Feminism category: 1647 books
by Femspec Journal
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Naomi Mercer is a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army, a veteran of the Iraq War, and an assistant professor in the Department of English and Philosophy at the United States Military Academy at West Point. She earned her doctorate in literary studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison...
Entering the Picture
Judy Chicago, The Fresno Feminist Art Program, and the Collective Visions of Women Artists
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
In 1970, Judy Chicago and fifteen students founded the groundbreaking Feminist Art Program (FAP) at Fresno State. Drawing upon the consciousness-raising techniques of the women's liberation movement, they created shocking new art forms depicting female experiences. Collaborative work and performance...
Fairly Equal
Lawyering the Feminist Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
An eyewitness account of the revolution in women’s rights under the law.
Queen of the Hurricanes
The Fearless Elsie MacGill
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Elsie MacGill achieved many firsts in science and engineering at a time when women were considered to be inferior in the sciences. In 1923, at the age of nineteen, she became the first woman to attend engineering classes at the University of Toronto. She was the first woman in North America to hold...
by J. Ann Tickner
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
J. Ann Tickner is ranked among the most influential scholars of international relations. As one of the founders of the field of feminist international relations, she is also among the most pioneering. In many ways her academic career has traced the development of the feminist subfield of IR, and it...
by Natacha BUISSERETH
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
L'élaboration et l'application de mesures anti-discrimination sur les liens entre les femmes et les moyens de communication de masse devraient contribuer pour une part importante à corriger l'attitude de la société à l'égard de la femme sur le plan de l'image qu'ils donnent d'elle, ainsi que...
Facing the Mirror
Older Women and Beauty Shop Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
This innovative, ethnographic study of a neighborhood beauty salon investigates how customers constitute a lively, affirming community of peers during their weekly visits. Facing the Mirror gives voice to older women, who, in a sexist and ageist society, are frequently devalued and rendered invisible....
Radical Decadence
Excess in Contemporary Feminist Textiles and Craft
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
This pioneering book explores the notion of 'radical decadence' as concept, aesthetic and lived experience, and as an analytical framework for the study of contemporary feminist textile art. Gendered discourses of decadence that perpetuate anxieties about women's power, consumption and pleasure are...
Women, peace and welfare
A suppressed history of social reform, 1880-1920
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Between 1880 and 1920 many women researched the conditions of social and economic life in Western countries. They were driven by a vision of a society based on welfare and altruism, rather than warfare and competition. Ann Oakley, a leading sociologist, undertook extensive research to uncover this...
Motherhood in India
Glorification without Empowerment?
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
This book presents an overview of the varied experiences and representations of motherhood in India from ancient to modern times. The thrust of the arguments made by the various contributors is that the centrality of motherhood as an ideology in a woman’s life is manufactured. This is demonstrated...
by Donna Kay Cindy Kakonge
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
This research fills the gaps in the literature surrounding the career aspirations of Black female high school students in Canada. The literature surrounds five key factors regarding career aspirations, educational programs that help young Black females to succeed in high school, the portrayal of Black...
by Donna Kay Cindy Kakonge
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2017
Voices of Black Girls in Toronto is an academic book which includes research and non-fiction data collection and analysis concerning the career choices and futures of high school girls of African descent in Toronto.
Young Black Women in Toronto High Schools
Portraits of Family, School and Community Involvement in Developing Goals and Aspirations
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
This research fills the gaps in the literature surrounding the career aspirations of Black female high school students in Canada. The literature surrounds five key factors regarding career aspirations, educational programs that help young Black females to succeed in high school, the portrayal of Black...
Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity
The Lives and Work of Intellectual Women
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Examining the lives and work of historical and contemporary feminist intellectuals, Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity explores the feminist struggle to "have it all." This fascinating interdisciplinary study focuses on how feminist thinkers throughout history have long striven...