Feminism category: 1647 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2008
Harnessing the energy of provocative theories generated by recent understandings of the human body, the natural world, and the material world, Material Feminisms presents an entirely new way for feminists to conceive of the question of materiality. In lively and timely essays, an international group...
Women, Celebrity and Cultures of Ageing
Freeze Frame
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
This book studies the relationship between women, ageing and celebrity. Focusing on an array of case studies and star/celebrity images, it aims to examine the powerful, contradictory and sometimes celebratory ways in which celebrity culture offers a crucial site for the contemporary and historical construction of discourses on ageing femininities.
Revisioning Women, Health and Healing
Feminist, Cultural and Technoscience Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
This engaging collection examines the implications and representations of race, class and gender in health care offering new approaches to women's health care. Subjects covered range from reproductive issues to AIDS.
by Sara Ahmed
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
In Willful Subjects Sara Ahmed explores willfulness as a charge often made by some against others. One history of will is a history of attempts to eliminate willfulness from the will. Delving into philosophical and literary texts, Ahmed examines the relation between will and willfulness, ill will...
Fat Lives
A Feminist Psychological Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Ever caught somebody – or yourself – checking out the content of a ‘fat’ person’s supermarket trolley? Ever wondered what lies behind this behaviour, or what it might be like to be at the receiving end of this judging gaze?
Within the context of the current ‘obesity debate’, this...
Sweet Nothing
An Elemental Case for Taking Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Sweet Nothing is an eco-feminist, spiritual and philosophical lament against the increasing speed and fragmentation of modern life. It draws parallels between some of the central ideas of existential phenomenology, psychoanalysis and neo-pagan spirituality, in order to make a case for the slowing down...
Women and the Gift Economy
A Radically Different Worldview is Possible
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Women and the Gift Economy: A Radically Different Worldview is Possible is an attempt to respond to the need for deep and lasting social change in an epoch of dangerous crisis for all humans, cultures, and the planet. Featuring articles by well-known feminist activists and academics from around the...
Gender and Sexuality in Online Game Cultures
Passionate Play
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
How do gender and sexuality come to matter in online game cultures? Why is it important to explore "straight" versus "queer" contexts of play? And what does it mean to play together with others over time, as co-players and researchers?
Gender and Sexuality in Online Game Cultures is a book...
Hombres que ya no hacen sufrir por amor
Transformando las masculinidades
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Los hombres no nacen, se hacen. La masculinidad patriarcal es una construcción que surge, crece y se transmite de generación en generación en el seno de nuestra sociedad. Igual que la feminidad. Pero también hay muchas formas de ser hombre: existen cada vez más disidentes que no interiorizan...
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...
The Socially Responsible Feminist EFL Classroom
A Japanese Perspective on Identities, Beliefs and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
This book explores the realities of feminist EFL teachers’ lives through interviews and classroom observations with eight EFL teachers at Japanese universities. The data contained in the book broaden our understanding of feminist teaching in the language classroom while also providing suggestions...
Empire in Question
Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Featuring essays written by the influential historian Antoinette Burton since the mid-1990s, Empire in Question traces the development of a particular, contentious strand of modern British history, the “new imperial history,” through the eyes of a scholar who helped to shape the field. In her...
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...
New Femininities
Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
This collection of original essays looks at the way in which experiences and representations of femininity are changing, and explores the possibilities for producing 'new' femininities in the twenty-first century. The volume includes a Preface by leading feminist scholar Angela McRobbie.