CSW Update: The Archives

May 2007

Purnima Mankekar Joins the Center as Associate Director

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CSW Awards 2007

Women’s Promotion of Modern Mexican Architecture in Transnational Visual and Print Media
by Ernestina Osorio

Make Girls Visible: Fifty-first Session of the Commission on the Status of Women
by Joanne Leslie

“Does Hip Hop Hate Women?”: A Community Dialogue about Hip Hop and Gender Politics
by H. Samy Alim

The Welfare of a Womanist
by Alysia Logan

Faculty Development Grants for 2007-08

Faculty Curators for 2007-08

Women’s Studies News

It’s Not Easy Being a Girl in a Man’s World
by Christia Spears Brown

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Q&A with Juliet Williams

Girls’ Education in Rural Pakistan
by Sarah A. Simons

Spectrums of Diversity and Exchange: 2007 Mephistos Graduate Student Conference
by Ann Marie Davis

Notes from the Field: Living Ethnography
by Azza Basarudin

Ken Wissoker’s "Writing for Readers"
Presentation Report by Sharon Sharp

Western Assssociation of Women Historians Meets in San Diego
by Kathleen Sheldon

2007 Tillie Olsen Grant Recipients

A Tribute to Tillie Lerner Olsen, 1912-2007

April 2007

Special Issue 2007

Strange A ffinities Symposium
Preview by Grace Kyungwon Hong

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Does this BMI Make Me Look Fat?
by Abigail C. Saguy

Reading from the Margins
by Siobhán McElduff

Thinking Gender 2007: 17th Annual Graduate Student Research Conference

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From the Coordinator
by Emily S. Carman

Excerpt from the Plenary Session:
The Commodification of a Cactus
by Laura Foster

Excerpt from the Plenary Session:
Chinese Chickens, Ducks, Pigs and Humans, and Technoscientific Orientalism
by Gwen D’Arcangelis

Excerpt from the Plenary Session:
Wolf Children and the Discourse of Animality
by Dipika Nath

Excerpt from the Plenary Session:
Categories and the Legal Human
by Kris Weller

Television and Gendered Dis-Articulations:
Panel Summary and Review
by Jennifer Porst

Television and Gendered Dis-Articulations: Julia Himberg ‘s “The Girls Next Door: Television and Playboy’s New Woman”
Review by Kelly Agpawa

Television and Gendered Dis-Articulations:
Allison de Fren’s “The Exquisite Corpse: Representations of the Artificial Female”
Review by Sarah Weismuller

Negotiating Masculinity and Sex
Panel Review by Kristen Barber

Movies, Mohawks, and What to Wear
by Maya Montañez Smukler

Issues of Transnationalism and Gender
Panel Review by Rana Sharif

Hilary Pfeifer: Thinking Cap Artist

March 2007

February 2007

JMEWS at UCLA
by Diane James

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Traveling between Iranian and American Identities
by Leila Pazargadi

Violence and Freedom
by Steve On

Emily Hodgson Anderson’s “Mansfield Park and the ‘Womanly Style’ in Fiction”
Review and Summary by Brad Pasanek

CSW Announcements

Martie Haselton: Recipient of CSW Faculty Development Grant Presents Research on How Ovulatory Cycles Affect Behavior

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A Magical Herstory
by Alysia Logan

Finding Positive Meaning in the Experience of Breast Cancer
by Jill Mitchell

Judith Halberstam: Popular Culture “Conceives” the Transbiological
by Laurel Westrup

Managing Transpacific Femininities in Bienvenido N. Santos’s “Brown Coterie”
by Denise A. Cruz

Finding a Formula for Success
by Karon Jolna

CSW Announcements

January 2007

December 2006

Gendered Borders
by Kelly Lytle Hernández

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The Chronicles of Chicaba: Sue Houchins on the Trials of an African Nun
by Dennis Tyler

“Miss China”: The Hypervisible Female Body on the Global Stage
by Jiayun Zhuang

Lois Weaver Performs Resistant Femme
by Nicole Eschen

New Directions in Feminist Scholarship
by Evangeline M. Heiliger

CSW Announcements

Wini Breines Speaks on "The Trouble Between Us"
Review by Mignon R. Moore

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From the Assistant Director
by April de Stefano

A New Look at Women’s Sexuality and Sexual Orientation
by Linda D. Garnets and Letitia Anne Peplau

Postcolonial Feminist Re-presentations of Disability (Studies)
by Julie C. Nack Ngue

Revising to Publish: Wendy Belcher instructs Fledging Authors in Summer Course
A Report by Vange Heiliger

CSW Announcements

November 2006

October 2006

Rosina M. Becerra is Advocate for Gender Equity and Faculty Diversity at UCLA

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From the Editor
by Brenda Johnson-Grau

Missing in Action: On Eastern European Women and Transnational Feminism
by Denise Roman

Los Angeles Queer Studies Conference 2006
Notes by Katie Oliviero

Latina Web Content Study: “Lack of Relevant Content” as Component of the Digital Divide
by Romelia Salinas

Rhodessa Jones: Saving Lives through Song and Story
by Courtney D. Johnson

Michael Silverman, Postdoctoral Scholar in Gender and the Environment

Rachel C. Lee is Curator for “Feminism, Body Theory, and Performance” Series

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