Feminism category: 1647 books
Public Women, Public Words
A Documentary History of American Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2005
This final volume in the Public Women, Public Words series focuses on what has come to be called the second wave of American feminism. It traces the resurgence of feminism in the late 1960s—from Betty Friedan and the National Organization for Women to the anarchist and lesbian identity dimensions...
by Claudia Bepko
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Feminism is a beneficial force in addictions therapy as they have the same goals--mending imbalances of power. A variety of important topics related to addictions treatment are addressed in this timely volume, accompanied by concrete clinical solutions for therapists and counselors to use in their...
F-Bomb
Dispatches from the War on Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
“However you define feminism, read this book . . . Race, privilege, gender, sexuality; the work to be done, your invitation to the conversation, is here” (Karen Walton, screenwriter of Orphan Black).
In a world where sexual harassment allegations regularly dominate news coverage and in...
No Turning Back
The History of Feminism and the Future of Women
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Repeatedly declared dead by the media, the women’s movement has never been as vibrant as it is today. Indeed as Stanford professor and award-winning author Estelle B. Freedman argues in her compelling new book, feminism has reached a critical momentum from which there is no turning back. A truly...
Disciplining Feminism
From Social Activism to Academic Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2002
How was academic feminism formed by the very institutions it originally set out to transform? This is the question Ellen Messer-Davidow seeks to answer in Disciplining Feminism. Launched thirty years ago as a bold venture to cut across disciplines and bridge the gap between scholarly knowledge and...
Firebrand Feminism
The Radical Lives of Ti-Grace Atkinson, Kathie Sarachild, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, and Dana Densmore
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Unapologetic, troublemaking, agitating, revolutionary, and hot-headed: radical feminism bravely transformed the history of politics, love, sexuality, and science. In Firebrand Feminism, Breanne Fahs brings together ten years of dialogue with four founders of the radical feminist movement: Ti-Grace...
by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2010
"Islamic feminism" would seem a contradiction in terms to most Westerners. We are taught to think of Islam as a culture wherein social code and religious law alike force women to accept male authority and surrender to the veil. How could feminism emerge under such a code, let alone flourish? Now,...
by Maria M. Bermudez
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
What exactly is feminism and why does it draw so much media attention? Why do people talk about it so much? Why do people love to engage in passionate debates about it?
This introduction to feminism delves into an unbiased look at the history of feminism, from its first recorded beginnings...
Transatlantic Conversations
Feminism as Travelling Theory
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
The second wave of feminism which challenged and changed many assumptions about the world in which we live was a product of various western cultures, with no single country possessing a monopoly on the writing of the texts that became the canonical statements of the 'new' feminism. Though many of...
Introducing Feminism
A Graphic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
The term 'feminism' came into English usage around the 1890s, but women's conscious struggle to resist discrimination and sexist oppression goes much further back. This completely new and updated edition of "Introducing Feminism" surveys the major developments that have affected women's...
DeFacto Feminism
Essays Straight Outta Oakland
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Judy Juanita views activism and feminism as it plays out in her political, artistic and spiritual life. A distinguished semifinalist for OSU’s 2016 Non/Fiction Collection Prize, De Facto… blends essays, poems, graphics by the late Rini Templeton and literary criticism. An act of self-definition...
Feminism and Pop Culture
Seal Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
Whether or not we like to admit it, pop culture is a lens through which we alternately view and shape the world around us. When it comes to feminism, pop culture aids us in translating feminist philosophies, issues, and concepts into everyday language, making them relevant and relatable. In Feminism...
Fight Like a Girl
How to Be a Fearless Feminist
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2007
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Seely, the youngest elected president of California's chapter of the National Organization for Women, combines her own story of third-wave feminism with an overview of the feminist movement and words to guide others. Third-wave feminists are aware of both the victories won...
Feminism Is for Everybody
Passionate Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
What is feminism? In this short, accessible primer, bell hooks explores the nature of feminism and its positive promise to eliminate sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. With her characteristic clarity and directness, hooks encourages readers to see how feminism can touch and change their lives—to see that feminism is for everybody.