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    A listserv newsgroup that supports performance social sciences can be found at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=performsocsci&A=1. For the Special Issue of Performative Social Science, which includes 42 new pieces on performative social science, the majority of which are gender related, go to http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/issue/view/10

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