Feminism category: 1647 books
The End Of Capitalism (As We Knew It)
A Feminist Critique of Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2006
In the mid-1990s, at the height of academic discussion about the inevitability of capitalist globalization, J. K. Gibson-Graham presented a groundbreaking and controversial argument for envisioning alternative economies. This new edition includes an introduction in which the authors address critical...
Women in a Globalizing World
Transforming Equality, Development, Diversity and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
An exciting Canadian collection of feminist articles that pro- vide cutting-edge gender analysis for understanding diverse personal and political challenges and opportunities in our fast-changing global world. Canadian and international au- thors offer varied social justice, anti-racist, Indigenous,...
Letting Go
Feminist and Social Justice Insight and Activism
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
At a time when women are being exhorted to "lean in" and work harder to get ahead, Letting Go: Feminist and Social Justice Insight and Activism encourages both women and men to "let go" instead. The book explores alternatives to the belief that individual achievement, accumulation,...
The Sexual Politics of Meat - 25th Anniversary Edition
A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
The Sexual Politics of Meat is Carol Adams' inspiring and controversial exploration of the interplay between contemporary society's ingrained cultural misogyny and its obsession with meat and masculinity. First published in 1990, the book has continued to change the lives of tens of thousands of readers...
Community Activism and Feminist Politics
Organizing Across Race, Class, and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This collection demonstrates the diversity of women's struggles against problems such as racism, violence, homophobia, focusing on the complex ways that gender, culture, race-ethnicity and class shape women's political consciousness in the US.
Grassroots Warriors
Activist Mothering, Community Work, and the War on Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Home (Annotated)
Its Work and Influence
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author).
*An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience.
*This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Home is a scathing attack on...
by Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, Nook, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including eReaders, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display.
Wasting Away
The Undermining of Canadian Health
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Wasting Away is a provocative text that examines and assesses the Canadian health care system. This seven-chapter book explores the development of the Canadian health care system and breaks the analysis down into accessible units: who provides (the institutions and the people); who pays (funding sources);...
Gender and Public Relations
Critical Perspectives on Voice, Image and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Although there is a small body of feminist scholarship that problematizes gender in public relations, gender is a relatively undefined area of thinking in the field and there have been few serious studies of the socially constructed roles defining women and men in public relations.
This book...
Television and the Self
Knowledge, Identity, and Media Representation
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Sitting prominently at the hearth of our homes, television serves as a voice of our modern time. Given our media-saturated society and television’s prominent voice and place in the home, it is likely we learn about our society and selves through these stories. These narratives are not simply entertainment,...
Female Olympians
A Mediated Socio-Cultural and Political-Economic Timeline
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
This book examines women's participation in the Olympic Games since they were allowed to be included in that global arena. Using a holistic, social scientific approach, and emphasizing the rhetoric of sport mediatization, Female Olympians reviews the literature relative to sexism, racism, and ageism...
by Joan Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Misogynies is one of the most celebrated feminist texts by a British author. First published in 1989, it created shock waves with its analyses of history, literature and popular culture. Joan Smith drew on her own experience as one of the few women reporting the Yorkshire Ripper murders and looked...
Mujeres al frente
La ley de las más nobles
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Mujeres al frente recoge las entrevistas a siete mujeres colombianas que ante la guerra deciden construir alternativas a la violencia. Narra su apuesta por construir un país sin violencia en un proceso que ya se contempla como el primer conflicto de la historia en el que las mujeres han participado...