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This Anthology brings together 30 works and public interventions in which Dora Barrancos addressed gender studies and the history of women, sexual dissidence and scientific policies, among other topics that made her one of the main references of Latin American Social Sciences. and Caribbean. The texts brought together by Ana Laura Martín and Adriana Valobra weave together moments from the rich and vast political-intellectual journey of an author...

Widening Scripts: Cultivating Feminist Care in Academic Labor is addressed to scholars, educators, and students devoted to the struggle against precarity, atomization, and the commodification of knowledge. Through shared reading, discussion, and reflection, and gathered around a shared interest in feminist theory and politics, the authors discovered a model of care within academia that helped them to sustain their opposition to dominant academic practices...

Sisterhood Questioned assesses the nature and impact of divisions in the twentieth-century American and British women's movements. Until 1920, feminists had been united in the struggle for suffrage, and the sisterhood of women had been taken for granted. But after the end of the First World War, differences within and between the feminist movements became increasingly apparent, especially in the areas of race, class and internationalism. In this lucidly...