Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books

“Motherhood” and “military” are often viewed as dichotomous concepts, with the former symbolizing feminine ideals and expectations, and the latter suggesting masculine ideals and norms. Mothers, Military, and Society contributes to a growing body of research that disrupts this false dichotomy....

Catholic or Protestant, recusant or godly rebel, early modern women reinvented their spiritual and gendered spaces during the reformations in religion in England during the sixteenth century and beyond. These essays explore the ways in which some Englishwomen struggled to erase, rewrite, or reimagine their religious and gender identities.

This book investigates the Ancient Stoic thinkers’ views on gender and sexuality. A detailed scrutiny of metaphysics, ethics and political philosophy reveals that the Stoic philosophers held an exceptionally equal view of men and women’s rational capacities.  In its own time, Stoicism was frequently...

Blossoming from a correspondence between Luce Irigaray and Michael Marder, Through Vegetal Being is an intense personal, philosophical, and political meditation on the significance of the vegetal for our lives, our ways of thinking, and our relations with human and nonhuman beings. The vegetal world...

Violence against women remains one of the most pervasive human rights violations in the world today, and it permeates every society, at every level. Such violence is considered a systemic, widespread and pervasive human rights violation, experienced largely by women because they are women. Yet at...

As a young woman, Democratic Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney asked her grandmother for career advice. She was shocked by the reply: "Get married." Though much has changed for women since then, more has remained the same. On a January night in 2008, Maloney and her daughter attended a Hillary...

Han pasado 20 años desde la primera edición de Las negociaciones nuestras de cada día y el mundo ha seguido hundiéndose en luchas cada vez más tortuosas en pos de poderes absolutos que casi siempre han pretendido disimularse bajo las «mejores intenciones». Las interminables negociaciones con...

El balance a todas luces positivo de cuatro décadas de lucha feminista hay que analizarlo desde la perspectiva actual con bastante menos entusiasmo que hubiéramos podido hacerlo veinte años atrás. Y precisamente por el éxito obtenido en las luchas libradas, el cambio social e ideológico está...

Hoy en día, aunque el quehacer de las mujeres ha ganado espacios y reconocimiento, los rezagos son todavía incalculables. Martha Robles (1948) indaga sobre las contradicciones respecto de las mujeres a través de personalidades como Virginia Woolf, Elena Garro y María Zambrano, entre otras, para...

Esta obra, única por sus características y aspiraciones, desvela un sentido del idioma que hasta hace poco se mantuvo oculto: su aspecto femenino. En una época de grandes transformaciones en la que es necesario que los avances de género se asienten y permeen toda manifestación social y...

This is an academic paper I wrote for my Masters degree. It is a research paper proposal on the portrayal of sexual assault in the media. It discusses the depiction of sexual assault in various media platforms. Specific films such as The Accused and Blue Bell, soap operas and TV talk shows are analyzed.

The interest of this book lies at the very center of a recent deployment of homosexual liberation on a larger scale. The reader will be able to understand how each of the traditions studied articulates its own regulatory mechanisms of male sexuality in general, and homosexuality.

**★  對文學書寫的重要啟發，了解吳爾芙其人特殊文學見解的代表性文集 ★「我走過沼澤說我就是我：而且必須遵循著此一道路，而非複製別的軌道。活著，就是我寫作的唯一正當理由。」 ★「誠如吳爾芙所見，這也是任何一個作家的志業：在擁擠的房間裡辨明自我，獨立出一個單一觀點，把這個觀點傳達給其他人。」――本書序言** 　　本書收錄了13篇吳爾芙的散文，散見吳爾芙1919年（37歲）到1940年（她58歲，臨終前一年）之間各時期的重要散文集。由英國小說家與吳爾芙重度書迷的喬安娜．卡文娜（Joanna...

In this collection of four short stories, Louisa May Alcott reveals herself as a racy, infinately readable author. Each story features strong women, with sharp tongues and sharper wits. Every plot has an unexpected twist, and a decidedly dark touch of irony. If you couldn't read Little Women because...