Feminism category: 1647 books
Féminisme
Modèle Féminin
Language: French
Release Date: October 26, 2013
Une perspective féministe en ce qui concerne l'autonomisation des femmes, l'égalité ou superiorty entre les relations, la foi qui la favorise, et l'affirmation de la volonté
Women With Disabilities
Found Voices
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Here is a powerful stimulus for thought, discussion, and coalition building in the area of women and disability. This innovative book was written by women with disabilities and women professionals who work with persons with disabilities. Women With Disabilities covers many concerns about life with...
The Sisters Are Alright
Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
GOLD MEDALIST OF FOREWORD REVIEWS' 2015 INDIEFAB AWARDS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES
What's wrong with black women? Not a damned thing!
The Sisters Are Alright exposes anti–black-woman propaganda and shows how real black women are pushing back against distorted cartoon versions of themselves.
When...
![Cover of "Malkah, [Old] Age, and Jewish Identity in Marge Piercy’s He, She and It" by Naomi Mercer, Femspec Issue 15](https://www.kuoky.com/images/2015/december/300x300/9781311278579-uVAn_300x.jpg)
by Naomi R. Mercer
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2015
Writing from within the Jewish tradition, Marge Piercy’s novel, He, She and It, contributes to the on-going debate regarding gender equality and kyriarchal conceptions of older women through challenging the inclusion, or exclusion, of the Other including the elder in social institutions.
by
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Drawing on recent feminist discussions, this collection critically reassesses ideas about agency, exploring the relationship between agency and coercion in greater depth and across a range of disciplinary perspectives and ethical contexts.
by Esther Vilar
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
Esther Vilars classic polemic about the relationship between the sexes caused a sensation on its first publication. In her introduction to this revised edition, Vilar maintains that very little has changed. A man is a human being who works, while a woman chooses to let a man provide for her and her children...
Reproductive Rights and Wrongs
The Global Politics of Population Control
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Provides an important corrective to a prevailing view that population is at the root of the environmental crisis
Comprehensive and meticulously documented the author incorporates statistics and anecdotal evidence to demonstrate the full scope of the victim blaming that threats the lives of the most vulnerable populations.
Claiming the Bicycle
Women, Rhetoric, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Although the impact of the bicycle craze of the late nineteenth century on women’s lives has been well documented, rarely have writers considered the role of women’s rhetorical agency in the transformation of bicycle culture and the bicycle itself. In Claiming the Bicycle, Sarah Hallenbeck argues...
Morality and Our Complicated Form of Life
Feminist Wittgensteinian Metaethics
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2008
Moral philosophy, like much of philosophy generally, has been bedeviled by an obsession with seeking secure epistemological foundations and with dichotomies between mind and body, fact and value, subjectivity and objectivity, nature and normativity. These are still alive today in the realism-versus-antirealism...
Empowerment and Interconnectivity
Toward a Feminist History of Utilitarian Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Feminist history of philosophy has successfully focused thus far on canon revision, canon critique, and the recovery of neglected or forgotten women philosophers. However, the methodology remains underexplored, and it seems timely to ask larger questions about how the history of philosophy is to be...
Gendered Readings of Change
A Feminist-Pragmatist Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
This book develops a unique theory of change by drawing on American philosophy and contemporary feminist thought. Via a select history of ancient Greek and Pragmatist philosophies of change, Fischer argues for a reconstruction of transformation that is inclusive of women's experiences and thought.
by Christien Garcia
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
In this book, Sedgwick examines texts from Europe and America such as Wilde, Nietzsche and Proust and considers the historical moment when sexual orientation came to be as important a signifier of personhood as gender had been for centuries. In doing this, Sedgwick provides a history of sexuality...
Feminisms in Social Work Research
Promise and possibilities for justice-based knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Social work as a profession and academic discipline has long centered women and issues of concern to women, such as reproductive rights, labor rights, equal rights, violence and poverty. In fact, the social work profession was started by and maintained in large part by women and has been home to several...
by
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
This book contributes to the growing literature on men and masculinities, but does so through a methodological lens. It addresses methodological approaches and challenges for feminist and pro-feminist studies of men and masculinities.