Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books

This book brings together a diverse range of critical interventions in sexuality and gender studies, and seeks to encourage new ways of thinking about the connections and tensions between sexual politics, citizenship and belonging. The book is organized around three interlinked thematic areas, focusing...

In 1999, writer Madeleine Gagnon undertook to document the experience of women in the many war zones at the end of a “century of ashes” through their own eyes and in their own words. Travelling to Macedonia, Kosovo, Bosnia, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, Gagnon talked with women of all ages and social classes, recording her encounters.

A partir de uma colaboração da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra – no quadro do Mestrado e Doutoramento em Estudos Feministas, que integra também um seminário sobre “Mulheres e Religiões” – e do Instituto Universitário Justiça e Paz, teve lugar na Faculdade de Letras um...

This book examines NATO's engagement with gender issues through its military structures. Drawing on newly declassified NATO documents, this volume provides the first comprehensive account of NATO’s long-established engagement with gender issues. These documents bring to the fore the stories...

The phrase ‘LGBT community’ is often used by policy-makers, service providers, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people themselves, but what does it mean? What understandings and experiences does that term suggest, and ignore? Based on a UK-wide study funded by the Arts and Humanities...

In Unruly Visions Gayatri Gopinath brings queer studies to bear on investigations of diaspora and visuality, tracing the interrelation of affect, archive, region, and aesthetics through an examination of a wide range of contemporary queer visual culture. Spanning film, fine art, poetry, and photography,...

Details the innovative, courageous, and creative activism of the “second wave” women’s health movement in Canada between 1960 and 2010. This activism (re)claimed women's bodies, created women-centered spaces and services, and challenged a medically dominated healthcare system. Feminists challenged...

Sınıfsal açıdan bakıldığında dahi, cinsiyetçiliğin ve türcülüğün oldukça benzer yöntemlerle işlediği görülür. Bu kitap sadece sınıf temelli argümanlarla değil, özgürlükçü siyasetin bir çok yöntem ve tezleriyle cinsiyetçilik ve türcülük arasındaki paralelliğe...

As featured by The Daily Show, NPR, PBS, CBC, Time, VIBE, Entertainment Weekly, Well-Read Black Girl, and Chris Hayes, “incisive, witty, and provocative essays” (Publishers Weekly) by one of the “most bracing thinkers on race, gender, and capitalism of our time” (Rebecca Traister) “Thick...

This book is about the two-tiered system and invisible imbalance that operates within the framework of the family. It is about the fantasy of the “happily-ever- after,” which the wedding industry promotes and Western society reinforces. Why are we hanging onto this faux happiness at the expense...

Examine the psychosocial factors that affect lesbian and bisexual women’s mental health This essential guide presents up-to-date, evidence-based information that can be implemented to improve mental health services for lesbian and bisexual women in a variety of settings. It examines the systemic...

In What the Village Gave Me, the contributors—all women of color—present their varied experiences regarding the conceptualizations of womanhood, beauty, and gender roles. The goal of this book is to illuminate how these issues intersect with the transmission of cultural norms, marriage rates,...

La ideología neoliberal tiene el objetivo de convertir la vida en mercancía, incluso a los seres humanos. En ese sentido, la conversión de los cuerpos de las mujeres en mercancía es el medio más eficaz para difundir y reforzar la ideología neoliberal. La poderosa industria del sexo patriarcal...

Un rechazo sin concesiones al feminismo actual y un potente manifiesto revolucionario. Jessa Crispin cree que, en algún momento de su trayectoria, el movimiento de liberación de la mujer sacrificó sus principales objetivos a cambio de lograr cierto grado de aceptación por parte de la sociedad,...