Feminism category: 1647 books
by Gail Landsman
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Examining mothers of newly diagnosed disabled children within the context of new reproductive technologies and the discourse of choice, this book uses anthropology and disability studies to revise the concept of "normal" and to establish a social environment in which the expression of full lives will prevail.
by Meredith W Watts Jr
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Here is an important book for social scientists interested in the influence of gender on certain types of behavior. Several perspectives are presented on the general topic of biopolitics and gender, including the points of view of brain science, endocrinology, ethology, psychophysiology, and such...
Female Circumcision
Multicultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Bolokoli, khifad, tahara, tahoor, qudiin, irua, bondo, kuruna, negekorsigin, and kene-kene are a few of the terms used in local African languages to denote a set of cultural practices collectively known as female circumcision. Practiced in many countries across Africa and Asia, this ritual is hotly...
Sex Trafficking in South Asia
Telling Maya's Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
This book is a critical feminist analysis of sex trafficking. Arguing that trafficking in girls and women is a product of the social construction of gender and other dimensions of power and status within a particular culture and at a particular historical moment, this book offers the necessary locally...
Moonrise
The Power of Women Leading from the Heart
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
Explores the flourishing, passionate forms of leadership emerging from women on behalf of the earth and community
• Contains more than 30 essays from successful women leaders, including writers Alice Walker and Eve Ensler, psychiatrist Jean Shinoda Bolen, holistic doctor Rachel Naomi Remen,...
by Joan Wallach Scott
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
How secularism has been used to justify the subordination of women
Joan Wallach Scott’s acclaimed and controversial writings have been foundational for the field of gender history. With Sex and Secularism, Scott challenges one of the central claims of the “clash of civilizations” polemic—the...
The World We Have Won
The Remaking of Erotic and Intimate Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2007
The World We Have Won is a major study of transformations in erotic and intimate life since 1945. We are living in a world of transition, in the midst of a long, unfinished but profound revolution that has transformed the possibilities of living out our sexual diversities.
This book provides...
Virgin
The Untouched History
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018
"A well-researched history of virginity . . . In an era marked by a 'chaotic maelstrom of virginities,' Blank's book is a useful . . . antidote to our confusion." - The New York Times Book Review
VIRGIN: The Untouched History is a fascinating and wholly original look at the history...
Close to Home
A Materialist Analysis of Women's Oppression
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Classic analysis of gender relations and patriarchy under capitalism
Close to Home is the classic study of family, patriarchal ideologies, and the politics and strategy of women’s liberation. On the table in this forceful and provocative debate are questions of whether men can be feminists,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Chapter 12
Reading Smart Girls: Post-Nerds in Post-Feminist Popular Culture
Shauna Pomerantz and Rebecca Raby
Shauna Pomerantz and Rebecca Raby examine how the “post-nerd smart girl”--attractive, intelligent and sexually desirable--is portrayed in The Gilmore Girls, High School...
Cartographies of Transnationalism in Postcolonial Feminisms
Geography, Culture, Identity, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
This book proffers a new theory of the radical possibilities of contemporary postcolonial feminist writings from Africa, the Middle East, the Americas, and the Caribbean, against what can be described as “actually-existing colonialisms.” These writers include prominent and other less-known postcolonial...
Telling to Live
Latina Feminist Testimonios
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2001
Telling to Live embodies the vision that compelled Latina feminists to engage their differences and find common ground. Its contributors reflect varied class, religious, ethnic, racial, linguistic, sexual, and national backgrounds. Yet in one way or another they are all professional producers of testimonios—or...
Woman and Goddess in Hinduism
Reinterpretations and Re-envisionings
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
Offering multilayered explorations of Hindu understandings of the Feminine, both human and divine, this book emphasizes theological and activist methods and aims over historical, anthropological, and literary ones.
Moral Aims
Essays on the Importance of Getting It Right and Practicing Morality with Others
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
We rely on two different conceptions of morality. On the one hand, we think of morality as a correct action guide. Morality is accessed by taking up a critical, reflective point of view where our concern is with identifying the moral rules that would be the focus of the requiring activities of persons...