CSW Update Newsletter
Parent: UCLA Center for the Study of Women
eScholarship stats: Breakdown by Item for May through August, 2026
| Item | Title | Total requests | Download | View-only | %Dnld |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4w94v8kr | BeautifulAgony.com and the Representation of Pleasure | 3,462 | 55 | 3,407 | 1.6% |
| 2c78c0wh | The Real (Porn) World: The Politics and Aesthetics of the New Reality Porn | 871 | 503 | 368 | 57.7% |
| 0789b6jb | Occult Sex as a Conversational Resource | 397 | 108 | 289 | 27.2% |
| 0ds6g1hf | Name Law and Gender in Iceland | 334 | 69 | 265 | 20.7% |
| 0pz3k79s | Making the Cut: Female Editors and Representation in the Film and Media Industry | 328 | 56 | 272 | 17.1% |
| 9d0562cb | Transcending Masculinity | 322 | 46 | 276 | 14.3% |
| 4r7234d1 | Exploring Sexuality, Religiousity, and Desire in Colonial Mexico | 274 | 120 | 154 | 43.8% |
| 1gz83404 | Musawah Movement: Seeking Equality and Justice in Muslim Family Law | 244 | 10 | 234 | 4.1% |
| 5tw6h8nk | From Misogyny to Murder: Everyday Sexism and Femicide in a Cross-Cultural Context | 243 | 106 | 137 | 43.6% |
| 3pd5t9m6 | Liberating Hollywood: Thirty Years of Women Directors | 242 | 145 | 97 | 59.9% |
| 46v0c1m8 | "You Don't Want to Be in Love... You Want to Be in Love in a Movie": Romance and Postfeminism in Contemporary Film and Television | 234 | 38 | 196 | 16.2% |
| 3357r9nz | Television's Mature Women: A Changing Media Archetype: From Bewitched to the Sopranos | 226 | 58 | 168 | 25.7% |
| 0vw2z527 | Laura Aguilar: Clothed Unclothed | 221 | 36 | 185 | 16.3% |
| 0t48f24b | The B Word: Chasing Amy and the Bisexual (In)Visibility in Cinema and Media | 220 | 52 | 168 | 23.6% |
| 2938s693 | The Sexual Field: A New Theory for Classic Questions | 215 | 59 | 156 | 27.4% |
| 18p0x4r5 | Childbirth and Confinement: Mary Wollstonecraft and the Politics of Pregnancy | 197 | 87 | 110 | 44.2% |
| 4b82z948 | Girls' Education in Rural Pakistan: An Assessment of the Nonprofit Organization, Developments in Literacy | 185 | 24 | 161 | 13.0% |
| 1kg651b3 | Media Representations of Michelle Obama | 183 | 47 | 136 | 25.7% |
| 3tr4j5n7 | Close Relationships and Health: Studying the effects of marriage and relationship quality on health | 183 | 28 | 155 | 15.3% |
| 0df2c646 | The Gendering of Film and Television Casting | 181 | 76 | 105 | 42.0% |
| 1q5711vd | Male Heroism, Demonic Pigs, and Memories of Violence in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands | 181 | 67 | 114 | 37.0% |
| 3zf04168 | Patriarchy/Matriarchy versus Blood Quantum Cultural Significance as Evidenced in Hawaii Land Commission Grants | 177 | 33 | 144 | 18.6% |
| 3n2513x7 | Trashy Robots: Desire and Disposability in Patricia Yaeger’s “Luminous Trash: Throwaway Robots in Blade Runner, the Terminators, A.I., and Wall•E” | 168 | 42 | 126 | 25.0% |
| 4qh1s3pg | New Directions in Black Feminist Studies | 163 | 27 | 136 | 16.6% |
| 82h2t0fs | The Reality of the Researcher: Addressing Assumptions and Biases | 160 | 47 | 113 | 29.4% |
| 5wn7m9bz | Domesticating the Harem | 157 | 44 | 113 | 28.0% |
| 3rw866ww | Fragmented Bodies | 155 | 49 | 106 | 31.6% |
| 0358c5qj | Porn, Pedagogy, and the Passing of an Icon | 149 | 31 | 118 | 20.8% |
| 485681pr | Missing in Action: On Eastern European Women and Transnational Feminism | 148 | 39 | 109 | 26.4% |
| 3jw7t3vg | Hear the Voices: The Need for Personal Narratives in Holocaust Studies | 147 | 18 | 129 | 12.2% |
| 4gs5c0gm | Dieting: Does It Really Work? | 146 | 21 | 125 | 14.4% |
| 6w5863fx | Cinephilia as Post-traumatic Compulsion | 145 | 56 | 89 | 38.6% |
| 3sq8j8hp | Inflammation and Depression: Why Do Women have a Higher Risk for Depression than Men? | 143 | 37 | 106 | 25.9% |
| 6hh3v2zc | Special Issue on the NEH/Mazer Project | 143 | 29 | 114 | 20.3% |
| 8pr2x039 | Performative Metaphors: The “Doing” of Image by Women in Mariachi Music | 141 | 49 | 92 | 34.8% |
| 3fq686nf | Leader-Follower: Throwing Out Gender Rules in Taiwanese Salsa Today | 140 | 35 | 105 | 25.0% |
| 4jx713vz | Q & A with Stephanie Rothman | 138 | 45 | 93 | 32.6% |
| 7w18h2jx | Fifth Avenue's First Lady: Dorothy Shaver | 138 | 39 | 99 | 28.3% |
| 9hn7m56b | Of War and Love: In the Land of Blood and Honey, a Perspective | 137 | 45 | 92 | 32.8% |
| 5cq095sn | From Commodity to Donation: Breast Milk Banking in the United States, 1910 to the Present | 136 | 26 | 110 | 19.1% |
| 84j9s1v1 | Examining the Underrepresentation of Women in STEM Fields: Early Findings from the Field of Computer Science | 136 | 33 | 103 | 24.3% |
| 6j50v781 | Food as Exposure: Nutritional Epigenetics and the Molecular Politics of Eating | 131 | 33 | 98 | 25.2% |
| 6qq6j9mj | Moving From the Flesh: Feminist-Queer Thought and Action in LA Immigrant Rights Movements | 131 | 23 | 108 | 17.6% |
| 3r89c3cc | Lesbian Writers Series | 129 | 52 | 77 | 40.3% |
| 28602999 | Sacred Display: Divine and Magcal Female Figures of Eurasia | 128 | 50 | 78 | 39.1% |
| 9zr2m0m5 | Border-Crossings between East and West Europe | 126 | 30 | 96 | 23.8% |
| 836486b3 | Notes From the Field: Living Ethnography | 122 | 20 | 102 | 16.4% |
| 8jj1g9f7 | CSW Newsletter Fall, 2005 | 122 | 14 | 108 | 11.5% |
| 1dw1f4fn | Holy Mother of Chiri Mountain: A Female Mountain Spirit in Korea | 121 | 49 | 72 | 40.5% |
| 76f601jz | "A Most Sacred Duty": Women in the Antiremoval Movement, 1829-1838 | 121 | 30 | 91 | 24.8% |
Note: Due to the evolving nature of web traffic, the data presented here should be considered approximate and subject to revision. Learn more.