Feminism category: 1647 books
by Professor Deborah K. Heikes
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Rationality and Feminist Philosophy argues that the Enlightenment conception of rationality that feminists are fond of attacking is no longer a live concept. Deborah K. Heikes shows how contemporary theories of rationality are consonant with many feminist concerns and proposes that feminists need...
Mary Jane Safford, MD
Indomitable Mite
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2017
This is the first comprehensive biography of 19th century physician, writer, feminist, progressive reformer and lecturer Dr. Mary Jane Safford who led an extraordinarily adventurous life. Her uncanny ability to appear in right places and times to experience and make true history was akin to Forrest...
Masquerade and Gender
Disguise and Female Identity in Eighteenth-Century Fictions by Women
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 1993
Terry Castle's recent study of masquerade follows Bakhtin's analysis of the carnivalesque to conclude that, for women, masquerade offered exciting possibilities for social and sexual freedom. Castle's interpretation conforms to the fears expressed by male writers during the period—Addison, Steele,...
by Nancy Bauer
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
In Nancy Bauer’s view, most feminist philosophers are content to work within theoretical frameworks that are false to human beings’ everyday experiences. Here she models a new way to write about pornography, women’s self-objectification, hook-up culture, and other contemporary phenomena, and in doing so she raises basic questions about philosophy.
Writing Academic Texts Differently
Intersectional Feminist Methodologies and the Playful Art of Writing
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
This edited volume combines cutting-edge research on feminist and intersectional writing methodologies with explorations of links between academic and creative writing practices. Contributors discuss what it means for academic writing processes to explore intersectional in-between spaces between monolithic...
All in the Family
On Community and Incommensurability
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Western political philosophers since Plato have used the family as a model for harmonious political and social relations. Yet, far from being an uncontentious domain for shared interests and common values, the family is often the scene of intense interpersonal conflict and disagreement. In All in...
by Alice Stone Blackwell
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This eBook edition of "The Life of Lucy Stone" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Lucy Stone was a prominent U.S. orator, abolitionist, suffragist, and a vocal advocate and organizer promoting rights for women. In 1847, Stone...
The Women's Victory and After
Personal Reminiscences, 1911-1918
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett was a British feminist, intellectual, political and union leader, and writer. She is primarily known for her work as a campaigner for women to have the vote. As a suffragist (as opposed to a suffragette), she took a moderate line, but was a tireless campaigner. She concentrated...
Feminist Ethnography
Thinking through Methodologies, Challenges, and Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
What is feminist ethnography? What is its history? How can its methods be applied? How is feminist ethnography produced, distributed, and evaluated? How do feminist ethnographers link their findings to broader publics through activism, advocacy, and public policy? Investigating these questions and...
Ecofeminist Natures
Race, Gender, Feminist Theory and Political Action
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Examining the development of ecofeminism from the 1980s antimilitarist movement to an internationalist ecofeminism in the 1990s, Sturgeon explores the ecofeminist notions of gender, race, and nature. She moves from detailed historical investigations of important manifestations of US ecofeminism to a broad analysis of international environmental politics.
by Rosa Cobo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Este libro explica los cambios que ha experimentado la prostitución en las últimas décadas. El viejo mundo de la prostitución era un conjunto de negocios casi artesanales sin apenas impacto económico. El nuevo canon es una industria global, interconectada, con un modo de funcionamiento similar...
Identities and Freedom
Feminist Theory Between Power and Connection
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
How can we think about identities in the wake of feminist critiques of identity and identity politics? In Identities and Freedom, Allison Weir rethinks conceptions of individual and collective identities in relation to freedom. Drawing on Taylor and Foucault, Butler, Zerilli, Mahmood, Mohanty, Young,...
by Ada Adverse
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
’Perfect for the gin drinker in your life.’ – The Sun Have you ever…? A) Wondered whether the cucumber in your artisan G&T counts towards your five a day? B) Vowed to spend a wholesome night in, maybe juicing, but surrendered to the inevitable cycle of off-license wine and Facebook stalking...
by Amanda Lovelace, ladybookmad
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
The witch: supernaturally powerful, inscrutably independent, and now—indestructible. These moving, relatable poems encourage resilience and embolden women to take control of their own stories. Enemies try to judge, oppress, and marginalize her, but the witch doesn’t burn in this one.