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Kath Woodward

@kath070.bsky.social

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Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Open University, FLSW,FAcSS, Frontiers, Editor. I write about gender, the politics of social justice and sport, often boxing. I love my dogs and chickens, music, theatre and cricket.

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Kath Woodward @kath070.bsky.social · Jun 20

@jakerichardsmp.bsky.social Thank you for voting for compassion.

Kath Woodward @kath070.bsky.social · Apr 5

Rosa might be learning having watched Monty Don who knows how to keep calm with a working golden retriever as gardening assistant

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Mar 18

‘It has been impossible to take in the implications of all the individual orders; instead, we reel from their collective assault. But we can, given a little time, collectively take each one apart in public.’

Judith Butler on the executive order on gender: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Judith Butler · This Is Wrong

We need a better understanding of the fears exploited by authoritarians: who is this ‘migrant’, so dangerous they...

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Kath Woodward @kath070.bsky.social · Mar 10

So do I. She opened up new ways of thinking and her ideas should be remembered and revisited.

Kath Woodward @kath070.bsky.social · Mar 9

Done

Kath Woodward @kath070.bsky.social · Mar 9

The same happened to me. I have managed my first post today, while trying to tell Vron how great she was on Laurie Taylor's programme.

Kath Woodward @kath070.bsky.social · Mar 9

@vronsta.bsky.social I just heard you talking to Laurie Taylor on Radio 4 (just after it switched from the World Service) about your new research on preparing for war on Salisbury Plain, Vron. So interesting I was a late getting the chickens up!

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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · Mar 6

A dear feminist science studies mentor passed on March 5. Have a good journey Sandra Harding. ❤️

Harding was UCLA Distinguished Professor Emerita of Education and Gender Studies, former Director of the Center for the Study of Women.

Link is an oral history interview with Sandra on her career.

Oral history interview with Sandra Harding

Sandra Harding was born in San Francisco, California, the first of five children born to Lloyd and Constance Harding. Her father's struggle to find work during the Great Depression led the family to L...

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