UCLA Center for the Study of Women

In “Border-Crossings between Eastand West Europe,” Renata Redford, adoctoral student in the Departmentof Italian who received the CSWJean Stone Dissertation Fellowshipin 2014, writes about how “borders,often understood as imaginary constructs,are inherently problematicand evolving sites from which toreframe thinking about belonging,”She also addresses current discoursesregarding the feminization of migrationand some writers whose workreveals a “private history of the EastEuropean female body in Italian.”