Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books
by Nicolas de Condorcet
Language: French
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Language: French
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Au XVIIIe siècle, les femmes sont naturellement confinées à jouer leurs rôles de mère et d’épouse et les hommes ont seuls accès aux sphères d’action et de pouvoir. Condorcet publie alors ce texte en 1791 qui révèle à l’opinion des inégalités « nouvelles » de genre. Pertinent,...
by Lucia Canovi
Language: French
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Présentation de l'éditeur
Le féminisme est-il à l'épreuve de la logique ? Sa rhétorique résiste-t-elle à un examen minutieux ? Dans un style teinté d'humour et de sarcasme, Lucia Canovi, ex-féministe, met en lumière les sophismes et les incohérences du féminisme dit...
by Lucia Canovi
Language: French
Release Date: January 24, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: January 24, 2016
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Tout est à jeter dans le sexisme.
Cette idéologie ne vole pas un millième de millimètre plus haut que le racisme… qui fait lui-même du rase-mottes et des trous, creusant des nids-de-poule dans la chaussée.
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by Liz S. Alexander, Rose Mary Amenga-Etego, Rabiatu Ammah
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
In this collection, continental and diasporan African women interrogate the concept “sacred text” and analyze ways oral and written religious “texts” intersect with violence against African-descended women and girls. While the sanctioned idea of a sacred text is written literature, this project...
Wolf Whistle Politics
The New Misogyny in America Today
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Early out the gate: Publishing in May 2017, this will be among the early post-election books to hit the market.
Big name contributors: A who’s who of contemporary femists, including Jill Lepore, Katha Pollitt, Liza Featherstone, Kirsten West-Savali, Rebecca Solnit, Emily Nussbaum, Gail Collins,...
by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
The Regional Gender Strategy and Action Plan aims to provide focus for the FAO gender-related work in Asia and the Pacific and identify delivery mechanisms for the period 2017-2019. The Regional Gender Strategy and Action Plan encompasses work at both the regional and country level.
Post Grad
Five Women and Their First Year Out of College
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
An honest and deeply reported account of five women and the opportunities and frustrations they face in the year following their graduation from an elite university.
Recent Princeton graduate Caroline Kitchener weaves together her experiences from her first year after college with that of four...
Promoting Women's Rights
Politics of Gender in the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
This dissertation examines the impact of international institutions on women's rights policies by focusing on the European Union (EU) as a case study in order to illustrate the influence and the ways in which international factors affect women's right as a global policy concern. The principle proposition...
Negotiating Palestinian Womanhood
Encounters between Palestinian Women and American Missionaries, 1880s–1940s
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Negotiating Palestinian Womanhood: Encounters between Palestinian Women and American Missionaries, 1880s–1940s is the first analytical study to examine the American Quaker educational enterprise in Palestine since its establishment in the late nineteenth century during the Ottoman rule and into...
Gender, Justice, and the Problem of Culture
From Customary Law to Human Rights in Tanzania
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
When, where, why, and by whom is law used to force desired social change in the name of justice? Why has culture come to be seen as inherently oppressive to women? In this finely crafted book, Dorothy L. Hodgson examines the history of legal ideas and institutions in Tanzania – from customary law...
The Inner Story of the Suffrage Movement
Woman Suffrage and Politics, Woman Suffrage By Federal Constitutional Amendment
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Throughout the suffrage struggle, America's history, principles and traditions stood forth to indicate the inevitability of woman suffrage, to suggest that it would normally be the first country in the world to give the vote to women. Yet the years went by, decade followed decade, and twenty-sixother...
Power Shift
The Longest Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2019
The facts are indisputable. When women get even a bit of education, the whole of society improves. When they get a bit of healthcare, everyone lives longer. In many ways, it has never been a better time to be a woman: a fundamental shift has been occurring. Yet from Toronto to Timbuktu the promise...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
This collection explores the relationships between the emotional and material, engaging with and developing the debates surrounding the emotional and material labour involved in producing and reproducing domestic and intimate spaces. The contributions examine the geographies and spaces of consumption in international and local-global spheres.
Mothers and Food
Negotiating Foodways from Maternal Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2016
From multidisciplinary perspectives, this volume explores the roles mothers play in the producing, purchasing, preparing and serving of food to their own families and to their communities in a variety of contexts. By examining cultural representations of the relationships between feeding and parenting...