Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books
by Michele Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Originally published in 1978, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman caused a storm of controversy. Michele Wallace blasted the masculine biases of the black politics that emerged from the sixties. She described how women remained marginalized by the patriarchal culture of Black Power, demonstrating...
by Ada Adverse
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
’This fun and feminist series of humour books celebrates the sisterhood with a wry smile.’ – Red Have you ever…? A) Asked yourself whether dying alone would really be that bad, when compared to the alternative? B) Invented a boyfriend so you don’t have to withstand any more concerned questions...
Gender Equality, Citizenship and Human Rights
Controversies and Challenges in China and the Nordic Countries
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
This comparative volume examines the ways in which current controversies and political, legal, and social struggles for gender equality raise conceptual questions and challenge our thinking on political theories of equality, citizenship and human rights.
Bringing together scholars and activists...
by Mary Wollstonecraft
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
“It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows, into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain, must be obtained by their charms and weakness.”—Mary Wollstonecraft
Composed...
by Mona Eltahawy
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
A bold and uncompromising feminist manifesto that shows women and girls how to defy, disrupt, and destroy the patriarchy by embracing the qualities they've been trained to avoid.
Seizing upon the energy of the #MeToo movement, feminist activist Mona Eltahawy advocates a muscular, out-loud approach...
Interconnections
Gender and Race in American History
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
This collection builds on decades of interdisciplinary work by historians of African American women as well as scholars of feminist and critical race theory, bridging the gap between well-developed theories of race, gender, and power and the practice of historical research. It examines how racial...
Biological Relatives
IVF, Stem Cells, and the Future of Kinship
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Thirty-five years after its initial success as a form of technologically assisted human reproduction, and five million miracle babies later, in vitro fertilization (IVF) has become a routine procedure worldwide. In Biological Relatives, Sarah Franklin explores how the normalization of IVF has changed...
The Collected Poems of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Table of Contents: Then This Arrears How Doth The Hat Thanksgiving Thanksong Love Steps Child Labor His Crutches Get Your Work Done A Central Sun, a song Locked...
Translocalities/Translocalidades
Feminist Politics of Translation in the Latin/a Américas
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Translocalities/Translocalidades is a path-breaking collection of essays on Latin American, Caribbean, and United States–based Latina feminisms and their multiple translations and cross-pollinations. The contributors come from countries throughout the Américas and are based in diverse disciplines,...
Underserved Women of Color, Voice, and Resistance
Claiming a Seat at the Table
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Contemporary research on the lives and experiences of women of color tends to neglect the influence of women’s perceived access to voice as they manage tensions related to race, class, and gender. Underserved Women of Color, Voice, and Resistance: Claiming a Seat at the Table contributes to current...
by Anne Stephens
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
This book brings together two vitally important strands of 20th-century thinking to establish a set of simple and elegant principles for planning, project design and evaluation. It explains the backgrounds of cultural ecofeminism and critical systems thinking, and what we find when they are systematically...
Transnational Borderlands in Women’s Global Networks
The Making of Cultural Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Transnational Borderlands: The Making of Cultural Resistance in Women's Global Networks investigates the implications of transnational feminist methodologies at multiple levels: collective actions, theory, pedagogy, discursive, and visual productions. It addresses a substantial gap in the field of...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
The Anti-Slavery Alphabet was a poem-based pamphlet that was produced for an 1846 Anti-slavery Fair in Philadelphia. As noted by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History...
The Alphabet consists of sixteen leaves, printed on one side, with the printed pages facing each...
by Femspec Journal
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Includes:
MARGARET CRUIKSHANK. Paper from a NWSA Panel on Science Fiction and Ageing: Oakland, 2012
JENNIFER JODELL. Report on “Agents of Change”: Feminist SF Critics Meet Feminist SF Authors at University of Oregon
BATYA WEINBAUM. Femspec Salons at OLOC and NWSA, 2014