Feminism category: 1647 books
Different Wavelengths
Studies of the Contemporary Women's Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
The original essays in this collection ground the shifting terrain of feminism in the 21st century. The contributors define and examine the complexity of the Third Wave by answering questions like: how appropriate is a "third wave" label for contemporary feminism; are the agendas of contemporary...
by Elizabeth A. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
In Gut Feminism Elizabeth A. Wilson urges feminists to rethink their resistance to biological and pharmaceutical data. Turning her attention to the gut and depression, she asks what conceptual and methodological innovations become possible when feminist theory isn’t so instinctively antibiological....
Not Drowning But Waving
Women, Feminism and the Liberal Arts
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
"Not Drowning but Waving...gestures both at the difficulties faced by feminists in the humanities in Canada and at the possibilities of hope, of new 'waves' of feminism." Twenty-two essays explore topics such as feminism in the liberal arts disciplines; the relationship of the liberal arts...
Why Stories Matter
The Political Grammar of Feminist Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
Why Stories Matter is a powerful critique of the stories that feminists tell about the past four decades of Western feminist theory. Clare Hemmings examines the narratives that make up feminist accounts of recent feminist history, highlights the ethical and political dilemmas raised by these narratives,...
Feminism Counts
Quantitative Methods and Researching Gender
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This is an important and timely text that provides a unique overview of contemporary quantitative approaches to gender research. The contributors are internationally recognised researchers from the UK, USA and Sweden who occupy a range of disciplinary locations, including historical demography, sociology...
Feminism, Sexuality, and Politics
Essays by Estelle B. Freedman
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
One of a small group of feminist pioneers in the historical profession, Estelle B. Freedman teaches and writes about women's history with a passion informed by her feminist values. Over the past thirty years, she has produced a body of work in which scholarship and politics have never been mutually...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Hope is central to marginal politics which speak of desires for equality or simply for a better life. Feminism might be characterised as a politics of hope, a movement underpinned by a utopian drive for equality. This version of hope has been used, for example in Barack Obama’s phrase ‘the audacity...
by Nikki van der Gaag
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Feminism has changed the world; it is radically reshaping women’s lives. But what about men? They still hold most of the power in the economy, in government, in religions, in the media and often in the family too. At the same time, many men are questioning traditional views about what it means to...
NoNonsense Feminism
Alive and Kicking
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
Far from being in a "post-feminist" age we've seen recently a resurgence of feminist campaigning among women (and some men). There's a new brand of feminism: young, social-media savvy, militant. But there's a new kind of backlash, driven by so-called fundamentalists and by increasingly overt misogyny.This...
The Feminist Fourth Wave
Affective Temporality
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
This book examines the fourth wave of feminism within the United Kingdom. Focusing on examples of contemporary activism it considers the importance of understanding affect and temporality in relation to surges of feminist activity. Examining the wave’s historical use in the feminist movement, the...
Separate and Dominate
Feminism and Racism after the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
An examination of how mainstream feminism has been mobilized in support of racist measures
Feminist Christine Delphy co-founded the journal Nouvelles questions féministes with Simone de Beauvoir in the 1970s and became one of the most influential figures in French feminism. Today, Delphy remains...
Becoming Feminist
Narratives and Memories
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
This book offers a novel, detailed and sensitive exploration of women's engagement with feminism. Centred on the themes of generations, hope, emotions and belonging, each chapter attends to the specific and particular practices of 'becoming feminist' via a series of accessible case studies. Adopting...
Feminism after 9/11
Women’s Bodies as Cultural and Political Threat
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
This book is about social phenomena that directly acknowledge the structures and ideologies emerging after September 11, 2001. It considers how these structures and ideologies manage, control, and contain specific bodies with respect to race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and citizenship status. Inflections...
by Jane Gallop
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 1997
Sexual harassment is an issue in which feminists are usually thought to be on the plaintiff’s side. But in 1993—amid considerable attention from the national academic community—Jane Gallop, a prominent feminist professor of literature, was accused of sexual harassment by two of her women graduate...