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Academic Readings

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Duke University Press is offering a “Care in Uncertain Times” syllabus geared toward understanding healing and care through a feminist lens. These are a few selections. Check out the full syllabus for free through June 30!

Readings

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    Human Rights and the Care of the Self
    Book by Alexandre Lefebvre
  • Two people sit at a table. One gives the other a side hug while resting their head on the other's.
    Radical Care
    Journal issue edited by Hi‘ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart and Tamara Kneese
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    Caring for Another Woman
    Journal article by Karen An-Hwei Lee
  • Cover of Pedagogy journal
    Pushback: A Pedagogy of Care
    Journal article by Ersula Ore

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Women's Leadership and Resource Center

1200 W. Harrison, 1700 SSB (MC 363), Chicago, IL 60607
Phone: (312) 413-1025
Fax: (312) 413-8393
wlrc@uic.edu
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