Feminism category: 1647 books
Reinterpreting Menopause
Cultural and Philosophical Issues
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Reinterpreting Menopause brings together a number of reflections from a broad range of areas including feminism, cultural studies, clinical medicine, sociology, philosophy and political science and includes the voices and experiences of menopausal women themselves. In an innovative series of essays,...
Anarchy and the Sex Question
Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
For Emma Goldman, the "High Priestess of Anarchy," anarchism was "a living force in the affairs of our life, constantly creating new conditions," but "the most elemental force in human life" was something still more basic and vital: sex. "The Sex Question" emerged...
by Femen, Galia Ackerman
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
'Ukraine is not a brothel!' This was the first cry of rage uttered by Femen during Euro 2012.
Bare-breasted and crowned with flowers, perched on their high heels, Femen transform their bodies into instruments of political expression through slogans and drawings flaunted on their skin. Humour,...
A Marriage Agreement and Other Essays
Four Decades of Feminist Writing
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
A provocative collection of essays by one of the foremost thinkers of second-wave feminism
In a career spanning four decades, Alix Kates Shulman has written on issues ranging from marriage, sex, and divorce to religious identity, age, and family devotion. Throughout her diverse body of work...
The Female Philosopher and Her Afterlives
Mary Wollstonecraft, the British Novel, and the Transformations of Feminism, 1796-1811
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
This book argues that the female philosopher, a literary figure brought into existence by Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, embodied the transformations of feminist thought during the transition from the Enlightenment to the Romantic period. By imagining a series of alternate...
Body Drift
Butler, Hayles, Haraway
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
As exemplary representatives of a form of critical feminism, the writings of Judith Butler, Katherine Hayles, and Donna Haraway offer entry into the great crises of contemporary society, politics, and culture. Butler leads readers to rethink the boundaries of the human in a time of perpetual war....
by Patricia Hill Collins, Sirma Bilge
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
The concept of intersectionality has become a hot topic in academic and activist circles alike. But what exactly does it mean, and why has it emerged as such a vital lens through which to explore how social inequalities of race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability and ethnicity shape one another?
In...
Feminist Organizing for Change
The Contemporary Women's Movement in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The women's liberation movement is one of the most successful social movements of the twentieth century. Most writing about it, however, has focused on the issues it has addressed rather than the practices, ideology, organizations, and strategies of the movement itself. Feminist Organizing For Change...
by Sweta Srivastava Vikram
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Sweta Srivastava Vikram is an award-winning writer, poet, novelist, author, essayist, columnist, blogger, and educator whose musings have translated into four chapbooks of poetry, two collaborative collections of poetry, a fiction novel, and an upcoming nonfiction book of prose and poems. Her work...
A Thinking Girl's Guide to Sexual Identity (Vol. 1, Lipstick and War Crimes Series)
Navigating Heartbreak, Survival, and the Media Matrix
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
A Thinking Girl's Guide to Sexual Identity : Navigating Heartbreak, Survivial, and the Media Matrix is the student edition of Vol.1 Lipstick and War Crimes Series by Ray Songtree,. Vol. 1 introduces us to the mind boggling reality of gender sculpting, using some of the female icons of the last 70...
Zen and the Art of De-programming (Vol.1, Lipstick and War Crimes Series)
Letting Go of Social Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Vol . 1 of the Lipstick and War Crimes Series - the Zen edition.
Zen and the Art of De-programming : Letting go of Social Engineering is the Zen edition of Vol. 1 from the Lipstick and War Crimes Book Series by Ray Songtree, with an introduction that gives the Buddhist perspective. The author...
The Anatomy of Freedom
Feminism in Four Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
The classic of feminist vision by one of its greatest writers, with a new preface by the author
With the advent of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, physics and our world changed forever. In The Anatomy of Freedom, Robin Morgan shows us how the empowerment of women—half of humanity—will...
A Capsule Aesthetic
Feminist Materialisms in New Media Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
How new media art informed by feminism yields important and original insights about interacting with technologies
In A Capsule Aesthetic, Kate Mondloch examines how new media installation art intervenes in the fields of technoscience and new materialism, showing how three diverse artists—Pipilotti...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
In Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban, Linda Peake and Martina Rieker embark on an ambitious project to explore the extent to which a feminist re-imagining of the twenty-first century city can form the core of a new emerging analytic of women and the neoliberal urban.
In a world...