Feminism category: 1647 books
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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....
Citizenship: Pushing the Boundaries
Feminist Review, Issue 57
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2005
Citizenship: Pushing the Boundaries brings together global perspectives and issues of citizenship in particular regional and national contexts. It comprehensively covers contemporary feminist debates on citizenship such as: citizenship as a status bestowing rights and responsibilities, passive and...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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,...
Materialities of Sex in a Time of HIV
The Promise of Vaginal Microbicides
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Contemporary feminist theory has moved into posthuman terrains as feminist theorists utilise human/nonhuman relations and a motley crew of nonhuman entities to reinvigorate feminist critique of nature/culture dichotomies. But what place is left for sex/gender relations in this move beyond the human?
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Moral Spectatorship
Technologies of Voice and Affect in Postwar Representations of the Child
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
Why were theories of affect, intersubjectivity, and object relations bypassed in favor of a Lacanian linguistically oriented psychoanalysis in feminist film theory in the 1980s and 1990s? In Moral Spectatorship, Lisa Cartwright rethinks the politics of spectatorship in film studies. Returning to impasses...
The Color of Kink
Black Women, BDSM, and Pornography
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Winner of the MLA's 2016 Alan Bray Prize for Best Book in GLBTQ Studies
How BDSM can be used as a metaphor for black female sexuality. The Color of Kink explores black women's representations and performances within American pornography and BDSM (bondage and discipline, domination and submission,...
Deviations
A Gayle Rubin Reader
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Deviations is the definitive collection of writing by Gayle S. Rubin, a pioneering theorist and activist in feminist, lesbian and gay, queer, and sexuality studies since the 1970s. Rubin first rose to prominence in 1975 with the publication of “The Traffic in Women,” an essay that had a galvanizing...
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.
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Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
First published in 1985, this ground-breaking volume contributes to a largely neglected area of social work research, theory and practice. The collection of essays by internationally known social work educators and practitioners applies feminist perspectives to a wide range of issues influencing the...
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...