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6 minutes ago

Remembering Martha Hudson, whose literary salon inspired UC Berkeley's women's studies program

Marsha eventually brought her salon to campus and founded the Comparative Literature Women's Caucus, an activist collective that established the first women's literature classes in Comparative Literature, conceived and taught by graduate student women. Caucus members helped produce the first major translation anthologies of women's world-wide poetry, encouraged women to write feminist dissertations on women authors, and researched discrimination against women in the department.
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fromNature
8 months ago

A pope, a polymath and plucky women: Books in brief

Eva Dou's book highlights historical suspicions of foreign technology as tools for surveillance and colonialism, paralleling modern concerns over Huawei.
Pope Francis reflects on his life journey and the dual potential of artificial intelligence in his autobiography.
Julia Nicholson showcases pioneering female anthropologists who defied gender norms to contribute significantly to ethnographic studies.
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