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What feminism, intersectionality, and place in political resistance can tell us about the American South by SWS Past President, Wanda Rushing

August 23, 2017

Check out this article by SWS Past President, Wanda Rushing, that is based on the paper, “No Place for a Feminist: Intersectionality and the Problem South: SWS Presidential Address” that was in the June 2017 Issue of Gender & Society.   What feminism, intersectionality, and place in political resistance can tell us about the American South […]

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Meetings Update

December 1, 2016

Summer Meeting 2017
August 12-14th
Palais des Congrès
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Final Program

Winter Meeting 2018
January 25-January 28
Ritz-Carlton, Buckhead
Atlanta, GA

On Our Bookshelf

Caring for Red: A Daughter’s Memoir (2016): Mindy Fried’s moving and colorful account about caring for her ninety-seven-year-old father, Manny- actor, writer, labor organizer, and survivor of political persecution during the McCarthy Era- in the final year of his life. Caring for Red brings a personal …read more.

Women Doing Life (2016): Lora Bex Lempert examines the carceral experiences of women serving life sentences, presenting a typology of the ways that life-sentenced women grow and self-actualize, resist prison definitions, reflect on and “own” their criminal acts, and ultimately …read more.

Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines (2016): Jennifer Reich has been studying the phenomenon of vaccine refusal from the perspectives of parents who distrust vaccines and the corporations that make them …read more

Good Guys with Guns: The Appeal and Consequences of Concealed Carry (2016): Angela Stroud utilizes in-depth interviews with permit holders and on field observations at licensing courses,  examined how social and cultural factors …read more

Social Dynamics of Family Violence (second edition, 2016): Angela Hattery and Earl Smith examine all forms of family violence–child abuse, elder abuse, intimate partner violence, violence in LGBTQ families…read more

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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