Feminism category: 1647 books
Beyond the Ladies Lounge
Australia's Female Publicans
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Clare Wright's award-winning research challenges the myth that the Australian pub is a male domain, revealing the enduring and dynamic presence of female publicans behind the bar. Wright takes the reader on a pub crawl through this history: from Sarah Bird, the 27-year-old convict who was Australia's...
by Christine de Pizan
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1998
"Astonishing, original....an early chapter in women's revisionary history [that] offers true eloquence resurrected from the silence of the past."—The New York Times Book Review
In dialogues with three celestial ladies, Reason, Rectitude, and Justice, Christine de Pizan (1365-ca....
There Will Be a Thousand Years of Peace and Prosperity, and They Will Be Ushered in by the Women – Version 1 & Version 2
The Essential Role of Women in Finding Personal and Planetary Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Anne Wilson Schaef builds on her former bestseller, Women’s Reality, her New York Times bestseller When Society Becomes an Addict, and her multi-million copy bestseller Meditations for Women Who Do Too Much to bring us all up to date on the Women’s Movement. She explores the potentially positive...
Women and Gender Equity in Development Theory and Practice
Institutions, Resources, and Mobilization
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2006
Seeking to catalyze innovative thinking and practice within the field of women and gender in development, editors Jane S. Jaquette and Gale Summerfield have brought together scholars, policymakers, and development workers to reflect on where the field is today and where it is headed. The contributors...
Men and Masculinities Around the World
Transforming Men’s Practices
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
This collection, with contributions on seventeen countries from social scientists from Africa, the Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Europe, analyzes the characteristics and potential of diverse educational, political and related initiatives towards progressive changes in gender relations to show how men are reacting to contemporary social change
Feminist Review
Issue 41
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2005
"First Published in 1992, Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company."
Motherhood is Madness
How to break the chains that prevent mothers from being happy
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Why mothers are still unhappy
Mothers today feel like they are going absolutely crazy. They are exhausted, underpaid and under-appreciated. They feel like slaves to their kids, homes, husbands and careers – just like our mothers did. So what went wrong?
Most people blame mothers for...
Feminist Advocacy
Gendered Organizations in Community-Based Responses to Domestic Violence
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Feminist Advocacy: Gendered Organizations in Community-based Responses to Domestic Violence examines victim advocacy through a gendered organizations perspective. This monograph draws from in-depth interviews with twenty-six domestic violence victim advocates to examine their experiences with gendered...
Of Men and Women
How to Be for Each Other
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
A provocative and fascinating exploration of male–female relationships by the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Good Earth.
Pearl S. Buck grew up in China, accustomed to its traditions, but when she moved to the United States as an adult in the 1930s she was struck by the cultural differences...
I Want to Destroy Myself
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Malika Amar Shaikh was born to Communist-activist parents—her father, Shahir Amar Shaikh, was a trade-union leader and legendary Marathi folk singer. Brought up amidst the hurly-burly of Maharashtrian politics of the 1960s, and exposed to the best and the brightest in Bombay’s cultural scene,...
by Clementine Ford
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2019
Author has huge social media following
Tackles topical issues with characteristic acerbic wit
Provides comprehensive statistics and cites multiple studies to support her arguments
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
BIGOTRY. Obstinate or blind attachment to a particular creed; unreasonable zeal or warmth in favor of a party, sect, or opinion; excessive prejudice. The practice or tenet of a bigot.
PREJUDICE. An opinion or decision of mind, formed without due examination of the facts or arguments which are...
Unspinning the Spin
The Women's Media Center Guide to Fair and Accurate Language
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
The Women’s Media Center—founded by Jane Fonda, Gloria Steinem, and Robin Morgan—presents its first comprehensive guide to using accurate, inclusive, creative, and clear language. At a time when language is too often used to “spin” instead of communicate, Unspinning the Spin: The Women’s...
Sexuality, Gender and Power
Intersectional and Transnational Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Bringing together essays by a distinguished international group of leading and emerging scholars of sexuality and gender, this stimulating and accessible collection explores a range of theoretical and "real world" perspectives current in the field. Treating these approaches as complementary,...