Feminism category: 1647 books
Feminist Solidarity at the Crossroads
Intersectional Women’s Studies for Transracial Alliance
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Women’s studies programs and departments face ongoing fall-out from an economic crisis in higher education. Taking the form of budget-cuts, reduction of faculty lines and other resource allocations, for some programs and departments it has meant at best, a loss of disciplinary autonomy through consolidation,...
by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
The Regional Gender Strategy and Action Plan aims to provide focus for the FAO gender-related work in Asia and the Pacific and identify delivery mechanisms for the period 2017-2019. The Regional Gender Strategy and Action Plan encompasses work at both the regional and country level.
Chicana Feminist Thought
The Basic Historical Writings
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Chicana Feminist Thought brings together the voices of Chicana poets, writers, and activists who reflect upon the Chicana Feminist Movement that began in the late 1960s. With energy and passion, this anthology of writings documents the personal and collective political struggles of Chicana feminists.
Post Grad
Five Women and Their First Year Out of College
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
An honest and deeply reported account of five women and the opportunities and frustrations they face in the year following their graduation from an elite university.
Recent Princeton graduate Caroline Kitchener weaves together her experiences from her first year after college with that of four...
From a Whisper to a Shout
How Social Media Activism Is Challenging Abortion Stigma
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Abortion remains legal in the US, but access has been slowly eroded since prohibition was ruled unconstitutional nearly fifty years ago. Simultaneously abortion remains culturally stigmatised – it is kept secret and presumed shameful. But feminist activists are working to increase access and challenge...
Promoting Women's Rights
Politics of Gender in the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
This dissertation examines the impact of international institutions on women's rights policies by focusing on the European Union (EU) as a case study in order to illustrate the influence and the ways in which international factors affect women's right as a global policy concern. The principle proposition...
Negotiating Palestinian Womanhood
Encounters between Palestinian Women and American Missionaries, 1880s–1940s
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Negotiating Palestinian Womanhood: Encounters between Palestinian Women and American Missionaries, 1880s–1940s is the first analytical study to examine the American Quaker educational enterprise in Palestine since its establishment in the late nineteenth century during the Ottoman rule and into...
Gender, Justice, and the Problem of Culture
From Customary Law to Human Rights in Tanzania
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
When, where, why, and by whom is law used to force desired social change in the name of justice? Why has culture come to be seen as inherently oppressive to women? In this finely crafted book, Dorothy L. Hodgson examines the history of legal ideas and institutions in Tanzania – from customary law...
Leading the Way
Inspiring Words for Women on How to Live and Lead with Courage, Confidence, and Authenticity
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
From the author of What Will It Take to Make a Woman President? and founder of Feminist.com and WhatWillItTake.com, Marianne Schnall, a rousing call to action for women everywhere to not only see themselves as leaders, but also discover that when more women step up and speak out, powerful things can...
The Inner Story of the Suffrage Movement
Woman Suffrage and Politics, Woman Suffrage By Federal Constitutional Amendment
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Throughout the suffrage struggle, America's history, principles and traditions stood forth to indicate the inevitability of woman suffrage, to suggest that it would normally be the first country in the world to give the vote to women. Yet the years went by, decade followed decade, and twenty-sixother...
Power Shift
The Longest Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2019
The facts are indisputable. When women get even a bit of education, the whole of society improves. When they get a bit of healthcare, everyone lives longer. In many ways, it has never been a better time to be a woman: a fundamental shift has been occurring. Yet from Toronto to Timbuktu the promise...
by
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
This collection explores the relationships between the emotional and material, engaging with and developing the debates surrounding the emotional and material labour involved in producing and reproducing domestic and intimate spaces. The contributions examine the geographies and spaces of consumption in international and local-global spheres.
Mothers and Food
Negotiating Foodways from Maternal Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2016
From multidisciplinary perspectives, this volume explores the roles mothers play in the producing, purchasing, preparing and serving of food to their own families and to their communities in a variety of contexts. By examining cultural representations of the relationships between feeding and parenting...
Gendered Tropes in War Photography
Mothers, Mourners, Soldiers
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Photographic stills of women, appearing in both press coverage and relief campaigns, have long been central to the documentation of war and civil conflict. Images of non-Western women, in particular, regularly function as symbols of the misery and hopelessness of the oppressed. Featured on the front...