Feminism category: 1647 books
Pregnancy, Risk and Biopolitics
On the Threshold of the Living Subject
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Traditionally, Euroamerican cultures have considered that human status was conferred at the conclusion to childbirth. However, in contemporary Euroamerican biomedicine, law and politics, the living subject is often claimed to pre-exist birth. In this fascinating book Lorna Weir argues that the displacement...
Talking Back
Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
In childhood, bell hooks was taught that "talking back" meant speaking as an equal to an authority figure and daring to disagree and/or have an opinion. In this collection of personal and theoretical essays, hooks reflects on her signature issues of racism and feminism, politics and pedagogy....
The Bonds of Love
Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Problem of Domincation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Why do people submit to authority and derive pleasure even others have over them? What is the appeal of domination and submission, and why are they so prevalent in erotic life? Why is it so difficult for men and women to meet as equals? Why, indeed, do hey continue to recapitulate the positions of...
Believe Me
How Trusting Women Can Change the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2020
What would happen if we believed women? A groundbreaking anthology offers a potent rallying cry and theory of change
Harvey Weinstein. Bill Cosby. Donald Trump. The most famous abusers in modern American history are finally starting to be outed for what they are. Women are speaking up and risking...
SlutWalk
Feminism, Activism and Media
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
SlutWalk explores representations of the global anti-rape movement of the same name, in mainstream news and feminist blogs around the world. It reveals strategies and practices used to adapt the movement to suit local cultures and contexts and explores how social media organized, theorized and publicized this contemporary feminist campaign.
Wet
On Painting, Feminism, and Art Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 1997
Taking aim at the mostly male bastion of art theory and criticism, Mira Schor brings a maverick perspective and provocative voice to the issues of contemporary painting, gender representation, and feminist art. Writing from her dual perspective of a practicing painter and art critic, Schor’s writing...
Re-Presenting Feminist Methodologies
Interdisciplinary Explorations
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
This book tracks the trajectory of gender in the social sciences and humanities through an exploration of the challenges and contradictions that confront contemporary feminist analysis as well as future directions. Drawing on research in India, the essays in the volume engage with the subject in imaginative...
by Sheila Rowbotham
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
A groundbreaking contribution to debates on women’s oppression and consciousness, and the connections between socialism and feminism, this foundational text shows how the roles women adopt within the capitalist economy have shaped ideas about family and sexuality. Examining feminist consciousness...
Women in Movement (Routledge Revivals)
Feminism and Social Action
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
First published in 1992, this book is an historical introduction to a wide range of women’s movements from the late eighteenth-century to the date of its publication. It describes economic, social and political ideas which have inspired women to organize, not only in Europe and North America, but...
White Women's Rights
The Racial Origins of Feminism in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 1999
This study reinterprets a crucial period (1870s-1920s) in the history of women's rights, focusing attention on a core contradiction at the heart of early feminist theory. At a time when white elites were concerned with imperialist projects and civilizing missions, progressive white women developed...
I Am a Feminist
Quotes That Empower
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
We are the ones we've been waiting for. --June Jordan
Empowering, inspiring...evolving. From Susan B. Anthony to Amy Schumer, the feminist movement has grown in number and purpose for hundreds of years--from women's right to vote to wage equality and beyond. Now, 200 leaders of the movement...
by Hilaire Barnett
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
This book is a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between feminist theories and the law, and the way in which developments of the former have affected, and been affected by, the latter.
The book takes as its starting point a study of women and culture on an international level, which...
Sex in Revolution
Gender, Politics, and Power in Modern Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2007
Sex in Revolution challenges the prevailing narratives of the Mexican Revolution and postrevolutionary state formation by placing women at center stage. Bringing to bear decades of feminist scholarship and cultural approaches to Mexican history, the essays in this book demonstrate how women seized...
The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
Humanism Series
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2017
“What a hundred caring, courageous and conscientious women can achieve in ten years, would take a thousand men a hundred years.”
One of twenty-first century’s most influential thinkers Abhijit Naskar makes an exuberant attempt with his sharp insight of the molecular realm of the mind,...