Feminism category: 1647 books
by Goldwin Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Please be aware that this is a text first published in 1875 which positions itself against Female Suffrage in the UK. It is essential to consider the book within the historical context in which it was written. In his book Goldwin Smith fires a virulent shot into Mr. Forsyth's Bill, and indeed into...
The Societal Evolution of Male Stereotypes
Gender Bashing of Men in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
"When a negative trait or practice is generally and entirely attributed to a people of a particular race, gender or origin, it is an unfair generalization that we call a ‘stereotype’. When it manifests unchallenged and unanswered, it can over time cause society to lose respect for a particular...
Sexing the Body
Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
Why do some people prefer heterosexual love while others fancy the same sex? Is sexual identity biologically determined or a product of convention? In this brilliant and provocative book, the acclaimed author of Myths of Gender argues that even the most fundamental knowledge about sex is shaped by...
Black Looks
Race and Representation
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
In the critical essays collected in Black Looks, bell hooks interrogates old narratives and argues for alternative ways to look at blackness, black subjectivity, and whiteness. Her focus is on spectatorship—in particular, the way blackness and black people are experienced in literature, music, television,...
Footbinding
A Jungian Engagement with Chinese Culture and Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
In this book Shirley See Yan Ma provides a Jungian perspective on the Chinese tradition of footbinding and considers how it can be used as a metaphor for the suffering of women and the repression of the feminine, as well as a symbol for hope, creativity and spiritual transformation.
Drawing...
Television Antiheroines
Women Behaving Badly in Crime and Prison Drama
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
With a foreword by Diane Negra and Jorie Lagerway As television has finally started to create more leading roles for women, the female antiheroine has emerged as a compelling and dynamic character type. Television Antiheroines looks closely at this recent development, exploring the emergence of women...
Taking the Village Online
Mothers, Motherhood, and Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
The rise of social media has changed how we understand and enact relationships across our lives, including motherhood. The meanings and practices of mothering have been significantly impacted by the availability of communities found via forums, blogs, and sites like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram,...
Be Good, Sweet Maid
The Trials of Dorothy Joudrie
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
January 21, 1995: Dorothy Joudrie is arrested for attempting to murder her estranged husband. Soon after, Audrey Andrews begins to write her book. Audrey and Dorothy had known each other as children, but the identification of Andrews with Joudrie goes beyond merely the accident of a childhood acquaintance....
by Nikki Erin
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Free flow poetry detailing the multi faceted life of people with pussies and all that that entails. From sex and masturbation to periods and pubic hair, nothing is off limits here.
Truth, Autonomy, and Speech
Feminist Theory and the First Amendment
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2004
Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Titles 2005 Winner
Amidst the vast array of literature on the First Amendment, it is rare to hear a fresh voice speak about the First Amendment, but in Truth, Autonomy, and Speech, Susan H. Williams presents a strikingly original interpretation and defense of the...
Hunting Girls
Sexual Violence from The Hunger Games to Campus Rape
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Katniss Everdeen (The Hunger Games), Bella Swan (Twilight), Tris Prior (Divergent), and other strong and resourceful characters have decimated the fairytale archetype of the helpless girl waiting to be rescued. Giving as good as they get, these young women access reserves of aggression to liberate...
by Mona Eltahawy
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
A bold and uncompromising feminist manifesto that shows women and girls how to defy, disrupt, and destroy the patriarchy by embracing the qualities they've been trained to avoid.
Seizing upon the energy of the #MeToo movement, feminist activist Mona Eltahawy advocates a muscular, out-loud approach...
The Sadeian Woman
An Exercise in Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Sexuality is power' - so says the Marquis de Sade, philosopher and pornographer extraordinaire. His virtuous Justine keeps to the rules laid down by men, her reward rape and humiliation; his Juliette, Justine's triumphantly monstrous antithesis, viciously exploits her sexuality. In a world where all...
Tapestries of the Heart
Four Women, Four Persian Generations
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
This award winning novel portrays four generations of Persian women over a span of one hundred years. It depicts the effects of religion and politi-ever changing in Iranian society. Tapestries stands out as a true representation of the cycle of life. The destinies of these characters are interwoven...