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Feminism and Technoscience
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
One of the founders of the posthumanities, Donna J. Haraway is professor in the History of Consciousness program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Author of many books and widely read essays, including the now-classic essay "The Cyborg Manifesto," she received the J.D. Bernal...
Womanish Black Girls
Women Resisting the Contradictions of Silence and Voice
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019
Womanish Black Girls/Women Resisting Contradictions of Silence and Voice is a collection of essays written by varied black women who fill spaces within the academy, public schools, civic organizations, and religious institutions. These writings are critically reflective and illuminate autobiographical...
Intersectionality
Origins, Contestations, Horizons
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
A 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Intersectionality intervenes in the field of intersectionality studies: the integrative examination of the effects of racial, gendered, and class power on people’s lives. While “intersectionality” circulates as a buzzword, Anna Carastathis joins...
Maternal Desire
On Children, Love, and the Inner Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Esteemed psychologist Daphne de Marneffe examines women’s desire to care for children in an updated reissue of her “fascinating analysis that’s a welcome addition to the dialogues about motherhood” (Publishers Weekly)****.
If a century ago it was women’s sexual desires that were unspeakable,...
Praxis and Politics
Knowledge Production in Social Movements
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Praxis and Politics explores the knowledge arising from activist praxis and its significance for reimagining radical and democratic politics. It is based on five years of direct involvement in the Toronto-based Metro Network for Social Justice and their work in coalition building, campaign-organizing...
by Richard Crasta
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Indians and sexual liberation, American politics, Bill Clinton, Western feminism transplanted into Asia, Miss World Sushmita Sen, Khushwant Singh on Indian sexual hypocrisy, beauty contests, free expression and Indians--a multitude of subjects--political, sexual, social, and humorous--are addressed...
Jewish Women in Therapy
Seen But Not Heard
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Here is the first volume ever to focus on the issues of Jewish women in the context of counseling and psychotherapy. Through poignant reflection and observation, the authors convey the richness and variety of Jewish women’s experiences and the Jewishness and femaleness of the concerns, issues, values,...
About Women
Conversations Between a Writer and a Painter
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
A provocative and wide-ranging conversation between two distinctive women—one American and one French—on the dilemmas, rewards, and demands of womanhood.
Lisa Alther and Françoise Gilot have been friends for more than twenty-five years. Although from different backgrounds (Gilot from cosmopolitan...
Speaking Up
Understanding Language and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
From slut-shaming to the allegedly shrill voices of female politicians, from vocal fry to online misogyny, the language women use (and the language used about them) is as controversial as it has ever been. Our language use and our gender have an enormous impact on the way we understand ourselves and...
by Rosjke Hasseldine
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
"The Silent Female Scream" teaches "how to believe that as a woman you have the right to be heard, valued, and respected, and to know that anything less is just not okay." Through case studies and discussion, the author exposes that women's sense of self-worth and entitlement to...
Where Are the Women?
Why Expanding the Archive Makes Philosophy Better
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Philosophy has not just excluded women. It has also been shaped by the exclusion of women. As the field grapples with the reality that sexism is a central problem not just for the demographics of the field but also for how philosophy is practiced, many philosophers have begun to rethink the canon....
Feminasty
The Complicated Woman's Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Death
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
From the wickedly funny and feminist creator and host of the "Throwing Shade" podcast, a collection of hilarious personal essays and political commentary perfect for fans of Lindy West and Roxane Gay.
Since women earned the right to vote a little under one hundred years ago, our progress...
by Claire Tomalin
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2004
The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft is the acclaimed bestselling biography by Claire Tomalin
Winner of the Whitbread First Book Prize
Witty, courageous and unconventional, Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the most controversial figures of her day. She published A Vindication of the...
Backlash
The Undeclared War Against American Women
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2009
From the author of In the Darkroom, a feminist classic and skillful examination of the attack on women’s rights.
Today’s political climate leaves no doubt that American women are still being assaulted by the same antifeminist backlash messages that Susan Faludi brilliantly exposed in her...