1,4-dioxane, Bioremediation, and Women’s Health
By Sophia Sidhu As an undergraduate student researcher for the UCLA Center for the Study of Women’s Chemical Entanglement group, I am currently conducting research on the presence of toxic […]
An Evening of Art, Health, and Thinking Gender
Art walk participants collaborated on haikus that explored the question “what do women need to be healthy?” This example was written by Jackie Curnick and Sheila Maingi. By Drew […]
Oral History and Community at the Daughters of Charity Foundation
by Kristine Ashton Gunnell Join CSW on May 10, 2018 for a research talk by Kristine Ashton Gunnell! Details and RSVP: Grantmaking for Systemic Change: Daughters of Charity, Seton Institute, […]
CSW Hiring Graduate Student Researcher for Anti-Sexual Violence Research
The Center for the Study of Women (CSW) is hiring a Graduate Student Researcher (GSR) to conduct research on scholarly, activist, and institutional responses to sexual violence. We are particularly […]
Women’s Portrayals of Friendship in Renaissance Italy
By Adriana Guarro Why Female Friendship? I spent the winter break of my first year of graduate school at UCLA in my father’s hometown in central Italy reading the […]
Sara Ahmed’s Feminism of Accretions
By Dandi Meng Writing a blog post about Sara Ahmed, who is herself a prolific and incisive blogger, feels like a distinct challenge. Ahmed has described some of the most […]
Lucid Noon, Sunset Blush: Femme Supremacy and the Politics of Wandering
By Elizabeth Dayton Contemporary portrayals of female sex workers in the mainstream cinema draw on archetypes of “the fallen woman” who could not overcome and had to turn to selling […]
On Being Indebted
by Tony Wei Ling “Concepts are at work in how we work, whatever it is that we do. We need to work out, sometimes, what these concepts are (what we […]
Reshaping the form and phenomenon of the pregnant body via prenatal dance fitness
by Johanna Kirk On online dance fitness videos: “Got baby booties on the brain but your own booty on the line?” asks Heidi Murkoff at the beginning of her prenatal […]
Introducing Thinking Gender Workshop Facilitator Zabie Yamasaki
In the age of the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements, perpetrators of sexual harassment and assault have been put on notice. Much of the recent conversations around sexual harassment and […]
