Feminism category: 1647 books

Gain fresh theoretical and practical perspectives of feminist ethics in psychotherapy from this groundbreaking book. The combined effect of increases in the population of minorities in the U.S. and the number of women in psychotherapy practice will have great impact on the future of the mental health...

El 23 de junio de 1950 en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la UNAM se aprobó por unanimidad la tesis de Rosario Castellanos para obtener el grado de maestra en filosofía. ¿Existe una cultura femenina?, se preguntaba entonces la autora de 25 años, en el arranque de una transparente meditación...

Slip of the Tongue is a love letter to words and the myriad and contradictory ways we use them. Author Katie Haegele is a respected memoirist who makes sense of the world around her by looking at the ways we use language: to communicate, to make art, and simply to survive. She takes us through her...

To what extent do women accept, adjust and challenge the intersecting and shifting relations of cultural, political and religious discourses that organize their (sexual) lives? Seeking to expand the focus on changing gender roles and construction of diasporic femininities and sexualities in...

This creative non- fiction is the story of Lhamo Bhuti, a Tibetan woman who was born in 1931, year of the metal sheep year. She was born in the Shab Valley near Shigatse in the Sakya area of Tibet. Lhamo grew up in a large family farm and was educated, cut her hair short and worked for her father...

This is a groundbreaking economic analysis of entrepreneurship and the development process for innovation. The author strives to distinguish the role of the capitalist from that of an entrepreneur, and to show how the actions of the entrepreneur impact new employment, economic growth, and advancements...

A Doll’s House, written two years after The Pillars of Society, was the first of Ibsen’s plays to create a sensation and is now perhaps his most famous play, and required reading in many secondary schools and universities. The play was highly controversial when first published, as it is sharply...

Despite the apparent progress in women's legal status, the law retains a profoundly male bias, and as such contributes to the pervasive violence and injustice against women. In A Law of Her Own, the authors propose to radically change law's fundamental paradigm by introducing a "reasonable woman...

“I had just witnessed women who shingled their own roofs, drove eighteen-wheeler trucks, and built their own houses-as well as kept them clean and cooked a damn good meal. On women’s land I am a first-class citizen, I’m treated as an equal. I now see the world with righteous anger and hope. Living...

El 3 de junio de 2015 marcó un hito en la lucha contra la violencia de género: "Ni Una Menos" fue el lema que interpeló a miles de personas en todo el país a salir a las calles para reclamar una sociedad libre de machismos que culminan en femicidios. Pero ni la consigna ni la convocatoria...

La nueva Ariadna del siglo XXI es hija del feminismo y de la ecología. Ya no se limita a esperar que actúe el héroe, colaborando discretamente en un segundo plano. Es también una protagonista del cambio. Ya no admira al que mata al "Otro", sino que libera al monstruo, re­conociendo...

Existential Eroticism: A Feminist Approach to Understanding Women's Oppression-Perpetuating Choices offer a unique lens aimed at the underbelly of the lady through which feminists can reorient discourses on rationality and moral responsibility related to women’s oppression-perpetuating choices....

Wilderness Therapy for Women offers women risktaking adventure activities in the outdoors as an alternative to traditional therapy. The contributing authors illustrate the empowerment, confidence, and self-esteem women can derive from adventure and experiential activities. This is the first book of...

La vindicación de los derechos humanos de las mujeres es una cuestión global. Es una respuesta a los fenómenos y condiciones degradantes que conlleva la globalización y, al mismo tiempo, una consecuencia de las nuevas formas de comunicación, de organización social y de acción colectiva junto...