Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books
Gender and Work in Urban China
Women Workers of the Unlucky Generation
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
Although it is generally believed in China that socialism raised women’s status and paid work liberated them from the shackles of patriarchy, the economic reforms of the last two decades of the twentieth century meant women workers were more vulnerable to losing their jobs than men. Unlike previous...
Fairly Equal
Lawyering the Feminist Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
An eyewitness account of the revolution in women’s rights under the law.
Queen of the Hurricanes
The Fearless Elsie MacGill
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Elsie MacGill achieved many firsts in science and engineering at a time when women were considered to be inferior in the sciences. In 1923, at the age of nineteen, she became the first woman to attend engineering classes at the University of Toronto. She was the first woman in North America to hold...
Motherhood in India
Glorification without Empowerment?
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
This book presents an overview of the varied experiences and representations of motherhood in India from ancient to modern times. The thrust of the arguments made by the various contributors is that the centrality of motherhood as an ideology in a woman’s life is manufactured. This is demonstrated...
Engels Revisited (Routledge Revivals)
Feminist Essays
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This reissued work, first published in 1987, examines the problematic and divisive attitudes which bourgeois and socialist feminists take to the question of the links between patriarchy and capitalism and the importance of class conflict as a major cause of women's subordination. Engels still occcupies...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
This invaluable volume provides an overview of 37 terms, theories and concepts frequently used in gender studies which those studying the subject can find difficult to grasp. Each entry provides a critical definition of the concept, examining the background to the idea, its usage and the major figures...
Gendering the Nation-State
Canadian and Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Gendering the Nation-State explores the gendered dimensions of a fundamental organizational unit in social and political science -- the nation-state. Yasmeen Abu-Laban has drawn together work by both high-profile and emerging scholars to rescue gender from the margins of theoretical discussions on...
The Women's Victory and After: 1911-1918
Personal Reminiscences,
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This eBook edition of "The Women's Victory and After: 1911-1918" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847 –1929) was a British feminist, intellectual, political and union leader, and writer. She...
Consuming Cultures
Feminist Review Issue 55
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2005
Consuming Cultures is concerned with the interrelationship of gender and the circuits of consumption, distribution, production and reproduction. The book looks at the ways in which gender intervenes in all parts of the circuit or the linkages between different elements.
In Defense of the Princess
How Plastic Tiaras and Fairytale Dreams Can Inspire Smart, Strong Women
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
It's no secret that most girls, at some point, love all things princess: the poofy dresses, the plastic tiaras, the color pink. Even grown-up women can't get enough of royal weddings and royal gossip. Yet critics claim the princess dream sets little girls up to be weak and submissive, and allows grown...
Mother's Milk
Breastfeeding Controversies in American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Mother's Milk examines why nursing a baby is an ideologically charged experience in contemporary culture. Drawing upon medical studies, feminist scholarship, anthropological literature, and an intimate knowledge of breastfeeding itself, Bernice Hausman demonstrates what is at stake in mothers' infant...
Engaging with Empowerment
An Intellectual and Experiential Journey
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this fascinating collection of writings, Srilatha Batliwala, feminist thinker and practitioner, explores the many dimensions of what empowerment means for, and to, women. Looking back on a life lived through commitment to a cause—rather than to an organisation or to a sector—and working for it...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Centering on women's movements before, during, and after the revolutions, Women's Movements in Post-"Arab Spring" North Africa highlights the broader sources of authority that affected the emergence of new feminist actors and agents and their impact on the sociopolitical landscapes of the region.
Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture
A Comprehensive Guide to Gender Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture, 2nd edition is a comprehensive gender studies textbook with an international focus and relevance across a broad range of academic disciplines. Covering an array of topics, theories and approaches to gender studies, it introduces students to the study of gender...