Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books
Empowerment and Interconnectivity
Toward a Feminist History of Utilitarian Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Feminist history of philosophy has successfully focused thus far on canon revision, canon critique, and the recovery of neglected or forgotten women philosophers. However, the methodology remains underexplored, and it seems timely to ask larger questions about how the history of philosophy is to be...
Chicana Feminist Thought
The Basic Historical Writings
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Chicana Feminist Thought brings together the voices of Chicana poets, writers, and activists who reflect upon the Chicana Feminist Movement that began in the late 1960s. With energy and passion, this anthology of writings documents the personal and collective political struggles of Chicana feminists.
by Rosario Jones
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
In this ground-breaking book, Rosario Jones attempts to reveal the true face of misogyny the world over. We know it as The Patriarchy, but our knowledge is limited and theoretical. We haven't been able to pin it down as a physical entity. Until now.In an attempt to further our understanding...
How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics
From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Today all politics are reproductive politics, argues esteemed feminist critic Laura Briggs. From longer work hours to the election of Donald Trump, our current political crisis is above all about reproduction. Households are where we face our economic realities as social safety nets get cut and wages...
Twenty-first Century Feminism
Forming and Performing Femininity
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
This collection of essays considers the ways in which feminism is still an important issue in twenty-first century society. Looking at various forms of literature, media, and popular culture, the book establishes that contemporary images of femininity are highly contested, complex, and frequently problematic.
by Michele Paludi, Gertrude A Steuernagel, Ellen Cole
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 1990
Here is a useful and illustrative guide for those interested in the impact of feminist scholarship on traditional academic disciplines. This important book explores the changes that have taken place in the academic world as a result of feminist approaches to scholarship, including issues of staffing, organization, administration, recruitment, stude
Confronting Rape
The Feminist Anti-Rape Movement and the State
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2005
Public thinking about sexual assault over the last two decades has changed dramatically for the better. Activists in rape crisis centers can claim a feminist success story, but not always as they would choose. Through her study of six rape crisis centers in Los Angeles, Nancy Matthews shows how the...
Women's Movements in Asia
Feminisms and Transnational Activism
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Women's Movements in Asia is a comprehensive study of women’s activism across Asia. With chapters written by leading international experts, it provides a full overview of the history of feminism, as well as the current context of the women’s movement in 12 countries: the Philippines, China, Indonesia,...
Feminist Poetics
Performance, Histories
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Feminist Poetics in concerned with all of these questions, but also with the issue of rewriting an older poetics for what it does not say about the marginalisation of the feminine. The first half of the book traces the trajectory of a particular, feminine, academic subject learning to find her voice....
Feminist Perspectives on Social Work Practice
The Intersecting Lives of Women in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Feminist Perspectives on Social Work Practice is a contemporary look at the issues across a wide spectrum, beyond just equal pay for equal work and reproductive rights, with which women struggle on a daily basis. The Trump administration's call to roll back the progress that women have made over the...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Spare Rib remains one of the most iconic symbols of Second Wave Feminism, its influence far out-living the span of its publication (1972-1993). This collection examines various aspects of the magazine - based on the digitised publication by the British Library in 2015 – in order to explore the...
Minds of Our Own
Inventing Feminist Scholarship and Women’s Studies in Canada and Québec, 1966–76
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2009
This book of personal essays by over forty women and men who founded women’s studies in Canada and Québec explores feminist activism on campus in the pivotal decade of 1966-76. The essays document the emergence of women’s studies as a new way of understanding women, men, and society, and they...
Rethinking Silence, Voice and Agency in Contested Gendered Terrains
Beyond the Binary
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Global and local contestations are not only gendered, they also raise important questions about agency and its practice and location in the twenty-first century. Silence and voice are being increasingly debated as sites of agency within feminist research on conflict and insecurity. Drawing on a wide...
Feminist Praxis Revisited
Critical Reflections on University-Community Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
In Feminist Praxis Revisited, Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS) practitioners reflect on how the field has sought to integrate its commitment to activism and social change with community-based learning in post-secondary institutions.
Teaching about and for social change has been a core value...