Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2008
Harnessing the energy of provocative theories generated by recent understandings of the human body, the natural world, and the material world, Material Feminisms presents an entirely new way for feminists to conceive of the question of materiality. In lively and timely essays, an international group...
The Politics of Everybody
Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
The Politics of Everybody examines the production and maintenance of the terms 'man', 'woman', and 'other' within the current political moment; the contradictions of these categories and the prospects of a Marxist approach to praxis for queer bodies. Few thinkers have attempted to reconcile queer...
Tending Inner Gardens
The Healing Art of Feminist Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Tending Inner Gardens: The Healing Art of Feminist Psychotherapy transforms the theory and practice of psychotherapy, one that values both the feminine and masculine perspectives. Set within a naturalistic framework, this model utilizes nature’s growing and healing processes. It proposes nature’s...
Motherhood as Metaphor
Engendering Interreligious Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2013
Who is my neighbor? As our world has increasingly become a single place, this question posed in the gospel story is heard as an interreligious inquiry. Yet studies of encounter across religious lines have largely been framed as the meeting of male leaders. What difference does it make when women’s...
Gendered Readings of Change
A Feminist-Pragmatist Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
This book develops a unique theory of change by drawing on American philosophy and contemporary feminist thought. Via a select history of ancient Greek and Pragmatist philosophies of change, Fischer argues for a reconstruction of transformation that is inclusive of women's experiences and thought.
Feminisms Matter
Debates, Theories, Activism
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2012
In this lively narrative, newcomers to women's and gender studies, feminist politics, history, and sociology explore a refreshing take on a subject matter often loaded with assumptions. Feminist theories are viewed through the critical intersections of race, class, sexuality, age, and ability, and...
Defiant Daughters
21 Women on Art, Activism, Animals, and The Sexual Politics of Meat
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
When The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory by Carol J. Adams was published more than twenty years ago, it caused an immediate stir among writers and thinkers, feminists and animal rights activists alike. Never before had the relationship between patriarchy and meat eating...
Football and Manliness
An Unauthorized Feminist Account of the NFL
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Women, African Americans, and gays have recently upended US culture with demands for inclusion and respect, while economic changes have transformed work and daily life for millions of Americans. The national obsession with the National Football League provides a window on this dynamic period of change,...
by Anne Anlin Cheng
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
Focusing on the cultural and philosophic conflation between the "oriental" and the "ornamental," Ornamentalism offers an original and sustained theory about Asiatic femininity in western culture. This study pushes our vocabulary about the woman of color past the usual platitudes about objectification...
Equal Citizenship and Public Reason
A Feminist Political Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
This book is a defense of political liberalism as a feminist liberalism. The first half of the book develops and defends a novel interpretation of political liberalism. It is argued that political liberals should accept a restrictive account of public reason and that political liberals' account of...
Sentimental Materialism
Gender, Commodity Culture, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2000
In Sentimental Materialism Lori Merish considers the intricate relationship between consumption and womanhood in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Taking as her starting point a diversity of cultural artifacts—from domestic fiction and philosophical treatises to advice literature and...
by Victoria Grace
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Victimization has a long, cross-cultural history. The status of the victim has been the source of active and stirring controversy in cultural theory, criminology and legal theory, philosophy and psychoanalysis; it is of particular interest within feminist theory. Can the victim relation be refused?...
Sexuality, Gender and Power
Intersectional and Transnational Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Bringing together essays by a distinguished international group of leading and emerging scholars of sexuality and gender, this stimulating and accessible collection explores a range of theoretical and "real world" perspectives current in the field. Treating these approaches as complementary,...
Gender, Globalization, and Violence
Postcolonial Conflict Zones
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
This wide-ranging collection of essays elaborates on some of the most pressing issues in contemporary postcolonial society in their transition from conflict and contestation to dialogue and resolution. It explores from new angles questions of violent conflict, forced migration, trafficking and deportation,...