Feminism category: 1647 books
Women in a World at War
Seven Dispatches from the Front
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
In 1999, writer Madeleine Gagnon undertook to document the experience of women in the many war zones at the end of a century of ashes” through their own eyes and in their own words. Travelling to Macedonia, Kosovo, Bosnia, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, Gagnon talked with women of all ages and social classes, recording her encounters.
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
The First Major Feminist Book in the United States; Including Essays and Letters on Condition and Duties of Woman & Extracts From Fuller's Diary
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Woman in the Nineteenth Century is considered the first major feminist work in the United States. The basis for Fuller's work is the idea that man will rightfully inherit the earth when he becomes an elevated being, understanding of divine love. Fullerexamines men and women in America and observes...
Second début
Cendres et renaissance du féminisme
Language: French
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Cofondatrice de la revue La Vie en rose, Francine Pelletier se trouvait dans les tranchées de la révolution féministe, il y a 30 ans, alors qu’on entrevoyait le meilleur pour les femmes et la société en général. Une ère plus ouverte, décomplexée, libre et juste semblait s’annoncer. C’était...
by Olympe de Gouges
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: January 6, 2017
A partir de uma colaboração da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra – no quadro do Mestrado e Doutoramento em Estudos Feministas, que integra também um seminário sobre “Mulheres e Religiões” – e do Instituto Universitário Justiça e Paz, teve lugar na Faculdade de Letras um...
NATO, Gender and the Military
Women Organising from Within
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2019
This book examines NATO's engagement with gender issues through its military structures.
Drawing on newly declassified NATO documents, this volume provides the first comprehensive account of NATO’s long-established engagement with gender issues. These documents bring to the fore the stories...
Exploring LGBT Spaces and Communities
Contrasting Identities, Belongings and Wellbeing
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
The phrase ‘LGBT community’ is often used by policy-makers, service providers, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people themselves, but what does it mean? What understandings and experiences does that term suggest, and ignore? Based on a UK-wide study funded by the Arts and Humanities...
Unruly Visions
The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
In Unruly Visions Gayatri Gopinath brings queer studies to bear on investigations of diaspora and visuality, tracing the interrelation of affect, archive, region, and aesthetics through an examination of a wide range of contemporary queer visual culture. Spanning film, fine art, poetry, and photography,...
Personal and Political
Stories from the Women's Health Movement 1960-2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Details the innovative, courageous, and creative activism of the “second wave” women’s health movement in Canada between 1960 and 2010. This activism (re)claimed women's bodies, created women-centered spaces and services, and challenged a medically dominated healthcare system. Feminists challenged...
by Can Baskent
Language: Turkish
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Language: Turkish
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Sınıfsal açıdan bakıldığında dahi, cinsiyetçiliğin ve türcülüğün oldukça benzer yöntemlerle işlediği görülür. Bu kitap sadece sınıf temelli argümanlarla değil, özgürlükçü siyasetin bir çok yöntem ve tezleriyle cinsiyetçilik ve türcülük arasındaki paralelliğe...
Thick
And Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
As featured by The Daily Show, NPR, PBS, CBC, Time, VIBE, Entertainment Weekly, Well-Read Black Girl, and Chris Hayes, “incisive, witty, and provocative essays” (Publishers Weekly) by one of the “most bracing thinkers on race, gender, and capitalism of our time” (Rebecca Traister)
“Thick...
After the Happily Ever After
Empowering Women and Mothers in Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
This book is about the two-tiered system and invisible imbalance that operates within the framework of the family. It is about the fantasy of the “happily-ever- after,” which the wedding industry promotes and Western society reinforces. Why are we hanging onto this faux happiness at the expense...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Examine the psychosocial factors that affect lesbian and bisexual women’s mental health
This essential guide presents up-to-date, evidence-based information that can be implemented to improve mental health services for lesbian and bisexual women in a variety of settings. It examines the systemic...
What the Village Gave Me
Conceptualizations of Womanhood
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
In What the Village Gave Me, the contributors—all women of color—present their varied experiences regarding the conceptualizations of womanhood, beauty, and gender roles. The goal of this book is to illuminate how these issues intersect with the transmission of cultural norms, marriage rates,...
Teaching Feminist Activism
Strategies from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
From theoretical analysis to practical teaching tools, an indispensable guide for educators seeking to link feminist theory and activism to their teaching. Included are web sites, videos, recommended texts, and additional course outlines.