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]]> Homepage, Books, Textbooks, Cultural Studies, Women's and Gender Studies 2013-03-04T08:44:11+00:00 Wellesley College Appoints Layli Maparyan New Executive Director of the Wellesley Centers for Women http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415886833/ tag:,2012:/blurbs/21.8426 2012-04-24T15:35:35Q Homepage, Books, News, Sociology, Women's and Gender Studies 2012-04-24T15:35:35+00:00 Featured Book: Surviving Dictatorship http://www.routledge.com/articles/featured_book_surviving_dictatorship/ tag:,2012:/articles/1.8329 2012-04-10T13:55:14Q 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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]]> Homepage, Books, Research & Reference, Social Sciences, Women's and Gender Studies 2012-02-06T13:58:12+00:00 Featured Series: Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality http://www.routledge.com/books/series/RAIFSAI/ tag:,2012:/blurbs/21.7673 2012-02-03T16:24:43Q Homepage, Books, Research & Reference, Social Sciences, Women's and Gender Studies 2012-02-03T16:24:43+00:00 Featured Book: Rethinking Women’s and Gender Studies http://www.routledge.com/articles/featured_book_rethinking_womens_and_gender_studies/ tag:,2012:/articles/1.7671 2012-02-03T16:15:44Q "[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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