Feminist Criticism category: 436 books
by Sibilla Aleramo
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 9, 2015
La storia di una donna coraggiosa che paga di persona le proprie scelte
Come mai un romanzo scritto oltre un secolo fa e qualificabile come un ‘classico’ come quello di Sibilla Aleramo, risulta ancora attuale? Pubblicato nel lontano 1906 e ripubblicato nel corso degli anni in molteplici edizioni,...
by Amalia Guglielminetti
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 30, 2014
«Chi mi conosce sa ch'io sono scontrosa come un'ortica e che le mie temerità non sono fatte che di parole scritte». In una lettera del '25, di ritorno da Parigi, Amalia Guglielminetti descriveva così il suo carattere. E probabilmente mentiva almeno in parte, poiché sapeva bene che la sua vita...
Modern Slavery and Water Spirituality
A Critical Debate in Africa and Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
This book contains close readings of contemporary literary texts and art work by Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking authors from Africa and Latin America. The readings reveal a critical debate that understands reflections on the slave trade and current migrations from Africa to Europe as continuity...
La costola di Adamo
Santi, Papi e teologi contro le donne
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Legata a ragioni storiche più che dogmatiche, la misoginia delle autorità ecclesiastiche si manifesta fin dai primi secoli del Cristianesimo.
Nell'ebook una breve rassegna di personalità del mondo cristiano che hanno scritto contro le donne.
I mini-ebook di Passerino Editore sono guide agili, essenziali e complete, per orientarsi nella storia del mondo.
by Judith Butler
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Questo testo di Judith Butler affronta alcune tra le pagine più affascinanti e complesse scritte dal giovane Hegel: il frammento sull’Amore e il Frammento di sistema. L’intento dell’Autrice è duplice: scandagliarne il senso profondo e operare, nel contempo, una riflessione più ampia sul tema...
Girls on Fire
Transformative Heroines in Young Adult Dystopian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
Under the threat of climate change, corruption, inequality and injustice, Americans may feel they are living in a dystopian novel come to life. Like many American narratives, dystopian stories often focus on males as the agents of social change. With a focus on the intersections of race, gender, class,...
Speaking of the Self
Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Many consider the autobiography to be a Western genre that represents the self as fully autonomous. The contributors to Speaking of the Self challenge this presumption by examining a wide range of women's autobiographical writing from South Asia. Expanding the definition of what kinds of writing can...
The Lay of the Land
Metaphor As Experience and History in American Life and Letters
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
An original and highly unusual psycholinguistic study of American literature and culture from 1584 to 1860, this volume focuses on the metaphor of 'land-as-woman.' It is the first systematic documentation of the recurrent responses to the American continent as a feminine entity (as Mother, as Virgin,...
Investigating Fascism
Crime, Mystery, and the Fascist Ventennio in the Historical Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Investigating Fascism offers an original approach to the historical novel and its connection to crime fiction. The study of contemporary novels set during Mussolini’s rule, with specific attention to the topics of violence, justice, mystery, and personal identity, leads to a discussion about, among...
My Brilliant Friends
Our Lives in Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
My Brilliant Friends is a group biography of three women’s friendships forged in second-wave feminism. Poignant and politically charged, the book is a captivating personal account of the complexities of women’s bonds.
Nancy K. Miller describes her friendships with three well-known scholars...
by Virginia Woolf
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Este ebook presenta "Una casa encantada ", con un sumario dinámico y detallado. El único volumen de cuentos debido a Virginia Woolf que vio la luz pública durante su vida. Virginia Woolf siempre tuvo la costumbre de escribir relatos, de vez en cuando. Cuando se le ocurría la idea de un...
Routledge Revivals: The Progress of Romance (1986)
The Politics of Popular Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
First published in 1986, the aim of this book is to present some of the changing thinking on popular writing to a wider audience in view of the enormous growth of mass culture after the war, but also to offer a historical perspective on a specific form of popular fiction: the romance. The essays collected...
by Caroline J. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
Cosmopolitan Culture and Consumerism in Chick Lit focuses on the literary phenomenon popularly known as chick lit, and the way in which this genre interfaces with magazines, self-help books, romantic comedies, and domestic-advice publications. This recent trend in women’s popular fiction, which...
Economic Woman
Demand, Gender, and Narrative Closure in Eliot and Hardy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The ways in which women are portrayed in Victorian novels can provide important insights into how people of the day thought about political economy, and vice versa. In Economic Woman, Deanna K. Kreisel innovatively shows how images of feminized sexuality in novels by George Eliot and Thomas Hardy...