Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books
Global Currents in Gender and Feminisms
Canadian and International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
This collection examines the ongoing shared struggles of diverse groups of women in Canada and beyond focusing on a diverse range of themes including movements, spaces and rights; inclusion, equity and policies; reproductive labour, work and economy; health, culture and violence; and sports and bodies....
Doria Shafik Egyptian Feminist
A Woman Apart
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1996
Cynthia Nelson brings to life a bold and gifted Egyptian of the mid-twentieth century who helped define what it means to be a modern Arab woman. Doria Shafik (1908-1975), an Egyptian feminist, poet, publisher, and political activist, participated in one of her country’s most explosive periods of...
The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery
Biocapitalism and Black Feminism’s Philosophy of History
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
In The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery Alys Eve Weinbaum investigates the continuing resonances of Atlantic slavery in the cultures and politics of human reproduction that characterize contemporary biocapitalism. As a form of racial capitalism that relies on the commodification of the human reproductive...
Feminist Ryan Gosling
Feminist Theory (as Imagined) from Your Favorite Sensitive Movie Dude
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Based on the popular blog of the same name, Feminist Ryan Gosling pairs swoon-worthy photos of the sensitive, steamy actor with feminist theories to the delight of women (and more than a few of their mothers) everywhere.
What started as a silly way for blogger Danielle Henderson and her classmates...
by Florence Howe
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
“A sharp and compelling memoir” of a feminist icon who forged positive change for herself, for women everywhere, and for the world (Rosemary G. Feal, executive director of the Modern Language Association).
Florence Howe has led an audacious life: she created a freedom school during the civil...
Split Decisions
How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Is it time to take a break from feminism? In this pathbreaking book, Janet Halley reassesses the place of feminism in the law and politics of sexuality. She argues that sexuality involves deeply contested and clashing realities and interests, and that feminism helps us understand only some of them....
Men and Feminism
Seal Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
There's no denying that men's involvement and interest in feminism is key to its continuing relevance and importance. Addressing the question of why men should care about feminism in the first place, Men and Feminism lays the foundation for a larger discussion about feminism as a human issue, not...
by Joan Wallach Scott
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
In The Fantasy of Feminist History, Joan Wallach Scott argues that feminist perspectives on history are enriched by psychoanalytic concepts, particularly fantasy. Tracing the evolution of her thinking about gender over the course of her career, the pioneering historian explains how her search for...
Feminist Solidarity at the Crossroads
Intersectional Women’s Studies for Transracial Alliance
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Women’s studies programs and departments face ongoing fall-out from an economic crisis in higher education. Taking the form of budget-cuts, reduction of faculty lines and other resource allocations, for some programs and departments it has meant at best, a loss of disciplinary autonomy through consolidation,...
by Shannon Weber
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
WHAT DOES FEMINISM REALLY ENTAIL?
200 KEY IDEAS, MOVEMENTS, AND FEMINISTS, EXPLAINED IN AN INSTANT
Having an understanding of feminism is more important now than ever. But what really is feminism--in all its forms? Who were the key feminists, and what are their beliefs? What do feminists...
by Claudia Bepko
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Feminism is a beneficial force in addictions therapy as they have the same goals--mending imbalances of power. A variety of important topics related to addictions treatment are addressed in this timely volume, accompanied by concrete clinical solutions for therapists and counselors to use in their...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Despite several decades of feminist activism and scholarship, women’s bodies continue to be sites of control and contention both materially and symbolically. Issues such as reproductive technologies, sexual violence, objectification, motherhood, and sex trafficking, among others, constitute ongoing,...
Spill
Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
In Spill, self-described queer Black troublemaker and Black feminist love evangelist Alexis Pauline Gumbs presents a commanding collection of scenes depicting fugitive Black women and girls seeking freedom from gendered violence and racism. In this poetic work inspired by Hortense Spillers, Gumbs...
Shrewed
A Wry and Closely Observed Look at the Lives of Women and Girls
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2018
Why are there so few women in politics? Why is public space, whether it’s the street or social media, still so inhospitable to women? What does Carrie Fisher have to do with Mary Wollstonecraft? And why is a wedding ceremony Satan’s playground?
These are some of the questions that bestselling...