Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books

Much of this book is dedicated to exploring female rights in Canada, India, the developing world, and other countries, making comparisons and contrasting the experience of these women. For example, the ways that sexuality is handled in many third world countries and the cultures there are to approach...

Can society operate without gender and even biological sex classifications? Queer Post-Gender Ethics argues that we could exist, formulate our relationships and be sexual in more androgynous ways. Outlining a political vision for how a post-gender sociality might be achieved, it presents queer social practices for a truly gender neutral world.

In Is Philosophy Androcentric?, Iddo Landau contends that none of the arguments for viewing philosophy as pervasively androcentric ultimately stand up to rational scrutiny, while the ones that show it to be nonpervasively androcentric do not undermine it in the way that many critics have supposed....

An examination of the global economic crisis from the perspective of care We are living through a crisis of care. Looking at austerity measures, cuts and closures, it is easy to conclude that there is a lack of care, that we exist in a society that is careless. Care--the practice of valuing...

‘A provocative and important book that every pro-choice advocate should read.’ Sinéad Kennedy, Coalition to Repeal the 8th Amendment When it comes to abortion, today’s liberal climate has produced a common sense that is both pro-choice and anti-abortion. The public are fed an unchanging...

Those who open this book expecting to find in it a romantic sketch, rather in the style of Erewhon , of what the civilisation of the twentieth century is likely to be after women have won their freedom, will be doomed to disappointment. It does not deal with what a humorist in the Cambridge Historical...

Emily is twenty-two years old. She’s just discovered that the gender pay gap is currently estimated to close in 2117. She’s psyched that her great-great-granddaughter is going to witness this momentous step forward for the sisterhood. She’s made herself a tick-off calendar that she intends to...

Le premier ouvrage écrit par les Femen ! Après avoir suscité beaucoup de commentaires, souvent approximatifs ou superficiels, les Femen ont décidé d’exposer les idées et les motivations qui sous-tendent leur engagement. C’est l’objet de ce Manifeste, premier ouvrage écrit par l’équipe...

Une perspective féministe en ce qui concerne l'autonomisation des femmes, l'égalité ou superiorty entre les relations, la foi qui la favorise, et l'affirmation de la volonté

GOLD MEDALIST OF FOREWORD REVIEWS' 2015 INDIEFAB AWARDS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES What's wrong with black women? Not a damned thing! The Sisters Are Alright exposes anti–black-woman propaganda and shows how real black women are pushing back against distorted cartoon versions of themselves. When...

Writing from within the Jewish tradition, Marge Piercy’s novel, He, She and It, contributes to the on-going debate regarding gender equality and kyriarchal conceptions of older women through challenging the inclusion, or exclusion, of the Other including the elder in social institutions. 

Esther Vilars classic polemic about the relationship between the sexes caused a sensation on its first publication. In her introduction to this revised edition, Vilar maintains that very little has changed. A man is a human being who works, while a woman chooses to let a man provide for her and her children...

Provides an important corrective to a prevailing view that population is at the root of the environmental crisis Comprehensive and meticulously documented the author incorporates statistics and anecdotal evidence to demonstrate the full scope of the victim blaming that threats the lives of the most vulnerable populations.

During the Enlightenment, rationality becomes not a property belonging to all humans but something that one must achieve. This transformation has the effect of excluding non-whites and non-males from the domain of reason. Heikes seeks to uncover the source of this exclusion, which she argues stems...