Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books
Free Women, Free Men
Sex, Gender, Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
From the fiery intellectual provocateur— and one of our most fearless advocates of gender equality—a brilliant, urgent essay collection that both celebrates modern feminism and challenges us to build an alliance of strong women and strong men.
Ever since the release of her seminal first...
by Kate Austin
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
This carefully crafted ebook: "Woman (a feminist literature classic)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Kate Cooper Austin (1864–1902) was an American journalist and advocate of feminist and anarchist causes. A member of the American Press...
Quarterly Essay 50 Unfinished Business
Sex, Freedom and Misogyny
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
On the surface, it seems the best time ever to be a woman in Australia. The prime minister, governor-general and the richest person are all female; women are at the forefront of almost every area of public life. Yet when Julia Gillard’s misogyny speech ricocheted around the world, it clearly touched...
Unscrewed
Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
An urgent account of sexual politics, feminism, and the rules of power in America-and a potent vision for the way forward
As a veteran feminist and agenda-setting sex educator, Jaclyn Friedman is on the frontlines of the war for equity between the sexes. In Unscrewed, Friedman brings her sharp...
Rebel Crossings
New Women, Free Lovers, and Radicals in Britain and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
The transatlantic story of six radical pioneers at the turn of the twentieth century
Rebel Crossings relates the interweaving lives of four women and two men as they journey from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, from Britain to America, and from Old World conventions toward New World...
The Sisterhood
The Inside Story of the Women's Movement and the Leaders Who Made it Happen
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
In this epic drama of personality and politics, passion and ambition, courage and betrayal, Marcia Cohen tells the fascinating inside story of the feminist revolution through the lives of the women who made it—and were sometimes unmade by it. Focusing on Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Germaine Greer,...
by Rebecca Solnit
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2017
Praise for Men Explain Things to Me:
"It's a fraught time to be female in America (or should I say fraught-er), and Rebecca Solnit's Men Explain Things to Me is the most clarifying, soothing, and socially aware document I've read on the topic this year."—Lena Dunham, Wall Street...
Call Them by Their True Names
American Crises (and Essays)
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
“Rebecca Solnit is essential feminist reading.” —The New Republic
“Solnit’s exquisite essays move between the political and the personal, the intellectual and the earthy.” —Elle
Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books including the international bestseller...
Deeds Not Words
The Story of Women's Rights - Then and Now
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
'An uplifting record of progress and strength... You'll lay the book down feeling not only informed, but galvanised to take action yourself.' Independent
'An incredible book . . . with the potential to change women's lives.' Sandi Toksvig
Why is it taking so long? Despite huge progress...
Quarterly Essay 29 Love and Money
The Family and the Free Market
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
In Love and Money, Anne Manne looks at the religion of work – its high priests and sacrificial lambs. As family life and motherhood feel the pressure of the market, she asks whether the chief beneficiaries are self-interested employers and child-care corporations.
This is an essay that ranges...
Girldrive
Criss-Crossing America, Redefining Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009
What do young women care about? What are their hopes, worries, and ambitions? Have they heard of feminism, and do they relate to it?
These are just a few of the questions journalist Nona Willis Aronowitz and photographer Emma Bee Bernstein set out to answer in Girldrive. In October 2007, Aronowitz...
by Joosr
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
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The Ursula Franklin Reader
Pacifism as a Map
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2006
Feminist, educator, Quaker, and physicist, Ursula Franklin has long been considered one of Canada’s foremost advocates and practitioners of pacifism. The Ursula Franklin Reader: Pacifism as a Map is a comprehensive collection of her work, and demonstrates subtle, yet critical, linkages across a...
A Woman on the Edge of Time
A Son's Search for a Mother Who Wanted More
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
“Jeremy Gavron’s quest to find his mother has produced a groundbreaking book and moving portrait of a spirited young woman—a ‘captive wife’—who refused to accept the social constraints of her time. Unforgettable.”—Tina Brown
London, 1965: A brilliant young woman has just gassed...