Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books
Superman is an Arab
On God, marriage, macho men and other disastrous inventions
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
This is not a manifesto against men in general. Nor is it a manifesto against Arab men in particular. It is, however, a howl in the face of a particular species of men: the macho species, Supermen, as they like to envision themselves. But Superman is a lie. In this explosive sequel to I Killed Scheherazade,...
The Independent Woman
Extracts from The Second Sex
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
“Like man, woman is a human being.”
When The Second Sex was first published in Paris in 1949—groundbreaking, risqué, brilliantly written and strikingly modern—it provoked both outrage and inspiration. The Independent Woman contains three key chapters of Beauvoir’s masterwork, which illuminate...
Jubilee Time
Celebrating Women, Spirit, And The Advent Of Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2009
In keeping with the bestselling When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple, and Gail Sheehy's New Passages, Jubilee Time celebrates the freedom, opportunities, and power of older women, who are too often maligned in our youth-obsessed culture. Based on the Jubilee passage in Leviticus--"You...
The Subjection of Women - La servitù delle donne
Bilingual parallel text - Bilingue con testo inglese a fronte: English - Italian / Inglese - Italiano (Dual Language Easy Reader)
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
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In questo libro, scritto nel 1869 ma ancora di attualità sotto molti aspetti in molti Paesi del mondo, John Stuart Mill rivendica la parità dei sessi nel diritto di famiglia e il suffragio universale, sostenendo che ciò migliorerà anche gli uomini,...
by John Stuart Mill
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2006
A prodigiously brilliant thinker who sharply challenged the beliefs of his age, the political and social radical John Stuart Mill was the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century. Regarded as one of the sacred texts of liberalism, his great work On Liberty argues lucidly...
by Betty Friedan, Anna Quindlen
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
A 50th-anniversary edition of the trailblazing book that changed women’s lives, with a new introduction by Gail Collins.
Landmark, groundbreaking, classic—these adjectives barely do justice to the pioneering vision and lasting impact of The Feminine Mystique. Published in 1963, it gave...
by Olympe De Gouges
Language: French
Release Date: September 7, 2012
Language: French
Release Date: September 7, 2012
Texte intégral révisé suivi d'une biographie d'Olympe de Gouges. En 1791, Olympe de Gouges s'installe à Auteuil, où elle fréquente les milieux intellectuels avant-gardistes de l'époque, se liant d'amitié avec Sophie de Condorcet et Fanny de Beauharnais. Le 14 septembre, elle publie une brochure...
by Olympe de Gouges, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Extrait : "Homme, es-tu capable d'être juste? C'est une femme qui t'en fait la question ; tu ne lui ôteras pas du moins ce droit. Dis-moi? qui t'a donné le souverain empire d'opprimer mon sexe? ta force? tes talents?..."
In Her Own Words
Women's Memoirs from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Jill Ker Conway, author of one of the most celebrated memoirs of recent decades, is also the premier anthologist of women's autobiographical writing. In Her Own Words is Conway's distillation of women's experience from the British Commonwealth world she came from, compared with major themes in women's...
by Nin Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Why God Is a Woman is a collection of poems written about a magical island where women rule and men are the second sex. It is also the story of a boy who, exiled from the island because he could not abide by its sexist laws, looks back with both nostalgia and bitterness and wonders: Why does God have...
by Deborah Whitehead
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
William James, Pragmatism, and American Culture focuses on the work of William James and the relationship between the development of pragmatism and its historical, cultural, and political roots in 19th-century America. Deborah Whitehead reads pragmatism through the intersecting themes of narrative,...
Unbreakable
Women Share Stories of Resilience and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Every woman has a story of survival. In this revealingly honest collection, successful Australian women talk about the challenges they have overcome, from sexual assault and domestic violence to racism, miscarriage, and depression. While delving deep into these experiences and their personal cost,...
by Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
This history of the Women's Suffrage agitation is written at a time when the question is in the very forefront of British politics. What the immediate future holds for those women who are most actively engaged in fighting for their political freedom no one can foretell, but one thing is certain: complete...
My Own Story
Inspiration for the major motion picture Suffragette
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Don't miss Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst in the major motion picture Suffragette.
Emmeline Pankhurst was raised in a world that valued men over women. At fourteen she attended her first suffrage meeting and returned home a confirmed suffragist. Throughout her career she endured humiliation,...