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Mazie Giustina, enabling "ongoing research that linked theoretical, substantive, and policy concerns about women, work, families, economic restructuring, social policy, politics, and the law." Research interest groups that CSWS established during the 1990s included initiatives in feminist humanities, "wired" humanities, and women's health and aging. By 2009, funding from CSWS for faculty and graduate research in more than 20 departments had totaled more than US$ 2 million.
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In the 1990s, in addition to direct support of interdisciplinary research and the Center's own research initiatives, CSWS sponsored forums to share ideas and research among scholars. One of the Center's 1992 research initiatives, Women in the Northwest, benefitted from a 1997 gift of US$ 100,000 from
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The mission of the Center was expanded in 1983 "to reflect its broader mission to generate, support, and disseminate research on women" and it was renamed the Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS). The bequest made possible annual awards totaling US$ 100,000 "to support research by faculty
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magazine. Kemp wrote a note of inquiry to Harris, and met with him in New York. Harris was interested in establishing an endowment to honor his wife, and by 1975 he met twice with President Clark in New York, and visited in Eugene, meeting over dinner with faculty Joan Acker, Miriam Johnson, Marilyn
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supported Acker and other faculty in founding the Center for the Sociological Study of Women; its initial budget was approved for three years, amounting to US$ 5,244 annually, and was "woefully underfunded" for its first decade. Acker became its first director. Acker remembered an early research
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With the Harris-Grant bequest, the research focus of CSWS shifted from sociological research to multidisciplinary research on women. CSWS sponsored research on women in the sciences, humanities, and law. By the late 1980s, CSWS had cooperative projects with the art museum, the women's studies
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of all kinds at the University to push for greater change in the decade to come", and led to a proposal for an interdisciplinary women's studies center at the University. The Graduate School required the interdisciplinary proposal to be approved by all departments in the
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Farwell, and Richard Hill. In 1976, Harris donated Jane Grant's papers to the University, and Kemp went to New York to pack 28 cartons to ship to Eugene. Harris indicated that he was interested in making a
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and creativity. Established in 1973, it is a non-profit partnership between the Associated Students of the University of Oregon Women's Center and the University. According to the
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curriculum, and the campus library's special collections. With the UO development fund, CSWS also established grants for women of color and graduate students studying women.
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A 1970 study, "The Status of Women at the University of Oregon", reported that women represented only 10.5% of full-time, 9-month teaching faculty. According to
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Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship, a US$ 3,000 award supporting travel for "research on, and work with, the papers of feminist science fiction authors".
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related to women's roles in society as leaders, writers, and artists. He became interested in the papers of a feminist and writer, the late
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Cheris Kramarae, CSWS director in the late 1980s, cited a wide variety of work that the Center contributed to during that period :
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At that time, a small Women's Research and Study Center was funded by a research grant from the Office of Scholarly Research in the
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A member of the National Council for Research on Women, CSWS is one of the oldest women's research centers in the United States.
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During that same period, the university's Acquisitions Librarian Edward Kemp had been acquiring
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in 1972, when it was required of institutions accepting US$ 50,000 or more in federal aid.
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For Love of a Feminist: Jane Grant, William Harris, and the "Fund for the Study of Women"
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and graduate students", as well as "visiting scholars, conferences and course planning".
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Anonymous in Their Own Names: Doris E. Fleischman, Ruth Hale, and Jane Grant
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Brenner, Alletta; Clark, Suzanne; Frank, David (August 24, 2006).
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plan. The plan was only developed, however, after the passage of
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Acker, Joan; Gray, Jane; Mitchell, Joyce (October 23, 1970).
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Index

University of Oregon
NGO
University of Oregon
feminist
activism
Joan Acker
affirmative action
Title IX
Graduate School
congress
feminists
College of Arts and Sciences
Sociology
Robert D. Clark
Miriam (Mimi) Johnson
manuscripts
Jane Grant
The New Yorker
Fortune
bequest
Le Guin
Portals
Feminism
Oregon
"Center for the Study of Women in Society at UO marks 40 years"
Archived
Patricia Yancey Martin
Handbook of Gender, Work and Organization
ISBN
978-1-119-99079-6

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