Feminism category: 1647 books
La servitù delle donne
con prefazione di Anna Maria Mozzoni
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 23, 2015
In questo libro, scritto nel 1869 ma ancora di attualità sotto molti aspetti in molti Paesi del mondo, John Stuart Mill rivendica la parità dei sessi nel diritto di famiglia e il suffragio universale, sostenendo che ciò migliorerà anche gli uomini, i quali smetteranno di sentirsi superiori solo...
Standing Ovulation
le donne sono superiori agli uomini (anche nella violenza)
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 2, 2016
STANDING OVULATION è improntato sulla forma del diario riflessivo con temi a sfondo antropologico e sociologico, in chiave ironica come panacea dei mali. E’ la rielaborazione di un blog contro le violenze di genere, negli ultimi due anni seguito da oltre duemila persone e su Twitter da oltre un...
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a prominent American humanist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopian feminist and served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle....
by Koblitz
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
While the women's movement might seem like a relatively new concept, Russian women of the 1860s deserve to be acknowledged as individuals who changed the direction of science and opened the doors of higher education to women throughout Europe. The 1860's and 1870's witnessed a rise in women's consciousness...
by Mary Cholmondeley
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Mary Cholmondeley (8 June 1859 – 15 July 1925) was an English novelist. Her best-selling novel, Red Pottage, satirised religious hypocrisy and the narrowness of country life. Red Pottage caused a scandal when it was first published, in 1899, due to its themes of adultery, the emancipation of women...
by Kate Austin
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
This edition of "WOMAN (A Feminist Masterpiece)" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Kate Cooper Austin (1864–1902) was an American journalist and advocate of feminist and anarchist causes. A member of the American Press Writers'...
The Greatest Works of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The Woman's Bible, The History of Women's Suffrage From 1848 to 1885, Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) was an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the Seneca Falls Convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, is often credited with initiating the...
Chila Kumari Burman
Shakti, Sexuality and Bindi girls
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
A monograph on the artist, Chila Kumari Burman, which looks at her work in terms of her South Asian identity, her contribution to the black arts movement and Stuart Hall’s definitions of “new ethnicities” in contemporary Britain. Rina Arya examines a wide range of works made by the artist from...
Undoing Impunity
Speech after Sexual Violence
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
The Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia research project (coordinated by Zubaan and supported by the International Development Research Centre) brings together, for the first time in the region, a vast body of knowledge on this important yet silenced subject. Six country volumes (one each...
by Ada Adverse
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
’This fun and feminist series of humour books celebrates the sisterhood with a wry smile.’ – Red Have you ever…? A) Asked yourself whether dying alone would really be that bad, when compared to the alternative? B) Invented a boyfriend so you don’t have to withstand any more concerned questions...
Building Feminist Movements and Organizations
Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
The struggle for the advancement of women's rights and gender equality globally is impossible without strong women's organizations and movements to provide leadership and momentum. But what does a strong women's organization look like? And what does it take to create effective and sustainable women's...
by Gustave Flaubert
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Madame Bovary es, probablemente, el más importante libro jamás escrito. Considerada una obra maestra a lo largo de casi dos siglos, todavía hoy se mantiene en la cima de las novelas más celebradas por lectores de todo el mundo. Con su estilo refinado y en busca de la “palabra justa”, Flaubert...
Globalization, Gender Politics, and the Media
From the West to Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
From advertising to television and film, feminist media scholars have examined the changing nature of media representations form the 1990’s onwards in comparison to the 1950s in the UK and the US. Many debates focus on the current ambiguity surrounding media representations which are inserted within...
Gender Equality, Citizenship and Human Rights
Controversies and Challenges in China and the Nordic Countries
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
This comparative volume examines the ways in which current controversies and political, legal, and social struggles for gender equality raise conceptual questions and challenge our thinking on political theories of equality, citizenship and human rights.
Bringing together scholars and activists...