Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books
Challenging the Myths of Gender Equality
Theology and Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2014
CHALLENGING THE MYTHS OF GENDER EQUALITY: THEOLOGY AND FEMINISM The book offers critical insight into the significance of synergy between feminist theory and theological anthropology in combating sexism in our society today. The analysis of feminisms challenge of male-chauvinistic discourse that has...
Feminist Security Studies
A Narrative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
This book rethinks security theory from a feminist perspective – uniquely, it engages feminism, security, and strategic studies to provide a distinct feminist approach to security studies.
The volume explicitly works toward an opening up of security studies that would allow for feminist (and...
Feminist Methodology
Challenges and Choices
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2002
`An accessible, clearly explained review of difficult concepts within this arena as well as relevant debates. Its strengths are in outlining possible considerations that need to be taken into account when making methodological choices. It also clearly explains how these choices impact knowledge production....
Feminism, Culture and Embodied Practice
The Rhetorics of Comparison
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2010
Within both feminist theory and popular culture, establishing similarities between embodied practices rooted in different cultural and geo-political contexts (e.g. ‘African’ female genital cutting and ‘Western’ cosmetic surgery) has become increasingly common as a means of countering cultural...
Feminist Pedagogy in Higher Education
Critical Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
In this new collection, contributors from a variety of disciplines provide a critical context for the relationship between feminist pedagogy and academic feminism by exploring the complex ways that critical perspectives can be brought into the classroom.
This book discusses the processes employed...
THE HUMANNESS OF WOMEN: The Theory & Practice of Feminism (Including Various Essays & Sketches)
Studies and thoughts by the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and deeply respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, known for The Yellow Wallpaper story
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
This eBook edition of "THE HUMANNESS OF WOMEN: The Theory & Practice of Feminism (Including Various Essays & Sketches)" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was a prominent American feminist,...
by Kelly Oliver, Cynthia Willett, Julie Willett
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The eight essays contained in Philosophical Feminism and Popular Culture explore the portrayal of women and various philosophical responses to that portrayal in contemporary post-civil rights society. The essays examine visual, print, and performance media—stand-up comedy, movies, television, and...
by Kirstin Hanley
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
This study examines Mary Wollstonecraft—generally recognized as the founder of the early feminist movement—by shedding light on her contributions to eighteenth-century instructional literature, and feminist pedagogy in particular. While contemporary scholars have extensively theorized Wollstonecraft’s...
by Kathi Weeks
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
A groundbreaking attempt to theorise the feminist subject
One of the most important tasks for contemporary feminist theory is to develop a concept of the subject able to meet the challenges facing feminist politics. Although theorists in the 1980s raised the problem of feminist subjectivity,...
by Valerie Bryson
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Feminist theory is a challenging and often deeply divided body of thought that raises issues which affect us all. In this, her third edition of the highly successful Feminist Political Theory, Valerie Bryson provides both a wide-ranging history of Western feminist thought, from medieval times to the...
Significant Differences
Feminism in Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Current western feminism and psychology have a particularly close relationship, with feminism finding an increasingly important voice in psychology. In this clear introductory text, originally published in 1989, Corinne Squire examines what feminism and psychology mean to each other, concentrating...
by Susan Osborne
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2001
Is there such a thing as post-feminism and, if so, what is it? Has there been a backlash against feminism as Susan Faludi's book of that title argued? What is the future of feminism in the new century?
Feminism has been one of the most important and radical movements in ideas and in society...
Women of Color and Feminism
Seal Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
In this Seal Studies title, author and professor Maythee Rojas offers a look at the intricate crossroads of being a woman of color. Women of Color and Feminism tackles the question of how women of color experience feminism, and how race and socioeconomics can alter this experience. Rojas explores...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2009
"With the publication of the Handbook of Diversity in Feminist Psychology, the field of feminist psychology has achieved a new depth; the volume is a sophisticated and cutting-edge compendium that not only describes the state of the field, but also pushes its boundaries in important ways."----Sex...