Politics & Society

Winter 2024 Viewpoints

Five Faculty Members on the Women Who Move Them

The Center for the Study of Women in Society supports inspiring faculty members. But who inspires them?

gathering of faculty ca 1983
Winter 2024

How a Group of Visionaries Forged a Feminist Future

The Center for the Study of Women in Society is celebrating fifty years of research on issues tied to gender—and setting its sights on the decades to come

Illustration of Dr. Marie Equi working Oregon homestead
Winter 2024

She Risked Everything for Women, Workers, and Justice

Defying women’s roles of her time, Marie Equi was a frontier doctor who fought for causes still at issue today

Summer 2023

Religious Scholar Courts Controversy with “Creating the Qur’an”

Stephen Shoemaker challenges claims adopted by Muslims and non-Muslims alike

Summer 2023

Fighting Hunger from the Willamette Valley

Food law expert Michael Fakhri addresses issues, starting with seeds and rising to corporate practices

Spring 2023

Lifting “Chicas” into College

Her experience and ideas make alumna Itzel Chávez Gómez the bridge to higher ed for Latinas in Oregon