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Venus in Lesotho

Women, Theater, and the Collapsible Boundaries of Silence

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The words in this list aren’t unusual. What’s unusual is the setting where the list was made and the seven young women determining what should be on it.

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Linzi Manicom Shirley Walters

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Lissard, K. (2012). Venus in Lesotho. In: Manicom, L., Walters, S. (eds) Feminist Popular Education in Transnational Debates. Comparative Feminist Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137014597_6

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