matthew Dennis, history, recently published, “The In- A book chapter she wrote, entitled “Silent Music: The vention of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday,” in We Are Apache Transformation of a Girl to a Woman,” will appear What We Celebrate: Understanding Holidays and Rituals in the book Different Childhoods: Music and the Cultures (New York: NYU Press, 2004); Amatai Etzioni and Jared of Youth, edited by Roe-Min Kok and Susan Boynton. Bloom, eds. Dennis also was recently named general edi- Madonna Moss, anthropology, recently published a tor of the Encyclopedia of World Holidays and Celebra- paper entitled, “Archaeological Investigation of Cape tions, to be published by Facts on File in 2006. Addington Rockshelter: Human Occupation of the Rug- Irene Diamond, political science, has published ged Seacoast on the Outer Prince of Wales Archipelago, Do You Have “Toward a Cosmology of Continual Creation: From Alaska,” a University of Oregon Anthropological Paper, Ecofeminism to Feminine Ecology and Umbilical Ties” 2004. Moss serves on the Executive Board of the Soci- Good News to in the Summer 2004 issue of CrossCurrents. ety for American Archaeology where she is liaison to A jointly authored article by Dianne Dugaw, the Committee on the Status of Women in Archaeology, Share? English, and Amanda Powell, English and Folklore, the Committee on Native American Relations, and the will be published in a scholarly annual volume of the Women in Archaeology Interest Group. Send notices about books American Society for 18th-Century Studies. The essay Judith Musick and Stephanie Wood, CSWS, recently and articles published, is titled “Sapphic Self-Fashioning in the Baroque Era: gave two joint presentations: “Creating a Distance Women’s Petrarchan Parody in English and Spanish, Research Environment (DRE) for the Mapas Project,” awards won, presenta- 1650–1700,” to be published in Studies in 18th Cen- for the Association for Computing in the Humanities, tions made, and honors tury Culture (2005). in Gothenburg, Sweden, in June, and “Pedagogical Caroline Forell, law, had a recent opportunity to Uses for the Virtual Mesoamerican Archive,” for the bestowed to CSWS. Call write an amicus brief and present oral argument to the international conference of the Multimedia Educational (541) 346-5015 or e-mail Oregon Supreme Court in a civil stalking case, Bryant Resource for Learning and Online Teaching, in Costa v. Walker, where the court of appeals had cited the Mesa, California, in July. Musick and Wood, as well as [email protected]. Put book by Forell and Donna Matthews, A Law of Her Barbara Altmann, also participated in a Text Encod- kudos! in the subject line. Own: The Reasonable Woman as a Measure of Man ing Initiative workshop at the University of California, (NYU Press, 2000) for the proposition that gender Berkeley, in November, in preparation for electronically should be considered in deciding whether the stalking encoding the Mesoamerican and medieval European victim’s alarm was reasonable. After oral argument manuscripts they are digitizing, transcribing, translat- (Forell’s first ever) on November 4, 2004, the Oregon ing, and analyzing. Supreme Court dismissed the stalker’s appeal, which Mary Rothbart, psychology, was recognized this meant that the decision of the court of appeals consid- January by one of Sweden’s oldest and most distin- ering gender is the law of Oregon. Forell and her co- guished institutions, the University of Uppsala, with an counsel, Ann Kneeland, director of the Lane County honorary doctoral degree (doctor honoris causa). The Domestic Violence Clinic, view the outcome as “a win honorary degree reflects the high regard psychologists for us and for stalking victims.” in many countries have for her decades of research Bryna Goodman, history, will publish “Gender in in infant and child temperament. The ceremonies Motion: Divisions of Labor and Cultural Change in involved a laurel wreath reception on January 27 and a Late Imperial and Modern China,” (co-edited with conferment ceremony on January 28. Rothbart traveled Wendy Larson), with Rowman and Littlefield, and with her husband Mick to Sweden in January where “The New Woman Commits Suicide: Press, Cultural both also delivered lectures. Memory and the New Republic,” in Journal of Asian Mia Tuan, sociology, has an article about to appear Studies. Both are scheduled to appear in early 2005. in Race & Society, co-written with Jiannbin Shiao, Suzette Henke, 2004–5 CSWS visiting scholar, and titled “Shifting the Spotlight: Exploring Race and has recently published a number of women-related Culture in Korean-White Adoptive Families.” Tuan articles, including “Women in Love or Women in also has a forthcoming book, co-written with Lawrence Trouble?: Misogyny in D.H. Lawrence’s Masterpiece,” Bobo, titled, “Prejudice in Politics: Race, Rights, and in Misogynism in Literature, Ed. Britta Zangen; New the Wisconsin Treaty Rights Controversy” (Harvard York: Peter Lang (2004), and recently learned that her University Press). essay, “A Birthday Letter: May 13, 2003,” published Carol Silverman, anthropology, recently published in The Louisville Review (2004) has been nominated “Move Over Madonna: Gender, Representation, and the for the Pushcart Prize. Henke is currently at work on ‘Mystery’ of Bulgarian Voices” in Over the Wall/After a book entitled “Post-Traumatic Narrative,” and is co- the Fall: Post-Communist Cultures through an East- editing a book on “Virginia Woolf and Trauma.” West Gaze; Indiana University Press. In November, she Lynda P. Jasso-Thomas, a UO graduate and former gave the keynote lecture, on “Gypsy Performance and CSWS grant awardee, was recently appointed to the Romani Identities: Negotiating the World Music Scene,” state’s Rural Policy Advisory Committee by Governor at a conference on Music and Migration at the Uni- Ted Kulongoski. versity of Limerick in Ireland. She has also received a Lamia Karim, sociology, was invited to participate 2005 UO Summer Fellowship for her project, “Cultural in a workshop entitled “Democratizing Women: NGOs, Politics of Balkan Romani Music.” 9 Chandra Mohanty to speak on Global n e w s Feminism and Third-World Women handra Talpade Mohanty, the author of Cseveral groundbreaking books on the subject of global feminism, including 2003’s Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity, is this year’s speaker for the Currents Series sponsored by Women’s and Gender Studies. Mohanty will speak at 11:30 a.m. on May 13 in the Browsing Room of the Knight Library, 1501 Kincaid St. One of the nation’s strongest voices for championing the experiences of Third-World women and in the study of transnational feminist theory, Mohanty will address her recent book in depth in her Currents lecture. CSWS “Mohanty’s work presents a major new Publications direction in feminist thought,” says Julie Work, Welfare and Politics, Novkov, director of the UO Women’s and edited by Frances Fox Gender Studies Program. “She pushes Piven, Joan Acker, Margaret feminism to confront identity as a complex Hallock, and Sandra global phenomenon and reinvigorates feminist Morgen, is available from the theory with a grounded look at the importance University of Oregon Press. of Third-World women’s political agency.” she is most comfortable identifying herself as You can order it by calling Mohanty’s latest book is divided into three a woman of color or Third-World woman. (866) 672-8574 or online at sections: Decolonizing Feminism, Demystifying “Geographies have never coincided www.uopress.com. Capitalism, and Reorienting Feminism. In her with the politics of race,” she writes. “And Written by UO professor book, she notes that women’s studies programs claiming racial identities based on history, emerita Joan Acker, CSWS across the country have made important social location, and experience is always a Director Sandra Morgen, discoveries in the recent decade, in particular matter of collective analysis and politics.” and Lisa Gonzales, CSWS, with respect to incorporating race and racism She then adds, “ . . . it is Third-World with Jill Weigt, Kate Berry, into the curriculum. But challenges remain women’s oppositional political relation and Terri Heath, Welfare in regard to globalizing the curriculum. to sexist, racist, and imperialist structures Restructuring, Work & Poverty: To enhance this effort, Mohanty advocates that constitutes our potential commonality. Policy Implications from linking global and local issues in a systematic Thus it is the common context of struggles Oregon, is available from way. In addition, she urges more discussion against specific exploitative structures and CSWS for $5. Call (541) pertaining to the commonality of struggle for systems that determines our potential political 346-5015. It is also online at http://wnw.uoregon.edu women—including women researching and alliances.” studying women’s issues—and the necessity of Novkov notes that Mohanty’s issues are Understanding Medical renegotiating the politics of identity. salient ones for faculty members and students Abortion: Policy, Politics, and In speaking of her own identity, as she’s at the University of Oregon. Women’s Health by S. Marie moved to different locations in her life, she “The UO lies at the global crossroads Harvey, Christy A. Sherman, writes, “Growing up in India, I was Indian; in its scholarly work and its increasingly Sheryl Thorburn Bird, and teaching high school in Nigeria, I was a international student body,” Novkov says. Jocelyn Warren is available foreigner. . . . Doing research in London, I “Chandra Mohanty will speak powerfully to from the Center for the Study of Women in Society. To order was black. As a professor at an American the need for political action and new feminist or download in pdf format university, I am an Asian woman. . . . In alliances in a rapidly changing world, a see the website: http://csws. North America, I was also a ‘resident alien’ message that should resonate strongly on our uoregon.edu/ with an Indian passport—I am now a U.S. campus. We are fortunate indeed to have her citizen whose racialization has shifted coming here at this moment.” dramatically (and negatively) since the For more information on the Currents attacks on the World Trade Center and the Series of talks and Chandra Talpade Pentagon on 11 September 2001.” Mohanty’s visit, please contact Sabena Stark Mohanty goes on to say in the book that at (541) 346-5529. 10 n e w s Finding Treasures Online: The Virtual Mesoamerican Archive By Juidth Musick ny scholar who’s pursued sources Afrom a web search engine knows how difficult it is to sort through the hundreds, thousands, or sometimes mil- lions of hits for reliable, accurate, and useful information. Type in “Aztec” on Google, for instance, and an impossibly long string of potential sources pops up—but which actually lead to quality data? Helping researchers and scholars land on just the digitized information they need is the goal of a new UO Wired Hu- Welcome New manities Project tool, funded by the UO Office of Research and CSWS. The Vir- CSWS Staff tual Mesoamerican Archive is an online director, Stephanie Wood, as well as links Barbara Sutton, Ph.D., repository that brings together international to websites of the institutions that own the has joined CSWS as a collections of three-dimensional objects, original relics, and other links to scholars research associate. Barbara drawings, and photographs of archaeological who are working on research pertaining to will strengthen the center’s and texts related, for now, to the Formative the Mesoamerican objects. mission by organizing Period (1800 BC) through the late Spanish networks and engaging the “We’ve done significant work on getting Colonial Period (AD 1800). campus and wider community information about the authors, so scholars WHP Director Judith Musick points out in work and dialogue on the can better evaluate the usefulness of the diverse realities of women in that The Virtual Mesoamerican Archive an- texts,” she says. international context. Some of ticipated the recent development by Google Part of Wood’s efforts these past months her plans include conferences, and other web search engines that digitizes has been to create partnerships with some guest speakers, workshops, important university and institutional col- of the large institutions that hold significant and a new RIG that will lections of art and literature. contribute to the exploration Mesoamerican collections. “We were already at work on a way to of globalization, migration, “Rather than get item-by-item permission organize a massive amount of historical ma- global feminisms, and other from them, we’ve asked for access to their cross-border processes that terial and give scholars and teachers filters entire collection. It appeals to them because effect women. that make sense to them,” she says. they know our website will bring serious About 3,500 items are now included on Debra Gwartney has joined scholars to their sites.” the website, according to the project’s co- CSWS as a part-time research Musick says the hope from here is that assistant, and will work The Virtual Mesoamerican Archive will find primarily on the dissemination some kind of permanence on the web. The of information from the center. She will manage the intention is to increase the automation of the newsletters, publicize events search process, to reduce the labor involved and workshops sponsored in hunting down and harvesting quality ma- by CSWS, and help plan terials, and to perhaps involve a community ways to get relevant research of scholars, outside the UO, to broaden the discoveries out to the wider usefulness of the project. community. “The goal is to include a link to every item of value that’s been digitized,” she says. For more information, send e-mail to the Wired Humanities Project at WHP@uoregon. edu. 11 A Road Scholar’s Story: c s w s Presenting Frida Kahlo at Womenspace

By Stephanie Wood n December, Mavelle Featherstone of Please join us at these upcoming Road OWomenspace hosted my Road Scholar Scholars events: talk about Frida Kahlo before the support Damned Women: What’s group for Latina women. Thinking in ad- a Witch to Do in 1692? vance about speaking of Mexican history to Elizabeth Reis, assistant professor, people of Mexican descent (there were also women’s and gender studies a few women from other countries, such as • February 9, 2005, 10:30 a.m.–noon Chile and Honduras), and in Spanish, was Oasis at Meier & Frank, Eugene a bit daunting. I worried that, as a gringa, Frida Kahlo: Mexican Painter— I would have, at best, questionable legiti- World Icon macy or authority. What would I have to Stephanie Wood, senior research say that would be worth their while? In the associate, CSWS Become a Member end, however, the women said they were • February 9, 9:30 a.m. of CSWS honored that someone from another country The Academy for Lifelong Your membership dollars would take the time to study a woman from Learning, Corvallis, support critical programs at Mexican history. In a lively discussion, they • February 17, TBA. the center, including travel shared memories of hearing about Kahlo Tualatin Public Library, Tualatin grants for scholars and research support grants, as in school when they were growing up, but The Gendered Garden: Women well as the Road Scholars also said they also learned some new things in the History of Gardens program and the production from my presentation, particularly about the Judith Musick, associate director, CSWS international iconization of Frida Kahlo. and distribution of this • February 24, 1:30 p.m. newsletter. We’re thankful One of the slides touched upon personal River Road Park and Recreation to our new and renewing experiences, as many of the women had District, 1400 Lake Dr., Eugene members, and invite others to been victims of domestic violence. This was • March 3, TBA participate in the excellence Kahlo’s painting of a woman lying naked Tualatin Public Library, Tualatin of work at CSWS. Just pull on a bed, dead from multiple stab wounds out the envelope enclosed The Taxing State of at the hand of her husband. The husband and send in your contribution. Economic Insecurity proclaims that he only gave her “unos cuan- Thank you! Sandra Morgen, director, CSWS tos piquetitos” (“just a few little stabs”), an • February 24, TBA attitude that infuriated Kahlo and led her to Tualatin Public Library, Tualatin paint this protest of domestic abuse. None • April 13, TBA of the women in this group had faced such OASIS at Meier & Frank, Eugene an extreme situation, but their personal histories were nevertheless sobering. The Praise and Blame of Women: kindness they expressed in sharing friend- The Middle Ages and Now ship with one another and with me, despite Gina Psaki, professor, romance languages their circumstances, was heartwarming. • March 10, TBA Since that forum, I have been recruited Tualatin Public Library, Tualatin to be a Human Rights Advocate for Latina Fighting and Sailing Women women, and I look forward to doing what in Folk Songs and History I can to help raise their voices and protect Dianne Dugaw, professor, English their rights. I am appreciative that Road • April 26, 1:30 p.m. Scholars gave me the opportunity to connect River Road Park and Recreation with this community and begin to identify District, 1400 Lake Dr., Eugene our common ground as feminists along with Check our website, http://csws.uoregon. our appreciation for Mexican culture and edu/roadscholars/index.shtml, for more history. information. 12 author’s note Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You Stories by Laurie Lynn Drummond, Harper Collins, 2004 n her debut collection, Laurie Lynn Drum- abuse; I think for female officers those kinds of Imond, a UO assistant professor of creative calls resound more deeply than for male officers. writing, mines her eight years in law enforce- The biggest challenge in writing the book was ment to tell the stories of five female police putting myself back into that world of police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In prose as work—it brought up a lot of memories and trauma. unflinching and nuanced as the job itself, each I have been gratified by how many officers— woman’s story varies in its singular drama, but both male and female—have told me, ‘You got the tales illuminate the tenuous line between it right’ after they read my book. Many female life and death, violence and control, despair officers have commented in particular about the and salvation. bruise on the hip.” “I was conscious of wanting to write as realis- The following excerpt is from “Absolutes,” tically about what it was like to be a cop, day-in the first story in Anything You Say Can and Will and day-out, the small details as well as the be Used Against You: “Every night when I go larger aspects, but particularly what it’s like to be home after shift, I run my hands lightly over my a female cop,” says Drummond. “I didn’t want to body as I undress. The tips of my fingers catch romanticize the profession—I wanted to portray the new scratches on my hands and arms, tiny what I know to be true: cops are human beings red vines, an unreadable map. The burn from the with their own weaknesses and strengths doing teeth of the cuffs, I remember it catching my skin a terribly difficult job. My book was, in part, a only now; the new welt on my side, unexplain- response to the horrific stereotypes of female able; the constant, steady bruise on the hip-bone officers that I see in TV, film and books. Interest- where my gun caresses the skin a deeper purple ingly, only after I’d finished the book did I realize day after day; the red mark, raised and uneven that many of the stories deal with domestic and mysterious on the back of my knee.”

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