Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
First published in 1985, this ground-breaking volume contributes to a largely neglected area of social work research, theory and practice. The collection of essays by internationally known social work educators and practitioners applies feminist perspectives to a wide range of issues influencing the...
by Jane Duran
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
This book forwards a line of argument that indicates how feminist analyses can ameliorate the standard consequential (and occasionally deontological) lines in applied ethics. Drawing on core concepts in feminist philosophy, Feminist Analyses of Applied Ethics investigates five major issues: immigration,...
by Ellen Cole, Esther D Rothblum, Phyllis Chesler
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Feminist Foremothers in Women’s Studies, Psychology, and Mental Health is by and about the more recent wave of feminist foremothers; those who were awakened in the 1960s and ’70s to the realization that something was terribly wrong. These are the women who created the fields of feminist therapy,...
Feminisms in Social Work Research
Promise and possibilities for justice-based knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Social work as a profession and academic discipline has long centered women and issues of concern to women, such as reproductive rights, labor rights, equal rights, violence and poverty. In fact, the social work profession was started by and maintained in large part by women and has been home to several...
Considering Emma Goldman
Feminist Political Ambivalence and the Imaginative Archive
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
In Considering Emma Goldman Clare Hemmings examines the significance of the anarchist activist and thinker for contemporary feminist politics. Rather than attempting to resolve the tensions and problems that Goldman's thinking about race, gender, and sexuality pose for feminist thought, Hemmings embraces...
Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash
Britain, Ireland and Australia, 1890-1920
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash examines how women opposed to the feminist campaign for the vote in early twentieth-century Britain, Ireland, and Australia used shame as a political tool. It demonstrates just how proficient women were in employing a diverse vocabulary of emotions – drawing...
The Feminist Utopia Project
Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
This “incredible addition to the feminist canon” brings together the most inspiring, creative, and courageous voices concerning modern women’s issues (Jessica Valenti, editor of Yes Means Yes).
In this groundbreaking collection, more than fifty cutting-edge feminist writers—including...
The Problem with Everything
My Journey Through the New Culture Wars
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2019
**From “**one of the most emotionally exacting, mercilessly candid, deeply funny, and intellectually rigorous writers of our time” (Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild) comes a seminal new book that reaches surprising truths about feminism, the Trump era, and the Resistance movement. You won’t be...
The Socially Responsible Feminist EFL Classroom
A Japanese Perspective on Identities, Beliefs and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
This book explores the realities of feminist EFL teachers’ lives through interviews and classroom observations with eight EFL teachers at Japanese universities. The data contained in the book broaden our understanding of feminist teaching in the language classroom while also providing suggestions...
by Margaret Walters
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2005
How much have women's lives really changed? In the West women still come up against the 'glass ceiling' at work, most earning considerably less than their male counterparts. What are we to make of the now commonplace insistence that feminism deprives men of their rights and dignities? And how does...
Feminism and Contemporary Women Writers
Rethinking Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
This book attempts to deal with the problem of literary subjectivity in theory and practice. The works of six contemporary women writers — Doris Lessing, Anita Desai, Mahasweta Devi, Buchi Emecheta, Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison — are discussed as potential ways of testing and expanding the...
Feminist Judgments of Aotearoa New Zealand
Te Rino: A Two-Stranded Rope
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This edited collection asks how key New Zealand judgments might read if they were written by a feminist judge. Feminist judging is an emerging critical legal approach that works within the confines of common law legal method to challenge the myth of judicial neutrality and illustrate how the personal...
Professional Training for Feminist Therapists
Personal Memoirs
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
Here is a unique collection of personal memoirs from feminist therapists which provides a revealing look at their professional training experiences. This superb volume offers a rare glimpse at the struggles of these women, both as therapists and feminists, as they continue to develop professionally...
Harem Years
The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
A firsthand account of the private world of a harem in colonial Cairo—by a groundbreaking Egyptian feminist who helped liberate countless women.
In this compelling memoir, Shaarawi recalls her childhood and early adult life in the seclusion of an upper-class Egyptian household, including her...