Feminism category: 1647 books
The Humanness of Women: Theory and Practice of Feminism (Essays and Sketches)
Studies and thoughts by the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and deeply respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, known for The Yellow Wallpaper story
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Humanness of Women: Theory and Practice of Feminism (Essays and Sketches)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was a prominent American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer...
From the House to the Streets
The Cuban Woman’s Movement for Legal Reform, 1898–1940
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1991
From the House to the Streets is the first study on feminists and the feminist movement in Cuba between 1902 and 1940. In the four decades following its independence form Spain in 1898, Cuba adopted the most progressive legislation for women in the western hemisphere. K. Lynn Stoner explains how a...
Real Knockouts
The Physical Feminism of Women's Self-Defense
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1997
An examination of women's self-defense culture and its relationship to feminism.
I was once a frightened feminist. So begins Martha McCaughey's odyssey into the dynamic world of women's self- defense, a culture which transforms women involved with it and which has equally profound implications for...
The Word of a Woman
Feminist Dispatches
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Feminism from the front lines
A founder of the contemporary global women’s movement, Robin Morgan is widely known as one of feminism’s strongest, most persuasive activists. As a writer, she is unique in her ability to distill ideas into smart pieces of nonfiction that can transform a reader’s...
Monster
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
The debut poetry collection from one of feminism’s most passionate voices, with a new preface by the author
Well before Robin Morgan was known as a feminist leader, literary magazines published her as a serious poet, and in 1979 she received a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing...
Going Too Far
The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
The personal papers of one of feminism’s most passionate leaders, with a new preface by the author
As an activist for social justice, Robin Morgan has acquired a reputation for strong convictions and a life-affirming way of expressing them through writing. Nowhere is this more evident than...
by Kelly Oliver, Cynthia Willett, Julie Willett
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The eight essays contained in Philosophical Feminism and Popular Culture explore the portrayal of women and various philosophical responses to that portrayal in contemporary post-civil rights society. The essays examine visual, print, and performance media—stand-up comedy, movies, television, and...
Between Feminism and Materialism
A Question of Method
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
In her latest book, Gillian Howie offers a bold new way to make sense of the relationship between feminist theory and capitalism. This exciting combination of existentialism, phenomenology, and critical theory delivers a proactive feminism ready to respond to the challenges presented by our thoroughly modern times.
by Merve Emre, Sophie Lewis, Annie Menzel
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Feminist writers and scholars consider whether technology has made good on its promise to liberate women—sexually, biologically, economically, and politically.
In Once and Future Feminist, editor and lead essayist Merve Emre turns a critical eye on the role of technology in feminism both...
Making Feminist Media
Third-Wave Magazines on the Cusp of the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Making Feminist Media provides new ways of thinking about the vibrant media and craft cultures generated by Riot Grrrl and feminism’s third wave. It focuses on a cluster of feminist publications—including BUST, Bitch, HUES, Venus Zine, and Rockrgrl—that began as zines in the 1990s. By tracking...
The Fire This Time
Young Activists and the New Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
Young feminists today are becoming activists on behalf of many causes beyond the classic—and indispensable--feminist ones of reproductive rights and equal pay for equal work. In The Fire This Time, Dawn Martin, one of four founders of The Third Wave Foundation--a multiracial, multi-issue, and multicultural...
Jews and Feminism
The Ambivalent Search for Home
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
By interrogating America's promise of a home for Jews as citizens of the liberal state, Jews and Feminism questions the very terms of this social "contract". Maintaining that Jews, women, and Jewish women are not necessarily secure within this construction of the state, Laura Levitt links...
Making Transnational Feminism
Rural Women, NGO Activists, and Northern Donors in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
This ethnographic study examines the transnational relations among feminist movements at the end of the twentieth century, exploring two differently situated women’s organizations in the Northeast Brazilian state of Pernambuco.
The conventional narrative of globalization tells the story of...
by Kirstin Hanley
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
This study examines Mary Wollstonecraft—generally recognized as the founder of the early feminist movement—by shedding light on her contributions to eighteenth-century instructional literature, and feminist pedagogy in particular. While contemporary scholars have extensively theorized Wollstonecraft’s...