Recent csw items

Gendered Relationships with the Infrastructural Environment in Adana, Turkey

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Gendered Relationships with the Infrastructural Environment in Adana, Turkey

Release Elderly Lifers to Reduce Mass Incarceration

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Release Elderly Lifers to Reduce Mass Incarceration

The Ecology of Queer Kinship: Community Practices and Ecological Care among Chinese Migrant Queer Activists in London

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Ecology of Queer Kinship: Community Practices and Ecological Care among Chinese Migrant Queer Activists in London

Long-Term Incarcerated People Need Retirement Benefits

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Long-Term Incarcerated People Need Retirement Benefits

Unequal Punishment: Repealing Felony Murder Special Circumstances

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Unequal Punishment: Repealing Felony Murder Special Circumstances

Stop "Crimmigration!" Stop Southeast Asian Refugee Deportations!

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Stop "Crimmigration!" Stop Southeast Asian Refugee Deportations!

Ensuring Access to Rehabilitative Programs and Ending Discrimination Against People Serving Life Without Parole

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Ensuring Access to Rehabilitative Programs and Ending Discrimination Against People Serving Life Without Parole

Incarceration and Mental Wellness are Incommensurable—A Call to Decarcerate

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Incarceration and Mental Wellness are Incommensurable—A Call to Decarcerate

Protecting Maternal and Perinatal Healing Spaces: Proposing and Analyzing Global Support Methods that Increase the Wellbeing and Healing of Black Women and Birthing People

Mon, 4 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The World Health Organization has made Black communities the face of the maternal death narrative without consideration for their various cultural, ethnic, racial, and ancestral histories. There is not a one-size-fits-all support method that encompasses the various cultural, ethnic, racial, and ancestral histories of Black communities. So why do international organizations continue to write global guidance that is not contextualized to specific communities? Critiquing the 1987 Safe Motherhood Initiative and global guidance by the World Health Organization, global maternal health initiatives focus on the maternal death narrative rather than healing. Maternal and perinatal healing spaces are safe spaces where women and birthing people feel supported at all stages of their pregnancy; safe spaces that allow for healing from past birth trauma, ancestral healing, and healing from the global erasure of Black life, birth, and peace.

Birthing support people, like doulas, use holistic...

Maximizing Time, Maximizing Punishment: The Lived Experience of Long-Term Sentences in California Women’s Prisons

Mon, 4 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

“Maximizing Time, Maximizing Punishment: The Lived Experience of Long-Term Sentences in California Women’s Prisons” is based on the inaugural study of the University of California Sentencing Project (UCSP). In partnership with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP), the UCSP grew out of a demand by people incarcerated at the California Institution for Women (CIW) for research that examines the under-studied conditions and lived ramifications of long-term sentences. In December of 2019, the UCSP launched its first research effort with twenty-two collaborators who had served or faced a long-term sentence in California’s prisons designated for women.

Reimagining Care Work: Worker Centers in Transforming the Rights and Conditions of Domestic Care Workers in Germany and the United States

Fri, 25 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Worker Centers play a pivotal role in advocating for the rights and conditions of domestic care workers in both Germany and the United States. The thesis of this article contends that Worker Centers, along with care workers themselves, hold transformative potential in reshaping the conditions and rights of domestic care workers in both Germany and the United States. This article analyzes and discusses the work of Germany and U.S.-American Worker Centers with domestic care workers from Eastern European countries such as Poland and Romania in Germany to effect change in working and living conditions of domestic care workers in home care arrangements.

Interweaving Arab Queerness in Migratory Contexts: A Methodology of Bricolage

Thu, 11 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This research paper foregrounds a bricolage methodology based on autoethnographicwriting and analog collage technique to interweave Arab queerness in migratory contexts. By proceeding as such, the paper seeks to open a space for new modalities of crafting of knowledge; notably by bridging creative visual methodologies with critical theories. It also sketches problemspaces(Grossberg, 2010) of Arab queerness by discussing the different nodal points that shape it.

“You shouldn’t have to get that approved”: Journalists as research participants and feminist research methods interventions

Thu, 11 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

“You shouldn’t have to get that approved”: Journalists as research participants and feminist research methods interventions

Fri, 14 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

“You shouldn’t have to get that approved”: Journalists as research participants and feminist research methods interventions

Fieldworking While Black: On the Plantocratic Nature of Anthropology

Fri, 14 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Fieldworking While Black: On the Plantocratic Nature of Anthropology

“Becoming a Woman”: Interpretations of Sex and Gender in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex

Fri, 14 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

“Becoming a Woman”: Interpretations of Sex and Gender in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex

Assessing the Climate for Sexual Violence Prevention at the University of California, Los Angeles

Wed, 28 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Assessing the Climate for Sexual Violence Prevention at the University of California, Los Angeles

Bodies of Silence as Bodies of Evidence: Unpacking Intersectional Failure in South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)

Wed, 13 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Bodies of Silence as Bodies of Evidence: Unpacking Intersectional Failure in South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)

Infrastructure Gender Based Violence and Yaqui Refusal

Mon, 11 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Infrastructure Gender Based Violence and Yaqui Refusal

Carceral Care: Institutional Treatment of Injury in Relationship Violence

Mon, 11 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Carceral Care: Institutional Treatment of Injury in Relationship Violence

How Gender Expression Influences the Violence Faced by Lesbian Women

Mon, 11 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

How Gender Expression Influences the Violence Faced by Lesbian Women

Arab-Muslim Women’s Responses to Sexualized and Racialized Violence in France: Ni Putes Ni Soumises and the Mouvement des Indigènes de la République

Mon, 11 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Arab-Muslim Women’s Responses to Sexualized and Racialized Violence in France: Ni Putes Ni Soumises and the Mouvement des Indigènes de la République

Epistemology of The Moment of Truth

Fri, 8 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Epistemology of The Moment of Truth

Myths of Fifty-Fifty: Household Water Use & Gendered Divisions of Labor in Los Angeles

Thu, 12 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

This working paper series presents preliminary results from the Gender and Everyday Water Use in Los Angeles Study. Conducted by researchers at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women with the support of a Sustainable LA Grand Challenge Grant, this project investigates the important but understudied role of gender—as it intersects with race and class—in residential water use in Los Angeles. The goal of reducing residential water use requires nuanced understanding the ways that people use, think about, and value water. In the context of international development, policymakers and researchers understand that gender shapes water, especially because women and children are disproportionately responsible for procuring water. In the United States, feminist scholars long have found that divisions of labor and decision-making are often gendered. Putting together these two bodies of knowledge, along with the fact that women have led many American water struggles, from Standing Rock to Flint...

Gender and Intergenerational Knowledge in Los Angeles Immigrant Households

Thu, 12 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Portrait of a City at the End of the World: Los Angeles’s Discourses of Disaster

Thu, 12 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

“Are You A Waste-A-Roo?”: Kid Cops, Water Education, and Individual Responsibility in Porous Los Angeles Households

Thu, 12 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Conservation, Division of Labor, and the Low-Hanging Fruit of Chores: Tracking Los Angeles Household Water Usage Through Diary Keeping

Thu, 12 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

[De]Criminalization: Social Control, Agency, and Intersectionality in Auckland's Sex Industry

Tue, 14 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

[De]Criminalization: Social Control, Agency, and Intersectionality in Auckland's Sex Industry

Why Black and Brown Birds Can't Fly: The Impacts of the Trauma to Prison Pipeline on Queer and Transgender People of Color

Fri, 10 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Why Black and Brown Birds Can't Fly: The Impacts of the Trauma to Prison Pipeline on Queer and Transgender People of Color

Institutionally Complicit: Challenging Leadership Orthodoxies in Lorraine Hansberry’s Les Blancs

Fri, 10 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Institutionally Complicit: Challenging Leadership Orthodoxies in Lorraine Hansberry’s Les Blancs

Restorative Justice for Curbing Campus Sexual Assault

Thu, 21 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Restorative Justice for Curbing Campus Sexual Assault

Immigrant Female Farmworkers in California Need Greater Protection Against Sexual Harrasment

Thu, 21 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Immigrant Female Farmworkers in California Need Greater Protection Against Sexual Harrasment

Addressing the Epidemic of Sexual Assault in California's Immigrant Detention Centers

Thu, 21 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Addressing the Epidemic of Sexual Assault in California's Immigrant Detention Centers

“Where are all the women?”: Impaired Social Functioning Outcomes as Potential Case Detection Barriers for Women with Schizophrenia in Rural Ethiopia

Tue, 29 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

“Where are all the women?”: Impaired Social Functioning Outcomes as Potential Case Detection Barriers for Women with Schizophrenia in Rural Ethiopia

Implications of Lactation Room Accessibility on Mothers’ Breastfeeding at UCLA

Mon, 7 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Implications of Lactation Room Accessibility on Mothers’ Breastfeeding at UCLA

Blepharoplasty as Domestication of the Asian: Constructing Korean Identities by White Hands

Mon, 7 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Blepharoplasty as Domestication of the Asian: Constructing Korean Identities by White Hands

(Re)thinking Gender in SRHR Education: A Kenyan Example

Mon, 7 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

gender, education, keyna

The Future is Hypernormative: an analysis of bodymind representations in 23andMe’s commercials

Mon, 7 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

The Future is Hypernormative: an analysis of bodymind representations in 23andMe’s commercials

Involvement of Women and Mothers in the Modern Anti-Vaccination Movement of the United States

Mon, 7 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Involvement of Women and Mothers in the Modern Anti-Vaccination Movement of the United States

Searching for Stephanie: Negotiating Female Subjectivity in Justin Lin’s Masculinist Feature Film Better Luck Tomorrow

Mon, 30 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Searching for Stephanie: Negotiating Female Subjectivity in Justin Lin’s Masculinist Feature Film Better Luck Tomorrow

Genocide, Slavery, and Violence: Imagining Reparations in the Francophone Indian Ocean, 1715-1835

Mon, 30 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Genocide, Slavery, and Violence: Imagining Reparations in the Francophone Indian Ocean, 1715-1835

Women of Bronze: Memorialization as an alternative reparation for comfort women survivors

Tue, 23 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Women of Bronze: Memorialization as an alternative reparation for comfort women survivors

Till All Comes Back Home

Tue, 23 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Till All Comes Back Home

"Redifining Victimhood: Vicissitudes of Empowerment" Domestic Violence in South Asian Immigrant Communities

Tue, 23 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

"Redifining Victimhood: Vicissitudes of Empowerment" Domestic Violence in South Asian Immigrant Communities

Tracing a Settler-Colonial Grammar of Place in Detention, Captivity, and Confinement

Tue, 23 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Tracing a Settler-Colonial Grammar of Place in Detention, Captivity, and Confinement

Perspectives on Internalized Homophobia: Qualitative Research on Chinese LGBTQ Students in the U.S. and China and Their Romantic Relationships

Tue, 23 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Perspectives on Internalized Homophobia: Qualitative Research on Chinese LGBTQ Students in the U.S. and China and Their Romantic Relationships

The United States' Engagement with International Law: An Analysis of the Economic Complexities that Crystallized the Nation's Stance on Racial and Gender Rights

Tue, 23 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

The United States' Engagement with International Law: An Analysis of the Economic Complexities that Crystallized the Nation's Stance on Racial and Gender Rights

Creating Accessible Campuses Through Fragrance-Free Policies

Wed, 10 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Creating Accessible Campuses Through Fragrance-Free Policies

Limiting Exposure to Phthalates in Personal Care Products

Tue, 9 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Limiting Exposure to Phthalates in Personal Care Products

Promoting Safer Cosmetics through Comprehensive Legislation

Tue, 9 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Promoting Safer Cosmetics through Comprehensive Legislation

Reducing Everyday Exposure to Toxic Chemicals in Personal Care Products Can Improve Women's Health

Tue, 9 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Reducing Everyday Exposure to Toxic Chemicals in Personal Care Products Can Improve Women's Health

Gender Violence, Neoliberal Institutions, and Digital Activism in India

Tue, 25 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Gender Violence, Neoliberal Institutions, and Digital Activism in India

Gender Stereotypes and Education: A Multi-Country Content Analysis Study of Secondary School Textbooks

Tue, 25 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Gender Stereotypes and Education: A Multi-Country Content Analysis Study of Secondary School Textbooks

The Politics of Space in Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic: How the Austin Project Reattaches the Connection among Activism, Academia, and Community”

Mon, 1 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000

This paper reviews Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic: Art, Activism, Academia, and the Austin Project, a book edited by Dr. Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, Dr. Lisa L. Moore, and Sharon Bridgforth. The book discusses the connection among race, gender, academia, and community and how the Austin Project provides a safe space for women of color and their allies to create work within a jazz aesthetic in order to invoke social change. My paper discusses the disconnect between academia and community and how, for women of color, upward socioeconomic mobility often means severing themselves from their community. My paper analyzes what shape women of color’s activism takes and how the founders of The Austin Project effectively use spirituality to summon social change. It argues that in providing a safe, feminist space for women of color to air their emotions, grievances, and honest thoughts, The Austin Project is doing important, groundbreaking work, work that should eventually become the...

Abandonment to Virtuosity: The Growth of the Foundling System and Conservatories in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Venice

Mon, 12 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000

In 1743, Jean-Jacques Rousseau visited a hospice in Venice, called the Ospedale dei Mendicanti, to hear its all-girl choir perform a concert. He described the girls’ performance as “far superior to the Opera […] which has not its like in all Italy nor anywhere else perhaps.” What he heard was an anomaly, distinctive to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Italy, because, except for the occasional opera star, European society ordinarily looked down upon women performing music publicly. Nevertheless, the Mendicantiand other Venetian orphanages – henceforthospedali– grew into grand music conservatories for displaced girls. Visitors from around the continent came to theospedalito hear their performances. Like Rousseau, many scholars have also recognized the high-quality music of theospedali, but they emphasize the male composers and teachers such as Antonio Vivaldi, who taught violin at the Ospedale della Pietà in the eighteenth century. Research on theospedalistudents is lacking....

Honoring Transgender Women’s Narratives: a Postmodern Feminist Approach for Assessment and Engagement in HIV Services

Wed, 5 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000

: Transgender women are likely to engage in high rates of HIV risk taking behaviors such as sharing injection drug using equipment and having sex without condoms (Nemoto, Sausa, Operario, & Keatley, 2006). Because of these factors, transwomen have high rates of HIV-positivist serostatus. Furthermore, transgender woman have low levels of participation in HIV prevention, care, and treatment services which has been attributed to a lack of cultural competency within existing services (Senreich, 2011). Although transgender women have very different needs and lived experiences, they are often grouped together with lesbians, gays and bisexuals for purposes of research , and very few studies presented in top social work journals have focused specifically on the transgender experience (Scherrer & Woodford, 2013). Without improving both engagement strategies of HIV prevention providers as well as research methodology used to promote transwomen’s health, there is...

Female Resistance in 'The Legend of Sigh'

Wed, 5 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This poster analyzes female resistance in the film "the Legend og Sigh" (Tahmineh Milani, 1991).

Edith Wharton’s Novel as Historiographic Metafiction: Revealing the Postmodern Construction of Ellen Olenska in The Age of Innocence

Wed, 5 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Edith Wharton’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Age of Innocence (1920), has long been regarded as a pre-feminist and realist ‘novel of manners’ by academics. The immutable temporal and historical localization of postmodernism and feminism has excluded Wharton from the canon of postmodern feminism. This study attempts to modernize prevalent literary conventions by reclaiming Wharton as a postmodern and feminist author. It examines the manner in which Wharton constructs and represents cultures of femininity (specifically, that of Ellen Olenska) within regimes of discourse in the text. To this end, it draws upon postmodern scholarship: Jean Baudrillard’s theory of simulation and hyperreality, and Gilles Lipovetsky’s writings on aesthetics as a representational avenue for self-expression. In addition, the study references Katherine Joslin’s thesis on women’s dress in Wharton’s novels to present a textual interpretation of fashion materiality employed in the production...

Border-Crossings between East and West Europe