Feminism category: 1647 books
Transforming the Disciplines
A Women's Studies Primer
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
A jargon-free, non-technical, and easily accessible introduction to women's studies!
All too many students enter academia with the hazy idea that the field of women's studies is restricted to housework, birth control, and Susan B. Anthony. Their first encounter with a women's studies textbook...
The Humanness of Women
Theory and Practice of Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
"Women and Economics" subtitled as "A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution" is a book written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and published in 1898. It is considered by many to be her single greatest work, and as with much of Gilman's...
Leaky Bodies and Boundaries
Feminism, Postmodernism and (Bio)ethics
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Drawing on postmodernist analyses, Leaky Bodies and Boundaries presents a feminist investigation into the marginalization of women within western discourse that denies female moral agency and embodiment. With reference to contemporary and historical issues in biomedicine, the book argues that the...
by Valerie Bryson
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Feminist theory is a challenging and often deeply divided body of thought that raises issues which affect us all. In this, her third edition of the highly successful Feminist Political Theory, Valerie Bryson provides both a wide-ranging history of Western feminist thought, from medieval times to the...
Gender, Ethnicity and Political Agency
South Asian Women Organizing
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
This book examines how South Asian women’s collective agency is operationalized through civic organizations in the UK. Drawing on black feminist theory and third world feminism, it shows the complexity of political agency and its relationship to identity and subjectivity, and uses empirical research...
Women's Oppression Today
The Marxist/Feminist Encounter
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Women’s Oppression Today is a classic text in the debate about Marxism and feminism, exploring how gender, sexuality and the “family-household system” operate in relation to contemporary capitalism. In this updated edition, Michèle Barrett surveys the social and intellectual changes that have...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Spare Rib remains one of the most iconic symbols of Second Wave Feminism, its influence far out-living the span of its publication (1972-1993). This collection examines various aspects of the magazine - based on the digitised publication by the British Library in 2015 – in order to explore the...
by Richard Crasta
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Indians and sexual liberation, American politics, Bill Clinton, Western feminism transplanted into Asia, Miss World Sushmita Sen, Khushwant Singh on Indian sexual hypocrisy, beauty contests, free expression and Indians--a multitude of subjects--political, sexual, social, and humorous--are addressed...
The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery
Biocapitalism and Black Feminism’s Philosophy of History
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
In The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery Alys Eve Weinbaum investigates the continuing resonances of Atlantic slavery in the cultures and politics of human reproduction that characterize contemporary biocapitalism. As a form of racial capitalism that relies on the commodification of the human reproductive...
Jewish Women in Therapy
Seen But Not Heard
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Here is the first volume ever to focus on the issues of Jewish women in the context of counseling and psychotherapy. Through poignant reflection and observation, the authors convey the richness and variety of Jewish women’s experiences and the Jewishness and femaleness of the concerns, issues, values,...
About Women
Conversations Between a Writer and a Painter
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
A provocative and wide-ranging conversation between two distinctive women—one American and one French—on the dilemmas, rewards, and demands of womanhood.
Lisa Alther and Françoise Gilot have been friends for more than twenty-five years. Although from different backgrounds (Gilot from cosmopolitan...
Women, Knowledge, and Reality
Explorations in Feminist Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
This second edition of Women, Knowledge, and Reality continues to exhibit the ways in which feminist philosophers enrich and challenge philosophy. Essays by twenty-five feminist philosophers, seventeen of them new to the second edition, address fundamental issues in philosophical and feminist methods,...
by Elizabeth Porter
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Feminist Perspectives on Ethics is a unique guide to the development of feminist thought on ethics and moral agency. Each chapter offers a survey of feminist debates on key areas: the nature of feminist ethics; intimate relationships; professional ethics; politics; sexual politics; abortion and reproductive...
Foucault's Futures
A Critique of Reproductive Reason
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
In Foucault's Futures, Penelope Deutscher reconsiders the role of procreation in Foucault's thought, especially its proximity to risk, mortality, and death. She brings together his work on sexuality and biopolitics to challenge our understanding of the politicization of reproduction. By analyzing...