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The Cost of Beauty: The Economics of Plastic Surgery in South Korea
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by Taylor Babaian
I was forty years old when I decided to…
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After the huaico: meeting Aida Gamarra Sánchez
Above: The open pit mine in Cerro de Pasco. Central Andes, Peru.…
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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…
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Music, Masculinity, and Melancholic Mania: Performing Nationalism in Post-Socialist China
by Melanie Xu
Introduction
June 2010: The day is getting darker…
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What’s in a Name?: An Examination of Historians’ Reluctance to Use the Word Slavery in the Context of California Indian Genocide
By Stephanie Lumsden
The mission system in southern…
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Women’s Experiences With Endocrine Therapy
by Emma Bright
More than 3.1 million women with a history…
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Portraying Migrant Lives in Film
Above: Brandenburger Tor, a border crossing in Berlin that was…
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Resisting the Violence of Ideology
By Rocío R. García, PhD Candidate, UCLA Sociology
A woman…
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Why Disability Studies for Archives?
By Gracen Brilmyer
This question is one that I think about…
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The Emotional Impact of Archival Representation
By Michelle Caswell, Associate Professor, Information Studies
How…