Feminism category: 1647 books
by Ursula Tidd
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Following its publication in 1949, The Second Sex quickly became one of the fundamental works of feminist thought. In it, Simone de Beauvoir (1908–86) offered up a statement that has informed nearly all feminist and gender scholarship that has followed, “One is not born, but rather becomes, a...
by Leo Tolstoy
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
The violent spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life that inspired his last period of creativity produced the stories in this compelling and startling collection. They portray the multifaceted nature of desire, from idealistic romance to sexual jealousy, from desperate lust to relentless longing. The Kreutzer...
Radical Happiness
Moments of Collective Joy
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
A passionate call to rediscover the political and emotional joy that emerges when we share our lives
In an era of increasing individualism, we have never been more isolated and dispirited. A paradox confronts us. While research and technology find new ways to measure contentment and popular...
by Florence Howe
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
“A sharp and compelling memoir” of a feminist icon who forged positive change for herself, for women everywhere, and for the world (Rosemary G. Feal, executive director of the Modern Language Association).
Florence Howe has led an audacious life: she created a freedom school during the civil...
by Shira Tarrant
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
When Sex Became Gender is a study of post-World War II feminist theory from the viewpoint of intellectual history. The key theme is that ideas about the social construction of gender have its origins in the feminist theorists of the postwar period, and that these early ideas about gender became a...
by Seyla Benhabib
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003
Interpreting the work of one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt rereads Arendt's political philosophy in light of newly gained insights into the historico-cultural background of her work. Arguing against the standard interpretation of Hannah...
Superman is an Arab
On God, marriage, macho men and other disastrous inventions
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
This is not a manifesto against men in general. Nor is it a manifesto against Arab men in particular. It is, however, a howl in the face of a particular species of men: the macho species, Supermen, as they like to envision themselves. But Superman is a lie. In this explosive sequel to I Killed Scheherazade,...
Dark Continents
Psychoanalysis and Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2003
Sigmund Freud infamously referred to women's sexuality as a “dark continent” for psychoanalysis, drawing on colonial explorer Henry Morton Stanley’s use of the same phrase to refer to Africa. While the problematic universalism of psychoanalysis led theorists to reject its relevance for postcolonial...
by Janet Mason
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
In this forthright personal memoir, author and poet Janet Mason reflects on the factory-worker lives of her mother and grandmother in working class Philadelphia while she copes with her mothers final illness. Her mothers feminist example and unwavering support of a lesbian daughter become increasingly...
Stiffed
The Betrayal Of The American Man
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
This 20th-anniversary edition of the extraordinary New York Times bestseller features a new introduction from the author!
"Stiffed is a brilliant, important book.. Faludi's reportorial and literary skills unfold with breathtaking confidence and beauty... She goes a long way toward eliminating...
The Independent Woman
Extracts from The Second Sex
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
“Like man, woman is a human being.”
When The Second Sex was first published in Paris in 1949—groundbreaking, risqué, brilliantly written and strikingly modern—it provoked both outrage and inspiration. The Independent Woman contains three key chapters of Beauvoir’s masterwork, which illuminate...
Jubilee Time
Celebrating Women, Spirit, And The Advent Of Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2009
In keeping with the bestselling When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple, and Gail Sheehy's New Passages, Jubilee Time celebrates the freedom, opportunities, and power of older women, who are too often maligned in our youth-obsessed culture. Based on the Jubilee passage in Leviticus--"You...
The Subjection of Women - La servitù delle donne
Bilingual parallel text - Bilingue con testo inglese a fronte: English - Italian / Inglese - Italiano (Dual Language Easy Reader)
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
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In questo libro, scritto nel 1869 ma ancora di attualità sotto molti aspetti in molti Paesi del mondo, John Stuart Mill rivendica la parità dei sessi nel diritto di famiglia e il suffragio universale, sostenendo che ciò migliorerà anche gli uomini,...
by John Stuart Mill
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2006
A prodigiously brilliant thinker who sharply challenged the beliefs of his age, the political and social radical John Stuart Mill was the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century. Regarded as one of the sacred texts of liberalism, his great work On Liberty argues lucidly...