Feminism category: 1647 books
The Politics of Recognition and Social Justice
Transforming Subjectivities and New Forms of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Via a wide range of case studies, this book examines new forms of resistance to social injustices in contemporary Western societies. Resistance requires agency, and agency is grounded in notions of the subject and subjectivity. How do people make sense of their subjectivity as they are constructed...
Commodification of Sexual Labor:
The Contribution of Internet Communities to Prostitution Reform
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Most feminists agree that successful prostitution reform requires that prostitutes be respected by their clients, peers, and the community. Although respect is not the only criterion necessary for acceptable reform, many feminists believe that the absence of stigma would be a sufficiently fundamental...
Everyday World-Making
Toward an Understanding of Affect and Mothering
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
This cross-disciplinary collection considers the intersection of affect and mothering, with the aim of expanding both the experiential and theoretical frameworks that guide our understanding of mothering and of theories of affect. It brings together creative, reflective, poetic, and theoretical pieces...
Interconnections
Gender and Race in American History
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
This collection builds on decades of interdisciplinary work by historians of African American women as well as scholars of feminist and critical race theory, bridging the gap between well-developed theories of race, gender, and power and the practice of historical research. It examines how racial...
Biological Relatives
IVF, Stem Cells, and the Future of Kinship
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Thirty-five years after its initial success as a form of technologically assisted human reproduction, and five million miracle babies later, in vitro fertilization (IVF) has become a routine procedure worldwide. In Biological Relatives, Sarah Franklin explores how the normalization of IVF has changed...
by Joan Wallach Scott
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
In The Fantasy of Feminist History, Joan Wallach Scott argues that feminist perspectives on history are enriched by psychoanalytic concepts, particularly fantasy. Tracing the evolution of her thinking about gender over the course of her career, the pioneering historian explains how her search for...
Gender for the Warfare State
Literature of Women in Combat
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Gender for the Warfare State is the first scholarly investigation into the written works of U.S. women combat veterans in twenty-first century wars. Most recent studies quantify military participation, showing how many women participate in armed services and what their experiences are in a traditionally...
Mapping Difference
The Many Faces of Women in Contemporary Ukraine
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Drawn from various disciplines and a broad spectrum of research interests, these essays reflect on the challenging issues confronting women in Ukraine today. The contributors are an interdisciplinary, transnational group of scholars from gender studies, feminist theory, history, anthropology, sociology,...
Power Interrupted
Antiracist and Feminist Activism inside the United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
In Power Interrupted, Sylvanna M. Falc�n redirects the conversation about UN-based feminist activism toward UN forums on racism. Her analysis of UN antiracism spaces, in particular the 2001 World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance in Durban, South...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2007
Any glance at the contemporary history of the world shows that the problem of evil is a central concern for people everywhere. In the last few years, terrorist attacks, suicide bombings, and ethnic and religious wars have only emphasized humanity’s seemingly insatiable capacity for violence. In...
by Adrian Nathan West
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Pornography keeps getting more extreme. Manufacturers, defenders and consumers of porn rely on a mix of wilful ignorance and bad faith to avoid serious discussion. When we do talk about violence against women in the porn world, the debate all too often becomes technical, complicated by legalities...
Women's Movements
Flourishing or in abeyance?
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2008
Written by leading women's movement scholars, this book is the first to systematically apply the idea of social movement abeyance to differing national and international contexts. Its starting point is the idea that the women's movement is over, an idea promoted in the media and encouraged by scholarship...
Antimilitarism
Political and Gender Dynamics of Peace Movements
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
A lively, first hand account of the ideas and activities of women and men in anti-war, anti-militarist and peace movements. The author looks at the tensions and divergences in and between organizations, and their potential for cohering into a powerful worldwide counter-hegemonic movement for violence reduction.
The Middle of Things
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
In the tradition of classic essayists from Virginia Woolf to Annie Dillard, Meghan Florian combines personal narrative with careful analysis, taking the ordinary material of undramatic daily life and distilling it into moments of clarity and revelation. Centering each essay in this collection on a...