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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
CSW is proud to announce the publication of the 2019-2020 Policy Briefs: Confronting the Carceral State, Reimagining Justice. DOWNLOAD 2019-2020 POLICY BRIEFS The CSW Policy Brief Prize was created to […]
By Leor Perla Avramovich “Women & Women First” is the name of an indie, feminist bookstore in the now-ended sketch comedy show, Portlandia. Like most of the characters in the […]
