Feminism category: 1647 books
Modern Feminist Theory
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2012
An explication of the major contributions to feminist theory in the late Twentieth Century, covering Initial Articulations of the 'Woman' Problem (Virginia Woolf; Simone de Beauvoir), Radical Feminism (Kate Millett; Shulamith Firestone; Radicalesbians; Mary Daly), Black Feminism (Audre Lorde; Alice Walker;...
by Mary Wollstonecraft
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ZOE WILLIAMS
The term feminism did not yet exist when Mary Wollstonecraft wrote this book, but it was the first great piece of feminist writing. In these pages you will find the essence of her argument –...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
A ground-breaking volume of all new essays covering the conjunction of two topics--feminism and families--that, for all their centrality in our culture, have not been adequately examined in light of one another. While the family has suffered feminist neglect, most women are in fact members of families,...
Unbending Gender
Why Family and Work Conflict and What To Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2001
In Unbending Gender, Joan Williams takes a hard look at the state of feminism in America. Concerned by what she finds--young women who flatly refuse to identify themselves as feminists and working-class and minority women who feel the movement hasn't addressed the issues that dominate their daily...
The Coming of Lilith
Essays on Feminism, Judaism, and Sexual Ethics, 1972-2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
This first collection of Judith Plaskow's essays and short writings traces her scholarly and personal journey from her early days as a graduate student through her pioneering contributions to both feminist theology and Jewish feminism to her recent work in sexual ethics.
Accessibly organized...
Reclaiming feminism
Challenging everyday misogyny
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Since second-wave feminism of the 1970s, women's rights and opportunities in education and employment have increased across the globe, but has equality, whether social, political or legal, really been achieved? In this fascinating book, Miriam E. David, a well-known and influential feminist in higher...
Girl Zines
Making Media, Doing Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
With names like The East Village Inky, Mend My Dress, Dear Stepdad, and I’m So Fucking Beautiful, zines created by girls and women over the past two decades make feminism’s third wave visible. These messy, photocopied do-it-yourself documents cover every imaginable subject matter and are loaded...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
This handbook provides an original, comprehensive and unparalleled overview of feminist scholarship in sport, leisure and physical education. It captures the complexities of past, current and future developments in feminism while highlighting its theoretical, methodological and empirical applications....
Feminism
The Essential Historical Writings
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
This essential volume brings together more than forty of the most important historical writings on feminism, covering 150 years of the struggle for women’s freedom. Spanning the American Revolution to the first decades of the twentieth century, these works—many long out of print or forgotten—are...
Another Mother
Diotima and the Symbolic Order of Italian Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
A groundbreaking volume introduces the unique feminist thought of the longstanding Italian group known as Diotima
Introducing Anglophone readers to a potent strain of Italian feminism known to French, Spanish, and German audiences but as yet unavailable in English, Another Mother...
Generational Feminism
New Materialist Introduction to a Generative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Iris van der Tuin redirects the notion of generational logic in feminism away from its simplistic conception as conflict. Generational logic is said to problematize feminist theory and gender research as it follows a logic of divide and conquer between the old and the young and participates in patriarchal...
Feminism for the 99%
A Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Named one of Vogue’s “Most Anticipated Books of 2019”
This is a manifesto for the 99 percent
Unaffordable housing, poverty wages, inadequate healthcare, border policing, climate change—these are not what you ordinarily hear feminists talking about. But aren’t they the biggest...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Global events, from economic crisis to social unrest and militarization, disproportionately affect women. Yet around the world it is also women who are leading the struggle against oppression and exploitation. In light of renewed interest in Marxist theory among many women activists and academics,...
Feminism and the Women's Movement in Malaysia
An Unsung (R)evolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Combining both personal and academic insights into the Malaysian women’s movement, this study provides an in-depth account of the multiple struggles of the Malaysian women’s movement, from securing gender equality in a patriarchal society to achieving unity among members of a multi-ethnic society...