Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books
Fight Like a Girl
How to Be a Fearless Feminist
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2007
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Seely, the youngest elected president of California's chapter of the National Organization for Women, combines her own story of third-wave feminism with an overview of the feminist movement and words to guide others. Third-wave feminists are aware of both the victories won...
Reconsidering Radical Feminism
Affect and the Politics of Heterosexuality
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
What’s the right way to be a feminist? The political discourse of sexuality in the 1980s and ’90s was framed by the divergent, passionately held positions of radical feminism and sex-positive feminism.
Reconsidering Radical Feminism is a precise summary of late-twentieth-century feminist...
by Andrea Nye
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
A feminist approach to the history of modern philosophy reveals new insights into the lives and works of major figures such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume, and is crucial to an appreciation of the advent of feminist philosophy. Feminism and Modern Philosophy introduces students to the main...
The Humanness of Women: Theory and Practice of Feminism (Essays and Sketches)
Studies and thoughts by the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and deeply respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, known for The Yellow Wallpaper story
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Humanness of Women: Theory and Practice of Feminism (Essays and Sketches)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was a prominent American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer...
Public Women, Public Words
A Documentary History of American Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2005
This final volume in the Public Women, Public Words series focuses on what has come to be called the second wave of American feminism. It traces the resurgence of feminism in the late 1960s—from Betty Friedan and the National Organization for Women to the anarchist and lesbian identity dimensions...
by Kirsten Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
This book outlines a compelling new agenda for feminist theories of identity and social relations. Using Lacanian psychoanalysis with feminist epistemology, the author sets out a groundbreaking psychoanalytic social theory. Campbell's work offers answers to the important contemporary question of how...
by Jessalynn Keller
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Girls’ Feminist Blogging in a Postfeminist Age explores the practices of U.S.-based teenage girls who actively maintain feminist blogs and participate in the feminist blogosphere as readers, writers, and commenters on platforms including Blogspot, Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. Drawing on interviews...
Governance Feminism
Notes from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
An interdisciplinary, multifaceted look at feminist engagements with governance across the global North and global South
Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field brings together nineteen chapters from leading feminist scholars and activists to critically describe and assess contemporary feminist...
History Matters
Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Written for everyone interested in women's and gender history, History Matters reaffirms the importance to feminist theory and activism of long-term historical perspectives. Judith M. Bennett, who has been commenting on developments in women's and gender history since the 1980s, argues that the achievement...
F-Bomb
Dispatches from the War on Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
“However you define feminism, read this book . . . Race, privilege, gender, sexuality; the work to be done, your invitation to the conversation, is here” (Karen Walton, screenwriter of Orphan Black).
In a world where sexual harassment allegations regularly dominate news coverage and in...
Matricentric Feminism
Theory, Activism, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The book argues that the category of mother is distinct from the category of woman, and that many of the problems mothers face—social, economic, political, cultural, psychological, and so forth—are specific to women’s role and identity as mothers. Indeed, mothers are oppressed under patriarchy...
Notes from a Feminist Killjoy
Essays on Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Erin Wunker is a feminist killjoy, and she thinks you should be one, too.
Following in the tradition of Sara Ahmed (the originator of the concept of the "feminist killjoy"), Wunker brings memoir, theory, literary criticism, pop culture, and feminist thinking together in this collection...
Real Knockouts
The Physical Feminism of Women's Self-Defense
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1997
An examination of women's self-defense culture and its relationship to feminism.
I was once a frightened feminist. So begins Martha McCaughey's odyssey into the dynamic world of women's self- defense, a culture which transforms women involved with it and which has equally profound implications for...
Making Feminist Media
Third-Wave Magazines on the Cusp of the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Making Feminist Media provides new ways of thinking about the vibrant media and craft cultures generated by Riot Grrrl and feminism’s third wave. It focuses on a cluster of feminist publications—including BUST, Bitch, HUES, Venus Zine, and Rockrgrl—that began as zines in the 1990s. By tracking...