More than fifty affiliated scholars participate in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies and its Critical Gender Studies Research Initiative. Our Scholar Commons project collects feminist and queer work produced by faculty across the Santa Clara campus.

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Submissions from 2024

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Structure, status, and span: gender differences in co-authorship networks across 16 region-subject pairs (2009–2013), Kjersten Bunker Whittington, Molly M. King, and Isabella Cingolani

Submissions from 2023

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Name-based demographic inference and the unequal distribution of misrecognition, Jeffrey W. Lockhart, Molly M. King, and Christin Munsch

Submissions from 2022

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Imperialism, Race Thinking, Gender, and Genocide, Amy E. Randall

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Introduction: Gender and Genocide Studies, 2nd Edition, Amy E. Randall

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A safer SCU: Report of a student forum on bystander intervention to prevent sexual assault, Chad Raphael

American Women in Environmental History: An Illustrated Overview, Nancy Unger

Submissions from 2021

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The Pandemic Penalty: The Gendered Effects of COVID-19 on Scientific Productivity, Molly M. King and Megan E. Frederickson

Changing The World, Empowering Themselves: Women’s Clubs in Environmental History, Nancy Unger

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The LGBTQ+ community: an underappreciated resource in environmental awareness and protection, Nancy Unger

Submissions from 2020

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“Who Wants to Live Forever?” Andrew Holleran, Garth Greenwell, and The Gayest Decade That Never Ended, John C. Hawley

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The template for using white privilege to fight racism, Nancy Unger

Submissions from 2019

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Barren Lands and Barren Bodies In Navajo Nation: Indian Women WARN about Uranium, Genetics, and Sterilization, Marie Bolton and Nancy C. Unger

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Gender and Sexuality, Amy E. Randall

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Legacies of Belle La Follette’s Big Tent Campaigns for Women’s Suffrage, Nancy Unger

Personal, Political, and Professional: The Impact of Carolyn Merchant’s Life and Leadership, Nancy Unger

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Belle La Follette’s Fight for Women’s Suffrage: Losing the Battle for Wisconsin, Winning the War for the Nation, Nancy C. Unger

Submissions from 2017

Undocumented and in College: Students and Institutions in a Climate of National Hostility, Terry-Ann Jones and Laura Nichols

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Men set their own cites high: Gender and self-citation across fields and over time, Molly M. King, Carl T. Bergstrom, Shelley J. Correll, Jennifer Jacquet, and Jevin D. West

Women’s Activism and "Second Wave" Feminism: Transnational Histories, Barbara Molony and Jennifer Nelson

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Gender and the Emergence of the Soviet 'Citizen-Consumer' in Comparative Perspective, Amy E. Randall

Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires since 1820, Kathryn Kish Sklar, Thomas Dublin, and Barbara Molony

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Adda F. Howie: "America’s Outstanding Woman Farmer", Nancy Unger

Submissions from 2016

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The Effect of Mothers’ Educational Credentials on Children’s Outcomes: Does Being a First-Generation or Continuing Generation College Graduate Matter?, Susan A. Dumais and Laura Nichols

Lesbian Sources: A Bibliography of Periodical Articles, 1970-1990, Linda Garber

Gender in Modern East Asia: An Integrated History, Barbara Molony, Janet Theiss, and Hyaeweol Choi

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Pushing and Pulling Emerging Adults through College: College Generational Status and the Influence of Parents and Others in the First Year, Laura Nichols and Ángel Islas

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Beyond the “Digital Divide:” The Computer Girls of Seelampur, Sreela Sarkar

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Passionate Producers: Corporate Interventions in Expanding the Promise of the Information Society, Sreela Sarkar

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For overcoming homophobia, California’s FAIR Education Act is a model, Nancy Unger

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Role of Gay Bars in American History, Nancy Unger

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That the Worst Shooting in US History Took Place in a Gay Bar Is Unsurprising, Nancy Unger

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The Unexpected Belle La Follette, Nancy Unger

Submissions from 2015

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Who decides racial identity? Not Rachel Dolezal, Margalynne Armstrong and Stephanie M. Wildman

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Literary Recovery in an Age of Austerity: A Review of Early American Reprints and Just Teach One, Michelle Burnham

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Drawing Testimony, Coming to Writing: Ebe Cagli Seidenberg’s Le sabbie del silenzio and Il Tempo dei Dioscuri, Eveljn Ferraro

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Claiming Lesbian History: The Romance Between Fact and Fiction, Linda Garber

Expanding the Circle: Creating an Inclusive Environment in Higher Education for LGBTQ Students and Studies, John C. Hawley

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Gay and Lesbian Culture and Politics, John C. Hawley

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Deficient realities: expertise and uncertainty among tea plantation workers in Sri Lanka, Mythri Jegathesan

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Changing Access To Land For Women In Sub-Saharan Africa, Michael Kevane

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Deconstructing Sita's Blues: Questions of Mis/representation, Cultural Property, and Feminist Critique in Nina Paley's Ramayana, Sharmila Lodhia

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The Absent Presence and the Art of Autobiography in Barack Obama's Dreams From My Father, Aparajita Nanda

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The Black Frontier, Aparajita Nanda

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'Each Wise Nymph that Angles for a Heart': The Politics of Courtship in the Boston 'Fishing Lady' Pictures, Andrea Pappas

Genocide and Gender in the Twentieth Century: A Comparative Survey, 1st Edition, Amy E. Randall

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Introduction: Gendering Genocide Studies, 1st Edition, Amy E. Randall

Belle La Follette: Progressive Era Reformer, Nancy Unger

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Reanimating Ghost Editions, Reorienting the Early American Novel, Karen A. Weyler and Michelle Burnham

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Wise Latina/os Reflect on Role Models, Acting Affirmatively, and Structures of Discrimination: In Honor of Richard Delgado, Stephanie M. Wildman and Lucy Gaines

Submissions from 2014

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Ancres invisibles, Jimia Boutouba

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The Moudawana Syndrome: Gender Trouble in Contemporary Morocco, Jimia Boutouba

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Disability, Laura L. Ellingson and Margaret M. Quinlan

Women and Development in Africa: How Gender Works (2nd Edition), Michael Kevane

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Stop Importing Weapons of Family Destruction!’ Cyberdiscourses, Patriarchal Anxieties and the Male Backlash Movement in India, Sharmila Lodhia

Ethnic Literatures and Transnationalism: Critical Imaginaries for a Global Age, Aparajita Nanda

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In Search of a Jewish Audience: New York’s Guild Art Gallery, 1935-1937, Andrea Pappas

Women and Social Movements, International--1840 to Present., Kathryn Kish Sklar, Thomas Dublin, and Barbara Molony

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The “Other” Women in Family Life: Recognizing the Significance of Aunt/Niece/Nephew Communication, Patricia J. Sotirin and Laura L. Ellingson

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Gays and Lesbians in Early 20th Century America, Nancy Unger

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Women and Gender: Useful Categories of Analysis in Environmental History, Nancy Unger

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In Honor of Angela Harris: Finding Breathing Space, Embracing the Contradictions, and "Education Work", Stephanie M. Wildman

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Practicing Social Justice Feminism in the Classroom, Stephanie M. Wildman

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Reflections on Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia Symposium—The Plenary Panel, Stephanie M. Wildman, Angela Mae Kupenda, Maritza I. Reyes, Angela Onwauchi-Willig, and Adiren Katherine Wing

The Female American, Unca Eliza Winkfield, Michelle Burnham, and James Freitas

Submissions from 2013

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Breaking the Ties: French Romantic Socialism and the Critique of Liberal Slave Emancipation, Naomi J. Andrews

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Les Enfants de l’ombre: Dalila Kerchouche. Leila: Avoir dix-ans dans un camp de harkis, Jimia Boutouba

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Rupturing otherness, fashioning the self: The aesthetics and politics of self-transformation in Sakinna Boukhedenna’s Journal ‘Nationalité: immigré(e)’, Jimia Boutouba

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Distancing the Past: New Forms of Discomfort with AIDS in the U.S, John C. Hawley

Days of Revolution: Political Unrest in an Iranian Village, Mary Elaine Hegland

Social Justice: Professionals, Communities and Law, 2nd Edition, Martha Mahoney, John Calmore, and Stephanie M. Wildman

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Power, Politics, and Domestic Desire in Octavia Butler’s Lilith’s Brood, Aparajita Nanda

Strangled Cry: The Communication and Experience of Trauma, Aparajita Nanda and Peter Bray

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Where the Aunts Are Family, Feminism, and Kinship in Popular Culture, Patricia J. Sotirin and Laura L. Ellingson

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The Role of Gender in Scholarly Authorship, Jevin D. West, Jennifer Jacquet, Molly M. King, Shelley J. Correll, and Carl T. Bergstrom

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Privilege Revealed: Past, Present, & Future [Revisiting Privilege Revealed and Reflecting on Teaching and Learning Together], Stephanie M. Wildman

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A Social Justice Lens Turned on Legal Education: Next Steps in Representing the Vulnerable and Inspiring Law Students, Stephanie M. Wildman and Deborah Moss-West

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Living Values through the Center for Social Justice and Public Service, Stephanie M. Wildman and Deborah Moss-West

Submissions from 2012

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Femmes d’images et images de femmes: Parcours féminins et culture visuelle au Maghreb, Jimia Boutouba

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Beyond the research/service dichotomy: Claiming ALL research products for hiring, evaluation, tenure, and promotion., Laura L. Ellingson and Margaret M. Quinlan

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Ebe Cagli Seidenberg, Eveljn Ferraro

Identity Poetics: Race, Class, and the Lesbian-Feminist Roots of Queer Theory, Linda Garber

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"I Enter Into Its Burning": Yvonne Vera's Beautiful Cauldron of Violence, John C. Hawley

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Gendered production and consumption in rural Africa, Michael Kevane

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Soviet Masculinities: Guest Editor's Introduction, Amy E. Randall

Beyond Nature’s Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History, Nancy Unger

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Introduction: Sex, Sexuality, and Gender as Useful Categories in Environmental History, Nancy Unger

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Revisiting the Work We Know So Little About: Race, Wealth, Privilege, and Social Justice, Stephanie M. Wildman, Beverly Moran, and Margalynne J. Armstrong

Submissions from 2011

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D'Eichthal and Urbain's Lettres sur la race noire et la race blanche: race, gender, and reconciliation after Slave Emancipation, Naomi Andrews

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"The Universal Alliance of All Peoples": Romantic Socialists, the Human Family, and the Defense of Empire during the July Monarchy, 1830-1848, Naomi J. Andrews

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Female Bodies and Capitalist Drive: Leonora Sansay's Secret History in Transoceanic Context, Michelle Burnham

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Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer as Indigenous Gothic, Michelle Burnham

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Trade, Time, and the Calculus of Risk in Early Pacific Travel Writing, Michelle Burnham

New Directions in Feminism and Human Rights, Dana Collins, Sylvanna M. Falcon, Sharmila Lodhia, and Molly Talcott

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The Poetics of Professionalism Among Dialysis Technicians, Laura L. Ellingson

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Gender, Genre and Slavery: The Other Rowson, Rowson's Others, Eileen Elrod

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From “Mothers of Humanity” to “Assisting the Emperor”: Gendered Belonging in the Wartime Rhetoric of Japanese Feminist Ichikawa Fusae, Barbara Molony

Black California: A Literary Anthology, Aparajita Nanda

Writing the Self in ‘Heterotopic’ Spaces: Reading Nawal Sadaawi’s Woman at Point Zero, Aparajita Nanda

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Homelessness and the Mobile Shelter System: Public Transportation as Shelter, Laura Nichols and Fernando Cázares

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"Abortion Will Deprive You of Happiness!"Soviet Reproductive Politics in the Post-Stalin Era, Amy E. Randall