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women studies  

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  • Called the “academic arm of the women's movement” when it first emerged in United States colleges and universities, women studies drew from a number of different influences and inspirations that converged around institutions of higher learning during the 1960s. These influences included the informal, community-based classes associated with the free university movement, identity-based programs and departments recently launched in several universities such as Chicano studies and black studies, as well as consciousness-raising groups popularized within the women's liberation movement between 1968 and 1975. [Source: Encyclopedia of Gender and Society; Women Studies]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-W9LWH6GH-V

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