Feminism category: 1647 books
Feminist Theory Across Disciplines
Feminist Community and American Women's Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Defying traditional definitions of public and private as gendered terms, and broadening discussion of women’s writing in relation to feminist work done in other fields, this study addresses American women’s poetry from the seventeenth to late-twentieth century. Engaging the fields of literary...
An American Anarchist
The Life of Voltairine de Cleyre
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
“An American Anarchist closes a major gap in our understanding of American an- archism and particularly a gap in our understanding of its deep roots in American radicalism. It makes the same contribution to our understanding of American feminism.” —Richard Drinnon, author of Rebel in Paradise:...
Deeds Not Words
The Story of Women's Rights - Then and Now
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
'An uplifting record of progress and strength... You'll lay the book down feeling not only informed, but galvanised to take action yourself.' Independent
'An incredible book . . . with the potential to change women's lives.' Sandi Toksvig
Why is it taking so long? Despite huge progress...
by G. K. Chesterton
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2014
In the aptly titled treatise What's Wrong With the World, one of the twentieth century's most memorable and prolific writers takes on education, government, big business, feminism, and a host of other topics. A steadfast champion of the working man, family, and faith, Chesterton eloquently opposed...
by Alexandra Pierce, Mimi Mondal
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Luminescent Threads celebrates Octavia E. Butler, a pioneer of the science fiction genre who paved the way for future African American writers and other writers of colour.
Original essays and letters sourced and curated for this collection explore Butler’s depiction of power relationships,...
Click
When We Knew We Were Feminists
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
When did you know you were a feminist? Whether it happened at school, at work, while watching TV, or reading a book, many of us can point to a particular moment when we knew we were feminists. In Click, editors Courtney E. Martin and J. Courtney Sullivan bring us a range of women-including Jessica...
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Penguin Classics
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2004
Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative femininity,...
Sexual Equality
A Mill-Taylor Reader
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
All the significant ideas in nineteenth-century English feminism can be found in the prose and thought of John Stuart Mill and in those of the two women central to his life: Harriet Taylor, who married him in 1851, and her daughter, Helen Taylor. Together they produced some of the most powerful and...
Animals and Women
Feminist Theoretical Explorations
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 1995
Animals and Women is a collection of pioneering essays that explores the theoretical connections between feminism and animal defense. Offering a feminist perspective on the status of animals, this unique volume argues persuasively that both the social construction and oppressions of women are inextricably...
Why I Am Not a Feminist
A Feminist Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Outspoken critic Jessa Crispin delivers a searing rejection of contemporary feminism . . . and a bracing manifesto for revolution.
Are you a feminist? Do you believe women are human beings and that they deserve to be treated as such? That women deserve all the same rights and liberties bestowed...
In Our Time
Memoir of a Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
There once was a time when the concept of equal pay for equal work did not exist, when women of all ages were "girls," when abortion was a back-alley procedure, when there was no such thing as a rape crisis center or a shelter for battered women, when "sexual harassment" had not...
The Myth of Seneca Falls
Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
The story of how the women's rights movement began at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 is a cherished American myth. The standard account credits founders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott with defining and then leading the campaign for women's suffrage. In her...
Subject to Debate
Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Subject to Debate, Katha Pollitt's column in The Nation, has offered readers clear-eyed yet provocative observations on women, politics, and culture for more than seven years. Bringing together eighty-eight of her most astute essays on hot-button topics like abortion, affirmative action, and school...
by Jessica Valenti
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2009
Double standards are nothing new. Women deal with them every day. Take the common truism that women who sleep around are sluts while men are studs. Why is it that men grow distinguished and sexily gray as they age while women just get saggy and haggard? Have you ever wondered how a young woman is...