Feminism category: 1647 books
Women And The Subversion Of The Community
A Mariarosa Dalla Costa Reader
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
This collection brings together key texts and previously unavailable essays of the influential Italian feminist author and activist Mariarosa Dalla Costa. In recent years there has been both a renewed interest in theories of social reproduction and an explosion of women's struggles and strikes across...
The Biography of Goddess Inanna; Indomitable Queen of Heaven, Earth and Almost Everything
Her Story Is Women’S Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
When stars were many and people few, a great story was told everywhere. The first storytellers were women. Their story was so large it filled the universe it told of a Great Mother encompassing life, death and return of everything. When Neolithic farming people settled, and depended on plentiful crops...
Becoming Brave
A sassy woman's guide to turning fear into bravery
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2019
In this motivating, powerful and relatable book, Katie Dean provides the practical tools to nudge you out of your comfort zone, befriend your fear, and let go of the heavier feelings that were never yours to carry.
Becoming Brave encourages the courageousness to be both brave and vulnerable...
The Whole Shebang
Sticky bits of being a woman
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
The sparkling witty smart little black dress of books for women – The Whole Shebang will be invaluable if you are fumbling to find the right man, underwear or career.
Lalita Iyer doesn't do self-help but if you need a survival guide in your pocket, here it is - dating, relationships, money, sex,...
Mermaid Magic
Be Mermazing Every Day!
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2018
'The Mermaid trend, nay, obsession, seemingly has no bounds' - Teen Vogue
Channel the power of your inner ocean goddess, their life and style, mythology and spirituality. Mermaid Magic will inspire you to create storms and make waves, as well as teaching you how to harness the mermaid's mystical...
Wombs in Labor
Transnational Commercial Surrogacy in India
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Surrogacy is India's new form of outsourcing, as couples from all over the world hire Indian women to bear their children for a fraction of the cost of surrogacy elsewhere with little to no government oversight or regulation. In the first detailed ethnography of India's surrogacy industry, Amrita...
Mother's Milk
Breastfeeding Controversies in American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Mother's Milk examines why nursing a baby is an ideologically charged experience in contemporary culture. Drawing upon medical studies, feminist scholarship, anthropological literature, and an intimate knowledge of breastfeeding itself, Bernice Hausman demonstrates what is at stake in mothers' infant...
by Cheryl MacDonald
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1986
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1986
Adelaide Hunter Hoodless, lifelong crusader for the recognition of the domestic sciences (cooking, sewing, childcare and housework) and an early proponent of home economics in Canada, was considered one of the radical new woman of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She helped turn...
by Beate Littig
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
For courses in Environmental studies, Environmental Sociology, Environmental geography and Development studies; Women's studies and Women's issues options on a wide variety of degree courses. Combining theory with practice, this concise, accessible text provides a comprehensive introduction to the...
Queer Voices
Technologies, Vocalities, and the Musical Flaw
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2011
This book argues that there are some important implications of the role the voice plays in popular music when thinking about processes of identification. The central thesis is that the voice in popular music is potentially uncanny (Freud's unheimlich), and that this may invite or guard against identification by the listener.
Engaging with Empowerment
An Intellectual and Experiential Journey
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this fascinating collection of writings, Srilatha Batliwala, feminist thinker and practitioner, explores the many dimensions of what empowerment means for, and to, women. Looking back on a life lived through commitment to a cause—rather than to an organisation or to a sector—and working for it...
Women and Depression
Recovery and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Women and Depression: Recovery and Resistance takes a welcome look at women’s experiences of living well after depression. Lafrance argues that the social construction of femininity is dangerous for women’s health, and ultimately, central to their experiences of depression. Beginning with a critical...
Epigenetic Landscapes
Drawings as Metaphor
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Devised in the 1940s by the biologist C. H. Waddington, the epigenetic landscape is a metaphor for how gene regulation modulates cellular development. As a scientific model, it fell out of use in the late 1960s but returned at the beginning of the twenty-first century with the advent of big-data genomic...
by Sonia Bajic
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
From the funny to the strident to the profound, What My Girlfriends Told Me is a beautiful illustrated celebration of friendship, full of the best advice for times of heartache or uncertainty, long nights and new beginnings. Wisdom from women who have lived.