Feminism category: 1647 books
Feminist Security Studies
A Narrative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
This book rethinks security theory from a feminist perspective – uniquely, it engages feminism, security, and strategic studies to provide a distinct feminist approach to security studies.
The volume explicitly works toward an opening up of security studies that would allow for feminist (and...
by Herbert Purdy
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Forty-five years after women's liberationists first laid down their challenge, chanting 'Women demand equality!' and 'I'm a second-class citizen', their narratives are now so universally accepted that few people dare speak truth to the power in the land that feminism has undoubtedly...
Feminism, Family, and Identity in Israel
Women’s Marital Names
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Women's inner struggle over their marital names reveal how they negotiate a specific identity location in each dimension of identity. This book tackles a complex sociological project of examining three existing theories, and will prove to be important for the study of Gender and Middle Eastern Culture.
Feminist Methodology
Challenges and Choices
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2002
`An accessible, clearly explained review of difficult concepts within this arena as well as relevant debates. Its strengths are in outlining possible considerations that need to be taken into account when making methodological choices. It also clearly explains how these choices impact knowledge production....
Writing Caste/Writing Gender
Narrating Dalit Women's Testimonies
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The women tell it like it is... So riveting is the narration that it is difficult to put down the book until their stories are finished. For a non-fiction academic work this is no small feat.’ — The Hindu Sharmila Rege’s path breaking study of Dalit women’s writings and lives offers a powerful...
by Catherine Eschle, Bice Maiguashca
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
In recent years, the global justice movement has grabbed headlines and reshaped political imaginations worldwide. Surprisingly, however, feminism is largely absent from accounts of the movement—despite the fact that feminists are extensively involved on the ground. Addressing this significant gap...
Feminism and Method
Ethnography, Discourse Analysis, and Activist Research
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Naples draws on different research topics, such as welfare, poverty, sexual identity, and sexual abuse, to illustrate some of the most salient dilemmas of feminist research: the debate over objectivity, the paradox of discourse, the dilemma of "standpoint," and the challenges of activist...
The Anti-Mary Exposed
Rescuing the Culture from Toxic Femininity
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
The Demonic Influence on Women Today
In the late '60s, a small group of elite American women convinced an overwhelming majority of the country that destroying the most fundamental of relationships—that of mother and child—was necessary for women to have productive and happy lives.
From...
Indian Feminisms
Law, Patriarchies and Violence in India
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Contributing to debates on feminism, this book considers the impact made by feminists in India from the 1970s. Geetanjali Gangoli analyses feminist campaigns on issues of violence and women’s rights, and debates on ways in which feminist legal debates may be limiting for women and based on exclusionary...
Yours in Sisterhood
Ms. Magazine and the Promise of Popular Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
In the winter of 1972, the first issue of Ms. magazine hit the newsstands. For some activists in the women's movement, the birth of this new publication heralded feminism's coming of age; for others, it signaled the capitulation of the women's movement to crass commercialism. But whatever its critical...
Bodies of Information
Intersectional Feminism and the Digital Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
A wide-ranging, interconnected anthology presents a diversity of feminist contributions to digital humanities
In recent years, the digital humanities has been shaken by important debates about inclusivity and scope—but what change will these conversations ultimately bring about? Can the digital...
Veiled Superheroes
Islam, Feminism, and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This groundbreaking study examines Muslim female superheroes within a matrix of Islamic theology, feminism, and contemporary political discourse. Through a close reading of texts including Ms. Marvel, Qahera, and The 99, Sophia Rose Arjana argues that these powerful and iconic characters reflect independence...
Feminist Erasures
Challenging Backlash Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Feminist Erasures presents a collection of essays that examines the state of feminism in North America and Western Europe by focusing on multiple sites such as media, politics and activism. Through individual examples, the essays reveal the extent to which feminism has been made (in)visible and (ir)relevant in contemporary Western culture.
Feminist Review
Issue 42: Feminist Fictions
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
This theme issue is an exploration of the way in which feminist ideas appear in popular forms, especially feminist novelists, such as Angela Carter and Marge Piercy, have handled particular issues; it considers writing and it duscusses the popular genres that have been taken up by feminist writers...