Feminism category: 1647 books
In the Name of Women's Rights
The Rise of Femonationalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Sara R. Farris examines the demands for women's rights from an unlikely collection of right-wing nationalist political parties, neoliberals, and some feminist theorists and policy makers. Focusing on contemporary France, Italy, and the Netherlands, Farris labels this exploitation and co-optation of...
Gender Hurts
A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
It is only recently that transgenderism has been accepted as a disorder for which treatment is available. In the 1990s, a political movement of transgender activism coalesced to campaign for transgender rights. Considerable social, political and legal changes are occurring in response and there is...
by Barbara Pini, Berit Brandth, Jo Little
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Feminist concern with difference has rarely extended to rurality even if it is now widely recognized that experiences of inequality depend on intersections of several identities in each individual life. This lack of concern may reflect the urban background of the majority of feminist academics or...
Global Currents in Gender and Feminisms
Canadian and International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
This collection examines the ongoing shared struggles of diverse groups of women in Canada and beyond focusing on a diverse range of themes including movements, spaces and rights; inclusion, equity and policies; reproductive labour, work and economy; health, culture and violence; and sports and bodies....
Unsettled Subjects
Restoring Feminist Politics to Poststructuralist Critique
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
During the 1980s much of the work of feminist theory aimed to fully account for issues of class, race, and sexuality that previously had been overlooked. Susan Lurie argues that this work tended to privilege questions of race and class at the expense of gender, and frequently, if inadvertently, left...
Doria Shafik Egyptian Feminist
A Woman Apart
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1996
Cynthia Nelson brings to life a bold and gifted Egyptian of the mid-twentieth century who helped define what it means to be a modern Arab woman. Doria Shafik (1908-1975), an Egyptian feminist, poet, publisher, and political activist, participated in one of her country’s most explosive periods of...
Ecofeminism as Politics
Nature, Marx and the Postmodern
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Ecofeminism as Politics is now a classic, being the first work to offer a joined-up framework for green, socialist, feminist and postcolonial thinking, showing how these have been held back by conceptual confusions over gender. Originally published in 1997, it argues that ecofeminism reaches beyond...
by P. McQueen
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
In this book Paddy McQueen examines the role that 'recognition' plays in our struggles to construct an identity and to make sense of ourselves as gendered beings. It analyses how such struggles for gender recognition are shaped by social discourses and power relations, and considers how feminism can best respond to these issues.
The Spirit of Revolution
Beyond the Dead Ends of Man
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
In recent years, feminist and queer theory have effectively disavowed both “the human” and revolutionary politics. In the face of massive geopolitical crisis, posthumanists have called for us to reconsider fundamentally the superiority and centrality of mankind and “the human,” and question...
by Stephanie Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
**Darkly satirical and wickedly funny, this prize-winning novel takes a tilt at a wide range of contemporary matters.**What happened that connects a diverse group of characters, along with an ex-All Black and an elephant? The people who committed the act of revenge in 1985 thought it was perfectly...
Sexual Justice / Cultural Justice
Critical Perspectives in Political Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
This key volume explores the relationship between cultural justice and sexual justice in multicultural societies in a new light. The authors challenge the framing of ‘feminism and multiculturalism’ as one of inevitable conflict, as well as the portrayal of liberal sexual equality and cultural...
by Christa Hodapp
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
This work examines the contemporary men’s rights movement (MRM), a mainly online movement that claims men are oppressed by gender norms, women, and feminism. While some feminists and other progressives have dismissed the movement as simple misogyny, this book argues that the MRM expresses a growing...
The Carol J. Adams Reader
Writings and Conversations 1995-2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
The Carol J. Adams Reader gathers together Adams's foundational and recent articles in the fields of critical studies, animal studies, media studies, vegan studies, ecofeminism and feminism, as well as relevant interviews and conversations in which Adams identifies key concepts and new developments...
How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics
From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Today all politics are reproductive politics, argues esteemed feminist critic Laura Briggs. From longer work hours to the election of Donald Trump, our current political crisis is above all about reproduction. Households are where we face our economic realities as social safety nets get cut and wages...