Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books
Transatlantic Feminisms
Women and Gender Studies in Africa and the Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Transatlantic Feminisms is an interdisciplinary collection of original feminist research on women’s lives in Africa and the African diaspora. Demonstrating the power and value of transcontinental connections and exchanges between feminist thinkers, this unique collection of fifteen essays addresses...
Rumors from the Cauldron
Selected Essays, Reviews, and Reportage
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
**An indispensable collection of essays reflecting on the historical and cultural relevance of feminist movements across the globe **
In these remarkably far-reaching writings, author and journalist Valerie Miner delivers a complex and engaging volume of essential reading. This book touches...
Feminist Activist Ethnography
Counterpoints to Neoliberalism in North America
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Writing in the wake of neoliberalism, where human rights and social justice have increasingly been subordinated to proliferating “consumer choices” and ideals of market justice, contributors to this collection argue that feminist ethnographers are in a key position to reassert the central feminist...
The Politics of (M)Othering
Womanhood, Identity and Resistance in African Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2005
This collection is a study of African literature framed by the central, and multi-faceted, idea of 'mother' - motherland, mothertongue, motherwit, motherhood, mothering - looking at the paradoxical location of (m)other as both central and marginal. Whilst the volume stands as a sustained feminist...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
The feminist thinkers in this collection are the designated "fifty-one key feminist thinkers," historical and contemporary, and also the authors of the entries. Collected here are fifty-one key thinkers and fifty-one authors, recognizing that women are fifty-one percent of the population....
Feminist Studies
A Guide to Intersectional Theory, Methodology and Writing
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
In this book, feminist scholar Nina Lykke highlights current issues in feminist theory, epistemology and methodology. Combining introductory overviews with cutting-edge reflections, Lykke focuses on analytical approaches to gendered power differentials intersecting with other processes of social in/exclusion...
by Alana Van Gundy
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Feminist Theory, Crime, and Social Justice offers an insightful look at the primarily masculine-driven perspective on crime and justice through the lens of feminist theory. The book presents the argument that an increased understanding of the female crime typology, life course, and gender-specific...
by Kate Millett, Rebecca Mead
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
A sensation upon its publication in 1970, Sexual Politics documents the subjugation of women in great literature and art. Kate Millett's analysis targets four revered authors—D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, and Jean Genet—and builds a damning profile of literature's patriarchal myths...
The Female Philosopher and Her Afterlives
Mary Wollstonecraft, the British Novel, and the Transformations of Feminism, 1796-1811
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
This book argues that the female philosopher, a literary figure brought into existence by Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, embodied the transformations of feminist thought during the transition from the Enlightenment to the Romantic period. By imagining a series of alternate...
The Anatomy of Freedom
Feminism in Four Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
The classic of feminist vision by one of its greatest writers, with a new preface by the author
With the advent of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, physics and our world changed forever. In The Anatomy of Freedom, Robin Morgan shows us how the empowerment of women—half of humanity—will...
A Capsule Aesthetic
Feminist Materialisms in New Media Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
How new media art informed by feminism yields important and original insights about interacting with technologies
In A Capsule Aesthetic, Kate Mondloch examines how new media installation art intervenes in the fields of technoscience and new materialism, showing how three diverse artists—Pipilotti...
by A. Lynn Bolles, Matthew R. Dudgeon, Meena Rani Khandelwal
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Feminist anthropology emerged in the 1970s as a much-needed corrective to the discipline’s androcentric biases. Far from being a marginalized subfield, it has been at the forefront of developments that have revolutionized not only anthropology, but also a host of other disciplines. This landmark...
Jayne Cortez, Adrienne Rich, and the Feminist Superhero
Voice, Vision, Politics, and Performance in U.S. Contemporary Women's Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
One a lyric "confessional" poet and essayist, the other a jazz "spoken-word" performance artist, Adrienne Rich and Jayne Cortez were American feminist superheroes who produced extensive bodies of poetic work that reveal strangely overlapping visions, but in radically different...
Radical Reproductive Justice
Foundation, Theory, Practice, Critique
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
This anthology assembles two decades’ of work initiated by SisterSong Women of Color Health Collective, who created the human rights-based reproductive justice” to move beyond polarized pro-choice/pro-life debates. Rooted in Black feminism and built on intersecting identities, this revolutionary...