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A Year in Reading: Shobha Rao

My reading choices this year were far more focused than they have ever been—rage has a way of focusing you, as does getting the Teaching Fellowship at The New School. I spent most of the year reading in preparation for my course, “Traditions in Non-Western Feminism,” and began by breaking up the regions and peoples and continents that I wanted to explore: East Asia, Africa, South America, the Indian subcontinent,

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