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Conference 2013
Feminist Futures:
Transforming the 21st Century

Conference Programme: pdf doc

Abstracts Booklet: pdf doc
group photo from the 2010 conferencegroup photo from the 2010 conference
From the 2010 WSA(NZ) conference at Waikato.
CONFERENCE Photo Album

Please see the Conference photographs

by Eva Kaprinay, Photographer and Hungarian journalist
E-mail: kaprinayeva@gmail.com.

The Women's Studies Association (WSA) is a feminist organisation formed to promote radical social change through the medium of women's studies. It is a small, voluntary, non-profit organisation, independent of any institution.

We believe that a feminist perspective necessarily acknowledges oppression on the grounds of race, sexuality, class and disability, as well as gender. We acknowledge the Maori people as the tangata whenua of Aotearoa. This means we have a particular responsibility to address their oppression among our work and activities.

The main aims of the Association are:

Read about 25 years of WSA(NZ)!

Women's Studies Journal

The Women's Studies Journal is now published electronically on this website. It is also available internationally via the EBSCO literature database.

The Editorial Collective is calling for submissions for a general issue, and as well as good topic ideas and possible guest editors for special issues.

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Rosemary Seymour Awards

Each year the Women's Studies Association makes a number of small awards in memory of Rosemary Seymour, a Waikato University sociologist who was a key figure in the establishment of women's studies in New Zealand.
The deadline for applications is 15 December 2012.

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