Feminism category: 1647 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Centering on women's movements before, during, and after the revolutions, Women's Movements in Post-"Arab Spring" North Africa highlights the broader sources of authority that affected the emergence of new feminist actors and agents and their impact on the sociopolitical landscapes of the region.
Gaze Regimes
Film And Feminisms In Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Gaze Regimes is a bricolage of essays and interviews showcasing the experiences of women working in film, either directly as practitioners or in other areas as curators, festival programme directors or fundraisers. It does not shy away from questioning the relations of power in the practice of filmmaking...
Frontline Feminisms
Women, War, and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Alka Kurian
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This book conducts a post-colonial, gendered investigation of women-centred South Asian films. In these films, the narrative becomes an act of political engagement and a site of feminist struggle: a map that weaves together multiple strands of subjectivity—gender, caste, race, class, religion, and...
Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture
A Comprehensive Guide to Gender Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture, 2nd edition is a comprehensive gender studies textbook with an international focus and relevance across a broad range of academic disciplines. Covering an array of topics, theories and approaches to gender studies, it introduces students to the study of gender...
by Professor Mari Ruti
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
In Feminist Film Theory and Pretty Woman, Mari Ruti traces the development of feminist film theory from its foundational concepts such as the male gaze, female spectatorship, and the masquerade of femininity to 21st-century analyses of neoliberal capitalism, consumerism, postfeminism, and the revival...
Wives, Mistresses and Matriarchs
Asian women today
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1998
This is the untold story of the women of Asia. It is not a tale of the submissive oriental beauties of western fiction, but the true stories of prime ministers, factory labourers, business magnates, mistresses and prostitutes. It is a true story of extraordinary power and humiliating poverty in a...
The Politics of Passion
Women's Sexual Culture in the Afro-Surinamese Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2006
Gloria Wekker analyzes the phenomenon of mati work, an old practice among Afro-Surinamese working-class women in which marriage is rejected in favor of male and female sexual partners. Wekker vividly describes the lives of these women, who prefer to create alternative families of kin, lovers, and...
The Price You Pay
The Hidden Cost of Women's Relationship to Money
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
In The Price We Pay, Margaret Randall interviews women from a wide range of economic, racial, and cultural backgrounds to reveal the role money plays in their lives. These women speak of their changing expectations and attitudes regarding money. Daughters of immigrants remember what money meant in...
Judith Butler
Sexual Politics, Social Change and the Power of the Performative
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2008
Judith Butler's work on gender, sexuality, identity, and the body has proved massively influential across a range of academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Yet it is also notoriously difficult to access.
This key book provides a comprehensive introduction to Butler's work,...
Feminist Theory and the Body
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Talking Bodies
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Embodiment, Gender and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
In this collection leading thinkers, writers, and activists offer their responses to the simple question “do I have a body, or am I my body?”. The essays engage with the array of meanings that our bodies have today, ranging from considerations of nineteenth-century discourses of bodily shame and...
by Gabriele Rotmer, Annette Von Droste-hülshoff, Anna Ritter
Language: German
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Language: German
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Frauen sehen die Welt mit anderen Augen als Männer. Sie fühlen anders, sie lieben anders und sie leiden anders. Trotzdem ist die Zahl der von Frauen geschriebenen Gedichte in deutschen Lyriksammlungen meist verschwindend klein. Dabei haben Dichterinnen im Laufe der deutschen Geschichte durchaus...
by Allison Joseph
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
The poems in Allison Joseph’s latest collection are smart, shameless, and empowered confessions of the best kind. In semi-autobiographical verse highlighting in turns light-hearted and harsh realities of modern black womanhood, these poems take the reader down “A History of African-American Hair,”...