Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) is an interdisciplinary department that offers two majors: Women’s Studies (WS) & Sexuality, Gender and Queer Studies (SGQS), both of which offer students a combination of knowledge, skills, and experience that uniquely positions them for a range of careers and societal contributions more broadly.
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Submissions from 2024

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Engaging Antiracist and Decolonial Praxis to Advance Equity in Oregon Public Health Surveillance Practices, Ryan J. Petteway, Daniel López-Cevallos, Mira Mohsini, Andres Lopez, Roberta S. Hunte, Tim Holbert, and Kusuma Madamala

Annual Walk of the Heroines Lecture: "Dreaming Disability Justice in a Time of Genocide, Organizing and Hope", Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

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Eviction in Oregon's Subsidized Affordable Housing, Yi Wang, Lisa Bates, Azad Amir-Ghassemi, Minji Cho, Marisa Zapata, Jacen Greene, Colleen Carroll, and Devin MacArthur

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Toward Queer Potentialities in Child and Youth Care, Bobbi Ali Zaman and Ben Anderson-Nathe

Submissions from 2023

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Instapoetry in the Age of AI: Why E-Lit’s Artisinal Interfaces Matter, Kathi Inman Berens

Book Review: "Not All Supermen: Sexism, Toxic Masculinity, and the Complex History of Superheroes" By Tim Hanley, Sri Craven

Freedom Girls: Voicing Femininity in 1960s British Pop, Sarah Dougher

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Gender Violence Or Tradition?: Media Coverage Of Child/Forced Marriage In US Newspapers, Manjusha Gupte and Sundari Anitha

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Re-imagining Mandatory Reporting: Professionalization's Complicity, Sam Harrell and Stephanie Wahab

Failed Mothers, Risky Children: Carceral Protectionism and the Social Work Gaze, Sandra M. Leotti, Jennifer S. Muthanna, and Ben Anderson-Nathe

Submissions from 2022

Identity (Politics): Anthologizing Indian Literature in the Diaspora, Sri Craven

Worlding Queer, Sri Craven

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Care Ethics, Bruno Latour, and the Anthropocene, Michael Flower and Maurice Hamington

Harassment of Low-Income Women on Transit: A Photovoice Project in Oregon and Utah, Ivis Garcia, Miriam Albelson, Nicholas M. Puczkowskyj, Sadika Maheruma Khan, and Kevin Fagundo-Ojeda

Magnifying Inequality: How Black Women Found Safety in the Midst of Dual Pandemics, Taylor A. Geyton, Matthew Town, Roberta Hunte, and Nia Johnson

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Situated Agency: How LGBTQ Youth Navigate and Create Queer(ed) Space, Anita R. Gooding, Bobbi Ali Zaman, Sam J. Harrell, Sam Collins, Miriam J. Abelson, and Ben Anderson-Nathe

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Feminist Care Ethics Confronts Mainstream Philosophy, Maurice Hamington and Maggie FitzGerald

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Mini Series on Sexual & Reproductive Health, Season 3 Episode 1 (Audio File), Roberta Hunte, Kim Heller, Mariotta Gary-Smith, and Ngozi Olemgbe

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Care Ethics, Religion, and Spiritual Traditions, Inge van Nistelrooij, Maureen Sander-Staudt, and Maurice Hamington

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The Oxford Handbook of Jane Addams, Patricia Shields, Maurice Hamington, and Joseph Soeters

How Neanderthals Became White: the Introgression of Race into Contemporary Human Evolutionary Genetics*, Lisa H. Weasel

Submissions from 2021

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Who We Are: Focus On… Student Identity, Yarina Aguilar Becerra, Cecilia Diojuan, Jasmine Walker, Neera Malhotra, David Peterson del Mar, and Vicki Reitenauer

Queering "The Children's Movement" A Sideways Look at Political Infantilization in the (post-)2014 Global Imaginary of Hong Kong Protesters, Kai Hang Cheang

Clean and Green, Sri Craven

Mapping South Asian Queer Studies, Sri Craven

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Representation Justice As a Research Agenda for Socio-Hydrology and Water Governance, Melissa Haeffner, Dana E. Hellman, Alida Cantor, Idowu Ajibade, Vinka Oyanedel-Craver, Maura Kelly, Laura Schifman, and Lisa Weasel

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Book Review of, Emotions and Care: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Maurice Hamington

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“Black Nurses in the Home is Working”: Advocacy, Naming, and Processing Racism to Improve Black Maternal and Infant Health, Roberta Hunte, Susanne Klawetter, and Sherly Paul

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Colonial Necrocapitalism, State Secrecy, and the Palestinian Freedom Tunnel, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian and Stephanie Wahab

Submissions from 2020

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Portland State University: General Education and Equitable Assessment, Rowanna L. Carpenter, Vicki Reitenauer, and Aimee Shattuck

Asian American Sociality after the Anti-Relational Turn in Queer Theory, Kai Hang Cheang

Karen Tei Yamashita: Fictions of Magic and Memory, Kai Hang Cheang

A Pedagogy of Community: Teaching Critical Social Theory, Sri Craven

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Voices on Gender and Social Change, Manjusha Gupte, Leni Zumas, Emily Fitzgibbons Shafer, Eric Mankowski, and Shirley A. Jackson

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Toxic Stress Among Black and African American Oregonians, Roberta Hunte and Margaret J.F. Braun

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Fostering Change, Transforming Learning: Pedagogical Approaches to Carceral Education, Vicki Reitenauer, Rhiannon M. Cates, and Benjamin J. Hall

Submissions from 2019

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Men in Place: Trans Masculinity, Race, and Sexuality in America, Miriam Abelson

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Cultivating Your Professional Identity: Supporting Faculty Professional Development across Rank and Discipline, Rowanna L. Carpenter, Annie Knepler, and Vicki Reitenauer

Intersectionality and Identity Critical Considerations in Teaching Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies, Sri Craven

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Performing Self, Performing Community, Performing Care: A Polyphony, Lindsay M. Goldman, Musonda Mwango, and Vicki Reitenauer

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Out of Time: Accomplices in Post-Carceral World-Building, Benjamin J. Hall, Rhiannon M. Cates, and Vicki L. Reitenauer

"The Group", Vicki Reitenauer

Accomplices in Post-Carceral World-Building: Higher Education and Correctional Partnerships, Vicki Reitenauer, Rhiannon M. Cates, Benjamin James Hall, and James Hanley

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'A Practice of Freedom': Self-Grading for Liberatory Learning, Vicki L. Reitenauer

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Cultivating Moral Imagination through Deliberative Pedagogy: Reframing Immigration Deliberation for Student Engagement Across Differences. A Response to "Deliberating Public Policy Issues with Adolescents: Classroom Dynamics and Sociocultural Considerations", Lisa Weasel

Submissions from 2018

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Capstone Assessment as Faculty Development, Rowanna L. Carpenter, Seanna M. Kerrigan, and Vicki Reitenauer

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‘Locations of Possibility’: Critical Perspectives on Partnership, Rhiannon M. Cates, Mariah R. Madigan, and Vicki Reitenauer

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Book Review: Surrogacy: A Human Rights Violation, Sri Craven

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"Diversity," Anti-Racism, and Decolonizing Service Learning in the Capstone Experience, W. Tracy Dillon, Judy BlueHorse Skelton, and Vicki Reitenauer

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“You Can Show a Person Better Than You Can Tell ‘em”: Black Tradeswomen Mitigate Racial and Gender Microaggressions in Construction, Roberta Hunte

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From Mentor to Faculty: Reflections on the Praxis of Care, Roberta Hunte and Joseph Wightman

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Assessment as Critical Programmatic Reflection, Vicki Reitenauer and Rowanna L. Carpenter

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Metamorphosis Inside and Out: Transformative Learning at Portland State University, Vicki Reitenauer, Katherine Elaine Draper-Beard, and Noah Schultz

Submissions from 2017

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Challenging Queer as “Neoliberal”: the Radical Politics of South Asian Diasporic Lesbian Representational Culture, Sri Craven

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On Claiming an Education as Transformative Learning, Celine Fitzmaurice and Vicki L. Reitenauer

Integrating Care Ethics and Design Thinking, Maurice Hamington

Transmobilities: Mobility, Harassment, and Violence Experienced by Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Public Transit Riders, Amy Lubitow, JaDee Carathers, Maura Kelly, and Miriam Abelson

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A Careful Poetics: Caring Imagination, Caring Habits, and Haiku, Ce Rosenow and Maurice Hamington

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From Deliberative Democracy to Communicative Democracy in the Classroom. A Response to “Education for Deliberative Democracy”, Lisa Weasel

Submissions from 2016

Black Women and Race and Gender Tensions in the Trades, Roberta Hunte

Submissions from 2015

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To This Day: College Graduates on the Lasting Significance of Relationality and Experiential Learning, Ann Fullerton and Vicki L. Reitenauer

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A Grateful Recollecting: A Qualitative Study of the Long-Term Impact of Service-Learning on Graduates, Ann Fullerton, Vicki L. Reitenauer, and Seanna Kerrigan

Performing Care Ethics: Empathy, Acting, and Embodied Learning, Maurice Hamington

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Black Women and Race and Gender Tensions in the Trades, Roberta Hunte

Lesbian Blood Drives as Community-Building Activism in the 1980s, Beth Hutchison

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Enacting True Partnerships within Community-Based Learning: Faculty and Community Partners Reflect on the Challenges of Engagement, Seanna Kerrigan, Vicki L. Reitenauer, and Nora Arevalo-Meier

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“Contagious Co-Motion”: Student Voices on Being Change Agents, Vicki L. Reitenauer, Tetiana Korzun, Kimberly Lane, and Melinda Joy Roberts

Submissions from 2013

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"People Don't Attack You If You Dress Fancy": Consuming Femininity in Contemporary China, Sally McWilliams

Submissions from 2011

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Caring, Journalism, and the Power of Particularism, Maurice Hamington

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Liberté, Égalité, Sororité: How Care Ethics Informs Social Justice, Maurice Hamington

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The Obvious Invisibility of the Relationship between Technology and Social Values, Jamie P. Ross

Submissions from 2010

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Toward a Theory of Feminist Hospitality, Maurice Hamington

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Interdisciplinary: Feminist Teaching, Research and Activism, Jamie P. Ross

Submissions from 2009

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In Their Own Voices: Assessing Student Learning Through Analysis of Reflective Writing, Patti Haack, Seanna Kerrigan, and Vicki L. Reitenauer

Submissions from 2008

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Lessons from the Color of Fear, Jamie P. Ross

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What do Bras have to do with Puberty? Educating boys about girls bodies, Jamie P. Ross

Submissions from 2007

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Necessary Preconditions for Deliberative Environmental Democracy? Challenging the Modernity Bias of Current Theory, Manjusha Gupte and Robert V. Bartlett

Submissions from 2004

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Participation in a Gendered Environment: The Case of Community Forestry in India, Manjusha Gupte

Submissions from 2001

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Philosophy in the Wilderness, Jamie P. Ross

Submissions from 1998

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Home Movies, Vicki L. Reitenauer