Feminism category: 1647 books
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
A collection of the groundbreaking feminist writer's most famous works, with a thought-provoking introduction by bestselling author Kate Bolick
Wonderfully sardonic and slyly humorous, the writings of landmark American feminist and socialist thinker Charlotte Perkins Gilman were penned in response...
Women Who Did
Stories by Men and Women, 1890-1914
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2005
"A lady? decidedly. Fast? perhaps. Original? undoubtedly. Worth knowing? rather." Daring and dynamic, the 'new woman' came to represent the very spirit of the age. The stories in this anthology take up this phenomenon and examine society throughthe eyes of the new woman, as she encountered...
by Joan Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
A sports reporter investigates the training of girls as professional gymnasts and figure skaters, arguing that the pressure to succeed and to look beautiful results in mental and physical harm, from eating disorders to psychological trauma.
by Alice Walker
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
A collection of early personal and political essays from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple.
What is a womanist? Alice Walker sets out to define the concept in this anthology of early essays and other nonfiction pieces. As she outlines it, a womanist is a person who prefers...
The Young Rebecca
Writings of Rebecca West 1911-17
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
A collection of Rebecca West’s early journalistic writings reveals her clarity of mind, severity of wit, and relevancy in today’s modern world
In this collection of early writings, beginning when Rebecca West was just eighteen years old, Jane Marcus sheds light on one of the foremost...
Woman and Nature
The Roaring Inside Her
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
A seminal work of the eco-feminist movement, connecting patriarchal society’s mistreatment of women with its disregard for the Earth’s ecological well-being
Woman and Nature draws from a vast and enthralling array of literary, scientific, and philosophical texts in order to explore the...
Hearts And Minds
The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
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'A history book that should be read by all' - Stylist.
Set against the background of the campaign for women to win the vote, this is a story of the ordinary people effecting extraordinary change.
1913: the last long summer before the war. The country is gripped by suffragette...
Granny D
Walking Across America in My Ninetieth Year
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2001
"There's a cancer, and it's killing our democracy. A poor man has to sell his soul to get elected. I cry for this country."
On February 29, 2000, ninety-year-old Doris “Granny D” Haddock completed her 3,200-mile, fourteen-month walk from Los Angeles to Washington D.C. She walked...
Feminist Activist Ethnography
Counterpoints to Neoliberalism in North America
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Writing in the wake of neoliberalism, where human rights and social justice have increasingly been subordinated to proliferating “consumer choices” and ideals of market justice, contributors to this collection argue that feminist ethnographers are in a key position to reassert the central feminist...
Gendered Media
Women, Men, and Identity Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Gendered Media addresses the broad topic of gender and media, where 'gender' is not simply a shorthand for 'woman' but also embraces masculinitiy/ies, queer, lesbian and gay identities. Karen Ross provides the necessary historical context against which to read recent sex- and gender-based media phenomena...
Personal Politics
The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement & the New Left
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
The women most crucial to the feminist movement that emerged in the 1960's arrived at their commitment and consciousness in response to the unexpected and often shattering experience of having their work minimized, even disregarded, by the men they considered to be their colleagues and fellow crusaders...
by Carolyn G. Heilbrun
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
From one of America's most respected critics comes an acclaimed biography of the controversial feminist. Here, Heilbrun illuminates the life and explores the many facets of Steinem's complex life, from her difficult childhood to the awakening that changed her into the most famous feminist in the world....
Sentimental Materialism
Gender, Commodity Culture, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2000
In Sentimental Materialism Lori Merish considers the intricate relationship between consumption and womanhood in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Taking as her starting point a diversity of cultural artifacts—from domestic fiction and philosophical treatises to advice literature and...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) spoke of the promiscuity of art and literature-the willingness of great artists and writers to scandalize their spectators through critical frankness, complexity, and beauty. Sontag's life and thought were no less promiscuous. She wrote deeply and engagingly about a range...