Women's and Gender Studies News & Updates
Articles, News, Promotions and Updates from Routledge and the Taylor & Francis Group.
Recent Articles
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Wellesley College Appoints Layli Maparyan New Executive Director of the Wellesley Centers for Women
"Wellesley College President H. Kim Bottomly today announced the appointment of Layli Maparyan, Ph.D., as the new Katherine Stone Kaufmann ’67 Executive Director of the Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW), one of the nation’s largest and most influential organizations conducting scholarly research and developing action programs centered on women’s and girls’ perspectives. Maparyan will assume her new responsibilities effective July 1, 2012."
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Featured Book: Surviving Dictatorship
Jacqueline Adams' Surviving Dictatorship focuses on shantytown women in Pinochet's Chile, examining how they join groups to cope with exacerbated impoverishment and targeted repression, and how this leads them into very varied forms of resistance aimed at self-protection, community-building, and mounting an offensive.
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Featured Book: Sex/Gender
Anne Fausto-Sterling's Sex/Gender is the only interdisciplinary book for undergraduate courses to explain sex and gender from a biological, social, and cultural perspective.
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Featured Book: Feminist Solidarity at the Crossroads
Feminist Solidarity at the Crossroads articulates a politics of commitment, hope, and possibility wrought in the coming-together of a group of feminist women and men—across racial, cultural, nation/state, sexual, and gender differences—during a tough budgetary time threatening Women’s Studies programs across the nation.
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Featured Series: Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality
Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality is a new series of research books that focus on feminism, research, and women in society.
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Featured Book: Rethinking Women’s and Gender Studies
"[Rethinking Women's and Gender Studies'] focus on key words in women’s and gender studies admirably maps past debates, interrogates unexamined assumptions, and pushes the boundaries of the field into new areas such as religion. An absorbing read for WGS faculty and excellent for intermediate/advanced courses in WGS."—Susan Stanford Friedman, Women’s Studies and Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Featured Book: The Womanist Idea
Following on the heels of The Womanist Reader, Layli Maparyan's The Womanist Idea offers a comprehensive, systematic analysis of womanism.
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Transforming Scholarship Named Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2011
Congratulations to the authors, Michele Tracy Berger and Cheryl Radeloff!
