Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books
by Gloria Steinem
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
A powerful and moving treatise on the surprises of aging from an influential feminist writer and activist who thinks beyond stereotypes
The older I get, the more intensely I feel about the world around me.
Gloria Steinem has been an eloquent and outspoken voice for women’s rights and...
Cunt, 20th Anniversary Edition
A Declaration of Independence
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
The twentieth-anniversary edition of the original women's empowerment manifesto
An ancient title of respect for women, the word "cunt" long ago veered off its noble path. Inga Muscio traces the road from honor to expletive, giving women the motivation and tools to claim the term as...
by Mary Beard
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"A modern feminist classic."—The Guardian
**From the internationally acclaimed classicist and New York Times best-selling author comes this timely manifesto on women and power. **
At long last, Mary Beard addresses in one brave book the...
by Margaret Randall
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Che on My Mind is an impressionistic look at the life, death, and legacy of Che Guevara by the renowned feminist poet and activist Margaret Randall. Recalling an era and this figure, she writes, "I am old enough to remember the world in which [Che] lived. I was part of that world, and it remains...
Bad Girls Go Everywhere
The Life of Helen Gurley Brown, the Woman Behind Cosmopolitan Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
The biography of the revolutionary magazine editor who created the “Cosmo Girl” before Sex and the City’s Carrie Bradshaw was even born
As the author of the iconic Sex and the Single Girl (1962) and the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine for over three decades, Helen Gurley Brown...
THE NEW WOMAN OF THE NEW SOUTH
A feminist literature classic
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
This edition of "THE NEW WOMAN OF THE NEW SOUTH" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Josephine Kirby Henry (née Williamson) (February 22, 1846 – 1928) was an American Progressive Era women's rights leader, suffragist, social...
A Daughter of Isis
The Early Life of Nawal El Saadawi
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Volume one of the autobiography of Nawal El Saadawi, the Arab world's leading feminist.
Paints a beautifully textured portrait of the childhood that moulded Saadawi into a novelist and fearless campaigner for freedom and the rights of women
Combines Saadawi’s love of the Arabic...
Granny D
Walking Across America in My Ninetieth Year
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2001
"There's a cancer, and it's killing our democracy. A poor man has to sell his soul to get elected. I cry for this country."
On February 29, 2000, ninety-year-old Doris “Granny D” Haddock completed her 3,200-mile, fourteen-month walk from Los Angeles to Washington D.C. She walked...
Personal Politics
The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement & the New Left
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
The women most crucial to the feminist movement that emerged in the 1960's arrived at their commitment and consciousness in response to the unexpected and often shattering experience of having their work minimized, even disregarded, by the men they considered to be their colleagues and fellow crusaders...
by Janet Mason
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
In this forthright personal memoir, author and poet Janet Mason reflects on the factory-worker lives of her mother and grandmother in working class Philadelphia while she copes with her mothers final illness. Her mothers feminist example and unwavering support of a lesbian daughter become increasingly...
Stiffed
The Betrayal Of The American Man
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
This 20th-anniversary edition of the extraordinary New York Times bestseller features a new introduction from the author!
"Stiffed is a brilliant, important book.. Faludi's reportorial and literary skills unfold with breathtaking confidence and beauty... She goes a long way toward eliminating...
Women and Jewish Law
The Essential Texts, Their History, and Their Relevance for Today
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
How has a legal tradition determined by men affected the lives of women? What are the traditional Jewish views of marriage, divorce, sexuality, contraception, abortion? Women and Jewish Law gives contemporary readers access to the central texts of the Jewish religious tradition on issues of special...
by Anna Julia Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 1988
Considered one of the original texts foretelling the black feminist movement, this collection of essays, first published in 1892, offers an unparalleled view into the thought of black women writers in nineteenth-century America. A leading black spokeswoman of her time, Anna Julia Cooper came of age...
The Big Push
Exposing and Challenging the Persistence of Patriarchy
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
For over a century and in scores of countries, patriarchal presumptions and practices have been challenged by women and their male allies. “Sexual harassment” has entered common parlance; police departments are equipped with rape kits; more than half of the national legislators in Bolivia and...