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Stretched Thin<\/em> is a finalist for the prestigious C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Sandra Morgen is vice provost for Graduate Studies\/associate dean of the UO Graduate School, professor of anthropology, and former director of CSWS. Joan Acker is professor emerita of the UO Department of Sociology and the first director of CSWS. UO graduate Jill Weigt is associate professor of sociology at California State University-San Marcos. This book is based on a three-year, multi-method study of welfare restructuring in Oregon. Stretched Thin<\/em> gives an \u201con the ground\u201d account of doing welfare reform from the perspectives of clients, agency workers, and administrators. The authors assess the outcomes and suggest new policies to deal with poverty and economic disparities. The study, a project of the CSWS Women in the Northwest Research Initiative, was partially funded by CSWS, with other funds from the Oregon Department of Human Resources. Publisher\u2019s Synopsis<\/p>\n Alisa Freedman is an assistant professor of Japanese Literature and Film in the UO Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures and a faculty affiliate with the Center for the Study of Women in Society.<\/p>\n Publisher\u2019s Synopsis<\/p>\n Cecilia Enjuto Rangel is an assistant professor of Spanish, UO Department of Romance Languages. She is also a CSWS faculty affiliate and CSWS Women of Color Project affiliate.<\/p>\n Publisher\u2019s Synopsis<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Shari M. Huhndorf is a professor in the UO departments of Ethnic Studies and Women\u2019s and Gender Studies. CSWS awarded Huhndorf a 2010 Faculty Research Grant for her research on Native American women.<\/p>\n Publisher\u2019s Synopsis<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jocelyn A. Hollander is an associate professor, UO Department of Sociology, and a CSWS faculty affiliate.<\/p>\n Publisher\u2019s Synopsis<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Priscilla Pe\u00f1a Ovalle is an assistant professor of film and media studies at UO and a CSWS faculty affiliate.<\/p>\n Publisher\u2019s Synopsis<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Daniel HoSang is an assistant professor, UO departments of Ethnic Studies and Political Science. He received faculty grant support for his research project \u201cReproductive Justice at the Ballot: Origins, Trends and Future Developments\u201d in 2009 from the Center for the Study of Women in Society. HoSang is a CSWS faculty affiliate.<\/p>\n Publisher\u2019s Synopsis<\/a><\/p>\n Helen Southworth is an associate professor of literature in the UO Robert D. Clark Honors College and a CSWS Faculty Affiliate.<\/p>\n Publisher\u2019s Synopsis<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Publisher\u2019s Synopsis<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/stretchedthin.gif\" "\\"stretchedthin\\"")
<\/a>Stretched Thin: Poor Families, Welfare Work, and Welfare Reform<\/strong><\/em>
\nby Sandra Morgen, Joan Acker, and Jill Weigt
\nCornell University Press (December 2010, 256 pages)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Tokyo-in-Transit.jpg\" "\\"Tokyo"){kind=spacer}
<\/a>Tokyo in Transit: Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road<\/strong><\/em>
\nby Alisa Freedman
\nStanford University Press
\n(2010)
\n352 pages<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Cities-in-Ruins.jpg\" "\\"Cities")
Cities in Ruins: The Politics of Modern Poetics<\/strong><\/em>
\nby Cecilia Enjuto Rangel
\nPurdue University Press
\n(November 2010)
\n320 pages<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Huhndorff-ind-wom-cover-200x300.gif\" "\\"Huhndorff-ind-wom-cover\\"")
Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture<\/strong><\/em>
\nedited by Cheryl Suzack, Shari M. Huhndorf, Jeanne Perreault, and Jean Barman
\nUniversity of British Columbia Press
\n(November 2010)
\n344 pages<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Hollander-book-cover-200x300.jpg\" "\\"Hollander-book-cover\\"")
<\/a>Gendered Situations, Gendered Selves: A Gender Lens on Social Psychology<\/strong><\/em>
\nSecond Edition, Series: Gender Lens Series
\nby Jocelyn A. Hollander, Daniel G. Renfrow, and Judith A. Howard
\nRowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
\n(December 2010)
\n286 pages<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Ovalle-book-199x300.jpg\" "\\"Ovalle")
<\/a>Dance and the Hollywood Latina: Race, Sex, and Stardom<\/strong><\/em>
\nby Priscilla Pe\u00f1a Ovalle
\nRutgers University Press
\n(November 2010)
\n208 pages<\/p>\n![\"HoSang](\"http:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/image001-205x300.jpg\" "\\"image001\\"")
<\/a>Racial Propositions: Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California<\/strong><\/em>
\nby Daniel Martinez HoSang
\nUniversity of California Press
\n(October 2010)
\n392 pages<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Southworth-book.jpg\" "\\"Southworth")
Leonard and Virginia Woolf, the Hogarth Press and the Networks of Modernism<\/strong><\/em>
\nedited by Helen Southworth
\nEdinburgh University Press
\n(October 2010)
\n288 pages<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Zack-book.jpeg\" "\\"Zack")
<\/a>The Handy Philosophy Answer Book<\/strong><\/em>
\nby Naomi Zack
\nVisible Ink Press
\n(January 2010)
\n400 pages
\nNaomi Zack is a professor in the University of Oregon Department of Philosophy and a CSWS faculty affiliate.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Mondloch_cover-193x300.jpg\" "\\"Mondloch_cover\\"")
<\/a>Screens: Viewing Media Installation Art<\/strong><\/em>
\nby Kate Mondloch
\nElectronic Mediations Series, volume 30
\nUniversity of Minnesota Press
\n(2010)
\n208 pages
\nKate Mondloch is assistant professor of art history at UO and a CSWS faculty affiliate.<\/p>\n