Feminism category: 1647 books
A Girl's Guide to Joining the Resistance
A Feminist Handbook on Fighting for Good
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
An illustrated big-sister's guide to activism—the perfect gift for young feminists and long-time observers looking to enter the fray.
Have recent events given you pause? Does Trump’s America make you fearful for the future of women? Do you want to become more involved in helping to preserve...
Why Women Need Quotas
(Provocations)
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Vicky Pryce's motorbike-riding mother wanted to study physics at university, but her family told her it was impossible for a woman. She was determined that her daughter would have the opportunities she hadn't - and the young Vicky went on to forge a glittering career as an economist, with high-profile...
by Joosr
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
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Feminist Theory
From Margin to Center
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
When Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center was first published in 1984, it was welcomed and praised by feminist thinkers who wanted a new vision. Even so, individual readers frequently found the theory "unsettling" or "provocative." Today, the blueprint for feminist movement presented...
Revolution at Point Zero
Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Written between 1975 and the present, the essays collected in this volume represent years of research and theorizing on questions of social reproduction and the consequences of globalization. Originally inspired by Federici's organizational work in the Wages for Housework movement, the topics discussed...
Eve Was Shamed
How British Justice is Failing Women
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2018
What comes after #MeToo? One of our most eminent lawyers and defenders of human rights answers with this urgent, authoritative and deeply shocking look at British justice
In Eve Was Shamed Helena Kennedy forensically examines the pressing new evidence that women are still being discriminated...
The New Feminist Agenda
Defining the Next Revolution for Women, Work, and Family
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Feminists opened up thousands of doors in the 1960s and 1970s, but decades later, are U.S. women where they thought they'd be? The answer, it turns out, is a resounding no. Surely there have been gains. Women now comprise nearly 60 percent of college undergraduates and half of all medical and law...
New Feminisms in South Asian Social Media, Film, and Literature
Disrupting the Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
This book is a study of the resurgence and re-imagination of feminist discourse on gender and sexuality in South Asia as told through its cinematic, literary, and social media narratives. It brings incisive and expert analyses of emerging disruptive articulations that represent an unprecedented surge...
Erotismo, mujeres y sexualidad
Después de los 60
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Existe el hábito de aceptar con total naturalidad que hay cosas de las que «no se habla» a pesar de que suceden ininterrumpidamente a nuestro alrededor. Una de ellas es la sexualidad de las mujeres que han superado los sesenta años. Históricamente, la sexualidad femenina ha sido un tema difícil,...
by Carme Valls-Llobet
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 15, 2018
En la actualidad, numerosas enfermedades y otros trastornos de la salud de las mujeres tienen una causa ambiental. Si bien los hombres también se ven afectados, crecientes evidencias científicas muestran que el cuerpo de las mujeres es aún más vulnerable a la contaminación existente en el medio...
Meeting the Universe Halfway
Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning <BR>
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2007
Meeting the Universe Halfway is an ambitious book with far-reaching implications for numerous fields in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. In this volume, Karen Barad, theoretical physicist and feminist theorist, elaborates her theory of agential realism. Offering an account of...
Sewing, Fighting and Writing
Radical Practices in Work, Politics and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Paris, along with New York, was one of the main centres of the fashion industry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But although New York based garment workers were mobilized early in the twentieth century, Paris was the stage of vibrant revolutions and uprisings throughout the nineteenth century....
Classify and Label
The Unintended Marginalization of Social Groups
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Classify and Label: The Unintended Marginalization of Social Groups is a philosophical treatment of classification in the social sciences and everyday life, focusing on moral, social, and political implications. The use of labels is essential to how people navigate and understand the world. Classifications...
Staying Alive
Women, Ecology, and Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Inspired by women’s struggles for the protection of nature as a condition for human survival, award-winning environmentalist Vandana Shiva shows how ecological destruction and the marginalization of women are not inevitable, economically or scientifically. She argues that “maldevelopment”—the...