Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books

Wasting Away is a provocative text that examines and assesses the Canadian health care system. This seven-chapter book explores the development of the Canadian health care system and breaks the analysis down into accessible units: who provides (the institutions and the people); who pays (funding sources);...

Sitting prominently at the hearth of our homes, television serves as a voice of our modern time. Given our media-saturated society and television’s prominent voice and place in the home, it is likely we learn about our society and selves through these stories. These narratives are not simply entertainment,...

This book examines women's participation in the Olympic Games since they were allowed to be included in that global arena. Using a holistic, social scientific approach, and emphasizing the rhetoric of sport mediatization, Female Olympians reviews the literature relative to sexism, racism, and ageism...

Mujeres al frente recoge las entrevistas a siete mujeres colombianas que ante la guerra deciden construir alternativas a la violencia. Narra su apuesta por construir un país sin violencia en un proceso que ya se contempla como el primer conflicto de la historia en el que las mujeres han participado...

Prominent sociologist Dorothy Smith outlines a method of inquiry that uses everyday experience as a lens to examine social relations and social institutions. Concerned with articulating an inclusive sociology that goes beyond looking at a particular group of people from the detached viewpoint of the...

While others flirt with the accoutrements of romance and sexiness for lovers, flashers confront the spectator with sex organs. They ask no consent, baring the genitals of which they are so proud, convinced their spectators will desire them. But they rarely do. Instead, they are more likely to object...

Imagine you could give an essay entitled "How to Make Me Come" to a past, present or future sex partner, free of judgment or repercussion. What would you want them to know? In this book inspired by Emma Koenig's wildly popular website, a diverse collective of women do just that. Emma...

Challenging Images of Women and the Media: Reinventing Women’s Lives, edited by Theresa Carilli and Jane Campbell, collects fifteen articles addressing the status of women through an examination of depictions of women in the media. This in-depth study shows how mixed messages from the media muddle...

In this provocative study of cinematic and televisual representations of "sex radicalism," Carol Siegel explores how representations of sexually explicit content on film have shaped American cultural visions of sex and sexual politics in the 21st century. Siegel distinguishes between a liberal approach...

Long before clinch covers and bodice rippers, romance novels had a bad reputation as the lowbrow lit of desperate housewives and hopeless spinsters. But why were these books—the escape and entertainment of choice for millions of women—singled out for scorn and shame?   Dangerous...

Complete Works of Harriet Beecher Stowe "American Abolitionist and Author"! 18 Complete Works! Fully Interactive Table of Contents For Easy Navigation. Works Included: AGNES OF SORRENTO AMERICAN WOMAN'S HOME: OR, PRINCIPLES OF DOMESTIC SCIENCE BETTY'S BRIGHT IDEA HE'S...

Interviews with Ursula K. Le Guin and Marge Piercy by Stephanie Rogers

Features four book reviews as well as books and media received: BARBARA ARDINGER. The Spiritual Dynamic in Modern Art: Art History Reconsidered, 1800 to the Present, by Charlene Spretnak MAIJA HATTON. A Writer’s Journey: What to Know Before,During, and After Writing a Book, by Carren...

Book Reviews: Desert Years: Undreaming the American Dream, by Cynthia Rich and Look Me in the Eye: Old Women Ageing and Ageism, by Cynthia Rich and Barbara McDonald (Reviewed by Maria Alberto) A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon: New (Soma)tices, by C. A. Conrad (Reviewed by Maija Hatton) Ardor: Poems...