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Feminist Frictions: Sex Work

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Signs@40: Feminist Scholarship through Four Decades

Visibility and Visuality: Reframing Gender in the Middle East, North Africa, and their Diasporas

  • The Mothertongue Project – Walk: South Africa (2014 – 2019)

  • Lavett Ballard – Her View (2016)

  • Maggie Taylor, Reluctant Optimist (2013)

  • Michele Pred – Power of the Purse (2016–2019)

  • Julie Mehretu – Sing, Unburied, Sing (J.W.) (2018)

  • Alison Saar – Grow’d (2019)

  • Faith Ringgold – Echoes of Harlem (1980)

  • Ida Applebroog – Emetic Fields (1985)

  • Doris Salcedo – Shibboleth (2007)

  • Shahzia Sikander – Ready to Leave (1997)

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