Feminism category: 1647 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
This book chronicles the influence of second wave feminism on everything from electoral politics to LGBTQ rights. The original descriptions of second wave feminism focused on elite, white voices, obscuring the accomplishments of many activists, as third wave feminists rightly criticized. Those limited...
Empowered
Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
In Empowered Sarah Banet-Weiser examines the deeply entwined relationship between popular feminism and popular misogyny as it plays out in advertising, online and multimedia platforms, and nonprofit and commercial campaigns. Examining feminist discourses that emphasize self-confidence, body positivity,...
by Jessalynn Keller
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Girls’ Feminist Blogging in a Postfeminist Age explores the practices of U.S.-based teenage girls who actively maintain feminist blogs and participate in the feminist blogosphere as readers, writers, and commenters on platforms including Blogspot, Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. Drawing on interviews...
Roar Like a Woman
How Feminists Think Women Suck and Men Rock
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Are you a feminist? Or are you a masculinist? It's a trick question—they're the same thing, says mother of two and parenting magazine journalist, Natalie Ritchie.
Five decades after feminism began, women are trapped in a masculinist dead end. Feminists claim to be women's friend, but their...
Reconsidering Radical Feminism
Affect and the Politics of Heterosexuality
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
What’s the right way to be a feminist? The political discourse of sexuality in the 1980s and ’90s was framed by the divergent, passionately held positions of radical feminism and sex-positive feminism.
Reconsidering Radical Feminism is a precise summary of late-twentieth-century feminist...
Pop-Feminist Narratives
The Female Subject under Neoliberalism in North America, Britain, and Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
In Pop-Feminist Narratives, Emily Spiers explores the recent phenomenon of 'pop-feminism' and pop-feminist writing across North America, Britain, and Germany. Pop-feminism is characterised by its engagement with popular culture and consumerism; its preoccupation with sexuality and transgression in...
by Philippa Levine
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
The second half of the nineteenth century saw in newly industrialized England the creation of a “domestic ideology” that drew a sharp line between domestic woman and public man. Though never the dominant reality, this demarcation of men’s and women’s spheres ordered people’s values and justified...
The Feminism of Uncertainty
A Gender Diary
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
The Feminism of Uncertainty brings together Ann Snitow’s passionate, provocative dispatches from forty years on the front lines of feminist activism and thought. In such celebrated pieces as "A Gender Diary"—which confronts feminism’s need to embrace, while dismantling, the category...
Colonize This!
Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2019
Newly revised and updated, this landmark anthology offers gripping portraits of American life as seen through the eyes of young women of color
It has been decades since women of color first turned feminism upside down, exposing the feminist movement as exclusive, white, and unaware of the concerns...
Feminist Review
Issue 39: Shifting Territories: Feminism and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2005
The 1990s are proving to be a time, quite literally, of shifting territories in Europe - East and West. Both the revolutions in Eastern Europe in 1989 and the breaking of economic boundaries in 1992 are creating a new Europe; a Europe in which old questions have to be re-asked and old assumptions...
by Dawn Foster
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Sheryl Sandberg’s business advice book, Lean In, was heralded as a defining moment in attitudes to women in business. But for all its commercial success, it proposed a model of feminism that was individualistic and unthreatening to capital.
In her powerful debut work Lean Out, acclaimed journalist...
by Andrea Nye
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
A feminist approach to the history of modern philosophy reveals new insights into the lives and works of major figures such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume, and is crucial to an appreciation of the advent of feminist philosophy. Feminism and Modern Philosophy introduces students to the main...
F 'em!
Goo Goo, Gaga, and Some Thoughts on Balls
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
From Jennifer Baumgardner, one of the leading voices of Third Wave feminism, comes this provocative, thoughtful, often funny collection of essays and interviews that offers a state of the union on contemporary feminist issues.
F 'em! is a mix of old and new essays by Baumgardner, ranging in...
by Elisabeth Croll
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
First published in 1978, Feminism and Socialism in China explores the inter-relationship of feminism and socialism and the contribution of each towards the redefinition of the role and status of women in China. In her history of the women’s movement in China from the late nineteenth century onwards,...