Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 1996
The stories of Indonesian women have often been told by Indonesian men and Dutch men and women. This volume asks how these representations—reproduced, transformed, and circulated in history, ethnography, and literature—have circumscribed feminine behavior in colonial and postcolonial Indonesia....
Targeted and Trolled
The Reality of Being a Woman Online (an Original Digital Short)
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
A feminist campaigner is sent death threats online at a rate of over fifty-per-hour. A woman who shares on social media her experience of rape, so that others might feel brave enough to speak out, is bombarded with abusive messages. More than a hundred female celebrities have their personal nude photographs...
¡Feminismo!
The Woman's Movement in Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
A book detailing the history of feminist activism in Argentina from the 19th and 20th century.
Women's Encounters with the Mental Health Establishment
Escaping the Yellow Wallpaper
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Explore women’s first-person experiences with the mental health establishment!
This unique contemporary anthology of women’s experiential writing shares women’s realities, perceptions, and experiences (positive and negative) within the therapeutic environment. These artistic expressions...
Intersexualization
The Clinic and the Colony
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Since the 1970s, research into ‘Intersex’ has been a central fascination for feminist theorists seeking to make arguments about how men and women are created as social/gender categories. Intersexualization: The Clinic and the Colony takes the case of Olympic runner Caster Semenya as a starting...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Half a billion Muslim women inhabit some 45 Muslim-majority countries, and another 30 or more countries have significant Muslim minorities, including, increasingly, countries in the developed West. This study provides a literature review of recent empirical social science scholarship that addresses...
Women With Disabilities
Found Voices
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Here is a powerful stimulus for thought, discussion, and coalition building in the area of women and disability. This innovative book was written by women with disabilities and women professionals who work with persons with disabilities. Women With Disabilities covers many concerns about life with...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Drawing on recent feminist discussions, this collection critically reassesses ideas about agency, exploring the relationship between agency and coercion in greater depth and across a range of disciplinary perspectives and ethical contexts.
Claiming the Bicycle
Women, Rhetoric, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Although the impact of the bicycle craze of the late nineteenth century on women’s lives has been well documented, rarely have writers considered the role of women’s rhetorical agency in the transformation of bicycle culture and the bicycle itself. In Claiming the Bicycle, Sarah Hallenbeck argues...
Morality and Our Complicated Form of Life
Feminist Wittgensteinian Metaethics
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2008
Moral philosophy, like much of philosophy generally, has been bedeviled by an obsession with seeking secure epistemological foundations and with dichotomies between mind and body, fact and value, subjectivity and objectivity, nature and normativity. These are still alive today in the realism-versus-antirealism...
by Ellen Annandale
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2008
Shortlisted for the BSA Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2009
Traditional distinctions between the experiences of women and men are breaking down and being reconfigured in new, more complex ways. The long-established life expectancy gap between men and women appears to be closing...
Leading the Way
Inspiring Words for Women on How to Live and Lead with Courage, Confidence, and Authenticity
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
From the author of What Will It Take to Make a Woman President? and founder of Feminist.com and WhatWillItTake.com, Marianne Schnall, a rousing call to action for women everywhere to not only see themselves as leaders, but also discover that when more women step up and speak out, powerful things can...
Women's Rights in the USA
Policy Debates and Gender Roles
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Women’s Rights in the USA is a rigorous examination of the intersection of gender roles and public policy and the implications for feminist activists. The book places full information on state and federal statutes and court decisions in the context of the ebb and flow of debates that have engaged...
by Silvia Federici
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
We are witnessing a new surge of interpersonal and institutional violence against women, including new witch hunts. This surge of violence has occurred alongside an expansion of capitalist social relation. In this new work that revisits some of the main themes of Caliban and the Witch, Silvia Federici...