Past Research Projects
2016–2021 The Chemical Entanglements research stream illuminated the way in which women have been enrolled, both as scientists and nonscientists, in chemical experiments since WWII, and sought to increase the chemical literacy of scholars in gender/sexuality studies.
2015–2018 “Feminism and the Senses” was a lecture series that addressed how social movements around gender, sexuality, and race have had a crucial relationship to sense data, sentimentality, and sensitivity—as in the accusation that women who speak out against injustices are just “too sensitive.”
Edible Feminisms: On Discard, Waste, and the Metabolisms
2017–2018 Edible Feminisms was a project in three parts:
- A special issue of the journal Food, Culture, and Society
- A private writing workshop for contributors to the special issue
- A public panel that brought together scholars and activists
Dishing: Food, Feminism, and the Way We Eat
2016–2017 The way that we eat is fundamentally tied to the way that we think about gender. Long-held stereotypes about food—from the notion that the kitchen is the domain of women, to the idea that eating red meat is manly—impact the food choices that people make and determine the way that families and organizations divide food-related labor.
2011–2015 The broad aim of the Life (Un)Ltd project was to bring together three groups of stakeholders, those interested in postcolonial and race studies, those doing feminist and queer theory, and those working in science and technology studies and in medical humanities to develop a broad-based inquiry.
Making Invisible Histories Visible
2014 Published in May of 2014, Making Invisible Histories Visible is a resource book that includes essays by project participants and summaries of the processed collections. Funding for the publication of the book came from the UCLA Library as part of their contribution to the project partnership, which included CSW and the June L. Mazer Archives.
Women’s Social Movement Activities in Los Angeles: 1960–1999
2012–2013 This major research project examined the history of women’s social movement activities in mid to late twentieth-century Los Angeles. The outcome of this research was a history of women’s social activism in Los Angeles during this period based not on an a priori definition of the Women’s Movement but on the history of activities by which women organized demands against discrimination and for access, equal opportunity, and equal representation.
