Tillie Lerner Olsen, 1912-2007
On January 1, 2007, just two weeks before her 95th birthday, Tillie Lerner Olsen died in Oakland, California after years of failing health. Her short stories chronicled the lives of the working poor and […]
Archive for year: 2015
Humanizing the Sacred by Azza Basarudin
In Humanizing the Sacred: Sisters in Islam and the Struggle for Gender Justice in Malaysia (2016, University of Washington Press) Azza Basarudin explores the intersection of Islam, feminist activism, and […]
Lena Astin, cofounder of CSW and influential feminist scholar, has passed away
We are sad to report that Helen (Lena) S. Astin, cofounder of CSW and influential feminist scholar, passed away on October 27. She was a Distinguished Professor Emerita of Higher Education […]
Amanda Domingues is Coordinator for Thinking Gender 2016
Amanda Domingues is a second-year MA student in the Department of African Studies. Her current academic focus is on twentieth-century social and political movements of women in East Africa. More specifically […]
Catalyst’s first issue now online
Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, an online, juried journal that expands the feminist and critical intellectual legacies of science and technology studies into theory-intensive research, critique, and practice. Catalyst supports intersectional and transnational […]
CARE: Advocacy Office for Sexual and Gender-Based Violence and Misconduct.
To the Campus Community: All UCLA students, staff and faculty share the responsibility for creating a safe learning, working and residential environment. Sexual violence, including sexual assault, violates our campus […]
CSW Awards Luncheon 2015
Back row, from left to right, Karna Wong, Nina Flores, Preeti Sharma, Jessica Lynne Harris, and Naazneen Diwan; front row, from left to right, Merima Tricic, Adella Gorgen, Rosie Vartyter Aroush, Jasmine Phillips, and Tira Okamoto. Not pictured: Cassia Roth, […]
Reproductive Health: Jessica Gipson
Jessica Gipson, Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, conducts research on maternal and child health, women’s empowerment, and sexual […]
