Feminist Criticism category: 436 books
Empowerment and Interconnectivity
Toward a Feminist History of Utilitarian Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Feminist history of philosophy has successfully focused thus far on canon revision, canon critique, and the recovery of neglected or forgotten women philosophers. However, the methodology remains underexplored, and it seems timely to ask larger questions about how the history of philosophy is to be...
Are the Lips a Grave?
A Queer Feminist on the Ethics of Sex
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Lynne Huffer's ambitious inquiry redresses the rift between feminist and queer theory, traversing the space of a new, post-moral sexual ethics that includes pleasure, desire, connection, and betrayal. She begins by balancing queer theorists' politics of sexual freedoms with a moralizing feminist politics...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The essays in Object-Oriented Feminism explore OOF: a feminist intervention into recent philosophical discourses—like speculative realism, object-oriented ontology (OOO), and new materialism—that take objects, things, stuff, and matter as primary. Object-oriented feminism approaches all objects from...
Ethics and Human Rights in Anglophone African Women’s Literature
Feminist Empathy
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
This book proposes feminist empathy as a model of interpretation in the works of contemporary Anglophone African women writers. The African woman’s body is often portrayed as having been disabled by the patriarchal and sexist structures of society. Returning to their bodies as a point of reference,...
Feminist Perspectives on Orange Is the New Black
Thirteen Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Since its 2013 premiere, Orange Is the New Black has become Netflix’s most watched series, garnering critical praise and numerous awards and advancing the cultural phenomenon of binge-watching. Academic conferences now routinely feature panels discussing the show, and the book on which it is based...
by Roberta Seelinger Trites
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
Over twenty years after the publication of her groundbreaking work, Waking Sleeping Beauty: Feminist Voices in Children’s Novels, Roberta Seelinger Trites returns to analyze how literature for the young still provides one outlet in which feminists can offer girls an alternative to sexism. Supplementing...
On the Edge of the River Sar
A Feminist Translation
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
This book presents the first feminist translation of Rosalía de Castro’s seminal poetic anthology En las orillas del Sar [On the Edge of the River Sar] (1884).
Rosalía de Castro (1837*–*1885) was an artist of vast poetic vision. Her understanding of human nature and her deep sensitivity...
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On Painting, Feminism, and Art Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 1997
Taking aim at the mostly male bastion of art theory and criticism, Mira Schor brings a maverick perspective and provocative voice to the issues of contemporary painting, gender representation, and feminist art. Writing from her dual perspective of a practicing painter and art critic, Schor’s writing...
Feminists Don't Wear Pink and Other Lies
Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
“Brilliant, hysterical, truthful, and real, these essays illuminate the path for our future female leaders.”—Reese Witherspoon
A diverse group of celebrities, activists, and artists open up about what feminism means to them, with the goal of helping readers come to their own personal...
A Hot-Eyed Moderate
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
**The essays in this inspiring collection analyze the craft of writing and the art of living and loving **
Jane Rule shares her insights into the creative process, sexual fidelity, feminist politics, and the transformative power of love.
Part I—“On Writing”—dispenses...
The Young Rebecca
Writings of Rebecca West 1911-17
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
A collection of Rebecca West’s early journalistic writings reveals her clarity of mind, severity of wit, and relevancy in today’s modern world
In this collection of early writings, beginning when Rebecca West was just eighteen years old, Jane Marcus sheds light on one of the foremost...
by Maggie Hennefeld
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Women explode out of chimneys and melt when sprayed with soda water. Feminist activists play practical jokes to lobby for voting rights, while overworked kitchen maids dismember their limbs to finish their chores on time. In early slapstick films with titles such as Saucy Sue, Mary Jane’s Mishap,...
The Female Philosopher and Her Afterlives
Mary Wollstonecraft, the British Novel, and the Transformations of Feminism, 1796-1811
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
This book argues that the female philosopher, a literary figure brought into existence by Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, embodied the transformations of feminist thought during the transition from the Enlightenment to the Romantic period. By imagining a series of alternate...
A Capsule Aesthetic
Feminist Materialisms in New Media Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
How new media art informed by feminism yields important and original insights about interacting with technologies
In A Capsule Aesthetic, Kate Mondloch examines how new media installation art intervenes in the fields of technoscience and new materialism, showing how three diverse artists—Pipilotti...