Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books
Disciplining Feminism
From Social Activism to Academic Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2002
How was academic feminism formed by the very institutions it originally set out to transform? This is the question Ellen Messer-Davidow seeks to answer in Disciplining Feminism. Launched thirty years ago as a bold venture to cut across disciplines and bridge the gap between scholarly knowledge and...
Firebrand Feminism
The Radical Lives of Ti-Grace Atkinson, Kathie Sarachild, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, and Dana Densmore
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Unapologetic, troublemaking, agitating, revolutionary, and hot-headed: radical feminism bravely transformed the history of politics, love, sexuality, and science. In Firebrand Feminism, Breanne Fahs brings together ten years of dialogue with four founders of the radical feminist movement: Ti-Grace...
Transatlantic Conversations
Feminism as Travelling Theory
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
The second wave of feminism which challenged and changed many assumptions about the world in which we live was a product of various western cultures, with no single country possessing a monopoly on the writing of the texts that became the canonical statements of the 'new' feminism. Though many of...
Feminists Don't Wear Pink and Other Lies
Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
“Brilliant, hysterical, truthful, and real, these essays illuminate the path for our future female leaders.”—Reese Witherspoon
A diverse group of celebrities, activists, and artists open up about what feminism means to them, with the goal of helping readers come to their own personal...
by Vicky White
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Social work is currently undergoing major change in its policies, organization and day-to-day practice and much has been written about the feminist presence in social work. In particular, feminist social work has focused on the role of women social workers in developing distinctive forms of practice,...
Another Mother
Diotima and the Symbolic Order of Italian Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
A groundbreaking volume introduces the unique feminist thought of the longstanding Italian group known as Diotima
Introducing Anglophone readers to a potent strain of Italian feminism known to French, Spanish, and German audiences but as yet unavailable in English, Another Mother...
New South Asian Feminisms
Paradoxes and Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
South Asian feminism is in crisis. Under constant attack from right-wing nationalism and religious fundamentalism and co-opted by 'NGO-ization' and neoliberal state agendas, once autonomous and radical forms of feminist mobilization have been ideologically fragmented and replaced. It is time to rethink...
by Kumari Jayawardena
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
A founding text of transnational feminism
For twenty-five years, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World has been an essential primer on the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history of women’s movements in Asia and the Middle East. In this engaging and well-researched survey,...
Black Men, Black Feminism
Lucifer's Nocturne
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
A brief commentary on the necessity and the impossibility of black men’s participation in the development of black feminist theory and politics, Black Men, Black Feminism examines the basic assumptions that have guided—and misguided—black men’s efforts to take up black feminism.
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Gendered Agents
Women and Institutional Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Gendered Agents, edited by Silvestra Mariniello andPaul A. Bové, presents essays by influential feminist theorists who challenge traditional Western epistemology and suggest new directions for feminism. By examining both literary and historical discourses, such critics as Gayatri Spivak, Hortense...
A Politically Incorrect Feminist
Creating a Movement with Bitches, Lunatics, Dykes, Prodigies, Warriors, and Wonder Women
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
A powerful and revealing memoir about the pioneers of modern-day feminism
Phyllis Chesler was a pioneer of Second Wave Feminism. Chesler and the women who came out swinging between 1972-1975 integrated the want ads, brought class action lawsuits on behalf of economic discrimination, opened...
Mormon Feminism
Essential Writings
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
This groundbreaking collection gathers together for the first time the essential writings of the contemporary Mormon feminist movement--from its historic beginnings in the 1970s to its vibrant present, offering the best Mormon feminist thought and writing. No issue in Mormonism has made more headlines...
Feminism and Religion: How Faiths View Women and Their Rights
How Faiths View Women and Their Rights
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
At a conference in 2013, Gloria Steinem noted that religion is the "biggest problem" facing feminism today. In this insightful volume, a team of researchers, psychologists, and religious leaders led by editors Michele A. Paludi and J. Harold Ellens supply their expertise and informed opinions...
Jewish Feminism
Framed and Reframed
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
In the last three decades, hundreds of books and essays have been published on women, gender, and Jewish Studies. This burgeoning scholarship has not been adequately theorized, contextualized, or historicized. This book argues that Jewish feminist studies is currently constrained by multiple frames...