{"id":24543,"date":"2016-08-17T10:55:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T17:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=24543"},"modified":"2019-07-31T12:57:34","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T19:57:34","slug":"memory-joan-acker-1924-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/memory-joan-acker-1924-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memory of Joan Acker: 1924 &#8211; 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Memorial Service: Saturday afternoon, Aug. 27, Gerlinger Lounge, UO campus<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>June 22, 2016\u2014<\/strong>CSWS received word of the passing of feminist scholar Joan Acker, a leader of the original group that established a center to study women at the University of Oregon. Born in 1924, she joined the UO faculty in 1967 after earning her PhD in sociology at this institution.<\/p>\n<p>Her books include <em>Doing Comparable Worth: Gender, Class, and Pay Equity<\/em> (Temple University Press, 1988); <em>Class Questions: Feminist Answers<\/em> (Rowman &amp; Littlefield Publishers, 2006); and <em>Stretched Thin: Poor Families, Welfare Work, and Welfare Reform<\/em> (Cornell University Press, 2010), which she coauthored with Sandra Morgen and Jill Weigt.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1522\" style=\"width: 178px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/joan-acker%e2%80%94capturing-the-spirit-of-oregon\/acker-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1522\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1522\" class=\" wp-image-1522\" src=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/acker.gif\" alt=\"Joan Acker\" width=\"168\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1522\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joan Acker<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Joan Acker continued to be an activist and scholar well into her late-80s. She liked to talk about being a <a href=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/about\/part-of-radical-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">part of radical change<\/a> and seemed never reticent to state her mind. We invite you to send memories and tributes to be published on the CSWS website and in the <em>2016 CSWS Annual Review (<\/em>send to Annual Review managing editor Alice Evans at alicee@uoregon.edu). <a href=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/docs\/publications\/09_Annual_Rvw_Acker_INTERVIEW.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Interview with Joan Acker, <em>2009 CSWS Annual Review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Remembrances of Joan<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cThis is truly a great loss. Joan was a giant in CSWS, feminist sociology, and the UO. We will celebrate her life and memory in the fall when we all reconvene.\u201d \u2014 Michelle McKinley, incoming director, CSWS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cJoan is my model of how to age as an intellectual. She never stopped writing academic papers and continued to give lectures all over the world after retirement. She also was acutely perceptive about politics. I remember being at a dinner with her when people started criticizing Barak Obama for his actions in the Middle East, such as drone bombings. She said, \u2018Well, he is what we have so it is our responsibility to work with him.\u2019 She had a sense of social reality and her\/our place as activists within the world as it is and could be. She will be so missed.\u201d <em>\u2014 Julia Lesage, Co-editor and co-founder, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ejumpcut.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media<\/a>; Professor Emerita, English, University of Oregon.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cJoan WAS a giant in CSWS and one of our bench of colleagues who developed women&#8217;s studies and furthered women&#8217;s status throughout the UO community.\u201d <em>\u2014 Anne Laskaya, Associate Professor, English<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201cJoan was always out there doing what she could for women and never faltered. The work she and Sandra Morgen did on welfare reform was top notch. Joan\u2019s comments always made people sit up and take notice. And I enjoyed Joan\u2019s humor, she always made me laugh. She will be missed.\u201d\u2014Shirley Marc, former CSWS office coordinator<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From<em><a href=\"http:\/\/around.uoregon.edu\/content\/memorial-set-revolutionary-uo-sociology-professor-joan-acker?WT.mc_id=ato7-19-16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Around the O<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memorial Service: Saturday afternoon, Aug. 27, Gerlinger Lounge, UO campus June 22, 2016\u2014CSWS received word of the passing of feminist scholar Joan Acker, a leader of the original group that established a center to study women at the University of&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/memory-joan-acker-1924-2016\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,17],"tags":[56,168,158],"class_list":["post-24543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-faculty-affiliates","tag-csws","tag-joan-acker","tag-uo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24543"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30836,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24543\/revisions\/30836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}