Center for the Study of Women

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Los Angeles, CA 90095-7222
Ph. (310) 825-0590
Fx. (310) 825-0456
http://www.women.ucla.edu
mchughla@humnet.ucla.edu
csw@csw.ucla.edu

The UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) is a nationally recognized center for research on women, gender, and sexuality, and the first organized research unit of its kind in the University of California system. Established in 1984, it draws on the expertise of 245 faculty members from 34 departments and 10 UCLA professional schools. Organized to develop, promote and disseminate faculty and graduate student research, the Center administers grants, conferences, seminars, and a quarterly speaker's series that brings together UCLA, UC, national and international scholars with the intellectual community of Los Angeles.

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Principal Staff

Kathleen McHugh, Ph.D., Director
Ph. (310) 206-7735
E-mail: cswdirector@women.ucla.edu

Julie Childers, Assistant Director
E-mail: jchilders@women.ucla.edu

Emily Moon, Administrative Specialist
E-mail: emoon@women.ucla.edu

Brenda Johnson-Grau, Managing Editor, Publications
Ph. (310) 206-5487
E-mail: bjg@ucla.edu

Van DoNguyen, Honorary Staff Member

Patricija Petrac, Administrative Assistant
Ph. (310) 825-0590
E-mail: ppetrac@women.ucla.edu

Areas of Expertise:

Higher Education, Sexuality & Gender, Women's, Gender & Feminist Studies

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Projects & Campaigns

Current Projects:

From Protest to Policy: A History of Women’s Social Movement Activities in Los Angeles, 1960-1999
Professor Kathleen McHugh
April de Stefano, PhD
This major research project is examining the history of women’s social movement activities in mid to late twentieth-century Los Angeles. The outcome of this research will be a history of women’s social activism in Los Angeles during this period based not on an a priori definition of the Women’s Movement but on the history of activities by which women organized demands against discrimination and for access, equal opportunity, and equal representation.
The focus of the project is conducting archival research and oral history interviews; developing publicly accessible data resources; and organizing a public conference to disseminate research findings. This project will document any material effects of women’s social movement activities on public policy and civic institutions in Los Angeles. It will be a major contribution to the historiography on Los Angeles and will provide new resources for scholars, the public, and today’s policy leaders.
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Professor Sondra Hale
GSRI fosters international exchanges between UCLA Department of Women's Studies and the Center for the Study of Women, and women's/gender studies institutions in Middle East/North Africa and Muslim South Asia. Our primary objective is to facilitate dialogue on emerging theories, concepts, pedagogies, and curricula as related to contemporary social and political issues within the field of women's/gender Studies.
 
Esha Niyogi De, PhD
Professor Sondra Hale
An interdisciplinary research group of UC faculty and graduate students from Anthropology, Asian American Studies, Chicana/o Studies, Comparative Literature, English, Ethnic studies, Film Studies, French, and Women’s Studies working on questions of women, difference, and knowledge formations in an era of globalization.
 
Professor Kathleen McHugh
A group of FTV critical studies faculty and graduate students are working with the UCLA MIAS program and the Oral History project on recording and preserving the experience of women in the film and television industries in Los Angeles. A database of about 1300 records is available for searching. It contains the locations of interviews with prominent women in print, radio, television and film industries.
The format of these interviews vary: some are in a traditional oral history format, others are part of a public speaker series. Some were recorded only on audio equipment, others were shot on video or film. You will not find the interview files on this site. If you would like to listen to or view the interviews, you will need to contact the particular institution.
To add records to the Women in Media database, please email cswpubs@women.ucla.edu so that we can verify your identity and create an account for you.
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Women of Color Feminism
A research group of primarily junior UCLA faculty in African American Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicana/o Studies, English, History, and Dance whose research interests converge around questions of the erasure of women of color feminism in current academic concerns with the transnational.

Reports & Resources

CSW Update Newsletter: Current Issues from the 2009-2010 Academic Year:

http://www.csw.ucla.edu/newsletter.html

JMEWS

JMEWS (Journal of Middle East Women's Studies) is the official publication of the Association for Middle East Women's Studies, a multidisciplinary, international organization affiliated with the Middle East Studies Association. Its purpose is to advance the fields of Middle East women's studies, gender studies and Middle East studies through contributions across disciplines in the social sciences and humanities.

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Thinking Gender Papers:

Ah-Sue, Geraldine: ReOrienting Asian/American Subjectivities: On the Cultural (Re)Writings of All- American Girl, 2009.

 
 

 

Opportunities, Grants & Fellowships

 

 UCLA CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF WOMEN announces:

THINKING GENDER 2012
22nd Annual Graduate Student Research Conference
 
Call for papers 
Thinking Gender is a public conference highlighting graduate student research on women, gender and/or sexuality across all disciplines and historical periods. We invite submissions for individual papers or pre-constituted panelson any topic pertaining to women, gender, and/or sexuality. This year, we especially welcome feminist research on: gender roles in relation to marriage, parenting, or being single; critiques of biosciences and biotechnology as they pertain to fertility, sanitation, and/or medical experimentation at a local, national or global level; mobility as duress or success--for example, in relation to migration, immigration, or upward or downward economic mobility; life stage issues, such as aging and girls’ studies; and feminist storytelling or research in modes such as oral histories, graphic novels, theater, comedy or other inventive expressions. C
 
CSW accepts submissions for both individual papers and pre-constituted panels from all active graduate students. In order to give everyone an opportunity to present, we do not accept submissions from people who presented at Thinking Gender in the previous year. Also no previously published material is eligible.Students proposing individual papers are to submit a cover page (provided on our website), an abstract (250 words), a CV (2 pages maximum), and a brief bibliography (3-5 sources), for consideration. All components are to be delivered in one document and labeled according to the submission guidelines found on the CSW website. For panels, a 250-word description of the panel topic is required, in addition to the materials that must be provided for individual paper submissions.For a more detailed description of submission guidelines, please visit: http://www.csw.ucla.edu/conferences/thinking-gender/thinking-gender-2012. Send submissions to: thinkinggender@women.ucla.edu
Deadline for Submissions: Thursday, October 17th, 2011 at 12 noon
 
Conference to be held on
Friday, February 3, 2012
UCLA Faculty Center
 
Event is free and open to the public, but please be aware that there will be a $30 registration fee for presenters, to cover the cost of conference materials and lunch at the Faculty Center.
 
UCLA Center for the Study of Women
1500 Public Affairs Building
Box 957222
Los Angeles, CA 90095-7222
310-825-0590

 

 

 

 

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Multimedia

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Fat and Identity Politics, UCLA
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Fat and Identity Politics, UCLA

UCLA Center for the Study of Women presents Paul Campos, author of "The Obesity Myth: Why America's Obsession with Weight is Hazardous to Your Health." In this talk, he discusses efforts to make fat people thin, through weight-loss diets, drugs, and surgery. Campos sees weight as a political and social issue and notes that body size is often used as a tool of discrimination, especially against women. Organized by Prof Abigail Saguy, Department of Sociology at UCLA, this talk is part of the Gender and Body Size lecture series, which addresses the new interdisciplinary field of "fat studies." Recent discussions of body weight have been dominated by health policy concerns over the so-called obesity epidemic. Despite a long tradition of feminist critique of fat hatred as a problem of patriarchy, there has been very little critique of the growing emphasis on the importance of slenderness for health reasons.

Introducing the UCLA Center for the Study of Women
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Introducing the UCLA Center for the Study of Women

This video is a short history of the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, an internationally recognized center for research on women, gender, and sexuality.