2026-05-03T15:51:39Zhttps://escholarship.org/oaioai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt82h2t0fs2015-07-23T11:13:02Zqt82h2t0fsThe Reality of the Researcher: Addressing Assumptions and BiasesAbrams, CarolynLuna, Ana G.2015-07-01Carolyn Abrams and Ana G. Luna received a CSW Travel Grant to give a conference presentation in 2014. Their article, “The Reality of the Researcher: Addressing Assumptions and Biases,” provides an overview of their work on researcher bias and provides some guidelines for best practices in avoiding bias in doing research on women. Both recently received Master’s degrees from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.researcherbiasresearchwomenpower hierarchyobjectivityfeminismapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/82h2t0fshttps://escholarship.org/content/qt82h2t0fs/qt82h2t0fs.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt9zr2m0m52015-07-23T11:11:10Zqt9zr2m0m5Border-Crossings between East and West EuropeRedford, Renata2015-07-01In “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.”application/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/9zr2m0m5https://escholarship.org/content/qt9zr2m0m5/qt9zr2m0m5.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt7jx8m9gb2015-07-23T11:10:55Zqt7jx8m9gbJudit Hersko’s Polar Art: Anthropogenic Climate Change in Antarctic OceanscapesBloom, Lisa2015-07-01Lisa Bloom, a CSW Research Scholar, presents some work from her current book project in “Judit Hersko’s Polar Art: Anthropogenic Climate Change in Antarctic Oceanscapes.” Bloom received a CSW Tillie Olsen Grant to support her research, which examines Hersko’s “Pages from the Book of the Unknown Explorer,” a project that addresses climate change and notions of heroic exploration by creating a fictional narrative of a woman polar explorer in 1930s.environmentalismclimate changeAnthropocenefeminist artJudit HerskoAntarcticoceanapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/7jx8m9gbhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt7jx8m9gb/qt7jx8m9gb.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt3vp4p8t52015-07-23T11:10:39Zqt3vp4p8t5Mixing Puppetry with Ethnography, part two: The ‘Fugitive’ Terms of Contemporary Indian DanceWilliams, Alessandra2015-07-01Alessandra Williams, a doctoral student in the Department of World Arts and Cultures, received a CSW Travel grant to support her research, which she presents in “Mixing Puppetry with Ethnography, part two: The ‘Fugitive’ Terms of Contemporary Indian Dance.” In the article, Williams writes about the work of Ananya Chatterjea, a choreographer who seeks to promote “a radical postmodern dance practice in which choreographers transcend cultural limitations by building solidarity with artists inquiring into the aesthetic forms of communities of color and the cultural activist research of their dancers.”puppetryethnographyindiandancecontemporarychoreographeractivist researchcommunities of colorfeminismwomenapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/3vp4p8t5https://escholarship.org/content/qt3vp4p8t5/qt3vp4p8t5.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt3sq8j8hp2015-07-23T11:10:25Zqt3sq8j8hpInflammation and Depression: Why Do Women have a Higher Risk for Depression than Men?Moieni, Mona2015-07-01In “Inflammation and Depression: Why Do Women have a Higher Risk for Depression than Men?,” Mona Moieni presents the results of a study using endotoxin. Moieni, who is a doctoral student the Department of Psychology and received the CSW Elizabeth Blackwell, MD, Award in 2015, reports the results: “First, we found that women showed greater increases in depressed mood in response to an inflammatory challenge. This may mean that women are more sensitive to the mood changes that may accompany an increase in inflammation.”inflammationdepressionendotoxinpsychologyfeminismwomensex differencedisconnectionlonelinessapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/3sq8j8hphttps://escholarship.org/content/qt3sq8j8hp/qt3sq8j8hp.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt530774s02015-06-24T12:10:42Zqt530774s0Director's MessageLee, Rachel C.2015-07-01This final issue of the 2014-2015 academic year presents a range of research supported by CSW.gender studiesfeminismresearchapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/530774s0https://escholarship.org/content/qt530774s0/qt530774s0.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt4fb7k2mw2015-03-24T12:08:39Zqt4fb7k2mwWomen Philosophers at the American Philosophical Association,”a personal account of the 111th Meeting of the Eastern DivisionBensick, Carol2015-04-01application/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/4fb7k2mwhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt4fb7k2mw/qt4fb7k2mw.pdfarticleCSW Update Newsletter, vol Spring, iss 2015oai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt6d24p2jz2015-03-24T12:05:31Zqt6d24p2jzWriting To Connect: Can Creating A Personal Website Improve Adjustment To Breast Cancer?Harris, Lauren2015-04-01application/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/6d24p2jzhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt6d24p2jz/qt6d24p2jz.pdfarticleCSW Update Newsletter, vol Spring, iss 2015oai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt4qp0978x2015-03-24T12:02:41Zqt4qp0978xInterrogating Japanese American Knowledge Production and Narratives of “Success”Yamashita, Wendi2015-04-01application/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/4qp0978xhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt4qp0978x/qt4qp0978x.pdfarticleCSW Update Newsletter, vol Spring, iss 2015oai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt7vj2c3b72015-03-24T11:59:35Zqt7vj2c3b7Thinking Gender 2015Liu, Chien-Ling2015-04-01application/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/7vj2c3b7https://escholarship.org/content/qt7vj2c3b7/qt7vj2c3b7.pdfarticleCSW Update Newsletter, vol Spring, iss 2015oai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt98m958xj2015-02-05T08:47:12Zqt98m958xjLessons from Disability and Gender Studies for the K-12 ClassroomAngelica, Muñoz2015-01-01THIS PAST SUMMER I WASfortunate to attend the Institutefor the Recruitment ofTeachers’ (IRT) summer workshopin Andover, Massachusetts. Mysummer was filled with challengesand motivation from the IRT as Iparticipated in a rigorous graduatepreparatory program with a groupof talented and passionate individualsdedicated to dismantlingeducational disparities and creatingan equitable society. My daysconsisted of graduate-like seminarsand facilitation on dense theory,which challenged me academicallyand personally. Furthermore,I received feedback from the IRTfaculty, which allowed me to reflecton my teaching methodology andpractices as a future educator.Engaging with challenging textnot only helped prepare my peersand me for the rigors of graduatestudy but served as a reminder toour motivations for pursuing highereducation.disability and educationk-12application/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/98m958xjhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt98m958xj/qt98m958xj.pdfarticleCSW Update, vol Winter, iss 2015oai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt6sd3m64b2015-02-05T08:46:53Zqt6sd3m64bMurdering Mothers: Infanticide, Madness, and the Law, Rio de Janeiro, 1890-1940Roth, Cassia2015-01-01In 1923, the Rio de Janeiro publicprosecutor charged twentyfive-year-old Portuguese immigrantMaria de Jesus for the crimesof both abortion and infanticide.1Maria stated that she had miscarrieda five-month-old fetus at the EuniceHotel where she worked as a maid.She then disposed of the cadaver bycutting off its head, flushing the bodydown the toilet, and throwing thehead into the backyard. The policeinvestigation found that Maria hadrecently given birth and that the childwas full term. The prosecutor pressedcharges despite the legal discrepanciesinherent in accusing Maria of bothabortion, which implied the expulsionof a dead fetus, and infanticide, whichrequired a live birth and then death.infanticideBrazilabortionRio de Janeiro1890-1940lawmotherhoodapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/6sd3m64bhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt6sd3m64b/qt6sd3m64b.pdfarticleCSW Update, vol Winter, iss 2015oai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt6f3606cj2015-02-05T08:46:40Zqt6f3606cjHow Cuba Changed My LifeJennifer, Monti2015-01-01STILL REMEMBER receivingthe acceptance email for thepaper I was to present in Cubaat a week-long conference that proposedto celebrate the bicentenaryanniversary of Gertrudis GЧmezde Avellaneda’s birth, one of thepillars of Cuban literature. I willnever forget the happiness I feltwhen I was notified; not only wasI going to Havana for a week but Iwas also going to present a paperon one of the best novels I hadever read.Gertrudis Gómez de AvellanedaSab Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UCLAXXIV Congreso Anual de la Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánicaapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/6f3606cjhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt6f3606cj/qt6f3606cj.pdfarticleCSW Update, vol Winter, iss 2015oai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt2gk5d6j72015-02-05T08:46:27Zqt2gk5d6j7Health, Immunity, and the Pursuit of Happiness:The Relationship between Positive Emotions and Inflammation in Breast Cancer SurvivorsPatricia, Moreno2015-01-01A RECENT STUDY conductedby UCLA researchers examinesthe relationship of positiveemotions and inflammationin women diagnosed with breastcancer, a disease that affects 1breast cancerpositive emotions and inflammationapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/2gk5d6j7https://escholarship.org/content/qt2gk5d6j7/qt2gk5d6j7.pdfarticleCSW Update, vol Winter, iss 2015oai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt4qh1s3pg2015-02-05T08:31:11Zqt4qh1s3pgNew Directions in Black Feminist StudiesJohnson-Grau, Brenda A2015-02-05In 1994, Barbara Christian presciently outlined the many institutional challenges faced by Black feminism as a field in her essay “Diminishing Returns: Can Black Feminism Survive the Academy?” In this essay, Christian imagined a grim future marked by the abolishment of affirmative action and by deep cuts to funding and support for ethnic studies and gender studies programs and projects, a future that in many ways has come to pass. Yet a new generation of scholarship is evidence that Black feminist studies has not only survived but is producing some of the most intellectually innovative, politically imperative scholarship being done today. New Directions in Black Feminist Studies lecture series, organized by Grace Kyungwon Hong, Associate Professor, Department of Asian American Studies and Department of Gender Studies, brings together three scholars working across a number of fields and conversations in order to showcase the best of contemporary Black feminist scholarship, including Amber Jamilla Musser, Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Washington University in St. Louis; Talitha Leflouria, Assistant Professor of History at Florida Atlantic University; and Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, Assistant Professor of African American Studies, UC Irvine.black feminismAmber Jamilla Musserapplication/pdfCC-BY-NCeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/4qh1s3pghttps://escholarship.org/content/qt4qh1s3pg/qt4qh1s3pg.pdfarticleCSW Update, vol Winter, iss 2015oai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt6pd769h42014-11-20T12:24:42Zqt6pd769h4CSW Update Fall 2014 IssuePublications, CSW2014-10-01Complete issue of Fall 2014 newsletterIndigenous Women and Human RightsThinking GenderGender StudiesDiane RichardsonCitizenshipQueer TheoryLe sari vertAnanda DeviLesbian Writers SeriesAnn BradleyA Different Light Bookstoreapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/6pd769h4https://escholarship.org/content/qt6pd769h4/qt6pd769h4.pdfarticleCSW Update, vol Fall, iss 2014oai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt3r89c3cc2014-11-20T12:22:48Zqt3r89c3ccLesbian Writers SeriesBradley, Ann2014-10-01History of the Lesbian Writers Series, a series of public talks organized between 1984 and 1994 at A Different Light Bookstore and other venues in Los Angeles.Lesbian WritersLesbian PoetsLesbian Writers SeriesA Different Light BookstoreMazer Archiveapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/3r89c3cchttps://escholarship.org/content/qt3r89c3cc/qt3r89c3cc.pdfarticleCSW Update, vol Fall, iss 2014oai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt43z5w0pm2014-11-18T14:07:00Zqt43z5w0pmWomen’s Activism and International Indigenous RightsPublications, CSW2014-10-01Overview of Faculty Curator Series organized by Maylei Blackwell, Associate Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies and Gender Studies, with profiles of the two speakers, Margarita Gutierrez Romero and Sonia Henríquez.Margarita Gutierrez RomeroSonia Henríquez.Maylei BlackwellIndigenous Women's Activismapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/43z5w0pmhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt43z5w0pm/qt43z5w0pm.pdfarticleCSW Update, vol Fall, iss 2014oai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt7dw953v92014-11-18T13:45:16Zqt7dw953v9Message from the DirectorMarchant, Elizabeth2014-11-13Gender Studiesapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/7dw953v9https://escholarship.org/content/qt7dw953v9/qt7dw953v9.pdfarticleCSW Update, vol Fall, iss 2014oai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt3439f0jp2014-11-18T13:36:54Zqt3439f0jpMisogyny and Manipulation in MauritiusKhamo, Nanar2014-10-01Ananda DeviLe Sari VertGender StudiesMisogynyMauritiusapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/3439f0jphttps://escholarship.org/content/qt3439f0jp/qt3439f0jp.pdfarticleCSW Update, vol Fall, iss 2014oai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt1q4393vm2014-11-18T13:22:25Zqt1q4393vmQ&A with Diane RichardsonPublications, CSW2014-10-01Interview with Diane Richardson, who is a CSW Visiting Scholar for Fall 2014 and a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellow and Professor of Sociology in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University, UK. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on sexuality, gender, citizenship and social justice. Her latest bookSexuality, Equality and Diversity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) focusses on LGBT equalities policy, examining what has been achieved by legislation and resistance to such developments. She also recently co-edited Intersections Between Feminist and Queer Theory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and Contesting Recognition: Culture, Identity and Citizenship (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). With Victoria Robinson she is currently co- editing a 4th edition of Introducing Gender and Women’s Studies(Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), with whom she also co-edits the Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences (GSSS) Book Series for Palgrave. Diane RichardsonGender StudiesQueer TheoryCitizenship Studiesapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/1q4393vmhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt1q4393vm/qt1q4393vm.pdfarticleCSW Update, vol Fall, iss 2014oai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt81c3p2qx2014-06-23T10:13:34Zqt81c3p2qxSex Worker Activism in Latin AmericaKoné, Mzilikazi2014-07-01application/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/81c3p2qxhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt81c3p2qx/qt81c3p2qx.pdfarticleCSW Update Newsletter, vol Summer 2014oai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt1538g6vx2014-06-19T13:42:08Zqt1538g6vxTrap Laws: Protecting Women or Harming Them?Razavi, Michelle2014-07-01application/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/1538g6vxhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt1538g6vx/qt1538g6vx.pdfarticleCSW Update Newsletter, vol Summer 2014oai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt08k8f9w32014-06-19T13:40:53Zqt08k8f9w3A Life of International Women's Health, Service, and PoetryPereyra, Jewel2014-07-01application/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/08k8f9w3https://escholarship.org/content/qt08k8f9w3/qt08k8f9w3.pdfarticleCSW Update Newsletter, vol Summer 2014oai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt7jp6n23n2014-06-19T13:39:44Zqt7jp6n23nPicturing FreedomGurusami, Susila2014-07-01application/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/7jp6n23nhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt7jp6n23n/qt7jp6n23n.pdfarticleCSW Update Newsletter, vol Summer 2014oai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt6w5863fx2014-06-19T13:37:16Zqt6w5863fxCinephilia as Post-traumatic CompulsionSher, Ben Raphael2014-07-01application/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/6w5863fxhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt6w5863fx/qt6w5863fx.pdfarticleCSW Update Newsletter, vol Summer 2014oai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt74f7p8622014-01-23T11:35:29Zqt74f7p862Making Invisible Histories Visible: Processing A/V CollectionsSher, Ben Raphael2014-01-01application/pdfCC-BY-NCeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/74f7p862https://escholarship.org/content/qt74f7p862/qt74f7p862.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt09n0k4t42014-01-23T11:34:08Zqt09n0k4t4Archival Research and the Daughters of CharityGunnell, Kristine2014-01-01application/pdfCC-BY-NCeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/09n0k4t4https://escholarship.org/content/qt09n0k4t4/qt09n0k4t4.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt9gj271782014-01-23T11:30:32Zqt9gj27178More Fire!: Robin Epstein and Dorothy Cantwell and the Lesbian Feminist Theatre Scene in the East Village in the 80s and 90sSloan, Lisa2014-01-01application/pdfCC-BY-NCeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/9gj27178https://escholarship.org/content/qt9gj27178/qt9gj27178.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt5288c6j62014-01-23T11:22:37Zqt5288c6j6Thinking Gender 2014 PreviewZuo, Mila2014-01-01application/pdfCC-BY-NCeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/5288c6j6https://escholarship.org/content/qt5288c6j6/qt5288c6j6.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt2dk993q42014-01-23T11:20:57Zqt2dk993q4Visiting Rwanda to Dicuss Gender Equity in Education: Q&A with Kathleen McHughSher, Ben Raphael2014-01-01application/pdfCC-BY-NCeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/2dk993q4https://escholarship.org/content/qt2dk993q4/qt2dk993q4.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt9zm555x42013-12-04T12:55:22Zqt9zm555x4Mysteries of the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives: Martha Foster CollectionSher, Ben Raphael2013-12-04application/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/9zm555x4https://escholarship.org/content/qt9zm555x4/qt9zm555x4.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt4tq7g4df2013-12-04T12:53:20Zqt4tq7g4dfEdge of the Map: An Experiment in Science and in TheaterWexler, Alice2013-12-04application/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/4tq7g4dfhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt4tq7g4df/qt4tq7g4df.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt3xx4v87j2013-12-04T12:51:13Zqt3xx4v87jCollege Gender GapsBronson, Mary Ann2013-12-04application/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/3xx4v87jhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt3xx4v87j/qt3xx4v87j.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt53t7b38q2013-12-04T12:42:58Zqt53t7b38qLatinas and Black Women's Stories: Preliminary Views on the Path to HomelessnessRuiz, Maria ElenaThomas, TykeshaContreras, CarlosGlaser, Rebecca2013-12-04application/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/53t7b38qhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt53t7b38q/qt53t7b38q.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt5m56q99d2013-07-08T15:18:01Zqt5m56q99dFear and Loving in Los Angeles Public Schools: What Volunteerism Reveals About Women and Work CultureBennett, Zara2013-03-01Zara Bennett is a former professor who received her Ph.D. in French and Francophone Studies from UCLA in 2007. Bennett is a CSW Research Scholar, an activist, a writer, and a mother of two. Her current research focuses on the politics of parental engagement in schoolyard greening within the Los Angeles Unified School District.volunteerismwork cultureWalgrove Elementary SchoolGoing Publicapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/5m56q99dhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt5m56q99d/qt5m56q99d.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt6hh3v2zc2013-07-08T07:28:37Zqt6hh3v2zcSpecial Issue on the NEH/Mazer ProjectUCLA Center for the Study of Women2013-06-20The June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives contain collections of photographs, recordings of conferences, workshops, meetings, performances, radio and news broadcasts, interviews, and oral histories concerning topics such as homosexuality, lesbian issues, feminism, racism, discriminations, literature, music, history, and so on.We have put up a special issue of the monthly newsletter bringing together all of the updates over the course of the 2012-2013 academic year for the "Making Invisible Histories Visible" project at the Mazer Lesbian Archives. This issue features many fascinating additions to the Archives, like Broomstick magazine, the Lesbian Schoolworker Records, as well as hundreds of photographs documenting the lesbian communities around the country from Elaine Mikels and Angela Brinskele, Director of Communications at the Archives.June L. MazerLesbian ArchivesNEHMazer Projectfeminist issuesfeminismlesbian issuesMaking Invisible Histories Visibleapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/6hh3v2zchttps://escholarship.org/content/qt6hh3v2zc/qt6hh3v2zc.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt0hd968xc2013-07-03T13:53:09Zqt0hd968xcSpecial Issue on the NEH/Mazer ProjectUCLA Center for the Study of Women2013-06-20This is a special issue of the monthly newsletter bringing together all of the updates over the course of the 2012-2013 academic year for the "Making Invisible Histories Visible" project at the Mazer Lesbian Archives. This issue features many fascinating additions to the Archives, like Broomstick magazine, the Lesbian Schoolworker Records, as well as hundreds of photographs documenting the lesbian communities around the country from Elaine Mikels and Angela Brinskele, Director of Communications at the Archives.Mazer Lesbian ArchivesBroomstick MagazineLesbian Schoolworker RecordsAnn GiagniWomen Against Violence Against Womenapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/0hd968xchttps://escholarship.org/content/qt0hd968xc/qt0hd968xc.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt7md5269c2013-07-03T13:52:24Zqt7md5269cAn Interview with Ann GiagniSher, Ben2013-06-12Ann Giagni, the president of the board of the June Mazer Lesbian Archives since 1996, recalls her history intertwined with that of the Mazers'.June Mazer Lesbian ArchivesAnn GiagniMaking Invisible Histories Visibleapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/7md5269chttps://escholarship.org/content/qt7md5269c/qt7md5269c.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt9qj0g8122013-06-13T13:26:49Zqt9qj0g812Migration and Sociopolitical Mobility in Africa and the African Diaspora Conference Honors the Career of Ned AlpersSheldon, Kathleen2013-06-12Kathleeon Sheldon has been a CSW Research Scholar since 1989. She received her Ph.D. in history from UCLA in 1988. Her books include The A to Z of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa. She is an editor on the listserv H-Luso-Africa, which focuses on the Portuguese-speaking countries of Africa.Ned AlpersAfrican DiasporaAfrican women's historysociopolitical mobilityapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/9qj0g812https://escholarship.org/content/qt9qj0g812/qt9qj0g812.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt66r9q8872013-06-13T13:26:47Zqt66r9q887Q & A with Chandra FordUCLA Center for the Study of Women2013-06-12Chandra Ford is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA. Her areas of expertise are in the social determinants of HIV/AIDS disparities, the health of sexual minority populations, and Critical Race Theory. She earned her Ph.D. from the Gillings School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina.social inequityhealth disparitiesHIV/AIDSracism issuesSTDsapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/66r9q887https://escholarship.org/content/qt66r9q887/qt66r9q887.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt38p6q39q2013-05-09T12:56:44Zqt38p6q39qCultural Politics of Seeds: Preivew of the Symposium on May 17thSher, Ben2013-05-01Organized by Allison Carruth and RachelLee,“The Cultural Politics of Seeds”symposium will look at how gender, ethnicity, and race shape contemporary cultural and politicalmovements related to seeds. Conceived as aforum for integrating research, policy, activism,and art practice, this event will include day-longevent with 3 panels and two keynote talks anda related art exhibit at UCLA’s Art/Sci Centerfeaturing Fallen Fruit, the Los Angeles–basedart collaborative. By bringing together farmers,artists, academics, and political organizers, thesymposium demonstrates that to adequately examineseeds’ diverse functions in culture, takinga multifaceted approach is fundamental.seed politicsFallen Fruitagriculturegender issuesrace issuesethnicity issuesapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/38p6q39qhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt38p6q39q/qt38p6q39q.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt7dp3k6gk2013-05-09T12:56:42Zqt7dp3k6gkRecords of Broomstick MagazineDean, Courtney2013-05-01Broomstick was an independent, self-published radical feminist magazine dedicated to supporting and promoting women and lesbian activism and art for an audience of women over forty. Founded by Maxine Spencer and Polly Taylor in Berkely, California, in 1978, it ceased publication in 1993.Broomstick magazineradical feminismlesbian activismageismapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/7dp3k6gkhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt7dp3k6gk/qt7dp3k6gk.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt6bd9m54r2013-05-09T12:56:41Zqt6bd9m54rBloody Body DoublesDebin, Megan Lorraine2013-05-01Megan Lorraine Debin is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Art History at UCLA. She is completing her dissertation, “Body Traces: Performance Against Violence in Contemporary Mexico (1994–2012).” She received a CSW travel grant to present her research at the Center for Latin American Visual Studies, Third International Forum for Emerging Scholars at the University of Texas at Austin in 2012.Giorgio AgambenfeminicidiosCiudad Juárezmaquiladorasapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/6bd9m54rhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt6bd9m54r/qt6bd9m54r.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt5np5z2vb2013-05-09T12:56:39Zqt5np5z2vbQ&A With Nathan HaUCLA Center for the Study of Women2013-05-01Nathan Ha received his Ph.D. in the history of science from Princeton University. He is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics, and is a member of CSW’s Life (Un)Ltd working group. While at UCLA, he is offering courses on the history of the sexual sciences and the genetics of human origins.Institute for Society and Geneticsbiomedical sciencestwentieth-century geneticsapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/5np5z2vbhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt5np5z2vb/qt5np5z2vb.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt0t5039x02013-05-09T12:56:37Zqt0t5039x0Argentine Former Political Prisoners after the DictatorshipPark, Rebekah2013-05-01Rebekah Park has been a CSW research scholar since 2012. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociocultural Anthropology from UCLA and an M.A. in Applied Medical Anthropology from the University of Amsterdam.ArgentinaCórdobaTwo Demons Theorypolitical prisonersguerrillasThe Reappearedapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/0t5039x0https://escholarship.org/content/qt0t5039x0/qt0t5039x0.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt4k63h44f2013-05-09T12:56:35Zqt4k63h44fCelebrating Carole BrownerOlejarz, JoshSher, Ben2013-05-01As she retires, we salute an extraordinary scholar who has done essential work connecting gender, reproduction, and health. "Many of us know Carole formally as an outstanding and much-awarded teacher and mentor. We know her, too, as a committed citizen of the profession—here at UCLA and broadly in the academic community," noted Sondra Hale in her closing remarks at the recent conference honoring Carole Browner. "However, many of us know her more informally as a person of great integrity, impeccable politics, and sharp mentoring skills."genderhealthCarole Brownerneurogenetic diagnosespolitics of reproductionapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/4k63h44fhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt4k63h44f/qt4k63h44f.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt2wv8q2rj2013-05-09T12:56:33Zqt2wv8q2rjDirector's Commentary: Why Seeds?Lee, Rachel2013-05-01Why does it make sense for those interested in gender and women to be interested in "The Cultural Politics of Seeds"? Because they are potent symbols of fertility, seeds present an ideal topic through which to prompt our feminist, gender studies, and LBGTIS communities to gauge their awareness of linkages between, let's say, the devaluing of women's worth and issues of gendered violence (for example, use of amniocentesis to select for male babies) to horticulture, soil health, and labor on farms. CSW's upcoming symposium on "The Cultural Politics of Seeds" also offers the opportunity to acknowledge the immense scientific expertise held by rural women in their processes of farming -- expertise that has been hones and refined for thousands of years.seedsagriculturewomen's issuesseed politicsgender studiesapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/2wv8q2rjhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt2wv8q2rj/qt2wv8q2rj.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt984319zx2013-05-09T12:56:32Zqt984319zxLeaning in to the Backcourt ViolationLee, Rachel2013-04-11Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg’s new book Lean in: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead (Knopf, 2013) has been credited with trying to re-start a conversation on the “gender-problem-that-has-no-name” (New York Times, 2/21/13). if you’re not already familiar with the book, here’s a quick summary: Sandberg recapitulates previous studies by academic researchers and gives them a platform among a certain group of elite power brokers (the evidence: Richard Branson of Virgin group had her TED Talk front and center on the Virgin Airlines reservation page for a week in mid-March). her key message is that subtle, unintended, diffuse, unrecognized forms of discrimination are nevertheless combining to produce systemic effects of gender disadvantage. a 2007 study conducted at Barnard stressed similar concerns and called such diffuse forms of discrimination micro-inequities.gender biasFacebookfeminismgender problemdiscriminationSteve Alfordapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/984319zxhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt984319zx/qt984319zx.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt26h9g1xt2013-03-28T12:03:42Zqt26h9g1xtGrier Periodical Collection and Diana Press RecordsDean, Courtney2013-03-01Over the course of the winter quarter i had the opportunity to work with two different collections from the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives. the first collection I processed was the Barbara Grier Periodical Collection. Barbara Grier (1933-2011) was a lesbian-feminist activist, writer, and publisher. She is perhaps best known for her work with the Ladder, the monthly magazine published by the daughters of Bilitis, the first national lesbian organization in the United States. Writing under the pseudonyms Gene Damon, Vern Niven, and Lennox Strong, Grier began contributing copy to the Ladder in 1957, and continued until 1968 when she assumed the role of editor, and then publisher, in 1970. in 1973, Grier co-founded Naiad Books, which later became Naiad Press, the preeminent lesbian book publisher that opened up lesbian writing to the world.GrierNaiad PressDiana Press Recordsfeminist printingapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/26h9g1xthttps://escholarship.org/content/qt26h9g1xt/qt26h9g1xt.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt4b62m4tc2013-03-28T12:03:34Zqt4b62m4tcOn conducting sexualities research in AfricaMcKay, Tara2013-03-01Over the past decade, gay men and other men who have sex with men (MSM) have become a key concern in the fight against AIDS, not only in high-income Western countries but also in low- and middle-income countries where same-sex sexual transmission of HIV had rarely—if ever—been considered. My work examines how MSM emerged as a global HIV prevention priority at the transnational health policy giant UNAIDS, how this new global priority diffused to national governments around the world and what happens when global prevention priorities targeting MSM collide with local contexts and people.MSMHIV/AIDSSexualities ResearchUNAIDSMalawiapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/4b62m4tchttps://escholarship.org/content/qt4b62m4tc/qt4b62m4tc.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt6sq036rb2013-03-28T12:03:30Zqt6sq036rbBehind the Horse-Crazy Girl: Learning to Live Across SpeciesHansen, Natalie2013-03-01Black Beauty, National Velvet, My Friend Flicka, Ann Romney’s Olympic dressage horse Rafalca, infamous race horses such as Barbaro and Seabiscuit, and, of course, My Little Pony. What does a three-ounce plastic figurine vaguely recognizable as a “pony” have in common with 1,200 pounds of flesh-and-blood horse? What stories help us narrate our relationships to these very different types of beings? What is the draw toward such figurative and material instantiations of animality? What explains the fact that there are over 9 million horses in the United States 150 years after the industrial revolution mechanized transportation and labor, rendering our dependence on horsepower a relic of our past? The sensual and emotional glories of mud, sweat, tears, and triumph are all very real aspects of contemporary horse-human partnerships, but there is something more that inhabits this horse-crazy love.horseshomosocial relationshipsBlack BeautyFlickaCSW Tillie Olsen GrantThoroughbred Retirement FoundationMy Little Ponyapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/6sq036rbhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt6sq036rb/qt6sq036rb.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt4533k93q2013-03-28T12:03:23Zqt4533k93qQ & A with Hannah LandeckerUCLA Center for the Study of Women2013-03-01Hannah Landecker is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at UCLA and a member of CSW's Life (Un)Ltd working group. She is a historian and sociologist of biology and biotechnology whose work on cell culture, microcinematography, and metabolish draws on and contributes to issues central to feminist science studies.metabolismtechnologyepigenomicsfeminismapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/4533k93qhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt4533k93q/qt4533k93q.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt1rm9x6j52013-03-05T12:47:31Zqt1rm9x6j5Opening night of L.A. Rebellion: Feature films by Julie DashM, Witte2012-01-15Opening night of “L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema” featured the screening of new prints of two films by Julie Dash, Daughters of the Dust (1991) and Four Women (1975). The series— organized by professors Allyson Field of UCLA and Jacqueline Stewart of Northwestern Univer- sity, with Jan-Christopher Horak, Director of the UCLA Film and Television Archive—comprises the first large-scale retrospective of the alternative black cinema movement in los angeles. The program is part of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980, the unprecedented collaboration, initi- ated by the getty foundation, bringing together more than sixty cultural institutions from across southern california to tell the story of the birth of the los angeles art scene.l.a. rebellion: creating a new black cinemaJulie DashPacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980UCLA Film and Television ArchiveFilmapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/1rm9x6j5https://escholarship.org/content/qt1rm9x6j5/qt1rm9x6j5.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt14v1086j2013-02-27T09:06:18Zqt14v1086jSentimental Mexicans in Nineteenth-Century CaliforniaLópez, Marissa2013-02-01No es la raza Mexicana diferente de laAmericana para que se crea que solo ennuestro cuerpo se recontaran las enfermedades. (The Mexican race is not different from theAmerican race and one should not think that disease only takes hold in our bodies.) – Mexican Laborers’ Petition tothe Mexican Consul in the United States (quoted in Molina, 67)Chicano/a Studiesnineteenth centuryThe Squatter and the DonMexican-AmericansCaliforniarailroad workersapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/14v1086jhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt14v1086j/qt14v1086j.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt1x3454cn2013-02-27T09:06:16Zqt1x3454cnVandana ShivaUCLA Center for the Study of Women2013-02-01To celebrate International Women’s Day, CSW is hosting a lecture by the world-renowned philosopher, environmental activist, ecofeminist, and academic researcher on agricultural and women’s empowerment issues.ecofeminismInternational Women's Daydiversityagricultureneoliberalismapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/1x3454cnhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt1x3454cn/qt1x3454cn.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt3m0897c22013-02-27T09:06:13Zqt3m0897c2Victoria SorkUCLA Center for the Study of Women2013-02-01Since taking over as Dean of UCLA’s Division of Life Sciences in 2009, Victoria Sork has developed a set of initiatives that delineate her objectives for the division and her understanding of the role of the university in meeting the challenges facing society. These initiatives reveal her conviction that interdisciplinary research collaborations will be the engine for generating fresh approaches and innovative methodologies. These efforts include the development of a robust computational biosciences program to create a research infrastructure, health research focused on interdisciplinary research collaborations, biological conservation projects, and mentorship programs to advance diversity in the division.Life Sciencesplant researchgenomicsbiosciencesapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/3m0897c2https://escholarship.org/content/qt3m0897c2/qt3m0897c2.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt63s453242013-02-27T09:06:10Zqt63s45324Un-Thinking Gender?Lee, Rachel2013-02-01February, the shortest month, has traditionally been one of the most ambitious, most exhausting, and most rewarding for CSW. Our signature conference, Thinking Gender, opens the month, as we host graduate students from snowier regions to balmy southern California lured by the conference’s well-earned reputation as an Un-Thinking Gender? incubator of rigorous interdisciplinary exchange.Thinking GenderTG2013womengendersexualityapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/63s45324https://escholarship.org/content/qt63s45324/qt63s45324.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt9n8992v02013-02-27T09:06:07Zqt9n8992v0The Art of ResistanceClair, Kimberly2013-01-01Aceh, which is located at the northernmosttip of the island of Sumatra, is one of thirty-four provinces that comprise Indonesia. In the sixteenth century, Aceh was known as a center of trade for Indian, Chinese, and Arab merchants and as a center of Islamic learning. In the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, however, Aceh gained a reputation for violence and disaster. From 1976 to 2005, rebel fighters known as GAM (Gerakan Aceh Merdeka or, the “Free Aceh Movement”) fought for independence from the Indonesian nation-state. This protracted political conflict came to a halt with the arrival of another tragedy; in 2004, the Indian Ocean tsunami devastated much of Aceh, leaving 170,000 peopledead and 500,000 homeless.traumagendertraditional performanceAcehapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/9n8992v0https://escholarship.org/content/qt9n8992v0/qt9n8992v0.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt6fb2p0xf2013-02-27T09:06:05Zqt6fb2p0xfQ&A with Allison CarruthCarruth, Allison2013-01-01Professor Allison Carruth recentlyjoined the faculty of the Department of English at UCLA. She is also an affiliated faculty member at the Center for theStudy of Women and at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. Last year, she served as a respondent at CSW’s “Life (Un)Ltd” symposium on May 11, 2012. She is currently working with CSW Interim Director Rachel Lee on organizing “The Politics of Seeds,” a symposium that will take place on May17, 2013. She kindly agreed to talk with us about her research and the upcoming symposium.life (un)ltdsymposiumsthe politics of seedsfeminist studiesapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/6fb2p0xfhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt6fb2p0xf/qt6fb2p0xf.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt8m39h3jq2013-02-27T09:06:02Zqt8m39h3jqFirst, do no harmFehrenbacher, Annie2013-01-01On August 2, 1995, a police task force led bythe California Department of Industrial Relations raided a compound surrounded by razor wire in El Monte, California. Inside the compound, the police discovered 72 Thai garment workers who had been forced to work 18-hour days for less than $2 an hour. The workers had been held in debt bondage for more than eight years, sewing tirelessly to pay off the cost of their journey to the United States. This paper examines the designing of a model of trauma-informed care for survivors of human trafficking in Los Angeles County.human traffickingsweatshopsCASTslaveryapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/8m39h3jqhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt8m39h3jq/qt8m39h3jq.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt52b5q9kz2013-02-27T09:05:59Zqt52b5q9kzLesbian Schoolworker RecordsGranholm, Kimberlee2013-01-01In 1978, Proposition 6 was presented on the California State ballot. This initiative, proposed by conservative legislator John Briggs as well as California Defend Our Children (CDOC), and later nicknamed the Briggs Initiative, rallied to ban gays and lesbians from teaching within the public school system. This later extended to possibly include any supporters of gays or lesbians as ‘advocates of homosexuality.’ A CDOC pamphlet in circulation at the time argued that the purpose of the initiative would not deny gays or lesbians their human rights, but instead “protect the rights of innocent children from people who choose their position as a teacher,” maintaining that “there is no inherent right for an individual to hold a teaching job.” was the Lesbian Schoolworkers Records, which contained information regarding its organizational history, principles of unity and structure, press releases, newsletters, flyers, paste-ups, and photographs. With a commitment to “fighting racism, sexism, class and oppression within our own movement and this society,” the Lesbian Schoolworkers organized in 1977 to defeat the Briggs Initiatives, Propositions 6 and 7. While this organization was among the many to rally against the anti-lesbian and gay bill, it was uniquely also actively campaigned against the anti-lesbian and pro-death penalty laws, and sought identify the relationship between Third World oppression and the oppression of all lesbians. Throughout the election fight,the Schoolworkers emphasized that the struggle against Proposition 6 was not a single campaign issue or just a fight for civil rights, but instead, “that we are all suffering at the hands of a common enemy.”lesbianpublic schoolingCDOCBriggs Initiativeapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/52b5q9kzhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt52b5q9kz/qt52b5q9kz.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt4pp6f6bs2013-02-27T09:05:53Zqt4pp6f6bs7 Myths about Undocumented ImmigrationPatler, Caitlin2013-01-01I have spent the last 13 years working with undocumented communities in Los Angeles and have witnessed, time and time again, how the ripple effects of living without formal immigration status can tear apart the lives of some of the people I hold dearest. And so part of my personal, professionaland political life’s work has been to fightalongside undocumented folks in the struggle to gain rights, recognition, and respect. Immigration—especially undocumented immigration—is a loaded topic in this country. The President is talking about it, Members of Congress are debating about it, pundits are complaining about it, and everybody has an opinion about it. However, as I have engaged in this work over the past decade, I have met hundreds of people who are confused and/or misinformed about undocumented immigration, in large part due to negative representations of immigrants in the media. This article attempts to address some of the most common misconceptions about undocumented immigration.immigrationundocumented immigrantsinequalityborder enforcementapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/4pp6f6bshttps://escholarship.org/content/qt4pp6f6bs/qt4pp6f6bs.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt1kn2z5p02013-02-04T07:44:57Zqt1kn2z5p0Accessing Community Archives of Political HistoriesCachola, Ellen-Rae2012-10-01Community organizations producerecords because they engage in organizational functions and have archives of historical value. Although they do not have the resources to create climate-controlled, high-security archives— like, for example, academic archives, government archives, or established heritage institutions, communities find ways to get theirmessages across to wider publics. The International Women’s Network Against Militarism (IWNAM) (previously named the East Asia– U.S.–Puerto Rico Women’s Network Against Militarism) has been organizing biennial internationalmeetings since 1997, bringing togetherwomen who are activists, policymakers, teachers, and students to strategize about the negative impacts of militarism and to redefine security. The meetings initially included women from Okinawa, South Korea, the Philippines, and the U.S. but expanded over time to include women from Puerto Rico and Vieques, Hawai’i, Guåhan, Australia, and the Marshall Islands.demilitarizationsecurityimperialismactivismapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/1kn2z5p0https://escholarship.org/content/qt1kn2z5p0/qt1kn2z5p0.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt7wf8g3mg2013-02-04T07:44:53Zqt7wf8g3mgDisplacement, Dislocation, and DispossessionKumar, Aparna2012-12-15Curated by Allegra Pesenti of the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts at the Hammer Museum, “Zarina: Paper Like Skin” is the first retrospective of the Indian-born American artist Zarina Hashmi, or Zarina, as she is known professionally. Showcasing approximately 60 of her works, most of which were made on or with her preferred medium of paper, the exhibition beautifully chronicles over 50 years of her expansive international career.zarinaprintmakingwoodcutspaper artapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/7wf8g3mghttps://escholarship.org/content/qt7wf8g3mg/qt7wf8g3mg.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt6dm5x2fx2013-02-04T07:44:47Zqt6dm5x2fxMargaret A. Porter CollectionGonzalez, Gloria2012-11-01As I processed the papers and other materials in the Margaret A. Porter Collection, I learned about much about Margaret’s life and work but I also came to realize the importance of bringing such collections like this into the light. The Porter papers provide an excellent example of how significant archival material can document the life of someone from an underrepresented community and also demonstrate the struggles and achievements of a lesbian whose life spanned almost the entire twentieth century.Margaret Porter was most known for her poetry and for her translations from the French of poetry by Renee Vivien and Natalie Clifford Barney. In addition to Porter’s original and translated poetry, the collection contains her personal diaries, which span over six decades of her life, photographs, and correspondence. In addition, there are materials from her activity in San Diego–based lesbian organizations and documents from her research on Vivien, Barney, and other women in expatriate France.lesbianismfeminismcollectionsarchivesapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/6dm5x2fxhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt6dm5x2fx/qt6dm5x2fx.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt1n11j3f72013-02-04T07:44:34Zqt1n11j3f7Health and Rights at the MarginsShih, Elena2012-11-01In July, the International AIDS Conference drew more than twenty thousand participants. Held in Washington, D.C., it was the first since 1990 to convene in the U.S., because the U.S. recently lifted a ban that previously denied visas to HIV-positive persons. Still, the attendance of global participants was confined by another constraint of visa regulations: non-U.S.-citizen sex workers are still systematically denied visas. In protest, activists for the rights of sex workers, who typically take an active role in IAC activities, convened in Kolkata for an anti-conference, “Freedom Festival,” which celebrated the rights of sex workers and protested the marginalization of this community against the backdrop of the larger hegemonic movement to combat HIV/AIDS. During the anti-conference, alongside clear disdain for their exclusion from some parts of the HIV/AIDS movement, one of the loudest messages was a cry that sex worker rights are being infringed by the human trafficking movement (Sil 2012). The global concern around human trafficking has—in the name of prevention—increased the surveillance and policing of sex workers globally, making their work more precarious and frequently labeling it criminal. This contradiction propels my overarching question of how the HIV/AIDS and human trafficking movements are linked.human traffickingHIV/AIDSChinarightsapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/1n11j3f7https://escholarship.org/content/qt1n11j3f7/qt1n11j3f7.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt9bk9w08w2013-02-04T07:44:31Zqt9bk9w08wImagining a Genetic Seed BankCassarino, Stacie2012-12-15If “magical thinking,” to use her words, is essential to Suzanne Anker’s practice of integrating science and visual art, it is also indispensable to the viewer entering her recent exhibition, Genetic Seed Bank, at the Art | Sci Gallery in the California Nanosystems Institute at UCLA.genetic seek banksuzanne ankerenvironmental changesymbiotic relationshipsbioartlife (un)ltdapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/9bk9w08whttps://escholarship.org/content/qt9bk9w08w/qt9bk9w08w.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt4wz918tv2013-02-04T07:44:28Zqt4wz918tvMixing Puppetry with Ethnography at the Ananya Dance TheatreWilliams, Alessandra2012-10-01On Tuesday, July 17, I boarded a planedestined for Trinidad and Tobagowith a carry-on bag full of “hungryghosts.” I am the puppeteer for Ananya Dance Theatre (ADT), a contemporary dance company created by Ananya Chatterjea with the aim of discussing sustainable solutions to the social and economic crises that impact communities of color. Placing the hungry ghosts beneath the seat in front of me only seems to deepen my uneasiness about the task before me: I must animate these five creatures, whose outstretched tongues, spooked mouths, and protruding bellies are representations of an insatiable hunger and thirst described in Tibetan mythology. Most pressingly, I am the sole manipulator of these figures for the world premiere of ADT’s work Moreechika: Season of Mirage. Since its founding in 2004 in Minneapolis,Minnesota, the Ananya Dance Theatrehas presented an annual piece that examinesthe everyday experiences of historically disadvantaged people, with a particular focus on the environmental challenges women of color face across the globe. Journeying to the Caribbean marks an unprecedented opportunity because ADT will debut Moreechika at the National Academy for the Performing Arts in Trinidad on July 27.ethnographypuppetryMoreechikaTrinidad and Tobagodanceapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/4wz918tvhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt4wz918tv/qt4wz918tv.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt4v1336ch2013-02-04T07:44:20Zqt4v1336chMood and MathLee, Rachel2012-11-01What do we make of this striking dissonance between mood—emotional rhetoric aka spin doctoring—and math? Or put another way, how might gender and feminism help us to understand that mood and math? Math, or at least, layman invocations of 1%, 99%, 47% --statistical language to express discontent and sense of shrinking opportunity—were certainly crucial to the outcome of this election. For higher education in particular, the dueling arithmetic on which proposition (30 or 38) gave what percentage of revenue garnered from which formula of income or sales tax on which percent of the population filled the yahoo boards of bantering mommies, at least at my local public magnet, with confusion and minor disagreements. How do these local events draw upon and transform stereotypes of boys being good at math and girls at social and emotional intelligence, when the Biggest Boy Rove had clearly ignored the math and succumbed to his own rhetorical (terrorizing, falling of a cliff) spin on Obama’s stewardship of the nation and the American people’s lack of faith in it?bipartisanismmoodmathematicsvotingapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/4v1336chhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt4v1336ch/qt4v1336ch.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt2gk1c2h92013-02-04T07:44:06Zqt2gk1c2h9Processing of Audio-Visual CollectionsDiaz, Angel2012-12-15As of June, 15 of the audio and video collections in the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives have been digitized and processed. Most of the collections hold between 15 and 40 audiocassette tapes or VHS tapes. The content of the material includes recordings of conferences, workshops, meetings, performances, radio and news broadcasts, interviews, and oral histories concerning topics such as homosexuality, lesbian issues, feminism, racism, discriminations, literature, music, history, and so on.Of particular note is the June L. Mazer and Bunny MacCulloch Interviews Etc collection, which includes interviews with Mazer and MacCulloch concerning the Southern California Women for Understanding (SCWU), the archive, Mazer’s death, and lesbian culture in the San Francisco Bay Area. The audio recordings provide great insight into the life and work of both Mazer and MacCulloch, who were prominent figures in the lesbian community of the West Coast. The women conducted interviews with scholars and other experts on lesbian culture and history and were also the subjects of interviews. The collection includes a recording of the Jewish memorial service that honored the life and work of Mazer after her death in 1987.june l mazerjune l mazer lesbian archivesbunny maccullochsouthern california women for understandingdiane germainjudy grahnpeg cruikshankjudy freespiritkent hydeterri de la penalesbian culturelesbian historydel martinsuzanne lacywomen's buildingjudy chicagosheila levrant de brettvillearlene ravenapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/2gk1c2h9https://escholarship.org/content/qt2gk1c2h9/qt2gk1c2h9.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt4m49j56q2013-02-04T07:43:56Zqt4m49j56qQ&A: Susanna HechtHecht, Susanna2012-10-01Susanna Hecht is Professor of Urban Planning at the UCLA School of Public Affairs. Her research interests include the political economy of tropic al rain forest development; women in development; international environmental politics; and environmental history. Her books include The Scramble for the Amazon and the “Lost Paradise” of Euclides da Cunha and her prize-winning classic Fate of the Forest. She received a CSW Faculty Development grant in 2010 to support her research on Elizabeth Agassiz, Emilie Snethlage, and Odile Coudreau.Amazoniaagriculturefeminismenvironmental politicsapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/4m49j56qhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt4m49j56q/qt4m49j56q.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt4vx2r60b2013-02-04T07:43:52Zqt4vx2r60bQ&A With Claire McEachernMcEachern, Claire2012-11-01Claire McEachern is Professor of English at UCLA. Her project, “The intellectual daughters of Sir Anthony Cooke, 1526-1609,” is a cultural biography of four sisters whose lives intersected with many of the most formative events of sixteenth-century England. McEachern received a CSW Faculty Development Grant to support this project in 2011.application/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/4vx2r60bhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt4vx2r60b/qt4vx2r60b.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt44q809d72013-02-04T07:43:48Zqt44q809d7Researching and Learning from Undocumented Young AdultsEnriquez, Laura E.2012-11-01Over the years, I have learned to think of research as a collective project where communities give us information for our research and we seek appropriate outlets for putting our research products back into the communities. While scholars talk about this form of reciprocity, we don’t always think about the ways in which our research and our research participants can also change and affect us as individuals. While my research has led to a wealth of significant findings about the lives of undocumented young adults, it has also taught me a lot about my own life. Talking to countless undocumented young adults about concepts of citizenship, membership, and rights has taught me a lot about the significance of citizenship in my own life. I share three of these lessons from the field with you now in hopes that their experiences will transform your conceptions of citizenship as much as they have transformed mine.undocumented citizenscitizenshipprivilegemarginalizationapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/44q809d7https://escholarship.org/content/qt44q809d7/qt44q809d7.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt7h5018js2013-02-04T07:43:43Zqt7h5018jsRuth Reid and Kent Hyde CollectionWood, Stacy2012-10-01Working with the collections at the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives is a unique experience, each collection has its own sense of itself, serving as a window into individual lives, formative political moments and thegrowth and development of the lesbian community. One of the first collections that I processed was the Ruth Reid and Kent Hyde collection. Ruth and Kent were both writers, lifelong intellectuals, weavers and lovers. Their collection covers the duration of their relationship of over forty years. What makes this collection so rich is the breadth of materials which includes a large amount of correspondence between Ruth and Kent and an array of their friends and family. These letters range in subject matter and through their reading one can get a sense of each woman’s particular sense of humor, specific interests and professional tone.lesbian activismfeminismcollectionsapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/7h5018jshttps://escholarship.org/content/qt7h5018js/qt7h5018js.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt54c9b58t2013-02-04T07:43:31Zqt54c9b58tSisters and SoldiersEverton, Elizabeth2012-10-01In September 1894, an agent of the French Intelligence Bureau discovered alist of French military secrets in a wastebasket at the German Embassy in Paris.This document was quickly misattributed to a Jewish officer, Alfred Dreyfus,who was convicted in a hasty court martial and sentenced to deportation inperpetuity. Over the next four years, his sentence was challenged by allies,called “dreyfusards,” who found in the effort to reopen the case a quasi-mysticalquest in defense of truth, justice, and liberal republican ideals. They were counteredby others, the “antidreyfusards,” who saw truth as less important thanthe well-being of the nation or who believed that, being Jewish, Dreyfus wasnecessarily a traitor. In French history, memory, and culture, the Dreyfus Affairis a red-letter event – the cradle of the contemporary Left and Right and thebirthplace of the public intellectual. It is a daunting subject for a researcher, notonly because of the enormous body of literature around it but because its verysignificance has given it a degree of impenetrability. There is a certain difficultyin breaking through to the event itself, in asking different questions when faced with such familiar faces and texts.anti-semitismFranceantidreyfusardThird RepublicBerthe HenryAlfred Dreyfusapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/54c9b58thttps://escholarship.org/content/qt54c9b58t/qt54c9b58t.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt70h7k6942013-02-04T07:43:28Zqt70h7k694Three Times a Woman: A Gendered Economy of Stem Cell InnovationKietzer, Lisa2012-12-15In 2004, Californians passed Proposition 71, a statute establishing stem cell research as a constitutional right. Prop 71 authorized bond sales to fund stem cell research in California, and created the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to award grants and regulate the research. The state’s General Fund provided initial startup funding, to be repaid later with proceeds from bond sales. In her recent Life (Un)Ltd talk, Charis Thompson told the curious story of Prop 71, and how women came to be disproportionately enrolled in its passage and the “bio-curial” economy that resulted from it.stem cell researchProp 71embryonic cellsapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/70h7k694https://escholarship.org/content/qt70h7k694/qt70h7k694.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt4g70j1z92013-02-04T07:43:23Zqt4g70j1z9"Trans-Temporality" and the HolidaysLee, Rachel2012-12-15According to Ph.D. candidate Jacob Lau, the life-course of transsexual subjects is too often divided into before and after the visible (hormonal and surgical) change. As an alternative to that bifurcated and linear notion of time, Lau is proposing a richer more complex interweaving of several temporalities: “secular historical time”—i.e., the national chronologies that we learn about in high school social studies classes—but also time conceived in religious, liturgical, and seasonal cycles as well as the daily round of events that French theorist Helene Cixous suggestively called “women’s time.”transsexualchronobiologycampus climateapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/4g70j1z9https://escholarship.org/content/qt4g70j1z9/qt4g70j1z9.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt1fr1f7992012-07-23T12:49:05Zqt1fr1f799Q&A with Felicity NussbaumMoore, CandaceDavis, Vivian2007-10-01Currently working on Exceptional Virtue: Actresses and Performance in the British Theatre, 1700-1780, and editing (with Professor Saree Makdisi, Department of English) a volume that will provide historical context for The Arabian Nights, Professor Felicity A. Nussbaum, Department of English, will share new work on the subjectivities of Restoration era female actresses as part of the CSW Senior Faculty Feminist Seminar Series.Felicity A. NussbaumRestoration erafemale actressesapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/1fr1f799https://escholarship.org/content/qt1fr1f799/qt1fr1f799.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt33g8q4c72012-07-23T12:48:59Zqt33g8q4c7Kaleidoscopes on the Coffee TableDavis, Vivian2008-10-01A book review of Catherine Lord and Richard Meyer’s Art in Queer Culture: 1885–Present.Catherine LordRichard MeyerArt in Queer Culture: 1885–PresentLGBTQueer CultureArt HistoryPhaidonapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/33g8q4c7https://escholarship.org/content/qt33g8q4c7/qt33g8q4c7.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt4vg9718t2012-06-12T11:37:10Zqt4vg9718tSarah Haley: Q&A with New Assistant Professor in Women’s StudiesUCLA Center for the Study of Women2012-06-01Sarah HaleyUCLA Department of Women's StudiesFacultyapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/4vg9718thttps://escholarship.org/content/qt4vg9718t/qt4vg9718t.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt371609272012-06-12T11:37:06Zqt37160927Embodying Modernity: Female Nude Advertisements in a Cartoon Pictorial in Early Twentieth Century South ChinaCheung, Roanna2012-06-01The following discussion seeks to analyze the use of female body, namely nude images featured in the advertisement section of this cartoon pictorial, in 1930s Guangzhou.GuangzhouChinese modernityFemale Nude AdvertisementsThe Sketchadvertisementsapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/37160927https://escholarship.org/content/qt37160927/qt37160927.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt8zc026x52012-06-12T11:37:03Zqt8zc026x5Director's CommentaryMcHugh, Kathleen2012-06-01Kathleen McHugh thanks Ed and Penny Kanner for thier most recent donation to CSW, enabling the Center to establish the "Dr. Penny Kanner Next Generation Fund."Penny KannerEd KannerUCLA Center for the Study of Womenapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/8zc026x5https://escholarship.org/content/qt8zc026x5/qt8zc026x5.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt6zm4g2862012-05-29T11:24:09Zqt6zm4g286Sources of History of Nursing in KoreaUCLA Center for the Study of Women2012-05-01A summary of UCLA professor Dr. Sung-Deuk Oak's new publication. This volume is a collection of primary and secondary sources about the history of Nursing in Korea from 1886-1911.nursinghistoryresearchKoreaSung-Deuk OakKorean Nurse's Associationapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/6zm4g286https://escholarship.org/content/qt6zm4g286/qt6zm4g286.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt3gs3t3gj2012-05-29T11:24:05Zqt3gs3t3gjThe Wow: Policies or Caterpillars?McHugh, Kathleen2012-05-01Kathleen McHugh's monthy director's commentary discussing the current politics and policies surrounding the health and well-being of women in America.War on WomenWomen's HealthWomen and PoliticsRapeHealthcareabortionapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/3gs3t3gjhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt3gs3t3gj/qt3gs3t3gj.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt4f2465r42012-05-29T11:24:01Zqt4f2465r4Stranger than Fairly Tales: Melnitz Movies Screens Two Films by Sara DriverJuhàsz-Wood, Linda2012-05-01The films of Sara Driver have recently received a long-overdue jolt of critical and popular attention, with a special screening series at the Anthology Film Archives in March and April in New York as well as additional international screenings. On May 1, 2012, the UCLA community had the rare privilege of participating in this revived interest at a nevent titled “Stranger Than Fairy Tales: Two Films by Sara Driver,” which was organized by Melnitz Movies and cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Women. The event featured You Are Not I (1981) and a new, particularly gorgeous 35mm print of Sleepwalk (1986). After the screenings, Sam Prime, the director of Melnitz Movies, was joined for a Q&A with Harvey Perr and Ann Magnuson, actors in Sleepwalk, and Suzanne Fletcher, who starred in both films.Melnitz MoviesSara Driver"You Are Not I""Sleepwalk"application/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/4f2465r4https://escholarship.org/content/qt4f2465r4/qt4f2465r4.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt9vk092br2012-05-29T11:23:56Zqt9vk092br“Keeping Up with the (Gender) Narrative”: Faye Driscoll’s Choreography ResidencyWyper, Allison2012-05-01Faye Driscoll is an energetic, voraciously curious, genre-bending dance-theater maker who is changing the landscape of concert dance. Though she has only been making original work since 2005, the New York–based dancer and Los Angeles native has already been identified as “one of 25 to watch out for” by Dance Magazine, and was awarded a New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” award for her autobiographical work “837 Venice Boulevard”. She was the perfect person, therefore, to launch the Residency Program for Movement (RPM), a new initiative by the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance designed to bring outstanding young choreographers to UCLA and Los Angeles. Under the leadership of renowned choreographer and WACDance professor Victoria Marks, the pilot venture of the residency initiative took place from April 23 to May 5, 2012.Faye DriscollResidency Program for Movement“You’re Me”Jesse ZarittGlorya Kaufman Dance Theaterapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/9vk092brhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt9vk092br/qt9vk092br.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt8pr2x0392012-04-26T14:48:22Zqt8pr2x039Performative Metaphors: The “Doing” of Image by Women in Mariachi MusicSoto Flores, Leticia Isabel2012-04-01In music studies, scholars have often explored music as a metaphor for emotions,thoughts, and life. In the 19th century, music critic Edward Hanslick recognized the inherent metaphorical sense of musical discourse. As he stated in 1891, “what in every other art is still description is in music already metaphor”, (Hanslick 1986: 30). When verbalizing what music is, from representation to technique, one cannot avoid using figurative language, metaphors in particular, because a verbal description of sound is, of necessity, an interpretation.metaphorwomen mariachi musiciansapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/8pr2x039https://escholarship.org/content/qt8pr2x039/qt8pr2x039.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt108867cv2012-04-26T14:48:18Zqt108867cvCoordinator's NotesRiajos, Mirasol2012-04-01CSW works very hard to create opportunities for people to connect, and that’s exactly what we saw at Thinking Gender this year. If you were at the morning panel “Mods and Vlogs: Gender Techs,” you know there was even an unexpected virtual connection that took place! Panelist Gopinaath Kannabiran almost missed out on his own panel when he got stuck at the airport during a winter storm. The “Mods and Vlogs” moderator, CSW Research Scholar Rosemary Candelario, wouldn’t hear of it! When I delivered her what I thought was some bad news, she didn’t miss a beat: why not just Skype the presenter in? I asked, “Can you do that?” No problem! And suddenly, there was Gopi on the screen. How fitting for a panel on Gender and Technology… Once again, CSW’s crew came through. Everyone just rolls with the punches, and they do it with a smile.Thinking Genderapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/108867cvhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt108867cv/qt108867cv.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt9k02t9bb2012-04-26T14:48:14Zqt9k02t9bbChoreographing Collective Intersectional Identities: in Reflejo de la Diosa Luna’s ‘Migración’ PerformanceMartínez-Vu, Yvette2012-04-01For this presentation, I want to focus onone of FOMMA’s central missions: to stage how embodied gender dynamics in performance play a role in promoting a collective intersectional identity. Specifically, I will investigate Reflejo de la Diosa Luna’s “Migración” (1996) to underscore that identity is not only performed but also choreographed and gendered. Particularly, I am focusing on the shared, though distinctive, experience of intersectionality among indigenous women in Mexico. The term “intersectionality,” is borrowed from Kimberle Crenshaw’s theory of intersectionality in which she questions the ways that experiences of Black women are excluded because feminism presumes whiteness and blackness assumes masculinity. In this case, I would add that studies of indigeneity most often elide the issues of gender that oppress indigenous women. This presentation will focus on two performance strategies aimed at critiquing gendered indigenous roles for women: cross-dressing and a materialist use of objects. I argue that the forms of cross-dressing employed and the ways performers cite or use objects define their body techniques and forms of identification. I argue that the performer modifies her body movements depending on the character she plays and the contextual factors of the performance. She uses objects to situate the body and the scene. In doing so, the performer provides alternative options for gendered representations, which in turn influence representations of indigeneity.FOMMAFortaleza de la Mujer MayaReflejo de la Diosa Luna’s “Migración”intersectionalityapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/9k02t9bbhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt9k02t9bb/qt9k02t9bb.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt3b3767w82012-04-26T14:48:10Zqt3b3767w8Thinking Gender Panel ReviewsMcLean, LindseyApgar, AmandaJuhasz-Wood, Linda2012-04-01Reviews of three 2012 Thinking Gender Panels: GRRR(L) Futures: Subcultures of Rebellious Women; Women’s Rags: High-Brow, Low-Brow and OCD Publics; Dirty Work: Women and Unexpected Labor.Thinking Genderapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/3b3767w8https://escholarship.org/content/qt3b3767w8/qt3b3767w8.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt3fq686nf2012-04-26T14:48:05Zqt3fq686nfLeader-Follower: Throwing Out Gender Rules in Taiwanese Salsa TodayChang, I-Wen2012-04-01In the traditional conceptions of gender role assignments for pair-dancing, the woman is typically conceptualized as a passive follower. However, if we examine the flow between the two dancers more closely, we can see that the interaction is far more complex. In partner dancing, partners cannot be understood as separate parts, but must be analyzed as a single whole and experiential body. The whole lived body is an intentional body, which is lived through and in relation to possibilities in the world. In order for the dance to go smoothly and successfully, there has to be clear bilateral communication between the man and the women, such as being able to interpret changes in pressure, position, and weight that signal a change in the movement and the direction of the dance. In this way, dance is like a conversation; like any conversation, roles and power are negotiated and not necessarily given, giving agency toboth men and women.SalsaTaiwanese Salsaapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/3fq686nfhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt3fq686nf/qt3fq686nf.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt7r31m7x72012-04-26T14:48:01Zqt7r31m7x7Women and Textiles: Warping the Architectural CanonAron, Jamie2012-04-01Textiles have long been a part of the canon of Western architecture—from the folds of draped female forms in ancient Greek temples to the abstract Mayan patterns “knitted” together in Frank Lloyd Wright’s textile block houses of the 1920s. Yet just as any façade may conceal what’s inside, architecture’s shared history with weaving is often obscured. Today architecture sits at the top alongside the “fine arts” of painting and sculpture, while woven textiles occupy a less prominent position in the “applied” or the “decorative arts.” Appearing natural now, few remember that the hierarchy of the arts was not always so stable. Architecture and weaving were both at the bottom in the Medieval Period— positioned as “mechanical arts” requiring learned manual skill rather than individual creativity or intellectual drive. Eventually, through hard lobbying by Renaissance artists and humanists, the establishment of art academies dedicated exclusively to the teaching of architecture, painting and sculpture, and theoretical backing by Enlightenment philosophers, architecture separated from its mechanical compatriots to become one of the dominant “visual arts” of modernity, leaving weaving behind as handicraft within the category of the “decorative arts.” It’s no secret that women have been generally left out of modern visual art history and associated with the decorative arts. Through the lens of historic reexamination I present three examples of “weaving workshops” led by women, whose work not only intersected architecture at key moments in the twentieth century, but also challenged the hierarchical position and cultural agency of architecture.Textilesweaving workshopsartapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/7r31m7x7https://escholarship.org/content/qt7r31m7x7/qt7r31m7x7.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt2xs1g8cj2012-04-26T14:11:43Zqt2xs1g8cjGaining Her Freedom: Slavery and Citizenship in the French AntillesMusil Church, Emily2012-04-01On May 11, 1850, two years after slavery was abolished in the French empire, a 36-year old woman on the French Caribbean island of Martinique walked to her local municipal office with five children in tow to have all of their names moved from the list of legal human property to the official government list of French citizens. Less than a century later, this woman’s great granddaughter, Paulette Nardal, served as a representative at the United Nations for France’s overseas territories. I first went to Martinique in 2002 to research the role Paulette Nardal had played in the negritude movement, a cultural and literary movement of the 1930s to affirm Black cultural identity.MartiniquePaulette NardalCaribbeanSlaveryFrench RevolutionGuadeloupeUnion Féminine Civique et Socialeapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/2xs1g8cjhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt2xs1g8cj/qt2xs1g8cj.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt84j9s1v12012-04-26T14:11:35Zqt84j9s1v1Examining the Underrepresentation of Women in STEM Fields: Early Findings from the Field of Computer ScienceSax, Linda J.2012-04-01Despite the plethora of studies examining the root causes of the gender gap in STEM, a significant problem is that most research considers STEM fields in the aggregate and does not account for possible differences in the factors that predict interest and enrollment in specific STEM fields. Because not all STEM fields face the same degree of gender segregation, we cannot expect all STEM fields to attract the same types of students, especially since students likely have different motivations for pursuing one STEM field versus another.STEMWomen and STEMComputer ScienceWomenFemale Computer ScientistsComputer Science Educationapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/84j9s1v1https://escholarship.org/content/qt84j9s1v1/qt84j9s1v1.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt7m83c0542012-04-26T14:11:30Zqt7m83c054Sexing Slavery, the Holocaust, and MadnessSégeral, Nathalie2012-04-01How does a woman writer memorialize her own traumatic history, when it happens to be part of a larger history dominated by male narratives (as far as the Holocaust and slavery go), or when it is altogether silenced (as is the case for madness and psychiatric hospitalization)? My dissertation is an interdisciplinary project that tries to answer these questions by applying comparative memory studies to the gendering of traumain contemporary historical and (auto)fictional narratives. It is entitled “Reclaimed Experience: Gendering Trauma in Slavery, Holocaust, and Madness Narratives” and includes eight Francophone, Germanophone, and Anglophone women writers.gendertraumamemoryfictional narrativeshistorical narrativesSlaveryHolocaustMaddness Narrativesfemale writersapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/7m83c054https://escholarship.org/content/qt7m83c054/qt7m83c054.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt7vc836n12012-04-26T14:11:25Zqt7vc836n1CSW Newsletter April 2012UCLA Center for the Study of Women2012-04-01Monthy edition of CSW's NewsletterCSWapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/7vc836n1https://escholarship.org/content/qt7vc836n1/qt7vc836n1.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt2938s6932012-04-26T14:11:20Zqt2938s693The Sexual Field: A New Theory for Classic QuestionsStambolis, MIchael2012-04-01At a talk, entitled “Outline of a Theory of Sexual Practice: Bringing Bourdieu to the Sexual Field,” which was organized by the Center for the Study of Women and cosponsored by the Department of Sociology’s Gender Working Group, Adam Isaiah Green, a University of Toronto sociologist, offered the audience an exciting glimpse into the broad and ambitious theoretical framework he is developing to explain the intimate connection between the social world and sexuality. He was only able to present a small slice of this expansive project during the talk but demonstrated the compelling potential this framework has not only to generate novel approaches to the classic sociological questions of sexual behavior and identity but also, and more importantly he suggests, to better understand the elusive grey area of sexual desire.Adam Isaiah Greensexual desiretheory of the sexual fieldapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/2938s693https://escholarship.org/content/qt2938s693/qt2938s693.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt0g1906512012-04-18T11:07:07Zqt0g190651testtest2012-01-01application/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/0g190651https://escholarship.org/content/qt0g190651/qt0g190651.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt6nv8s7sw2012-03-22T15:33:51Zqt6nv8s7swDelegation of Women From Three Key Policy Research Institutes In Nicaragua Visit CSWUCLA Center for the Study of Women2012-03-15As part of the “Alliance Building and Best Practices in Resource Mobilization, Research and Advocacy: A Project for Nicaragua,” a delegation of women from three key policy research institutes visited CSW on February 8, 2012.Center for Communications ResearchInstitute for Public Policy and Strategic StudiesCenter for Constitutional RightsUCLA Center for the Study of Womenapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/6nv8s7swhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt6nv8s7sw/qt6nv8s7sw.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt23c018q42012-03-22T15:33:48Zqt23c018q4In Memoriam: Jill Cherneff, CSW Research ScholarUCLA Center for the Study of Women2012-03-15We are sad to report that Jill Cherneff, a longtime CSW research scholar, has passed away. Jill received an Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) diagnosis in 2006 and fought mightily against the disease. It was most important to her to stay active in her life and her scholarship. Indeed she renewed her research scholarship status in July of 2011 and her husband wrote that “although Jill cannot speak, she is totally intellectually present and uses a computer to speak and write.” Her final research project concerned gender differences and similarities in the experience of receiving a diagnosis of ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. As an ALS patient and a member of the community of ALS patients, she conducted interviews, distributed and collected questionnaires, and used Internet resources to gather ALS illness narratives including stories of patients’ participation in ALS advocacy and activism.application/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/23c018q4https://escholarship.org/content/qt23c018q4/qt23c018q4.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt2386f0642012-03-22T15:33:45Zqt2386f064Nomonde Nyembe and Cherith Sanger First Fellows in UCLA Law–Sonke Health & Human Rights Fellowship ProgramOlejarz, Josh2012-03-15Created to train lawyers from topSouth African law schools for careersin public interest, the new UCLALaw–Sonke Health & Human Rights Fellowshipprogram selected Nomonde Nyembe and CherithSanger as the first two fellows. The two lawyersfrom South Africa arrived at UCLA in Fall.The fellowship’s focus on health, HIV prevention,gender equality, and human rights is timely,as in 2007 South Africa had the highest numberof people living with HIV in the world, as well asone of the highest levels of domestic violence andrape. Both Nyembe and Sanger are committed topursuing social change in their home country:upon completing their UCLA degrees, they arerequired by the program to work with the SonkeGender Justice Network in South Africa for atleast one year.UCLA Law–Sonke Health & Human Rights Fellowship ProgramNomonde NyembeCherith SangerSouth AfricaSonke Gender Justice Networkapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/2386f064https://escholarship.org/content/qt2386f064/qt2386f064.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt7sv5h2222012-03-22T15:33:41Zqt7sv5h222Abortion Performance and PoliticsCandelario, Rosemary2012-03-15“Performing abortion” typically refers to what health care providers do in clinics, private offices, and (rarely) hospitals 1.21 million times per year,every year, in the United States. At the same time, the phrase indicates what performance artists, choreographers, and activists have been doing on stages, in galleries, and on the streets for decades. Candelario is intrigued by this double meaning that invites us to take seriously what abortion means at this political and historical moment, but also what performance, activism, and the concerted actions of bodies can do. This article offers some introductory thoughts on these intertwined issues, and represents the beginning of a larger project Candelario is conducting. “Performing Abortion: FeministCultural Production after Roe v. Wade” wasconceived with the premise that the examination of performances of and about abortion by feminist artists and activists may reveal productive strategies for reframing the abortion debate in the United States.abortionperformanceperformance politicsUnited States Politicsabortion debateapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/7sv5h222https://escholarship.org/content/qt7sv5h222/qt7sv5h222.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt6910n7mm2012-03-22T15:33:36Zqt6910n7mmA New Lost Woman Philosopher: Amalie John HathawayBensick, Carol Marie2012-03-15At present Bensick is working on gleaning from Hathaway’s 18-page Schopenhauer paper published in Education and its contemporary reviews why Hathaway was both the “idol” of the Chicago Philosophical Society and a figure of so little interest to the feminist philosophical recovery movement that in its work to date in, for example, Women in the American Philosophical Traditiion: 1800-1930, a 2004 special issue of Hypatia, a journal of feminist philosophy, edited by Dorothy Rogers and Therese B. Dykeman, she appears in a footnote only.Amalie John HathawayWomen PhilosophersChicago Philosophical Societyapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/6910n7mmhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt6910n7mm/qt6910n7mm.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt1t05000k2012-03-22T15:33:33Zqt1t05000kJourneys To and Fro: Recalling and Writing “Home(s)” in Diasporic ImaginariesWong, Vivian L.2012-03-15The personal archive (re)positioned in Asiandiasporas and the imaginaries of diasporic individuals is an intimate space simultaneously material and immaterial, imagined and created— for Asian im/migrants to form a different sense of belonging that is deliberate and enabling for themselves within their communities. The immigrant women in these (diasporic) communities collect, create, maintain, preserve, and distribute their historical and cultural narratives in records that capture their hybrid transnational identities and multinational experiences as they want them remembered and transmitted to the successive generations of their descendants.MalaysiaWomenArchivesDiasporaapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/1t05000khttps://escholarship.org/content/qt1t05000k/qt1t05000k.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt33k669dn2012-03-22T15:33:28Zqt33k669dnAndrea Ghez Receives Crafoord PrizeSher, Ben2012-03-15The Royal Swedish Academy of Scienceshas selected Andrea Ghez, a professor of physics and astronomy at UCLA, to receive the 2012 Crafoord Prize in Astronomy. She is being honored by the Academy for “observations of stars orbiting the Galactic center, indicating the presence of a supermassive black hole.” The Crafoord Prize, which includes an accompanying award of 4 million Swedish krona, is considered one of the world’s largest scientific prizes. Ghez is the first woman to win the award since its establishment in 1982.Royal Swedish Academy of SciencesAndrea GhezCrafoord Prize in Astronomyapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/33k669dnhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt33k669dn/qt33k669dn.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt0pr5k67v2012-03-22T15:33:20Zqt0pr5k67vSymposium Preview: Life, (Un)LtdUCLA Center for the Study of Women2012-03-15On May, 11 2012, scholars will gather at “Life (Un)Ltd: A Symposium on Feminism, Race, and Biopolitics,”which is presented by the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, with support from the UCLA Office of Faculty Diversity and Development; Deans of the Humanities and Social Sciences at UCLA; the Partner University Fundproject on 21st Century Cuisine, Nutrition and Genetics in France and the United States; and the UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics.Rachel C. Lee, CSW Associate Director,organized this symposium and invited scholars from diverse fields to present their works related to feminism, race, and biopolitics.biotechnologyfeminismbiopoliticsracebiomedicalwomenapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/0pr5k67vhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt0pr5k67v/qt0pr5k67v.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt23h9z2m92012-03-07T11:21:40Zqt23h9z2m9From Commodity to Donation: Breast Milk Banking in the United States, 1910 to the PresentGerstein Pineau, Marisa2011-02-01This article presents a brief history of breast milk banking in the United States from 1910 to the present. The article discusses the the shift in both the ideology and commodification of breast milk banking in the United States.Other American Studiesbreast milk bankingcommoditypovertywomen's healthhistorywomen's historyapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/23h9z2m9https://escholarship.org/content/qt23h9z2m9/qt23h9z2m9.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt6hb3v4xc2012-03-07T11:21:22Zqt6hb3v4xcGlobal Flashpoints: Transnational Performance and Politics: Faculty Curator's NotesCase, Sue-Ellen2012-03-01In organizing “Global Flashpoints: Transnational Performance and Politics,” our purpose was to open up aninternational exploration of transnational/global practicesconcerning social organization, gender, and sexualitythrough performances and academic research across avariety of countries and colleges. To that end, we hostedperformances from India, Mexico, Taiwan, and Los Angeles,with themes concerning the abusive practices surroundingthe taking of child brides in The Wife’s Letter, the role ofthe arts in metaphysical discourses and social protests inDialogues Between Darwin and God, deconstructing orientalistfantasies of women in Dancing Mother Courage andThe Good Person, and imagining homoerotic relationshipsbetween slaves in the antebellum South in bonded. Theperformances took place in various sites across the campus,including Royce Hall, Glorya Kaufman hall, and MacGowan.They were attended by students and scholars from UCLA,USC, CSULA, as well as local community members fromvarious ethnic and diasporic communities.Global FlashpointsThe Wife's LetterbondedDialogues Between Darwin and GodDancing Mother CourageThe Good PersonUCLA Department of TheaterCenter for Performance Studiesapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/6hb3v4xchttps://escholarship.org/content/qt6hb3v4xc/qt6hb3v4xc.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt7xw9s81g2012-03-07T11:20:15Zqt7xw9s81gJesusa Rodríguez's Dialogues Between Darwin and GodMartinez-Vu, Yvette2012-03-01In Diálogos entre Darwin y Dios (Dialogues
between Darwin and God), renowned Mexican director, performance artist, and activist Jesusa Rodríguez steps on stage to engage with the archetypal Western figures. Performed in Spanish, with instances of code-switching and English supertitles, Rodríguez’s Dialogues serves to satirize and critique preserved and perpetuatedglobal icons. With aesthetic forms inspiredby Mexican cabaret—including the use of comedy, song, dance, and improvisation—Rodríguez covers a wide range of U.S. history and politics. The performance closed the second day of events at Global Flashpoints: Transnational Performance
and Politics, a conference held from October 6th to 12th, 2011, and organized by the UCLA Center for Performance Studies and Center for the Study of Women.Jesusa RodríguezDialogues between Darwin and GodGlobal Flashpoints: Transnational Performance and PoliticsCenter for Performance Studiesapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/7xw9s81ghttps://escholarship.org/content/qt7xw9s81g/qt7xw9s81g.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt28k3q8h32012-03-07T11:19:40Zqt28k3q8h3Transformative Performance: Transnational Engagement with Indian TheaterJuhàsz-Wood, Linda2012-03-01Of the many performances, talks, and roundtables at Global Flashpoints, The Wife’s Letter and a seminar led by Bishnupriya Dutt specifically addressed questions of race, gender, power, patriarchy, nationalism, and colonialism, and how these issues and others can and should be explored within a transnational context. The first event of the series was a performance of The Wife’s Letter, followed by a discussion with the director and actors moderated by Anurima Banerji, Assistant Professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA. On October 11, Bishnupriya Dutt, Professor of Theatre History in the Schoolof Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University and coauthor of Engendering Performance: Indian Women Performers in Search of an Identity, held a seminar on dance and acting in Indian theater. Both events addressed issues of gender andperformance, the colonial and nationalist history of India as related to theater practices, barriers of language and culture, and, more broadly, the effects of holding events such as Global Flashpoints.The Wife's LetterIndian TheaterGlobal Flashpoints: Transnational Performance and PoliticsCenter for Performance StudiesBishnupriya Duttapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/28k3q8h3https://escholarship.org/content/qt28k3q8h3/qt28k3q8h3.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt7fg6n0wx2012-03-07T11:19:16Zqt7fg6n0wxSeeing the Ghost: Cheng-Chieh Yu's "The Good Person" and "Dancing Mother Courage"Shanks, Gwyneth J.2012-03-01The final performance of theGlobal Flashpoints: Transnational Performance
and Politics, an international conference held from October 6th to 12th, 2011, and organized by the UCLA Center for Performance Studies and Center for the Study of Women, featured the work of Cheng-Chieh Yu, dancer, choreographer, and Associate Professor of the Department of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA. The two pieces she presented were the video work The Good Person and the live dance piece Dancing Mother Courage with an accompanying video projection. Both pieces, as is clear from their titles, engage with Bertolt Brecht’s work. The Good Person questions the orientalism in Brecht’s The Good Person of Szechwan; Dancing Mother Courage seeks to meld the iconic title character of Mother Courage and Her Children with dance.Cheng-Chieh YuThe Good PersonDancing Mother CourageGlobal Flashpoints: Transnational Performance and PoliticsCenter for Performance Studiesapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/7fg6n0wxhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt7fg6n0wx/qt7fg6n0wx.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt98x7n1zm2012-03-07T11:18:47Zqt98x7n1zmA Wife’s Letter: A Stage Adaptation of Tagore’s Short Story About Child Brides Features Degendered RolesJeong, Areum2012-03-01A stage adaption of Tagore’s short story, AWife’s Letter, was the inaugural event of the Global Flashpoints: Transnational Performance and Politics, a conference organized by the UCLA Center for Performance Studies and UCLA Center for the Study of Women. Before the performance, Anurima Banerji provided abrief introduction to the performance, which was directed by Neelam Man Singh Chowdhry, are nowned figure in contemporary Indian drama, and performed by Gick Grewal and Vansh Bhardwaj. As the full-length version of A Wife’s Letter involves a larger cast as well as live musiciansand other elements, the performance presented excerpts from the play.The Wife's LetterRabindranath TagoreGlobal Flashpoints: Transnational Performance and PoliticsNeelam Man Singh Chowdhryapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/98x7n1zmhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt98x7n1zm/qt98x7n1zm.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt3zk8f0vv2012-02-23T16:07:54Zqt3zk8f0vvQ&A with Rachel LeeUCLA Center for the Study of Women2012-02-15The daughter of immigrants, Rachel C. Lee grew up in suburban New Jersey and attended a small high school with only about five hundred students. Of those, she “was one of three Asian Americans, maybe ten people of color in my high school.” Looking for a larger, more diverse environment, she enrolled at Cornell University, where she majored in English. After graduating, she received a George W. Woodruff Fellowship at Emory University, where she studied with Hortense J. Spillers. In 1991, she arrived at UCLA to pursue a Ph.D. in English Literature. After holding a post-doc at UC Berkeley, she joined the faculty at UCLA in 1995. An Associate Professor in English and Women’s Studies, she was appointed CSW Associate Director in September of 2011. Her year-long project is “Life (Un) Ltd.,” which will address the impact of recent developments in the biosciences and biotechnology on feminist studies. Recently, she kindly sat downand chatted with CSW Update about her history and the development of her project.Rachel Leeapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/3zk8f0vvhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt3zk8f0vv/qt3zk8f0vv.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt755273g52012-02-23T16:07:45Zqt755273g5Q&A with Evelien GeertsUCLA Center for the Study of Women2012-02-15Founded in 2001, the UCLA-Utrecht Exchange Program promotes cooperation in teaching and research, the international exchange of ideas, and the scholarly efforts of participating faculty and students at the partner institutions. A recent participant in the program, Evelien Geerts, chatted with us recently about her work and her experiences at UCLA. With a Master’s degree in Philosophy at the University of Antwerp in Belgium, Geerts is currently enrolled in the Gender and Ethnicity program at Utrecht Uni- versity in The Netherlands. Her main areas of interest are Continental philosophy and feminist philosophy (critiques on psychoanalysis and pornography, and care ethics), Anglo-American political philosophy, and sexual difference philosophy. For her Research Master’s thesis, she will focus on a diffractive reread- ing of the philosophies of Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray.UCLA-Utrecht Exchange Programapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/755273g5https://escholarship.org/content/qt755273g5/qt755273g5.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt9hn7m56b2012-02-23T16:07:40Zqt9hn7m56bOf War and Love: In the Land of Blood and Honey, a PerspectiveRoman, Denise2012-02-12A review of the film, "In the Land of Blood and Honey" by CSW research scholar Denise Roman.In the Land of Blood and HoneyAngelina Joliefilm reviewapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/9hn7m56bhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt9hn7m56b/qt9hn7m56b.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt3gz723372012-02-23T16:07:33Zqt3gz72337Sex, Gender, and Decisions Exploring the Cognitions and Choices that Result in Differential OutcomesWieland, Alice2012-02-15To date, there has been much research related to sexism, discrimination, and biased evaluations of women for such traditionally masculine roles as management. If there are cues in the environment that suggest certain courses of action or occupational choices would likely lead to discrimination or would present significant barriers to obtaining desired outcomes, however, it is a rational and self-protective choice to select a different path. People normally won’t put themselves in situations where failure is likely. As such, concluding that differential sex outcomes results from discrimination may be overestimating its direct influence. (Indirectly discriminatory practices may, however, act as a deterrent, by discouraging certain populations from pursuing paths where bias is likely). A neglected contributory factor of differential gender representation may be people’s own decisions related to which paths are worth pursuing based on subjective cost–benefit analyses: risk perceived and likelihood of success x reward value.To tackle the overarching question of how sex and gender influence the decisions of men and women, a few different contexts were selected for examination. Specifically, of interest are decisions in competitive, risky, and entrepreneurial environ- ments. Recent research mostly notes that women are less likely to compete, are more risk averse, and are less likely to embark on an entrepreneur- ial career path. I will now explore each of these contexts briefly and suggest some conclusions that can be drawn from the research.managementsex discriminationsex differencesdecision makingapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/3gz72337https://escholarship.org/content/qt3gz72337/qt3gz72337.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt4mb0f5342012-02-23T16:07:23Zqt4mb0f534The Curatorial Crisis in Independent FilmsRastegar, Roya2012-02-15Curators have emerged as a significant force in defining film culture on local and global scales by cultivating public notions of quality and taste. sundance film festival programmers sifted through 4,042 submitted films in order to emerge with the 112 official selections for the 2012 festival. The decisions on what films to include or exclude from the festival program directly impacts public access to independent films because curators determine the films that distributors see, and possibly buy, for theatrical, dVd, or online release. The film industry relies on festivals as a necessary curatorial mechanism for managing the exponential increase in annual film production.Independent FilmFilm Festivalsapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/4mb0f534https://escholarship.org/content/qt4mb0f534/qt4mb0f534.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt3db628162012-01-26T16:39:46Zqt3db62816Studying Structures of Inequality in Astronomy Through Narrative Analysis and Social Network VisualizationMurillo, Luis Felipe R.Traweek, SharonHolBrooks, JaritaGuillen, ReynalGu, Diane2012-01-15Looking at the 40 top-ranked astronomy and astrophysics departments in the United States reveals the underrepresentation of minority groups in these fields. in 2005, of the 647 tenured faculty in the departments, 89 were women, 5 were African American, 50 were Asian, 3 were Hispanic, and 1 was Native American (Nelson 2005). in 2007, of the 594 tenured faculty in the departments, 94 were women, 6 were African American, 42 were Asian, 7 were Hispanic, and none were Native American (Nelson 2007). It is against this context of stark disparity that we place our research focus.In order to respond to the question of why it is much less likely for members of underrepresented groups to build a career in science, we mobilized an experimental approach combining research techniques from history, anthropology, gender, and ethnic studies. in our national science foundation-sponsored pilot project, “Women and Minority Astronomers’ strategic engagement with distributed, multi-disciplinary collaborations and large-scale databases,” our main objectives included identifying women, ethnic minority, and foreign-born astronomers; learning about their trajectories; and investigating strategies, relationships, and mentorship practices that helped them to build a career. in the context of large-scale collaborations in (e-)science more broadly, we looked specifically at how gender, ethnicity, and nationality intersect in the process of scientific formation, as well as in the process of engaging partners for the construction of instruments, design, and implementation of large-scale data management system.STEMWomen and Minority AstronomersSocial Network VisualizationNarrative Analysisapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/3db62816https://escholarship.org/content/qt3db62816/qt3db62816.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt77p8287s2012-01-26T16:38:55Zqt77p8287sSondra Hale HonoredMcKibben, Susan2012-01-15Caring, boldness, self-critique, integrity, humor. Over and over again, students, colleagues, and friends used these words to describe Sondra Hale at the “Gender, Art, and Social Movements in the Middle East and Global South” conference at UCLA on October 28th, which honored her upon the occasion of her retirement from full-time teaching.1 “she embodies theory and practice,” said Women’s Studies Ph.D. student Rana Sharif. Unlike some scholars, Hale has always viewed theory and practice, academics and activism, as inextricably connected and mutually informing, and the conference offerings themselves moved seamlessly between these two poles.Sondra Haleapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/77p8287shttps://escholarship.org/content/qt77p8287s/qt77p8287s.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt1wd550gv2012-01-26T16:38:47Zqt1wd550gvFour Research Scholars Awarded Tillie Olsen Research Grants for 2012Staff, Writer2012-01-15CSW news article highlighting the 2012 Tillie Olsen Research Grant Award Winners.Tillie Olsen Researcg GrantsCSW Award Winnersapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/1wd550gvhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt1wd550gv/qt1wd550gv.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt52t6f8kf2012-01-26T16:38:43Zqt52t6f8kfThinking Gender 2012: Conference PreviewRiojas, Mirasol2012-01-15Conference preview of Thinking Gender 2012, CSW's annual Graduate Student Research Conference.Thinking GenderCenter for the Study of Womenapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/52t6f8kfhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt52t6f8kf/qt52t6f8kf.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt0sk7t5792012-01-26T16:38:38Zqt0sk7t579Gaining "Interview Success" Starts With a WorkshopLamar Prieto, Covadonga2012-01-15It is job application season and I try to catch my breath, hiding my procrastination and my panic while doing other not-so-important things. When I was first told about the Center for the Study of Women’s Interview Success Workshop, it seemed like a good idea. As the day approached and the pile of documents on, over, and around my desk grew bigger instead of smaller, devoting two hours to hearing about the market seemed an excruciat- ing prospect: one more thing I should be doing instead of grocery shopping, reading bibliography after bibliography or, last but not least, sleeping.Job TrainingJob Training for Graduate StudentsInterview Tips for Graduate Studentsapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/0sk7t579https://escholarship.org/content/qt0sk7t579/qt0sk7t579.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt3j92p8q22012-01-26T16:38:35Zqt3j92p8q2Sondra Hale HonoredMcKibben, Susan2012-01-15Caring, boldness, self-critique, integrity,humor. Over and over again,students, colleagues, and friends usedthese words to describe Sondra Hale at the “Gender,Art, and Social Movements in the MiddleEast and Global South” conference at UCLA onOctober 28th, which honored her upon the occasionof her retirement from full-time teaching. This article is a tribute and overview of Sondra Hale's work throughout her career.Sondra Haleapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/3j92p8q2https://escholarship.org/content/qt3j92p8q2/qt3j92p8q2.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt3t2732sp2012-01-26T16:38:31Zqt3t2732spNew Directions in Gender and Sexuality Studies: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Rebecca Jordan-Young, and Alondra Nelson Will Be Featured in Winter QuarterMcLean, LindseyJohnson, Jane’a2011-12-01Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Rebecca Jordan-Young, and Alondra Nelson will be featured in Winter Quarter during the Women's Studies Lecture Series: New Directions in Gender and Sexuality Studies.Gayatri Chakravorty SpivakRebecca Jordan-YoungAlondra NelsonNew Directions in Gender and Sexuality StudiesUCLA Department of Women's Studiesapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/3t2732sphttps://escholarship.org/content/qt3t2732sp/qt3t2732sp.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt55m7m9gx2012-01-26T16:38:29Zqt55m7m9gxL.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black CinemaSheppard, Samantha Noelle2011-12-01Symposium Review by Samantha Noelle Sheppard of L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema. Taking place on Saturday, November 12, this one-day symposium was enveloped within the the L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema series, which opened October 7 and will end on December 17, at the UCLA Film & Television Archive’s Billy Wilder Theater at UCLA ’s HammerMuseum. The film series is co-curated byAllyson Nadia Field, UCLA Film & TelevisionArchive Director Jan-Christopher Horak, UCLA Film & Television Archive Head of Public Programs Shannon Kelly, and Jacqueline Stewart.L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black CinemaBlack cinemaClyde TaylorAllyson Nadia FieldJacqueline StewartAfrican-American filmmakersapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/55m7m9gxhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt55m7m9gx/qt55m7m9gx.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt0fj0v57p2012-01-26T16:38:25Zqt0fj0v57pIn Search of a Real but Invisible Afghan Feminist Icon: CSW Research Scholar Returns to Kabul to Explore the Legacy of Queen Soraya TarziArbabzadah, Nushin2011-12-01In June this year I returned to Kabul insearch of empirical data and the legacy of the first modern Afghan woman, Queen Soraya Tarzi (r. 1919–1929). The research trip opened my eyes to the particular challenges of conducting feminist scholarship in what is not only a war zone but also an authoritarian, somewhat chaotic, and misogynist society where history is largely handed down orally through anecdotes and folklore. My visit also coincided with a period in which Afghans have begun to rewrite their history, contesting the official nationhood version with ethno centrist and pan-Islamists variations, both of which either ignore Queen Soraya or present her in a negative light either due to her modernity or ethnicity.KabulQueen Soraya TarziAfghanistanapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/0fj0v57phttps://escholarship.org/content/qt0fj0v57p/qt0fj0v57p.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt6dz5c8jd2012-01-26T16:38:21Zqt6dz5c8jdQ&A with Alicia Gaspar de AlbaStaff Writer, Center for the Study of Women2011-12-01An interview with important scholar and writer in the fields of Chicano/a art, gender and sexuality, popular culture, and border studies, Alicia Gaspar de Alba is a Professor in the Departments of Chicana/o Studies, English, and Women’s Studies at UCLA.Alicia Gaspar de AlbaChicana/o StudiesEnglishWomen's StudiesCésar E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studiesapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/6dz5c8jdhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt6dz5c8jd/qt6dz5c8jd.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt46k4j25c2012-01-26T16:38:18Zqt46k4j25cDirector's CommentaryMcHugh, Kathleen2011-11-01Like many Los Angelinos, I have been reveling in the many events, openings, artwork, and exhibitions that make up the enormous getty arts initiative, PacificStandard Time (PST). Women as artists and as subjects are strongly represented both among and within these exhibitions.Los AngelesFemale ArtistsArt ExhibitionsThe Getty Research InstitutePacific Standard Tine (PST)application/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/46k4j25chttps://escholarship.org/content/qt46k4j25c/qt46k4j25c.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt39p7h12d2012-01-26T16:38:16Zqt39p7h12dAmanda Apgar: Recipient of 2011-12 Irving and Jean Stone Recruitment FellowshipWriter, Staff2011-11-01A profile of Amanda Apgar, the recipient of 2011-12 irving and Jean Stone Recruitment Fellowship.UCLA Center for the Study of WomenUCLA Department of Women's StudiesIrving and Jean Stone Recruitment Fellowshipapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/39p7h12dhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt39p7h12d/qt39p7h12d.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt8nr5d4fq2012-01-26T16:38:13Zqt8nr5d4fqUCLA's 2011 Queer Studies ConferenceMcLean, Lindsey2011-11-01Fashion, Identity, Performance, and Culture: The Queer Studies Conference 2011, a two day event organized by the UCLA Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender program, succeeded in creating an intellectually stimulating, aesthetically pleasing, and singular experience. The organizers of this year’s conference chose to focus on concepts, practices, aesthetics, and ideas about fashion from the LGBT perspective. 2011 Queer Studies ConferencefashionLGBT StudiesUCLAQueertureapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/8nr5d4fqhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt8nr5d4fq/qt8nr5d4fq.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt6425p7pc2012-01-26T16:38:02Zqt6425p7pcTrends in ExploitationFardin, Halina2011-11-01Ima Matul, trafficked from Indonesia to the U.S. at age 17, was exploited for three years before she reached out to a neighbor for help and refuge. Vanessa Lanza, Director of Partnerships for the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST), has said that this form of modern-day slavery continues to happen in our own backyards—many of us unaware of its existence. To raise the profile on this serious and very much ongoing practice, the Iris Cantor–UCLA Women’s Health Education and Resource Center, CAST, and the UCLA Center for the Study of Women cosponsored “Trends in Exploitation: Labor Trafficking and Organ Trafficking,” a conference on October 20, 2011 at UCLA. Janet Pregler, M.D., Director of the Iris Cantor–UCLA Women’s Health Center, introduced the conference by discussing the methods of deception and coercion used to exploit those living in poverty.illegal traffickingorgan traffickingUCLA Center for the Study of WomenTrends in ExploitationUCLA Women’s Health Education and Resource Centerapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/6425p7pchttps://escholarship.org/content/qt6425p7pc/qt6425p7pc.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt9984w1402012-01-26T16:38:00Zqt9984w140Food Movements Unite! Strategies to Transform Our Food SystemsMcLean, Lindsey2011-11-01The newest publication from the Institute of Food and Development Policy, Food Movements Unite! Strategies to Transform Our Food Systems (First Food Books, 2011) collects a variety of voices and opinions from farmers, workers, and consumers in diverse communities all over the world in an attempt to answer one question: “How can we unite to transform the global food system?” Contributors to the volume include activists and practitioners from organizations such as Via Campesina, the Slow Food Movement, and the World March of Women. The contributors lay out their strategies for new food production and distribution systems to key individuals like olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, and João Pedro Stédile of the Brazilian Landless Worker’s Movement.international food systemsfood policydevelopment policyFood Firstapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/9984w140https://escholarship.org/content/qt9984w140/qt9984w140.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt88q4j2tn2012-01-26T16:37:58Zqt88q4j2tnProject 2012: Increasing Female Representation in GovernmentMcLean, Lindsey2011-11-01Entitled Project: 2012, the CAWP campaign is a national, non-partisan effort to recruit professional women to run for office in 2012. The campaign sees the 2012 election year as a “once- in-a-decade opportunity” to elect more women into Congress and state legislatures by taking advantage of the redrawn congressional and state legislative districts that resulted from 2010 Census data. The re-drawing of districts has opened and created new seats in the 2012 election. According to CAWP, “reapportionment creates opportunity, and research shows that women have more success winning open seats.”Women in governmentProject 2012Center for American Women in Politicsapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/88q4j2tnhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt88q4j2tn/qt88q4j2tn.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt5cr405mt2012-01-26T16:37:49Zqt5cr405mtGender Diversity in Corporate LeadershipMcLean, Lindsey2011-11-01This article is an overview of the working paper by Assistant Professors in the Anderson School of Management Geoffrey Tate and Liu Yang titled "Female Leadership and Gender Equity: Evidence from Plant Closure,” which concluded that “women in leadership roles lessen the compensation gap between men and women inside their firms”managementcompensationgender diversityapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/5cr405mthttps://escholarship.org/content/qt5cr405mt/qt5cr405mt.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt7h00k48v2011-09-29T11:30:57Zqt7h00k48vGlobal Flashpoints: Transnational Performance and PoliticsMcLean, Lindsey2011-10-01A conference preview of Global Flashpoints: Transnational Performance and Politics.application/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/7h00k48vhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt7h00k48v/qt7h00k48v.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt1dw1f4fn2011-09-29T11:30:53Zqt1dw1f4fnHoly Mother of Chiri Mountain: A Female Mountain Spirit in KoreaStiller, Maya2011-10-01In this article, Stiller focuses on one of the female mountain spirits in Korea, the Holy Mother of Chiri Mountain. Thus far, Korean ethnologists such as Son Chin-'ae and Yi Yong-bŏm have focused primarily on studying the Holy Mother’s role as the only protective deity of Chiri Mountain. Stiller believes that one needs to look beyond the veneration of a singular male or female deity. Stiller's argument is that Chiri Mountain is occupied by several mountain spirits, among which the female spirit has the highest rank. Furthermore, the Holy Mother shrine needs to be seen as part of a popular pilgrimage route that commoners and literati travelled along.Holy Mother of Chiri Mountainfemale korean mountain spiritskorean mountain spiritsChosŏnChiri Mountainapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/1dw1f4fnhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt1dw1f4fn/qt1dw1f4fn.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt32d2v6232011-09-29T11:30:51Zqt32d2v623New Directions in Gender and Sexuality StudiesMcLean, Lindsey2011-10-01A description of UCLA Women's Studies 2011/2012 Colloquium New Directions in Gender and Sexuality Studies. This article gives brief biographical information about the first two speakers, Professor Joan Roughgarden from Stanford University and Professor E. Patrick Johnson from Northwestern University.application/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/32d2v623https://escholarship.org/content/qt32d2v623/qt32d2v623.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt6ft8154w2011-09-29T11:30:48Zqt6ft8154wDirector's CommentaryMcHugh, Kathleen2011-10-01women in filmfemale directorsfemale filmmakersapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/6ft8154whttps://escholarship.org/content/qt6ft8154w/qt6ft8154w.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt1s06r3702011-09-29T11:30:44Zqt1s06r370Louise Hornby: Q&A With the New Faculty Member in the Department of EnglishCSW, Center for the Study of Women2011-10-01application/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/1s06r370https://escholarship.org/content/qt1s06r370/qt1s06r370.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt7xq8r1mj2011-07-03T20:24:31Zqt7xq8r1mjDirectors Commentary: New Majorities I & II : A Team EffortMcHugh, Kathleen2011-03-01A description of the joint project between UCLA Center for the Study of Women and NYU Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality resulting in the sister conferences titled "New Majorities."Curriculum and Social InquiryDisability and Equity in EducationLiberal StudiesOther EducationOther Educational Administration and SupervisionNew MajoritiesConferrenceCenter for the Study of WomenCenter for the Study of Gender and SexualityUCLANYUapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/7xq8r1mjhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt7xq8r1mj/qt7xq8r1mj.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt3zx338p32011-07-03T20:21:55Zqt3zx338p3Genesis Project as a Model of Gender Study ResearchChepelyk, Oksana2011-03-01This article discussed the implications and meaning of two art installations: “Genesis project as a model of gender study research” and the authors own video installation which includes three videos “Origin”, “Pulse_Life” and “Birth.” Both pieces interrogate gender, time, space, information flows, statistics, relational aesthetics, networking process, science, reproductive techniques, commercialization and the human being.social sculpturemultimediaartGenesis Projectnoospheretechnologyinformation flowfemale reproductive bodycommercial surrogacyapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/3zx338p3https://escholarship.org/content/qt3zx338p3/qt3zx338p3.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt1rs5q1b02011-07-03T20:21:50Zqt1rs5q1b0In Conversation With Lata ManiGunawardena, Devaka2011-03-01After her talk at UCLA on February 10, Professor Lata Mani graciously extended her time and critical thinking to this interview and helped frame it as a conversation, rather than a didactic exposition of her work. I am grateful for both. As a continuation of her talk, this interchange refers to the problems she raised in it, but I hope it will also be accessible to those who were not present. In her talk, she discussed varied topics, from Taylorism as an industrial process to the possibly productive relationship between secular academic discourse and sacred knowledge.InterviewLata Maniinterdependancyknowledgeapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/1rs5q1b0https://escholarship.org/content/qt1rs5q1b0/qt1rs5q1b0.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt51v598712011-07-03T20:21:45Zqt51v59871Lata ManiAnam, Nasia2011-03-01This article summarizes the talk given by Lana Mani, esteemed post-colonial feminist historian's titled "Once Upon a Time in the Present,” that proposed an alternate ontological and epistemological orientation.Other PhilosophyLata Manipostcolonial feminist talkUCLAapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/51v59871https://escholarship.org/content/qt51v59871/qt51v59871.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt18p0x4r52011-07-03T20:21:40Zqt18p0x4r5Childbirth and Confinement: Mary Wollstonecraft and the Politics of PregnancyRaisanen, Elizabeth2011-03-01This article discusses the unfinished novel authored by Mary Wollstonecraft, "The Wrongs of Women, or Maria" in relationship to Wollstonecraft's own decisions during childbirth. Wollstonecraft decided to use a female midwife for the birth of her child, an unpopular choice at the time. Because of complications during the birth, and the assumed authority of male practitioners, Wollstonecraft died as a result of a faulty intervention by a male doctor.Mary Wollstonecraft18th century childbirth practices18th century women's literatureapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/18p0x4r5https://escholarship.org/content/qt18p0x4r5/qt18p0x4r5.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt9s38f6rn2011-07-03T20:21:26Zqt9s38f6rnCasi Como Madres: Examining the Role of Grandmothers in Global Care ChainsYarris, Kristin Elizabeth2011-03-01In this article, Yarris provides a necessarily brief overview of grandmother’s experiences of “mothering again” for another generation of (grand)children in Nicaraguan families of migrant mothers. Despite the fact that grandmothers assume caregiving for children over often prolonged periods of mothers’ absence (the mean duration of migration for families in my study was 2.5 years, with a range of 6 months to 12 years), grandmothers’ roles as surrogate mothers are tenuous and precarious. In what follows, Yarris illustrates this point using the example of Aurora, a grandmother who cared for two granddaughters “como si fueran su madre” (as if I were their mother) after their mother migrated to Spain.child careimmigrationglobal care chainsgrandmother care giversmotheringapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/9s38f6rnhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt9s38f6rn/qt9s38f6rn.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt1pr077wr2011-07-03T20:21:17Zqt1pr077wrWOMEN and STEMShapiro, Jenessa2011-03-01This article describes a Faculty Speaker Series organized by Jenessa Shapiro, Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at UCLA, in Conjunction with UCLA's Center for the Study of Women. The Speaker Series has invited scholars to discuss the issues surrounding women and STEM.STEMSpeaker SeriesWomen in the SciencesCenter for the Study of Womenapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/1pr077wrhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt1pr077wr/qt1pr077wr.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt5fg9m4b32011-07-03T19:53:08Zqt5fg9m4b3Indulging and Divulging: Expoloding Expectation in Stand-Up Comedy by Women of ColorNittrouer, Christie2011-02-01This essay discusses the acts of two stand-up comediennes, Maysoon Zayir and Suzanne Whang. The author analyzes the way in which both of these women, through their comedy, interrogate and provoke racial expectations, identity, and transnationalism.Other Race, Ethnicity and post-Colonial Studiesstand-up comedywomen of colorMaysoon ZayidSuzanne Whangapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/5fg9m4b3https://escholarship.org/content/qt5fg9m4b3/qt5fg9m4b3.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt1vd2j4t62011-07-03T19:51:09Zqt1vd2j4t6The Benefits of Supporting OthersInagaki, Tristen K2011-02-02According to the American Time Use Survey, individuals spend hours each day providing support and caring for others and women spend more time engaged in these activities than men (United States Department of Labor, 2010). This article discusses the results from a psychological study examining the neurological response in both women and men while providing support to others.Other PsychologyQuantitative Psychologysupportpsychological benefitsquantitative studyapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/1vd2j4t6https://escholarship.org/content/qt1vd2j4t6/qt1vd2j4t6.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt72k308vp2011-07-03T19:50:58Zqt72k308vpIndulging and Divulging: Exploding Expectation in Stand-Up Comedy by Women of ColorNittrouer, Christie2011-02-01This essay discusses the acts of two stand-up comediennes, Maysoon Zayir and Suzanne Whang. The author analyzes the way in which both of these women, through their comedy, interrogate and provoke racial expectations, identity, and transnationalism.Other Race, Ethnicity and post-Colonial Studiesstand-up comedywomen of colorMaysoon ZayidSuzanne Whangapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/72k308vphttps://escholarship.org/content/qt72k308vp/qt72k308vp.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt5cq095sn2011-07-03T19:50:53Zqt5cq095snFrom Commodity to Donation: Breast Milk Banking in the United States, 1910 to the PresentGerstein Pineau, Marisa2011-02-01This article presents a brief history of breast milk banking in the United States from 1910 to the present. The article discusses the the shift in both the ideology and commodification of breast milk banking in the United States.Other Historybreast milk bankingcommoditypovertywomen's healthhistorywomen's historyapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/5cq095snhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt5cq095sn/qt5cq095sn.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt10m2x7xh2011-07-03T19:50:49Zqt10m2x7xhDiary of a Graduate Student: The Seasonal Musings of an Aspiring AcademicParargadi, Leila2010-02-01A personal essay describing the opportunity presented to Leila Pazargadi after winning the Constance Coiner Award offered by UCLA's Center for the Study of Women. After winning the award she was given the chance to guest lecture via satellite for the initiation Vrije University's Academic Advancement Program.Other Arts and HumanitiesCenter for the Study of WomenConstance Coiner AwardVrije UniversityNetherlandsteachingopportunityAcademic Advancement Programapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/10m2x7xhhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt10m2x7xh/qt10m2x7xh.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt72t4n68m2011-07-03T19:50:43Zqt72t4n68mNever Give Up? When Letting Go of Goals WorksThomson, Elizabeth2011-02-01Research across different illness contexts has demonstrated that goal adjustment, defined as disengaging from a blocked goal and reengaging in a new or pre-existing goals, is an adaptive process that is associated with psychological and physical well-being.Other Psychologyillnessgoalspsychological well-beinggoal adjustmentapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/72t4n68mhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt72t4n68m/qt72t4n68m.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt1kg651b32011-07-03T18:20:58Zqt1kg651b3Media Representations of Michelle ObamaBrannon, Taquesha2011-01-01In this article the author presents ideas about the media representations of Michelle Obama. The author argues that the public perceptions and favorability of Michelle Obama are tied to which aspects of her identity are presented in the media.Other Film and Media Studiesmichelle obamamedia represntationsafrican american womenfemininityapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/1kg651b3https://escholarship.org/content/qt1kg651b3/qt1kg651b3.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt511391vz2011-07-03T18:20:55Zqt511391vzAvoiding Maternity: Reproductive Practices in 1930s Rio de JaneiroRoth, Cassia Paigen2011-01-01This article presents a case study of alleged infanticide in Rio de Janeiro in 1932. The discussion surrounding the case study interrogates the problems of maternity in Brazil during this time period compounded with immigration issues, poverty, and education.maternitybrazilrio de janeirounwanted preganancywomen's rightsapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/511391vzhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt511391vz/qt511391vz.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt3g04h4vr2011-07-03T18:20:50Zqt3g04h4vrMy Great Aha! Moment as a PinayMendoza, Kim2011-01-01A personal essay describing the authors process of self identifying as a Pinay and her concurrent work in volunteer organizations advocating open dialogue and acceptance of diverse ethnic groups.personal essayidentityadvocacyapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/3g04h4vrhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt3g04h4vr/qt3g04h4vr.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt3pd5t9m62011-07-03T18:20:45Zqt3pd5t9m6Liberating Hollywood: Thirty Years of Women DirectorsSmukler, Maya Montanez2011-01-01This paper presents a history and discussion of female directors in mainstream movies in the US. The author addresses the involvement of various professional organizations in Hollywood in advocating for more gender diversity in film making.Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality StudiesHollywoodFemale DirectorsKathryn BigelowWomen in Filmapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/3pd5t9m6https://escholarship.org/content/qt3pd5t9m6/qt3pd5t9m6.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt76b8b02k2011-07-03T17:16:06Zqt76b8b02kbecoming transreal: Micha Cardenas and Elle Mehrmand mix first life with Second LifeJuliano, Linzi2010-12-01An overview of the performance piece "becoming transreal: a Mixed Realty, Bio Digital Performance" and accompanying panel discussion at UCLA.Other Arts and HumanitiesOther Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studiesperformance arttransreal performancegendersexualitytransgendertransgender lived experienceRicardo DominguezAmy Sara CarrollSandy Stoneapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/76b8b02khttps://escholarship.org/content/qt76b8b02k/qt76b8b02k.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt5tw6h8nk2011-07-03T17:15:59Zqt5tw6h8nkFrom Misogyny to Murder: Everyday Sexism and Femicide in a Cross-Cultural ContextRodriguez, Gilda2010-12-01The author argues that commonplace sexist practices lay the conditions for femicide and the political discourses that surround it. She examines two case studies: the over five hundred femicides that have occurred in the border city of Juarez, Mexico since 1993 and George Sodini's murder of three women in a gym in a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality StudiesSexismFemicideJuarezPittsburghGendered Crimeseveryday sexismapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/5tw6h8nkhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt5tw6h8nk/qt5tw6h8nk.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt7qf8m2w12011-07-03T17:15:54Zqt7qf8m2w1"Toward Being a Complete Woman": Reflections on Mothering in Santiago de CubaGarth, Hannah2010-12-01This article gives a brief look at how state policy and programming may have achieved the intended consequence of getting more women into the workforce in Santiago de Cuba. It also shows that by accomplishing this, household work was shifted onto grandmothers leaving a generation of women with the notion that womanhood is conflated with motherhood but without the space and skills for their own mothering.Santiago de Cubamotheringfemale rolesgender equality in the workplacegovernment programs"complete woman"application/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/7qf8m2w1https://escholarship.org/content/qt7qf8m2w1/qt7qf8m2w1.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt0399j9242011-07-03T17:15:48Zqt0399j924Innocence Unltd.: Gloria Wekker Visits UCLA to Discuss Her Current Work on Gender, Race, and Sexuality in the Dutch Cultural ArchiveCollette-Vanderaa, Heather2010-12-01A brief overview of Gloria Wekker's work in anticipation for her visit to UCLA for the Talk "Innocence Unltd." The article discusses the themes in her upcoming book "Inncovence Unltd. Intersections on Gender, Race, and Sexuality in the Dutch Cultural Archive. It also touches on her Doctoral thesis which focuses on the mati work of Afro-Surinamese working class women.Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality StudiesGloria WekkerUCLACenter for the Studt of WomenGenderSexualityDutchNetherlandsapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/0399j924https://escholarship.org/content/qt0399j924/qt0399j924.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt9042673t2011-07-03T17:05:13Zqt9042673tInterview Success! CSW Workshop Provides Invaluable Advice for Graduate Students on the Job MarketPark, RebekahYarris, Kristin2010-11-01This article presents an overview of a workshop held by UCLA's Center for the Study of Women to assist graduate students in their job search. It gives a short review, lists some of the best tips, and provides some opinions of the attendees.Other Teacher Education and Professional Developmentgraduate studentsinterview successadvicejobsapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/9042673thttps://escholarship.org/content/qt9042673t/qt9042673t.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt75v346872011-07-03T17:05:03Zqt75v34687Studying Maya Adolescents in a New High School in Zinacantan, MexicoMango, Adriana2010-11-01The author discusses her inspirations and inquiries for her research on the adolescent culture in Zinacantan, Mexico. She takes note of the current shift from a more family oriented society to a new model of individualism through more education and urbanization of the area in the influence of shifting gender roles amongst the local youth.Other Arts and HumanitiesOther Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studiesgender rolesZinacantanMexicoadolecent developmentcultural evolutionapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/75v34687https://escholarship.org/content/qt75v34687/qt75v34687.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt1vh2v4ch2011-07-03T16:37:45Zqt1vh2v4chSusan Stryker and Kara Keeling: Considering "Trans-" and "Queer at the Plenary Session of UCLA Queer Studies Conference 2010Collette-Vanderaa, Healther2010-10-01The two leading scholars for gender and queer studies, Susan Stryker, Associate Professor in the Gender Studies Program at Indiana University, Bloomington, and Kara Keeling, Associate Professor in the Critical Studies Program of USC's School of Cinematic Arts, were the featured speakers in the plenary session of this year's UCLA Queer Studies Conference. Organized by UCLA's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program the annual conference showcases a rich variety of queer research and provides a chance for students, faculty and independent researchers to share work and insights. Stryker and Keeling were critical of existing paradigms or ontologies but were also optimistic, engaging with the liminal spaces of queer- and trans- potentialities situated within a broader context of current political and social discourses concerning lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer communities.Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality StudiesUCLASusan StrykerKara KeelingConferencePanelQueer StdiesLGBT studiesapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/1vh2v4chhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt1vh2v4ch/qt1vh2v4ch.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt27r0p36z2011-07-03T16:37:37Zqt27r0p36zJMEWS Moves to Yale after Four Years at UCLAJames, Diane2010-10-01A brief history of the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies upon its move from UCLA to Yale.Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality StudiesJMEWSJournal of Middle East Women's StudiesYaleUCLAapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/27r0p36zhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt27r0p36z/qt27r0p36z.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt49b7g6xk2011-07-03T16:37:33Zqt49b7g6xkCritical Media Literacy, LGBT Representations and Blurred RealitiesEspericuteta, ShanteNava, Laura2010-10-01My group learned how current media creates problematic and often harmful stereotypes that are essentially harmful to the community. Our group decided that the central topic of our project, "Inside the Digital Closet" would be the misrepresentations of queer people in the corporate mass media. We wanted to distinguish what it means to be queer, queer theory and LBGT (Lesbian, Bi-Sexual, Gay and Transgendered)Other American StudiesOther Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality StudiesOther Film and Media Studiescritical media literacyqueer theorydocumentary filmRhonda HammerUCLALGBT studiesfirst time filmmakerapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/49b7g6xkhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt49b7g6xk/qt49b7g6xk.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt5pf5w91n2011-07-03T16:03:14Zqt5pf5w91nCSW Newsletter Winter 19921992-01-01The Winter 1992 CSW Newsletter features articles on the "Learning from Latin America" conference, women and post-communist transition, Gender and International Trade, women and democratic citizenship, and feminism and Chinese literature.Women’s studiescenter for the study of womenfeminismUCLAapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/5pf5w91nhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt5pf5w91n/qt5pf5w91n.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt4561h71f2011-07-03T16:03:08Zqt4561h71fCSW Newsletter Winter 19901990-01-01The Winter 1990 CSW Newsletter features articles on gender and China, psychology and AIDS, and the Los Angeles Women's Building.Women’s studiescenter for the study of womenfeminismUCLAgender and chinapsychology and AIDSWoman's Buildingapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/4561h71fhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt4561h71f/qt4561h71f.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt7r64t63m2011-07-03T16:02:57Zqt7r64t63mCSW Newsletter Winter 19871987-01-01The Winter 1987 CSW Newsletter features an article on the UC-wide "Women: Culture, Conflict and Consensus" conference.Women’s studiescenter for the study of womenfeminismUCLAapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/7r64t63mhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt7r64t63m/qt7r64t63m.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt54n0w3bf2011-07-03T16:02:52Zqt54n0w3bfCSW Newsletter March 19921992-03-01The March 1992 CSW Newsletter features information concerning the center and possible grant sources for work dealing with women's studies research.Women’s studiescenter for the study of womenfeminismUCLAapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/54n0w3bfhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt54n0w3bf/qt54n0w3bf.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt3j59p2jv2011-07-03T16:02:47Zqt3j59p2jvCSW Newsletter Winter 19951995-01-01The Winter 1995 CSW Newsletter features articles on a variety of upcoming lectures and conferences at UCLA, including the Thinking Gender graduate student conference.Women’s studiescenter for the study of womenfeminismUCLAapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/3j59p2jvhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt3j59p2jv/qt3j59p2jv.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt7cw5m1f42011-07-03T16:02:42Zqt7cw5m1f4CSW Newsletter Srping 19961996-04-01The Spring 1996 CSW Newsletter features articles on Judy Chicago's Dinner Party, a conference on Joan of Arc in films, and a talk by Marjorie Garber on bisexuality and vegetables.Women’s studiescenter for the study of womenfeminismUCLAThe Dinner PartyJoan of Arcapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/7cw5m1f4https://escholarship.org/content/qt7cw5m1f4/qt7cw5m1f4.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt9vr9c1382011-07-03T16:02:37Zqt9vr9c138CSW Newsletter Spring 19941994-04-01The Spring 1994 CSW Newsletter includes articles on gender and science, renaissance dress, gender and eastern Europe, and comparative fundamentalism.Women’s studiescenter for the study of womenfeminismUCLAgender and sciencerenaissance dresscomparative fundamentalismapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/9vr9c138https://escholarship.org/content/qt9vr9c138/qt9vr9c138.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt9z84h1k72011-07-03T16:02:31Zqt9z84h1k7CSW Newsletter Spring 19901990-04-01The Spring 1990 CSW Newsletter features articles on Carole Pateman's research on feminist political theory and various upcoming feminist research seminars.Women’s studiescenter for the study of womenfeminismUCLAapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/9z84h1k7https://escholarship.org/content/qt9z84h1k7/qt9z84h1k7.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt497573372011-07-03T16:02:27Zqt49757337CSW Newsletter Spring 19881988-04-01The spring 1988 CSW Newsletter includes articles on the second Women and Work Conference and a Conference on Women and Art Criticism.Women’s studiescenter for the study of womenfeminismUCLAwomen and workapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/49757337https://escholarship.org/content/qt49757337/qt49757337.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt7ch368nk2011-07-03T16:02:21Zqt7ch368nkCSW Newsletter Winter 19961996-01-01The Winter 1996 CSW Newsletter features articles on various current events at UCLA, including the Thinking Gender Graduate Student Conference.Women’s studiescenter for the study of womenfeminismUCLAapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/7ch368nkhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt7ch368nk/qt7ch368nk.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt6qs0w44v2011-07-03T16:02:17Zqt6qs0w44vCSW Newsletter Spring 19881988-04-01The Spring 1988 CSW Newsletter includes information on important events at UCLA and new research on American women and Korea.Women’s studiescenter for the study of womenfeminismUCLAapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/6qs0w44vhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt6qs0w44v/qt6qs0w44v.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt1814725f2011-07-03T16:02:11Zqt1814725fCSW Newsletter Winter 19941994-01-01The Winter 1994 CSW Newsletter contains information the Scary Women in Cinema Conference.Women’s studiescenter for the study of womenfeminismUCLAsafe sexscary womenapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/1814725fhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt1814725f/qt1814725f.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt7f59z07r2011-07-03T16:02:06Zqt7f59z07rCSW Newsletter Winter, 19911991-01-01The Winter 1991 CSW newsletter includes articles on Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Middle East, Prenatal Diagnostic Testing, Feminism and Psychoanalytic theory, Immigrant Women, Lesbian Literature, and Latina lives.Women’s studiescenter for the study of womenfeminismUCLAGender and Sexualiity in Asia. Middle East GenderPrenatal diagnostic testingFeminism and Psychoanalytic theoryimmigrant womenapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/7f59z07rhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt7f59z07r/qt7f59z07r.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt0vv8s74n2011-07-03T16:02:00Zqt0vv8s74nCSW Newsletter Winter, 19881988-01-01The WInter 1988 CSW Newsletter includes information on the UCLA Women at Work and the Women and Aging conferencesWomen’s studiescenter for the study of womenfeminismUCLAagingwomen at workapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/0vv8s74nhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt0vv8s74n/qt0vv8s74n.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt3td4m3dd2011-07-03T16:01:56Zqt3td4m3ddCSW Newsletter Spring, 19951995-04-01The Spring 1995 Newsletter features articles on conferences occuring at UCLA including one on Mary Wollstonecraft and one on Gender in International Relations.Women’s studiescenter for the study of womenfeminismUCLAWollstonecraftlesbian weddingapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/3td4m3ddhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt3td4m3dd/qt3td4m3dd.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt2qd722kf2011-07-03T16:01:50Zqt2qd722kfCSW Newsletter Spring, 19891989-04-01The Spring 1989 CSW Newsletter includes articles on women in labor unions and other current research at UCLA.Women’s studiescenter for the study of womenfeminismUCLARuth MilkmanPatricia GumportRegina Morantz-SanchezFord Ethnic Women's Projectapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/2qd722kfhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt2qd722kf/qt2qd722kf.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt9kt4f4cz2011-07-03T16:01:46Zqt9kt4f4czCSW Newsletter Spring 19911991-04-01The Spring 1991 CSW Newsletter includes articles on current research and events at UCLA on islamic feminism and women in Latin America.Women’s studiescenter for the study of womenfeminismUCLAwomen's liberationislamic feminismwomen in latin americaa woman's wageapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/9kt4f4czhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt9kt4f4cz/qt9kt4f4cz.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt2pn435np2011-07-03T16:01:40Zqt2pn435npCSW Newsletter Spring, 19871987-04-01The spring 1987 CSW Newsletter features information on upcoming women's studies events and conferences at UCLA, including one on "Women and Work."Women’s studiescenter for the study of womenfeminismUCLAwomen at workapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/2pn435nphttps://escholarship.org/content/qt2pn435np/qt2pn435np.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt2fm1q5652011-07-03T16:01:36Zqt2fm1q565CSW Newsletter Fall 19951995-10-01This Fall 1995 CSW Newsletter features many articles on the state of women's studies on campus and throughout academia as the program celebrates its 20th anniversary at UCLA.Women’s studiescenter for the study of womenfeminismUCLAChristine Littletonapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/2fm1q565https://escholarship.org/content/qt2fm1q565/qt2fm1q565.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt71v658wk2011-07-03T16:01:27Zqt71v658wkCSW Newsletter 1:11986-02-01This UCLA CSW newsletter features articles by Karen Rowe and others from 1986. Included is information on the Dark Madonna Happening, a seminar on women in literature, the women, culture and theory colloquia as well as other information concerning the center during this period.Elderly careWomen’s studiescenter for the study of womenthe dark MadonnauclaNancy HenleyKaren Rowewomen in scienceapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/71v658wkhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt71v658wk/qt71v658wk.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt6917d37p2011-07-03T15:10:47Zqt6917d37pAXIS Dance Company: The Anxiety and the AfterglowGeorge, Doran2010-03-01In the three works—“Room with No View,” “Vessel,” and “Point to Something”—that the company presented at a performance in Glorya Kaufman Hall at UCLA on February 17, 2010, different strategies in movement language were deployed to engage both the dancers who do and those who do not use wheelchairs.axis dance companydanceperformancedisabilityapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/6917d37phttps://escholarship.org/content/qt6917d37p/qt6917d37p.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt4gr6h8v52011-07-03T15:10:42Zqt4gr6h8v5The Surprising Relationship Between Weight and Mortality: A Review of Katherine Flegal’s Recent Presentation in the Gender and Body Size Faculty Curator SeriesNguyen, DianaFrederick, David2010-03-01Everyone knows that there is an “obesity epidemic” raging across America, killing our children and straining our health care system. Or, at least, that is what the media, government, and medical profession have told us, and we take it as a matter of faith that what they have said about obesity is true. This fear of fat has led to billions of dollars invested in preventing or reducing obesity. Millions of men and women struggle to lose weight in order to improve their health. But is there really a link between weight and health?Katherine FlegalobesitystatisticsCenters for Disease Control and Preventionobesity epidemicweighthealthapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/4gr6h8v5https://escholarship.org/content/qt4gr6h8v5/qt4gr6h8v5.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt0789b6jb2011-07-03T15:10:37Zqt0789b6jbOccult Sex as a Conversational ResourceDaly Thompson, Katrina2010-03-01Since at least the mid 1960s, people on the islands of Zanzibar have talked about being attacked by a creature called Popobawa, “batwing,” who is variously thought of as a djinn, spirit, demon, beast, monster, or an embodied form of witchcraft. Unlike most Zanzibari spirits, Popobawa does not possess people nor form long term relationships with them, but rather sexually assaults them and leaves them to tell their story to others, sometimes even demanding that they do so. Too, unlike majini ya mahaba, “love spirits,” who typically possess and have sexual intercourse with humans of the opposite gender, Popobawa tends to prefer male victims. Reoccurring periodically since the 1960s, Popobawa attacks are shrouded by mystery and speculation and thus are a popular subject for conversation and gossip.Anthropological Linguistics and SociolinguisticsZanzibarPopobawaoccult sexSwahilispiritsapplied linguisticsapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/0789b6jbhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt0789b6jb/qt0789b6jb.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt8c93g2jx2011-07-03T14:48:02Zqt8c93g2jxFat and Identity Politics: A Review of Paul Campos's Talk in the Gender and Body Size SeriesElmen-Gruys, Kjerstin2010-02-01Author discusses the recent lecture by Paul Campos, "Fat and Identity Politics", which was part of CSW's Gender and Body Size series, organized by Faculty Curator Abigail Saguy.obesitypoliticshealthapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/8c93g2jxhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt8c93g2jx/qt8c93g2jx.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt0358c5qj2011-07-03T14:47:58Zqt0358c5qjPorn, Pedagogy, and the Passing of an IconWard, Anna E.2010-02-01The course, “Pornography in Contemporary U.S. Culture,” was offered as a senior capstone seminar by the Department of Women’s Studies. As the instructor, Ward approached the course with the explicit purpose of offering Women’s Studies students a perspective on pornography that they rarely encounter in our curriculum at UCLA, a perspective firmly rooted in both media studies and sexuality studies, but also contextualized within the field of Women’s Studies itself.pornographypedagogyteachingwomen's studiessex warsapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/0358c5qjhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt0358c5qj/qt0358c5qj.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt5fr8z3t32011-07-03T13:43:03Zqt5fr8z3t3Understanding Post-Prop 8 ConflictsGhavami, Negin2010-01-01The events that have transpired in the wake of the passage of Prop 8 have raised several important questions that could shed light not only on the current circumstances in California but also on social psychological theory about intersecting social identities (for example, being gay and Black) and social judgments. Ghavami has recently begun a line comprised of three studies. Study 1, Comparing Sexual and Ethnic Minority Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriage, examines how “naive realism” (Robinson et al., 1995) led opponents of Prop 8 to draw erroneous inferences about the rationale underlying the votes cast by the Black voters, thereby fueling hatred and hostility. Study 2 investigates how the events surrounding the passage of Prop 8 have affected Black gay men and lesbians whose Black identity and gay/lesbian identity were challenged. Study 3 looks at how motivation guides an individual’s social perception and categorization of individuals with multiple identities.Civil Rights and DiscriminationCaliforniapoliticsProposition 8gay rightsgay marriageapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/5fr8z3t3https://escholarship.org/content/qt5fr8z3t3/qt5fr8z3t3.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt12m6777v2011-07-03T13:06:43Zqt12m6777vBridging Gaps and Shaking Hands with the Thai-Muslim WorldTa, AmyHughes, ChristinaNguyen, ChristineLam, ElizabethChan, TerriSilverman, Michael2009-11-01Through Michael Silverman’s summer Travel Study Thailand program, UCLA students have had the opportunity to share in the women’s daily activities, delivering meals to women living with HIV/AIDS, designing and selling naturally tie-dyed bags and personal accessories, vending baked goods at the local market, and participating in environmental restoration activities. During the 2009 summer program, one group of UCLA students engaged with these women for their capstone community research project on sustainable livelihoods. One result is their development of a new collaborative called Women’s Initiatives for Local Livelihoods (W.I.L.L.). The students share highlights from their experience in this article.Environmental PolicyThailandRanong Provincestudy abroadtravelmicro-crediteconomicswomenapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/12m6777vhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt12m6777v/qt12m6777v.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt4nb6b82c2011-07-03T13:06:38Zqt4nb6b82cWomen and the L.A. Immigrant Rights Movement: A Review of Ruth Milkman' s Recent Senior Feminist Faculty SeminarCrockett, Caitlin2009-11-01While researching labor dynamics in the immigrant rights movement, Professor Ruth Milkman of the Department of Sociology at UCLA, noticed an intriguing paradox. Though Latina women are visible movers and shakers in leading the struggle for immigrant rights in Los Angeles, they are not articulating gender concerns in the discourse of their protest. In an effort to understand why, Milkman, in collaboration with Veronica Terriquez, an Assistant Professor of Sociology at USC, is examining how gender plays a role in the process. On November 4, 2009, UCLA students, faculty, and visiting scholars had the opportunity to learn more about Milkman’s scholarship at the Senior Faculty Feminist Seminar, hosted by the Center for the Study of Women.Community EngagementRuth MilkmanimmigrationLos Angelesgenderimmigrant rightsapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/4nb6b82chttps://escholarship.org/content/qt4nb6b82c/qt4nb6b82c.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt4r57v2rz2011-07-03T13:06:34Zqt4r57v2rzThe Virtuous VirtuosaMorgan, Elizabeth2009-11-01Having identified the roots of the anti-bravura in drawing-room performances by women at the turn of the nineteenth century, Morgan traces a host of connections between private musical culture in England and the virtuoso’s place of prominence on public stages throughout Europe in subsequent decades. Morgan shaped my dissertation around these connections, devoting three chapters to the musical activities of late Georgian-era women and a final chapter to the legacy of those women as embodied in the development of virtuosity. The relationship between amateur female keyboardists in late- Georgian England and the towering concert pianists of the mid-nineteenth century may seem like an unlikely alliance, but it was a tremendously fruitful one.musicologymusic historypianofortegeorgia eraEnglandapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/4r57v2rzhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt4r57v2rz/qt4r57v2rz.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt7mw7m95b2011-07-03T13:06:30Zqt7mw7m95bInappropriate Bodies: Contemporary Filmmakers Challenging Gender Constructions through AppropriationBaron, Jaimie2009-11-01Found footage filmmaking has long been a method that filmmakers have used to critique media images or to pay homage to them–or sometimes both simultaneously. Well-known filmmakers like Abigail Child, Su Friedrich, William E. Jones, Chick Strand, and Leslie Thornton, among others, have appropriated images in the service, at least in part, of challenging the audience to rethink the gender constructions posited by the mainstream media. While the use of found footage goes back almost to the beginning of film history, there is now a rising generation of filmmakers using appropriated images to further deconstruct and reconstruct the gender roles established by Classical Hollywood films, television commercials, medical textbooks, pornography, and other institutions of power.appropriationgenderfilmfound footageexperimental filmapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/7mw7m95bhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt7mw7m95b/qt7mw7m95b.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt12v2b0zf2011-07-03T07:05:49Zqt12v2b0zfTraveling Between Iranian and American IdentitiesPazargadi, Leila2007-03-01As an Iranian born in the United States, I have been immersed in both Iranian and American cultures and find the intersection between the two particularly interesting, especially as it pertains to the Daily life in Shiraz, Iran by Leila Pazargadi Traveling Between Iranian and American Identities CSW update MARCH 07 ever-increasing Iranian Diasporic community in Los Angeles and Orange County. Raised with somewhat traditional Iranian cultural values, which includes a mandatory decree that requires that only Persian be spoken within the home, in effect I grew up in “Little Iran” in the heart of a very conservative and American Orange County.IraniansMowroozPersianDiasporic communitiesIrancultural identitydisplacementapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/12v2b0zfhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt12v2b0zf/qt12v2b0zf.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt2nh2968z2011-07-03T07:05:45Zqt2nh2968zJMEWS at UCLA: Nancy Gallagher and Sondra Hale are now Co-Editors of the Journal of Middle East Women's StudiesJames, Diane2007-03-01Having moved into its new home at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women in July 2006, the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies celebrated its arrival with a two-day conference on Gender and the Transnational Middle East. The conference program announced a visionary agenda, inviting research informed by transnational feminist, cultural, and modern historical studies, new forms of ethnography, and the emerging intersections of science and philosophy.AMEWSJMEWSAssociation for Middle East Women's StudiesTransnational Middle Eastpeer-edited scholarly journalapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/2nh2968zhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt2nh2968z/qt2nh2968z.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt1c0825s92011-07-03T07:05:40Zqt1c0825s9Publish: Wendy Belcher Instructs Fledging Authors in Summer CourseHeiliger, Vange2006-12-01Imagine my surprise at hearing these instructions from a teacher: “I want you to try putting the minimum work needed into this.” I never expected to be told to do less work for anything related to school—especially not for the enigmatic honor of getting published in a peer-reviewed journal. Wasn’t publication by the not-yet-hooded reserved for the most hard-working graduate students? For the overachiever who sacrificed sleep, relationships, and any semblance of a social life in exchange for the dreary pallor of a library tan? Yet this was Wendy Belcher’s practical advice to me when I confessed I was sick of thinking about men and vasectomy and was dreading revising my article for publication.writingcreative writingpublicationapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/1c0825s9https://escholarship.org/content/qt1c0825s9/qt1c0825s9.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt2x85v2f12011-07-03T06:42:05Zqt2x85v2f1Panel Review: "After the Sex Wars: Pornography and Feminism"Sangwand, T-Kay2009-03-01By deconstructing filmic representations, feminist theoretical formations, and the intersections of race, class, and gender, the provocative panel, “Pornography and Feminism: After the Sex Wars,” reached beyond the anti-porn/sex-positive dichotomy to theorize feminism and pornography’s complex relationship. The panel, comprised of members of UC Santa Cruz’s Feminism and Pornography Research Cluster, featured Allison Day (Linguistics), Katie Kanagawa (Literature), Lulu Meza (Sociology), Lydia Osolinsky (Politics), and Natalie Purcell (Sociology). The panel was moderated by Professor H. Marshall Leicester, faculty advisor for the Feminism and Pornography Research Cluster.pornographysex warsfeminismqueerapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/2x85v2f1https://escholarship.org/content/qt2x85v2f1/qt2x85v2f1.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt4c75x2x12011-07-03T06:41:01Zqt4c75x2x1Panel Review: "Cyberlicious with a Byte"Cohn, Jonathan2009-03-01As the title of this panel suggests, these papers largely dealt with the strong and often playful effect of cybernetics and cyberspace on the ways we conceive of gendered and queer bodies. It is also fitting that the title uses the slightly dated term “cyber” instead of “new media” or “digital,” as James Hixon started the panel with a paper on the genealogy of information studies and its continual focus on its relationship to the body. Titled “Bodies Into Bits: A Reparative Approach to Informationalizing the Body,” Hixon’s paper discussed such luminaries as Claude Shannon, Warren Weaver, and Katherine Hayles, with the main thrust of his argument addressing the works of Gille Deleuze and Felix Guattari. In Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus, as Hixon eloquently described, Deleuze and Guattari break down some of the central issues of digital culture and embodiment through an exploration of the similarities between the natural body and information. Hixon’s discussion focused on the “body without organs,” a phrase used to describe the virtual dimensions of the body. Deleuze and Guattari point out that people are made up of an endless number of virtual personae and possibilities, and by performing these different personae, we are actively experimenting with different ways of representing ourselves. This pre-digital idea is particularly resonant with both the age of the avatar, and the queer body—a body that actively investigates its own potentialities—a body without organs. As such, Hixon helpfully pointed out that digital media often encourages people to rethink and reform their bodies and subjectivities as bodies without organs.cyberspacequeerbodiesinformationgendergamingapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/4c75x2x1https://escholarship.org/content/qt4c75x2x1/qt4c75x2x1.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt0pz3k79s2011-07-03T06:39:32Zqt0pz3k79sMaking the Cut: Female Editors and Representation in the Film and Media IndustryWright, Julia2009-03-01In the past decade, a higher percentage of women have worked as editors than as directors, writers, cinematographers, and executive producers,1 yet they are rarely represented in histories by film historians and feminist film scholars. The purpose of this paper is not to reveal the “reality” of female editors, but to understand what challenges arise in constructing them as historical subjects. In what frameworks have female editors been permitted or omitted from historicization? What counts as historical knowledge and evidence? It is important to consider the author, and what impact their politics of location have on the historical knowledge they are presenting. I will also consider what challenges my interviews with female editors have posed in historicizing them from a feminist perspective.film historyFeminist film historyeditorsfemale cuttersapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/0pz3k79shttps://escholarship.org/content/qt0pz3k79s/qt0pz3k79s.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt8p20237p2011-07-03T06:31:47Zqt8p20237pThe Art of Melancholy A Selection of Films by Leslie ThorntonSher, Ben2008-12-01“If you actually processed, consciously, all the things that are around you all the time, you’d be nuts,” said renowned experimental filmmaker Leslie Thornton. This quotation, perhaps, explains why her films sometimes induce a feeling of temporary insanity. They force the audience to process, consciously, many of the unnoticed things that surround us all the time.eventfilmapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/8p20237phttps://escholarship.org/content/qt8p20237p/qt8p20237p.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt79q5s5t62011-07-03T06:27:26Zqt79q5s5t6Aging in American ConventsCorwin, Anna I.2009-01-26During fieldwork this summer in a Franciscan convent in the midwestern United States, I met two Sisters who had returned to the convent after many decades of hard work. They returned to the place where they come as teenagers when they made a commitment to leave their families and to serve God as religious sisters. When they joined the community, they took the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. This community of a few hundred women became their family, and this convent became their home. It is the place where they have returned every summer since the day they joined the community, it is the place where they retire, and it is the place where their bodies will one day rest.agingseniorsconventnunsCatholicfieldworkapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/79q5s5t6https://escholarship.org/content/qt79q5s5t6/qt79q5s5t6.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt2tn8w5jb2011-07-03T06:27:12Zqt2tn8w5jbSensational Vulnerabilities Effigies of Personhood, Intimacy and Citizenship in Twenty-first Century Social ChangeOliviero, Katie2008-12-01As an undergraduate I became fascinated with the relationships between performance and protest. One production I collaborated upon used spoken word, skits, interviews, and archival footage to explore contemporary collisions between gender, race, and sexuality at my small, privileged college in New England. It sparked some thoughtful discussions among the student body about how varying degrees of disprivilege condition values and standpoints.performance studiesprotestapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/2tn8w5jbhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt2tn8w5jb/qt2tn8w5jb.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt6wm1v95d2011-07-03T06:27:07Zqt6wm1v95dThe State of the Union Marriage in the Shadow of Electoral PoliticsOliviero, KatieHeiliger, Vange2008-12-01In the days leading up to the 2008 election, the airwaves were peppered with commercials about Proposition 8, the California ballot initiative to ban same-sex marriages and amend the state constitution to limit the definition of marriage to a union between a man and a woman. An unprecedented fundraising campaign, second only to that of Barack Obama, generated over $74 million. Proponents associated “traditional” heterosexual marriage with the well-being of children, tradition, and the moral content of earlychildhood family education. Their opponents countered that marriage confers dignity, equal protections, and full citizenship rights upon gays, and is a core part of the equality movement. As an institution that is legally and culturally associated with the private spheres of love and family, the debate over government definitions of marriage restages its emphatically public, state-centered parameters.eventconferenceelectionmarriageapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/6wm1v95dhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt6wm1v95d/qt6wm1v95d.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt3zq6n5892011-07-03T06:27:03Zqt3zq6n589Exploring modern views of masculinity and sexuality in Persian writings during the interwar periodDeSouza, Wendy2009-01-26In the past decade or so, scholars have opened new vistas for studying gender and sexuality in Orientalist writings—European representations of Islam, Arabic, the “East” and the like—and feminist criticism has been particularly successful in adjusting our understanding. Travel writing, scholarly research, novels, and the formation of literary canons about the ‘East’ have more recently been examined for their normative assumptions about sexuality.travel grant reportOriental studiesorientalismIslamMuslimtravel writingmasculinityapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/3zq6n589https://escholarship.org/content/qt3zq6n589/qt3zq6n589.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt5b47h6m32011-07-03T06:26:58Zqt5b47h6m3Suburbia and Community: Untangling a Historial ConundrumNicolaides, Becky2008-01-01Without him naming it, most of us can easily identify what Kunstler is referring to in this passage. The suburbs. For years now, social critics and urban planners have maligned this built landscape in critiques that have become familiar to many of us. The suburbs are chastised for destroying the environment, diminishing the quality of life as commuting times increase, sullying the air, promoting political and economic inequality, destroying aesthetic vistas, and worst of all, killing community and civic life.suburbiapost-WWIIpost World War IIsuburbanNew UrbanismBowling AloneWilliam H. Whytecommunityapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/5b47h6m3https://escholarship.org/content/qt5b47h6m3/qt5b47h6m3.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt842147cs2011-07-03T06:26:54Zqt842147csCountry Music and the Expression of LossHarmon, Marcus Desmond2008-12-17The recipient of CSW’s 2008 Constance Coiner Graduate Award talks about his current research on grief, loss, and mourning in the music of Emmylou Harris.musicpsychoanalysisAmerican country musicpopular musicapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/842147cshttps://escholarship.org/content/qt842147cs/qt842147cs.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt57x7h0tr2011-07-03T06:26:49Zqt57x7h0trVanguards of Modernity: David Eng Considers the Queer Space of Stanley Kwan's Lan YuFickle, Tara2008-12-17On November 5, David L. Eng, Professor of English, Comparative Literature and Asian American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, gave his audience a glimpse of his fascinating new project entitled “The Queer Space of China” in the Center for the Study of Women’s Faculty Curator Series on “The Color of LGBT: Race in Sexuality.” The timing of the talk was doubly relevant, arriving on the eve of postmodern China’s emergent status as nascent world power and coming just after the passing of California’s hotly debated Proposition 8, a ballot measure that eliminated gay marriage in Lan Yu Stanley Kwan 2001 Vanguards of Modernity by Tara Fickle the state. Exploring the stakes underlying our so-called “colorblind moment,” Eng argued for a (re)consideration of gay and lesbian identity in Chinese society as a uniquely modern, and potentially reparative, confrontation with the totalitarian nation-state.queerChinaidentityfilmapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/57x7h0trhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt57x7h0tr/qt57x7h0tr.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt93k8w04b2011-07-03T06:26:31Zqt93k8w04bSocial Vision: Visual cues communicate categories to observersJohnson, Kerri L2009-03-01This information ranges from appreciating category membership to evaluating more enduring traits and dispositions. These aspects of social perception appear to be highly automated, some would even call them obligatory, and they are heavily influenced by two sources of information: the face and the body. From minimal information such as brief exposure to the face or degraded images of dynamic body motion, social judgments are made with remarkable efficiency and, at times, surprising accuracy.person perceptionsocial informationsocial categorizationsocial communicationapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/93k8w04bhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt93k8w04b/qt93k8w04b.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt5hd242342011-07-03T06:24:35Zqt5hd24234Ellen BravoJohnston, Maeve2008-12-01At a recent event in the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment's Annual Colloqium Series, which was cosponsored by the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, the author talked about activism, organizing, and her book, Taking on the Big Boys.eventactivismgendermenapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/5hd24234https://escholarship.org/content/qt5hd24234/qt5hd24234.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt8vn7t6nc2011-07-03T01:50:41Zqt8vn7t6ncWini Breines Speaks on The Trouble Between UsMoore, Mignon R.2006-12-01Wini Breines, you are a brave woman.” I shared this sentiment with her during the Q&A portion of the talk she gave on her November 6th visit to UCLA. Dr. Winifred Breines, Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies at Northeastern University, had come to speak about her new book The Trouble Between Us: An Uneasy History of White and Black Women in the Feminist Movement. The crowd in Royce Hall that afternoon was a diverse mixture of students, young faculty, more seasoned feminist scholars, and older activists who had directly participated in the movements about which Breines had written. Women of various racial and ethnic backgrounds had come to hear Breines share her perspective on how race influenced the development of the women’s movement. Her book analyzes a mixture of archival data, memoirs, primary and secondary accounts, interviews, and conversations to construct a story of white and black feminist racial politics in the late 1960s and 1970s.third wave feminismracewomen's movementapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/8vn7t6nchttps://escholarship.org/content/qt8vn7t6nc/qt8vn7t6nc.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt6h36r5gr2011-07-03T01:50:36Zqt6h36r5grFilm Notes: Three Romanian Movies (On Belonging and Corporeality in the New Wave of Romanian Cinema)Roman, Denise2008-04-01Fears are colorless and odorless in the dim light of a Romanian winter. Gabita and her fellow student, Otilia, who wants to help Gabita end her unwanted pregnancy, know this well. They know how dangerous it is to escape the vigilant, panoptical eye of the Ceauşescu regime. They find a man, Bebe—not a doctor—eager to help them. They rent a room in a hotel. The man comes and asks for a shocking price in order to perform the terrifying procedure. (I am not talking about money here….) This is not a hospital, and the only things available in the sordid adventure are a probe, an ampoule of ampicillin, a plastic bag, and towels for the possible hemorrhage and to wrap up the dead fetus and dispose of it in a garbage chute.RomanianRomaniafilmpregnancyabortion4 Months3 Weeksand 2 DaysPalme d'OrCannes Film FestivalChildren UndergroundThe Death of Mister LazarescuCristi PuiuMungiuCeau?escuNicolaescuRadu MihaileanuMihal ViteazulSimon MagusSerglu Nicolaescuapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/6h36r5grhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt6h36r5gr/qt6h36r5gr.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt1rg6f0fj2011-07-02T20:05:15Zqt1rg6f0fjQ & A with Frinde MaherLin, Elaina2007-12-01Wasserstein’s satirical portrayal of a feminist classroom offered a perfect opportunity to discuss issues related to performance studies and feminist pedagogy. Frinde Maher, Professor of Education at Wheaton College, and Jill Dolan, Zachary T. Scott Family Chair in Drama at University of Texas at Austin, were the panelists. T he morning before the panel, Professor Maher kindly agreed to chat about the trajectory of feminism and the changing role of feminist pedagogies in the university.Feminist pedagogiesWendy WassersteinThirdfeminist theorypostmodernapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/1rg6f0fjhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt1rg6f0fj/qt1rg6f0fj.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt3td1s5qt2011-07-02T11:57:00Zqt3td1s5qtFeminist Anthropologist, Faculty Activist Commemorating the Work of Karen BrodkinPublications, CSW2008-12-01On Monday , October 20, students and scholars from various institutions gathered in Royce Hall to attend Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality, a conference organized to honor the life and scholarship of retiring UCLA Professor Karen Brodkin. Speakers from the UC system and beyond populated panels focused on identity and social justice, new approaches to labor, and directions in counter-hegemonic research in order to consider the lasting impact of the work of one of the academic community’s foremost faculty activists and feminist anthropologists.commemorationeventanthropologistactivistapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/3td1s5qthttps://escholarship.org/content/qt3td1s5qt/qt3td1s5qt.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt6nj7c5cj2011-07-02T11:56:50Zqt6nj7c5cjThe Impact of Urbanization on Zinacantec Maya Women and Girls: A Controlled Case Study in Historical PerspectiveGreenfield, Patricia2008-11-03In recent decades, ecocultural environments of the Maya in Chiapas, Mexico have undergone continuous change from more subsistence-based to more commerce-based and from more rural to more urban. Comparing ethnographic observations of one family over a ten-year period and across rural and urban environments, we used activity-setting analysis to investigate changes on the micro level that would reflect these shifts in the macro-environment. The development of commerce between 1997 and 2007 led to increased reliance on technology, increases in individuation and individual choice, specialization for economic tasks, and, for women, more formal education. Other changes in this same period of time were greatly intensified by urban dwelling: contact with strangers and people of different ethnicities, women's economic achievement, and greater freedom for young women to have unchaperoned contact with young men.womensocial changeMayalearning environmentscommercial activityurbanizationapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/6nj7c5cjhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt6nj7c5cj/qt6nj7c5cj.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt7d17f6rv2011-07-02T11:56:45Zqt7d17f6rvStaging Migration and Post-National Identities Swedish -Iranian Feminist Playwright and Director Farnaz Arbabi Visits UCLALindqvist, Ursula2008-12-01Farnaz Arbabi makes it her business to defy expectations and to empower others to do the same. Born in Iran in 1977, she moved to Sweden with her parents at age 2. Now in her early 30s, she has become one of Sweden’s most sought-after playwrights and directors, and she is also a frequent contributor to European debates on immigration, language and identity, sexuality, and the rights of women and children.playwrightdirectorSwedishIranianeventapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/7d17f6rvhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt7d17f6rv/qt7d17f6rv.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt99q2c6vp2011-07-02T11:56:36Zqt99q2c6vpCritically Analyzing Issues in Human TraffickingPrice, Alani2008-03-01Like me, many people may at first glance gloss over the popular images and rhetoric of human trafficking as an “easy” moral judgment. Upon examination, however, issues of globalization, immigration, law enforcement, gender roles, and controversial legal definitions make human trafficking an extremely complex tragedy-one that defies generalization and, within the political reality of international and national laws, is often conflated with otherinterests such as state control of immigration or prostitution. It is therefore to our benefit to consider and analyze the wide range of views being expressed by different stakeholders in the anti-trafficking effort. Elizabeth Bernstein’s lecture offered a glimpse into her analysis of the ideological politics surrounding and informing anti-trafficking discourses, particularly what seems an unexpected, powerful coalition between contemporary feminists and evangelical Christians as self-identified “modern-day abolitionists” of not only trafficking but also all forms of prostitution/sex work.Elizabeth BernsteinTrafficking Victims Protection ActEvangelical/Feminist Coalitionapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/99q2c6vphttps://escholarship.org/content/qt99q2c6vp/qt99q2c6vp.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt4r7234d12011-07-02T11:56:26Zqt4r7234d1Exploring Sexuality, Religiousity, and Desire in Colonial MexicoTortorici, Zeb2008-02-01On January 23, 1621, a Spanish priest and commissary of the Holy Office of the Mexican Inquisition in Querétaro came forth to denounce the twentyyear- old Agustina Ruiz, a woman who had, according to him, never completed the confession that she had begun with him on the eve of Pascua de Reyes (Feast of the Three Kings) a few weeks earlier. He told the Inquisition that Ruiz had begun to confess her sins to him in the church of the Carmelite convent of Saint Theresa, asking for mercy and forgiveness, and then declared that since the age of eleven she had carnally sinned with herself nearly every day by repeatedly committing the act of pollution (polución)— masturbation. Most unsettling to the priest, however, was not the act of masturbation itself but rather the vivid, obscene, and sacrilegious descriptions that went alongside her masturbatory fantasies. According to the priest’s denunciation, Ruiz confessed that she had spoken “dishonest words” with Saint Nicolas of Tolentino, Saint Diego, and even Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary, and that they had carnally communicated with her in a variety of sexual positions: “They join themselves with her [Ruiz] in different ways, with her underneath them, and from the side, and her on top of them, and also with her lying facedown while they conjoin themselves with her through both of her dishonest parts,” meaning both vaginally and anally.1 Given that the primary aim of the Mexican Inquisition—established in 1569 by royal decree of Phillip II of Spain and founded in 1571—was to extirpate heresy, it is no surprise that the Mexican Inquisition would take a strong interest in Ruiz. She was eventually sentenced to spend three years in a convent in Mexico City.Mexican Inquisitionsinmasturbationconfessionsexual practicessodomybestialityMexicoCatholicismapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/4r7234d1https://escholarship.org/content/qt4r7234d1/qt4r7234d1.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt9966p43r2011-07-02T11:56:17Zqt9966p43rEmily Hodgson Anderson's "Mansfield Park and the 'Womanly Style' in Fiction"Pasanek, Brad2007-03-01In “Mansfield Park and the ‘Womanly Style’ in Fiction” Emily Hodgson Anderson, an assistant professor of eighteenth-century literature at USC, considers how style is read as “a sign of sex.” In particular, the adjective “womanly” and the quality of womanliness fall under her scrutiny. This interesting, original reading of dramatic and fictional performances concludes by presenting Jane Austen’s Fanny Price as an emblem of a “womanly style” of indirection and mediation.Mansfield ParkEmily Hodgson AndersonJane Austenfemale authorswomanly stylenovel of mannersapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/9966p43rhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt9966p43r/qt9966p43r.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt8sq6f1262011-07-02T11:56:03Zqt8sq6f126Violence and FreedomOn, Steve2007-03-01On October 10, 2006, in a report to the General Assembly of the United Nations, Secretary- General Kofi Annan presented an in-depth study on all forms of violence against women. According to the report, “at least one out of three women experienced violence at some stage in their lives”; violence against women is thus not a characteristic of some countries. It is a global problem and “a serious public policy problem in all stable democracies,” according to Weldon. For example, in France, the human rights organization Amnesty International reports, “one out of ten women is victim of domestic violence.” Official data indicate that perpetrators of domestic violence kill on average one woman every three days in France. Violence against women, as spelled out in Article 1 of the 1993 United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women, refers to acts – happening specifically to women because they are women – that restrict, impair, or nullify women’s ability to exercise their equal rights and freedoms as citizens, that is, threats, coercion, and arbitrary deprivations of liberty that “result in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women” whether it happens “in public or private life.”violence against womenUNUnited Nationsgender-based violencewomen's rightsgender hierarchyapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/8sq6f126https://escholarship.org/content/qt8sq6f126/qt8sq6f126.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt0rv353th2011-07-02T11:55:58Zqt0rv353thFinding Positive Meaning in the Experience of Breast CancerMitchell, Jill2007-02-01In the U.S., one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer. Many of these women who are diagnosed with more localized disease will recover well and may even be cured with treatment. However for those women in whom the cancer metastasizes, or spreads to other areas of the body, the disease is no longer considered curable, and average life expectancy is only a few years. Along with the threat of early mortality, women with metastatic breast cancer may also struggle with the pain and disfigurement of toxic treatments, the frustration over time sacrificed to doctors’ appointments and treatment schedules, the anxiety of an endless barrage of scans and tests, and the fear of an increasing loss of control over their body and their life. In addition, the weight of financial concerns due to relentless medical bills, the stress of increased relationship turmoil, the loss of ability to work, and the threat to one’s self-identity are other challenges that cancer sometimes imposes. Nonetheless, despite such suffering and loss, roughly half of the women in my study also talked about how they had found positive meaning, benefits, or growth out of their experiences with cancer across multiple domains of their lives.terminal illnessbreast cancerstressanxietyapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/0rv353thhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt0rv353th/qt0rv353th.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt9zq163g92011-07-02T11:55:53Zqt9zq163g9A Magical HerstoryLogan, Alysia2007-02-01Women are the primary storytellers and culture keepers for African families across the Diaspora. Th is is made apparent through the literature, food, music; it is all encompassing through religion. If it weren’t for the women in the African Diaspora, many of our stories would never be told. If it weren’t for the mothers in our communities, many of our traditions would have been forgotten. If it weren’t for the sheroes in our collective lineage, our gods would have never been raised again and our powerful and strong sensual female deities like Osun, Yemoja and Oya would have been all but forgotten.family historyfamily treestorytellingAfrican Diasporaoral historywomen's role in historyapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/9zq163g9https://escholarship.org/content/qt9zq163g9/qt9zq163g9.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt6nn637r92011-07-02T11:55:48Zqt6nn637r9Finding a Formula for Success: A Woman Executive's Search for FulfillmentJolna, Karon2007-02-01So Liz Heller left corporate America. In place of predictable, high fl ying corporate status came the unpredictable whirlwind of entrepreneurship… and the opportunity to make her own job, her own start-up company, her own story, her own future. Th e company would be called Buzztone, a pioneer of untraditional, viral, word of mouth, new media, new marketing “buzz” with its own soft - ware and services. She built a client roster that includes some of the top brands and companies in America: Coca Cola, Atlantic Records, Microsoft , AOL, Paramount Pictures, Discovery Networks, Warner Bros., Electronic Arts, and many more. But there were other clients she would reject–though they off ered lots of money. And other clients she would embrace–though they may not have paid the bills as well. Clients that Liz Heller and her company could feel good about. Clients she could help because those companies were all about helping others across the planet.Liz Hellerfemales in corporate AmericaBuzztonesocial entrepreneurshipsocial conscious(Product)REDUCLA alumniapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/6nn637r9https://escholarship.org/content/qt6nn637r9/qt6nn637r9.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt76h4j7b22011-07-02T11:55:39Zqt76h4j7b2Countering Ageist IdeologyHant, Myrna2007-12-01Jennifer Abod’s new award-winning film, Look Us in the Eye: The Old Women’s Project, is a groundbreaking work in women’s studies, a video that links ageism and sexism. It is a topic that is rarely studied and even less likely to be filmed. Abod expertly captures the zest of three old women (they specifically want to be called that) who started the Old Women’s Project in San Diego in 2000, an organization created for old women activists. The film focuses on interviews with the three founders, Cynthia Rich, Janice Keefaber, and Mannie Garza and shows footage of their demonstrations against war, nuclear proliferation, low-income housing, and many other issues of social justice. The Old Women’s Project claims that old women are part of every social justice issue: child care, homelessness, prison reform, violence against women, and war. Too frequently old people are assumed to care only about age-related issues like social security and Medicare. The women’s very exuberance and activism, adeptly captured by Abod’s film, belie so many of the unexamined assumptions about what older women want and can do. These “truisms” are so pervasive that deconstructing them is not enough. Abod’s visual evidence astutely targets the prevailing ageist ideology: old woman as “other,” old woman as invisible, and old woman as a metaphor for disease, isolation, worthlessness, vulnerability, dissatisfaction, and decrepitude.ageismsexismOld Women's projectapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/76h4j7b2https://escholarship.org/content/qt76h4j7b2/qt76h4j7b2.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt190462q92011-07-02T11:55:34Zqt190462q9Rhodessa Jones: Saving Lives Through Song and StoryJohnson, Courtney D.2006-11-01On October 16, CSW and the Center for Performance Studies hosted an appearance by Rhodessa Jones as part of a weeklong series on African American performance, and her performance/discussion was a rousing and poignant exploration of the role of art in the transformation of both hearts and politics.performance artincarcerated womenjailaerobicsapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/190462q9https://escholarship.org/content/qt190462q9/qt190462q9.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt8js562b22011-07-02T11:52:35Zqt8js562b2Author Love and AnecdoteDeutsch, Helen2006-04-01This book, originally to be titled Dr. Johnson’s Autopsy began with my curiosity about why the exemplary eighteenthcentury Englishman of letters was dissected, probably against his living will. While it has led me down many unexpected paths, that curiosity remains unsatisfied; it has resulted, instead, in my recognition—and profession—of love, both the love of literature and the love of Johnson, of which the autopsy was a complex and conflicted expression. In its service, I want in the rest of this introduction to consider not the anecdotal form in which Johnson endures but rather the material remains of Samuel Johnson’s autopsy and my own and others’ ongoing search for them. That autoptic desire to see the thing itself, a seeing by oneself and of oneself (as the word’s etymology indicates) is not, as it turns out, so different from the familiar introductory impulse to focus upon an anecdote, since Johnson’s selected remains, claimed by the surgeons and carefully preserved as “preparations,” have yet to be found. One of the many functions of the anecdote—like the anatomical preparation, the result of a personal selection and preservation process—is to stand in for the lost body.Loving Dr. Johnsonautopsyanecdoteapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/8js562b2https://escholarship.org/content/qt8js562b2/qt8js562b2.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt5zp8c9vq2011-07-02T10:42:20Zqt5zp8c9vqTies That Double-Bind Us: Amy Agigian Speaks on Feminism and the Fertility Industry for the Annual Roe v. Wade lectureHeiliger, Vange2009-02-26At the same moment President Obama affirmed that “government should not intrude on our most private family matters,” Amy Agigian, this year’s invited speaker for the CSW Annual Roe v. Wade lecture, brought to light for her audience the near-impossibility of either privacy or choice for women in an era of assistive reproductive technology. Government policies regulate women’s fertility and their access to fertility through interlocking webs of social and biological factors, creating double-binds both for women who need fertility and for women who provide fertility. Agigian argued that structural inequalities linked to race, gender, class, and location exacerbate biological factors that negatively impact fertility, such as age and health, and that these combine to knit women together not by choice, but rather, through lack of choice. Commenting on President Obama’s statement, Agigian observed that it is heartening to have a president who is capable of uttering the phrase “reproductive choice.” Yet, as Agigian explicated upon in her talk, “Ties That Double-Bind Us: Feminism and the Fertility Industry,” both “privacy” and “choice” are complicated matters for women who are or wish to become mothers in an era of assistive reproductive technology.reproductive rightswomen's healthRoe v. Wadefertility industryapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/5zp8c9vqhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt5zp8c9vq/qt5zp8c9vq.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt6138r2p52011-07-02T10:42:10Zqt6138r2p5The Social Life of Muslim Women’s RightsJames, Diane2009-01-26Anthropologist Lila Abu- Lughod delivers the JMEWS Distinguished Lecture at UC Santa Barbara on Wednesday, February 11, 2009, at 4:00 pm. Abu-Lughod is Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University, where she teaches in the Anthropology Department and at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. The theme she has chosen for her remarks is “The Social Life of Muslim Women’s Rights.”Muslimwomen's rightsAbu-LughodJMEWSMiddle Eastapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/6138r2p5https://escholarship.org/content/qt6138r2p5/qt6138r2p5.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt2s9743hb2011-07-02T10:42:05Zqt2s9743hbTravel Notes and Reflections from the NetherlandsLynne Musto, Jennifer2009-02-26In the fall of 2008, I visited Utrecht University, a research university situated in the small, albeit densely populated, country of the Netherlands. The express purpose of this trip was to engage in fieldwork activities and to collect interview data for my dissertation project entitled, “Institutionalizing Protection, Professionalizing Victim Management: Explorations of Multi-Professional Anti-Trafficking Work in the Netherlands.” The project explores Dutch state and non-governmental efforts to protect persons trafficked into the Netherlands for the purposes of forced labor. This reflection piece comes on the heels of five months of data collection activities in which I engaged in archival research and conducted 16 semistructured interviews with Dutch alien and vice police officers, police trainers and educators, social workers, care coordinators, embassy officials, and non-governmental advocates who work with persons identified as “trafficked,” most of whom are women.traffickingsex traffickingfieldworkforced labormigrationimmigrationapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/2s9743hbhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt2s9743hb/qt2s9743hb.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt0t48f24b2011-07-02T10:41:55Zqt0t48f24bThe B Word: Chasing Amy and the Bisexual (In)Visibility in Cinema and MediaSan Filippo, Maria2008-02-01When asked for a description of my dissertation project, I say that it is about representations of bisexuality in film. The most popular reply—proffered with considerable regularity by people from diverse areas of my life—has been “You mean like Chasing Amy?” This 1997 independent film written and directed by Kevin Smith, about a self-proclaimed lesbian who is forced to question her sexual identity after meeting and falling for a man, clearly occupies a prominent place in cultural consciousness around bisexuality. (For better or worse, the other recurring response has been “You mean like Basic Instinct?”) In beginning to think about why Chasing Amy should summon this nearly metonymic association with cinematic bisexuality, I recognized several ways in which this film provides an apt entry into many of the points I take up in my dissertation. To start with, Chasing Amy’s female lead, Alyssa Jones ( Joey Lauren Adams), noticeably embodies a trope that I explore at length: bisexual (in)visibility. In choosing to cast a petite blonde with a Minnie Mouse voice and decidedly femme stylings, Chasing Amy’s creators could be accused of complicity in dominant cinema’s reliance on safely genderconforming depictions of queer women. But Alyssa’s femme appearance also serves to contradict cultural assumptions about what queer women look like. Indeed, it is the fact that Alyssa is not “visibly queer” (whatever that means) that allows for the film’s first act revelation on the part of lovelorn Holden (Ben Affleck), his sidekick Banky (Jason Lee), and presumably a substantial number of spectators who would not have surmised Alyssa’s sexual preference from the fairly vague hints given in the film’s trailer (“She just needs the right guy”) and tagline (“It’s not who you love. It’s how”). Whatever the filmmakers’ intention, this casting decision serves to foreground what is a recurring issue of (in)visibility both in queer media representation and in the everyday experiences of many bisexual/queer women. Indeed, Chasing Amy engages with a number of similar identity struggles faced by bisexuals: the widespread belief that bisexuality is “just a phase” or “the easy way out,” biphobia on the part of both heterosexual- and homosexual-identified individuals (“Another one bites the dust,” Alyssa’s lesbian friends say upon hearing she is dating a man), combating the stereotype of the promiscuous bisexual, and so on.LGBTbisexualitybisexualChasing Amyqueerbi-textualitybisexualitiescrossover cinemacompulsory monosexualityapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/0t48f24bhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt0t48f24b/qt0t48f24b.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt3357r9nz2011-07-02T10:41:20Zqt3357r9nzTelevision's Mature Women: A Changing Media Archetype: From Bewitched to the SopranosHant, Myrna2007-01-01Despite almost a half century of change and growth for women spurred by the Second Wave of the Women’s Movement, older women continue to be depicted on television as caricatures informed by ageist ideologies. A feminist textual analysis of mature women on television reveals a surprisingly consistent media archetype and helps to elucidate the politics of representation of older women. It is only very recently that counter hegemonic portrayals are acting as “filtering devices” (Cohen, 2002, p. 615) for the examinations of the stereotypes of ageism in the media.ageismsecond wavemature womenolder womenwoman as otherimage of ageageist stereotypesEndoraBewitchedSophia PetrilloGolden GirlsEstelle CostanzaMarie BaroneLivia SopranoJessica FletcherMurder She WroteTyne DalyJudging AmySharon GlessRuth FisherSix Feet Underapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/3357r9nzhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt3357r9nz/qt3357r9nz.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt90s0v1ht2011-07-02T10:41:11Zqt90s0v1htPanel Review: "From Our Doorstep: Contemporary Politics"Pazargadi, Leila2009-03-01As the Obamas settle into Washington and the excitement of the election finale fades, many pundits, voters, and academics are attempting to make sense of the political debacle that was Election 2008. It was very timely that at this past February’s Thinking Gender conference at UCLA, one set of panelists discussed contemporary American politics, with special attention to the linguistic and visual elements that both the candidates and media manipulated to influence voters. Presenters from the panel entitled, “From Our Doorstep: Contemporary Politics,” moderated by UCLA Professor Juliet Williams, spoke about current issues ranging from the media’s portrayal of the election, to the emergence of neoconservative feminism resulting from Sarah Palin’s nomination, to the confrontation of America’s occupation in Iraq.politicscontemporary politicselection politicsmass mediapresidential candidatesapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/90s0v1hthttps://escholarship.org/content/qt90s0v1ht/qt90s0v1ht.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt16s0n7f12011-07-02T10:39:21Zqt16s0n7f1Judith Halberstam: Popular Culture "conceives" the TransbiologicalWestrup, Laurel2007-02-01On October 24, 2006, the Center for the Study of Women presented Judith Halberstam’s provocatively titled talk, “Transbiology: Penguin Love, Doll Sex, and the Spectacle of the Non-Reproductive Body” as part of a speaker series focusing on performance and embodiment. Effortlessly moving between references as diverse as Joan Roughgarden’s influential book Evolution’s Rainbow and horror films, Halberstam called into question our society’s deepest assumptions about the nature of humanity, heterosexuality, reproduction, and the conflation of these terms. By examining the tenuous discourses of human reproduction in March of the Penguins and Seed of Chucky, she opened up a space in which to discuss what she terms “counter knowledges” in the realm of popular culture.TransbiologyNon-Reproductive BodyEvolution's Rainbowapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/16s0n7f1https://escholarship.org/content/qt16s0n7f1/qt16s0n7f1.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt882945ps2011-07-02T10:27:15Zqt882945psLatina Web Content StudySalinas, Romelia2006-11-01The Latina Web Content (LWC) study spotlights “lack of relevant content” as a vital element of the digital divide that has been overshadowed by discussions emphasizing technology and/or literacy. There are millions of documents available via the web, thus it may seem implausible to suggest that content benefiting everyone does not exist (Carvin 2000). The reality, however, is that content gaps do exist and contribute to the persistence of the digital divide (Children’s Partnership 2000; Taglang 2001; Tomas Rivera Policy Institute 2002). A significant disconnect between the life experiences of minority users and web content has been documented (Barbatsis, Camacho, and Jackson 2004; Dash 1999). The Internet often reflects the culture and interest of its principle users and content creators who are mainly upper-middle-class white males, despite the rhetoric about the declining significance of race, gender, and socioeconomic status in cyberspace (Kvasny 2002). In order to understand and address this piece of the digital divide, analysis of the nature of existing content about and for underserved communities needs to take place to identify gaps and barriers to the information (Chatman 1987; Childers and Post 1975). In other words, if the issue of lack of relevant content is to be tackled, the nature of existing content needs to be known and examined for potential inadequacies so that remedies can be proposed. The intent of the LWC study was to provide a sense of the nature of web-based content about U.S. Latinas, a community that has traditionally been underrepresented in information sources (McNutt, Queiro-Tajalli, Boland, and Campbell 2001). The “nature” of the content was explored and analyzed by examining attributes such as, type of site, language of site, topic(s), producer(s) of site, technical features, and targeted audience.technology literacyinternetdigital divideapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/882945pshttps://escholarship.org/content/qt882945ps/qt882945ps.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt485681pr2011-07-02T10:21:35Zqt485681prMissing in Action: On Eastern European Women and Transnational FeminismRoman, Denise2006-11-01Transnational feminism and discoursing about gendered practices of globalization appear to be the most widespread feminist theoretical frameworks in women’s studies departments across North America. To the student of Eastern Europe, however, this is a closed scholarship, limited only to histories and geographies that circumvent Eastern Europe, as if communism did not fall there seventeen years ago, as if women from Eastern Europe do not have an existence or a voice. I am not talking about the absence of a voice in general, since rigorous studies about Eastern European women’s lives do exist in some departments of anthropology, sociology, history, political science, and Slavic studies. I am talking about those very institutionalized outlets (women’s studies departments) that should have embraced and encouraged the expression of Eastern European women’s issues and narratives through transnational feminism, after more than fifty years of confinement behind the Iron Curtain.1transnationalismglobalizationEastern EuropeSlavic studiesiron curtainapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/485681prhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt485681pr/qt485681pr.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt3xg1q19s2011-07-02T10:21:09Zqt3xg1q19sSwitchpoints: A Review of Kathryn Stockton’s “Oedipus Raced, or the Child Queered by Color”Summers, Robert2009-02-26“Oedipus Raced, or the Child Queered by Color: “Gay” Child and “Black” Child in Liberal Race Films,” a talk by Kathyrn Stockton,on December 3, 2008, was part of the CSW “Race in Sexuality: The Color of LGBT” series, which was curated by Joseph Bristow, a professor in the Department of English at UCLA.queerqueer childfilmracetwentiethcentury literaturevisual cultureapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/3xg1q19shttps://escholarship.org/content/qt3xg1q19s/qt3xg1q19s.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt1ht7p9jj2011-07-02T10:15:21Zqt1ht7p9jjCoordinator's Notes: Thinking Gender 2009Riojas, Mirasol2009-03-01Usually, when I wake up to the sound of raindrops hitting the roof over my head, it genuinely makes me smile. Whether I head out to face the big, bad world or have the luxury of hibernating under a pile of blankets with some hot tea and a stack of good books and movies, the rain is welcomed, especially in L.A. But on the first Friday of this past February, when my alarm went off and I heard that pitter patter coming from somewhere overhead, all I could think was, “Oh no!” I was terrified that six months of planning were about to go down the drain. I had this fear that the rain was going to keep people from heading out to CSW’s Thinking Gender conference, an event that so many people had worked so hard to make happen.Thinking GenderconferenceUCLACenter for the Study of Womenapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/1ht7p9jjhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt1ht7p9jj/qt1ht7p9jj.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt5kj5354r2011-07-02T10:04:30Zqt5kj5354rEla Troyano’s La Lupe: Queen of Latin Soul A “Whole” StoryRiojas, Mirasol2009-01-26Duri ng a Q & A session that followed the screening of La Lupe: Queen of Latin Soul, independent filmmaker, Ela Troyano, mentioned that her film is not like traditional documentaries, particularly those that are thematically oriented. Anyone in the audience familiar with either Troyano’s work or the musical performances of Cuban songstress, Lupe Yoli (aka La Lupe and La Yi Yi Yi), had to know that when they sat down to watch the film, they would be watching something characteristically unconventional. Both La Lupe (who was known for her outrageous performances) and Troyano’s films—particularly Latin Boys Go to Hell (1997)—have developed cult followings over the years, and La Lupe is a testament as to the many reasons why this is so.Latinafilmlatin musiciansdocumentaryCubaapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/5kj5354rhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt5kj5354r/qt5kj5354r.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt3t68t2wk2011-07-02T10:04:20Zqt3t68t2wkPlease Take Up My Claim! Poor Black Womken, the Professional Class and the Pension Process in Eastern North Carolina, 1889-1994Brimmer, Brandi C.2006-04-01During the Civil War the Union Army raised over 5000 black men for the United States Colored Troops (USCT) in North Carolina. In 1866, the Military Pension Bureau (MPB) recognized the sacrifice of formerly enslaved African-American soldiers by creating policies that extended financial support to their widows and dependent children. Filing a petition for a Civil War widow’s pension was a direct course of action that would have been denied to poor women before the Civil War, when both formal and informal constraints denied African Americans and many poor whites their access to legal rights and governmental institutions.womenwomen and slaveryslaveryCivil Warapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/3t68t2wkhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt3t68t2wk/qt3t68t2wk.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt22h059852011-07-02T10:03:08Zqt22h05985Transcending "The Box"Dudakia, Kunti2008-02-01I hate it. I hate the feeling I get when I am forced in online surveys, job applications, or school admissions to check a box to identify my racial background. A feeling of confusion and uncertainty overwhelms me in an internal battle to check just one box. I am not one box.racial profilingracial identityidentityracemixed-racehybridityapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/22h05985https://escholarship.org/content/qt22h05985/qt22h05985.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt90f9w75c2011-07-02T10:03:04Zqt90f9w75cJust Say NoMcHugh, Kathleen2008-12-17Director's Commentarycommentaryethicscommitmentapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/90f9w75chttps://escholarship.org/content/qt90f9w75c/qt90f9w75c.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt1z05s7102011-07-02T10:02:58Zqt1z05s710The Art of Failure and the Unwritten Rules in Life An Interview with Ellen HarveyCohn, Jonathan2008-12-17Over the past 12 years, Ellen Harvey (www. ellenharvey.info/) has exhibited her art pieces around the world, from Berlin, Germany to Lahore, Pakistan. In the process, she has garnered an impressive reputation for both her intriguing uses of materials, from Polaroid™ film to etched mirrors, and her playfully devastating institutional critiques. She is an artist, though she has never felt comfortable with the term, and seems at times to question the term’s relevance in a society where everyone seems to be creative. As someone who has taught and lectured in a number of prestigious universities, such as Yale and the University of Michigan, she is also currently concentrating on a number of exhibitions and her one-and-a-half-year-old son, who delightfully interrupted the interview on a number of occasions to discuss his impressive collection of hats.modern artself-portraitsapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/1z05s710https://escholarship.org/content/qt1z05s710/qt1z05s710.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt4mj689w52011-07-02T10:02:39Zqt4mj689w5From the Archives: An Update on the June L. Mazer Archives ProjectHixon, James2009-03-01As a graduate student researcher for the Center for the Study of Women, I have been working on a grant-funded project to digitize several collections from the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives in West Hollywood. Among these are the organizational records from The Southern California Women for Understanding (SCWU), which was established in 1976 and grew to be one of the largest lesbian organizations in the country.Lesbianarchivesdigitizationapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/4mj689w5https://escholarship.org/content/qt4mj689w5/qt4mj689w5.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt8xt8t8m22011-07-02T10:02:30Zqt8xt8t8m2Beyond Marriagede Stefano, April2008-03-01Few people enjoy filling out tax forms and paying taxes. For gay and lesbian couples in California who are registered domestic partners (RDPs), tax preparation has become even more onerous Beyond Marriage this year. For the first time, RDPs must file their state taxes as “married.” However, the Internal Revenue Service, which does not legally recognize domestic partnership, requires LGBT couples to file their federal tax returns as “single.” To complicate matters further, in order to file as “married” in California and “single” for the IRS, they must create an ersatz federal married tax return for state filing. That’s three federal returns and one state return per couple. For many supporters of LGBT rights, “gay marriage” would rectify this convoluted tiered system. If unequal rights are the problem, then marriage is the answer. Or is it?LGBT rightsgay marriagetaxesCivil RightsLGBT legislationapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/8xt8t8m2https://escholarship.org/content/qt8xt8t8m2/qt8xt8t8m2.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt2xz620f62011-07-02T10:02:24Zqt2xz620f6A New Look at Women’s Sexuality & Sexual OrientationGarnets, Linda D.Peplau, Letitia Anne2006-12-01Scientific evidence points toward a significant paradigm shift in conceptualizing women’s sexuality and sexual orientation. When theorists generalize about both sexes, they tend to take male experience as the norm and may ignore unique aspects of women’s sexuality. Yet a growing body of research indicates that the nature and development of sexual orientation are different for women and men. We have proposed a new paradigm that puts women’s experiences at center stage. For example, an understanding of women’s sexual orientation requires recognition of women’s position in society. The experiences of women and men are different in part because of inequalities in their social and economic status and because of social attitudes about women’s “proper” roles and behaviors. These, in turn, are shaped by the cultural and ethnic context of women’s lives.paradigm shiftsexulaityfluid orientationapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/2xz620f6https://escholarship.org/content/qt2xz620f6/qt2xz620f6.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt3rw866ww2011-07-02T09:51:38Zqt3rw866wwFragmented BodiesCandelario, Rosemary2008-01-01These are just some of the words used to define devadasis in South India over the last century. Recent scholars (Avanthi Meduri, Amrit Srinivasan, Saskia C. Kersenboom-Story, Kay Jordan, to name a few) have attempted to locate historical devadasis (or traces of them) in the contemporary performance of Bharatanatyam, but rarely have they looked to the women who still call themselves by that name, many of whom live in the northern part of the state of Karnataka in south India.DevadasisNorthern IndiaKarnatakaBharatanatyamKalakshetradevadasiHIVAIDSapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/3rw866wwhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt3rw866ww/qt3rw866ww.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt2j54h4zt2011-07-02T09:09:24Zqt2j54h4ztPostcolonial Feminist Re-presentation of Disability (Studies)Nack Ngue, Julie C.2006-12-01A few days after passing my dissertation orals, feather in cap, I found myself excitedly explaining my project to a Comp Lit professor (Finally, I thought, I can talk about my project with a smile and a certain air of—dare I say—confidence!). When I told him that I was doing a disability studies reading of novels by African and Caribbean women whose protagonists are typically read as “alienated,” he looked not impressed but dubious—and fairly amused. “Be careful,” he said, “we’re not even sure that’s a real field of studies yet.” But isn’t that what they said for so long about Women’s Studies and Postcolonial Studies? “Yes,” he admitted. And finally, “Well, good luck to you.” After an awkward adieu, I returned to my prospectus with, let’s say, a tempered zeal.disabilitiesalienationSociety for Disability Studieswomen's fictionpostcolonial scholarshipapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/2j54h4zthttps://escholarship.org/content/qt2j54h4zt/qt2j54h4zt.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt0f98m7s32011-07-02T09:05:23Zqt0f98m7s3Feminine Interferences: 3 Performances by Jenny JaramilloLeón, Christian2007-11-01In July 2004, Jenny Jaramillo performed three actions: Miracle Mop, Deseasentar, Testa di sémola di grano duro. Under these ironic titles, the artist from Quito staged multiple surprising representations of femininity about Nevertheless, the mistakes, the interference, and the deviation end up transforming into a source of feminine creativity. The repeated male voice is transformed, violated, questioned. The Indian image, fixed and domestic, while projected over the artist’s body, becomes warped, distorted, and empty. This step from mimesis to poiesis, from imitation to replica, from copy to replacement, designates a subtle maneuver of feminine subversion. This strategy consists of liberating something unnamed by masculine law, something invisible in the stereotypes that anchor a woman’s image to an identity or role. Miracle Mop alludes to this unnamed and invisible distance in an effective manner, pronounced through the repetition of commonplaces and stereotypes. The execution of routine actions, of verbal voiceover, and of a dislocation of images profiles a semantic residue that alludes to a non-identified being, a woman represented but always absent, in a “lostperformance artwoman's voiceapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/0f98m7s3https://escholarship.org/content/qt0f98m7s3/qt0f98m7s3.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt76f601jz2011-07-02T07:50:59Zqt76f601jz"A Most Sacred Duty": Women in the Antiremoval Movement, 1829-1838Joy, Natalie2008-03-01Opposition to Indian removal is generally less well known than other reform movements of the antebellum period, but, like antislavery, it too was an international, interdenominational, and multiracial movement. It was also a movement, like antislavery, in which women played a crucial role. Throughout the 1830s women signed petitions protesting Indian removal in great numbers, the first time they had done so on a national issue.1 Some submitted their own petitions, separate from the men of their communities, and some signed their names to mixed-sex petitions. There were two major waves of antiremoval petitioning; both received significant participation from women. The first occurred between 1829 and 1830 in response to the Indian Removal Bill, a hallmark of President Andrew Jackson’s new administration. Largely orchestrated by Catharine Beecher, this fascinating episode has been the subject of recent scholarship.2 The second wave of female petitioning, which occurred in 1838, has not received the same degree of attention, despite its connection to both the earlier antiremoval petition campaign and the burgeoning antislavery movement.3 In my work I seek to understand how this later petition campaign against removal of the Cherokee Nation developed, its relationship to the first antiremoval petition campaign, and its intersection with abolition.Indian Removal ActAntiremoval MovementCatharine BeecherAndrew JacksonIndian Removal ActMartin Van BurenTreaty of New EchotaCherokee NationConcord Female Antislavery SocietyGrimkéLydia Maria Childapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/76f601jzhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt76f601jz/qt76f601jz.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt4w94v8kr2011-07-02T07:50:54Zqt4w94v8krBeautifulAgony.com and the Representation of PleasureWard, Anna E.2006-04-01In my paper “BeautifulAgony. com and the Representation of Pleasure,” I examine a website launched in 2004 known as Beautiful Agony: Facettes de la Petite Mort in order to explicate the ways in which orgasm and pleasure are conceived and represented. Beautiful Agony is a subscription-based website featuring downloadable video submissions of both women and men experiencing orgasms. The videos are framed from the shoulders up and contain no nudity; the videos convey sexual pleasure entirely through facial expressions and sound. The creators of the site define it as “hardcore without nudity.”sexual pleasurepornographybeautiful agonyonline sex industryapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/4w94v8krhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt4w94v8kr/qt4w94v8kr.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt1s93h0712011-07-02T03:03:48Zqt1s93h071Homelessness: How Did We Get Here and What Can We Do?Hant, Myrna2006-10-01On May 25, 1999, a 54-year–old homeless woman, Margaret Mitchell, was wheeling a shopping cart in an affluent neighborhood in Los Angeles. When two police officers came over to find out if she had stolen the cart, the 5´1˝ woman, obviously deranged, rummaged through her belongings, pulled out a screwdriver and began threatening the officers. One of the officers fired his gun and killed Ms. Mitchell. The reaction to the death catapulted the incident into national news, some argued because what happened was a raced event whose players were African American, Asian American and Caucasian. Besides the tragedy of such misdirected violence, the questions have to be asked: How do we tolerate so many homeless people on our streets and how can we ever find creative solutions?homelessLA CountyLos Angelesapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/1s93h071https://escholarship.org/content/qt1s93h071/qt1s93h071.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt6c2361zz2011-07-02T03:02:30Zqt6c2361zzCollaborative Film Authorship: Writing Latinas Into the PictureRiojas, Mirasol2009-03-01U.S.-based Latinas have generally been included in film history through an analysis of their on-screen representations and contributions as directors of short, experimental, and documentary films. Unfortunately, as far as the filmmakers are concerned, the shorter formats I mention fail to receive the level of popular, critical, and scholarly recognition that feature films receive. Particularly since the 1990s, the number of Latinas working on features has increased significantly. To put this in perspective, Martha M. Lauzen’s, “The Celluloid Ceiling: Behind-the-Scenes Employment of Women in the Top 250 Films of 2007,” found women represented only 6% of directors that year.1 Although there are no statistics available with regard to what percentage of these women were Latinas, they account for only a fraction of that 6%. It is also important to note that even Latina directors who do gain access to the means of production still have only limited opportunities within the industry.2 The small number of Latina-made feature films available for analysis reflects Latinas’ marginalization within the industry, which has been reproduced in the writing of film history.film historyLatinasfilm industryFeminist film theoryapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/6c2361zzhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt6c2361zz/qt6c2361zz.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt2w42k2md2011-07-02T03:02:02Zqt2w42k2mdImagining the Archive: Documenting GABRIELA Network an activist Filipina women’s organizationDean, Rebecca2009-03-01At the 2009 Thinking Gender Conference, I was not the only person struck with the feverish plague known as “archive fever.” As famously theorized by Jacques Derrida, the condition of archive fever makes us more alert to our compulsion to store the past and also, more importantly, to consider the relationship of the archive to the future.archivehistoryFilipinaapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/2w42k2mdhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt2w42k2md/qt2w42k2md.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt5002k75q2011-07-02T03:01:56Zqt5002k75qPanel Review: "Illness, Deformity, and Shock Re-Reading Disability"Davis, Vivian2009-03-01In 1995’s Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness and the Body, Lennard Davis famously defined disability as a “disruption in the visual field.”1 Over the course of the following decade, this theorization of disability as a “specular moment” would come to greatly impact the emergent field of disability studies.2 By emphasizing the disabled body’s potential for erasure, whether in scholarship or society at large, Davis’s work both opened new avenues of academic inquiry and readied a political agenda in which disability was figured as a transformative category of political identity. 3 However, as the papers presented during the Thinking Gender conference panel, “Illness, Deformity, and Shock: Re-Reading Disability,” suggested, structures of visibility and invisibility are but one of many ways of constructing disabledness. While the alliance between disability and issues of visibility has long given the field political traction, the set of papers which emerged from the panel indicated that many of disability studies’ core tenets require a fresh reexamination. As moderator Professor Helen Deutsch, Department of English, UCLA, noted, the aim of the panel was therefore to unsettle rather than cement the foundations of what has historically been a highly innovative and deeply interdisciplinary field. As such, the panel’s participants employed a broad range of analyses to engage in acts of communal re-reading.disability studiesdisability theoryliteraturefeminismapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/5002k75qhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt5002k75q/qt5002k75q.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt9t32n7f22011-07-02T03:01:46Zqt9t32n7f2In order to go beyond protest it is necessary... to conceive a new vocabulary of desire...Mertes, Thomas2009-01-26On January 20, activist/scholar Sheila Rowbotham will GIVE A TALK about her new biography, Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love. In 1969 Sheila Rowbotham pleaded with comrades at the radical newspaper Black Dwarf for a unified left. “We can’t appoint ourselves as an all-knowing elite, ready to issue orders to the masses,” she argued. Instead Rowbotham sought to learn from Third World revolutionaries, Anarchists, Anarcho-syndicalists, and Utopian Socialists. She advocated a broad appeal to reach out to groups who were oppressed by more than just class. She had come to the conclusion that most of the men on the left were too steeped in patriarchy and failed to take into consideration that “liberation” was not just a change in the balance of class forces, but recognition of other forms of subordination. Rowbotham eventually resigned from the publication, suggesting that the editorial board “sit around imagining they had cunts for two minutes in silence so they could understand why it was hard” for them to consider her and other women as equals. The personal had become political.Sheila RowbothamEdward Carpenterherstorypoliticshistoryapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/9t32n7f2https://escholarship.org/content/qt9t32n7f2/qt9t32n7f2.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt4gs5c0gm2011-07-02T03:01:42Zqt4gs5c0gmDieting: Does It Really Work?Tomiyama, A. Janet2007-12-01“Everyone knows diets don’t work. All they do is stress you out.” This judgment, uttered by the inimitable Oprah Winfrey, characterizes a vast number of women’s experiences with dieting. The weight comes off initially and then seems to rebound right back, making the entire miserable experience for naught. The common perception that diets don’t work seems to be acknowledged (if not accepted) by women everywhere.weight losslow-caloriedietdietsobesitymedicareapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/4gs5c0gmhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt4gs5c0gm/qt4gs5c0gm.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt1gz834042011-07-02T02:54:51Zqt1gz83404Musawah Movement: Seeking Equality and Justice in Muslim Family LawBasarudin, Azza2009-03-01These personal stories from Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Britain, and Gambia, among others—signifying the contention between law, lived realities, and experiences, and illuminating the need for equality and justice— emerged in Kuala Lumpur during the launch of the Musawah (“equality” in Arabic) movement. Between February 13 and 17, 2009, Malaysia bore witness to the courageous and necessary search for equality and justice in Muslim Family Law through the meeting of a transnational network of activists, academics, ngos, grassroots organizations, policy makers, and those committed to reclaiming Islam for themselves in their struggle to (re) envision the role and meaning of their faith in the twenty-first century. No longer the nameless, faceless, and voiceless Muslim women that permeate Orientalist literatures and popular culture, this select group of believers and their allies claims that Islam promotes gender justice, though the realization of equality remains elusive due to authoritarian and unjust interpretations of Islam.Muslimfamily lawMuslim Family Lawapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/1gz83404https://escholarship.org/content/qt1gz83404/qt1gz83404.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt3sn9r8r92011-07-02T00:35:23Zqt3sn9r8r9An All Women's Response to WarDean, Rebecca2008-02-01International Women’s Day has been celebrated for over 95 years. It is a time when women’s voices regarding national and international events are meant to be the loudest. The continuous war and aggression in Iraq are on the forefront of many women activist’s minds. While this march will mark the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq, the issue of women and war begs for our attention. Masculinist perspectives dominate the blogs, websites, journals, and radio programs devoted to discussing the war. And in the lineup of anti-war activists and commentators in the media, women are underrepresented and few speak about the specific impact of the war on women.Internationals Women's DayIraq WarWarGabriella NetworkMariposa Allianceapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/3sn9r8r9https://escholarship.org/content/qt3sn9r8r9/qt3sn9r8r9.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt8h88g87x2011-06-09T14:13:37Zqt8h88g87xALMS 2011: Preserving the Collective History of the LGBT CommunityMcLean, Lindsey2011-06-01A Review of the Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Special Collections 2011 Conference.Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality StudiesALMSMazer ArchivesLGBT historyArchivesLibrariesUCLA LibraryUCLA Center for the Study of Womenapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/8h88g87xhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt8h88g87x/qt8h88g87x.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt4c8317762011-06-09T13:28:34Zqt4c831776Media Images and Screen Representations of Nurses: Conference ReviewSher, Ben2011-06-01Impressive in scope, the conference“Media Images and Screen Representations of Nurses” incorporated presentations by nurses, journalists, academic scholars, activists, and major players in the entertainment industry. Their topics ranged from representations of nurses smoking in advertising throughout the 20th century to methods by which nurses can influence and improve upon their often offensive depictions on contemporary television.FilmTelevisionNursesNursingRepresentatations of NursingNurses in the Mediaapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/4c831776https://escholarship.org/content/qt4c831776/qt4c831776.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt66x4506d2011-06-09T13:28:30Zqt66x4506dQ&A with Joshua AronsonWilliams, Amy2011-06-01An interview with Joshua Aronson, a speaker in the Women and Stem Speaker Series curated by Jenessa Shapiro, Assistant Professor of Psychology at UCLA, and sponsored by UCLA's Center for the Study of Women. In the interview Aronson discusses his research methodology, family, and making the world a better place.Joshua AronsonWomen and STEM Speaker SeriesUCLAUCLA's Center for the Study of Womenapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/66x4506dhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt66x4506d/qt66x4506d.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt1434v6gg2011-06-09T13:13:32Zqt1434v6ggQ&A With Nilanjana DasguptaJurcevic, Ines2011-06-01A Q&A with Nilanjana Dasgupta, a speaker in the Women and STEM Speaker Series curated by Jennesa Shapiro, Assistant Professor in the Department Of Psychology at UCLA, and sponsored by UCLA's Center for the Study of Women. In this interview Dasgupta talks about how she became interested in studying psychology, choice, and social justice.Nilanjana DasguptaWomenand STEM SPeaker SeriesUCLAUCLA's Center for the Study of Womenapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/1434v6gghttps://escholarship.org/content/qt1434v6gg/qt1434v6gg.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt6qq6j9mj2011-06-09T13:13:28Zqt6qq6j9mjMoving From the Flesh: Feminist-Queer Thought and Action in LA Immigrant Rights MovementsTorres, PatriciaDiwan, Naazneen2011-06-01This article is excerpted from a longer research paper and project examining moments amongst the intersections of immigrant rights, gender justice, and social change. This piece is collaboratively crafted by two Ph.D. students, one in Urban Planning and the other in Women’s Studies, as a reflection on their actions with Tod@s Somos Arizona, a grassroots collective. These excerpts emerge from experiences right before a major act of civil disobedience and the ensuing jail time. Both women identify as queer women of color who are also experimenting with a spectrum of queer as an analytic.Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality StudiesOther Race, Ethnicity and post-Colonial StudiesTod@s Somos Arizonapublic discourcequeer rightscivil disobedienceLGBT rightsimmigrant rightsgender justicesocial changeapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/6qq6j9mjhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt6qq6j9mj/qt6qq6j9mj.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt4kv349d52011-06-09T12:59:20Zqt4kv349d5Gendered Recourse in Humanitarian Paths to CitizenshipMorando, Sarah J.2011-06-01How does a migrant’s gender affect his or her likelihood of receiving humanitarian-based legal relief? Sarah Morando's dissertation, an examination of the legal status acquisition process for female and male unauthorized immigrant crime victims in the United States, attempts to provide answers to this critical question.immigrationhumanitarian legal aidU.S. immigration lawsgender and immigrationapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/4kv349d5https://escholarship.org/content/qt4kv349d5/qt4kv349d5.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt0146536c2011-06-09T11:58:15Zqt0146536cDirector's CommentaryMcHugh, Kathleen2011-06-01Last week, CSW was awarded a $300,000 NEH grant for “Making Invisible Histories Visible: Preserving the Legacy of Lesbian Feminist Activism and Writing in Los Angeles,” a three-year project to arrange, describe, digitize, and make physically and electronically accessible two major clusters of Mazer collections related to West Coast lesbian/ feminist activism and writing since the 1930s. This project, which continues CSW’s partnership with the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives and the UCLA Library, grew out of CSW’s two-year “Access Mazer: Organizing and Digitizing the Lesbian Feminist Archive in Los Angeles” project, which was supported in part by the UCLA Center for Community Partnerships.NEH GrantMazer ArchivesUCLA libraryUCLA's Center for the Study of Womenapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/0146536chttps://escholarship.org/content/qt0146536c/qt0146536c.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt0nk2q1wt2011-05-26T11:14:20Zqt0nk2q1wtOral Interactions, Phantom Bodies, and What's Food Got to Do With It?: Three Thinking Gender 2011 Panel ReviewsMcLean, Lindsey2011-05-15A collection of three panel reviews from Thinking Gender 2011. The panels reviewed include "Oral Interactions: Conversation, Ethnography, Oral History," "Phantom Bodies," and "What’s Food Got To Do With It?: Women and Disordered Eating."Thinking GenderCenter for the Study of WomenThinking Gender 2011application/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/0nk2q1wthttps://escholarship.org/content/qt0nk2q1wt/qt0nk2q1wt.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt5v49x2p92011-05-26T11:14:16Zqt5v49x2p9Contested Interventions and The Politics of RescueMcKibben, Susan2011-05-15A review by Susan McKibben of the Thinking Gender 2011 panel titled "Contested Interventions and the Politics of Rescue."Thinking GenderCenter for the Study of WomenThinking Gender 2011Panel Reviewapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/5v49x2p9https://escholarship.org/content/qt5v49x2p9/qt5v49x2p9.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt9k02b6r42011-05-26T10:59:22Zqt9k02b6r4Gender and Media in the Post and Cold War EraWright, Julia2011-05-15A review by Julia Wright of the Thinking Gender 2011 panel titled "Gender and Media in the Post and Cold War Era."Thinking GenderCenter for the Study of WomenThinking Gender 2011Panel Reviewapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/9k02b6r4https://escholarship.org/content/qt9k02b6r4/qt9k02b6r4.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt6z26k2pn2011-05-26T10:59:18Zqt6z26k2pnAmbiguous Rights: Gender Politics and TheoryBeck, Jillian2011-05-15A review by Jillian Beck of Thinking Gender 2011's panel "Ambiguous Rights: Gender Politics and Theory."Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality StudiesPanel Reviewfeninist theoryJohn Stuart Millmulticulturalismgender rolesnordic countriesThinking GenderCenter for the Study of WomenThinking Gender 2011application/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/6z26k2pnhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt6z26k2pn/qt6z26k2pn.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt4w60c3wk2011-05-26T10:59:14Zqt4w60c3wkUprooting the Seeds of Evil: Jewish Marriage Regulation, Morality Certificates, and Degenerate Prostitute Mothers in 1930s Buenos AiresYarfitz, Mir2011-05-15Unlike in the eugenics movement in the United States, in which generally white, highly educated, Christian reformers discouraged reproduction among African Americans and non- Anglo Saxon immigrants deemed “unfit,” Jewish social reformers in Argentina attempted to delineate the boundaries of membership within their own community. Esras Noschim’s morality certification system and particular concern with prostitute mothers as a degenerative influence on future generations revealed deep anxiety with the legacy of the substantial local connection between Jews and organized prostitution.Bueos AriesEsras Noschimprostitutionsex workimmigrationZwi Migdal SocietyreformThe international Jewish Association for the Protection of Girls and WomenJewish MothersJewish Womenapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/4w60c3wkhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt4w60c3wk/qt4w60c3wk.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt9zp550rs2011-05-26T10:44:13Zqt9zp550rsMessage from the CoordinatorMoorman, Jen2011-05-15A brief review of "Thinking Gender 2011," Center for the Study of Women's annual graduate student conference from 2011's coordinator, Jen Moorman.Thinking GenderCenter for the Study of WomenThinking Gender 2011application/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/9zp550rshttps://escholarship.org/content/qt9zp550rs/qt9zp550rs.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt8b4367kx2011-05-19T13:02:05Zqt8b4367kxQ&A with Steven Spencer: Speaker in the Women and STEM Series Talks About How He Became Interested in Studying Psychology, Dissonance, and Stereotype ThreatHooker, Courtney2011-05-01As I talked with Steven Spencer, Professor at the University of Waterloo and a groundbreaking researcher in the field of stereotype threat, I was impressed by his kind demeanor and effective speaking style. He shared information about his academic career, advice for graduate students as well as discussing this research on how to dismantle the negative stereotypes that inhibit women’s progression in science, technology, engineering, and math fields (STEM).Other PsychologyWomen and STEMSTEMStereotype ThreatSteven Spencerapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/8b4367kxhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt8b4367kx/qt8b4367kx.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt93h5f2qd2011-05-19T13:02:00Zqt93h5f2qdNew Majorities II: A Cross-Country Duet on the State of Gender and Sexuality Studies in the AcademyMiranda, Krista2011-05-01New Majorities II had a double task: First, the day-long forum continued an initiative launched at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, and co-conceived by CSW director Kathleen McHugh and NY U Professor Lisa Duggan, to respond to the uneven budget cuts affecting gender and sexuality departments—as well as other interdisciplinary programs, such as African-American and Latino/a Studies—nationwide. Second, the NY U forum was a celebration of the 11th anniversary of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS). (As CSGS Director Ann Pellegrini http://www.csgsnyu. org/about/faculty-and-staff/ mock protested, “why celebrate the even when you can celebrate the odd.”)Curriculum and Social InquiryOther Educational Administration and SupervisionNew MajoritiesConferrenceCenter for the Study of WomenCenter for the Study of Gender and SexualityUCLANYUapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/93h5f2qdhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt93h5f2qd/qt93h5f2qd.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt9mh3b8dm2011-05-19T13:01:56Zqt9mh3b8dmQ&A with Toni Schmader: Speaker in the Women and STEM Series Talks About How She Became Interested in Studying Educational OutcomesWong, Lauren2011-05-01I recently had the wonderful opportunity to sit down with Dr. Toni Schmader, Professor at the University of British Columbia, to talk about her groundbreaking research on stereotype threat among women in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). We talked about how she began her academic career, advice she has for graduate students, and her insights into her latest research on examining the mechanisms behind stereotype threat.Women and STEMSTEMCSW Speaker SeriesToni SchmaderStereotype Threatapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/9mh3b8dmhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt9mh3b8dm/qt9mh3b8dm.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt5xn2t7gk2011-05-19T13:01:52Zqt5xn2t7gkQ&A with Jessica Gipson: CSW Faculty Research Seed Grant Recipient Investigates Women’s Choices Regarding Prenatal and Delivery Care in a Rural Area of Western ChinaSpencer-Walters, Dayo2011-05-01Jessica Gipson is an Assistant Professor of Community Health Sciences in the School of Public Health at UCLA. She received a CSW Faculty Research Seed Grants for 2010-2011 for a project titled “Investigating Tibetan Women’s Pregnancy Care Preferences in Rural China: A Collaborative Pilot Study to Promote Safe Motherhood.” Investigating women’s choices regarding prenatal and delivery care in rural, western China, an area with high maternal mortality and morbidity, the project will also develop a clinic data collection system to track women’s knowledge, perceptions, and use of a newly constructed Tibetan Birth Center in this area. Recently, Professor Gipson very kindly responded to some questions about her career path and research activities.Social and Cultural AnthropologyJessica GibsonCSW Faculty Research Seed GrantsPrenatal and Delivery CareWestern ChinaChinaapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/5xn2t7gkhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt5xn2t7gk/qt5xn2t7gk.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt49j0958t2011-05-19T12:46:50Zqt49j0958tDancing at the Crossroads: Batuko, Community, and Female Empowerment in Cape Verde West AfricaStranovsky, Sara2011-05-01Batuko, an interdisciplinary performance of drum, dance, and song is one of many creole forms of expression. Not only does batuko show how Cape Verdeans are a part of a local-global paradox, where lines that separate the local from the global are hard to define, batuko also serves as a community-building mechanism for women who have endured especially difficult hardships living at the crossroads.Other Race, Ethnicity and post-Colonial StudiesCape VerdeWest AfricaDiasporic CommunitiesDiasporaBatukoWomen in Cape VerdeCommunity Outreachapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/49j0958thttps://escholarship.org/content/qt49j0958t/qt49j0958t.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt5qd3z4hr2011-04-25T12:59:14Zqt5qd3z4hrInventing Hoodia: Vulnerabilities and Epistemic Citizenship in South AfricaFoster, Laura A.2011-04-01In studying Hoodia patent law struggles, I am interested in how sovereign power, in the service of neoliberal bioeconomies, values some forms of knowledge over others. I examine how techniques of governmentality such as patent law, benefit sharing contracts, bioprospecting permits, and prior informed consent agreements are being used to structure inequitable forms of citizenship based upon whose knowledge and intellectual labor matters more to the neoliberal project of the nation-state. In particular, I ask how relevant social actors make claims for rights, benefits, and protection under the law based upon a vulnerability to their processes and ways of knowing in order to participate more fully within global market economies. In addition, I examine how social actors articulate, position, and rework concepts of nature and culture as they describe their practices related to the plant in order to secure rights under patent law and benefit sharing legislation.HoodiaSouth AfricaPatent LawsBioeconomicsCitizenshipGlobal MarketsEpistemic Citizenshipapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/5qd3z4hrhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt5qd3z4hr/qt5qd3z4hr.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt0df2c6462011-04-25T12:59:09Zqt0df2c646The Gendering of Film and Television CastingHill, Erin2011-04-01This article presents an overview and history of the position of Casting Director in the Film and Television industries. It shows how the position, over time, transformed from a position often filled by men to one most often filled by women.Other Film and Media StudiesOther HistoryFilm CastingTelevision CastingGendered ProfessionsHistory of Casting Director PositionFilm and Television HistoryFilm ProductionTelevsion Productionapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/0df2c646https://escholarship.org/content/qt0df2c646/qt0df2c646.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt91k315t52011-04-25T12:44:03Zqt91k315t5Academic Conference with a Grassroots FlavorMcLean, Lindsey2011-04-01A description of the upcoming Archive, Library, Museum, and Special Collections (ALMS) 2011 International LGBT Conference.ALMSJune Mazer Lesbian ArchivesCenter for the Study of WomenConferenceLGBTLGBT archivesLGBT rightsLGBT cultureLGBT historyapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/91k315t5https://escholarship.org/content/qt91k315t5/qt91k315t5.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt53v769m52011-04-25T11:28:53Zqt53v769m5Tagging and Blogging to Preserve HistoryRichards, Penny L.2011-04-01A brief discussion of the recent activities of UCLA Center for the Study of Women's Research Scholar Penny L. Richards.Other Arts and HumanitiesNARAtionsUnited States National ArchivesDissability History Associationapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/53v769m5https://escholarship.org/content/qt53v769m5/qt53v769m5.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt7g8360s22011-04-25T11:13:56Zqt7g8360s2Just Like You, But Not Like Us: Staging Multiracial Feminity, National Belonging, and Collective Memory in the American Girl FamilyEileraas, Karina2011-04-01A brief discussion of UCLA center for the Study of Women's Research Scholar Karina Eileraas' work using "American Girl and its products as a case study through which to address the fashioning and anchoring of racial and national identity in relationship to visual culture and collective memory."Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality StudiesOther Race, Ethnicity and post-Colonial StudiesAmerican Girl DollsAdolecent GirlsNational IdentityMulticulturalismMultiracialRacial IdentityVisual CultureCollective Memoryapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/7g8360s2https://escholarship.org/content/qt7g8360s2/qt7g8360s2.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt31t8d9602011-04-25T11:13:52Zqt31t8d960Under the Rape Shield: Constitutional and Feminist Critiques of Rape Shield LawsRoman, Denise2011-04-01This article discusses constitutional and feminist critiques of present rape shield laws in the United States, and ends with a comparative perspective throughout the Anglo-American legal space today. Finally, although the rape shield laws can be approached from a variety of discourses, this article engages specifically with a discourse that intersects legal and feminist analysesLaw and SocietyOther Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality StudiesRape Shield LawsFemale SexualityConstitutional RightsRape Trialsapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/31t8d960https://escholarship.org/content/qt31t8d960/qt31t8d960.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt5kh1k8jz2011-04-25T10:43:51Zqt5kh1k8jzWomen’s Studies, Students and the Discourse of CrisisNeejer, Christine2011-04-15"For its fortieth birthday, Women’s Studies has been given the gift of an impasse. What established, tenured Women’s Studies professors, the ‘foremothers’ turned academic powerbrokers, should do now with their own creation has snowballed into a discourse of crisis. Many Women’s Studies professors continue to support their departments and students. Yet there are a growing number of established scholars who are currently arguing, within a crisis discourse, that the project of Women’s Studies is no longer relevant or even possible. Women’s Studies scholarship has been framed as stagnant and naïve, based on identity politics and revolutionary ideals that no longer make sense in our post-modern, theory-based academy (i.e. Brown, Halley)." This paper addresses these issues with examples of student advocacy and a call for more student focused participation within the academic field of Women's Studies.Curriculum and Social InquiryWomen’s StudiesGender StudiesFeminismAcademicsDoctoral EducationDiscourseStudentsProfessorsUniversitiesCrisisapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/5kh1k8jzhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt5kh1k8jz/qt5kh1k8jz.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt644681jk2011-04-25T10:43:47Zqt644681jkExploring Gender Justice, Religion, and EthicsBasarudin, Azza2011-04-01A summary of the work being done by UCLA Center for the Study of Women's Research Scholar Azza Basarudin.CSWResearch ScholarMuslimMiddle EastEgyptapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/644681jkhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt644681jk/qt644681jk.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt286029992011-04-25T10:28:48Zqt28602999Sacred Display: Divine and Magcal Female Figures of EurasiaDexter, Miriam Robbers2011-04-01"Sacred Display: Divine and Magical Female Figures of Eurasia" (Cambria Press, 2010), which I co-authored with Victor H. Mair, discusses erotic and magical goddesses and heroines in several ancient cultures, from the Near East and Asia, and throughout ancient Europe; in prehistoric and early historic iconography, their magical qualities are often indicated by a magical dance or stance. It is a look at female display figures both cross-culturally and cross-temporally, through texts and iconography, beginning with figures depicted in very early Neolithic Anatolia, early and middle Neolithic southeast Europe - Bulgaria, Romania, and Serbia —continuing through the late Neolithic in East Asia, and into early historic Greece, India, and Ireland, and elsewhere across the world. These very similar female figures were depicted in Anatolia, Europe, Southern Asia, and East Asia, in a broad chronological sweep, beginning with the pre-pottery Neolithic, ca. 9000 BCE, and existing from the beginning of the second millennium of this era up to the present era.Ancient History, Greek and Roman through Late AntiquityEurasiagoddessesheroinesiconographyapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/28602999https://escholarship.org/content/qt28602999/qt28602999.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt6hb354p22011-04-15T15:13:24Zqt6hb354p2Director's Commentary: CSW Research Scholars!McHugh, Kathleen2011-04-01A brief introduction and to the CSW Update's special edition on the Center's Research Scholars.CSWResearch ScholarsHistory of Research Scholar Programapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/6hb354p2https://escholarship.org/content/qt6hb354p2/qt6hb354p2.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt16z606482011-04-15T14:58:22Zqt16z60648Studying Women and PhilosophyBensick, Carol M.2011-04-01CSW Research Scholar, Carlo M. Bensick, discussing the evolution of her interests in female philosophers and feminist theory.womenphilosophyhistoryliteratureapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/16z60648https://escholarship.org/content/qt16z60648/qt16z60648.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt4f02m8f02011-04-15T14:43:16Zqt4f02m8f0How Infants Come To Know “What Everyone Else Already Knows": Built in by Evolution or by Caregivers Turning on New "Apps?"Zukow-Goldring, Patricia2011-04-01My work is about the most mundane, but important, work that mothers do. All of us have worked hard to become professionals, but I stress the under- appreciated, everyday work of guiding infant novices to becoming adept members of their culture, especially the initial “baby steps.” around the world, caregivers—who are most often mothers, sisters, teachers, and other female kin— assume the most significant portion of this role. I explore caregiver methods or practices that propagate cultural knowing. To underscore that caregivers hold the key to critical cultural practices, I investigate the relation between what caregivers say and do and their infants’ emerging abilities to engage in everyday activities and to eventually express themselves in language. Both of these abilities are central to adept membership in technological and agrarian cultures at home as well as at school.caregiversknowledgecultural knowledgeinfantslearningapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/4f02m8f0https://escholarship.org/content/qt4f02m8f0/qt4f02m8f0.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt0z16d64h2011-04-15T14:28:19Zqt0z16d64hWomen Who Misbehave (And Change the World)Hant, Myna A.2011-04-01This article discusses CSW Research Scholar Myna A. Hant's lecture series about important women in history.WomenFeministsWomen in HistoryAfrican-American Womenapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/0z16d64hhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt0z16d64h/qt0z16d64h.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt749217gq2011-04-15T14:28:14Zqt749217gqCultural Mapping of Violent Events in BaghdadGifford, Lindsay A.2011-04-01During my year as a CSW Research Scholar, my research program has turned in exciting new directions, largely because of the opportunities afforded me through my affiliation with CSW. I began collaborating with Professor P. Jeffrey Brantingham of the department of anthropology at UCLA on a digital-cultural mapping project of violent events in Baghdad compiled from the Iraq Body count data. my expertise in cultural anthropology, the middle east, and my Arabic language skills helped to jump- start the project while Prof. Brantingham’s experience in mapping and modeling crime in the Los Angeles area provided the project’s technical foundation.Other AnthropologyOther International and Area StudiesOther Race, Ethnicity and post-Colonial StudiesSocial and Cultural Anthropologydigital cultural mappingiraqbaghdadviolenceapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/749217gqhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt749217gq/qt749217gq.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt58x8415h2011-04-15T14:13:13Zqt58x8415hOkinawanness as a Form of Indigeneity in Transnational Anti-Militarist Feminist MovementGinoza, Ayano2011-04-01In the "Politics of Indigeneity" (2005), Maaka and Fieras affirm that, to account for differently understood indigenous rights in various indigenous nations and communities, it is important to theorize indigeneity not necessarily as a form of claiming independence or succession but as “a political ideology and social movement by which a politicized awareness of original occupancy provides a principled basis for making claims against the state” (53). It is through this framework that Okinawan indigeneity is articulated to mobilize anti- militarist movements in order to address Japanese colonialism and U.S. militarism, not as a way of claiming independence from Japan, but as a political discourse that helps to transform U.S. militarism neo-colonialist forces in Okinawa.OkinawaJapanUnited StatesMilitaryOccupationNationalityNational IdentityAboriginalColonizationapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/58x8415hhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt58x8415h/qt58x8415h.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt7r7470h92011-04-15T11:42:58Zqt7r7470h9Suburban Landscapes in LANicolaides, Becky2011-04-01Over the past year, I have been working on the first two sections of a book manuscript, entitled "On the Ground in Suburbia: A Chronicle of Social and Civic Transformation in Los Angeles Since 1945," with generous support from a Haynes Foundation major research grant. The book is essentially a social history of suburban life in Los Angeles, concerned particularly with how patterns of social and civic engagement have ebbed, flowed, and transformed over the past 60 years—and how the suburban built environment factors into the story.SuburbsHistory of SuburbsLos Angelesapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/7r7470h9https://escholarship.org/content/qt7r7470h9/qt7r7470h9.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt2wv6c66k2011-04-15T11:42:54Zqt2wv6c66kStudying Stigma, Medicine, and Huntington’s DiseaseWexler, Alice2011-04-01My current work continues the study of stigma, medicine, and hereditary neurological and psychiatric Huntington’s disease that I began in 1995 "Mapping Fate: A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research" (UC Press, 1995). But whereas Mapping Fate is autobiographical and contemporary, my most recent book, "The Woman who Walked into the Sea: Huntington’s and the Making of a Genetic Disease" takes a more historical approach. Published in 2008 by Yale University Press and awarded the American Medical Writers’ Book Award for 2008, this book traces the ways in which an unusual form of “St.Vitus’s dance” became Huntington’s chorea and movements and cognitive and emotional decline. In tracking these changes over the nineteenth and early twentieth and historical narratives of the disease made women a source and scapegoat for Huntington’s—although the disease affects males and females in equal HD families as undesirable citizens, thereby encouraging the family secrecy and denial that medicine ostensibly sought to overcome.Huntington's DiseaseHistory of Huntington's Diseaseapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/2wv6c66khttps://escholarship.org/content/qt2wv6c66k/qt2wv6c66k.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt0261v1hh2011-04-15T11:27:55Zqt0261v1hhGuiding Tours of the LA River and Promoting SustainabilityPrice, Jenny2011-04-01An article describing the recent work and projects of CSW's Research Scholar Jenny Price. These projects includes her work with the Urban Rangers Collective and her advice column of LA Observed.SustainabilityLos AngelesLos Angeles RiverLos Angeles HistoryUrban Rangers Collectiveapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/0261v1hhhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt0261v1hh/qt0261v1hh.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt2ts2k4792011-04-15T11:27:47Zqt2ts2k479Improving Abortion Services for Women in MexicoBecker, Davinda2011-04-01Abortion-related mortality and morbidity has long been an important public health problem in Mexico. Between 1990 and 2005, abortion-related cause of maternal mortality nationally, and the third leading cause in Mexico City (Schiavon, Polo, & Troncoso, 2007). In 2006, an estimated 149,700 women were hospitalized for complications from induced abortion, a 40% increase over the number hospitalized in 1990 (Juarez et al. 2008). A key factor underlying these statistics is that abortion was, until recently, a largely illegal practice in Mexico. As a result, women faced with unintended pregnancies who wished to terminate them had to do so clandestinely often risking their health and lives. This situation led to social inequalities because it was the poorest, the least educated, the youngest, and women from indigenous backgrounds who were at highest risk for unsafe abortions, while afford safe services (Sousa, Lozano, & Gakidou, 2010).Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality StudiesMexicoAbortionAbortion ServicesWomen's HealthReproductive RightsAbortion Related Mortalityapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/2ts2k479https://escholarship.org/content/qt2ts2k479/qt2ts2k479.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt4x39v5nb2011-04-15T10:57:44Zqt4x39v5nbWhy a Historian Writes Reference WorksSheldon, Kathleen2011-04-01The history profession has given some recognition to reference work. The American historical association gives the Waldo G. Leland Prize for the most outstanding reference tool in the field of history, though it is only offered once every five years. As a historian who has written for and edited quite a few reference works over the years, I would argue that reliable reference publications depend on the contributions of scholars. The most useful reference sources are those that are written by recognized experts and edited by more experts with credentials and training in a particular field.Reading and LanguageReference WorksAuthorshipAuthoritative ContentHistoryapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/4x39v5nbhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt4x39v5nb/qt4x39v5nb.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt9m07x3mv2011-03-18T19:10:14Zqt9m07x3mvUntimely ForgettingHannabach, Cathy2008-05-01How can forgetting be constitutive of life and action? How can rethinking the relationship between forgetting, unforgetting, and melancholia produce alternative temporalities? I want to ask how queer femme melancholia as both forgetting and unforgetting can offer a politics and ethics of temporality, and an untimely reckoning with sexuality and gender.forgettingrelationshipsqueernessapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/9m07x3mvhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt9m07x3mv/qt9m07x3mv.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt9d65j0252011-03-18T19:04:41Zqt9d65j025Devil Bunny in Bondage: Challenging Essentialist IdentitiesBaron, Jaimie2010-04-01The sound of electronic beats and a video projection of a swirl of shifting colors and shapes set the tone as a woman dressed all in white—from her suit to her boots—walked onto the stage and began to read a manifesto. Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa, also known as the Devil Bunny in Bondage, is a San Francisco– based performance and video artist, activist, curator, and percussionist. She hails originally from Miami and received her B.A. from Brown University, where she created her own major entitled “Hybridity and Performance.” Since then, she has worked with various nonprofit arts organizations as well as HIV-prevention service agencies and has collaborated with artists including Pearl Ubungen, Guillermo Gomez-Peña, Elia Arce, and Afia Walking Tree.Devil BunnyGigi Otálvaro-HormillosaPerformance ArtPerformanceArtGenderSexualityLGBTRaceIdentityapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/9d65j025https://escholarship.org/content/qt9d65j025/qt9d65j025.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt9d0562cb2011-03-18T19:04:30Zqt9d0562cbTranscending MasculinityCollette-VanDeraa, Heather2008-05-01Notions of masculinity have been discussed in film scholarship for decades, with the genre of action films, particularly that of the boxing film, providing a most fertile ground for discourse. While Rocky (1976) did not inaugurate the genre, it remains one of the seminal films of not only the boxing genre, but of all American films, providing an archetype of masculinity that spawned a franchise. Many of these films repeat a theme of triumph against all odds that relies on a negotiation and assertion of masculinity in its most physical (and often violent) forms. Jurgen Reeder (1995) asserts that “these films seem to be a kind of ritual where a seemingly identical dramatic structure is reiterated many times over…such ritual repetition of dramatic themes express[es] an epoch’s need to explore an experience that as yet has not been adequately formulated and thematized” (131). The ‘experience’ that has yet to be adequately formulated in Rocky is a construction of masculinity that must adapt to, and reflect, the changing cultural climate of working- and middle-class values in light of civil rights and gender equality. In his struggle to achieve champion status, Rocky Balboa navigates a new cultural terrain marked by a disruption of traditional gender roles. While the hard-body/ action genre of films has presented an arguably homogenous class of masculine iconography, Rocky can be deconstructed today in light of an historical re-reading to demonstrate a nuanced representation of masculinity simultaneously embodied in the character’s physical strength and emotional development, both of which are achieved through his interpersonal relationships. Rocky Balboa’s masculinity is marked by a personal catharsis of emotional self-actualization that transcends his raw physicality and role as an underdog boxer. As any athlete will tell you, physical strength is enhanced by a mental and emotional fortitude, which develops in Rocky primarily though the titular character’s interpersonal relationships. Rocky’s development both physically and emotionally is enhanced through his relationships with principle love interest, Adrian (Talia Shire), and boxing rival Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) as well as the other men, most notably the father-figure trainer, Mickey (Bergess Meredith), and Adrian’s brother Paulie (Burt Young). In contrast to views expressed in other studies of the film, Rocky presents a nuanced, if somewhat sentimental, archetype of a man who must negotiate his masculinity through complex emotional relationships with others, while simultaneously developing his physical strength. It is these relationships that frame the central plot of Rocky’s physical training and ultimate match in the boxing ring, which, unlike the interpersonal relationships, ends in ambivalent defeat.RockySylvester StalloneRocky Balboagender studiesmasculinity in filmgender equalityboxingFrom Here to Eternityfightapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/9d0562cbhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt9d0562cb/qt9d0562cb.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt9bq9k7522011-03-18T19:03:20Zqt9bq9k752Farmworker Women’s Organizing and Gendered Grassroots LeadershipBlackwell, Maylei2006-06-01Líderes Campesinas (formally known as Organización en California de Líderes Campesinas) is the only statewide women farmworker’s organization in the country. With historical roots stemming back to a 1988 Coachella Valley organization called Mujeres Mexicans, Líderes Campesinas gained nonprofit status in 1997. With headquarters in Pomona, California, the group has more than five hundred members who are organized through twelve local committees throughout the state. The organization works to improve the dismal working conditions in the fields and packing houses and also educates women farmworkers on pesticide exposure, gender discrimination, and sexual harassment and assault.farmworkersCoachella ValleyLíderes CampesinasOrganización en California de Líderes Campesinasleadership modelapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/9bq9k752https://escholarship.org/content/qt9bq9k752/qt9bq9k752.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt9b1693qc2011-03-18T19:02:36Zqt9b1693qcDirector's Commentary: Madame Speaker Knows her PowerMcHugh, Kathleen2009-04-01On Thursday, April 16, the Honorable Nancy Pelosi, the first woman Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, came to UCLA for a visit. Speaker Pelosi was on campus for “A Dynamic Discussion with Nancy Pelosi,” an event to celebrate her book, Know Your Power: A Message to America’s Daughters. Speaker Pelosi holds the highest ranking political position of any woman in U.S. history and, after the Vice-President, is next in line to the U.S. Presidency.Nancy PelosiSpeakerU.S. House of Representativesapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/9b1693qchttps://escholarship.org/content/qt9b1693qc/qt9b1693qc.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt91j0s1hh2011-03-18T18:54:00Zqt91j0s1hhProtective InvisibilitiesDuley, Kolleen2008-05-01In investigating the tensions between visibility and invisibility, each of the presenters on the Productive Invisibilities panel took up related arguments regarding the politics of subjectivity, representation, and hegemonic discourse. One of the most salient connections among panelists was their congruent interrogation of the way in which feminist analytical and theoretical demands for intersectionality and differentiated inclusion get homogenized and rearticulated in hegemonic discourse. For example, Evangeline Heiliger questioned the way in which the profound atrocities related to the HIV and AIDS epidemic become commodified by international nongovernmental organizations through the production of ‘ethical consumerism.” Kolleen Duley investigated the way in which feminist demands for gender responsiveness in California’s women’s prisons have been taken up by the state and by feminist actors in order to expand the prison industrial complex and to legitimize the racism of the criminal justice system. Similarly, Nisha Kommatta examined lesbian women in Kerala, India in order to complicate the ‘globalization’ of queer discourses that demand visibility. And finally, Nicole Wilmms investigated the way in which the visibility of Japanese American basketball players upsets hegemonic representations of Asian people as “weak and feminine.” While each paper reflected varying epistemological and methodological trajectories, panelists were able to disrupt and challenge popular notions of visibility, ultimately suggesting that visibility is an uneven, contestable, and differentiated process that need not be embraced unilaterally throughout feminist praxis.HIV/AIDSprisonslesbians in IndiaAsian representationsapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/91j0s1hhhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt91j0s1hh/qt91j0s1hh.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt90v8r4sm2011-03-18T18:53:24Zqt90v8r4smJennifer Terry's Governmentality, Sentimentality, and Imperial Erotics in ‘Extreme Cinéma Vérité’Moore, Candace2006-06-01As new details of torture, beheadings, car bombings, point-blank assassinations, and other evidences of fragmented lives and body parts in the Middle East stream in as numerical info-bytes across CNN’s ever-moving digital tape, Women’s Studies scholar Jennifer Terry takes a sober account of how the values of militarism are instilled in and eroticized by our everyday entertainments.militarismKiller Entertainmentsapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/90v8r4smhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt90v8r4sm/qt90v8r4sm.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt90r5q4cz2011-03-18T18:53:17Zqt90r5q4czDown the Rabbit-Hole of InnovationLeBaron, Anne2010-04-01There is a persistent assumption that women composers have not contributed to innovations in the field of music composition. This assumption results from the absence of a framework that would allow us to conceive, as a society, of women composers as originators, pioneers, and explorers whose contributions are deemed significant for music culture. This deficiency leads to an unwillingness to consider composition in non-gendered terms, and is therefore a testament to the way in which work is construed on gendered terms. As illustration, I offer the following personal anecdote and a subsequent exploration of the ramifications set in motion by a seemingly innocuous yet ultimately unsettling remark. By providing a description of the contextual environment, this anecdote will be all the more meaningful.musiccomposerswomenRuth Crawford Seegerapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/90r5q4czhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt90r5q4cz/qt90r5q4cz.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt8zh3z98j2011-03-18T18:52:07Zqt8zh3z98jWandering, Form, and the Sentimental NovelSodeman, Melissa2007-11-01I came upon my dissertation topic almost by chance. In reading for my comprehensive exams, I was so struck by a single word in a poem (“wanderers”) that it determined the course of my future research. The poem, Charlotte Smith’s The Emigrants (1793), works to evoke sympathy for French émigrés who have fled the Terror in France. These wanderers, “outcasts of the world,” are unable to return to a homeland torn apart by revolution. I was startled by the way in which Smith collapses the condition of exile into a sentimental trope of wandering, a rhetorical move that I found both perplexing and intriguing because today we are more likely to associate wandering with aimlessness than with exile, with leisure than with penury.wanderergypsynomadsentimental novelsexileapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/8zh3z98jhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt8zh3z98j/qt8zh3z98j.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt8w02f6fw2011-03-18T18:49:36Zqt8w02f6fwAmrit & Rabindra SinghMathur, Saloni2006-10-01Daughters of a Sikh doctor who immigrated to North England from the Punjab, the London-born artists Amrit and Rabindra Singh are identical twins: they have the same DNA, they look and sound exactly alike, they wear the same clothing, and they received their training in art together. Often referred to as “The Singh Twins,” the sisters have adopted the language of Indian and Persian miniature painting to depict the complex urban and domestic landscapes of the contemporary world. The twins have exhibited their work to international audiences in Britain, Europe, India, and North America: a recent show, titled “Past Modern: The Singh Twins,” featured more than sixty paintings, and was hosted by UC Riverside in 2003 and the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool in 2005. Significantly, Amrit and Rabindra’s collaborative practice is not simply an innocent expression of an affectionate bond between sisters, but rather a self-conscious engagement with the notion of singular authorship and the cult of the individual that has pervaded post-Enlightenment art historical tradition. Not since Diane Arbus’ 1967 black-and-white photograph of identical twin girls in New Jersey has such a memorable rendering of sameness and belonging, normativity and exclusion, and identity and difference, been sustained so provocatively within the contemporary art world.The Singh Twinspaintingsmimesissamenessapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/8w02f6fwhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt8w02f6fw/qt8w02f6fw.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt8v09k4k02011-03-18T18:48:38Zqt8v09k4k0CSW Newsletter 2:11986-10-01This 1986 CSW newsletter features articles by Karen Rowe and others on the state of the Center, membership drives, new faculty and new grant opportunities.Women’s studiescenter for the study of womenthe dark MadonnaUCLAKaren RoweMellorMalamuthapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/8v09k4k0https://escholarship.org/content/qt8v09k4k0/qt8v09k4k0.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt8n75x74q2011-03-18T18:42:58Zqt8n75x74qGangster Rap, Writing, and the Liberatory Power of AngerThomas, Jocelyn2010-04-01It was exactly the disruption of the cool invulnerable self that rap is so often conflated with and that DMX's early projects explore that made him what he was for me—a space of solace that simultaneously expressed and invoked my deepest feelings of almost overwhelming anger, sadness, and frustration. It is this access to excessive emotion and "the dark stuff" that keeps me writing in/on rap music. Someone else can write about the racial uplift of the socalled conscious rappers and their return to the West-African griot tradition of community building and activism through storytelling. It is important work and even relevant to the work that I do, but it is just not the story I want to tell. You see, it is this excessive, pornographic display of emotion and bodies and vulnerability that, to me, is at the heart of why we, as feminists, must engage the work of rap music. It gives us a space to talk about these things, particularly as Black people, particularly those of us who call ourselves women, particularly those of us who identify with a femme gender—because it is that pornographic excess that we are not meant to hold, not meant to wield, and definitely not meant to speak.musicrapwritingDMXblack feminist studiesapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/8n75x74qhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt8n75x74q/qt8n75x74q.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt8jj1g9f72011-03-18T18:40:29Zqt8jj1g9f7CSW Newsletter Fall, 20052005-10-01The Fall 2005 CSW Newsletter features information on UCLA conferences such as Thinking Gender and QueerScapesWomen’s studiescenter for the study of womenfeminismUCLAqueerscapesapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/8jj1g9f7https://escholarship.org/content/qt8jj1g9f7/qt8jj1g9f7.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt8fb7h9jj2011-03-18T18:37:03Zqt8fb7h9jjCSW Newsletter Fall/Winter 19921992-10-01The Fall and Winter 1992 CSW Update features articles on new feminist professors at UCLA, such as Katherine Hayles and Vivian Sobchack.Women’s studiescenter for the study of womenfeminismUCLAHaylesSobchackapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/8fb7h9jjhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt8fb7h9jj/qt8fb7h9jj.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt8bz605mw2011-03-18T18:35:03Zqt8bz605mwCSW Newsletter Fall 19941994-10-01The Fall 1994 CSW Newsletter features information on various upcoming seminars and events, such as National Coming Out Day as the Women's Studies Program celebrates its 10th anniversary.Women’s studiescenter for the study of womenfeminismUCLAnational coming out dayapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/8bz605mwhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt8bz605mw/qt8bz605mw.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt89f3h84g2011-03-18T18:33:27Zqt89f3h84gCSW Newsletter Fall 19891989-10-01The Fall 1989 CSW newsletter includes information on new research and conferences concerning women and the french revolution, capitalist development and women's liberation, and ethnic literature.Women’s studiescenter for the study of womenfeminismUCLAwomen and the french revolutionapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/89f3h84ghttps://escholarship.org/content/qt89f3h84g/qt89f3h84g.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt88h983x62011-03-18T18:32:28Zqt88h983x6Gender Dynamics within Japanese American Youth Basketball LeaguesChin, Christina2010-10-01Sports have played a large part in the fabric of Japanese American history, shaping the lives and experiences of the players, their families as well as the ethnic community as a whole. In this regard basketball leagues have had a particularly long and influential history, offering a unique window into the Japanese American community (Niija 2000; Regalado 2000). Today, Japanese American (JA) basketball leagues are thriving cultural and athletic organizations involving over 10,000 youths and adults participating in year-round leagues and tournaments in Northern and Southern California (Nakagawa 2001). Given the continued legacy and growing popularity of sports leagues in the Japanese American community, I wanted to examine the construction and negotiation of gender dynamics within JA basketball leagues.Other Race, Ethnicity and post-Colonial StudiesJapanese American cultureyouth basketballgender dynamicssports and genderPacific Coast Youth Leagueapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/88h983x6https://escholarship.org/content/qt88h983x6/qt88h983x6.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt8777x4sm2011-03-18T18:31:11Zqt8777x4smWhat Can the Environmental Movement Learn From Feminism?Gong, Shanna2010-04-01At this critical moment after Copenhagen and in the wake of an economic crisis that has posed a serious challenge to neoliberal economic policy, environmentalists should take a lesson from developments in the feminist movement in the 1970s and 1980s. The environmental movement faces the same political economy faced by the feminist movement: a capitalist system and mode of production. Feminists have navigated within or fought against this system on the ground level with their struggle for equal opportunity employment, re-valuing productive work such as childcare, decreasing the gender wage gap, and fighting sexual harassment. Feminist confrontations with capitalism were also manifest in the intense theoretical debates that took place during second-wave feminism in the 1960s and 70s. Liberal, Marxist, and radical feminists posited different answers to the foundational question of how to position oneself within or against a capitalist political economy.Environmental Health and ProtectionSustainabilityEnvironmentalismFeminismActivismapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/8777x4smhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt8777x4sm/qt8777x4sm.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt85r9f03q2011-03-18T18:29:45Zqt85r9f03qExploring “Women and Leadership”: Students Creating a Road Map for Making a DifferenceUCLA, Center for the Study of Women2009-07-01This special issue features the work of undergraduate students in a course recently developed in the Department of Women's Studies at UCLA.womenleadershipyoung womencareerapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/85r9f03qhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt85r9f03q/qt85r9f03q.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt84d4f7v22011-03-18T18:28:32Zqt84d4f7v2Social Melodrama and the Sexing of Political Complaint in Nineteenth-Century Commercial Kun OperaGoldman, Andrea S.2009-05-01Zhao Cuier was a creation of elite male fantasy, as Wu Changyuan tells it, capable of ensnaring audiences—both lay and clerical—in the illusionary world of the eighteenth-century Chinese stage. Zhao Cuier is the lead character from the play The Garden of Turquoise and Jade (Feicui yuan). The play tells the story of a poor scholar’s attempt to protect his land from annexation by a ruthless official. The scholar, Shu Depu, is assisted by a winsome vagabond seamstress, Zhao Cuier, and a bumbling deputy of the law, Wang Steamed-Bun. This trio of righteousness is held up as the moral antidote to the destructive power of masculine privilege.Kun operamelodramaapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/84d4f7v2https://escholarship.org/content/qt84d4f7v2/qt84d4f7v2.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt83c5k0gd2011-03-18T18:27:38Zqt83c5k0gdClimate, Clocks, and Kids!Perry, Daniella2010-04-01When I received a notice from CSW about an upcoming workshop on time management, climate issues for female academics, and work/life balance, I was eager to attend. Anxiety among graduate students is endemic. Yet women have an added pressure. CSW Director Kathleen McHugh introduced this workshop, which is part of CSW’s new mentoring initiative, noting that the issue of women and family planning is a topic in academia that is not necessarily explored in the professional context. The question she asked of the speakers was: “How can one be an academic and have a life and family?” Together, the speakers answered this question with caution and hope.EducationUCLAScholarshipAcademicWork/Life BalanceWomenFamiliesCareersapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/83c5k0gdhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt83c5k0gd/qt83c5k0gd.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt836486b32011-03-18T18:27:31Zqt836486b3Notes From the Field: Living EthnographyBasarudin, Azza2007-05-01Questions of gender in Islam, particularly of how Muslim women have been excluded from the interpretation and codification of religion has generated one of the most highly contested and controversial discourses in the contemporary moment of globalization. Across the Muslim world from Saudi Arabia to Indonesia, Islam's faithful, especially women, are calling for innovative ways to balance religious teaching with the demands of modernity and globalization. Within this context, Azza Basarudin's disseratation examines how Muslim women scholar-activists in two NGOs (non-governmental organizations) in Malaysia and in Egypt negotiate issues of gender, religion, and feminism in Islam.muslim womenwomen and islamgender and islammuslim scholarsislamic scholarsfemminist strugglesmuslim identitymaylasiamaylasian womenapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/836486b3https://escholarship.org/content/qt836486b3/qt836486b3.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt8166023g2011-03-18T18:25:39Zqt8166023gPoking in the Wound or Reclaiming History?Branfman, Judy2007-10-01On Dec 10, 2006, General Augusto Pinochet, Chile’s notorious dictator from 1974 to 1990 and commander of the military until 1998, died. On the streets of Santiago, two counterposing groups assembled: Pinochet supporters on the one side who cheered his memory as the savior of the Chilean economy, and on the other, those who celebrated the real possibility that Chile would finally break through its culture of silence, liberate buried memories of Pinochet’s reign of violence and repression, and reinvent Chilean culture with human rights at its core.memorySpainChilesocial traumaFrancodictatordictatorshipapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/8166023ghttps://escholarship.org/content/qt8166023g/qt8166023g.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt7w18h2jx2011-03-18T18:21:54Zqt7w18h2jxFifth Avenue's First Lady: Dorothy ShaverAmerian, Stephanie2009-06-01Largely forgotten except in fashion and some business histories, Dorothy Shaver was a trailblazing female executive at Lord & Taylor department store in New York City.fashionLord & Taylorfashion industryconsumer cultureapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/7w18h2jxhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt7w18h2jx/qt7w18h2jx.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt7qz1x1x72011-03-18T18:17:48Zqt7qz1x1x7Where Theory Meets PracticeHammer, Rhonda2010-10-01Because our society is immersed in Media 24/7, it is essential that students learn how to understand, interpret, and criticize the meaning and messages of media culture. Teaching critical media literacy can be, as the eminent scholar and pedagogue, bell hooks (1994) describes it, a liberatory experience for both teacher and student. Yet, the scarcity of culturally critical media classes, especially those that involve media production, owes much to the lack of credibility afforded such courses. This dearth is also owing to limited technological support afforded such courses. In this introductory essay, I will argue for the necessity of these types of courses at all levels of education and briefly describe the history and format of my course.Curriculum and Social InquiryLiberal StudiesOther Educationcritical media literacymedia literacyeducationteachingpedagogymedia literacy classesapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/7qz1x1x7https://escholarship.org/content/qt7qz1x1x7/qt7qz1x1x7.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt7mq7n2792011-03-18T18:14:29Zqt7mq7n279Sweet & Bitter: Exploring Contemporary 'Girl Photography' from JapanFavell, Adrian2008-05-01On March 14, 2008, the Center for Study of Women at UCLA sponsored a special talk at the Hammer Museum by curator Hiromi Nakamura on recent trends in “Girl Photography” from Japan. The talk was part of three days of events at UCLA looking at the growing influence of Japanese pop culture in the West. Later that same day, works by two of the artists featured in the talk, Mika Ninagawa and Mikiko Hara, were displayed at a reception at the Anderson School of Management. The show was the first time that the work of these two emerging women artists had been publicly shown on the West Coast.Hammer MuseumJapanfemale artistsMika NinagawaMikiko HaraHiromi Nakamurastreet culturegirl powerdiary-stylephotographyapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/7mq7n279https://escholarship.org/content/qt7mq7n279/qt7mq7n279.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt7mg0s9c42011-03-18T18:14:15Zqt7mg0s9c4Lesbian "Femininity" on TelevisionHimberg, Julia2008-05-01Over the past five years, lesbian images on TV have generated a multitude of headlines like these.1 The L Word, Work Out, and South of Nowhere have triggered battles among critics, scholars, and members of the TV industry about the implications of lesbian femininity on television. Each show predominantly features stereotypically feminine lesbian characters. Showtime’s soap opera The L Word follows a closelyknit web of lesbian friends and lovers living in West Hollywood. Bravo’s reality series Work Out stars openly lesbian gym owner and personal trainer Jackie Warner, and shows the daily lives of Warner, her entourage of personal trainers, and their clients. The N Network’s South of Nowhere is a teen drama about a family dealing with charged issues like teen pregnancy, interracial families, and the daughter’s coming out experiences.lesbianhomosexualcaricaturesThe L Wordlesbian femininityGender StudiesFilm Studiestelevisionapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/7mg0s9c4https://escholarship.org/content/qt7mg0s9c4/qt7mg0s9c4.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt7db9859j2011-03-18T18:08:31Zqt7db9859jIntimate Objects and Medieval Sexuality: A Review of CMRS Medieval Sexuality 2009Jones, Andrea F2009-04-01Se x is not exactly the first thing that comes to mind when most people consider the Middle Ages, but a conference held in Royce Hall on March 6th and 7th amply demonstrated that there is, indeed, plenty to think about when it comes to medieval sexuality. “Medieval Sexuality 2009,” hosted by the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and sponsored in part by the Ahmanson Foundation and cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Women, brought a host of scholars from many disciplines and several countries together in discussions of topics ranging from marriage to pilgrimage, heresy to confessionals, erotic images to medical theory, and trandgendered bodies to metrosexuality.sexualitymedievalCenter for Medieval Renaissance StudiesMiddle Agesapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/7db9859jhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt7db9859j/qt7db9859j.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt7643b1rf2011-03-18T18:01:54Zqt7643b1rfDeconstructing the Superhero: American Idols in FilmVan Heertum, RichardHinton, Kip Austin2010-10-01Making the short video documentary, "Deconstructing the Superhero: American Idols in Film" on the politics of superheros was a whirlwind experience. We learned film making techniques while expanding our analysis of popular culture, especially in relation to media constructions of masculinity. Research was situated within the historical context of film studies and included interactions with students and faculty, both inside and outside of the classroom. Our film contained both short interviews with students framed by a longer interview with Emeritus Professor John Lawrence who has written extensively on the role of superheros in American culture. We then juxtaposed these interviews with clips from a number of recent superhero films. Our documentary not only offered an entry way into video/ film making techniques, but it also encouraged a more critical view of media itself.Other American StudiesOther Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality StudiesOther Film and Media Studiessuperhero fimlssuperherosamerican fildocumentarycritical media litercyRhonda HammerUCLAapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/7643b1rfhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt7643b1rf/qt7643b1rf.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt6kb6435n2011-03-18T17:44:08Zqt6kb6435nCatalyst for ChangeNava, Laura2010-10-01It was my last quarter at UCLA and I was on the steady path toward becoming a lawyer. Then I took Communications 178. Not only did it change my career path, it also changed my life. Although I had taken another class with Dr. Rhonda Hammer, this class was completely different because it not only challenged me to become media literate but also to create a project that reflected my new media literacy. My groups project: "Now Showing: Gender" was created with the intent to explore the role media plays in the socialization of femininity and masculinity, focusing on advertisements and reality shows.Liberal StudiesOther Film and Media Studiescritical media literacypersonal essayeducation expeirenceRhonda HammerUCLAadvertisinggender studiescritical media literacy theoryapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/6kb6435nhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt6kb6435n/qt6kb6435n.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt6j50v7812011-03-18T17:43:01Zqt6j50v781Food as Exposure: Nutritional Epigenetics and the Molecular Politics of EatingLandecker, Hannah2010-05-01Epigenetics raises questions about the governance of food and the environment more generally in the interests of human health. It remains to be seen how or whether this will translate into regulatory changes, for example, banning the use of Bisphenol-A in food containers, a rethinking of the regulation of supplements and functional foods, or renewed attention to the public health impact of improving prenatal care. Or how it might translate into individual action: as epigenetics becomes more familiar to public audiences through newspaper accounts, food health claims, and popularizations, it will be important to track how consumers incorporate this narrative into their food choices and their understandings of food and the body. At its heart, nutritional epigenetics represents a hope for intervention in the long-term health of bodies and thus the general health of populations, via the medium of food. Epigenetics has a very specific temporal logic to it, one that emphasizes the multigenerational impact of the environments surrounding fetuses and children. Given the social and cultural importance of food and eating and the fraught nature of contemporary parenting when it comes to feeding children, the unfolding generation of these specific links between nutrition and health calls for our continued critical attention.NutritionEpigeneticsFoodPoliticsFood and Drug AdministrationMedicineBiologyapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/6j50v781https://escholarship.org/content/qt6j50v781/qt6j50v781.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt6d75g1vv2011-03-18T17:38:31Zqt6d75g1vvSelling Genes, Selling Gender: A Comparison of Egg and Sperm DonationAlmeling, Anne2006-06-01Listing a child for sale in the local paper’s classified section is unthinkable, and it is illegal for donors to sell organs in the United States. Yet there is a proliferation of advertisements placed by medical professionals recruiting young women and men to sell eggs and sperm to paying clients using reproductive technologies to conceive children, thereby creating a twenty-first–century medical market in genetic material.eggspermreproductive rightsgenetic researchapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/6d75g1vvhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt6d75g1vv/qt6d75g1vv.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt64w264tp2011-03-18T17:27:12Zqt64w264tpCounterstory of an Undergraduate Latina Single Mother at a Research UniversityRuiz, Sombra Libertad2010-04-01Upon my arrival at UCLA as a nontraditional student, I experienced transfer shock that was aggravated by my not being able to find a community of parenting students. I searched for literature that discussed how other undergraduate single mothers were able to navigate the academy but found none. This led to my current research project. My research looks at the obstacles and/or stigmas that undergraduate Latina single mothers experience at a research university and the navigational strategies that they employ in order to navigate their way through the educational pipeline at a research university. After an extensive review of the literature in which I was unable to find works that spoke specifically to the experiences of undergraduate Latina single mothers, I decided to expand my research into ethnography by gathering women’s testimonios (experiential knowledge) in conjunction with critical race theory, community cultural wealth theory, and Chicana Feminist theory. I have created a composite character and have written a counterstory derived from the lived experiences of various undergraduate Latina single mothers at UCLA.AcademiaUndergraduatesLatinasMotherhoodFamiliesapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/64w264tphttps://escholarship.org/content/qt64w264tp/qt64w264tp.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt6059042t2011-03-18T17:22:41Zqt6059042tWestern Association of Women Historians Meets in San DiegoSheldon, Kathleen2007-05-01The Western Association of Women Historians (WAWH, www.wawh.org) held their annual meeting on the first weekend in May at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice (peace.sandiego.edu) at the University of San Diego. Inspired by the beautiful hilltop setting, the 160 attendees enjoyed a variety of panels and social occasions. One of the pleasures of WAWH meetings is the frequent opportunity for conversation and conviviality, and this year the organized venues included two receptions, lunch on both Friday and Saturday, a light supper on Friday, and the awards banquet on Saturday. This year was also the first time that a book exhibit was included.women historianshistory and womenWAWHAsunción Lavringender and mexicofemale clergyNatalie JoyPenny Kannerwomen's travel diarieshistory and feminismmotherhood and graduate studiesfemale historiansapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/6059042thttps://escholarship.org/content/qt6059042t/qt6059042t.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt5zw9f1nn2011-03-18T17:22:29Zqt5zw9f1nnIt's Not Easy Being a Girl in a Man's World: The Daily Experience of Sexual Harassment for Adolescent GirlsSpears Brown, Christia2007-05-01Girls experience sexual harassment every day in middle school. This harassment does not just affect a few girls- 90 percent of girls share this experience. More than half of all girls have been called a nasty or demeaning name or teased about their appearance by a male. Slightly fewer girls have been told a mean or embarrassing joke about their gender or sexuality. By high school, the harassment is more frequent and more extreme. By the end of high school, one-quarter of all girls have been teased, threatened, or bullied by a male and one-half have been touched or grabbed against their wishes by a male. These findings from a recent study (Leaper and Brown, 2007) of six hundred ethnically and geographically diverse middle school and high school girls highlight the difficult and complicated world girls learn to navigate as they enter adolescence.sexual harassmentgenderadolescent girlschildhood sexualitymiddle schoolcoping strategiesapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/5zw9f1nnhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt5zw9f1nn/qt5zw9f1nn.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt5wn7m9bz2011-03-18T17:20:16Zqt5wn7m9bzDomesticating the HaremCarotenuto, Gianna2008-05-01Loosely bound with a black ribbon in a now long forgotten gesture of affection, one hundred and twenty photographs of the women of the Seventh Nizam of Hyderabad’s royal zenana (female household) were discovered in the dark storerooms of the King Kothi palace in Hyderabad, India. One expects these so-called harem pictures to depict the stereotypical sexualized image of lounging half nude odalisques smoking hookah pipes. A common misunderstanding is that the harem and the zenana are one and the same; operating as pictorial or semantic designations, they are most often used interchangeably. The surprise in the discovery of these photographs is their presentation of women as wives, sisters, and mothers, as well as consorts and concubines, an uncommon depiction that complicates the conventional understandings of what a harem might be. Rather than eroticize, the pictures domesticize the Indian female, and present the possibility for a different understanding of the predominant definition of the harem.zenana imageryIndiaharemsexualized imagesgazefemale rolesidentitywomanhoodapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/5wn7m9bzhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt5wn7m9bz/qt5wn7m9bz.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt5wj0p4jj2011-03-18T17:20:08Zqt5wj0p4jjThe Power of Critical Media LiteracyHant, Myrna A.2010-10-01It is incumbent on any educated person to understand the implications of the media. In Dr. Rhonda Hammer's course "Critical Media Literacy" she is doing a great service in educating her students to become cognizant of its pervasive manipulation. Because the course it not only theoretical but also pragmatic, it is highly accessible to students, regardless of their background or experiences.Curriculum and Social InquiryOther American StudiesOther Film and Media Studiescritical media literacymedia productionmedia theorypedagogyteachingRhonda Hammeruclaapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/5wj0p4jjhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt5wj0p4jj/qt5wj0p4jj.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt5qw3121r2011-03-18T17:15:42Zqt5qw3121rWhere Are the Voices? Moving Beyond HIV in the Lives of Female Sex WorkersChoudhury, Shonali M.2009-06-01Tijuana promises different things to different people. Throughout Mexico people in difficult circumstances dream of moving to the US-Mexico border in search of better economic opportunities and the chance to be closer to the American dream. Men of means from the United States and other countries flock to Tijuana in search of new and exciting sexual adventures. At the crossroads, we find women working in the sex industry in order to give their families a better life and at the same time servicing men seeking sex.sex workersHIVMexicopublic healthapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/5qw3121rhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt5qw3121r/qt5qw3121r.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt5pf1q37q2011-03-18T17:14:06Zqt5pf1q37qMedia Literacy for New GenerationsHawkins, Krista2010-10-01Directing and co-producing "Commodifying Lolita: The Hypersexualization of Tweens in America" gave my group the opportunity to combine media literacy discourse, feminist theory, personal artistic expression and activism. I also learned how to use the media as a catalyst for discussion, education and social change. Examining the hypersexualization of "tweens" (girls between the ages of 8 and 12), our film reveals a connection between the hypersexualization of young girls and the prevalence of pedophilia in the U.S. Why, our film asks, does a society that claims to oppose pedophilia and child pornography market images that promote the sexual exploitation of young girls?Other American StudiesOther Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality StudiesOther Film and Media StudiesUCLAmedia literacy theorycritical media literacyRhonda Hammerdocumentary filmfeminist theorytweentweenssexualization of tweensapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/5pf1q37qhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt5pf1q37q/qt5pf1q37q.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt5pc9t6k82011-03-18T17:14:01Zqt5pc9t6k8Armed Through Education: the Powerful Intricacies of the Video-Making ExperienceMearlette-Hernandez, Michelle2010-10-01As a UCLA undergraduate I had the great fortune to be a student in Dr. Rhonda Hammer's "Critical Media Literacy and the Politics of Representation: Theory and Production" class. As a result of her dedication and organization to a diversity of class components, we gained the skills necessary to speak another language - the language of media representation. Given the stereotypes of current students as being literate in new media technology, it was surprising to discover that the majority of students in my class had little experience. This course provided us with the necessary skills to be able to decipher stereotypical media representations and convey an alternate view that challenges the norm.Other American StudiesOther Film and Media Studiesdocumentary filmeducationUCLARhonda Hammercritical media literacyapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/5pc9t6k8https://escholarship.org/content/qt5pc9t6k8/qt5pc9t6k8.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt5mw6b8m32011-03-18T17:12:42Zqt5mw6b8m3An Unmet Need: Family Planning IntegrationMaynard-Tucker, Gisele2009-05-01Sub-Saharan Africa has been experiencing steady population growth since the beginning of the twentieth century. The latest United Nations projections, published in March 2007, estimated a figure of 1.5 to 2 billion inhabitants by the year 2050. Recommended by the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994, the integration of reproductive health (RH) and family planning (FP) in various health services of Africa and other developing countries is highly controversial. It is supported by the World Health Organization, but it has been difficult to accomplish in view of the weak health systems and the lack of human and material resources.HIVreporductive healthfamily healthapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/5mw6b8m3https://escholarship.org/content/qt5mw6b8m3/qt5mw6b8m3.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt5gc5z2dr2011-03-18T17:08:31Zqt5gc5z2drWriting for Readers: Thinking Through Publishing In a Changing ClimateSharp, Sharon2007-05-01On May 7, the Center for the Study of Women and the Department of Comparative Literature presented Ken Wissoker’s talk “Writing for Readers: Thinking through Publishing in a Changing Climate.” Wissoker, Editorial Director of Duke University Press, gave an informative, witty, and insightful talk geared toward graduate students working on dissertations and junior faculty working on their first books.Ken WissokerDepartment of Comparative Literaturepublishingdissertationsbookbookstoreintroductionacademic publishingpresseditorapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/5gc5z2drhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt5gc5z2dr/qt5gc5z2dr.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt5d96m65b2011-03-18T17:06:39Zqt5d96m65bHow Words Really Can HurtSchwartz, Leslie M.2008-04-01The power communication has over how meaning is created and transmitted in society is indisputable—language contributes to decisions we make, opinions we form, stories we believe, attributions we assign, and perceptions we internalize. Because of the substantial influence that language has on these areas of social life, it is essential to critically examine how language functions in the mass media in order to discuss possible implications communication has on audiences and the perceptions, opinions, and attributions they form about gender violence in our society.languageviolencelinguisticsmediasyntaxsemanticsapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/5d96m65bhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt5d96m65b/qt5d96m65b.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt59t9691h2011-03-18T17:04:22Zqt59t9691hThe Private and the Public in the Photography of Laura AguilarValladolid, Patricia2008-05-01Without words Laura Aguilar’s photographs have broken a big silence across marginalized communities. The images that she produces represent a community that has been invisible in the arts, not only queer, brown, and female, but also large. The ability to claim identity is empowerment, and although Aguilar does not seek to define Chicana lesbian art, she does challenge viewers to reconceptualize constructs of race, class, gender, and sexuality, particularly patriarchal constructs of art that seek to romanticize or idealize the female form. Laura Aguilar’s photographs of female nude forms in the natural landscape represent a vision of the female body that directly shocks the viewer’s expectations and desires. It is through these aesthetic manipulations that Aguilar achieves self-acceptance of her own body, a body may not be considered “beautiful” or “fine art” because of how it opposes a Western aesthetic of “feminine beauty.”photographerportraiturephotographycommunitiesapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/59t9691hhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt59t9691h/qt59t9691h.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt4wj019752011-03-18T16:52:50Zqt4wj01975Queering FeminismRoth, Cassia Paegen2009-10-01“It is somewhat remarkable [in] a panel on queering feminism that there was no lesbian content,” Heather Lukes of Occidental College said in her closing remarks at the “Queering Feminist Theory” event at UCLA on October 1, 2009. “It is not a complaint,” Lukes continued; in fact, by not linking queer and feminist theory through the figure of the lesbian, the panelists “are working at a limit between what queer theory can think and what feminism can think.” The presentations of Jennifer Doyle and Carol-Anne Tyler attempted to historicize feminist contributions to queer theory by critiquing contemporary queer theorists’ negation of feminist influences, particularly in the work of Lee Edelman.sex warsqueer theoryfeminismsexualityapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/4wj01975https://escholarship.org/content/qt4wj01975/qt4wj01975.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt4vb586rd2011-03-18T16:51:42Zqt4vb586rdQ & A with Lisa DugganDuggan, Lisa2008-05-01Lisa Duggan is a Professor in American Studies at New York University. She was chair of this year's plenary session, which was entitled “Lesbian, Counter, and Queer: New Directions in the Study of Femininity.” She is author of Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity, which won the John Boswell Prize of the American Historical Association in 2001. Her new book, The End of Marriage: The War over the Future of State Sponsored Love, will be published by University of California Press.Lisa Dugganapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/4vb586rdhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt4vb586rd/qt4vb586rd.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt4tq957372011-03-18T16:51:09Zqt4tq95737Fighting Fat Fear with Marilyn WannWard, Anna2010-04-01If you were walking past the Dodd lecture hall on March 1st, you may have been startled to hear a group of people yelling “fat” at the top of their lungs. Usually, a single utterance, or worse, a cheerleading-style chant of the word “fat” is not a good thing—someone is probably being insulted or harassed. On this day, however, activist/scholar Marilyn Wann asked the gathered students and faculty to do just this, to shout out the word “fat” to launch the beginning of her talk, “Fighting Fat Fear During the War on ‘Obesity.’” Wann’s talk was the third and final talk in the Center for the Study of Women’s Winter 2010 Faculty Curator lecture series, “Gender and Body Size,” curated by Professor Abigail Saguy, Department of Sociology at UCLA .Marilyn WannFat ActivismHealthBody ImageObesityapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/4tq95737https://escholarship.org/content/qt4tq95737/qt4tq95737.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt4rh0h3hf2011-03-18T16:49:04Zqt4rh0h3hfStrange Affinities: The Sexual and Gender Politics of Comparative RacializationHong, Grace Kyungwon2007-04-01N April 23, the Center for the Study of Women will present a one-panel symposium, entitled “Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization,” from 3 to 5 pm in 314 Royce Hall. Roderick Ferguson, Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, will present “The Lateral Moves of African American Studies.” Ruby Tapia, Assistant Professor of Comparative Studies at Ohio State University, will present “Volumes of ‘Transnational’ Vengeance: Fixing Race and Feminism on the Way to Kill Bill.” Two UCLA professors, Rafael Perez-Torres of the Department of English and Russell Robinson of the Critical Race Studies program in the School of Law, will provide comment. This event is co-sponsored by the Asian American Studies Center, the Chicano Studies Research Center, the Women’s Studies Program, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Studies Program, the Asian American Studies Department, UC Humanities Research Institute, and the Critical Race Studies Program in the School of Law.Center for the Study of WomenCSWsymposiumcomparative racializationfeminismraceclassgenderapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/4rh0h3hfhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt4rh0h3hf/qt4rh0h3hf.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt4p95403z2011-03-18T16:46:48Zqt4p95403zRetelling NeoclassicismHorejsi, Nicole2006-10-01In the Fall of 2000, I entered UCLA as a medievalist, eager to explore English and continental romance. But it wasn’t long before my course of study changed, thanks to Felicity Nussbaum’s seminar on a prominent network of eighteenth-century women writers, the Bluestockings, which quickly won me to a later period. During that first quarter of graduate study, I discovered the work of Clara Reeve, whose Progress of Romance (1785) foregrounded, in a much more dramatic and exciting way, some of the same issues that had initially attracted me to medieval literature, such as the relationship between romance and women, as well as inclusive “feminine” romance and exclusive “masculine” epic, and the role of romance as a national literature.Felicity NussbaumClara Reeveapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/4p95403zhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt4p95403z/qt4p95403z.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt4jx713vz2011-03-18T16:43:27Zqt4jx713vzQ & A with Stephanie RothmanSher, Ben2008-04-01With co-sponsorship from the Center for the Study of Women, The Crank, UCLA’s grad student run film society, recently hosted a special screening of writer-director Stephanie Rothman’s acclaimed film The Velvet Vampire (1971) with the filmmaker in attendance. Rothman, writer-director of “exploitation” films like The Student Nurses (1970), Terminal Island (1973), and The Working Girls (1974) was one of the most prolific female filmmakers working in Hollywood in the 1970s. During that decade, her films were at the center of feminist debates concerning the most effective way in which women could use film to overturn Hollywood’s often degrading representations. While some argued that the creation of avant-garde and independent films was the key to breaking the influence of the patriarchal system, others contended that women working within the mainstream could dismantle and revise Hollywood representations to reveal and disempower their misogynistic qualities. Scholar Pam Cook wrote that “Rothman’s work was part of this polemic, since her films could be seen as a prime example of feminist subversion from within, using the generic formulae of exploitation cinema in the interest of her own agenda as a woman director.”The Velvet Vampirefilmmakerdirectorfeminist HollywoodPam CookThe Student Nursesapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/4jx713vzhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt4jx713vz/qt4jx713vz.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt4cf8n2kj2011-03-18T16:38:17Zqt4cf8n2kjFemale Agency in 1930s HollywoodCarman, Emily2006-10-01This past spring I received a CSW Travel Grant to examine the film collections of the Harry Ransom Humanities Center (HRC) housed at the University of Texas at Austin. This research pertains to my dissertation project, in which I argue that female film stars used their contractual labor to achieve creative and professional autonomy in the 1930s American film industry (often referred to by film historians as “the studio system”) by choosing to work independently as freelance artists. The HRC’s David O. Selznick, Myron Selznick, and Jock Whitney collections all contain contracts and legal documents that are critical for my dissertation in that they illuminate the unique contractual provisions and terms negotiated by these women in their pursuit of professional autonomy in Hollywood during an era of presumed monolithic economic control.Harry Ransom Humanities Centerfemale film starscontractual laborfreelance female starsapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/4cf8n2kjhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt4cf8n2kj/qt4cf8n2kj.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt4b82z9482011-03-18T16:37:12Zqt4b82z948Girls' Education in Rural Pakistan: An Assessment of the Nonprofit Organization, Developments in LiteracySimons, Sarah A.2007-05-01In Decembmber of 2006, I traveled to Pakistan, where my classmate John Hellmann and I conducted interviews with teachers and staff of Developments in Literacy (DIL) schools. Our work and research in Pakistan were components of a Master’s in Public Policy client project, and involved a seven-month organizational assessment to aid Developments in Literacy in its efforts to bring education to the disadvantaged girls and boys of Pakistan.I n Pakistan, only 53% of population is literate—where literacy is defined as the ability to write a simple letter and read a newspaper. As in many countries where women’s basic human rights are still emerging in the political and public spheres, literacy rates reflect entrenched cultural inequities. In some regions of Pakistan the An Assessment of the Nonprofit Organization, Developments in Literacy G irls’ Education in Rural Pakistanliteracy gap between men and women can be as large as 45 percentage points. Take for example the North West Frontier Province that borders with Afghanistan. There the male literacy rate is 61%, while the female literacy rate is an abysmal 22%. In some rural areas of the country such as Kalat in the Province of Balochistan, only 9% of women are literatePakistanliteracy programsfemale educationgirls and educationDILDevelopments in Literacynonprofit organizationsNGOsnon-governmental organizationsDIL schoolsJohn HellmannDIL teachersapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/4b82z948https://escholarship.org/content/qt4b82z948/qt4b82z948.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt46v0c1m82011-03-18T16:33:48Zqt46v0c1m8"You Don't Want to Be in Love... You Want to Be in Love in a Movie": Romance and Postfeminism in Contemporary Film and TelevisionSchreiber, Michele2006-06-01In the popular romantic comedy Sleepless in Seattle (Ephron, 1993), a pivotal scene in the middle of the film sums up the crux of the dilemma faced by Annie (Meg Ryan), the female protagonist. She is having difficulty making an important decision about her love life and, as she always does, turns to the classic film An Affair to Remember (McCarey, 1957) for guidance. As she watches the film with her best friend Becky (Rosie O’Donnell), she says, “Now those were the days when people knew how to be in love, time, distance, nothing could separate them because they knew.” In response, Becky observes, “That’s your problem, you don’t want to be in love, you want to be in love in a movie.” This interaction between Annie and Becky is meant to elicit a sense of recognition among Sleepless in Seattle’s audience because the text assumes that by nature of the fact that they are watching the film, its spectators must empathize with, if not share, Annie’s desire to fall in love in a way that is completely removed from the mundane realities of everyday life. However, the text also assumes that the audience will find equally familiar Becky’s pointed critique of Annie’s misguided preoccupation.romantic comedySleepless in Seattleromance spectatorshipcultural narrativeromanceromance consumersapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/46v0c1m8https://escholarship.org/content/qt46v0c1m8/qt46v0c1m8.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt46t491872011-03-18T16:33:46Zqt46t49187Bruin Feminists for Equality Go to WashingtonPetersen, MirandaDuran, MyraLe, Cindy2010-05-01Over spring break, three members of the student group Bruin Feminists for Equality were given the opportunity to attend the Feminist Majority Foundation’s National Young Women’s Leadership conference in Washington, DC, with the generous help of the Center for the Study of Women. Miranda Petersen, Myra Duran, and Cindy Le participated in this three-day event that focused on a broad range of issues facing the next generation of young women in the United States and around the world.Bruin Feminists for EqualityWashington DCNational Young Women's Leadership ConferenceFeminist Majority Foundationapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/46t49187https://escholarship.org/content/qt46t49187/qt46t49187.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt465868bh2011-03-18T16:33:02Zqt465868bhWhy Age Matters: Aged Gender in the Identity Work of Female Youth AthletesHendley, Alexandra2010-04-01Functioning as our “social skin in social space,” clothing enables both the expression of pre-existing identities and the construction of new ones (Pomerantz 2008:18). Age and gender are important components of identity, and their intersection contributes to the varied nature of femininity. Through my research on female youth soccer players, I examine the relationship of sports clothing to the girls’ identity work, specifically in regards to their experience as aged and gendered subjects. In this paper I ask the following questions: 1) How might the clothing practices and preferences of nine- to thirteen-year old female soccer players reflect their presently held identities, and how do the girls choose or modify sports clothing in order to facilitate identity construction? 2) How and why does age matter when considering the girls’ gender identity, or their performance of femininity?AgeFemininityIdentityGirlsSoccerSports clothingGenderYouthChildhoodAdolescenceapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/465868bhhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt465868bh/qt465868bh.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt44n439jc2011-03-18T16:31:37Zqt44n439jcFrom State Pimp to Transnational AbolitionistDavis, Ann MarieMusto, JenniferHeiliger, Evangeline M.2008-05-01Buzz words such as “human trafficking,” “sex work,” and “slave trade” haunt the daily media and evoke a gamut of emotions. Enunciated by activists, sectarians, public officials, and sex workers alike, discourses on prostitution abound. Why are such discussions on prostitution so prolific? And, what is at stake for the people who publicize them? How do the words and ideas that surround and define “the prostitute” shape the business of sex work in the first place?sex workhuman traffickingslave tradeprostitutionapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/44n439jchttps://escholarship.org/content/qt44n439jc/qt44n439jc.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt4316j87s2011-03-18T16:29:57Zqt4316j87sThinking from Women’s Lives: Sandra Harding, Standpoint, & Science, the first project in the Women’s Studies Media Initiative, debuts December 3Marsan, Loran2007-11-01In the winter quarter of 2006, Professor Rhonda Hammer approached me with an idea for creating media that would at once enhance the women’s studies classroom and archive visual material about famous and important feminists on the UCLA campus. The first subject would be Sandra Harding, a professor in the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences and a pioneer of standpoint epistemology and science studies. Over the last year and a half, both the proposed video and the Women’s Studies Media Initiative, a program designed to train women’s studies graduate students in video production and encourage future projects that would benefit undergraduates in women’s studies courses, have come to fruition.UCLAWomen's StudiesUniversity of CaliforniaLos AngelesWomen's Studies Media Initiativeapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/4316j87shttps://escholarship.org/content/qt4316j87s/qt4316j87s.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt41d2660m2011-03-18T16:28:25Zqt41d2660mRewriting the Written: FTM Self-Making and the Performance of Possibilities in Sean Dorsey’s Uncovered: The Diary ProjectLuengsuraswat, Bo2009-04-01June in San Francisco is undoubtedly the most Prideful month. The Annual Pride Parade, the National Queer Arts Festival, and the Frameline International LGBT Film Festival are merely a few of the million queer events listed on the city’s June calendar. While such a variety of queer arts events and venues might speak to an increasing visibility of the LGBT community in general, certain populations—transgender and gender non-conforming people in particular—still remain largely underrepresented and marginalized. Among hundreds of films screened at Frameline each year, only a handful of them are concerned with transgender and gender-variant issues.Out of thousands of queer events and social gatherings,gender non-conforming people could count the times when no one makes assumptions regarding their identities. Even at LGBT community centers, gender-variant and trans people often report having experienced harassment when using restrooms that correspond to their selfproclaimed gender. For them, the letter “T” in the LGBT acronym by no means guarantees that their identities and desires are respectfully acknowledged both within and outside the queer community.transgendergender--variantfemale-to-maleFTMperformancequeer artstransgender artsapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/41d2660mhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt41d2660m/qt41d2660m.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt404760fj2011-03-18T16:27:00Zqt404760fjLabor Relations and Subaltern SexSangwand, T-Kay2008-05-01Despite Barack Obama’s appearance on the UCLA campus that afternoon, the post-lunch session panel, “Labor Relations: Theory and Practice,” was well attended by an attentive audience. Dr. Kelly Lytle Hernández, Assistant Professor of History at UCLA, moderated the three person panel consisting of Munia Bhaumik (Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley), Suyapa G. Portillo Villeda (History, Cornell), and Magalí Rabasa (Cultural Studies, UC Davis). Using distinct disciplinary frameworks, the three presenters explored neoliberalism and its effects on labor and resistance in three Latin American countries.Thinking Genderpanel discussionlaborlaborersZapatistasFranz Fanonsexualityculutresapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/404760fjhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt404760fj/qt404760fj.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt3zf041682011-03-18T16:26:21Zqt3zf04168Patriarchy/Matriarchy versus Blood Quantum Cultural Significance as Evidenced in Hawaii Land Commission GrantsTakahashi, Lois M.2009-05-01During the land division of 1848 (Great Mahele), both Hawaiians and non-Hawaiians were given the ability to make a formal claim to land in the Hawaiian Islands, 1 seemingly regardless of gender. While the West was a predominantly patriarchal society at this time, lineage purity and ‘godliness’ were the markers of Hawaiian society. While many scholars have pointed to the Mahele as a major turning point in the land distribution system (that is, land was taken from the Hawaiian people and ‘redistributed’ to non-Hawaiians), it may have also been an unusual opportunity for gendered resource distribution: namely formal, governmentally- recognized land ownership by women. Hawaiian society, while predominantly classbased within a patriarchal system, did allow females positions of power.Hawaiiland rightsland claimsgenderindigeneitypropertyapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/3zf04168https://escholarship.org/content/qt3zf04168/qt3zf04168.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt3vb5t6mq2011-03-18T16:23:15Zqt3vb5t6mqCSW Newsletter Fall 19901990-10-01This 1990 CSW newsletter features articles on Jacqueline Leavitt, feminist bookstores, Rita Felski's Beyond Feminist Aesthetics, Gender and Sexuality in Asia, and sexual assualt in Los Angeles.Women’s studiescenter for the study of womenthe dark MadonnaUCLAKaren Rowesexual assualtgender in AsiaBeyond Feminist Aestheticssisterhood bookstoreLeavittapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/3vb5t6mqhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt3vb5t6mq/qt3vb5t6mq.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt3tr4j5n72011-03-18T16:22:30Zqt3tr4j5n7Close Relationships and Health: Studying the effects of marriage and relationship quality on healthRobles, Theodore2008-06-01Every December, U.S. News and World Report publishes a list of “50 Ways to Improve your Life” for the coming year. In the December 19th issue of 2004, one of the recommendations in the “Get Well” section that dealt with ways to improve your health was to “Get Married.” Indeed, across a number of epidemiological surveys, married individuals report greater happiness and life satisfaction, and have a lower risk of clinical depression than their unmarried counterparts. In addition to these benefits, marriage has benefits for physical health. However, marriages characterized by low marital satisfaction and high conflict have damaging effects on physical health, and the effect of poor marital quality on health may differ between men and women.marriagehealthclose relationship physiologyapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/3tr4j5n7https://escholarship.org/content/qt3tr4j5n7/qt3tr4j5n7.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt3n2513x72011-03-18T16:16:52Zqt3n2513x7Trashy Robots: Desire and Disposability in Patricia Yaeger’s “Luminous Trash: Throwaway Robots in Blade Runner, the Terminators, A.I., and Wall•E”Heiliger, VangeCollette-VanDeraa, Heather2009-06-01What does it mean for humans to desire human-like relationships with robots? What kind of sovereignty do we want to have over our trash? These two seemingly unrelated questions melded together exquisitely during Patricia Yaeger’s talk “Luminous Trash: Throwaway Robots in Blade Runner, the Terminators, A.I. and Wall•E.” Yaeger directed her audiences’ eyes towards robots as trash, and in doing so, linked together present and future possibilities for re-thinking automated relationships, technological power, and wasteful consumption. Yaeger, the Henry Simmons Frieze Collegiate Professor of English and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan, spoke to an overflowing room about our fascination with robots and trash, both of whom—or of which, depending on your comfort level with anthropomorphizing non-human subjects—highlight tensions between our desires and their limits.robotsdisposable culturetechnological powerwasteconsumptionapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/3n2513x7https://escholarship.org/content/qt3n2513x7/qt3n2513x7.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt3k70s5wk2011-03-18T16:15:06Zqt3k70s5wkCSW Newsletter Fall 19911991-10-01The Fall 1991 CSW Newsletter features articles on women's leadership, Irish women writers, and feminist gynecologyWomen’s studiescenter for the study of womenfeminismUCLAFeminist GynecologyAlice EcholsIrish Women Writersapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/3k70s5wkhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt3k70s5wk/qt3k70s5wk.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt3jw7t3vg2011-03-18T16:14:50Zqt3jw7t3vgHear the Voices: The Need for Personal Narratives in Holocaust StudiesMyers Feinstein, Margarete2010-05-01Personal narratives can teach us much about aspects of people’s lives that do not enter the documents that historians prefer. In the case of Holocaust survivors, the written documents were often created by outsiders who had their own agendas and prejudices. To ignore the survivors’ memoirs and oral histories would be to create history based on sources no more credible. In some instances, there would be no other documents at all. To ignore the survivors’ testimonies in those cases would be to let their history go untold.Oral HistoryHistorical ResearchHolocaust StudiesMemoryGenderapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/3jw7t3vghttps://escholarship.org/content/qt3jw7t3vg/qt3jw7t3vg.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt3cz7j7wj2011-03-18T16:09:55Zqt3cz7j7wjSeeking Sex in an Electronic AgeKeilty, Patrick2010-05-01The corporal and social arrangements of pornographic images online are only one example of the many ways in which the body participates in creating new media cultures. Understanding these arrangements allows one to map the contours of new forms of sexual sociability in an electronic age. In this way, the Internet does not merely act as a repository for objects. Instead, these objects are relational and dynamic, and their arrangement is socially and culturally embedded. The Internet is, therefore, never merely used, never merely instrumental. It is itself a site of social relations that has become incorporated into our lives, transforms us as embodied subjects, and alters our subjectivity.InternetTechnologySexualityapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/3cz7j7wjhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt3cz7j7wj/qt3cz7j7wj.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt39t567sk2011-03-18T16:07:52Zqt39t567skBodily WritingMorgan, Elizabeth2010-04-01My background as a performer shapes how I write about music. I came to musicology after receiving my undergraduate and master’s degrees in piano performance at The Juilliard School. When I started graduate school in the Department of Musicology at UCLA, I gravitated toward studying issues related to performance, topics such as virtuosity and performance practice. Meanwhile, I noticed that the campus abounded with scholars whose interest in performance had inspired them to experiment in their writing, figures such as Sue-Ellen Case, Elisabeth Le Guin, Susan Leigh Foster, and Susan McClary. Common to their work is the absence of a boundary between their identities as performers and their identities as scholars; their understanding of the performing body spurs them to perform in their writing. Perhaps Susan Leigh Foster says it best: “I am a body writing. I am a bodily writing.”musicwritingperformanceapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/39t567skhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt39t567sk/qt39t567sk.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt38w1d1gt2011-03-18T16:06:56Zqt38w1d1gtRavishingAlumit, Noel2008-04-01I started doing AIDS work in the early 1990s. I was a young Filipino man raised to believe in charity. I started as a volunteer at the Chris Brownlee Hospice for People with AIDS. In the hospice, I was informed that people were there to live out the last six months of their lives. My job was to make those last months as comfortable as possible. The only face of AIDS that I knew at the time was always gay and usually white. When I started volunteering, I was not prepared to see people of color and I certainly didn't expect to see women. I was shocked when I met a Filipina—a woman who resembled some of the aunties who raised me—dying of AIDS.AIDSHIVhospicedyingapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/38w1d1gthttps://escholarship.org/content/qt38w1d1gt/qt38w1d1gt.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt35h4p9r72011-03-18T16:03:27Zqt35h4p9r7On Sound as WritingApolloni, Alexandra2010-04-01So often, I find myself at a loss for words when I'm writing about music, when I'm trying to turn what I hear into language. To write about music, to turn music into words on paper, is to intervene fundamentally with how those sounds mean. It is an act that both attributes meaning—the writer's meanings, the reader’s meanings—to music, but also risks precluding other meanings. Translating music and sounds into words, trying to verbally represent music, feels like an an act of power, one that I'm extremely uneasy about, and so I try to leave spaces in my words, to leave room for slippages, to allow other stories room to emerge from the gaps between my words. More and more, though, I find that I can't find that space on the page. With writing failing me, I’ve turned back to sound as a way of lifting words off of the page and sending them spinning into the air. I started making podcasts simply as a way of translating my academic work into a popular medium. This project, however, took off in unexpected directions, as sound became not just my object of study, and not just a medium for sharing words and information, but an integral part of the work itself, a vital mode of writing that allowed me to not only talk about music but talk with music.musicwritingsoundpodcastsapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/35h4p9r7https://escholarship.org/content/qt35h4p9r7/qt35h4p9r7.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt3405b6zr2011-03-18T16:01:46Zqt3405b6zrCSW Newsletter Fall 19931993-10-01This Fall 1993 CSW newsletter includes articles on a variety of new female hires at UCLA as well as information on new programs and seminars during the coming year.Women’s studiescenter for the study of womenthe dark MadonnafeminismUCLAKaren RoweEmily ApterJenny Sharpeapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/3405b6zrhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt3405b6zr/qt3405b6zr.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt33k8g8z92011-03-18T16:01:22Zqt33k8g8z9Mona Simpson: Q&A with the Bestselling Novelist and Professor of EnglishSimpson, MonaDavis, Vivian2009-10-01Mona Simpson writes novels. Her 1987 debut, Anywhere But Here, follows Adele and Ann August, a mother and daughter who move from the Midwest to Los Angeles in search of a less ordinary life. The novel went on to be a national bestseller, winning the Whiting Award in 1986, catapulting the author into the literary spotlight. Simpson followed her first novel’s success with a sequel: The Lost Father, published in 1992. Four years later, Simpson returned with A Regular Guy (1996). That same year Granta named Simpson one of America’s Best Young Novelists. In 2000, Simpson published Off Keck Road, a novel about a small town spinster, a man who has always been in her life, and a young girl, who completes the odd triangle. This work was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. Her upcoming novel, My Hollywood (Knopf, Spring 2010), depicts the upstairs/downstairs ironies, enmities, and strange affections between a community of immigrant nannies and their employers in contemporary Los Angeles. Presently, Simpson has begun a story about the lives and loves of Diaspora Arabs in Europe, the Gulf, and the United States, and of their more assimilated, half-American cousins. Simpson is also a Professor in the Department of English and plays an active part in organizing the Friends of English and Hammer Museum’s popular “Some Favorite Writers” series. On a recent summer afternoon, I sat down in a Brentwood coffee shop with Simpson to talk about her work and, in particular, The American Cousins.Literature in English, North Americabestsellerinterviewliterary themesLos Angelesarranged marriagefamily relationshipsfictionnovelsapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/33k8g8z9https://escholarship.org/content/qt33k8g8z9/qt33k8g8z9.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt2v12p3nd2011-03-18T15:53:51Zqt2v12p3ndThink and Drink at SCT: Sociability and Inquiry Intertwine at Cornell's "Theory Camp"Keilty, Patrick2010-10-01It is impossible to separate sociability from inquiry at the School of Criticism and Theory (SCT) at Cornell University. Friendships and conversations form on the first day and continue long after the sojourn in Ithaca ends. They begin in a classroom or large lecture auditorium, but soon find themselves taken up amid the cacophany of a local bar, at a reception of endless food and wine, at an intimate restaurant in the Commons, on a stunning hiking trail through the hills of Ithaca, at a picturesque swimming pool near a gorge, or within the halls of Cascadilla. It is no wonder that the attendees frequently refer to SCT as "theory camp" - a site for critical inquiry and a getaway from our everyday lives during the summer months. At SCT knowledge production is a social event not an autodidactic endeavor.Curriculum and Social InquiryLiberal StudiesCornellSchool of Criticism and Theorysocial academicstheory campapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/2v12p3ndhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt2v12p3nd/qt2v12p3nd.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt2j6793152011-03-18T15:45:25Zqt2j679315Penetrating DeathFinley, Lana2008-05-01Attendees of the panel “Penetrating Death” were treated to four wellinformed papers investigating the manner in which female bodies have been probed and evaluated by patriarchal “experts” throughout history; while tied thematically, the papers ranged widely in historical specificity, from predynastic Egypt to late Victorian England. The first speaker, Christine Gottlieb of UCLA, examined the “epistemology of gynecology” in the late nineteenth century in her paper, “Penetrating Knowledge and Attacking Mysteries: The Cases of Dracula and Dora.” By reading the novel Dracula in tandem with Freud’s account of his hysterical patient Dora, Gottlieb demonstrated how Dracula’s obsession with actual and metaphorical penetration pertains to the dominant medical discourse of its day. Just as the physician Van Helsing is allowed intimate access to the rooms, tombs, and bodies of his female patients, Freud’s narrative...Draculadeathfemale bodiesvirginFruedapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/2j679315https://escholarship.org/content/qt2j679315/qt2j679315.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt2hk943xk2011-03-18T15:44:51Zqt2hk943xkWhy Do Women Rebel? Understanding State Repression and Female Participation in Sri LankaGowrinathan, Nimmi2010-05-01The case of thousands of female combatants participating in the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a nationalist movement which fought for an independent state in Sri Lanka, is one of several where an analysis of the relationship between state repression and the nature of female participation is particularly relevant. I find that given pre-existing conditions of inequality (both social and gender), the identity of female combatants in the LTTE (a unique intersection of ethnicity and gender) were mobilized by multiple mechanisms, among which experiences of direct and indirect state repression were most likely to shape the nature of their eventual participation in the movement.Sri LankaLiberation Tigers of Tamil EelamTamilsWomenGenderMilitarizationapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/2hk943xkhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt2hk943xk/qt2hk943xk.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt2cp266mg2011-03-18T15:40:53Zqt2cp266mgPublic Territory | Territorio PúblicoGalindo, Regina José2007-11-01Three oil ra inbows swirl around the lukewarm waters of wells in Cobán. A shaft of 75 meters opens up in the neighborhood of San Antonio. The body of a woman is discovered in a hotel in Zone 1, her back bearing the death threat “to all sluts.” Two hundred and fifty families protest in front of Congress against being evicted from their land. In a presidential debate, the “firm hand” calls Colón a “limp wrist.” The legs of a woman, cut into 8 pieces, are left in a cardboard box in Zone 3. Ash rains down on the capital after a volcanic eruption. Foot soldiers of the Salvatrucha gang assault a bus of tourists and kill all the employees. In congress the winner of the Noble Peace prize is spit upon by a FRG sympathizer. Unemployed workers start day 3 of their hunger strike downtown. A group of protesters are electrocuted by plainclothes policemen in front of the U.S. embassy. In a tortillería in the city center, an indigenous women has her baby stolen. In Totonicapán a group of restless men burn the town hall and two police cars, while in Chimaltenango a woman accused of stealing a child is burned alive. A shop owner in the neighborhood of Verbena is shot and killed by gang members for refusing to pay a 100 quetzales “tax,” while on Elena St. a bus driver is shot for the same reason...protestperformance artcollective memorybodyapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/2cp266mghttps://escholarship.org/content/qt2cp266mg/qt2cp266mg.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt2c78c0wh2011-03-18T15:40:29Zqt2c78c0whThe Real (Porn) World: The Politics and Aesthetics of the New Reality PornMoorman, Jennifer2007-11-01It may at first seem perfectly selfevident that a porn filmmaker would want to borrow from the conventions of reality TV. Cinematic pornography has, as Linda Williams suggests, concerned itself with proving its own authenticity since its inception.1 And reality TV attempts to depict “the real world,” right? In fact, generally speaking, it doesn’t. A closer look at reality TV reveals its patently “false settings [and] contrived situations,” and we should not make the mistake of assuming that its audience is not happily aware of this.2 Although the genre has arguably been around at least since the 1973 televising of An American Family on PBS, MTV’s The Real World is generally credited with having ushered in the era marked by its current incarnation. The genre has progressed quite a bit since and has become increasingly self-conscious, a fact that is not lost on its fans. As Jeffrey Sconce puts it, the “‘reality’ in reality TV is merely one of many fluid plot conventions and not an inviolable foundation.”pornographypornographicporn filmmakerreality televisionporn starsapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/2c78c0whhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt2c78c0wh/qt2c78c0wh.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt2b68s20r2011-03-18T15:39:26Zqt2b68s20rGender and Modernity in Colonial KoreaJung-Kim, Jennifer J.2006-06-01The reconstruction of gender identities was central to the modernization process in colonial Korea (1910–1945). A consideration of how women and men of all classes individually and collectively negotiated changing political, social and economic conditions to constitute themselves as subjective agents is crucial to understanding the twentieth- century transformation of Korean society and culture. Using newspapers and magazines as primary sources, I examine their production, content, and readership to better understand their roidenitygendermodernizationNew Womenapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/2b68s20rhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt2b68s20r/qt2b68s20r.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt27v8f8ht2011-03-18T15:37:09Zqt27v8f8htReading from the MarginsMcElduff, Siobhán2007-04-01One day in the 1780s, an irate English poet sat down to write a scathing reply to one of her critics. This in itself is not particularly startling: the cantankerous relationships of writers and critics were neither novel nor newsworthy in the eighteenth century, which produced literary quarrels in almost exhausting abundance.English PoetryAnn YearsleyHannah MoreClassicsLatin and Greek Classicsapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/27v8f8hthttps://escholarship.org/content/qt27v8f8ht/qt27v8f8ht.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt23z4w7kj2011-03-18T15:33:20Zqt23z4w7kj"Risk" in Social Theory: Where are the Feminist Voices?Fox, Mary2009-04-01To read the front page of a newspaper or to work in many disciplines is to encounter the notion of risk. Stated simply, risk refers to the possibility that something negative may occur or that something positive may not occur. Most of the time risk connotes the possibility of a negative event, but in some quite specific contexts, ‘risk’ and ‘risk-taking’ take on a positive meaning, either in privileged contexts or when limits are being voluntarily explored or expanded. The New York Museum of Metropolitan Art’s 2004 exhibit, “SAFE: Design Takes on Risk,” reflects the increasing prominence of risk discourses and the kinds of ambiguous roles that risk and safety have come to play (Antonelli, 2005).riskrisk analysissocial theoryfeminismapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/23z4w7kjhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt23z4w7kj/qt23z4w7kj.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt1w62r8ww2011-03-18T15:26:13Zqt1w62r8wwDoes This BMI Make Me Look Fat?: Defining the bounds of "normal" weight in the U.S. and FranceSaguy, Abigail C.2007-04-01My work fills these holes in the literature by examining how medical science and news media define the upper and lower limits of “normal” body weight and how they discuss underweight/ overweight issues, eating disorders, and obesity. The talk I will be giving at the Center for the Study of Women next month examines cross-issue and cross-national differences in how the U.S. and French news media frame eating disorders and overweight/obesity as medical issues and public health priorities.body imageobesityeating disordersbody weightideal weightthinnesscultural valuesapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/1w62r8wwhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt1w62r8ww/qt1w62r8ww.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt1s23j0702011-03-18T15:22:58Zqt1s23j070CSW Newsletter May, 19861986-05-01This May 1986 CSW newsletter features articles on upcoming events at UCLA as the Women's Studies program celebrated its 10th anniversary.Women’s studiescenter for the study of womenfeminismUCLAapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/1s23j070https://escholarship.org/content/qt1s23j070/qt1s23j070.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt1q5711vd2011-03-18T15:21:02Zqt1q5711vdMale Heroism, Demonic Pigs, and Memories of Violence in the Haitian-Dominican BorderlandsDerby, Lauren (Robin)2010-05-01This essay seeks to interpret a particular version of stories about a highly feared phenomena called bacá—imaginary hybrid beasts that steal farm animals, harvests, and cash through shape-shifting. Bacases are a particular subset of shapeshifter lore in the Dominican campo. These stories can be read as a form of historical evidence, even if as a genre they are not oral tradition as such, since their historicity resides in their poetics—the historical meanings that have accrued to formulaic elements or key symbols, rather than their narrative. I would like to consider bacá talk as a genre of embodied historical memory of the past, one that is conveyed by the history and poetics of the particular forms these spirits inhabit, from dogs, pigs, cattle and extinct species of wood. There is a strong gendered dimension to these stories. I have not yet met a woman who would confess publicly to believing in bacás. While loath to head on confrontations with the demonic, they will admit to being indirectly affected by them. This was apparent in stories I heard just after the Haitian earthquake (which some said had been caused by a bacá) that the presence of evil—in addition to the restless spirits of the unburied dead—were causing nightmares and keeping people awake at night.Dominican RepublicHaitifolklorebacásmemoryapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/1q5711vdhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt1q5711vd/qt1q5711vd.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt1pm3p9d12011-03-18T15:20:29Zqt1pm3p9d1A Conversation with Gil Hochberg on "Queer Politics and the Question of Palestine"El Shakry, Hoda2009-04-01An Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at UCLA, Gil Hochberg received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Her work focuses on the intersections of trauma studies, psychoanalysis, race theory, and postcolonial theory, particularly in the context of contemporary Israel and Palestine as well as North Africa. Professor Hochberg has published essays on a wide range of issues including Francophone North African literature, Palestinian literature, gender and nationalism, and cultural memory and immigration, as well as exile and literary production. Her first book, In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs, and the Limits of Separatist Imagination (Princeton University Press, 2007), examines the complex relationship between the signifiers “Arab” and “Jew” in contemporary Jewish and Arab literatures. She recently talked with Hoda El Shakry, a doctoral student in Department of the Comparative Literature at UCLA, about her current projects, including a special issue of GLQ: Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies.queerpolticsPalestineArabsJewsQueer Studiesapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/1pm3p9d1https://escholarship.org/content/qt1pm3p9d1/qt1pm3p9d1.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt1n83h3xj2011-03-18T15:19:15Zqt1n83h3xjThe Glammogr and the Present InquiryWong, Mandy-Suzanne2010-04-01Composing fantasy fiction necessarily alters the perspective from which an author considers experience. The following discussion centers on the experience of music, and how said experience may be approached by analysis. All forms of writing may be considered performances, as the present inquiry aims to demonstrate. Writing about music obliges one to craft a musical experience. Thus, presented in writing, the experience of music is not that of the author-as- listener but of the author-as-author, where the latter makes record of an experience which she has constructed in order to make a point. Hence a written description of John Cage’s 4'33" is not equivalent to the experience of 4'33" in a concert hall. One may write “silence,” but one cannot write silence. Rather, the construction in writing of a musical experience (“silence, with some creaking of chairs”) is the composition and performance of said musical experience. Even as musicological writing must describe and criticize compositions and performances and experiences of other writers, description and criticism are themselves performance and composition when they constitute musicological writing.musicwritingfantasy fictionapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/1n83h3xjhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt1n83h3xj/qt1n83h3xj.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt1mr9w7sx2011-03-18T15:18:45Zqt1mr9w7sxWriting (about) MusicNorderval, Kristin2010-04-01When I’m listening to Bach—one of my favorite composers—how do I describe it? I have often told friends that the opening of “Wachet Auf, ruft uns die Stimme” always makes me smile and quickens my step. The dotted rhythms, the upward sweep of the alternating scalar passages of strings and oboes, the rising triads and long tones at the entry of the choir soaring over the repetitive rhythmic motion of the orchestra, the ornate melodic turns and quirky harmonic shifts all work together to shift my mood and my body rhythms. These are descriptions of instrumentation, and of melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic details that I respond to, but this doesn’t necessarily convey to a lay reader what I’m trying to get across. It certainly doesn’t convey what the piece actually sounds like, and it relies on knowledge of music terminology, if not a previous knowledge of Bach, to make sense of it. The words convey so much less of the music and my experience of listening to it, than a simple visual observation of the change in my physicality while listening to it would convey. I think about this when I watch people on the subway listening to music through earphones. I get more of a sense of the music they are listening to by their body responses than references to genre, instrumentation or rhythmic and melodic details would give me.musicwritingcomposersapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/1mr9w7sxhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt1mr9w7sx/qt1mr9w7sx.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt1gs2p4p92011-03-18T15:15:03Zqt1gs2p4p9Spectrums of Diversity and Exchange: 2007 Mephistos Graduate Student ConferenceDavis, Ann Marie2007-05-01...According to Wikipedia, the free content encyclopedia online, the word “mephisto” refers to at least twenty-four different cultural events and phenomena around the world.However, the web site overlooks the title’s most recent and relevant significance for the cluster of students and professors gathering at Royce Hall from April 6 to 8. Add “s” to the title “Mephisto” and, for these scholars, the word refers to a twenty-five-year-old academic tradition: a traveling, international, interdisciplinary conference organized annually by and for graduate students. This year it was organized by a group of UCLA graduate students. Based on the conference’s traditional subject matter, its title breaks down into the densely packed acronym, MEPHIEPHISTOS, for MEdicine, Philosophy, HIstory, Science, Technology, and OS for (SO)ciology.diversitymephistosSoraya de ChadarevianKirstin Borgersonapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/1gs2p4p9https://escholarship.org/content/qt1gs2p4p9/qt1gs2p4p9.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt16f1s09s2011-03-18T15:06:55Zqt16f1s09sThe Power of Production: Reflections on CM 278Caban, Heather L.2010-10-01I firmly believe that educators must embrace the media in their pedagogical practices, recognizing its possibilities and preparing students for their encounters. Much of my beliefs and understandings regarding critical media literacy were informed by the theories and activities that were a Part of Dr. Rhonda Hammer's course. This class has served as a remarkable model of how a critical media class should be taught.Curriculum and Social InquiryLiberal StudiesOther American StudiesOther EducationOther Film and Media Studiescritical media literacyteachingRhonda HammerUCLAmedia theorymedia productionpedagogyapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/16f1s09shttps://escholarship.org/content/qt16f1s09s/qt16f1s09s.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt162204mj2011-03-18T15:06:31Zqt162204mjShame and the Porosity of the SelfLindo, Karen2007-10-01Shame is a complex emotion of selfassessment that works as a hidden subtext in our ability to negotiate our identity in our relations with each other. Shame is the emotive state that most poignantly underscores the degree to which the conception of the self is a perceptual product. Forever in an interlocking relationship with the eyes of the other, shame unveils the fluidity of our identity as it vacillates dynamically between our inner (psychic) and outer worlds. It is this emotion in particular that exposes the porosity of our claim to a clearly defined and fixed self. Whether we read shame as an affect or an emotion, what becomes clear is that to read for shame is, to borrow the philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s term, to create “upheavals of thought.” Shame collapses the self/other binaries with which we are comfortable and exposes our neediness, helplessness, weaknesses, vulnerability, and mutual dependence on each other.shameBlack diasporaIndian diasporaapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/162204mjhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt162204mj/qt162204mj.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt102865nr2011-03-18T15:00:43Zqt102865nrLessons from the FatherAlvarado, Lorena2010-04-01Beneath these images that circulate political economies of affect, emotion, manhood, heartbreak, is the obscure romantization of drunken performances in Mexican popular culture. The presence of alcohol (literal or figurative) is, there, imperative to the successful des-ahogo of heartbreak. Des-ahogo is an ironic term, literally “un-drowning,” precisely evocative of the very drowning in alcohol. This is a tracing of the body that performs the pleasurable des-ahogos sustained and enhanced by intoxication, but also a disease in witnessing, analyzing and learning within this framework.musicmariachialcoholismMexicoLos Angelesapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/102865nrhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt102865nr/qt102865nr.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt0zk4r7dd2011-03-18T15:00:16Zqt0zk4r7ddThe Days I First Learned I had the Right to See, Not Only to WatchOhannesian, Stephanie2010-10-01It seems harder and harder these days to find individual conviction in relationships pertaining to current societal events, given that so many voices on so many issues go unheard. By finding like minded people we can begin to discuss and debate a variety of dominant cultural beliefs and practices which the majority seems to accept as the norm (or what the esteemed cultural studies expert, Stuart Hall, has called common sense). In other words, there is a pressing need for courses or workshops that provide students with the opportunity to express their own concerns and help them gain the necessary critical skills.Other American StudiesOther Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality StudiesOther Film and Media Studiescritical media literacyUCLARhonda Hammerfood studiesdocumentary filmapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/0zk4r7ddhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt0zk4r7dd/qt0zk4r7dd.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt0vw2z5272011-03-18T14:57:35Zqt0vw2z527Laura Aguilar: Clothed UnclothedNoriega, Chon A.2008-05-01Her photography deals mostly with portraiture, documenting social groups and identities that remain invisible in mainstream culture: Latina lesbians, black couples, obese people. This work shares certain similarities with the provocative portraits by Jock Sturges and Sally Mann, especially in terms of the high degree of collaboration involved. But Aguilar collaborates with subjects who are her peers so that her work is not about power differentials between photographer and subject as is often, if implicitly, the case with Sturges, Mann, and the social documentary tradition itself.photographerportraiturephotographycommunitiesapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/0vw2z527https://escholarship.org/content/qt0vw2z527/qt0vw2z527.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt0tc436j72011-03-18T14:56:00Zqt0tc436j7When a Sexist Voice is not a Choice: Representations of Women in National Broadcast NewsKenderes, Amanda2010-10-01"Spitballs and Battleships: A show and Tell of Women in the News" is a minidocumentary that exposes the fallacy that national broadcast news is a source of objective journalism and examines its greater role as entertainment. Certainly women are a part of news and therefore a part of entertainment. Recognizing this the film asks a broader and perhaps more pith question: are Women agents in the degradation of the news or victims of sexism and misogyny?Other American StudiesOther Film and Media StudiesWomen's Studiescritical media literacyfilm studiesdocumentary filmUCLARhonda Hammerbroadcast newsamerican newssexism in the newsfemale news anchorsapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/0tc436j7https://escholarship.org/content/qt0tc436j7/qt0tc436j7.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt0qh3h49h2011-03-18T14:53:22Zqt0qh3h49hCSW Newsletter Summer 19861986-07-01The Summer 1986 CSW Newsletter features an article on the Dark Madonna performance at UCLA, as well as several scholarships and grants awarded to UCLA students.Women’s studiescenter for the study of womenfeminismUCLADark Madonnaapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/0qh3h49hhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt0qh3h49h/qt0qh3h49h.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt0gj9w78m2011-03-18T14:46:44Zqt0gj9w78mThe First Frame: Our spectacualr journey as amature documentary film makersBarahmand, HastiDudakia, Kunti2010-10-01The story began in the winter of 2007 during a Critical Media Literacy course taught by Dr. Rhonda Hammer. Understanding how the media constructs images to influence and sway the public in different and politically charged ways, and identifying and critiquing those characterizations is the course's objective. As we became progressively more aware of the the influencing factors of media, we took our first step toward learning how to create film with this consciousness. Though our topic had yet to be finalized, we knew the video documentary would delve into the politics and social representations of black women, and how black women deal with their intersectional identities. The double consciousness of black women, who concurrently negotiate their race and gender, was the focus.Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality StudiesOther Film and Media Studiescritical media literacyafrican american studiesgender studiesdocumentaryfeminist film festivalrhonda hammerUCLAapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/0gj9w78mhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt0gj9w78m/qt0gj9w78m.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt0f7243g52011-03-18T14:45:32Zqt0f7243g5Kay Warren on Gender, Class, and the Unwilling Victims of Human Trafficking LawRothenberg, Janell2009-06-01Over the last decade, human trafficking has emerged as a legal category of prosecutable criminal behavior. The 2000 Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, created international guidelines for the identification and prosecution of human trafficking under the auspices of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. More than 110 UN member states are signatories to this protocol while actual attempts to translate it into practice continue to face major obstacles.human traffickingUnited Nations General AssemblyKay Warrenapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/0f7243g5https://escholarship.org/content/qt0f7243g5/qt0f7243g5.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt0ds6g1hf2011-03-18T14:45:04Zqt0ds6g1hfName Law and Gender in IcelandWillson, Kendra2009-06-01A person’s name is at once a central marker of personal identity (including gender identity), a linguistic artifact, and a label used to identify individuals at all levels of social organization. Legal monitoring of personal name choice correlates with aspects of state formation and centralization.genderidentitystatenamingapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/0ds6g1hfhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt0ds6g1hf/qt0ds6g1hf.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt07f0j5rs2011-03-18T14:39:51Zqt07f0j5rsTalking with the Dead: Sarah Fielding's Posthumous Lives as a Feminist Challenge to Menippean LaughterGoodhue, Elizabeth K.2009-10-01“The thing about biography,” he said, “is that you always know how the story ends.” This remark was made by a noted professor of eighteenth-century literature during the annual lecture at the 2009 meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS). What struck me most about the comment on that chilly January afternoon was not the offhand tone in which it was voiced, but the awkward chuckles that rippled through the audience afterwards, prompting a smile—half sheepish, half relieved—from our speaker. Death was not mentioned, but it was clearly the specter giving rise to these signs of wary amusement. I couldn’t help but wonder if the audience’s hesitancy to laugh outright—my own included—stemmed from the fact that a joke about death’s ability to render all biographies the same brought mortality uncomfortably close to the here and now that we shared as conference participants.menippeanliterary criticismfictioneighteenth centurybiographyfeminist literaturesatireapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/07f0j5rshttps://escholarship.org/content/qt07f0j5rs/qt07f0j5rs.pdfarticleoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt06d6j0wm2011-03-18T14:38:46Zqt06d6j0wmQ&A with Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns: Studying the Interlocking Genealogies of the Filipino American Performing BodyBurns, Lucy Mae San PabloBaron, Jaimie2010-05-01Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns, who joined the Department of Asian American Studies at UCLA in 2005, recently received a CSW Faculty Development Grant to support her research for “Puro Arte: On the Filipino Performing Body.”Filipino American Culturetheaterperformancegenderraceapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/06d6j0wmhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt06d6j0wm/qt06d6j0wm.pdfarticle