Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books
by Nancy Levit, Robert R.M. Verchick, Martha Minow
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Feminist legal theory is one of the most dynamic fields in the law, and it affects issues ranging from child custody to sexual harassment. Since its initial publication in 2006, Feminist Legal Theory: A Primer has received rave reviews. Now, in the completely updated second edition of this outstanding...
Feminism without Borders
Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2003
Bringing together classic and new writings of the trailblazing feminist theorist Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Feminism without Borders addresses some of the most pressing and complex issues facing contemporary feminism. Forging vital links between daily life and collective action and between theory and...
Why Stories Matter
The Political Grammar of Feminist Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
Why Stories Matter is a powerful critique of the stories that feminists tell about the past four decades of Western feminist theory. Clare Hemmings examines the narratives that make up feminist accounts of recent feminist history, highlights the ethical and political dilemmas raised by these narratives,...
by Alexandra M. Kokoli
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
The Feminist Uncanny in Theory and Art Practice investigates the widely debated, deeply flawed yet influential concept of the uncanny through the lens of feminist theory and contemporary art practice. Not merely a subversive strategy but a cipher of the fraught but fertile dialogue between feminism...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
What does feminism have to say to the Anthropocene? How does the concept of the Anthropocene impact feminism? This book is a daring and provocative response to the masculinist and techno-normative approach to the Anthropocene so often taken by technoscientists, artists, humanists, and social scientists....
What is Feminism?
An Introduction to Feminist Theory
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 1999
So what is feminism anyway? Is it possible to make sense of the complex and often contradictory debates?
In this concise and accessible introduction to feminist theory, Chris Beasley provides clear explanations of the many types of feminism. She outlines the development of liberal, radical...
Pop-Feminist Narratives
The Female Subject under Neoliberalism in North America, Britain, and Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
In Pop-Feminist Narratives, Emily Spiers explores the recent phenomenon of 'pop-feminism' and pop-feminist writing across North America, Britain, and Germany. Pop-feminism is characterised by its engagement with popular culture and consumerism; its preoccupation with sexuality and transgression in...
Feminism and Power
The Need for Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Feminism and Power: the Need for Critical Theory is a six-chapter manuscript which offers an important critique of “power feminism.” The latter, having produced such spinoffs as “grrrl power,” “choice,” “babe,” “lipstick,” and “stiletto” feminisms, encourages women to be strong,...
How to Win at Feminism
The Definitive Guide to Having It All—And Then Some!
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Be the best feminist you can be—or at least look like one—with this definitive manual, from the satirical creators of the wildly popular "feminist Onion" humor website, Reductress.
From hot feminist sex to a trendy feminist up-do, the bold and brilliant minds behind Reductress...
Feminist Theories and Feminist Psychotherapies
Origins, Themes, and Diversity, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
An updated, reader-friendly guide to feminist theory and therapy!
Feminist Theories and Feminist Psychotherapies: Origins, Themes, and Diversity, Second Edition examines major feminist theoretical perspectives and links them to practical applications of feminist therapy. This book focuses on...
by Elizabeth A. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
In Gut Feminism Elizabeth A. Wilson urges feminists to rethink their resistance to biological and pharmaceutical data. Turning her attention to the gut and depression, she asks what conceptual and methodological innovations become possible when feminist theory isn’t so instinctively antibiological....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Hope is central to marginal politics which speak of desires for equality or simply for a better life. Feminism might be characterised as a politics of hope, a movement underpinned by a utopian drive for equality. This version of hope has been used, for example in Barack Obama’s phrase ‘the audacity...
Modern Feminist Theory
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2012
An explication of the major contributions to feminist theory in the late Twentieth Century, covering Initial Articulations of the 'Woman' Problem (Virginia Woolf; Simone de Beauvoir), Radical Feminism (Kate Millett; Shulamith Firestone; Radicalesbians; Mary Daly), Black Feminism (Audre Lorde; Alice Walker;...
Feminist Consequences
Theory for the New Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2001
Exploring the status of feminism in this "postfeminist" age, this sophisticated meditation on feminist thinking over the past three decades moves away from the all too common dependence on French theorists and male thinkers and instead builds on a wide-ranging body of feminist theory written...