Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books
Love
A Question for Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
This unique, timely book of original essays sets the stage for a new materialist feminist debate on the analysis, ethics and politics of love. The contributors raise questions about social power and domination, situating their research in a materialist feminist perspective that investigates love historically,...
Learning Good Consent
On Healthy Relationships and Survivor Support
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Cindy Crabb provides a DIY tour of the promise and perils of sexual relationships in Learning Good Consent. Building ethical relationships is one of the most important things we can do, but sex, consent, abuse, and support can get complicated. This collection is an indispensable guide to both preventing...
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,...
Living for the Revolution
Black Feminist Organizations, 1968–1980
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2005
The first in-depth analysis of the black feminist movement, Living for the Revolution fills in a crucial but overlooked chapter in African American, women’s, and social movement history. Through original oral history interviews with key activists and analysis of previously unexamined organizational...
Ain't I a Woman
Black Women and Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
A classic work of feminist scholarship, Ain't I a Woman has become a must-read for all those interested in the nature of black womanhood. Examining the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the devaluation of black womanhood, black male sexism, racism among feminists, and the black woman's...
The End of Patriarchy
Radical Feminism for Men
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
The End of Patriarchy asks one key question: what do we need to create stable and decent human communities that can thrive in a sustainable relationship with the larger living world? Robert Jensen's answer is feminism and a critique of patriarchy. He calls for a radical feminist challenge to institutionalized...
Transitions
New Australian feminisms
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1995
Gender relations are in a period of transition. In this collection, some of Australia's leading writers and talented young scholars offer a systematic overview of the ways in which recent feminist analysis is shaping women's studies. They reflect on questions of power, difference, social structures,...
Neither Man nor Beast
Feminism and the Defense of Animals
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
In this landmark work of animal rights activism, Carol J. Adams - the bestselling author of The Sexual Politics of Meat - explores the intersections and common causes of feminism and the defense of animals. Neither Man Nor Beast explores the common link between cultural attitudes to women and animals...
The Trouble Between Us
An Uneasy History of White and Black Women in the Feminist Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2006
Inspired by the idealism of the civil rights movement, the women who launched the radical second wave of the feminist movement believed, as a bedrock principle, in universal sisterhood and color-blind democracy. Their hopes, however, were soon dashed. To this day, the failure to create an integrated...
by Martha C. Nussbaum
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2000
What does it mean to respect the dignity of a human being? What sort of support do human capacities demand from the world, and how should we think about this support when we encounter differences of gender or sexuality? How should we think about each other across divisions that a legacy of injustice...
Feminism and Method
Ethnography, Discourse Analysis, and Activist Research
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Naples draws on different research topics, such as welfare, poverty, sexual identity, and sexual abuse, to illustrate some of the most salient dilemmas of feminist research: the debate over objectivity, the paradox of discourse, the dilemma of "standpoint," and the challenges of activist...
Indian Feminisms
Law, Patriarchies and Violence in India
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Contributing to debates on feminism, this book considers the impact made by feminists in India from the 1970s. Geetanjali Gangoli analyses feminist campaigns on issues of violence and women’s rights, and debates on ways in which feminist legal debates may be limiting for women and based on exclusionary...
Bodies of Information
Intersectional Feminism and the Digital Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
A wide-ranging, interconnected anthology presents a diversity of feminist contributions to digital humanities
In recent years, the digital humanities has been shaken by important debates about inclusivity and scope—but what change will these conversations ultimately bring about? Can the digital...
Leaky Bodies and Boundaries
Feminism, Postmodernism and (Bio)ethics
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Drawing on postmodernist analyses, Leaky Bodies and Boundaries presents a feminist investigation into the marginalization of women within western discourse that denies female moral agency and embodiment. With reference to contemporary and historical issues in biomedicine, the book argues that the...