After the huaico: meeting Aida Gamarra Sánchez
Above: The open pit mine in Cerro de Pasco. Central Andes, Peru. August, 2018 by Barbara Galindo When I first saw the impressive images of the devastation caused by the flood […]
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More than a Feminine Face: Gendered Perceptions of Women in Male-Dominated Academic Fields
By Jessica Shropshire “Three things happen when women are in the lab: you fall in love with them, they fall in love with you, or they cry.” These widely publicized […]
Music, Masculinity, and Melancholic Mania: Performing Nationalism in Post-Socialist China
by Melanie Xu Introduction June 2010: The day is getting darker as dusk approaches. But the presence of the pop rock band, GALA—consisting of four Chinese young men born in […]
Undergraduate Student Worker Opportunity
UNDERGRADUATE FRONT OFFICE ASSISTANT STUDENT WORKER POSITION JOB DESCRIPTION The Center for the Study of Women (CSW) has an opening for one part-time student to be a front office assistant […]
Call for Graduate Student Researchers – 2018-2019 Academic Year
The UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) is hiring two 25% Graduate Student Researchers (GSR) for the 2018-19 academic year. Position includes graduate student fee remissions benefits. Possibility […]
Edible Feminisms: Notes from the Editorial Trenches
By Sarah Tracy and Rachel Vaughn “I want to remind y’all you’re in mixed company tonight,” Tiny (aka Lisa Gray-Garcia) declared to a full house of 142 students, faculty, activists, […]
Congratulations to the 2017-2018 CSW Policy Brief Prize Winners!
The CSW Policy Brief Prize was created to support and promote applied feminist scholarship by graduate students at UCLA. The 2017-2018 topic was Addressing Sexual Violence; Achieving Justice: Shelter, Intersectionality, and Sexual […]
Congratulations to the 2017-2018 CSW Tillie Olsen Research Affiliate Grant Recipients!
Funded by Dr. Pat Zukow and CSW supporters, CSW’s Tillie Olsen Research Affiliates Grants honor the memory of a writer who documented the silences imposed on women by family and […]
Congratulations to CSW’s 2018-2019 Faculty Research Grant Recipients!
The Center for the Study of Women offers Faculty Research Grants to UCLA faculty for research development, new project development that may lead to external funding opportunities through CSW, and project completion […]
Vietnamese Nail Salon Workers and Chronic Chemical Exposure
by Sophia Sidhu Going to the nail salon for a “mani-pedi” is an experience we typically associate with relaxation and luxury. The darker reality, however, is that for nail salon workers […]
