Recent csw_thinkinggender items

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

[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

“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

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...

Duplicitous Double Binds: The Search for Womanhood in Zimbabwe.

Tue, 14 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0000

My analysis seeks to elaborate on how religion, which came with colonialism, has been institutionalized, making the emancipation of women seem to focus on incremental gains within the existing framework of gender relations. In other words the talk-shop of women’s emancipation in the country is only a way to ease burdens within existing frames of gender relations rather than truly challenging the sexual division of labor on which this framework rests (Seidman, 1984, Bourdillon, 1972). Take for instance the education and income generating programs which are important for improving women’s economic positions. The approaches may alter the lives of women, but neither approach has changed the existing inequalities. Within the auspices of Christianity polygamy still exists, and cases of widows left penniless by their husbands’ families who under customary law inherit all property are still very rampant.

Gendered Public Spaces: Examining Cities Within the Nature-Culture Dichotomy

Tue, 27 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Examining the evolution of essentialist claims about women and anti-essentialist responses reveals how feminist theory can off er scholars new perspectives. In this paper I extend Sherry Ortner’s universalist analysis of women’s subordination by applying her nature-culture dichotomy to urban planning and taking a fresh look at public space. First, I off er a brief review of her argument in Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture?, and her conceptualization of nature versus culture. Second, I use examples from public space to illustrate applications of the nature-culture dichotomy, demonstrating both the physical dominance of culture over nature in public space, and the eff ect on women’s subordination in cities. Next, I discuss Ortner’s concept of intermediacy, and walk through a series of examples demonstrating middle, mediating, and ambiguous intermediacy. Finally, I call for using feminist theory to take urban planning, as a field and a practice, beyond the nature-culture...

Grounds of Identity: The Performance of Gender and Race in Adrian Piper's Mythic Being Posters

Wed, 21 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Grounds of Identity: The Performance of Gender and Race in Adrian Piper's Mythic Being Posters

The Ambivalence of Pleasure in the Saadat Hasan Manto’s “Whore/Horror” Stories

Wed, 21 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The Ambivalence of Pleasure in the Saadat Hasan Manto’s “Whore/Horror” Stories

Pictures, posters, and poses: Female artists and resistance

Tue, 20 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Pictures, posters, and poses: Female artists and resistance

Pleasure and the New Domesticity

Tue, 20 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Pleasure and the New Domesticity

AN(OTHER) MARISA MERZ: AN ALTERNATIVE INTERPRETATION TO THE ‘FEMINIZED’ ARTWORKS OF ARTE POVERA ARTIST MARISA MERZ

Tue, 20 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000

AN(OTHER) MARISA MERZ: AN ALTERNATIVE INTERPRETATION TO THE ‘FEMINIZED’ ARTWORKS OF ARTE POVERA ARTIST MARISA MERZ

His, Hers, or Theirs: The Archaeology of Gendered Space in Hawaiian Houses

Tue, 20 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000

His, Hers, or Theirs: The Archaeology of Gendered Space in Hawaiian Houses

Who is Josie Packard? Joan Chen,Lucy Liu, and the uncommon sense of pleasure

Tue, 20 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Who is Josie Packard? Joan Chen,Lucy Liu, and the uncommon sense of pleasure

Rituals of Jouissance in Annie Ernaux’s L’Usage de la Photo

Tue, 20 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Rituals of Jouissance in Annie Ernaux’s L’Usage de la Photo

The Potency of Impotence: Political and Social Negotiation in Rochester’s “The Imperfect Enjoyment”

Tue, 20 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The Potency of Impotence: Political and Social Negotiation in Rochester’s “The Imperfect Enjoyment”

Flirty Fishing – Gender Ethics and the Jesus Revolution