Feminism category: 1647 books
Serial Girls
From Barbie to Pussy Riot
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Everywhere you look patriarchal society reduces women to a series of repeating symbols: serial girls.
On TV and in film, on the internet and in magazines, pop culture and ancient architecture, serial girls are all around us, moving in perfect sync—as dolls, as dancers, as statues. From Tiller...
WOLFPACK
How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Based on her inspiring, viral 2018 commencement speech to Barnard College’s graduates in New York City, New York Times bestselling author, two-time Olympic gold medalist and FIFA World Cup champion Abby Wambach delivers her empowering rally cry for women to unleash their individual power, unite...
Dynamic Dames
50 Leading Ladies Who Made History
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2019
Celebrate 50 of the most empowering and unforgettable female characters ever to grace the screen, as well as the artists who brought them to vibrant life!
From Scarlett O'Hara to Thelma and Louise to Wonder Woman, strong women have not only lit up the screen, they've inspired and fired our...
A Burst of Light
and Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
"Lorde's words — on race, cancer, intersectionality, parenthood, injustice — burn with relevance 25 years after her death." — O, The Oprah Magazine
Winner of the 1988 Before Columbus Foundation National Book Award, this path-breaking collection of essays is a clarion call to...
by Martha Robles
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Marta Robles aborda la problemática de la mujer y la condición femenina dentro de lo que se ha llamado la posmodernidad. Ante las nuevas reglas del juego que plantea el "nuevo" orden, la escritora polemiza sobre la suerte que les ha tocado a las mujeres, en tanto género, sortear en un...
The Woman in the Shaman's Body
Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
A distinguished anthropologist–who is also an initiated shaman–reveals the long-hidden female roots of the world’s oldest form of religion and medicine. Here is a fascinating expedition into this ancient tradition, from its prehistoric beginnings to the work of women shamans across the globe...
Girl Positive
Supporting Girls to Shape a New World
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
**Hailed by Sophie Grégoire Trudeau as a "call-to-action" in these highly policiticized times, Girl Positive showcases the diverse voices of girls across North America, and drawing on the wisdom of young women making positive change in their lives and communities, offer tools for families,...
by Susan Brownmiller
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
With intelligence and humor, Susan Brownmiller explores the history and unspoken rules of the burden of “feminine perfection”
What is femininity? How is it measured? What are its demands? How are women meant to dress, look, think, act, feel, and be, according to the mores of society?
Susan...
Animacies
Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
In Animacies, Mel Y. Chen draws on recent debates about sexuality, race, and affect to examine how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, or deathly animates cultural lives. Toward that end, Chen investigates the blurry division between the living and the dead, or that which is beyond the...
When Biometrics Fail
Gender, Race, and the Technology of Identity
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
From digital fingerprinting to iris and retina recognition, biometric identification systems are a multibillion dollar industry and an integral part of post-9/11 national security strategy. Yet these technologies often fail to work. The scientific literature on their accuracy and reliability documents...
Born to Lead
Unlock the Magnificence in Yourself and Others
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2006
Unlock the magnificence in yourself and others
Born to Lead is a powerful book of transformation that shows every woman how to unlock the genius of her uniquely feminine style of leadership, and use it in her life. Starting with the Feminine Principle, it helps you add four new behaviors-keys...
by Leo Tolstoy
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
“Family Happiness” is Tolstoy’s ironically-titled novella about a young seventeen-year-old girl who marries a much older man. Initially distressed to find that her naïve conception of marriage did not adequately prepare her for the complexities her new life, Mashechka becomes corrupted by the...
by Julia Ward Howe
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
The present volume bears the name of Margaret Fuller simply, because it is by this name that its subject is most widely known and best remembered. Another name, indeed, became hers by marriage; but this later style and title were borne by our friend for a short period only, and in a country remote...
Bad Girls Go Everywhere
The Life of Helen Gurley Brown, the Woman Behind Cosmopolitan Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
The biography of the revolutionary magazine editor who created the “Cosmo Girl” before Sex and the City’s Carrie Bradshaw was even born
As the author of the iconic Sex and the Single Girl (1962) and the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine for over three decades, Helen Gurley Brown...