Thinking Gender Program
Thursday, April 7, 2016 11:30 am to 1 pm: Registration 1 to 1:30 pm: Poster Presentations Rebecca Nevarez, Anthropology, UCLA, Dance For Me: Drag Kings and Performative Sexuality Magali Campos, […]
Archive for month: March, 2016
CSW Awards 2016
We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2016 CSW awards. We also thank those who served on the awards committees: Virginia Coiner Classick, Dr. Constance Coiner’s sister; Laura Gomez, Professor in the […]
Workshops!
Workshops at this year’s Thinking Gender will feature: Intersection of Gender, Justice, and the Environment featuring Martha Dina Argüello, Executive Director, Physicians for Social Responsibility – Los Angeles At this workshop, […]
Women and Power in Postconflict Africa
“Change between gender regimes can be uneven. Thus, we have sometimes seen women gaining political power through quotas in legislatures, judiciaries, and government positions, with less change in other spheres […]
Spiritual Utopias: Researching Early Women’s Convents
by Alexandra Verini Considering the difficulties of constructing a history of medieval women, Jo Ann McNamara has asked, “Can we write a history for which there were no historians, from […]
Murder in Alexandria: The Gender, Sexual and Class Politics of Criminality in Egypt, 1914 – 1921
by Nefertiti Takla On November 15, 1920, an elderly man dug up the skeleton of a woman while renovating an apartment building in Alexandria, Egypt. This discovery led to an […]
Music and India’s Hijra Community
by Jeff Roy The hijras (Third Gender communities) of India were historically embraced for their roles as musical purveyors of heteroconjugality (see Waugh 2001:127). Spiritually valorized yet socially marginalized, hijras […]
Janet Napolitano on Sexual Harassment at UC
UCLA University Communications Dear Colleagues: Recent developments have roused concerns and questions regarding how incidents of sexual harassment and sexual violence are addressed at UC. I want to take this […]
Feminism + The Senses: Daphne Brooks
What is especially important to recognize in this pattern of sounded relations between the singer and her audience is how it demonstrates the extent to which Nina Simone’s live performances […]
