Feminism category: 1647 books
Feminist Methodologies for Critical Researchers
Bridging Differences
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
This accessible text on social research methodology teaches students of sociology and related disciplines how standard methods can be adapted toward critical ends. The second edition has been updated throughout to incorporate the latest critical scholarship, enhanced discussion of qualitative methods,...
by Bonnie G. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2019
Women’s Studies: The Basics is an accessible introduction to the pathbreaking and cross-disciplinary study of women—past and present. Tracing the history of the field from its origins, this revised and updated text sets out the main topics making up the discipline, exploring its global development...
by Mary Wollstonecraft, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
English writer, philosopher and pioneering advocate of women's rights, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution and a children's book. In her landmark feminist text, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Wollstonecraft argued that women...
Unbreakable
Women Share Stories of Resilience and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Every woman has a story of survival. In this revealingly honest collection, successful Australian women talk about the challenges they have overcome, from sexual assault and domestic violence to racism, miscarriage, and depression. While delving deep into these experiences and their personal cost,...
Cut of the Real
Subjectivity in Poststructuralist Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Following François Laruelle's nonstandard philosophy and the work of Judith Butler, Drucilla Cornell, Luce Irigaray, and Rosi Braidotti, Katerina Kolozova reclaims the relevance of categories traditionally rendered "unthinkable" by postmodern feminist philosophies, such as "the real,"...
by Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
This history of the Women's Suffrage agitation is written at a time when the question is in the very forefront of British politics. What the immediate future holds for those women who are most actively engaged in fighting for their political freedom no one can foretell, but one thing is certain: complete...
Women, Resistance and Revolution
A History Of Women And Revolution In The Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
This classic book provides a historical overview of feminist strands among the modern revolutionary movements of Russia, China and the Third World. Sheila Rowbotham shows how women rose against the dual challenges of an unjust state system and social-sexual prejudice. Women, Resistance and Revolution...
Queering Anarchism
Addressing and Undressing Power and Desire
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
A much-needed collection that thinks through power, desire, and human liberation. These pieces are sure to raise the level of debate about sexuality, gender, and the ways that they tie in with struggles against our ruling institutions.”?Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Outlaw Woman
Against the austerity...
My Own Story
Inspiration for the major motion picture Suffragette
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Don't miss Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst in the major motion picture Suffragette.
Emmeline Pankhurst was raised in a world that valued men over women. At fourteen she attended her first suffrage meeting and returned home a confirmed suffragist. Throughout her career she endured humiliation,...
Sexism in America
Alive, Well, and Ruining Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Debunking the many myths about how far women have come and the pervasive belief that American society is postfeminist, this account traces women's status and the assault on their rights from the 1950s-when Newsweek declared, "for the American girl, books and babies don't mix"-to the present,...
If They Only Listened to Us
What Women Voters Want Politicians to Hear
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Soon after the 2004 presidential election, veteran reporter Melinda Henneberger set out across the country to listen to women of all ages and occupations express their strong opinions on the major issues of our time. Over eighteen months she spoke in depth and at length with more than two hundred...
The Feminist Utopia Project
Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
This “incredible addition to the feminist canon” brings together the most inspiring, creative, and courageous voices concerning modern women’s issues (Jessica Valenti, editor of Yes Means Yes).
In this groundbreaking collection, more than fifty cutting-edge feminist writers—including...
Lean Out
The Struggle for Gender Equality in Tech and Start-up Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
“Disconcertingly thought-provoking.” —TechCrunch"Nineteen disruptive, disturbing and divergent voices ... an honest portrait of a network of gender-oppressed people leaning every which way." —Feministing"Everyone who hires or manages anyone in tech ought to read the remarkable book...
The Big Push
Exposing and Challenging the Persistence of Patriarchy
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
For over a century and in scores of countries, patriarchal presumptions and practices have been challenged by women and their male allies. “Sexual harassment” has entered common parlance; police departments are equipped with rape kits; more than half of the national legislators in Bolivia and...