Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books
Feminists Say the Darndest Things
A Politically Incorrect Professor Confronts "Womyn" on Campus
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2008
A hilarious romp by a popular conservative columnist
The four most common words a feminist uses are "I," "me," "my," and "mine." Feminists are the only people who actually use these words more in adulthood than they did when they were two years old.
Mike Adams-like P. J. O'Rourke and...
by Femspec Journal
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Naomi Mercer is a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army, a veteran of the Iraq War, and an assistant professor in the Department of English and Philosophy at the United States Military Academy at West Point. She earned her doctorate in literary studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison...
Entering the Picture
Judy Chicago, The Fresno Feminist Art Program, and the Collective Visions of Women Artists
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
In 1970, Judy Chicago and fifteen students founded the groundbreaking Feminist Art Program (FAP) at Fresno State. Drawing upon the consciousness-raising techniques of the women's liberation movement, they created shocking new art forms depicting female experiences. Collaborative work and performance...
Women's Writing, 1660-1830
Feminisms and Futures
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
This book is about mapping the future of eighteenth-century women’s writing and feminist literary history, in an academic culture that is not shy of declaring their obsolescence. It asks: what can or should unite us as scholars devoted to the recovery and study of women’s literary history in an...
Radical Decadence
Excess in Contemporary Feminist Textiles and Craft
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
This pioneering book explores the notion of 'radical decadence' as concept, aesthetic and lived experience, and as an analytical framework for the study of contemporary feminist textile art. Gendered discourses of decadence that perpetuate anxieties about women's power, consumption and pleasure are...
The Politics of Our Selves
Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2007
Some critical theorists understand the self as constituted by power relations, while others insist upon the self's autonomous capacities for critical reflection and deliberate self-transformation. Up to now, it has all too often been assumed that these two understandings of the self are incompatible....
Debating Discourses, Practising Feminisms
Feminist Review, Issue 56
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2005
Debating Discourses, Practising Feminisms brings together international debates on the discourses and practices of contemporary feminisms. Discussions range across conflicting analyses of gender and politics at the UN conference at Beijing; nationalism and religious conflict in contemporary India;...
Feminist Review
Issue 44: Nationalisms and National Identities
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2005
Feminist Review is the UK's leading feminist journal. It has a unique place in the women's movement internationally. This issue focusing on Nationalism and National Identities features articles by Nahid Yegeneh and Catherine Hall.
Feminist Review
Issue 45: Thinking Through Ethnicities
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2005
Focuses on feminist analyses of race and ethnicity - currently one of the most immediate issues facing feminist thinking. The volume ranges from a study of the social geographes of whiteness in the USA to a variety of perspectives on the break-up in Yugoslavia.
Feminism and Antiracism
International Struggles for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
A collection of international scholars and activists answer the questionshow does gender and region/nation play a defining role in how feminists engage in anti-racist practices? How has the restructuring in the world economy affected anti-racist organizing? How do Third World Feminists counter the...
Prismatic Media, Transnational Circuits
Feminism in a Globalized Present
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
What are the political and aesthetic dimensions of video art, documentary, and global cinema in contemporary image culture? Lynes makes visible how sites of political struggle, exploitation, and armed conflict can be interpreted through a feminist politics of location, attentive to the frictions and flows within transnational circuits of exchange.
Jewish Radical Feminism
Voices from the Women’s Liberation Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Finalist, 2019 PROSE Award in Biography, given by the Association of American Publishers
Fifty years after the start of the women’s liberation movement, a book that at last illuminates the profound impact Jewishness and second-wave feminism had on each other
by Dinah A. Tetteh
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Communication Studies and Feminist Perspectives on Ovarian Cancer examines the embodied experience of ovarian cancer by critically analyzing impacts of normative social and medical discourses—including discourses of risk, choice, early detection, lack of reliable screening tests for ovarian cancer,...
by Kate Austin
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
This edition of "WOMAN (A Feminist Masterpiece)" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Kate Cooper Austin (1864–1902) was an American journalist and advocate of feminist and anarchist causes. A member of the American Press Writers'...