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Edición actualizada de este libro de referencia. Una investigación rigurosamente documentada sobre la violencia de género. La violencia contra las mujeres en el siglo XXI perdura con la misma fuerza con que ha recorrido toda la historia de la humanidad. Los agresores no son locos...

Cansadas es una mirada feminista que contempla recuerdos, reflexiones, repotajes, artículos, notas de viaje y conversaciones a lo largo de una década. Cansadas es el sugerente título del nuevo libro de la autora de Ibamos a ser reinas y Feminismo para principiantes (publicados por Ediciones...

Edición revisada, actualizada y ampliada del libro de referencia, en España, de la historia del feminismo. ¿Quiénes eran las sufragistas? ¿De dónde sale el feminismo radical? ¿Por qué se habla de marxismo y feminismo como de un matrimonio mal avenido? ¿Por qué el feminismo ha sido...

A bite-sized guide to making change happen and the story behind the No More Page 3 campaign, written by its founder. Change doesn’t just happen. It starts with the idea that something could be different, could be better. It starts with a person who is brave enough to stand up and say, ‘Stop.’...

Feminist Theory, Crime, and Social Justice offers an insightful look at the primarily masculine-driven perspective on crime and justice through the lens of feminist theory. The book presents the argument that an increased understanding of the female crime typology, life course, and gender-specific...

Mothers, Comrades, and Outcasts in East German Women's Film merges feminist film theory and cultural history in an investigation of "women’s films" that span the last two decades of the former East Germany. Jennifer L. Creech explores the ways in which these films functioned as an alternative public...

One of the most didactic of Wilkie Collins' 'novels with a purpose', treating the then fashionable theme of the 'fallen woman' who attempts to put her past behind her but is repeatedly thwarted by the prejudices of respectable English society. Mercy Merrick has been tricked into the tragic...

The fact that for equal work equally well performed by a man and by a woman, it is ordained that the woman on the ground of her sex alone shall receive a less recompense, is the nearest approach to a wilful and unqualified "wrong" in the whole relation of woman to society today. Olive Schreiner, "Woman and Labour" (1911).

"Tess" is an exemplification of all the horrors of malignant destiny. By nature its heroine is incarnate goodness: every fibre of her being is pure; and yet, under the stress of circumstances, the compulsion of force and the beguilement of fraud, partly through ignorance, partly through...

Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and offers in ample measure the details of English rural life that Hardy so relished. Hardy's growing taste for tragedy is also evident in the novel. It first appeared, anonymously, as a monthly magazine serial, where it gained a wide...

This carefully crafted ebook: "An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex (a feminist literature classic)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Essay is written in the form of a letter to a female friend. It purports to be inspired by a conversation...

Esta selección de textos de Emilia Pardo Bazán constituye un testimonio incomparable de las diferencias que existían entre los hombres y las mujeres a finales del siglo XIX, y una ocasión única para acercarse a la obra y la ideología de esta escritora española.

La Carte de Tendre or the Map of the country of Tenderness made its debut in the first volume of Madeleine De Scudery’s novel CLELIE (1654).  It is a map of the mythical country of Tenderness, which is also a metaphor for Mlle. De Scudery’s heart and for her Salon. As a salon game that soon became...

*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. In this probing critique of "androcentric culture,"...