Feminism category: 1647 books
by Concepción Arenal Ponte
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 29, 2015
La mujer del porvenir es un vibrante y lúcido ensayo sobre la independencia de la mujer y su futuro en la sociedad moderna. Escrito en la Espana del siglo XIX, este texto destaca por espíritu vanguardista, de ahí su actualidad.
Mothers
An Essay on Love and Cruelty
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
A simple argument guides this book: motherhood is the place in our culture where we lodge, or rather bury, the reality of our own conflicts. By making mothers the objects of both licensed idealization and cruelty, we blind ourselves to the world’s iniquities and shut down the portals of the heart.
Mothers...
Making Trouble
Life and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
What happens when angry young rebels become wary older women, raging in a leaner, meaner time: a time which exalts only the “new,” when the ruling orthodoxy daily disparages everything associated with the “old”? Delving into her own life and those who left their mark on it, Lynne Segal journeys...
by Lucía Lijtmaer
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 23, 2017
«Lo que vas a leer aquí va sobre cómo el sistema está diseñado para maquillar las injusticias con tonos pastel y para no darte las herramientas necesarias para detectar esas injusticias. Sobre compartir tu sensación de incredulidad al darte cuenta de que, cuando miras a tu alrededor, muchas...
Amazonas de la libertad
Mujeres liberales contra Fernando VII
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 1, 2015
"Durante la Década Ominosa, Fernando VII no tuvo mayor enemigo que la mujer patriota". Esta afirmación, perteneciente a la obra costumbrista Los españoles pintados por sí mismos (1843), expresa un amplio estado de opinión sobre el protagonismo que tuvieron las mujeres en la lucha contra...
by Olga Sedakova
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
First work of Sedakova's to appear in English
Because of their difficulty, none of her books were published in Russia until 1989
The Globalization of Motherhood
Deconstructions and reconstructions of biology and care
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
The convergence of dramatic declines in birth rates worldwide, aside from sub-Saharan Africa, the rise of untrammelled global movement of capital, people and information, and the rapid-fire dissemination of a host of new medical technologies has led to the "globalization of motherhood".
This...
The Rock Where We Stand
An Ethnography of Women's Activism in Newfoundland
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
Bay St. George in western Newfoundland is a region characterized by a boom and bust economy and shaped by the establishment of the Earnest Harmon American Airforce Base. This ethnography explores how women at the Bay St. George Women's Council deal specifically with the issues of single motherhood,...
Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change
An Intersectional Feminist Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change is the first collection to gather together prominent scholars on yoga and the body. Using an intersectional lens, the essays examine yoga in the United States as a complex cultural phenomenon that reveals racial, economic, gendered, and sexual politics of...
Black Feminist Thought
Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 1999
In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Contemporary challenges for seeking new knowledge in feminist studies are intimately intertwined with methodological renewal that promotes justice and equality in changing global contexts. Written by some of the leading scholars in their fields, this edited collection focuses on the emergence of writing...
Basic Witches
How to Summon Success, Banish Drama, and Raise Hell with Your Coven
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
A magical lifestyle guide for everything from powering up a stylish crystal to banishing terrible Tinder dates
Want to feel terrifyingly beautiful? Wear the right color of eye shadow to project otherworldly glamour. Need to exorcise a toxic friendship? Repeat the proper incantation and make...
The Emotional Politics of Racism
How Feelings Trump Facts in an Era of Colorblindness
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
With stop-and-frisk laws, new immigration policies, and cuts to social welfare programs, majorities in the United States have increasingly supported intensified forms of punishment and marginalization against Black, Latino, Arab and Muslim people in the United States, even as a majority of citizens...
Theological Perspectives for Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Public Intellectuals for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Rather than wield religion as a weapon or a ruse in irrational appeals, the book attempts to reimagine a shared American mythos and ethos, by reminding us of our shared stake in creating an America committed to the life of all peoples and species and to the full developments of our capabilities as an exercise of liberty.