Feminism list 64

Women's Magazines in Print and New Media

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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016

This book contributes to our collective understanding of the significance of representations of women and gender in magazines in both their print and online forms. The essays are authored by scholars, writers and cultural producers in fields such as art, film and visual studies, literature, critical...

Feminist Approaches for Men in Family Therapy

by Michele Bograd
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014

This book is the first of its kind to address the treatment of men in marital and family therapy from a political or feminist perspective. Feminist Approaches for Men in Family Therapy is an important and provocative addition to the field of family therapy and psychotherapy and works to deepen the...

Professor Mommy

Finding Work-Family Balance in Academia

by Kristen Ghodsee, Rachel Connelly
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011

Professor Mommy is designed as a guide for women who want to combine the life of the mind with the joys of motherhood. The book provides practical suggestions from the authors' experiences together with those of other women who have successfully combined parenting with professorships. Professor Mommy...

The Secret Life of the Cheating Wife

Power, Pragmatism, and Pleasure in Women’s Infidelity

by Alicia M. Walker
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017

Using a sample collected from Ashley Madison, this book is the result of a yearlong inquiry into women’s extramarital experiences. Ultimately, these women reject the binary proposition of marriage that assumes that either we work on our marriages and remain monogamous within them, or we break up...

The Anti-Social Family

by Michele Barrett, Mary McIntosh
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015

Despite much talk of its decline, the nuclear family persists as a structure central to contemporary society, a fact to be lamented, according to the ideas of Michèle Barrett and Mary McIntosh. The Anti-social Family dissects the network of household, kinship and sexual relations that constitute...

Genealogies of Emotions, Intimacies, and Desire

Theories of Changes in Emotional Regimes from Medieval Society to Late Modernity

by Ann Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016

Genealogies of Emotions, Intimacies and Desire excavates epistemologies which attempt to explain changes in emotional regimes from medieval society to late modernity. Key in this debate is the concept of intimacy. The book shows that different historical periods are characterized by emotional regimes...

Asexualities

Feminist and Queer Perspectives

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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014

What is so radical about not having sex? To answer this question, this collection of essays explores the feminist and queer politics of asexuality. Asexuality is predominantly understood as an orientation describing people who do not experience sexual attraction. In this multidisciplinary volume,...

Only Words

by Catharine A. MacKinnon
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1996

MacKinnon contends that pornography, racial and sexual harassment, and racial hate speech are acts of intimidation, subordination, terrorism, and discrimination, and should be legally treated as such.

Imagining Sisterhood in Modern Chinese Texts, 1890–1937

by Yun Zhu
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017

This book investigates sisterhood as a converging thread that wove female subjectivities and intersubjectivities into a larger narrative of Chinese modernity embedded in a newly conceived global context. It focuses on the period between the late Qing reform era around the turn of the twentieth century...

The Subject of Care

Feminist Perspectives on Dependency

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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003

All people spend a considerable portion of their lives either as dependents or the caretakers of dependents. The fact of human dependency—a function of youth, severe illness, disability, or frail old age—marks our lives, not only as those who are cared for, but as those who engage in the work...

Why Science Is Sexist

by Nicola Gaston
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015

Science changes the world because the creation of knowledge opens up new pathways for us to explore new ways of doing things, and new questions to ask. My optimism lies in the fact that I think that the answer to why science is sexist does all of these things.In this eye-opening BWB Text, Nicola Gaston,...

Feminist Frontiers: Women Who Shaped the Midwest

by Yvonne Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010

Womens stories are noticeably absent from the master narrative of the Populist and Progressive movements, where their struggle for civil rights was more evident in the Midwest than any other region in the country. This collection of eleven biographical essays highlights women leaders in the Midwest who...

Roman Women

The Women who influenced the History of Rome

by Paul Chrystal
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017

Using historical sources ( Livy, Suetonius, et al) as well as numismatic and sculptural evidence, Roman Women details the lives of Rome’s most influential women to examine, uniquely, what effect they had on contemporary politics, and or how far they and their reputations and actions reflected...

The Brain's Body

Neuroscience and Corporeal Politics

by Victoria Pitts-Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016

In The Brain's Body Victoria Pitts-Taylor brings feminist and critical theory to bear on new development in neuroscience to demonstrate how power and inequality are materially and symbolically entangled with neurobiological bodies. Pitts-Taylor is interested in how the brain interacts with and is...