Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books
Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change
An Intersectional Feminist Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change is the first collection to gather together prominent scholars on yoga and the body. Using an intersectional lens, the essays examine yoga in the United States as a complex cultural phenomenon that reveals racial, economic, gendered, and sexual politics of...
Overcoming Objectification
A Carnal Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Objectification is a foundational concept in feminist theory, used to analyze such disparate social phenomena as sex work, representation of women's bodies, and sexual harassment. However, there has been an increasing trend among scholars of rejecting and re-evaluating the philosophical assumptions...
by Yvonne Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Womens stories are noticeably absent from the master narrative of the Populist and Progressive movements, where their struggle for civil rights was more evident in the Midwest than any other region in the country. This collection of eleven biographical essays highlights women leaders in the Midwest who...
Fat Lives
A Feminist Psychological Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Ever caught somebody – or yourself – checking out the content of a ‘fat’ person’s supermarket trolley? Ever wondered what lies behind this behaviour, or what it might be like to be at the receiving end of this judging gaze?
Within the context of the current ‘obesity debate’, this...
Empire in Question
Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Featuring essays written by the influential historian Antoinette Burton since the mid-1990s, Empire in Question traces the development of a particular, contentious strand of modern British history, the “new imperial history,” through the eyes of a scholar who helped to shape the field. In her...
Citizenship: Pushing the Boundaries
Feminist Review, Issue 57
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2005
Citizenship: Pushing the Boundaries brings together global perspectives and issues of citizenship in particular regional and national contexts. It comprehensively covers contemporary feminist debates on citizenship such as: citizenship as a status bestowing rights and responsibilities, passive and...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Sex Trafficking in South Asia
Telling Maya's Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
This book is a critical feminist analysis of sex trafficking. Arguing that trafficking in girls and women is a product of the social construction of gender and other dimensions of power and status within a particular culture and at a particular historical moment, this book offers the necessary locally...
Muslim Women in Law and Society
Annotated translation of al-Tahir al-Haddad’s Imra ‘tuna fi ‘l-sharia wa ‘l-mujtama, with an introduction.
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2007
An extremely timely translation of a seminal text on the role of women in Muslim society by the early twentieth century thinker al Taher al-Haddad. Considered as one of the first feminist works in Arab literature, this book will be of considerable interest to scholars of an early "feminist"...
Pornography and Silence
Culture's Revenge Against Nature
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
A masterwork of feminist ideology, brilliantly exposing pornography as the antithesis of free expression and the enemy of liberty
In this powerful and devastating critique, poet, philosopher, and feminist Susan Griffin exposes the inherent psychological horrors of pornography. Griffin argues...
by Ada Adverse
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
’This fun and feminist series of humour books celebrates the sisterhood with a wry smile.’ – Red Have you ever…? A) Wondered whether January really is the best time to start your new diet, with all that grey weather and leftover Christmas cheese around? B) Taken your phone to the off-license...
Bogus Beauty
The New Power of American Women
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
BOGUS BEAUTY & The New Power of American Women
Worldwide, American women are coming in greater financial and psychological power and the affects are not necessarily going to be pretty nor beneficial to men and children. Many of those changes are esoteric as well as taboo in the media....
by Alka Kurian
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This book conducts a post-colonial, gendered investigation of women-centred South Asian films. In these films, the narrative becomes an act of political engagement and a site of feminist struggle: a map that weaves together multiple strands of subjectivity—gender, caste, race, class, religion, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Tyler Perry has made over half a billion dollars through the development of storylines about black women, black communities and black religion. Yet, a text that responds to his efforts from the perspective of these groups does not exist.