Feminism category: 1647 books
Cybersexism
Sex, Gender and Power on the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
'The Internet was supposed to be for everyone... Millions found their voices in this brave new online world; it gave unheard masses the space to speak to each other without limits, across borders, both physical and social. It was supposed to liberate us from gender. But as more and more of our daily...
Liberating Motherhood
Birthing the Purplestockings Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Highly acclaimed by leading parenting authors, academics and activists, with a foreword from Naomi Stadlen, founder of Mothers Talking and author of What Mothers Do, and How Mothers Love.
If it is true that there have been waves of feminism, then mothers’ rights are the flotsam left behind...
by Penguin Books Ltd
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
'Once they are aroused, once they are determined, nothing on earth and nothing in heaven will make women give way; it is impossible.'
A potted history of the women who pioneered feminism and changed the world.
One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate...
The Doulas
Radical Care for Pregnant People
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
As more feminism migrates online, full-spectrum doulas remain focused on life’s physically intimate relationships: between caregivers and patients, parents and pregnancy, individuals and their own bodies. They are committed to supporting a pregnancy no matter the outcome-whether it results in birth, abortion, miscarriage, or adoption-facing the question of choice head-on.
Dear Princess Grace, Dear Betty
The Memoir of a Romantic Feminist
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
"Alida Brill's account of coming of age during the second wave of feminism offers an invaluable perspective to women raised on the Internet." —Julie Zeilinger, founder of the FBomb blog A candid and insightful memoir by the feminist writer and social critic Alida Brill, Dear Princess...
Feminist Theories and Feminist Psychotherapies
Origins, Themes, and Diversity, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
An updated, reader-friendly guide to feminist theory and therapy!
Feminist Theories and Feminist Psychotherapies: Origins, Themes, and Diversity, Second Edition examines major feminist theoretical perspectives and links them to practical applications of feminist therapy. This book focuses on...
The Ursula Franklin Reader
Pacifism as a Map
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2006
Feminist, educator, Quaker, and physicist, Ursula Franklin has long been considered one of Canada’s foremost advocates and practitioners of pacifism. The Ursula Franklin Reader: Pacifism as a Map is a comprehensive collection of her work, and demonstrates subtle, yet critical, linkages across a...
Women and British Party Politics
Descriptive, Substantive and Symbolic Representation
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008
Women and British Party Politics examines the characteristics of women’s participation at the mass and elite level in contemporary British politics; as voters, party members and elected representatives respectively. It explores what this means for ideas about, and the practice of, descriptive, substantive...
Occupy Women
A manifesto for positive change in a world run by men
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Why women are still at the bottom
Despite the promises of the suffragists and feminists women today are still at the bottom. They are at the bottom of corporations, the bottom of family units and the bottom of society. As a group, women have less money, influence and opportunity than men and...
A Woman on the Edge of Time
A Son's Search for a Mother Who Wanted More
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
“Jeremy Gavron’s quest to find his mother has produced a groundbreaking book and moving portrait of a spirited young woman—a ‘captive wife’—who refused to accept the social constraints of her time. Unforgettable.”—Tina Brown
London, 1965: A brilliant young woman has just gassed...
The Politics of the Body
Gender in a Neoliberal and Neoconservative Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Winner of the 2015 FWSA Book Prize
The body is a site of impassioned, fraught and complex debate in the West today. In one political moment, left-wingers, academics and feminists have defended powerful men accused of sex crimes, positioned topless pictures in the tabloids as empowering, and...
The Politics of (M)Othering
Womanhood, Identity and Resistance in African Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2005
This collection is a study of African literature framed by the central, and multi-faceted, idea of 'mother' - motherland, mothertongue, motherwit, motherhood, mothering - looking at the paradoxical location of (m)other as both central and marginal. Whilst the volume stands as a sustained feminist...
Love
A Question for Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
This unique, timely book of original essays sets the stage for a new materialist feminist debate on the analysis, ethics and politics of love. The contributors raise questions about social power and domination, situating their research in a materialist feminist perspective that investigates love historically,...
The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy
A Handbook for Girl Geeks
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
This ultimate handbook for ladies living the nerdy life is a fun and feminist take on the often male-dominated world of geekdom.
Fandom, feminism, cosplay, cons, books, memes, podcasts, vlogs, OTPs and RPGs and MMOs and more—it’s never been a better time to be a girl geek. With delightful...