Feminism category: 1647 books
Gender and Work in Urban China
Women Workers of the Unlucky Generation
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
Although it is generally believed in China that socialism raised women’s status and paid work liberated them from the shackles of patriarchy, the economic reforms of the last two decades of the twentieth century meant women workers were more vulnerable to losing their jobs than men. Unlike previous...
by Michael Murphy, Elizabeth Ribarsky
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Activities for Teaching Gender and Sexuality in the University Classroom is the first interdisciplinary collection of activities devoted entirely to teaching about gender and sexuality. It offers both new and seasoned instructors a range of exciting exercises that can be immediately adapted for their...
Woman Ruler
Woman Rule
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2001
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Beyond the Sword Maiden
A Storyteller's Introduction to the Heroine's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
"All too often both traditional storytellers and the media regard the Hero's Journey as the "one true recipe for a good story." In this well-researched and clearly written book, Dorothy Cleveland and Barbara Schutzgruber prove that there are other kinds of stories that are just as essential...
Disruptive Acts
The New Woman in Fin-de-Siecle France
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
In fin-de-siècle France, politics were in an uproar, and gender roles blurred as never before. Into this maelstrom stepped the "new women," a group of primarily urban, middle-class French women who became the objects of intense public scrutiny. Some remained single, some entered nontraditional...
The Subjection of Women - De l'assujettissement des femmes
Bilingual parallel text - Bilingue avec le texte parallèle: English - French / Anglais - Français
Language: French
Release Date: July 23, 2015
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Édition bilingue Anglais-Français avec le texte parallèle.
"De l’assujettissement des femmes" par John Stuart Mill.
Traduit par Émile Cazelles (1869).
Ouvrage dans lequel John Stuart Mill défend la cause de l'émancipation...
by John Stuart Mill
Language: French
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Ouvrage dans lequel John Stuart Mill défend la cause de l'émancipation des femmes et demande à ce qu'elles bénéficient elles aussi du suffrage.
John Stuart Mill (20 mai 1806 à Londres - 7 mai 1873 à Avignon, France) est un philosophe, logicien et économiste britannique. Il fut l'un...
by Collectif
Language: French
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Y-a-t'il une pertinence à étudier la place et le rôle des femmes dans les villes ? La ville est un miroir concret des normes de genres et elle est aussi, à travers les choix politiques, l'un des outils de la régulation sociale. Comme expression de la différenciation des sexes, la ville donne...
by Mary Wollstonecraft
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
The pamphlet consists of a number of short treatises, indicating certain laws and principles which Mary thought needed to be more generally understood and more firmly established. Many passages show that as early as 1787 she had seriously considered the problems which, in 1791, she attempted to solve....
by Alison Maloney
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
For the last 70 years, the guests of Woman’s Hour have been entertaining listeners with their compelling combination of wit, warmth, insight and humour**.** Woman’s Hour has interviewed many of the biggest female names from entertainment, politics, the arts and beyond.
Words from Wise,...
A Childfree Happily Ever After
Why more women are choosing not to have children
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2018
In A Childfree Happily Ever After, entrepreneur, fur-parent and childfree advocate Tanya Williams dives deep into the reasons why women choose to have or not to have children, including the social, cultural and biological factors that influence our decisions.
Just some of the topics this...
The Female Lead
Women Who Shape Our World
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Sixty inspirational women, from many walks of life. All have changed the world in a variety of fields. Among them are politicians and artists, journalists and teachers, engineers and campaigners, fire fighters and film stars. Together they form an arresting gallery of portraits, each one illustrated...
The Woman Racket
The New Science Explaining How Sexes Relate at Work, at Play and in Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
His first book, The Great Immigration Scandal (2004), blew the whistle on abuses within the Home Office and led to the resignation of the immigration minister, Beverley Hughes. Although attacked at the time by the government and the 'liberal' media for alarmism, Moxon's analysis has now been adopted...
by Wale Owoeye
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
ABIYAMO*: MOTHERHOOD INCARNATE* is a monograph about Yoruba tradition of motherhood, detailing its evolutionary phases from childhood to adulthood when a woman becomes betrothed to become a mother.
The book spotlights the culture of Abiyamo to the world, expressing the shades, nuances and spiritual...