http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/ucsbfeministstudies/rss Recent eScholarship items from Department of Feminist Studies Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:35:16 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8gg398nq This article examines Las Hermanas Women's Cultural Center and Coffeehouse, a 1970s lesbian of color feminist space in San Diego, as a site of radical care, collective memory, and archival refusal. Drawing on oral histories, logbook entries, and feminist newspapers, I argue that Las Hermanas functioned as a lesbian brown commons: a place where care, anonymity, and collective labor forged political resistance. Grounded in queer of color critique, affect theory, and feminist historiography, I argue that the community's fragmentary archive and strategic opacity reflect a method of historiographical resistance. Rather than reading archival gaps as absence, I interpret them as intentional refusals that safeguard community and shape an alternative lesbian public history. This article contributes to queer historiography and feminist archival studies by theorizing care and refusal as foundational to lesbian of color memory work. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8gg398nq Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Ortega, Guadalupe https://escholarship.org/uc/item/74s3m2gc Rosa Manus (1881–1942): the international life and legacy of a Jewish Dutch feminist https://escholarship.org/uc/item/74s3m2gc Mon, 7 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Rupp, Leila J https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3hb7q9m3 Interchange: Women's Suffrage, the Nineteenth Amendment, and the Right to Vote https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3hb7q9m3 Mon, 7 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 DuBois, Ellen Carol Gidlow, Liette Jones, Martha S Marino, Katherine M Rupp, Leila J Tetrault, Lisa Wu, Judy Tzu-Chun https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8ws0n0fg Female Husbands: A Trans History https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8ws0n0fg Thu, 31 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Rupp, Leila J https://escholarship.org/uc/item/56k880xh American Women's History: A Very Short Introduction https://escholarship.org/uc/item/56k880xh Mon, 11 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Rupp, Leila J https://escholarship.org/uc/item/44n922ss Straight girls kissing Heteroflexibility in the college party scene https://escholarship.org/uc/item/44n922ss Mon, 11 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Rupp, Leila J Taylor, Verta Pham, Janelle M https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0h45x08x touching:blackstudy https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0h45x08x Thu, 30 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000 becoming undisciplined collective https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8rd9h74x Call for Zine Submissions&nbsp;—&nbsp;<em>touching:blackstudy</em> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8rd9h74x Tue, 22 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Thompson, Amoni Victorian, Jordan webber, mariah https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1w90b20j <p><em>becoming undisciplined</em> is a zine that speaks from/to what it means, feels, and looks like to be Black in relation to the university. The zine includes essays, poetry, art, and photography from fifteen black graduate students and artists. </p><p>Contributors include: Aliyah Abu-Hazeem, Alex Cunningham, Camille Dantzler, Taylor M. Jackson, Ciarra Jones, Timnit Kefela, Y. Norris,  Joshua Reason, Josalynn Smith, Tiffany Smith, megan spencer, Amoni Thompson-Jones, J. Victorian, Mariah Webber, and Lauren Williams.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1w90b20j Fri, 15 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 becoming undisciplined collective https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7c16q31w <p><em>becoming undisciplined</em> is a zine that speaks from/to what it means, feels, and looks like to be Black in relation to the university. The zine includes essays, poetry, art, and photography from fifteen black graduate students and artists. </p><p>Contributors include: Aliyah Abu-Hazeem, Alex Cunningham, Camille Dantzler, Taylor M. Jackson, Ciarra Jones, Timnit Kefela, Y. Norris,  Joshua Reason, Josalynn Smith, Tiffany Smith, megan spencer, Amoni Thompson-Jones, J. Victorian, Mariah Webber, and Lauren Williams.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7c16q31w Wed, 25 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000 becoming undisciplined collective https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9s53906c Sexualities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9s53906c Mon, 29 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Rupp, Leila J Thomsen, Carly https://escholarship.org/uc/item/82r4m5x8 Women in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Movement https://escholarship.org/uc/item/82r4m5x8 Mon, 29 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Rupp, Leila J Taylor, Verta Roth, Benita https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2xq7r2hd The European Origins of Transnational Organizing: The International Committee for Sexual Equality https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2xq7r2hd Mon, 29 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Rupp, Leila https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1sd7t6s8 Teaching LGBTQ History and Heritage https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1sd7t6s8 Mon, 29 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Rupp, Leila J https://escholarship.org/uc/item/08z4g80h Learning to be Queer: College Women's Sexual Fluidity https://escholarship.org/uc/item/08z4g80h Mon, 29 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Rupp, Leila J Taylor, Verta Miller, Shaeleya D https://escholarship.org/uc/item/49d8g0kw <em>becoming undisciplined</em> is a zine about what it means, feels, and looks like to be Black in relation to the university. We seek submissions in a variety of genres and formats that convey the breadth of ways that knowledge production happens in and outside of the university. We are interested in the complexities, contradictions, tensions, and pleasures that shape Black scholars’ relationships to academia. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/49d8g0kw Sat, 22 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Becoming Undisciplined Collective https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3qd4123g WHIGGISH THINKING ABOUT TRANSNATIONAL WOMEN'S HISTORY AND QUEER HISTORY https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3qd4123g Tue, 13 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Rupp, Leila J https://escholarship.org/uc/item/12z175m7 The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle https://escholarship.org/uc/item/12z175m7 Tue, 13 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Rupp, Leila J https://escholarship.org/uc/item/39m826mw Still Thinking Sex https://escholarship.org/uc/item/39m826mw Tue, 1 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Rupp, Leila J https://escholarship.org/uc/item/15g682w5 <p>This module aims, first, at showing that precarity is not a recent symptom of a crisis of late capitalism (to be potentially solved), but a long-term structural element of the modern capitalist system, securing its survival at the expense of various “disposable populations,” and, second, to point to strategies of resistance to this process of precarization, in particular those strategies that produce translocal and transdisciplinary coalitions.</p><p> </p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/15g682w5 Tue, 24 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 El-Tayeb, Fatima https://escholarship.org/uc/item/61s8s6nx This module examines the notion of precarity and "excessive bodies."  https://escholarship.org/uc/item/61s8s6nx Tue, 5 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Ameeriar, Lalaie https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1gr56729 <p>This module aims, first, at showing that precarity is not a recent symptom of a crisis of late capitalism (to be potentially solved), but a long-term structural element of the modern capitalist system, securing its survival at the expense of various “disposable populations,” and, second, to point to strategies of resistance to this process of precarization, in particular those strategies that produce translocal and transdisciplinary coalitions.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1gr56729 Wed, 16 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000 El-Tayeb, Fatima https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6bk5x0j5 Introduction to the "Working at Living: The Social Relations of Precarity" working group. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6bk5x0j5 Sun, 28 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Boris, Eileen Dodson, Leigh https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9gt387hh <p>This module seeks to open up a series of historical and philosophical questions about the concept of bondage. In so doing, it endeavors to interrogate bondage as both a conceptual and historical problematic that has been central to the making of the modern world. While the notion of “bondage” appears to carry with it a set of self-evident meanings and definitions rooted in the broader concepts of servitude and subjugation, we seek to highlight the ways in which people across time and space have been “socialized” into various logics and practices of bondage. Ultimately, at the heart of this problem lies a series of deeper questions about the ways in which the notions of “freedom” and “unfreedom” are constituted through various institutional sites and practices.</p><p>Rather than attempting to offer an exhaustive definition of bondage that addresses this concept in its totality, this module instead opens up some key questions and nodes for consideration, drawing attention to... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9gt387hh Thu, 25 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Finch, Aisha Chatterjee, Piya https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6k98d998 In our push to measure contemporary forms of precarity under globalization—especially that attached to the symbolic value of female and feminized labor at the center of economic consolidation and wealth—we do a grave disservice to ignore the history of the economic and social transformation proposed by development policy makers during the era of decolonization. Decolonization presented global finance capital with a new set of challenges for management and domination of the global order especially since women had played such key roles in anti-colonial movements. Under the guise of development the Bretton Woods institutions (World Bank and the International Monetary Fund) promised to apply technological solutions and modernizing beliefs to fix poverty and to help women achieve their goals for economic independence. Development coupled extant ideologies about and aspirations for mobilizing women’s reproductive capacities, unpaid labor, and women’s management of resources and economies... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6k98d998 Thu, 25 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Boris, Eileen Willoughby-Herard, Tiffany https://escholarship.org/uc/item/54w0c5jf <p>What is work? Who is a worker? How does law and social policy shape our understandings of these terms? What is at stake when only wage workers are endowed with worker status? That limitation excludes unpaid caregiving and other forms of nonmarket production. Indeed, even within waged work, specific forms of employment take precedence, privileging industrial jobs associated with adult white men and marginalizing much agricultural, household, and other service work. How does this dual structure, both bounding and dividing labor markets, create precarious conditions for people of color, immigrants, women, and others who face exclusion from privileged forms of work, consignment to subordinated forms of work, and denial that their labors constitute work at all?</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/54w0c5jf Thu, 25 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Zatz, Noah Boris, Eileen https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0m87j6n1 <p>This module aims to provide an overview of some of the historical approaches to the relationship between affect, emotion and work, and to bring those to bear upon the contemporary politics of work under different contexts of precarity. Specifically, it examines the relation between work and affect under present conditions of post-Fordism and of the neoliberal organization of production, time, and subjectivity. Using cinematic texts as primary references, the goals of this module are to point to bothcapital's exploitation of affect, but also capital's production of affect, as these intersect with the concerns of gender and precarity.</p><p>The following two sections provide two approaches for thinking about how forces of capital both exploit and produce affect. Each section provides different resources for thinking about how exploitation and affects can yield new subjectivities and different forms of sociality. These subjectivities and sociality do not necessarily reproduce... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0m87j6n1 Thu, 25 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Vora, Kalindi Boscagli, Maurizia