Feminism category: 1647 books
by Virginie Despentes, Emma Ramadan
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Stunning Claudine and gloomy Pauline pretend to be one person so that Claudine can be famous, but just as things take off, Claudine commits suicide. Pauline hatches a new scheme, taking on her dead sister’s identity, inhabiting her apartment, and reading her emails—slowly realizing the cost of femininity is to dazzle on the outside while rotting on the inside.
How Pop Culture Shapes the Stages of a Woman's Life
From Toddlers-in-Tiaras to Cougars-on-the-Prowl
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Contemporary popular culture has created a slew of stereotypical roles for girls and women to (willingly or not) play throughout their lives: The Princess, the Nymphette, the Diva, the Single Girl, the Bridezilla, the Tiger Mother, the M.I.L.F, the Cougar, and more. In this book Ames and Burcon investigate...
Narratives of East Asian Women Teachers of English
Where Privilege Meets Marginalization
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
This book is a powerful narrative of how six women experienced their lives alongside their desire to overcome the challenging and empowering nature of the English language. The volume shares who they are as transnational and mobile women living in the midst of linguistic privilege and marginalization....
Feminist Poetics
Performance, Histories
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Feminist Poetics in concerned with all of these questions, but also with the issue of rewriting an older poetics for what it does not say about the marginalisation of the feminine. The first half of the book traces the trajectory of a particular, feminine, academic subject learning to find her voice....
by Sally Hines, Yvette Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
This collection examines recent theoretical and methodological debates, shifts in law and policy, and social and cultural changes around sexuality. It sets out new ways of conceptualizing and researching sexuality and explores persistently marginalised and re-traditionalised sexual practices, subjectivities and identities.
Lesbian Ex-Lovers
The Really Long-Term Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
We have earned a certain place in each other’s lives, and in the best of times we can rest on what we have made together.
Lesbian Ex-Lovers: The Really Long-Term Relationships examines the need for the development of better understanding and more critical analysis of lesbian ex-lover...
Women and Sex Therapy
Closing the Circle of Sexual Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Outstanding feminist scholars present seldom discussed women’s views of sexuality. In the past, there has been little feminist discussion among sexuality professionals and between feminist therapists and sex therapists. The valuable ideas expressed by the contributors to this book are aimed at increasing...
God's Country
A Case Against Theocracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Explore the influence of religion on the privacy rights of U. S. citizens in this controversial new book!
Here is a compelling and controversial new book that explores the enormous political influence that some religious groups currently wield. God’s Country focuses particularly on the issue...
Feminist Perspectives on Social Work Practice
The Intersecting Lives of Women in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Feminist Perspectives on Social Work Practice is a contemporary look at the issues across a wide spectrum, beyond just equal pay for equal work and reproductive rights, with which women struggle on a daily basis. The Trump administration's call to roll back the progress that women have made over the...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
An homage to the classic Our Bodies, Ourselves, this encyclopedic, crowd-sourced compilation of essays, resources, information, and advice about the intersection of gender and bicycling covers a lot of ground—bold meditations on body parts, stories about recovery from illness and injury, biking...
Assisted Reproduction Across Borders
Feminist Perspectives on Normalizations, Disruptions and Transmissions
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Today, it often seems as though Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) have reached a stage of normalization, at least in some countries and among certain social groups. Apparently some practices – for example in vitro fertilization (IVF) – have become standard worldwide. The contributors to...
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Harriet Beecher Stowe's notorious 1869 exposé, "The True Story of Lady Byron's Life," has quite plausibly been described as "the most sensational magazine article of the nineteenth century," but as is often the case with sensations it has tended to be talked about much more than...
The Collected Works
The Woman's Bible, The History of Women's Suffrage From 1848 to 1885, Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Musaicum Books presents to you this meticulously edited Elizabeth Cady collection. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 – 1902) was an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the Seneca Falls...
Changes of Heart
Reflections on Women's Independence
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012