Feminism category: 1647 books
Summary & Analysis of Good and Mad
The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger | A Guide to the Book by Rebecca Traister
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2019
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Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger is a timely and thoughtful exploration into...
Woman Thinking
Feminism and Transcendentalism in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
This book explores the theoretical relationship between feminism and transcendentalism through the ideas and activism of prominent 19th century female thinkers and activists. By analyzing the work of such important figures in post-Civil War American intellectual life_such as Ednah Cheney, Caroline...
The Rhetorics of Feminism
Readings in Contemporary Cultural Theory and the Popular Press
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Is it possible that changes in rhetorical practice could alter not just how thought is expressed, but also how it is made? Through a close stylistic and rhetorical analysis of contemporary feminist writing - from the cultural theory of Judith Butler to the popular journalism of Naomi Wolf and Germaine...
Muslim Women, Transnational Feminism and the Ethics of Pedagogy
Contested Imaginaries in Post-9/11 Cultural Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Following a long historical legacy, Muslim women’s lives continue to be represented and circulate widely as a vehicle of intercultural understanding within a context of the "war on terror." Following Edward Said’s thesis that these cultural forms reflect and participate in the power...
Neither Man nor Beast
Feminism and the Defense of Animals
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
In this landmark work of animal rights activism, Carol J. Adams - the bestselling author of The Sexual Politics of Meat - explores the intersections and common causes of feminism and the defense of animals. Neither Man Nor Beast explores the common link between cultural attitudes to women and animals...
Feminism and Contemporary Women Writers
Rethinking Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
This book attempts to deal with the problem of literary subjectivity in theory and practice. The works of six contemporary women writers — Doris Lessing, Anita Desai, Mahasweta Devi, Buchi Emecheta, Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison — are discussed as potential ways of testing and expanding the...
by Gordon Shepherd, Lavina Fielding Anderson, Gary Shepherd
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
This ebook contains chapters 1 though 9.
The inexorable movement toward gender equality in the modern world has taken root in the consciousness of many Latter-day Saints and has publicly emerged as a major concern for the LDS Church. Spearheaded by a new generation of internet-savvy feminists,...
by Martha C. Nussbaum
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2000
What does it mean to respect the dignity of a human being? What sort of support do human capacities demand from the world, and how should we think about this support when we encounter differences of gender or sexuality? How should we think about each other across divisions that a legacy of injustice...
Desiring Revolution
Second-Wave Feminism and the Rewriting of Twentieth-Century American Sexual Thought
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2001
There was a moment in the 1970s when sex was what mattered most to feminists. White middle-class women viewed sex as central to both their oppression and their liberation. Young women started to speak and write about the clitoris, orgasm, and masturbation, and publishers and the news media jumped...
Ageing, Popular Culture and Contemporary Feminism
Harleys and Hormones
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
How has popular film, television and fiction responded to the realities of an ageing Western population? This volume analyses this field of representation to argue that, while celebrations of ageing as an inspirational journey are increasing, most depictions still focus on decline and deterioration.
Girls with Guns
Firearms, Feminism, and Militarism
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
A nuanced understanding of state violence and gender (in)equalities must consider the varied and contradictory experiences of armed civilian women, female soldiers, and opponents of gun possession. How is ‘feminism’ and ‘femininity’ negotiated in the early 21st century by civilian and military...
Future Texts
Subversive Performance and Feminist Bodies
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2015
Future Texts: Subversive Performance and Feminist Bodies sketches several possibilities for future texts, those that imagine new pathways through the forms used to express contemporary questions of race, gender, and identity. Future Texts: Subversive Performance and Feminist Bodies’ area of investigation...
by Alison Stone
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In this book, Alison Stone develops a feminist approach to maternal subjectivity. Stone argues that in the West the self has often been understood in opposition to the maternal body, so that one must separate oneself from the mother and maternal care-givers on whom one depended in childhood to become...
Re-Imagining Sociology in India
Feminist Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
This book maps the intersections between sociology and feminism in the Indian context. It retrieves the lives and work of women pioneers of and in sociology, asking crucial questions of their feminisms and their sociologies. The chapters address the experiential realities of women in the field, pedagogical...