Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books
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...
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...
Diary of a Rad Housewife
Ten Years of Tirades and True Tales
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Ten years ago, Shannon Drury was a cranky feminist stay-at-home mom whose younger friends had to explain just what a “blog” was. Today she’s known in the blogsphere and IRL by the name of her award-winning website: The Radical Housewife.
This celebration of her blog-iversary includes...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Feminist therapy was created in the late 1960s, concurrent with the founding of The Association for Women in Psychology. Its early practitioners had diverse lifestyles, backgrounds, and often unconventional training, but all had a common and radical goal of providing an alternative therapy for women...
Pornography
A Philosophical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Debates over pornography tend to be heated and deeply polarized--as with other topics that have to do with sex, pornography cuts to the core of our values and convictions. Philosophical debates concerning pornography are fraught with difficult questions: What is pornography? What does pornography...
AN ESSAY IN DEFENCE OF THE FEMALE SEX
A feminist literature classic
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
The Essay is written in the form of a letter to a female friend. It purports to be inspired by a conversation between several gentlemen and ladies. Drake first constructed the rationalist framework used at that time to explain women's intellectual inferiority, especially using John Locke's An Essay...
The Feminist Porn Book, Band 2
Die Kunst, Lust zu vermitteln
Language: German
Release Date: August 26, 2014
"Feminist Porn Book – die Kunst, Lust zu vermitteln" versammelt Produzentinnen, Darstellerinnen, Sex-Aktivistinnen und Kritikerinnen, die sich als Autorinnen zum Thema äußern. Wie zum Beispiel Candida Royalle, ehemalige Pornodarstellerin und Gründerin der Produktionsfirma "Femme Productions", die...
by Lisa Appignanesi, Susie Orbach, Rachel Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Half a century after the publication of The Feminine Mystique, have women really exchanged purity and maternity to become desiring machines inspired only by variations of sex, shopping and masochism - all coloured a brilliant neuro-pink?
In this volume, fifty women young and old - writers,...
A Little F'd Up
Why Feminism Is Not a Dirty Word
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Young women today have a bad reputation, and for good reason: They’re sexting their classmates, they spend more time on FaceBook than they do in class, and their appetite for material possessions and reality TV is matched only by their overwhelming apathy about important social and political issues....
by Anne Waldman
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
New from celebrated poet and performer Anne Waldman - an edgy, visionary collection that meditates on gender, existence, passion and activism
Mythopoetics, shape shifting, quantum entanglement, Anthropocene blues, litany and chance operation play inside the field of these intertwined poems,...
Women and the Media
Feminism and Femininity in Britain, 1900 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
The media have played a significant role in the contested and changing social position of women in Britain since the 1900s. They have facilitated feminism by both providing discourses and images from which women can construct their identities, and offering spaces where hegemonic ideas of femininity...
Gyn/Ecology
The Metaethics of Radical Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
This revised edition includes a New Intergalactic Introduction by the Author.
Mary Daly's New Intergalactic Introduction explores her process as a Crafty Pirate on the Journey of Writing Gyn/Ecology and reveals the autobiographical context of this "Thunderbolt of Rage" that she first...
by Mary Wollstonecraft
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
First published in 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was an instant success, turning its thirty-three-year-old author into a minor celebrity. A pioneering work of early feminism that extends to women the Enlightenment principle of "the rights of man," its argument remains as relevant...
Neglected or Misunderstood
The Radical Feminism of Shulamith Firestone
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Shulamith Firestone’s The Dialectic of Sex proved immediately controversial upon its publication in 1970. The book’s thesis is that the origins of women’s oppression lie in biology: in the fact that it is women and not men who conceive and give birth to children. Firestone’s solution is revolutionary:...