Feminism category: 1647 books
Wonder Women
Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Fifty years after the Equal Pay Act, why are women still living in a man's world?
Debora L. Spar never thought of herself as a feminist. Raised after the tumult of the 1960s, she presumed the gender war was over. As one of the youngest female professors to be tenured at Harvard Business School...
A Strange Stirring
The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
In 1963, Betty Friedan unleashed a storm of controversy with her bestselling book, The Feminine Mystique. Hundreds of women wrote to her to say that the book had transformed, even saved, their lives. Nearly half a century later, many women still recall where they were when they first read it.
In...
The New Victorians
A Young Woman's Challenge to the Old Feminist Order
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2009
Journalist Rene Denfeld explains why her generation has become alienated from the women's movement, maintaining that the actions of the movement's current leadership have actually encouraged a return to the kind of sexual repression and political powerlessness challenged by feminists in the 1970s....
Misconceptions
Truth, Lies, and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2003
In Misconceptions, bestselling author Naomi Wolf she demythologizes motherhood and reveals the dangers of common assumptions about childbirth. With uncompromising honesty she describes how hormones eroded her sense of independence, ultrasounds tested her commitment to abortion rights, and the keepers...
Sisters of the Yam
Black Women and Self-Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
In Sisters of the Yam, bell hooks reflects on the ways in which the emotional health of black women has been and continues to be impacted by sexism and racism. Desiring to create a context where black females could both work on their individual efforts for self-actualization while remaining connected...
Mothers and Daughters
Complicated Connections Across Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Family stories of the ties between mothers and daughters form the foundation of Mothers and Daughters: Complicated Connections Across Cultures. Nationally and internationally known feminist scholars frame, analyze, and explore mother-daughter bonds in this collection of essays. Cultures from around...
by Valerie Solanas
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
"SCUM Manifesto" was considered one of the most outrageous, violent and certifiably crazy tracts. Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Andy Warhol, self-published this work just before her rampage against the king of Pop Art made her a household name and resulted in her confinement to a mental...
The Body Is Not an Apology
The Power of Radical Self-Love
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
“To build a world that works for everyone, we must first make the radical decision to love every facet of ourselves…‘The body is not an apology' is the mantra we should all embrace.”
—Kimberlé Crenshaw, legal scholar and founder and Executive Director, African American Policy Forum
“Taylor...
Becoming Cliterate
Why Orgasm Equality Matters--And How to Get It
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
We’ve been thinking about sex all wrong. Mainstream media, movies, and porn have taught us that sex = penis + vagina, and everything else is just secondary. Standard penetration is how men most reliably achieve orgasm. The problem is, women don’t orgasm this way. We’ve separated our most reliable...
by Meredith Small
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
In this refreshingly down-to-earth exploration of human mating and sexuality, an acclaimed anthropologist looks at the fascinating intersection between the imperatives of our glands and genes, and the culture in which we live. Why do we fall in love with the people we do? Is there an alternative,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Traditional midwifery, culture, customs, understandings, and meanings surrounding pregnancy and birth are grounded in distinct epistemologies and worldviews that have sustained Indigenous women and their families since time immemorial. Years of colonization, however, have impacted the degree to which...
Marriage and Violence
The Early Modern Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Marriage is often described as a melding of two people into one. But what—or who—must be lost, fragmented, or buried in that process? We have inherited a model of marriage so flawed, Frances E. Dolan contends, that its logical consequence is conflict.
Dolan ranges over sixteenth- and seventeenth-century...
Women Imagine Change
A Global Anthology of Women's Resistance from 600 B.C.E. to Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 1997
This global, multicultural anthology shows how women from some thirty countries, across twenty-six centuries, have found ways to resist oppression and gain power over their lives. Organized around themes of concern to contemporary readers, Women Imagine Change explores: relationships between women's sexuality and spirituality; women's interlinked s
by Bill Johnson II
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Spousal violence, or domestic violence as it is commonly referred to, is a social problem that occurs among people of all cultures, religious affiliations, sexual orientations and socioeconomic statuses. Although males and females are both reported as the perpetrators of domestic violence, males are...