Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 13, 2016
In 2013 gaf Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie een TEDx-lezing over wat het betekent om vandaag de dag feminist te zijn. Het filmpje werd bijna drie miljoen keer bekeken en gedeeld, Beyoncé gebruikte een sample van Adichie in een van haar nummers en ook in boekvorm is haar pleidooi een grote bestseller in...
Physical Disobedience
An Unruly Guide to Health and Stamina for the Modern Feminist
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
A manual for activism that begins with our most powerful asset--our bodies
Even as a wave of renewed feminism swells, too many women continue to starve, stuff, overwork, or neglect our bodies in pursuit of paper-thin ideals. "Fitness" has been co-opted by the beauty industry. We associate...
The Feminist Porn Book, Band 1
Strategien der Lusterzeugung
Language: German
Release Date: May 20, 2014
The Feminist Porn Book, Band 1 vereint zum ersten Mal Schriften von FeministInnen aus der Erotikbranche und Forschung feministischer Pornowissenschaftler. Das Buch geht nicht nur der Frage nach, wie FeministInnen Pornographie verstehen, sondern auch wie FeministInnen Pornographie "machen" - also in einer...
Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale
Women in the International Division of Labour
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
'It is my thesis that this general production of life, or subsistence production - mainly performed through the non-wage labour of women and other non-wage labourers as slaves, contract workers and peasants in the colonies - constitutes the perennial basis upon which "capitalist productive labour"...
A Hot-Eyed Moderate
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
**The essays in this inspiring collection analyze the craft of writing and the art of living and loving **
Jane Rule shares her insights into the creative process, sexual fidelity, feminist politics, and the transformative power of love.
Part I—“On Writing”—dispenses...
The Young Rebecca
Writings of Rebecca West 1911-17
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
A collection of Rebecca West’s early journalistic writings reveals her clarity of mind, severity of wit, and relevancy in today’s modern world
In this collection of early writings, beginning when Rebecca West was just eighteen years old, Jane Marcus sheds light on one of the foremost...
The End Of Capitalism (As We Knew It)
A Feminist Critique of Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2006
In the mid-1990s, at the height of academic discussion about the inevitability of capitalist globalization, J. K. Gibson-Graham presented a groundbreaking and controversial argument for envisioning alternative economies. This new edition includes an introduction in which the authors address critical...
Yes Means Yes!
Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World without Rape
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
This groundbreaking feminist classic dismantles the way we view rape in our culture and replaces it with a genuine understanding and respect for female sexual pleasure.
In the original edition, feminist, political, and activist writers alike presented their ideas for a paradigm shift from the...
Improper Modernism
Djuna Barnes's Bewildering Corpus
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
In her compelling reexamination of Djuna Barnes's work, Daniela Caselli raises timely questions about Barnes, biography and feminist criticism, identity and authority, and modernist canon formation. Through close readings of Barnes's manuscripts, correspondence, critically acclaimed and little-known...
Masquerade and Gender
Disguise and Female Identity in Eighteenth-Century Fictions by Women
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 1993
Terry Castle's recent study of masquerade follows Bakhtin's analysis of the carnivalesque to conclude that, for women, masquerade offered exciting possibilities for social and sexual freedom. Castle's interpretation conforms to the fears expressed by male writers during the period—Addison, Steele,...
Identities and Freedom
Feminist Theory Between Power and Connection
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
How can we think about identities in the wake of feminist critiques of identity and identity politics? In Identities and Freedom, Allison Weir rethinks conceptions of individual and collective identities in relation to freedom. Drawing on Taylor and Foucault, Butler, Zerilli, Mahmood, Mohanty, Young,...
The Brain's Body
Neuroscience and Corporeal Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
In The Brain's Body Victoria Pitts-Taylor brings feminist and critical theory to bear on new development in neuroscience to demonstrate how power and inequality are materially and symbolically entangled with neurobiological bodies. Pitts-Taylor is interested in how the brain interacts with and is...
Masculine/Feminine
Practices of Difference(s)
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2004
Nelly Richard is one of the most prominent cultural theorists writing in Latin America today. As a participant in Chile’s neo-avantgarde, Richard worked to expand the possibilities for cultural debate within the constraints imposed by the Pinochet dictatorship (1973–1990), and she has continued...
by Lauren Swayne Barthold
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
This book draws on the hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer to inform a feminist perspective of social identities. Lauren Swayne Barthold moves beyond answers that either defend the objective nature of identities or dismiss their significance altogether. Building on the work of both hermeneutic and...