Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books
Nasty Women
Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Twenty-Three Leading Feminist Writers on Protest and Solidarity
When 53 percent of white women voted for Donald Trump and 94 percent of black women voted for Hillary Clinton, how can women unite in Trump’s America? Nasty Women includes inspiring essays from a diverse group of talented women...
by Marcia Hill
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Feminist Therapy as a Political Act explores what is means to politicize therapy and how you can make pyschotherapy a method for creating social and individual change. You’ll find examples and strategies for discussing topics such as empowerment and identity that allow you to provide better services...
Documenting First Wave Feminisms
Volume II Canada - National and Transnational Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
This book is the second of a two-volume anthology of primary source documents on feminism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Unique in its extensive treatment of the first-wave feminist movement in Canada, it highlights distinct elements of its origins and evolution.
The book...
The Female Thing
Dirt, envy, sex, vulnerability
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
From the author of the acclaimed Against Love comes a pointed, audacious, and witty examination of the state of the female psyche in the post-post-feminist world of the twenty-first century.Women remain caught between feminism and femininity, between self-affirmation and an endless quest for self-improvement,...
At the Root of This Longing
Reconciling a Spiritual Hunger and a Feminist Thirst
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In At the Root of This Longing, Flinders identifies the four key points at which the paths of spirituality and feminism seem to collide—vowing silence vs. finding voice, relinquishing ego vs. establishing 'self', resisting desire vs. reclaiming the body, and enclosure vs. freedom—and sets out...
Radically Speaking
Feminism Reclaimed
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1996
Showing that a radical feminist analysis cuts across class, race, sexuality, region, and religion, the varied contributors in this collection reveal the global reach of radical feminism and analyze the causes and solutions to patriarchal oppression.
by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2010
"Islamic feminism" would seem a contradiction in terms to most Westerners. We are taught to think of Islam as a culture wherein social code and religious law alike force women to accept male authority and surrender to the veil. How could feminism emerge under such a code, let alone flourish? Now,...
The Equality Illusion
The Truth about Women and Men Today
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
In The Equality Illusion, 'the most influential young feminist in the country' (Guardian) and UK Feminista founder Kat Banyard argues passionately and articulately that feminism continues to be one of the most urgent and relevant social justice campaigns today.
Women have made huge strides...
The Politics of Being a Woman
Feminism, Media and 21st Century Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
What does it mean to be a woman in the 21st century? The feminist movement has a long and rich history, but is its time now passed? This edited collection is driven by the question, why is feminism viewed by some (we would add a majority) as outdated, no longer necessary and having achieved its goals, and what role have the media played in this?
by Nancy Bauer
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2001
In the introduction to The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir notes that "a man never begins by establishing himself as an individual of a certain sex: his being a man poses no problem." Nancy Bauer begins her book by asking: "Then what kind of a problem does being a woman pose?" Bauer's...
Muslim Women, Transnational Feminism and the Ethics of Pedagogy
Contested Imaginaries in Post-9/11 Cultural Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Following a long historical legacy, Muslim women’s lives continue to be represented and circulate widely as a vehicle of intercultural understanding within a context of the "war on terror." Following Edward Said’s thesis that these cultural forms reflect and participate in the power...
Desiring Revolution
Second-Wave Feminism and the Rewriting of Twentieth-Century American Sexual Thought
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2001
There was a moment in the 1970s when sex was what mattered most to feminists. White middle-class women viewed sex as central to both their oppression and their liberation. Young women started to speak and write about the clitoris, orgasm, and masturbation, and publishers and the news media jumped...
by Liesl Haas
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
The election of Michelle Bachelet as president of Chile in 2006 gave new impetus to the struggle in that country for legislation to improve women’s rights and highlighted a process that had already been under way for some time. In Feminist Policymaking in Chile, Liesl Haas investigates the efforts...
by Alison Stone
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In this book, Alison Stone develops a feminist approach to maternal subjectivity. Stone argues that in the West the self has often been understood in opposition to the maternal body, so that one must separate oneself from the mother and maternal care-givers on whom one depended in childhood to become...