Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books
The Humanness of Women
Theory and Practice of Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
"Women and Economics" subtitled as "A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution" is a book written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and published in 1898. It is considered by many to be her single greatest work, and as with much of Gilman's...
Bringing Ethics Alive
Feminist Ethics in Psychotherapy Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Gain fresh theoretical and practical perspectives of feminist ethics in psychotherapy from this groundbreaking book. The combined effect of increases in the population of minorities in the U.S. and the number of women in psychotherapy practice will have great impact on the future of the mental health...
Audacious Voices
Profiles in Intersectional Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Inspiring and hopeful, Audacious Voices is a collection of twelve stories from alumnae/alumni of WILL*, a feminist model for education. Each author featured in this book is working, in their own distinct way, to make their communities more equitable—and their stories illustrate how different elements...
by Nancy Folbre
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2020
A major new work of feminism on the history and persistence of patriarchal hierarchies from the MacArthur Award-winning economist
In this groundbreaking new work, Nancy Folbre builds on a critique and reformulation of Marxian political economy, drawing on a larger body of scientific research,...
Feminism and Popular Culture
Investigating the Postfeminist Mystique
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
When the term “postfeminism” entered the media lexicon in the 1990s, it was often accompanied by breathless headlines about the “death of feminism.” Those reports of feminism’s death may have been greatly exaggerated, and yet contemporary popular culture often conjures up a world in which...
Reclaiming the F Word
Feminism Today
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Feminism is so last century. Surely in today's world the idea is irrelevant and unfashionable? Wrong. Since the turn of the millennium a revitalised feminist movement has emerged to challenge these assumptions. Based on a survey of over a thousand feminists, Reclaiming the F Word reveals the what,...
by Shira Tarrant
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
When Sex Became Gender is a study of post-World War II feminist theory from the viewpoint of intellectual history. The key theme is that ideas about the social construction of gender have its origins in the feminist theorists of the postwar period, and that these early ideas about gender became a...
Big Girls Don't Cry
The Election that Changed Everything for American Women
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Journalist and Salon writer Rebecca Traister investigates the 2008 presidential election and its impact on American politics, women and cultural feminism. Examining the role of women in the campaign, from Clinton and Palin to Tina Fey and young voters, Traister confronts the tough questions of what...
Women Challenging Unions
Feminism, Democracy, and Militancy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1993
Women Challenging Unions is a collection of original papers that presents a vision of an invigorated and vibrant labour movement, one that would actively seek the full participation of women and other traditionally excluded groups, and that would willingly incorporate a feminist agenda. This vision...
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...
Edgework
Critical Essays on Knowledge and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Edgework brings together seven of Wendy Brown's most provocative recent essays in political and cultural theory. They range from explorations of politics post-9/11 to critical reflections on the academic norms governing feminist studies and political theory. Edgework is also concerned with the intellectual...
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...
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 Beate Littig
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
For courses in Environmental studies, Environmental Sociology, Environmental geography and Development studies; Women's studies and Women's issues options on a wide variety of degree courses. Combining theory with practice, this concise, accessible text provides a comprehensive introduction to the...