Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books
Feminist Review
Issue 38
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2005
This issue of Feminist Review concentrates on cultural studies: the modernist style of Susan Sontag, fashion and representation, and a very witty look at lesbian photographs.
Women And The Subversion Of The Community
A Mariarosa Dalla Costa Reader
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
This collection brings together key texts and previously unavailable essays of the influential Italian feminist author and activist Mariarosa Dalla Costa. In recent years there has been both a renewed interest in theories of social reproduction and an explosion of women's struggles and strikes across...
Judith Butler
Sexual Politics, Social Change and the Power of the Performative
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2008
Judith Butler's work on gender, sexuality, identity, and the body has proved massively influential across a range of academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Yet it is also notoriously difficult to access.
This key book provides a comprehensive introduction to Butler's work,...
Feminist Political Ecology
Global Issues and Local Experience
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Feminist Political Ecology explores the gendered relations of ecologies, economies and politics in communities as diverse as the rubbertappers in the rainforests of Brazil to activist groups fighting racism in New York City.
Women are often at the centre of these struggles, struggles which concern...
Building Feminist Movements and Organizations
Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
The struggle for the advancement of women's rights and gender equality globally is impossible without strong women's organizations and movements to provide leadership and momentum. But what does a strong women's organization look like? And what does it take to create effective and sustainable women's...
Regenerating Bodies
Tissue and Cell Therapies in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
This exciting book examines how human tissues and cells are being exchanged, commodified and commercialized by new health technologies. Through a discussion of emergent global ‘tissue economies’ the author explores the social dynamics of innovation in the fields of tissue engineering and stem...
Feminist Perspectives on Orange Is the New Black
Thirteen Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Since its 2013 premiere, Orange Is the New Black has become Netflix’s most watched series, garnering critical praise and numerous awards and advancing the cultural phenomenon of binge-watching. Academic conferences now routinely feature panels discussing the show, and the book on which it is based...
The Body of War
Media, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Break-up of Yugoslavia
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2007
In The Body of War, Dubravka Žarkov analyzes representations of female and male bodies in the Croatian and Serbian press in the late 1980s and in the early 1990s, during the war in which Yugoslavia disintegrated. Žarkov proposes that the Balkan war was not a war between ethnic groups; rather, ethnicity...
From a Whisper to a Shout
How Social Media Activism Is Challenging Abortion Stigma
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Abortion remains legal in the US, but access has been slowly eroded since prohibition was ruled unconstitutional nearly fifty years ago. Simultaneously abortion remains culturally stigmatised – it is kept secret and presumed shameful. But feminist activists are working to increase access and challenge...
Post-feminist Impasses in Popular Heroine Television
The Persephone Complex
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Alison Horbury investigates the reprisal of the myth of Persephone - a mother-daughter plot of separation and initiation - in post-feminist television cultures where, she argues, it functions as a symptom expressing a complex around the question of sexual difference - what Lacan calls 'sexuation', where this question has been otherwise foreclosed.
Feminist Spirituality under Capitalism
Witches, Fairies, and Nomads
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Industrial modernity's worship of rationality had a profound effect on women’s ways of knowing, marginalizing them along with other alternate forms of knowledge such as the imagination and the unconscious. Feminist Spirituality under Capitalism discusses the importance of women’s spiritual knowledge...
Safe Water, Sanitation, and Early Childhood Malnutrition in East Africa
An African Feminist Analysis of the Lives of Women in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
To understand safe water and sanitation in East Africa, it is important to consider the contributions of African feminist analysis. This perspective will unveil inequities in the distribution of resources, demonstrate how localized solutions which are driven by women’s collaborative work have had...
Global Gender Research
Transnational Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Readers of Global Gender Research will learn to compare and contrast feminist concerns globally, gain familiarity with the breadth of gender research, and understand the national contexts that produced it.
This volume provides an in-depth comparative picture of the current state of feminist...
by Barbara Brook
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Feminist Perspectives on the Body provides an accessible introduction to this extremely popular new area and is aimed at students from a variety of disciplines who are interested in gaining an understanding of the key issues involved. The author explores many important topics including: the Western...