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 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 […]
The CSW Black Feminism Initiative (BFI) has established two fellowships to support intellectual work that centers black feminist frameworks of analysis: The Alisa Bierria Graduate Fellowship in Black Feminist Research and […]
New publications now available on eScholarship. The UCLA Center for the Study of Women is proud to announce the publication of the Gender and Everyday Water Use in Los Angeles […]
By Allison Fisher Iron is an essential nutrient required by all cells in the body and is particularly important during pregnancy for development of the fetus and placenta as well […]
By Shaina Goel Emulsifying seemingly disparate concepts excites me- like the exhausted metaphor of oil and water but extended into the immaterial where lines are more difficult to draw. My […]
