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Not Afraid of the ‘F’ Word

Positioning Ourselves as Women’s and Gender Studies Academics

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I could tell her house from the others as soon as I turned down the street. A modest bluestone cottage in an inner city suburb in Melbourne, complete with a rambling front garden of roses, lavender, alyssum and daisies. I had not had time to think about meeting her, but now that the moment was approaching, I felt extremely nervous.

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Mackinlay, E. (2016). Not Afraid of the ‘F’ Word. In: Teaching and Learning Like a Feminist. Teaching Gender. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-678-1_2

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