Feminism category: 1647 books
Canon Fodder
Historical Women Political Thinkers
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2009
This book is an exercise in the recovery of historical memory about a set of thinkers who have been forgotten or purposely ignored and, as a result, never made it into the canon of Western political philosophy. Penny Weiss calls them “canon fodder,” recalling the fate of soldiers in war who are...
Forget "Having It All"
How America Messed Up Motherhood--and How to Fix It
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
A clear-eyed look at the history of American ideas about motherhood, how those ideas have impacted all women (whether they have kids or not), and how to fix the inequality that exists as a result.
After filing a story only two hours after giving birth, and then getting straight back to full-time...
by Mary Wollstonecraft
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2018
This ebook contains the following works:
Works
—Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787)
—Mary: A Fiction (1788)
—Original Stories from Real Life (1788)
—A Vindication of the Rights of Men: Reply to Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution (1791)
—A Vindication of the Rights...
by Mary Wollstonecraft
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Mary Wollstonecraft’s visionary treatise, originally published in 1792, was the first book to present women’s rights as an issue of universal human rights. Ideal for coursework and classroom study, this comprehensive edition of Wollstonecraft’s heartfelt feminist argument includes illuminating...
by Mary Wollstonecraft
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
“It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows, into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain, must be obtained by their charms and weakness.”—Mary Wollstonecraft
Composed...
Storm in My Heart
Memories from the Widow of Johann Most
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Partner of one of the most infamous anarchists of her time, Johann Most, Helene Minkin joined the anarchist movement after emigrating from Russia in 1888 with her father and sister. Framed as a reaction and corrective to Emma Goldman's Living My Life, Minkin's memoir provides a unique account of turn-of-the-century...
by Rebecca Solnit
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 19, 2017
«La voce della Solnit non ha paura, nel suo arco ha frecce potenti.»
The Independent
«Un libro acuto e audace… tipicamente Solnit.»
Publishers Weekly
«In questi saggi accessibili a tutti l'autrice affronta i grandi temi del gender e del potere. Una lettura fondamentale per chi...
by Eve Merrier
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This uplifting illustrated collection warmly celebrates inspirational women from comedians and pirates to innovators and freedom fighters. Entertaining descriptions of remarkable and ground-breaking achievements are interspersed with light commentary and quick lists of key women from history you should...
Knowing Otherwise
Race, Gender, and Implicit Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Prejudice is often not a conscious attitude: because of ingrained habits in relating to the world, one may act in prejudiced ways toward others without explicitly understanding the meaning of one’s actions. Similarly, one may know how to do certain things, like ride a bicycle, without being able...
The Hunting Ground
The Inside Story of Sexual Assault on American College Campuses
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
The debate over sexual violence on campus is reaching fever pitch, from headlines about outof-control fraternities, to the ”mattress protests” by female students at Columbia University and other colleges.
The Hunting Ground, the new documentary by award-winning filmmakers Kirby Dick and...
Fleshing the Spirit
Spirituality and Activism in Chicana, Latina, and Indigenous Women’s Lives
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Fleshing the Spirit brings together established and new writers exploring the relationships between the physical body, the spirit and spirituality, and social justice activism. Examining the complex and dynamic connections among these concepts, the writers emphasize the value of “flesh and blood...
Homegrown
Engaged Cultural Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
In Homegrown, cultural critics bell hooks and Amalia Mesa-Bains reflect on the innate solidarity between Black and Latino culture. Riffing on everything from home and family to multiculturalism and the mass media, hooks and Mesa-Bains invite readers to re-examine and confront the polarizing mainstream...
The Every Woman's Guide to Equality
How achieving real equality will change women's lives forever!
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
The Every Woman’s Guide to Equality takes a different look at women’s equality. It is a comprehensive discussion about how inequality exists in every area of women’s lives: the healthcare system, judicial system and work sector, and how negative behavior left unanswered diminishes the level...
by Liesl Haas
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
The election of Michelle Bachelet as president of Chile in 2006 gave new impetus to the struggle in that country for legislation to improve women’s rights and highlighted a process that had already been under way for some time. In Feminist Policymaking in Chile, Liesl Haas investigates the efforts...