Beyond Bonds of Blood: Queer Families and the Limits of the Marriage Equality Movement
by Kenneth Surles, PhD candidate, Department of History
CSWS Annual Review
Listening as Learning: Reflections on an Ethnography of Gender in Quinhagak, Alaska
by Anna Sloan, PhD candidate, Department of Anthropology
Developing Style: How The Washington Post Discovered Women’s Issues
by Thomas R. Schmidt, PhD, Research Fellow, Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics
In 1969, the Washington Post was the first major American newspaper to replace its women’s pages with a lifestyle section. Introducing the Style section was one of the most lasting legacies of famed Post editor Ben Bradlee. As he later described the launch of Style, “We wanted to look at the culture of America as it was changing in front of our eyes. The sexual revolution, the drug culture, the women’s movement. And we wanted to be interesting, exciting, different.”1
Understanding Women’s Agency in Rural Punjab, Pakistan
by Sarah Ahmed, PhD candidate, Department of Sociology
The Birth of an American Staple Fruit: Reading Bananas from Cookbooks
by Helen Yi-lun Huang, Graduate Student, Department of English
“Yes, we have no bananas
We have-a no bananas today.”
Institutional Mother, Professional Caregiver: Biopolitics of Affective Labor in Chinese State-Owned Social Welfare Institutions
By Yi Yu, PhD candidate, Department of Geography
Hasina Gul: A Pakistani Poet Lifts Her Voice Against Violent Extremism
by Anita Weiss, Professor, Department of International Studies
Did You Kill Your Baby?: Gender, Race, and Religion in the Early Venezuelan Republic
by Reuben Zahler, Associate Professor, Department of History
In January of 1811, María Isabel Ribas found herself in jail, charged with murdering her own baby, one of the most heinous acts imaginable for a Catholic woman. A few days earlier, in her neighborhood of Mérida, Venezuela, locals had found the cadaver of a newborn infant in a field, being eaten by vultures. Officials searched in the area for women who had recently been pregnant, and questioned María. She admitted that the baby was hers but also insisted that she was innocent of murder.
Gender, Ethnicity, and Citizenship: Female Burmese Workers in Chinese Border Cities
by Xiaobo Su, Associate Professor, Department of Geography
Oceanic Whispers, Stories She Never Told: Chronicles at the Edge of Empire
“Nadie sabe lo que existe en la profundidad del mar.” — Cuban-Lukumí proverb
By Alaí Reyes-Santos, Associate Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies