Feminism category: 1647 books

Contemporary research on the lives and experiences of women of color tends to neglect the influence of women’s perceived access to voice as they manage tensions related to race, class, and gender. Underserved Women of Color, Voice, and Resistance: Claiming a Seat at the Table contributes to current...

This book brings together two vitally important strands of 20th-century thinking to establish a set of simple and elegant principles for planning, project design and evaluation. It explains the backgrounds of cultural ecofeminism and critical systems thinking, and what we find when they are systematically...

Here is an insightful volume on the integration of women in the modernization process of developing countries, with research studies on women and development in Guatemala, Tanzania, Indonesia, and several other countries. Drawing from theory and practice, authorities examine how development in any...

Violence against women remains one of the most pervasive human rights violations in the world today, and it permeates every society, at every level. Such violence is considered a systemic, widespread and pervasive human rights violation, experienced largely by women because they are women. Yet at...

As a young woman, Democratic Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney asked her grandmother for career advice. She was shocked by the reply: "Get married." Though much has changed for women since then, more has remained the same. On a January night in 2008, Maloney and her daughter attended a Hillary...

Han pasado 20 años desde la primera edición de Las negociaciones nuestras de cada día y el mundo ha seguido hundiéndose en luchas cada vez más tortuosas en pos de poderes absolutos que casi siempre han pretendido disimularse bajo las «mejores intenciones». Las interminables negociaciones con...

El balance a todas luces positivo de cuatro décadas de lucha feminista hay que analizarlo desde la perspectiva actual con bastante menos entusiasmo que hubiéramos podido hacerlo veinte años atrás. Y precisamente por el éxito obtenido en las luchas libradas, el cambio social e ideológico está...

Hoy en día, aunque el quehacer de las mujeres ha ganado espacios y reconocimiento, los rezagos son todavía incalculables. Martha Robles (1948) indaga sobre las contradicciones respecto de las mujeres a través de personalidades como Virginia Woolf, Elena Garro y María Zambrano, entre otras, para...

Esta obra, única por sus características y aspiraciones, desvela un sentido del idioma que hasta hace poco se mantuvo oculto: su aspecto femenino. En una época de grandes transformaciones en la que es necesario que los avances de género se asienten y permeen toda manifestación social y...

Feminist Foremothers in Women’s Studies, Psychology, and Mental Health is by and about the more recent wave of feminist foremothers; those who were awakened in the 1960s and ’70s to the realization that something was terribly wrong. These are the women who created the fields of feminist therapy,...

Since its 2013 premiere, Orange Is the New Black has become Netflix’s most watched series, garnering critical praise and numerous awards and advancing the cultural phenomenon of binge-watching. Academic conferences now routinely feature panels discussing the show, and the book on which it is based...

In Quantum Anthropologies, the renowned feminist theorist Vicki Kirby contends that some of the most provocative aspects of deconstruction have yet to be explored. Deconstruction’s implications have been curtailed by the assumption that issues of textuality and representation are specific to the...

Transnational Borderlands: The Making of Cultural Resistance in Women's Global Networks investigates the implications of transnational feminist methodologies at multiple levels: collective actions, theory, pedagogy, discursive, and visual productions. It addresses a substantial gap in the field of...

This is an academic paper I wrote for my Masters degree. It is a research paper proposal on the portrayal of sexual assault in the media. It discusses the depiction of sexual assault in various media platforms. Specific films such as The Accused and Blue Bell, soap operas and TV talk shows are analyzed.