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 2011

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

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The 'Right' to Control Her Own Body?: Soviet Women, Abortion and the State, Amy E. Randall

Women and the law stories, Elizabeth Schneider and Stephanie M. Wildman

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Performing Mythic Identity:An Analysis and Critiqueof “The Ethnogs”, Nick Trujillo, Bob Krizek, Patty Sotirin, Laura L. Ellingson, Melanie Bailey Mills, Shirley Drew, and Chris Poulos

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Gender Integration of the Legal Academy: The Role of the AALS Section on Women in Legal Education, Stephanie M. Wildman

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Women’s work, Stephanie M. Wildman

Submissions from 2010

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Samuel Gorton’s Leveller Aesthetics and the Economics of Colonial Dissent, Michelle Burnham

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New Directions in Feminism and Human Rights, Dana Collins, Sylvanna Falcón, Sharmila Lodhia, and Molly Talcott

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A Feminist Forecast for Health Communication Research in 2010., Laura L. Ellingson

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Aunting: Cultural Practices That Sustain Family and Community Life, Laura L. Ellingson and Patricia J. Sotirin

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Phillis Wheatley’s Abolitionist Text: The 1834 Edition, Eileen Razzari Elrod

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Tajik Male Labour Migration and Women Left Behind: Can They Resist Gender and Generational Hierarchies?, Mary E. Hegland

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Brides without Borders: New Topographies of Violence and the Future of Law in an Era of Transnational Citizen-Subjects, Sharmila Lodhia

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Constructing an Imperfect Citizen-Subject: Globalization, National ‘Security’ and Violence Against South Asian Women, Sharmila Lodhia

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Re-writing the Bhabhian “Mimic Man”: Akin, the Posthuman Other in Octavia Butler’s Adulthood Rites, Aparajita Nanda

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Repealing the Ban on Abortion, Amy E. Randall

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Women at Work and Home: New Technologies and Labor among Minority Women in Seelampur, Sreela Sarkar

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From Jook Joints to Sisterspace: The Role of Nature in Lesbian Alternative Environments in the United States, Nancy Unger

Submissions from 2009

“Do we need to make it look good?”: Form, function, and femininity for women with disabilities, Laura L. Ellingson

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Limping (enthusiastically) toward Chicago, Laura L. Ellingson

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Salvaging, Surrendering, and Saying Goodbye to My Leg, Laura L. Ellingson

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Between Italy and America: Exile and Suspension in Ebe Cagli Seidenberg’s Il Tempo dei Dioscuri, Eveljn Ferraro

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Educating Young Women: Culture, Conflict, and New Identities in an Iranian Village, Mary E. Hegland

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All-India Women's Conference, Sharmila Lodhia

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Dowry Prohibition Act, Sharmila Lodhia

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Legal Frankensteins and Monstrous Women: Judicial Narratives of the "Family in Crisis", Sharmila Lodhia

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Pregnancy Discrimination and Social Change: Evolving Consciousness About a Worker's Right to Job-Protected, Paid Leave, Patricia Shiu and Stephanie Wildman

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Women for a Peaceful Christmas: Wisconsin Homemakers Seek to Remake American Culture, Nancy Unger

Submissions from 2008

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Teaching Lolita in a Course on Ethics and Literature, Marilyn Edelstein

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Embodied knowledge, Laura L. Ellingson

Engaging Crystallization in Qualitative Research: An Introduction, Laura L. Ellingson

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Autoethnography as Constructionist Project, Laura L. Ellingson and Carolyn Ellis

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Academic Aunting: Reimaging Feminist (Wo)Mentoring, Teaching, and Relationships., Laura L. Ellingson and Patricia Sotirin

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Homeless Women with Children in Shelters: The Institutionalization of Family Life, Kathryn Feltey and Laura Nichols

LGBTQ America Today: An Encyclopedia, John C. Hawley

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Introduction to LGBTQ America Today, John C. Hawley

A Discourse of Complaint: Precursors to a Mass Women’s Movement in Tajikistan, Mary E. Hegland

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Diminished Access, Diverted Exclusion: Women and Land Tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa, Michael Kevane and Leslie C. Gray

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Hiratsuka Haruko (Raichō), Barbara Molony

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Modernity, Gender, and the Empire, Barbara Molony

Gendering Modern Japanese History, Barbara Molony and Kathleen Uno

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The Soviet Dream World of Retail Trade and Consumption in the 1930s (Consumption and Public Life), Amy E. Randall

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The Role of Gender in Environmental Justice, Nancy Unger

Submissions from 2007

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Teaching Race/Teaching Whiteness: Transforming Colorblindness to Color Insight, Margalynne J. Armstrong and Stephanie Wildman

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La République des Lettres: Ses écrivains, ses critiques, ses limites, Jimia Boutouba

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The Performance of Dialysis Care: Routinization and Adaptation on the Floor, Laura L. Ellingson

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Grossmutter lebt allein in ihrem Häuschen: Alte Frauen in einem iranischen dorf, Mary E. Hegland

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A Film Review: The Shape of Water by Kum-Kum Bhavnani, Sharmila Lodhia

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Gender, Citizenship, and Dress in Modernizing Japan, Barbara Molony

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Race and Wealth Disparity: The Role of Law and the Legal System, Beverly Moran and Stephanie Wildman

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Rearticulating the Aunt: Feminist Alternatives of Family, Care, and Kinship in Popular Performances of Aunting, Patricia Sotirin and Laura L. Ellingson

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It’s Gay Rights, Not Gay Genes, That Matter, Nancy Unger

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Teaching “Straight” Gay and Lesbian History, Nancy Unger

Submissions from 2006

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Introduction to Socialism's Muse, Naomi J. Andrews

Socialism's Muse, Naomi J. Andrews

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Land, Labor, and Colonial Economics in Thomas Morton's "New English Canaan", Michelle Burnham

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Embodied Knowledge: Writing Researchers’ Bodies Into Qualitative Health Research, Laura L. Ellingson

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Exploring young adults' perspectives on communication with aunts, Laura L. Ellingson and Patricia J. Sotirin

Iranian–American Elderly in California’s Santa Clara Valley: Crafting Selves and Composing Lives, Mary E. Hegland

Women of Karbala Moving to America, Mary E. Hegland

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Women’s Access to Credit in Sub-Saharan Africa: Sudan, Michael Kevane and Endre Stiansen

Identity Politics and the Voice of Autobiography in Sky Lee’s Disappearing Moon Café, Aparajita Nanda

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The Economic Resource Receipt of New Mothers, Laura Nichols, Cheryl Elman, and Kathryn M. Feltey

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Gendered Approaches to Environmental Justice: An Historical Sampling, Nancy Unger

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The ‘We Say What We Think’ Club: Rural Wisconsin Women and the Development of Environmental Ethics, Nancy Unger

Submissions from 2005

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Textual Investments: Economics and Colonial American Writing, Michelle Burnham

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Multiculturalisms Past, Present, and Future, Marilyn Edelstein

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Where in the World Are the Lesbians?, Linda Garber

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Lavender Ain’t Pink: Emerging Queer Self-Expression in a Non-White World, John C. Hawley

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Introduction to Gendering Modern Japanese History, Barbara Molony

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The Quest for Women's Rights in Turn-of-the-Century Japan, Barbara Molony

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Why Should a Feminist Care about What Goes on Behind the Chrysanthemum Curtain? The Imperial Succession Issue as a Metaphor for Women’s Right, Barbara Molony

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Women’s Rights and the Japanese State, 1880 to 1925, Barbara Molony

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Democracy and Social Justice: Founding Centers for Social Justice in Law Schools, Stephanie M. Wildman

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The Persistence of White Privilege, Stephanie M. Wildman

Submissions from 2004

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Epistolarity, Anticipation, and Revolution in Clara Howard, Michelle Burnham

Romancing the Strange: The Fiction of Kunal Basu, Subir Dhar, Amitava Roy, Aparajita Nanda, and Debnarayan Bandyopadhyay

Communicating in the clinic: Negotiating frontstage and backstage teamwork, Laura L. Ellingson

The Emerging Fictionalization of AIDS in Africa, John C. Hawley

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Legitimizing Soviet Trade: Gender and the Feminization of the Retail Workforce in the Soviet 1930s, Amy E. Randall

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How did Belle La Follette Resist Racial Segregation in Washington D.C., 1913-1914?, Nancy Unger

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Meeting Human Needs: Examining the Social Safety Net for Working America, Stephanie M. Wildman

Submissions from 2003

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The Feminist and the Socialist: Adele and Alphonse Esquiros, Naomi J. Andrews

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Utopian Androgyny: Romantic Socialists Confront Individualism in July Monarchy France, Naomi J. Andrews

The Periphery Within: Internal Colonialism and the Rhetoric of U.S. Nation-Building, Michelle Burnham

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Interdisciplinary Health Care Teamwork in the Clinic Backstage, Laura L. Ellingson

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One Step Global, Two Steps Back? Race, Gender, and Queer Studies, Linda Garber

Counter-Imperial Masculinity: The Case of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840-1922), John C. Hawley

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Iran, Mary E. Hegland

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Shi’a Women’s Rituals in Northwest Pakistan: The Shortcomings and Significance of Resistance, Mary E. Hegland

Talking Politics: A Village Widow in Iran, Mary E. Hegland

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Are Investments in Daughters Lower When Daughters Move Away? Evidence from Indonesia, Michael Kevane and David Levine

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The Woman is Not Always the Bad Guy: Resistance in the Discourse of Battered Women, Laura Nichols and Kathryn M. Feltey

Painting in the Subjunctive Mode: Inez Storer and the Art of Possibilities, Andrea Pappas

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Meeting Human Needs: Examining the Social Safety Net for Working America, Stephanie M. Wildman

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Privilege, Gender, and the Fourteenth Amendment: Reclaiming Equal Protection of the Laws, Stephanie M. Wildman

Submissions from 2002

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“La Mère Humanité”: Femininity in the Romantic Socialism of Pierre Leroux and the Abbé A.–L. Constant, Naomi J. Andrews

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Pomo Basketweaving, Poison, and the Politics of Restoration in Greg Sarris's Grand Avenue, Michelle Burnham

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Communication, collaboration, and teamwork among health care professionals, Laura L. Ellingson

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The roles of companions in geriatric patient–interdisciplinary oncology team interactions, Laura L. Ellingson