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Charlotte Perkins Gilman Collection
The Yellow Wallpaper, Herland and The Man-Made World
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Fans of feminist trailblazer Charlotte Perkins Gilman are in for a treat. Gathered in this volume are three of Gilman's most famous works:
The Yellow Wallpaper
This short story is one of the most popular pre-1923 texts in the English language, ranking third only to The Bible and Shakespeare...
Black Feminist Thought
Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 1999
In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Contemporary challenges for seeking new knowledge in feminist studies are intimately intertwined with methodological renewal that promotes justice and equality in changing global contexts. Written by some of the leading scholars in their fields, this edited collection focuses on the emergence of writing...
Asexualities
Feminist and Queer Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
What is so radical about not having sex? To answer this question, this collection of essays explores the feminist and queer politics of asexuality. Asexuality is predominantly understood as an orientation describing people who do not experience sexual attraction. In this multidisciplinary volume,...
The Subject of Care
Feminist Perspectives on Dependency
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
All people spend a considerable portion of their lives either as dependents or the caretakers of dependents. The fact of human dependency—a function of youth, severe illness, disability, or frail old age—marks our lives, not only as those who are cared for, but as those who engage in the work...
Gender and Sexuality in Online Game Cultures
Passionate Play
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
How do gender and sexuality come to matter in online game cultures? Why is it important to explore "straight" versus "queer" contexts of play? And what does it mean to play together with others over time, as co-players and researchers?
Gender and Sexuality in Online Game Cultures is a book...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Chapter 12
Reading Smart Girls: Post-Nerds in Post-Feminist Popular Culture
Shauna Pomerantz and Rebecca Raby
Shauna Pomerantz and Rebecca Raby examine how the “post-nerd smart girl”--attractive, intelligent and sexually desirable--is portrayed in The Gilmore Girls, High School...
Power Interrupted
Antiracist and Feminist Activism inside the United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
In Power Interrupted, Sylvanna M. Falc�n redirects the conversation about UN-based feminist activism toward UN forums on racism. Her analysis of UN antiracism spaces, in particular the 2001 World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance in Durban, South...
The Middle of Things
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
In the tradition of classic essayists from Virginia Woolf to Annie Dillard, Meghan Florian combines personal narrative with careful analysis, taking the ordinary material of undramatic daily life and distilling it into moments of clarity and revelation. Centering each essay in this collection on a...
Special Issue
Feminist Legal Theory
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Half a century after the beginning of the second wave, feminist legal theorists are still writing about many of the subjects they addressed early on: money, sex, reproduction, and jobs. What has changed is the way that they talk about these subjects. Specifically, these theorists now posit a more...
Ethics and Human Rights in Anglophone African Women’s Literature
Feminist Empathy
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
This book proposes feminist empathy as a model of interpretation in the works of contemporary Anglophone African women writers. The African woman’s body is often portrayed as having been disabled by the patriarchal and sexist structures of society. Returning to their bodies as a point of reference,...
Feminist Freedom Warriors
Genealogies, Justice, Politics, and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Born out of an engagement with anti-racist feminist struggles as women of color from the Global South, Feminist Freedom Warriors (FFW) is a project showcasing cross-generational histories of feminist activism addressing economic, anti-racist, social justice, and anti-capitalist issues across national...
by Anne M. Prouty Lyness
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Reinforce the relationship between healthy bodies and healthy relationships in families!
Feminist Perspectives in Medical Family Therapy explores the groundbreaking collaboration of therapy and medicine to form a biopsychosocial approach to health care. In this book, feminists from several...
The Feminist's Guide to Raising a Little Princess
How to Raise a Girl Who's Authentic, Joyful, and Fearless--Even If She Refuses to Wear Anything but a Pink Tutu
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
“May God grant me the serenity to accept the color pink, the courage to not let my house become a shrine to pink and princesses, and the wisdom to know that pink is just a color, not a decision to never attend college in the hopes of marrying wealthy.”
- from The Feminist’s Guide to Raising...