Book Review by Hannah Carlan In her award winning book, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (2019), sociologist Sabrina Strings presents a meticulously researched history of […]
The Center for the Study of Women (CSW) is accepting applications for a 25% Graduate Student Researcher (GSR) for Winter 2021 and Spring 2021. In Winter 2021, the GSR’s main […]
By Elizabeth Dayton In May of 2019, current and former sex workers gathered among peers, friends, and allies for the biennial Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival in San Francisco. […]
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 […]
By Sarah Alkhaifi-Gonzalez. RN. WHNP. PhDc. Since 2007, I have been working as a nurse and women’s health nurse practitioner in Saudi Arabia and the United States. This experience has […]
By Lia Cohen Although women make up almost half of the workforce, they make significantly less money than their male counterparts in nearly all fields. Research suggests that more than […]
The Center for the Study of Women is thrilled to welcome Dr. Jessica Cattelino as the new CSW Associate Director and Dr. Lieba Faier as the new CSW Advisory Committee […]
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 […]
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 […]
Celebrate the New Academic Year UCLA Center for the Study of Women and the Department of Gender Studies Welcome to academic year 2020-2021! More than six […]
