Feminism category: 1647 books
Valeria no pudo bailar
y otras crónicas de femicidios recientes
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 16, 2017
En este libro hay mujeres. Mujeres fuertes, luchadoras, con sueños y esperanzas. Mujeres cuya vida fue truncada por el simple hecho de ser mujeres.
Estas páginas cuentan la historia de Dayana Yeyé, Melissa Ruggiero, Lola Chomnalez, Analía Perdomo, Valeria Sosa, Marta Martínez, Ofelia Chéchile,...
by Louisa May Alcott
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
It is one of "several nineteenth-century novels [which] uncovers the changes in women's work in the new industrial era, as well as the dilemmas, tensions, and the meaning of that work" The story depicts the struggles of a young woman trying to support herself. The main character, Christie...
D-Passage
The Digital Way
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
D-Passage is a unique book by the world-renowned filmmaker, artist, and critical theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha. Taking as grounding forces her feature film Night Passage and installation L'Autre marche (The Other Walk), both co-created with Jean-Paul Bourdier, she discusses the impact of new technology...
La carga mental femenina
O por qué las mujeres continúan al mando del hogar a coste cero
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 19, 2019
«Hace un año, estaba en Málaga grabando un reportaje cuando recibí la peor llamada de mi vida. Mi hijo Damià acababa de entrar en quirófano. Tardé doce horas en poder llegar a Barcelona y tenerlo entre mis brazos. Cuando llegué, ya había tomado la decisión: no quería estar nunca más separada...
El mundo árabo-islámico como ellas nos lo contaron
Las periodistas de TVE en Oriente Medio y Norte de África: cuatro décadas de mujer e información
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Durante siglos, viajeros, diplomáticos y políticos (hombres, en definitiva) dibujaron el inmenso territorio que va desde Marruecos a Afganistán como un "Oriente" a la vez exótico y amenazante, plagado de fanatismo y en el que la parte femenina de la sociedad raramente aparecía sino...
by Matilda Joslyn Gage
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
This work explains itself and is given to the world because it is needed. Tired of the obtuseness of Church and State; indignant at the injustice of both towards woman; at the wrongs inflicted upon one-half of humanity by the other half in the name of religion; finding appeal and argument alike met...
by Stephen Lee Naish
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Renowned film critic Roger Ebert said Dirty Dancing "might have been a decent movie if it had allowed itself to be about anything." In this broadly researched and accessible text, Stephen Lee Naish sets out to deconstruct and unlock a film that has haunted him for decades, and argues that Dirty Dancing,...
by Kate Chopin
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
The story is about Mrs. Edna Pontellier, a Kentucky girl married to Leonce, a New Orleans Creole. One summer, When she is twenty-eight, something inside her starts to shift. She's not fully aware of what's happening, but she knows she feels different. Gradually she stops obeying social conventions...
by Gloria Orenstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Exemplifying many of the concepts embedded in our issue’s focus on Great Age, Betty La Duke, now at eighty-two, has been making art that celebrates the life force in human, animal, and plant dwellers on our planet as she traveled the world “From the Bronx to Timbuktu” (her way of describing...
by Gloria Orenstein
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Mexico provides a surreal surrounding for painters to experience new visions. Tichenor's artistic conceptions are not European. The artist makes an analogy about past practices of shamans and unexplainable phenomena in her art work. Her artwork glows in a radiating way that is un-natural. Tichenor's...
Minds of Our Own
Inventing Feminist Scholarship and Women’s Studies in Canada and Québec, 1966–76
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2009
This book of personal essays by over forty women and men who founded women’s studies in Canada and Québec explores feminist activism on campus in the pivotal decade of 1966-76. The essays document the emergence of women’s studies as a new way of understanding women, men, and society, and they...
Gender and Migration
Feminist Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Provocative and intellectually challenging, Gender and Migration critically analyses how gender has been taken up in studies of migration and its theories, practices and effects. Each essay uses feminist frameworks to highlight how more traditional tropes of gender eschew the complexities of gender...
Enchantments
A Modern Witch's Guide to Self-Possession
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
A wise, witchy, and welcoming guide to living life magically
Mya Spalter has spent years among candles, herbs, cats, and spells as an employee at New York City’s oldest occult shop, Enchantments. Since it would get crowded in there if all of you visited, this beautifully illustrated book...
Our Mothers' Land
Chapters in Welsh Women's History, 1830-1939
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
This volume marks the twentieth anniversary of the first publication of this groundbreaking book. It reflects the pioneering research of its contributors to the development of modern Welsh women’s history. The eight chapters range widely across time (1830-1939) and place, from exploring working...