An African Leader: Graça Machel Fights for Women and Children
By Kathleen Sheldon I am writing a biography of Graça Simbine Machel, a prominent Mozambican woman who for decades has worked for women’s rights, education, and peace. My dilemma in […]
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A Series of Reflections on Rupture
By Kali Tambreé I step into the glass passage where air conditioning and air that is thick with wet heat converge. The Maryland Office of Vital Records is busy. The […]
Glimpses of Re-existence from a Cambodian Donji
By Lara K. Schubert When I visited the Buddhist Center to get permission to conduct interviews and participant observations, a female renunciant met me and ushered me to one of […]
“When the buses stop, you stop”: Women commuters and public transportation in Bengaluru city, India
by Jananie Kalyanaraman Transport and mobility systems in cities across India have been critiqued for their top-down approach, which overlooks the ways in which transport systems can impact gender relations […]
The Spirit of Revolution: One African American Woman’s Contribution to Abolitionism and Proto-Black Feminism in 1830s Boston, Massachusetts
By Jaimie D. Crumley Imagine it is 1831 in Boston, Massachusetts. A twenty-eight-year-old orphaned, widowed, childless, freeborn African American woman named Maria W. Stewart appears on the public stage. Stewart […]
The Real Suburbs: Unpacking Distortions and Truths about America’s Suburbs
By Becky Nicolaides In recent weeks, suburbia has become the latest political football in our polarized political universe. In a Rose Garden address in mid-July, President Trump accused Democratic presidential […]
Supporting Research Parity: CSW Research Affiliates Program
By Kristine Ashton Gunnell, PhD Founded in September 1984, the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) fosters individual and collaborative research on gender, sexuality, and women’s issues across […]
A Personal Reflection on Doing Participatory Action Research in Transformative Justice
by Melanie Brazzell We managed to slip in the “Thinking Gender 2020” conference on transformative justice just before shelter-in-place orders came down in California. Since then, the pandemic has brought […]
Spotlight on CSW Research: Feminist Anti-Carceral Studies
Since 1984, the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) has been at the forefront of rethinking research that breaks down gender barriers and challenges gender inequality. CSW’s mission […]
Open Letter to Policy Makers and Public Health Officials
An Open Letter to Policy Makers and Public Health Officials on the Need to Prioritize Equity in Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Epidemic The following letter was written by Chandra […]
