Feminism category: 1647 books
by George Egerton
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
A release in celebration of World Women's day on March 8 2013. “Neurotic and repulsive” Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine “A deliberate outrage” Athenaem “Crazy and offensive drivel” Saturday Review Sounds good, right? George Egerton's Wedlock is a pioneering work of 19th Century female writing....
Representations of Femininity in American Genre Cinema
The Woman's Film, Film Noir, and Modern Horror
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
The theme of female transformation informs the Hollywood representation of femininity from the studio era to the present. Whether it occurs physically, emotionally, or on some other level, transformation allows female protagonists to negotiate their own complex desires and to resist the compulsory...
by Cherry Healey
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
How much more fun in life could I have had if I'd just stopped worrying so much and stopped beating myself up?
In this book, Cherry reveals the things she wishes her mother had told her, through a series of hilarious anecdotes and excruciating confessions.
Each chapter opens with a letter...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Love, hope, and impossible decisions Parenting brings countless hopes and worries. But when external factors create fear and cast a shadow long and deep across motherhood, what happens to the act of mothering? Through personal and academic essays and poetry from Canada, the United States and Palestine,...
by Jayne Lyn Blair
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2004
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Muslim Women in Law and Society
Annotated translation of al-Tahir al-Haddad’s Imra ‘tuna fi ‘l-sharia wa ‘l-mujtama, with an introduction.
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2007
An extremely timely translation of a seminal text on the role of women in Muslim society by the early twentieth century thinker al Taher al-Haddad. Considered as one of the first feminist works in Arab literature, this book will be of considerable interest to scholars of an early "feminist"...
Rape
The Politics of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
A powerful feminist examination of the deeply ingrained roots of rape in our shared cultural values
Rape is the most frequently occurring violent crime in America. In this courageous, controversial, and groundbreaking work, the poet, feminist, and philosopher Susan Griffin examines rape as...
Pornography and Silence
Culture's Revenge Against Nature
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
A masterwork of feminist ideology, brilliantly exposing pornography as the antithesis of free expression and the enemy of liberty
In this powerful and devastating critique, poet, philosopher, and feminist Susan Griffin exposes the inherent psychological horrors of pornography. Griffin argues...
Le droit de vote des femmes en France
Un événement clé passé sous silence
Language: French
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur le droit de vote des femmes en France en moins d’une heure !
Si le débat sur l’égalité politique des hommes et des femmes ne date pas d’hier, en France, le droit de vote n’a pourtant été accordé aux femmes que tardivement, en 1944....
Methodologies of Embodiment
Inscribing Bodies in Qualitative Research
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
This volume is dedicated to exploring and exposing the challenges, the possibilities, and the processes of empirical work in embodiment. Grounded in qualitative inquiry in the humanities and social sciences, the chapters describe perspectives and contexts of embodied research, but focus on the methodologies,...
by Sylvia Walby
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
We are living in a time of crisis which has cascaded through society. Financial crisis has led to an economic crisis of recession and unemployment; an ensuing fiscal crisis over government deficits and austerity has led to a political crisis which threatens to become a democratic crisis. Borne unevenly,...
The Declaration of the Rights of Women
The Originial Manifesto for Justice, Equality and Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Olympe de Gouges was the most important fighter for women's rights you've never heard of.
An activist and writer in revolutionary Paris, she published 'The Declaration of the Rights of Women' in 1791, and was beheaded two years later, her articulate demands for equality proving too much for their...
Engels Revisited (Routledge Revivals)
Feminist Essays
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This reissued work, first published in 1987, examines the problematic and divisive attitudes which bourgeois and socialist feminists take to the question of the links between patriarchy and capitalism and the importance of class conflict as a major cause of women's subordination. Engels still occcupies...
Emancipation and Illusion
Rationality and Gender in Habermas's Theory of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 1997
In this comprehensive analysis of Jürgen Habermas's philosophy and social theory, Marie Fleming takes strong issue with Habermas over his understanding of rationality and the lifeworld, emancipation, history, and gender. Throughout the book she focuses attention on the various ways in which an idea...