Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books
Breaking Bread
Insurgent Black Intellectual Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
In this provocative and captivating dialogue, bell hooks and Cornel West come together to discuss the dilemmas, contradictions, and joys of Black intellectual life. The two friends and comrades in struggle talk, argue, and disagree about everything from community to capitalism in a series of intimate...
by Miriam Glucksmann aka Ruth Cavendish
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2009
Women on the Line is a pioneering ethnographic classic of the world of work in a British motor components factory. Miriam Glucksmann (aka Ruth Cavendish), a well-known contributor to the study of gender, work and employment, is for the first time revealed as the author, along with the identity of...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Bringing together a range of authors from the multidisciplinary field of disability studies, this book uses disability and the experiences of disabled people living in the United States and Canada to explore and analyze dynamic sites of human interaction in both historical and contemporary contexts...
The Gendered New World Order
Militarism, Development, and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Ecological security seems increasingly precarious and battles over land and models of economic development now lead to military conflicts. The Gendered New World Order addresses the compelling issue of how gender connects the global problems of militarism, underdevelopment, and environmental decay....
Challenging Fronteras
Structuring Latina and Latino Lives in the U.S.
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Challenging Fronteras reflects an important new wave of research that moves beyond sweeping generalizations that treat Latinos as a monolithic cultural group. This anthology focuses on the diversity of Latino experiences by providing historical specificity and cutting-edge research that employs the...
Summary and Analysis of Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
Based on the Book by Lindy West
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
So much to read, so little time? Each volume in the Worth Books catalog presents a summary and analysis to help you stay informed in a busy world, whether you’re managing your to-read list for work or school, brushing up on business strategies on your commute, preparing to wow at the next book club,...
The 51% Minority
How Women Still Are Not Equal and What You Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
“Lis Wiehl tells us where the law protects us, and where it is letting us down. And as a bonus she gives us the tools to make change happen! If you care about where we are going, you have to read this book.”
–Rita Cosby, Emmy Award-winning TV host
Women make up 51% of the American population,...
Compelled to Crime
The Gender Entrapment of Battered, Black Women
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
One for the Girls!
The Pleasures and Practices of Reading Women
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Against the claims of increasing sexualisation of culture, one truism is constantly rehearsed – that women have little taste for pornography. In One for the Girls!, a new basis for understanding women’s pleasures in sexually explicit materials is offered focusing on the production and consumption...
by Gail Landsman
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Examining mothers of newly diagnosed disabled children within the context of new reproductive technologies and the discourse of choice, this book uses anthropology and disability studies to revise the concept of "normal" and to establish a social environment in which the expression of full lives will prevail.
by Meredith W Watts Jr
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Here is an important book for social scientists interested in the influence of gender on certain types of behavior. Several perspectives are presented on the general topic of biopolitics and gender, including the points of view of brain science, endocrinology, ethology, psychophysiology, and such...
Female Circumcision
Multicultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Bolokoli, khifad, tahara, tahoor, qudiin, irua, bondo, kuruna, negekorsigin, and kene-kene are a few of the terms used in local African languages to denote a set of cultural practices collectively known as female circumcision. Practiced in many countries across Africa and Asia, this ritual is hotly...
Moonrise
The Power of Women Leading from the Heart
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
Explores the flourishing, passionate forms of leadership emerging from women on behalf of the earth and community
• Contains more than 30 essays from successful women leaders, including writers Alice Walker and Eve Ensler, psychiatrist Jean Shinoda Bolen, holistic doctor Rachel Naomi Remen,...
by Joan Wallach Scott
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
How secularism has been used to justify the subordination of women
Joan Wallach Scott’s acclaimed and controversial writings have been foundational for the field of gender history. With Sex and Secularism, Scott challenges one of the central claims of the “clash of civilizations” polemic—the...