Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books
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Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A transformational approach to overcoming the divisions between feminist communities
While many feminist and queer movements are designed to challenge sexism, they often simultaneously police gender and sexuality--sometimes just as fiercely as the straight, male-centric mainstream does. Some...
The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy
A Handbook for Girl Geeks
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
This ultimate handbook for ladies living the nerdy life is a fun and feminist take on the often male-dominated world of geekdom.
Fandom, feminism, cosplay, cons, books, memes, podcasts, vlogs, OTPs and RPGs and MMOs and more—it’s never been a better time to be a girl geek. With delightful...
by Marion Meade
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
In the early 1970s, the national conversation regarding feminism was very different. Public discussions of womanhood—single life, marriage, workplace harassment, rights, gripes—were often channeled through movement spokeswomen and always refracted through the lens of talking to men about men....
Feminist Advocacy
Gendered Organizations in Community-Based Responses to Domestic Violence
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Feminist Advocacy: Gendered Organizations in Community-based Responses to Domestic Violence examines victim advocacy through a gendered organizations perspective. This monograph draws from in-depth interviews with twenty-six domestic violence victim advocates to examine their experiences with gendered...
Unspeakable Things
Sex, Lies and Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Shortlisted for the Green Carnation Prize 2014
Laurie Penny, one of our most prominent young voices of feminism and dissent, presents a trenchant report on our society today--and our society tomorrow, as she is willing to fight to see it.
Smart, clear-eyed, and irreverent, Unspeakable...
Staying with the Trouble
Making Kin in the Chthulucene
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, preferring to conceptualize it as what she...
Disruptive Feminisms
Raced, Gendered, and Classed Bodies in Film
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Disruptive Feminisms provides a revolutionary new approach to feminism as a disruptive force. By examining various films and filmmakers who are not so obviously read as feminist or Marxist, Gwendolyn Foster showcases their ability to disrupt and effectively challenge everything from class and racism, as well as sexism, ageism, and homophobia.
Trainwreck
The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear . . . and Why
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
She’s everywhere once you start looking for her: the trainwreck.
She’s Britney Spears shaving her head, Whitney Houston saying, “crack is whack,” and Amy Winehouse, dying in front of millions. But the trainwreck is also as old (and as meaningful) as feminism itself.
From Mary...
A Marriage Agreement and Other Essays
Four Decades of Feminist Writing
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
A provocative collection of essays by one of the foremost thinkers of second-wave feminism
In a career spanning four decades, Alix Kates Shulman has written on issues ranging from marriage, sex, and divorce to religious identity, age, and family devotion. Throughout her diverse body of work...
Paradise Beneath Her Feet
How Women Are Transforming the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Now with a new Preface and Afterword by the author
“Outstanding . . . [Isobel Coleman] takes us into remote villages and urban bureaucracies to find the brave men and women working to create change in the Middle East.”—Los Angeles Times
Inthis timely and important book, Isobel...
Crazy for Democracy
Women in Grassroots Movements
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Crazy for Democracy vividly shows, through the lives of six women in the United States and South Africa, just what can be and is being accomplished to change our lives.
At a time when we're depressed about democracy, pessimistic about race relations, and anxious about feminism, Crazy for Democracy...
Moral Spectatorship
Technologies of Voice and Affect in Postwar Representations of the Child
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
Why were theories of affect, intersubjectivity, and object relations bypassed in favor of a Lacanian linguistically oriented psychoanalysis in feminist film theory in the 1980s and 1990s? In Moral Spectatorship, Lisa Cartwright rethinks the politics of spectatorship in film studies. Returning to impasses...
Mapping Women, Making Politics
Feminist Perspectives on Political Geography
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Mapping Women, Making Politics demonstrates the multiple ways in which gender influences political processes and the politics of space. The book begins by addressing feminism's theoretical and conceptual challenges to traditional political geography and than applies these perspectives to a range of...
Telling to Live
Latina Feminist Testimonios
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2001
Telling to Live embodies the vision that compelled Latina feminists to engage their differences and find common ground. Its contributors reflect varied class, religious, ethnic, racial, linguistic, sexual, and national backgrounds. Yet in one way or another they are all professional producers of testimonios—or...