Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books

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Femspec 18.1, Women Riding on Horses Issue. Containing original and academic works, reviews, interviews, and more. Femspec 18.1 delves into how women harness their own power and move forward.

Discussions of the politics of science fiction literature often consider gender, sexuality, race, class, and, more recently, disability; age, however, is far less present within science fiction and science fiction criticism. Few representations of old age spring to mind within the genre, particularly within written works of science fiction.

In Goddess and God in the World, leading theologians Carol P. Christ and Judith Plaskow propose a new method for thinking about theological questions: embodied theology rooted in experience and tested in dialogue. Their theological conversation begins from the premise that the transcendent, omnipotent...

The Dreamer works her way through three compelling dreams, poems, and ponderings about abortion, into a resolution (including The Pro-Love Pledge) to build a pro-love society—one choice at a time. Approximately 6,000 words

This critical account of the American Girl brand explores what its books and dolls communicate to girls about femininity, racial identity, ethnicity, and what it means to be an American. Emilie Zaslow begins by tracing the development of American Girl and situates the company’s growth and popularity...

Motherhood does not just originate in the body, but in the world—a place, a region, a country or nation, a landscape, a language, a culture. Mothers are, as novelist Rachel Cusk once observed, “the countries we come from.” This unique literary anthology features thirty-five poems and twenty-three...

This interdisciplinary collection explores the role the body plays in constituting our sense of self, signalling the interplay between material embodiment, social meaning, and material and social conditions.

As the twenty-first century faces a crisis of democracy and sustainability, this book attempts to bring academics and alternative globalisation activists into conversation.Through studies of global neoliberalism, ecological debt, climate change, and the ongoing devaluation of reproductive and subsistence...

100 years ago women in the UK won the vote and 50 years ago the Women’s Liberation Movement began a sustained campaign for equal rights. Eva Tutchell and John Edmonds draw upon historical perspectives and contemporary interviews to convey what it felt like to be in the heart of the campaigns—the...

Drawing on the ambiguous meaning of the notion of vulnerability, the book offers an innovative approach to the topic of the female body in relation to women's rights; going beyond the age-old dichotomy of casting women as either passive victims or conscious agents.

Profissões para mulheres e outros artigos feministas reúne sete ensaios de Virginia Woolf nos quais ela questiona a visão tradicional da mulher como "anjo do lar" e expõe as dificuldades da inserção feminina no mundo profissional e intelectual da época. Numa era em que o papel da...

Zure manwijven in tuinbroeken: karikaturen van de Tweede Golf zijn hardnekkig, niet in de minste plaats onder de nieuwe generatie feministen die nu op aan het opstaan is. Zij zetten zich grootmoedig af tegen deze beelden, vaak ongehinderd door enige kennis. Genderstudies heeft echter niet stil gestaan...

→ Dossier : Les femmes, l’islam et la République Élisabeth Badinter : « La gauche n’a jamais été aussi soumise aux injonctions religieuses... » Grande figure du féminisme universaliste, Élisabeth Badinter retrace l’histoire des femmes depuis la Révolution française jusqu’à l’émergence...