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History of Feminism

Blue_Adept

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4. Not that it matters...

Reply to MadrasT (Reply #2)

Thu Nov 20, 2014, 03:30 PM

Nov 2014

but it was written in 2010. And because of the furor it's been discontinued by the publisher.

The woman who wrote the book was interviewed a bit about it today and she was talking about how she had it designed so that her going to the guys for help to actually code it was about emphasizing teamwork. She noted that one of the instructors in the book was a woman to show the positive side of that as well.

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