Feminism category: 1647 books
The Biopolitics of Embryos and Alphabets
A Reproductive History of the Nonhuman
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Biopolitics and posthumanism have been passé theories in the academy for a while now, standing on the unfashionable side of the fault line between biology and liberal thought. These days, if people invoke them, they do so a bit apologetically. But, as Ruth Miller argues, we should not be so quick...
by Iddo Landau
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
In Is Philosophy Androcentric?, Iddo Landau contends that none of the arguments for viewing philosophy as pervasively androcentric ultimately stand up to rational scrutiny, while the ones that show it to be nonpervasively androcentric do not undermine it in the way that many critics have supposed....
Foucault/Derrida Fifty Years Later
The Futures of Genealogy, Deconstruction, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Early in their careers, Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida argued over madness, reason, and history in an exchange that profoundly influenced continental philosophy and critical theory. In this collection, Amy Allen, Geoffrey Bennington, Lynne Huffer, Colin Koopman, Pierre Macherey, Michael Naas,...
Women's Encounters with the Mental Health Establishment
Escaping the Yellow Wallpaper
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Explore women’s first-person experiences with the mental health establishment!
This unique contemporary anthology of women’s experiential writing shares women’s realities, perceptions, and experiences (positive and negative) within the therapeutic environment. These artistic expressions...
Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process
Feminist Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Feminist research is informed by a history of breaking silences, of demanding that women’s voices be heard, recorded and included in wider intellectual genealogies and histories. This has led to an emphasis on voice and speaking out in the research endeavour. Moments of secrecy and silence are less...
Care
The Political Economy of Intimacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2020
An examination of the global economic crisis from the perspective of care
We are living through a crisis of care. Looking at austerity measures, cuts and closures, it is easy to conclude that there is a lack of care, that we exist in a society that is careless. Care--the practice of valuing...
Intersexualization
The Clinic and the Colony
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Since the 1970s, research into ‘Intersex’ has been a central fascination for feminist theorists seeking to make arguments about how men and women are created as social/gender categories. Intersexualization: The Clinic and the Colony takes the case of Olympic runner Caster Semenya as a starting...
Visualizing Difference
Performative Audiencing in the Intersectional Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
In the wealth of literature on intersectionality as a concept, theory, political option and methodology, little has been written on how it might be taught. Proceeding from theory to practice, Visualizing Difference fills in this lacuna and offers an original approach to a visual pedagogy that recognizes...
Opposition and Intimidation
The Abortion Wars and Strategies of Political Harassment
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
The abortion fight has long been a crucible of political tactics, with both sides employing strategies ranging from litigation to civil disobedience to outright violence. Anti-abortion activists have arguably been more tactically innovative than their pro-choice peers. Opposition and Intimidation...
Happy Abortions
Our Bodies in the Era of Choice
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
‘A provocative and important book that every pro-choice advocate should read.’
Sinéad Kennedy, Coalition to Repeal the 8th Amendment
When it comes to abortion, today’s liberal climate has produced a common sense that is both pro-choice and anti-abortion. The public are fed an unchanging...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Half a billion Muslim women inhabit some 45 Muslim-majority countries, and another 30 or more countries have significant Muslim minorities, including, increasingly, countries in the developed West. This study provides a literature review of recent empirical social science scholarship that addresses...
by Helena M. Swanwick
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
Those who open this book expecting to find in it a romantic sketch, rather in the style of Erewhon , of what the civilisation of the twentieth century is likely to be after women have won their freedom, will be doomed to disappointment. It does not deal with what a humorist in the Cambridge Historical...
Career Girls
Cautionary Tales for the Working Woman
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
Emily is twenty-two years old. She’s just discovered that the gender pay gap is currently estimated to close in 2117. She’s psyched that her great-great-granddaughter is going to witness this momentous step forward for the sisterhood. She’s made herself a tick-off calendar that she intends to...
Manifeste Femen
Analyse de leurs combats
Language: French
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Le premier ouvrage écrit par les Femen !
Après avoir suscité beaucoup de commentaires, souvent approximatifs ou superficiels, les Femen ont décidé d’exposer les idées et les motivations qui sous-tendent leur engagement. C’est l’objet de ce Manifeste, premier ouvrage écrit par l’équipe...