Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books
¡Chicana Power!
Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
The first book-length study of women's involvement in the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, ¡Chicana Power! tells the powerful story of the emergence of Chicana feminism within student and community-based organizations throughout southern California and the Southwest. As Chicanos engaged...
Crafting with Feminism
25 Girl-Powered Projects to Smash the Patriarchy
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Grab a handful of glitter and get your girl power on with 25 subversive and easy-to-make projects.
This is what a feminist crafter looks like! Crafting with Feminism features 25 irreverent and easy-to-make projects that celebrate everything that rocks about girls, gals, and badass women. Wear...
Anti-Porn
The Resurgence of Anti-Pornography Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Anti-porn feminism is back. Countering the ongoing ‘pornification’ of Western culture and society, with lads’ mags on the middle shelf and lap-dancing clubs in residential areas, anti-porn movements are re-emerging among a new generation of feminist activists worldwide. This essential new guide...
This Will Be My Undoing
Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
From one of the fiercest critics writing today, Morgan Jerkins’ highly-anticipated collection of linked essays interweaves her incisive commentary on pop culture, feminism, black history, misogyny, and racism with her own experiences to confront the very real challenges of being a black woman today—perfect...
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
**A powerful statement about feminism today from “one of the world’s great contemporary writers” (Barack Obama), the author of *Americanah *and **We Should All Be Feminists.
A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a childhood friend, a new mother who wanted...
In Our Time
Memoir of a Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
There once was a time when the concept of equal pay for equal work did not exist, when women of all ages were "girls," when abortion was a back-alley procedure, when there was no such thing as a rape crisis center or a shelter for battered women, when "sexual harassment" had not...
Psychosomatic
Feminism and the Neurological Body
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2004
How can scientific theories contribute to contemporary accounts of embodiment in the humanities and social sciences? In particular, how does neuroscientific research facilitate new approaches to theories of mind and body? Feminists have frequently criticized the neurosciences for biological reductionism,...
Lesbians Ignite!
In Victoria in the 1990s
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2016
Introduction: Lesbophobia is a Social Disease - Jean Taylor. I have not included every single gathering, meeting, demo, rally, book launch or conference held during the 1990s. Those events I have included are mainly the ones of personal interest to myself and therefore necessarily lesbian-oriented...
Unwanted Advances
Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2017
From a highly regarded feminist cultural critic and professor comes a polemic arguing that the stifling sense of sexual danger sweeping American campuses doesn’t empower women, it impedes the fight for gender equality.
Feminism is broken, argues...
Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity
The Lives and Work of Intellectual Women
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Examining the lives and work of historical and contemporary feminist intellectuals, Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity explores the feminist struggle to "have it all." This fascinating interdisciplinary study focuses on how feminist thinkers throughout history have long striven...
Feminist Review
Issue 43: Issues for Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2005
In this issue each article addresses a topical and controversial theme in contemporary feminist debate: pornography, the veil, HRT, disability and the Inkatha Women's Brigade.
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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...
by Hilaire Barnett
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
This book is a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between feminist theories and the law, and the way in which developments of the former have affected, and been affected by, the latter.
The book takes as its starting point a study of women and culture on an international level, which...
In the Name of Women's Rights
The Rise of Femonationalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Sara R. Farris examines the demands for women's rights from an unlikely collection of right-wing nationalist political parties, neoliberals, and some feminist theorists and policy makers. Focusing on contemporary France, Italy, and the Netherlands, Farris labels this exploitation and co-optation of...