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Susan McKay

Dyan Mazurana is a research scholar in women’s studies at the University of Montana at Missoula. Susan McKay is a professor of nursing, women’s studies, and international studies at the University of Wyoming at Laramie. The authors’ research is supported by the Canadian International Development Agency, Ottawa, and Rights and Democracy, Quebec. Khristopher Carlson andjanel Rasper contributed to this report.