Feminism category: 1647 books
Last Days at Hot Slit
The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
Selections from the work of radical feminist author Andrea Dworkin, famous for her antipornography stance and role in the feminist sex wars of the 1980s.
Radical feminist author Andrea Dworkin was a caricature of misandrist extremism in the popular imagination and a polarizing figure within...
by Anne Anlin Cheng
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
Focusing on the cultural and philosophic conflation between the "oriental" and the "ornamental," Ornamentalism offers an original and sustained theory about Asiatic femininity in western culture. This study pushes our vocabulary about the woman of color past the usual platitudes about objectification...
Women, Reading, Kroetsch
Telling the Difference
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Women, Reading, Kroetsch: Telling the Difference is a book of both practical and theoretical criticism. Some chapters are feminist deconstructive readings of a broad range of the writings of contemporary Canadian poet-critic-novelist Robert Kroetsch, from But We are Exiles to Completed Field Notes....
Audacious Voices
Profiles in Intersectional Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Inspiring and hopeful, Audacious Voices is a collection of twelve stories from alumnae/alumni of WILL*, a feminist model for education. Each author featured in this book is working, in their own distinct way, to make their communities more equitable—and their stories illustrate how different elements...
Speaking Up
Understanding Language and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
From slut-shaming to the allegedly shrill voices of female politicians, from vocal fry to online misogyny, the language women use (and the language used about them) is as controversial as it has ever been. Our language use and our gender have an enormous impact on the way we understand ourselves and...
Moral Understandings
A Feminist Study in Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2007
This is a revised edition of Walker's well-known book in feminist ethics first published in 1997. Walker's book proposes a view of morality and an approach to ethical theory which uses the critical insights of feminism and race theory to rethink the epistemological and moral position of the ethical...
Feminist Reflections on Growth and Transformation
Asian American Women in Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Understanding multicultural feminist perspectives is vital for clinicians working to effectively help women in therapy. Feminist Reflections on Growth and Transformation: Asian American Women in Therapy provides therapists with valuable insight and research into the identities of Asian and Asian American...
Transatlantic Feminisms
Women and Gender Studies in Africa and the Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Transatlantic Feminisms is an interdisciplinary collection of original feminist research on women’s lives in Africa and the African diaspora. Demonstrating the power and value of transcontinental connections and exchanges between feminist thinkers, this unique collection of fifteen essays addresses...
by Nancy Folbre
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2020
A major new work of feminism on the history and persistence of patriarchal hierarchies from the MacArthur Award-winning economist
In this groundbreaking new work, Nancy Folbre builds on a critique and reformulation of Marxian political economy, drawing on a larger body of scientific research,...
by Rosjke Hasseldine
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
"The Silent Female Scream" teaches "how to believe that as a woman you have the right to be heard, valued, and respected, and to know that anything less is just not okay." Through case studies and discussion, the author exposes that women's sense of self-worth and entitlement to...
Problematic
How Toxic Callout Culture Is Destroying Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
From Beyoncé’s Lemonade to The Force Awakens to the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot, the entertainment industry seems to be embracing the power of women like never before. But with more feminist content comes more feminist criticism—and it feels as if there’s always something to complain about.
Dianna...
Where Are the Women?
Why Expanding the Archive Makes Philosophy Better
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Philosophy has not just excluded women. It has also been shaped by the exclusion of women. As the field grapples with the reality that sexism is a central problem not just for the demographics of the field but also for how philosophy is practiced, many philosophers have begun to rethink the canon....
Physical Disobedience
An Unruly Guide to Health and Stamina for the Modern Feminist
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
A manual for activism that begins with our most powerful asset--our bodies
Even as a wave of renewed feminism swells, too many women continue to starve, stuff, overwork, or neglect our bodies in pursuit of paper-thin ideals. "Fitness" has been co-opted by the beauty industry. We associate...
by Shari J. Stenberg
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Composition Studies Through a Feminist Lens offers students a lucid and engaging introduction to the discipline’s history, struggles, and accomplishments through the lens of feminism. By illuminating a vast array of feminist contributions to the rhetorical tradition, writing theory, and classroom...