Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books
A Theory of Freedom
Feminism and the Social Contract
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
This book offers a liberatory conception of individual freedom that uniquely responds to the problems of social oppression and demands of the interrelatedness insofar as it pertains specifically to the social domain of activity.
Sensual Excess
Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Reimagines black and brown sensuality to develop new modes of knowledge production
In Sensual Excess, Amber Jamilla Musser imagines epistemologies of sensuality that emerge from fleshiness. To do so, she works against the framing of black and brown bodies as sexualized, objectified, and abject,...
Girls to the Front
The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
“For a Second Wave feminist like myself, Girls to the Front evokes wonderfully the way the generation after mine soaked up the promise and the punishment of feminist consciousness....A richly moving story.” —Village Voice writer Vivian Gornick
Girls to the Front is the epic, definitive...
by Josephine K. Henry
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
This carefully crafted ebook: "The New Woman of the New South (a feminist literature classic)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Josephine Kirby Henry (née Williamson) (February 22, 1846 – 1928) was an American Progressive Era women's rights...
by Valerie Solanas
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Classic radical feminist statement from the woman who shot Andy Warhol
“Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate...
by Ursula Tidd
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Following its publication in 1949, The Second Sex quickly became one of the fundamental works of feminist thought. In it, Simone de Beauvoir (1908–86) offered up a statement that has informed nearly all feminist and gender scholarship that has followed, “One is not born, but rather becomes, a...
Exposed
Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Opening with the statement “The anthropocene is no time to set things straight,” Stacy Alaimo puts forth potent arguments for a material feminist posthumanism in the chapters that follow.From trans-species art and queer animals to naked protesting and scientific accounts of fishy humans, Exposed...
Feminist Methodologies for Critical Researchers
Bridging Differences
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
This accessible text on social research methodology teaches students of sociology and related disciplines how standard methods can be adapted toward critical ends. The second edition has been updated throughout to incorporate the latest critical scholarship, enhanced discussion of qualitative methods,...
The New Feminist Agenda
Defining the Next Revolution for Women, Work, and Family
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Feminists opened up thousands of doors in the 1960s and 1970s, but decades later, are U.S. women where they thought they'd be? The answer, it turns out, is a resounding no. Surely there have been gains. Women now comprise nearly 60 percent of college undergraduates and half of all medical and law...
Letting Go
Feminist and Social Justice Insight and Activism
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
At a time when women are being exhorted to "lean in" and work harder to get ahead, Letting Go: Feminist and Social Justice Insight and Activism encourages both women and men to "let go" instead. The book explores alternatives to the belief that individual achievement, accumulation,...
Women's Work
A Survey of Scholarship By and About Women
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
While most women’s studies texts function “topically” as “readings” for courses and general use, Women’s Work: A Survey of Scholarship By and About Women takes a broad spectrum of women’s disciplines--psychological, artistic, religious, and philosophical--and gives you a diverse, interdisciplinary...
The Rock Where We Stand
An Ethnography of Women's Activism in Newfoundland
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
Bay St. George in western Newfoundland is a region characterized by a boom and bust economy and shaped by the establishment of the Earnest Harmon American Airforce Base. This ethnography explores how women at the Bay St. George Women's Council deal specifically with the issues of single motherhood,...
Rape
The Politics of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
A powerful feminist examination of the deeply ingrained roots of rape in our shared cultural values
Rape is the most frequently occurring violent crime in America. In this courageous, controversial, and groundbreaking work, the poet, feminist, and philosopher Susan Griffin examines rape as...
Feminist Review
Issue 40
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2005
A wide-ranging issue of the UK's leading socialist feminist journal including articles on motherhood, disabillity and women and modernism.