Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books
by Teresa Rees
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2006
Mainstreaming Equality in the European Union provides a critical overview and evaluation of the potential role of the EU in perpetuating or breaking down gender segregation in the EU labour force. Teresa Rees draws upon feminist theoretical frameworks in assessing Equal Opportunitues policies and...
Raising Empowered Daughters
A Dad-to-Dad Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
A fists-up handbook for helping dads help their daughters resist the patriarchy, written by popular feminist dad blogger Mike Adamick
As a primary male role model in a girl's life, a father influences his daughter in profound ways, from the way she defines her female identity to what she expects...
The Ethics of Vulnerability
A Feminist Analysis of Social Life and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
As concerns about violence, war, terrorism, sexuality, and embodiment have garnered attention in philosophy, the concept of vulnerability has become a shared reference point in these discussions. As a fundamental part of the human condition, vulnerability has significant ethical import: how one responds...
Pleasure Activism
The Politics of Feeling Good
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
We've decided to launch an "Emergent Strategy" book series to build on the success of adrienne's book of the same name. Some books in the series will be written or edited by adrienne herself and some will be written/edited by others. This is the first book in that series.
The contributors are...
Technosex
Precarious Corporealities, Mediated Sexualities, and the Ethics of Embodied Technics
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2016
In this book, Meenakshi Gigi Durham outlines and advances a progressive feminist framework for digital ethics in the technosexual landscape, exploring the complex and evolving interrelationships between sex and tech.
Today we live in a “sexscape,” a globalized assemblage of media, transnational...
Hexing the Patriarchy
26 Potions, Spells, and Magical Elixirs to Embolden the Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
A magical guide to subverting manboy power, one spell at a time
Skeptics might think witchcraft is nothing more than a fad, but make no mistake: modern witches aren't playing around. Today's wizarding women are raising hell, exorcising haters, and revving up to fight fire with a fierce inferno...
Contemporary Women Playwrights
Into the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Breaking new ground in this century, this wide-ranging collection of essays is the first of its kind to address the work of contemporary international women playwrights. The book considers the work of established playwrights such as Caryl Churchill, Marie Clements, Lara Foot-Newton, Maria Irene Fornes,...
Slip of the Tongue
Talking About Language
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2014
Slip of the Tongue is a love letter to words and the myriad and contradictory ways we use them. Author Katie Haegele is a respected memoirist who makes sense of the world around her by looking at the ways we use language: to communicate, to make art, and simply to survive. She takes us through her...
by Henrik Ibsen
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
A Doll’s House, written two years after The Pillars of Society, was the first of Ibsen’s plays to create a sensation and is now perhaps his most famous play, and required reading in many secondary schools and universities. The play was highly controversial when first published, as it is sharply...
Lesbian Communities
Festivals, RVs, and the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
I had just witnessed women who shingled their own roofs, drove eighteen-wheeler trucks, and built their own houses-as well as kept them clean and cooked a damn good meal. On women’s land I am a first-class citizen, I’m treated as an equal. I now see the world with righteous anger and hope. Living...
Of the Nation Born
The Bangladesh Papers
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2016
The Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia research project (coordinated by Zubaan and supported by the International Development Research Centre) brings together, for the first time in the South Asian region, a vast body of research on this important, and yet silenced, subject. Six country volumes...
Fugitive Life
The Queer Politics of the Prison State
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
During the 1970s in the United States, hundreds of feminist, queer, and antiracist activists were imprisoned or became fugitives as they fought the changing contours of U.S. imperialism, global capitalism, and a repressive racial state. In Fugitive Life Stephen Dillon examines these activists' communiqués,...
Nasty Women and Bad Hombres
Gender and Race in the 2016 US Presidential Election
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
Gender and racial politics were at the center of the 2016 US presidential contest between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. The election was historic because Clinton was the first woman nominated by a major political party for the presidency. Yet it was also historic in its generation of sustained...
Finding a Voice
Asian Women in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Finding a Voice - Asian Women in Britain published in 1978 and winner of the Martin Luther King award, was, and remains, an influential feminist book. Based on interviews, discussions and intimate one-to- one conversations with South Asian women, conducted often in Urdu, Hindi or Bengali (if they...