Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books
Making Trouble
Life and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
What happens when angry young rebels become wary older women, raging in a leaner, meaner time: a time which exalts only the “new,” when the ruling orthodoxy daily disparages everything associated with the “old”? Delving into her own life and those who left their mark on it, Lynne Segal journeys...
by Lucía Lijtmaer
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 23, 2017
«Lo que vas a leer aquí va sobre cómo el sistema está diseñado para maquillar las injusticias con tonos pastel y para no darte las herramientas necesarias para detectar esas injusticias. Sobre compartir tu sensación de incredulidad al darte cuenta de que, cuando miras a tu alrededor, muchas...
Amazonas de la libertad
Mujeres liberales contra Fernando VII
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 1, 2015
"Durante la Década Ominosa, Fernando VII no tuvo mayor enemigo que la mujer patriota". Esta afirmación, perteneciente a la obra costumbrista Los españoles pintados por sí mismos (1843), expresa un amplio estado de opinión sobre el protagonismo que tuvieron las mujeres en la lucha contra...
Basic Witches
How to Summon Success, Banish Drama, and Raise Hell with Your Coven
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
A magical lifestyle guide for everything from powering up a stylish crystal to banishing terrible Tinder dates
Want to feel terrifyingly beautiful? Wear the right color of eye shadow to project otherworldly glamour. Need to exorcise a toxic friendship? Repeat the proper incantation and make...
The Emotional Politics of Racism
How Feelings Trump Facts in an Era of Colorblindness
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
With stop-and-frisk laws, new immigration policies, and cuts to social welfare programs, majorities in the United States have increasingly supported intensified forms of punishment and marginalization against Black, Latino, Arab and Muslim people in the United States, even as a majority of citizens...
Theological Perspectives for Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Public Intellectuals for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Rather than wield religion as a weapon or a ruse in irrational appeals, the book attempts to reimagine a shared American mythos and ethos, by reminding us of our shared stake in creating an America committed to the life of all peoples and species and to the full developments of our capabilities as an exercise of liberty.
by Femspec Journal
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Features an Exhibition Review titled "Half the Sky: Intersections in Social Practice Art, Shenyang, China, April 2014", a non-fiction essay, "To Live a New Life", and photomontage, "The Move to China Photomontage."
by Wilkie Collins
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
The Dead Secret was Wilkie Collins’ fourth published novel.
The secret of the title is the parentage of the heroine, Rosamund Treverton, who has been passed off as the daughter of the wealthy former actress Mrs Treverton of Porthgenna Tower, but is in fact the illegitimate child of her servant...
by Ouvrage Collectif
Language: French
Release Date: October 10, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: October 10, 2018
La femme, dans la société nouvelle, jouira d’une indépendance complète ; elle ne sera plus soumise même à un semblant de domination ou d’exploitation ; elle sera placée vis-à-vis de l’homme sur un pied de liberté et d’égalité absolues.
La femme de l’avenir
Auguste Bébel,...
Femininity in Asian Women Artists' Work from China, Korea and USA
If the Shoe Fits
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Patricia Karetzky discusses the metaphor of the shoe and how it is present in different women artists' work in China, Korea and USA. The artists discussed are: Peng Wei, Nina Kuo, Yin Xuizhen, Cai Jin, Xin Song, Il Sun Hong, Betty YaQuin Chou and Mimi Kim. Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky is O. Munsterberg...
Live Sex Acts
Women Performing Erotic Labor
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Drawing on more than fifty interviews in both the US and the Netherlands, Wendy Chapkis captures the wide-ranging experiences of women performing erotic labor and offers a complex, multi-faceted depiction of sex work. Her expansive analytic perspective encompasses both a serious examination of international...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Using a variety of critical and theoretical approaches, the contributing scholars to this collection analyze culturally specific and globally held attitudes about mothers and mothering, as represented in world cinema. Examining films from a range of countries including Afghanistan, India, Iran, Eastern...
The Beauty Myth
How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity.
In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist...
Eating in the Light of the Moon
How Women Can Transform Their Relationship with Food Through Myths, Metaphors, and Storytelling
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
By weaving practical insights and exercises through a rich tapestry of multicultural myths, ancient legends, and folktales, Anita Johnston helps the millions of women preoccupied with their weight discover and address the issues behind their negative attitudes toward food.