Feminism category: 1647 books
Mapping Women, Making Politics
Feminist Perspectives on Political Geography
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Mapping Women, Making Politics demonstrates the multiple ways in which gender influences political processes and the politics of space. The book begins by addressing feminism's theoretical and conceptual challenges to traditional political geography and than applies these perspectives to a range of...
Unwanted Advances
Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2017
From a highly regarded feminist cultural critic and professor comes a polemic arguing that the stifling sense of sexual danger sweeping American campuses doesn’t empower women, it impedes the fight for gender equality.
Feminism is broken, argues...
Living Dolls
The Return of Sexism
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
I once believed that we only had to put in place the conditions for equality for the remnants of old-fashioned sexism in our culture to wither away. I am ready to admit that I was wrong.'
Empowerment, liberation, choice. Once the watchwords of feminism, these terms have now been co-opted by...
A Theory of Freedom
Feminism and the Social Contract
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
This book offers a liberatory conception of individual freedom that uniquely responds to the problems of social oppression and demands of the interrelatedness insofar as it pertains specifically to the social domain of activity.
Feminists Say the Darndest Things
A Politically Incorrect Professor Confronts "Womyn" on Campus
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2008
A hilarious romp by a popular conservative columnist
The four most common words a feminist uses are "I," "me," "my," and "mine." Feminists are the only people who actually use these words more in adulthood than they did when they were two years old.
Mike Adams-like P. J. O'Rourke and...
Women's Writing, 1660-1830
Feminisms and Futures
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
This book is about mapping the future of eighteenth-century women’s writing and feminist literary history, in an academic culture that is not shy of declaring their obsolescence. It asks: what can or should unite us as scholars devoted to the recovery and study of women’s literary history in an...
Charlatan
New and Selected Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Cris Mazza's work has often been regarded as "disturbing" for its exploration of sexual politics, victimhood, personal accountability, and acts of sexual violence. With an introduction by Gina Frangello and a foreword by Rick Moody, Charlatan charts the development of a dynamic body of fiction...
by Donna J. Haraway, Cary Wolfe
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Electrifying, provocative, and controversial when first published thirty years ago, Donna Haraway’s “Cyborg Manifesto” is even more relevant today, when the divisions that she so eloquently challenges—of human and machine but also of gender, class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and location—are...
Contemporary Anarchist Studies
An Introductory Anthology of Anarchy in the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2009
This volume of collected essays by some of the most prominent academics studying anarchism bridges the gap between anarchist activism on the streets and anarchist theory in the academy. Focusing on anarchist theory, pedagogy, methodologies, praxis, and the future, this edition will strike a chord...
The Politics of Everybody
Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
The Politics of Everybody examines the production and maintenance of the terms 'man', 'woman', and 'other' within the current political moment; the contradictions of these categories and the prospects of a Marxist approach to praxis for queer bodies. Few thinkers have attempted to reconcile queer...
by Kathi Weeks
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
A groundbreaking attempt to theorise the feminist subject
One of the most important tasks for contemporary feminist theory is to develop a concept of the subject able to meet the challenges facing feminist politics. Although theorists in the 1980s raised the problem of feminist subjectivity,...
Debating Discourses, Practising Feminisms
Feminist Review, Issue 56
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2005
Debating Discourses, Practising Feminisms brings together international debates on the discourses and practices of contemporary feminisms. Discussions range across conflicting analyses of gender and politics at the UN conference at Beijing; nationalism and religious conflict in contemporary India;...
Transnational America
Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2005
In Transnational America, Inderpal Grewal examines how the circulation of people, goods, social movements, and rights discourses during the 1990s created transnational subjects shaped by a global American culture. Rather than simply frame the United States as an imperialist nation-state that imposes...
Contesting Publics
Feminism, Activism, Ethnography
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2014
Through ethnographic cases and activists’ narratives, Contesting Publics analyses the challenges feminists face as they seek to engage with new spaces of participatory democracy in Latin America.
Lynne Phillips and Sally Cole analyse how new silences, exclusions and re-inscriptions of inequalities...