Feminist Criticism category: 436 books
by Sylvia Plath
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A major literary event--the complete, uncensored journals of Sylvia Plath, published in their entirety for the first time.
Sylvia Plath's journals were originally published in 1982 in a heavily abridged version authorized by Plath's husband, Ted Hughes. This new edition is an exact and complete...
by Adriana Ramos
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Por meio de um profundo mergulho na alma, a autora apresenta uma inspiradora história de cura de um câncer e, especialmente, de vida. Com um texto leve e, às vezes divertido, percebemos um universo interessante de vida e de luta para a conquista da própria felicidade. Uma história que inspira e enriquece a cada página.
by Anaïs Nin
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Essays, lectures, and interviews—on everything from gender relations to Ingmar Bergman to adventure travel—from the renowned diarist.
In this collection, the author known for “one of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters” shares her unique perceptions of people, places,...
Nilling
Prose Essays on Noise, Pornography, The Codex, Melancholy, Lucretiun, Folds, Cities and Related Aporias
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
Nilling is a sequence of 6 loosely linked prose essays about noise, pornography, the codex, melancholy, Lucretius, folds, cities and related aporias: in short, these are essays on reading. Lisa Robertson applies an acute eye to the subject of reading and writing—two elemental forces that, she suggests,...
Dead Girls
Essays on Surviving an American Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018
An Edgar Award nominee for best critical / biographical
Best of 2018 according to Kirkus, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, The Portland Mercury, Bustle, Thrillist, and Electric Lit
A New York Times Editor's Choice, a best of summer...
El amor en tiempos neoliberales:
apuntes críticos sobre la novela rosa contemporánea
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 14, 2017
"En mi opinión, este tipo de literatura —al igual que los bestsellers— ofrece "fotografías de la época" (Sutherland, 2007: 3). Esto es, son documentos representativos en el sentido de que "congelan, vívidamente, su momento histórico" (Sutherland, 3) porque registran y dramatizan la cultura,...
Trick Mirror
Reflections on Self-Delusion
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
“From The New Yorker’s beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television.”—Esquire
“A whip-smart, challenging book.”—Zadie Smith • “Jia Tolentino could be the Joan Didion...
The Capacity Contract
Intellectual Disability and the Question of Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
In the first sustained examination of disability through the lens of political theory, The Capacity Contract shows how the exclusion of disabled people has shaped democratic politics. Stacy Clifford Simplican demonstrates how disability buttresses systems of domination based on race, sex, and gender....
by Ania Wroblewski
Language: French
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Tout au long de leur carrière respective largement médiatisée, Sophie Calle et Annie Ernaux, artistes contemporaines, ont allégrement transgressé les frontières entre la vie privée et la vie publique. Devant ces transgressions, l’auteure de cet ouvrage s’attache aux questions suivantes...
Livresse entre le bien et le mal
De lAntiquité à nos jours
Language: French
Release Date: December 19, 2017
L’ambivalence de la relation à l’ivresse est au cœur de l’histoire. Depuis l’Antiquité, des hommes et des femmes s’enivrent en s’appuyant sur des arguments complaisants et en laissant de côté les arguments moralisateurs.
Cet ouvrage a pour objectif de mieux comprendre cette...
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Language: French
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: October 26, 2018
L’ouvrage fait converger des éclairages singuliers sur le dandy, paradigme de l’individualisme moderne et de la construction de la masculinité. Le volume croise des approches sociologiques, politiques, littéraires et artistiques au sens large. Il problématise les traits du dandy historique...
Global Issues in Contemporary Hispanic Women's Writing
Shaping Gender, the Environment, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
This collection explores the contributions of Hispanic women writers to ongoing Western debates on gender, power, ethics, and the environment, offering a wide range of essays that specifically portray the ways in which contemporary writers focus on issues of global impact in a deliberate and purposeful...
El Mundo Zurdo 3
Selected Works from the Meetings of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Contributors include: Norma Alarcón, Stephanie Alvarez, Rusty Barceló, Cordelia E Barrera, Stephanie Brock, Catalina Bartlett, Casie C. Cobos, Marcos Del Hierro, Victor Del Hierro, Qwo-Li Driskill, Aydé Enríquez-Loya, and Stephanie Wheeler (as members of The Calmecac Collective), Antonia Castañeda...
Venus in the Dark
Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
In this second edition of the remarkable, and now classic, cultural history of black women’s beauty, Venus in the Dark, Janell Hobson explores the enduring figure of the "Hottentot Venus" and the history of critical and artistic responses to her by black women in contemporary photography,...