Feminism category: 1647 books
The Body of War
Media, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Break-up of Yugoslavia
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2007
In The Body of War, Dubravka Žarkov analyzes representations of female and male bodies in the Croatian and Serbian press in the late 1980s and in the early 1990s, during the war in which Yugoslavia disintegrated. Žarkov proposes that the Balkan war was not a war between ethnic groups; rather, ethnicity...
The Scandal of the State
Women, Law, and Citizenship in Postcolonial India
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2003
The Scandal of the State is a revealing study of the relationship between the postcolonial, democratic Indian nation-state and Indian women’s actual needs and lives. Well-known for her work combining feminist theory and postcolonial studies, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan shows how the state is central...
by Marita Gronnvoll
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
In this timely book, Gronnvoll offers a feminist rhetorical examination of gender and torture, looking at the media coverage of Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay, as well as recent popular entertainment television serials where torture appears as a plot device (including 24). In exposing news media coverage...
by Melissa Yeomans
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
The Dreamer works her way through three compelling dreams, poems, and ponderings about abortion, into a resolution (including The Pro-Love Pledge) to build a pro-love society—one choice at a time.
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Feminist Views from Somewhere
Post-Jungian themes in feminist theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Feminist Views from Somewhere: Post-Jungian Themes in Feminist Theoryexplores what and how Jungian thought contributes to feminist thinking. Broadly speaking, feminist thinking, or thinking by and about women as autonomous, intelligent and independent agents, has opened up scholarship through insightful,...
Playing with America's Doll
A Cultural Analysis of the American Girl Collection
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
This critical account of the American Girl brand explores what its books and dolls communicate to girls about femininity, racial identity, ethnicity, and what it means to be an American. Emilie Zaslow begins by tracing the development of American Girl and situates the company’s growth and popularity...
by Nellie Lillian McClung
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Nellie McClung's fourth book, In Times Like These, written in 1915, survives as a classic formulation of a feminist position. With hard-hitting rhetoric it demands women's rights as a logical extension of traditional views of female moral superiority and maternal responsibility.
A Philosophical Investigation of Rape
The Making and Unmaking of the Feminine Self
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
This book offers a critical feminist perspective on the widely debated topic of transitional justice and forgiveness. Louise Du Toit examines the phenomenon of rape with a feminist philosophical discourse concerning women’s or ‘feminine’ subjectivity and selfhood. She demonstrates how the hierarchical...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 1996
The stories of Indonesian women have often been told by Indonesian men and Dutch men and women. This volume asks how these representations—reproduced, transformed, and circulated in history, ethnography, and literature—have circumscribed feminine behavior in colonial and postcolonial Indonesia....
Borderlands and Crossroads
Writing the Motherland
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Motherhood does not just originate in the body, but in the world—a place, a region, a country or nation, a landscape, a language, a culture. Mothers are, as novelist Rachel Cusk once observed, “the countries we come from.” This unique literary anthology features thirty-five poems and twenty-three...
Cultural Studies 50 Years On
History, Practice and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Stuart Hall conceptualized his time at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies as a series of interruptions. It was this fluidity that gave rise to Hall’s conception of cultural studies as a ‘moving target’, a fusion of a range of disciplinary approaches that was uniquely influenced by...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
This interdisciplinary collection explores the role the body plays in constituting our sense of self, signalling the interplay between material embodiment, social meaning, and material and social conditions.
Biocultural Creatures
Toward a New Theory of the Human
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
In Biocultural Creatures, Samantha Frost brings feminist and political theory together with findings in the life sciences to recuperate the category of the human for politics. Challenging the idea of human exceptionalism as well as other theories of subjectivity that rest on a distinction between...
Targeted and Trolled
The Reality of Being a Woman Online (an Original Digital Short)
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
A feminist campaigner is sent death threats online at a rate of over fifty-per-hour. A woman who shares on social media her experience of rape, so that others might feel brave enough to speak out, is bombarded with abusive messages. More than a hundred female celebrities have their personal nude photographs...