Feminism category: 1647 books
Praising Girls
The Rhetoric of Young Women, 1895-1930
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
In Praising Girls, Henrietta Rix Wood explores how ordinary schoolgirls engaged in extraordinary rhetorical activities during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the United States. Focusing on high school girls’ public writing, Wood analyzes newspaper editorials and articles, creative...
by Dr Mary Spongberg
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2002
The complaint of Catherine Morland in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, that history has 'hardly any women at all' is not an uncommon one. Yet there is evidence to suggest that women have engaged in historical writing since ancient times.This study traces the history of women's historical writing, reclaiming...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
“Motherhood” and “military” are often viewed as dichotomous concepts, with the former symbolizing feminine ideals and expectations, and the latter suggesting masculine ideals and norms. Mothers, Military, and Society contributes to a growing body of research that disrupts this false dichotomy....
Special Issue
Feminist Legal Theory
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Half a century after the beginning of the second wave, feminist legal theorists are still writing about many of the subjects they addressed early on: money, sex, reproduction, and jobs. What has changed is the way that they talk about these subjects. Specifically, these theorists now posit a more...
Regenerating Bodies
Tissue and Cell Therapies in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
This exciting book examines how human tissues and cells are being exchanged, commodified and commercialized by new health technologies. Through a discussion of emergent global ‘tissue economies’ the author explores the social dynamics of innovation in the fields of tissue engineering and stem...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Women during the English Reformations
Renegotiating Gender and Religious Identity
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Catholic or Protestant, recusant or godly rebel, early modern women reinvented their spiritual and gendered spaces during the reformations in religion in England during the sixteenth century and beyond. These essays explore the ways in which some Englishwomen struggled to erase, rewrite, or reimagine their religious and gender identities.
The Fair Sex
White Women and Racial Patriarchy in the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2002
Once the egalitarian passions of the American Revolution had dimmed, the new nation settled into a conservative period that saw the legal and social subordination of women and non-white men. Among the Founders who brought the fledgling government into being were...
by Malin Grahn-Wilder
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
This book investigates the Ancient Stoic thinkers’ views on gender and sexuality. A detailed scrutiny of metaphysics, ethics and political philosophy reveals that the Stoic philosophers held an exceptionally equal view of men and women’s rational capacities. In its own time, Stoicism was frequently...
Through Vegetal Being
Two Philosophical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Blossoming from a correspondence between Luce Irigaray and Michael Marder, Through Vegetal Being is an intense personal, philosophical, and political meditation on the significance of the vegetal for our lives, our ways of thinking, and our relations with human and nonhuman beings. The vegetal world...
The Collected Poems of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Table of Contents: Then This Arrears How Doth The Hat Thanksgiving Thanksong Love Steps Child Labor His Crutches Get Your Work Done A Central Sun, a song Locked...
Translocalities/Translocalidades
Feminist Politics of Translation in the Latin/a Américas
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Translocalities/Translocalidades is a path-breaking collection of essays on Latin American, Caribbean, and United States–based Latina feminisms and their multiple translations and cross-pollinations. The contributors come from countries throughout the Américas and are based in diverse disciplines,...
Ethics and Human Rights in Anglophone African Women’s Literature
Feminist Empathy
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
This book proposes feminist empathy as a model of interpretation in the works of contemporary Anglophone African women writers. The African woman’s body is often portrayed as having been disabled by the patriarchal and sexist structures of society. Returning to their bodies as a point of reference,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
The Effects of Feminist Approaches on Research Methodologies is about feminist approaches to research in twelve disciplines. The authors look at whether there is something called feminist methodology, whether there are several feminist methodologies, or whether feminists use existing methodologies...