Feminist Criticism category: 436 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Contending that the anti-feminist backlash in the academy is part of the broader "politically correct" rhetoric, this collection of writers, academics and activists is a much-needed response to the assault on feminist thinkers and critics in the academy today.
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Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Sarah Waters and Contemporary Feminisms presents ten readings of Sarah Waters’s fictions published to date in relation to feminism and contemporary feminist theory. The analysis offered in the collection investigates how Waters engages with recent debates on women and gender and how her writings...
by Alka Kurian
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This book conducts a post-colonial, gendered investigation of women-centred South Asian films. In these films, the narrative becomes an act of political engagement and a site of feminist struggle: a map that weaves together multiple strands of subjectivity—gender, caste, race, class, religion, and...
Can We All Be Feminists?
New Writing from Brit Bennett, Nicole Dennis-Benn, and 15 Others on Intersectionality, Identity, and the Way Forward for Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
**“As timely as it is well-written, this clear-eyed collection is just what I need right now.” —Jacqueline Woodson, author of Brown Girl Dreaming
“The intersectional feminist anthology we all need to read” (Bustle), edited by a feminist activist and writer who “calls to mind...
by Virginia Woolf
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
ORLANDO: A BIOGRAPHY is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928. A high-spirited romp inspired by the tumultuous family history of Woolf’s lover and close friend, the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, it is arguably one of Woolf’s most popular novels: a...
by Virginia Woolf
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
ROOM OF ONE'S OWN is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on 24 October 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional...
Sentimental Materialism
Gender, Commodity Culture, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2000
In Sentimental Materialism Lori Merish considers the intricate relationship between consumption and womanhood in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Taking as her starting point a diversity of cultural artifacts—from domestic fiction and philosophical treatises to advice literature and...
Sewing, Fighting and Writing
Radical Practices in Work, Politics and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Paris, along with New York, was one of the main centres of the fashion industry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But although New York based garment workers were mobilized early in the twentieth century, Paris was the stage of vibrant revolutions and uprisings throughout the nineteenth century....
by Jennifer L. Creech
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Mothers, Comrades, and Outcasts in East German Women's Film merges feminist film theory and cultural history in an investigation of "women’s films" that span the last two decades of the former East Germany. Jennifer L. Creech explores the ways in which these films functioned as an alternative public...
Feminism
A Bad Memory
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2021
A radical examination of feminism’s place in our cultural memory
How did we come to represent the history of feminism in terms of waves and generations? What are the effects of such powerful metaphors? In Feminism: A Bad Memory? Griselda Pollock analyses the cultural memory of feminism through...
Moral Spectatorship
Technologies of Voice and Affect in Postwar Representations of the Child
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
Why were theories of affect, intersubjectivity, and object relations bypassed in favor of a Lacanian linguistically oriented psychoanalysis in feminist film theory in the 1980s and 1990s? In Moral Spectatorship, Lisa Cartwright rethinks the politics of spectatorship in film studies. Returning to impasses...
The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery
Biocapitalism and Black Feminism’s Philosophy of History
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
In The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery Alys Eve Weinbaum investigates the continuing resonances of Atlantic slavery in the cultures and politics of human reproduction that characterize contemporary biocapitalism. As a form of racial capitalism that relies on the commodification of the human reproductive...
Networked Reenactments
Stories Transdisciplinary Knowledges Tell
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Since the 1990s, the knowledge, culture, and entertainment industries have found themselves experimenting, not altogether voluntarily, with communicating complex information across multiple media platforms. Against a backdrop of competing national priorities, changing technologies, globalization,...
Philosophy and Vulnerability
Catherine Breillat, Joan Didion, and Audre Lorde
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Issues surrounding precarity, debility and vulnerability are now of central concern to philosophers as we try and navigate an increasingly uncertain world. Matthew R. McLennan delves into these subjects enthusiastically and sensitively, presenting a vision of the discipline of philosophy which is...