Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books
Networked Reenactments
Stories Transdisciplinary Knowledges Tell
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Since the 1990s, the knowledge, culture, and entertainment industries have found themselves experimenting, not altogether voluntarily, with communicating complex information across multiple media platforms. Against a backdrop of competing national priorities, changing technologies, globalization,...
Misogyny
The New Activism
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019
New aspects of the misogyny that impacts girls and women worldwide continue to emerge every day. However, recent movements (e.g., #MeToo, Time's Up, the Women's March) indicate a strong hunger for a meaningful resource for thoughtful activists. Impassioned but practical, this book discusses the social...
Women Between Submission & Freedom
An Interpretation of Social and Political misogyny
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Huda Sharawi is an Islamic, Arab feminist who has lived all of her life in Amman, Jordan. Of Palestinian origin, Sharawi has witnessed first-hand the role of cultural influences in her religion and society. Her book, Women Between Submission & Freedom is a cultural, historical, and spiritual inquiry...
Everyday Utopias
The Conceptual Life of Promising Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Everyday utopias enact conventional activities in unusual ways. Instead of dreaming about a better world, participants seek to create it. As such, their activities provide vibrant and stimulating contexts for considering the terms of social life, of how we live together and are governed. Weaving conceptual...
by Nellie Lillian McClung
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1972
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1972
Nellie McClung's fourth book, In Times Like These, written in 1915, survives as a classic formulation of a feminist position. With hard-hitting rhetoric it demands women's rights as a logical extension of traditional views of female moral superiority and maternal responsibility.
What is Slavery to Me?
Postcolonial/Slave Memory In Post-Apartheid South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Much has been made about South Africa?s transition from histories of colonialism, slavery and apartheid. ?Memory? features prominently in the country?s reckoning with its pasts. While there has been an outpouring of academic essays, anthologies and other full-length texts which study this transition,...
Conscience and Calling
Ethical Reflections on Catholic Women's Church Vocations
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
This volume probes the meaning and ethical implications of the powerful symbol of vocation from the vantage of contemporary Catholic women, with particular attention to the experiences of women religious. Intended as a follow-up to Liberating Conscience: Feminist Explorations in Catholic Moral Theology,...
Language, Gender and Ideology
Constructions of Femininity for Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
This book explores multiple facets of femininity for marriage in India. Using language as an entry point, it looks at how and why media representations of gender identities are constructed the way they are. It works with a unique synthesis of second-wave feminist discourse and empirical linguistic...
Philosophy and Vulnerability
Catherine Breillat, Joan Didion, and Audre Lorde
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Issues surrounding precarity, debility and vulnerability are now of central concern to philosophers as we try and navigate an increasingly uncertain world. Matthew R. McLennan delves into these subjects enthusiastically and sensitively, presenting a vision of the discipline of philosophy which is...
by Pussy Riot
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Pussy Riot è fede. Pussy Riot è uguaglianza. Pussy Riot è femminismo. Pussy Riot non è sommossa. Pussy Riot non è oltraggio. Pussy Riot non è odio. Questa storia è tutto un grande equivoco. Dalle navate della cattedrale di Mosca, Nadja, Maša e Katja hanno innalzato la loro preghiera punk....
Women and the Politics of Gender in Post-Conflict Timor-Leste
Between Heaven and Earth
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
This book presents a wide-ranging overview of the position of women in Timor-Leste, 15 years after the country secured its independence. It considers the role of women in Timor-Leste’s history, explores their role in the present day economy and politics, and discusses their contribution to culture...
The Subjection of Women (Annotated)
(Women's rights)
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Sinossi
The Subjection of Women is one of the earliest written on this subject by a male author. In "The Subjection of Women" Mill attempts to prove that the legal subjugation of women is wrong and that it should give way to perfect equality. He talks about the role of women in marriage and...
Time Binds
Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Time Binds is a powerful argument that temporal and sexual dissonance are intertwined, and that the writing of history can be both embodied and erotic. Challenging queer theory’s recent emphasis on loss and trauma, Elizabeth Freeman foregrounds bodily pleasure in the experience and representation...
Women and Gender Equity in Development Theory and Practice
Institutions, Resources, and Mobilization
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2006
Seeking to catalyze innovative thinking and practice within the field of women and gender in development, editors Jane S. Jaquette and Gale Summerfield have brought together scholars, policymakers, and development workers to reflect on where the field is today and where it is headed. The contributors...