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The Wayward Woman
Progressivism, Prostitution, and Performance in the United States, 1888–1917
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
The Wayward Woman takes a fresh look at the Progressive Era, recasting the turn-of-the-century debate on gender roles and prostitution. Recapitulating and transcending extant studies of female delinquency, prostitution literature, and Progressive womanhood, this work understands “female waywardness”...
by Julie Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019
'It's BRILLIANT. Such a clever, entertaining way to demonstrate how gender predetermines a life. I enjoyed it hugely' Marian Keyes
* Fabulous pick for 2019's Best Books *
* Woman & Home Pick of the Month *
* Good Housekeeping Book of the Month *
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Men Who Hate Women and Women Who Kick Their Asses
Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy in Feminist Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
Stieg Larsson was an unabashed feminist in his personal and professional life and in the fictional world he created, but The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest are full of graphic depictions of violence against women, including stalking,...
Testo Junkie
Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
What constitutes a "real" man or woman in the twenty-first century? Since birth control pills, erectile dysfunction remedies, and factory-made testosterone and estrogen were developed, biology is definitely no longer destiny.In this penetrating analysis of gender, Paul B. Preciado shows the ways in which...
Therapeutic Nations
Healing in an Age of Indigenous Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Self-determination is on the agenda of Indigenous peoples all over the world. This analysis by an Indigenous feminist scholar challenges the United Nations–based human rights agendas and colonial theory that until now have shaped Indigenous models of self-determination. Gender inequality and gender...
by David Greven
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
A struggle between narcissistic and masochistic modes of manhood defined Hollywood masculinity in the period between the presidencies of George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush. David Greven's contention is that a profound shift in representation occurred during the early 1990s when Hollywood was transformed...
by Rod Dubey
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
…beautiful in my worn clothes…The Transgressions of Love is an essay on the transgressive nature of love. Love is described as a river that freely flows without regard to prohibitions based on race, gender, class or religion. It transgresses the boundaries set by church, state and family which...
Sexual Metamorphosis
An Anthology of Transsexual Memoirs
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
But who could describe my fright when, on the next morning, I awoke and found myself feeling as if completely changed into a woman. — Case 129, Autobiography, from Psychopathia Sexualis, a Medico-Forensic Study by Richard Von Krafft-Ebing
At the time the passage above was written, people who felt...
Gender and Lynching
The Politics of Memory
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
The authors probe the reasons and circumstances surrounding the death and torture of African American female victims, relying on such methodological approaches as comparative historical work, content and media analysis, as well as literary criticism.
No Mercy Here
Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries imprisoned black women faced wrenching forms of gendered racial terror and heinous structures of economic exploitation. Subjugated as convict laborers and forced to serve additional time as domestic workers before they were allowed their freedom,...
by Jack Halberstam
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 1998
Masculinity without men. In Female Masculinity Judith Halberstam takes aim at the protected status of male masculinity and shows that female masculinity has offered a distinct alternative to it for well over two hundred years. Providing the first full-length study on this subject, Halberstam catalogs...
by Carol Gilligan
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
Since the publication of her landmark book In a Different Voice, Carol Gilligan has transformed the way we think about women and men and the relations between them. It was ‘the little book that started a revolution’, and with more than 800,000 copies in print it has become one of the most widely...
by Maggie Hennefeld
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Women explode out of chimneys and melt when sprayed with soda water. Feminist activists play practical jokes to lobby for voting rights, while overworked kitchen maids dismember their limbs to finish their chores on time. In early slapstick films with titles such as Saucy Sue, Mary Jane’s Mishap,...
The Values of Belonging
Rediscovering Balance, Mutuality, Intuition, and Wholeness in a competitive world
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
The Values of Belonging breaks new ground by examining human value systems from the perspective of how we live, not our gender. "There is a way of being in the world that recoils from aggressiveness, cunning, and greed," writes bestselling author Carol Lee Flinders. This way of being arose...