Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books
Teaching Feminist Activism
Strategies from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
From theoretical analysis to practical teaching tools, an indispensable guide for educators seeking to link feminist theory and activism to their teaching. Included are web sites, videos, recommended texts, and additional course outlines.
On the Edge of the River Sar
A Feminist Translation
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
This book presents the first feminist translation of Rosalía de Castro’s seminal poetic anthology En las orillas del Sar [On the Edge of the River Sar] (1884).
Rosalía de Castro (1837*–*1885) was an artist of vast poetic vision. Her understanding of human nature and her deep sensitivity...
Self-Transformations
Foucault, Ethics, and Normalized Bodies
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2007
Heyes' monograph in feminist philosophy is on the connection between the idea of "normalization"--which per Foucault is a mode or force of control that homogenizes a population--and the gendered body. Drawing on Foucault and Wittgenstein, she argues that the predominant picture of the self--a picture...
Meeting the Universe Halfway
Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning <BR>
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2007
Meeting the Universe Halfway is an ambitious book with far-reaching implications for numerous fields in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. In this volume, Karen Barad, theoretical physicist and feminist theorist, elaborates her theory of agential realism. Offering an account of...
by Elisabeth Croll
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
First published in 1978, Feminism and Socialism in China explores the inter-relationship of feminism and socialism and the contribution of each towards the redefinition of the role and status of women in China. In her history of the women’s movement in China from the late nineteenth century onwards,...
On Female Body Experience
"Throwing Like a Girl" and Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2005
Written over a span of more than two decades, the essays by Iris Marion Young collected in this volume describe diverse aspects of women's lived body experience in modern Western societies. Drawing on the ideas of several twentieth century continental philosophers--including Simone de Beauvoir, Martin...
Unbending Gender
Why Family and Work Conflict and What To Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2001
In Unbending Gender, Joan Williams takes a hard look at the state of feminism in America. Concerned by what she finds--young women who flatly refuse to identify themselves as feminists and working-class and minority women who feel the movement hasn't addressed the issues that dominate their daily...
Girl Zines
Making Media, Doing Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
With names like The East Village Inky, Mend My Dress, Dear Stepdad, and I’m So Fucking Beautiful, zines created by girls and women over the past two decades make feminism’s third wave visible. These messy, photocopied do-it-yourself documents cover every imaginable subject matter and are loaded...
Emancipation and Illusion
Rationality and Gender in Habermas's Theory of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 1997
In this comprehensive analysis of Jürgen Habermas's philosophy and social theory, Marie Fleming takes strong issue with Habermas over his understanding of rationality and the lifeworld, emancipation, history, and gender. Throughout the book she focuses attention on the various ways in which an idea...
Feminist Theory and the Body
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Mapping Difference
The Many Faces of Women in Contemporary Ukraine
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Drawn from various disciplines and a broad spectrum of research interests, these essays reflect on the challenging issues confronting women in Ukraine today. The contributors are an interdisciplinary, transnational group of scholars from gender studies, feminist theory, history, anthropology, sociology,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
On Civic Friendship
Including Women in the State
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
Women have performed the vast majority of often unpaid friendship labor for centuries. Embodying the freedom, equality, and ideals of the Constitution, civic friendship emerges as a necessary condition for genuine justice. Through a critical examination of social and political relationships from ancient...
Feminism after 9/11
Women’s Bodies as Cultural and Political Threat
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
This book is about social phenomena that directly acknowledge the structures and ideologies emerging after September 11, 2001. It considers how these structures and ideologies manage, control, and contain specific bodies with respect to race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and citizenship status. Inflections...