Feminism category: 1647 books
Revolutionary Mothering
Love on the Front Lines
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
An anthology that gives access to the voices of mothers of color and marginalized mothers Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Frontlines is an anthology that centers mothers of color and marginalized mothers' voices—women who are in a world of necessary transformation. The challenges faced by...
Motherhood and Single-Lone Parenting
A Twenty-First Century Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
The 21st century sustains one significant commonality with the decades of the preceding century. The majority of individuals parenting on their own and heading one-parent families continue to be mothers. Even so, current trends in globalization (economic, political, cultural) along with technological...
Reading Women's Worlds from Christine de Pizan to Doris Lessing
A Guide to Six Centuries of Women Writers Imagining Rooms of Their Own
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
In this work, Jansen explores a recurring theme in writing by women: the dream of finding or creating a private and secluded retreat from the world of men. These imagined "women's worlds" may be very small, a single room, for example, but many women writers are much more ambitious,...
by Clare Louise Harmon
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
"The Thingbody explores the edge of bearable female existence in an age of plenty: suicide attempt, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and the requisite stint on the psychiatric ward which is both a prison and a safe space. The struggle to become vulnerable . . . is beautifully rent and rendered."--Maria...
African American Women's Rhetoric
The Search for Dignity, Personhood, and Honor
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
African American Women's Rhetoric: The Search for Dignity, Personhood, and Honor deals with the rhetoric of African American women from enslavement to current times, examining slave narratives and contemporary print, music, and other media surrounding the lives of African American women. Covering...
by Margaret Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2012
'I solicit a sincere and patient attention from those who open the following pages at all. I solicit of women that they will lay it to heart to ascertain what is for them the liberty of law. [...] From men I ask a noble and earnest attention to anything that can be offered on this great and still...
Biopiracy
The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Genetic engineering and the cloning of organisms are “the ultimate expression of the commercialization of science and the commodification of nature.… Life itself is being colonized,” according to renowned environmentalist Vandana Shiva. The resistance to this biopiracy, she argues, is the struggle...
Muslim Mothering
Global Histories, Theories, and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2016
Muslim Mothering is an interdisciplinary volume, concentrating on the experiences of Muslim mothers, largely in the contemporary period. The volume is notable for the global range of its contributors and topics, indicative of the number of Muslim majority national contexts and large and diverse Muslim...
by Nelly Arcan
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Burqa of Skin is a dense collection of writings from Nelly Arcan, channelling harrowing disenchantment and indignation. From her very first novel, Putain (Seuil, 2001), Arcan shook the literary landscape with her flamboyant lyricism and her preoccupations with such recurring themes as our culture’s...
Space, Place, and Sex
Geographies of Sexualities
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
This accessible and engaging book explores the ways that "space, place, and sex" are inextricably linked from the micro to the macro level, from the individual body to the globe. Drawing on queer, feminist, gender, social, and cultural studies, Lynda Johnston and Robyn Longhurst highlight...
Citizenship from Below
Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Citizenship from Below boldly revises the history of the struggles for freedom by emancipated peoples in post-slavery Jamaica, post-independence Haiti, and the wider Caribbean by focusing on the interplay between the state, the body, race, and sexuality. Mimi Sheller offers a new theory of "citizenship...
Queer Media Images
LGBT Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Queer Media Images: LGBT Perspectives presents fifteen chapters that address how the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered communities are depicted in the media. This collection focuses on how the LGBT community has been silenced or given voice through the media. Through a study of queer media...
by María de Alva
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 16, 2014
En "Memoria y escritura del cuerpo: un estudio sobre sexualidad, maternidad y dolor", María de Alva explora el papel del cuerpo femenino en la construcción de la memoria de personajes, tomando como ejemplo cuatro novelas del siglo XXI: "Historia del rey transparente" de Rosa Montero, "Un milagro...
Translating the Queer
Body Politics and Transnational Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
What does it mean to queer a concept? If queerness is a notion that implies a destabilization of the normativity of the body, then all cultural systems contain zones of discomfort relevant to queer studies. What then might we make of such zones when the use of the term queer itself has transcended...