Feminism category: 1647 books
Post-feminist Impasses in Popular Heroine Television
The Persephone Complex
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Alison Horbury investigates the reprisal of the myth of Persephone - a mother-daughter plot of separation and initiation - in post-feminist television cultures where, she argues, it functions as a symptom expressing a complex around the question of sexual difference - what Lacan calls 'sexuation', where this question has been otherwise foreclosed.
by Dr. Angela Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Using extensive data - mostly gleaned from the National Archives - this book examines the way in which British widows of servicemen who died in the First World War were represented in society and by themselves, exploring the intertwining discourses of social welfare, national identity, and morality...
by Anne M. Prouty Lyness
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Reinforce the relationship between healthy bodies and healthy relationships in families!
Feminist Perspectives in Medical Family Therapy explores the groundbreaking collaboration of therapy and medicine to form a biopsychosocial approach to health care. In this book, feminists from several...
Why History Matters
Life and Thought
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 1998
"All human beings are practicing historians," writes Gerda Lerner. "We live our lives; we tell our stories. It is as natural as breathing." It is as important as breathing, too. History shapes our self-definition and our relationship to community; it locates us in time and place and helps to give...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Even though in most nations women are at least almost half of the population, in very few countries do they occupy a similar space in the formal institutions of political power. They are said to lack a key element for a successful career in public life: time. From this perspective, no one is worse...
Girl Squads
20 Female Friendships That Changed History
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
A fun and feisty tour of famous girl BFFs from history who stuck together and changed the world.
Spanning art, science, politics, activism, and sports, these 20 diverse profiles show just how essential female friendship have been across history and around the world. In this engaging and well-researched...
Femicide, Gender and Violence
Discourses and Counterdiscourses in Italy
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
This book questions gendered readings of violence by analyzing how this paradigm has become normalized in Italy since the feminist term ‘femminicidio’, or ‘femicide’, entered the mainstream media during the 2013 general election. It also sheds light on discourses of contestation on the part...
Women's Rights in the USA
Policy Debates and Gender Roles
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Women’s Rights in the USA is a rigorous examination of the intersection of gender roles and public policy and the implications for feminist activists. The book places full information on state and federal statutes and court decisions in the context of the ebb and flow of debates that have engaged...
Sexualities Research
Critical Interjections, Diverse Methodologies, and Practical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
How is sexuality studied methodologically? How are we innovating, methodologically, in the study of sexuality? What impact, if any, has the increase in mixed methodologies had on the study of sexuality?
Sexualities Research brings together original contributions by emerging and world-leading...
The Rhetorical Legacy of Wangari Maathai
Planting the Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
This book honors the advocacy of Dr. Wangari Maathai, acclaimed environmentalist and the first African woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Peace. Dr. Maathai was a gifted orator who crafted messages that imagined new possibilities for human agency and social justice and who inspired action to protect...
Theorizing Women & Leadership
New Insights & Contributions from Multiple Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Theorizing Women and Leadership: New Insights and Contributions from Multiple Perspectives is the fifth volume in the Women and Leadership: Research, Theory, and Practice series. This cross?disciplinary series, from the International Leadership Association, enhances leadership knowledge and improves...
by Michele Paludi, Gertrude A Steuernagel, Ellen Cole
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 1990
Here is a useful and illustrative guide for those interested in the impact of feminist scholarship on traditional academic disciplines. This important book explores the changes that have taken place in the academic world as a result of feminist approaches to scholarship, including issues of staffing, organization, administration, recruitment, stude
A Suffragette in America
Reflections on Prisoners, Pickets and Political Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2019
This book is a collection of Sylvia Pankhurst's writing on her visits to North America in 1911-12. Unlike the standard suffragette tours which focused on courting progressive members of America's social elite for money, Pankhurst got her hands dirty, meeting striking laundry workers in New York, visiting...
The Feminist's Guide to Raising a Little Princess
How to Raise a Girl Who's Authentic, Joyful, and Fearless--Even If She Refuses to Wear Anything but a Pink Tutu
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
“May God grant me the serenity to accept the color pink, the courage to not let my house become a shrine to pink and princesses, and the wisdom to know that pink is just a color, not a decision to never attend college in the hopes of marrying wealthy.”
- from The Feminist’s Guide to Raising...