Feminism category: 1647 books

As the twenty-first century faces a crisis of democracy and sustainability, this book attempts to bring academics and alternative globalisation activists into conversation.Through studies of global neoliberalism, ecological debt, climate change, and the ongoing devaluation of reproductive and subsistence...

100 years ago women in the UK won the vote and 50 years ago the Women’s Liberation Movement began a sustained campaign for equal rights. Eva Tutchell and John Edmonds draw upon historical perspectives and contemporary interviews to convey what it felt like to be in the heart of the campaigns—the...

Drawing on the ambiguous meaning of the notion of vulnerability, the book offers an innovative approach to the topic of the female body in relation to women's rights; going beyond the age-old dichotomy of casting women as either passive victims or conscious agents.

A book detailing the history of feminist activism in Argentina from the 19th and 20th century.

A Feminist Perspective on Virtue Ethics provides of historical survey of feminist virtue ethics, and shows how the ethical theorizing of women in the past can be brought to bear on that of women in the present.

Combining the energy of the early seventies feminist movement with the perceptive analyses of the trained theorist, Woman’s Estate is one of the most influential socialist feminist statements of its time. Scrutinizing the political background of the movement, its sources and its common ground with...

Profissões para mulheres e outros artigos feministas reúne sete ensaios de Virginia Woolf nos quais ela questiona a visão tradicional da mulher como "anjo do lar" e expõe as dificuldades da inserção feminina no mundo profissional e intelectual da época. Numa era em que o papel da...

Em cada ano, desde 10 de Dezembro de 1948, o mundo celebra a adopção da Declaração Universal dos Direitos do Homem pela Assembleia-geral das Nações Unidas. Este dia capital convoca e recorda que todos os seres humanos são iguais por direito. Esta publicação acontece no âmbito de uma certa efervescência...

Zure manwijven in tuinbroeken: karikaturen van de Tweede Golf zijn hardnekkig, niet in de minste plaats onder de nieuwe generatie feministen die nu op aan het opstaan is. Zij zetten zich grootmoedig af tegen deze beelden, vaak ongehinderd door enige kennis. Genderstudies heeft echter niet stil gestaan...

→ Dossier : Les femmes, l’islam et la République Élisabeth Badinter : « La gauche n’a jamais été aussi soumise aux injonctions religieuses... » Grande figure du féminisme universaliste, Élisabeth Badinter retrace l’histoire des femmes depuis la Révolution française jusqu’à l’émergence...

Much of this book is dedicated to exploring female rights in Canada, India, the developing world, and other countries, making comparisons and contrasting the experience of these women. For example, the ways that sexuality is handled in many third world countries and the cultures there are to approach...

Is heterosexual sex inherently damaging to women? This is the central question of Straight Sex, Lynne Segal’s account of twentyfive years of feminist thinking on sexuality. Covering the thought of sixties-era sexual liberationists, alongside the ensuing passionate debates over sex and love within...

Can society operate without gender and even biological sex classifications? Queer Post-Gender Ethics argues that we could exist, formulate our relationships and be sexual in more androgynous ways. Outlining a political vision for how a post-gender sociality might be achieved, it presents queer social practices for a truly gender neutral world.

The critique made is that popular shows on television are reactionary products of a culture that treats women as sex objects. The episodes of Star Trek critiqued in the journal are about how the feminist movement coincided with the sexist illustration of women in the television. Watching these Star...