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We are in the newsletter of the Feminist and Women’s Studies Association (FWSA) with an article on our latest publication, Teaching with Feminist Materialisms, edited by Peta Hinton and Pat Treusch. Click here to read the article about us. We take this chance to remind you that the book is now available to download for free!

The Call for Papers of the next ATGENDER Spring Conference is now out! The deadline is extended. Click here. Deadline for submissions of abstract/proposals is February 7, 2016.

This is a free collection of essays about the ways in which the sex/gender distinction has been translated  from English into many other European languages. Today the concept of ‘gender’ operates in new contexts. EU policies, transgender theory & activism and  postcolonial scholarship constitute new contexts where meaning and definitions of gender circulate. The challenge…

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  As a growing and wide-spanning field of research, teaching, and collaboration, feminist materialisms are taking up increasing space in our pedagogical settings, especially in queer and feminist classrooms. Whether as a theoretical topic, as a methodological strategy for conducting research, or in developing learning tools, feminist materialisms work to foreground the complex forms of…

    Many international organizations denounce that the systematic lockout of women from social and political power is responsible for the phenomenon of double/multiple discrimination, so that in every social category, the status of women is always the lowest. This severe injustice is at the core of the situation of violence which still remains in the…

  New board elected at the Spring Conference in Barcelona Congratulations to the new board! Aino-Maija Hiltunen, Coordinator at the University of Helsinki, Finland. (re-elected) Sveva Magaraggia, Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts, University of Rome III, Italy. (re-elected) Soledad Bravo, Policy maker, Barcelona Provincial Government, Francesca Bonnemaison Centre, Barcelona, Spain. Dasa Duhacek, Professor…

  Teaching Gender with Libraries and Archives: The Power of Information was conceived of as a pedagogical tool, aimed at stimulating gender studies teachers to critically reflect, together with their students, on libraries and archives as profoundly gendered knowledge spaces. Whilst feminist standpoint theory with its recognition that knowledge always emanates from and is produced within…