Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books
Television Antiheroines
Women Behaving Badly in Crime and Prison Drama
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
With a foreword by Diane Negra and Jorie Lagerway As television has finally started to create more leading roles for women, the female antiheroine has emerged as a compelling and dynamic character type. Television Antiheroines looks closely at this recent development, exploring the emergence of women...
Taking the Village Online
Mothers, Motherhood, and Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
The rise of social media has changed how we understand and enact relationships across our lives, including motherhood. The meanings and practices of mothering have been significantly impacted by the availability of communities found via forums, blogs, and sites like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram,...
Be Good, Sweet Maid
The Trials of Dorothy Joudrie
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
January 21, 1995: Dorothy Joudrie is arrested for attempting to murder her estranged husband. Soon after, Audrey Andrews begins to write her book. Audrey and Dorothy had known each other as children, but the identification of Andrews with Joudrie goes beyond merely the accident of a childhood acquaintance....
by Nikki Erin
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Free flow poetry detailing the multi faceted life of people with pussies and all that that entails. From sex and masturbation to periods and pubic hair, nothing is off limits here.
Hunting Girls
Sexual Violence from The Hunger Games to Campus Rape
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Katniss Everdeen (The Hunger Games), Bella Swan (Twilight), Tris Prior (Divergent), and other strong and resourceful characters have decimated the fairytale archetype of the helpless girl waiting to be rescued. Giving as good as they get, these young women access reserves of aggression to liberate...
The Sadeian Woman
An Exercise in Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Sexuality is power' - so says the Marquis de Sade, philosopher and pornographer extraordinaire. His virtuous Justine keeps to the rules laid down by men, her reward rape and humiliation; his Juliette, Justine's triumphantly monstrous antithesis, viciously exploits her sexuality. In a world where all...
Tapestries of the Heart
Four Women, Four Persian Generations
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
This award winning novel portrays four generations of Persian women over a span of one hundred years. It depicts the effects of religion and politi-ever changing in Iranian society. Tapestries stands out as a true representation of the cycle of life. The destinies of these characters are interwoven...
The Politics of Recognition and Social Justice
Transforming Subjectivities and New Forms of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Via a wide range of case studies, this book examines new forms of resistance to social injustices in contemporary Western societies. Resistance requires agency, and agency is grounded in notions of the subject and subjectivity. How do people make sense of their subjectivity as they are constructed...
Commodification of Sexual Labor:
The Contribution of Internet Communities to Prostitution Reform
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Most feminists agree that successful prostitution reform requires that prostitutes be respected by their clients, peers, and the community. Although respect is not the only criterion necessary for acceptable reform, many feminists believe that the absence of stigma would be a sufficiently fundamental...
Everyday World-Making
Toward an Understanding of Affect and Mothering
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
This cross-disciplinary collection considers the intersection of affect and mothering, with the aim of expanding both the experiential and theoretical frameworks that guide our understanding of mothering and of theories of affect. It brings together creative, reflective, poetic, and theoretical pieces...
Gender for the Warfare State
Literature of Women in Combat
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Gender for the Warfare State is the first scholarly investigation into the written works of U.S. women combat veterans in twenty-first century wars. Most recent studies quantify military participation, showing how many women participate in armed services and what their experiences are in a traditionally...
by Adrian Nathan West
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Pornography keeps getting more extreme. Manufacturers, defenders and consumers of porn rely on a mix of wilful ignorance and bad faith to avoid serious discussion. When we do talk about violence against women in the porn world, the debate all too often becomes technical, complicated by legalities...
Antimilitarism
Political and Gender Dynamics of Peace Movements
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
A lively, first hand account of the ideas and activities of women and men in anti-war, anti-militarist and peace movements. The author looks at the tensions and divergences in and between organizations, and their potential for cohering into a powerful worldwide counter-hegemonic movement for violence reduction.
Praising Girls
The Rhetoric of Young Women, 1895-1930
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
In Praising Girls, Henrietta Rix Wood explores how ordinary schoolgirls engaged in extraordinary rhetorical activities during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the United States. Focusing on high school girls’ public writing, Wood analyzes newspaper editorials and articles, creative...