Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Global events, from economic crisis to social unrest and militarization, disproportionately affect women. Yet around the world it is also women who are leading the struggle against oppression and exploitation. In light of renewed interest in Marxist theory among many women activists and academics,...
by Lois Braverman
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Women, Feminism and Family Therapy encourages sensitivity to feminist perspectives and challenges many traditional notions held by therapists, clients, and society. One of the few guides that takes into account feminist ideals and the changing status of women in society, this provocative new book...
Feminism in America
A History
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
William L. O'Neill's lively history of American women's struggle for equality is written with style and a keen sense for the variety of possible interpretations of 150 years of the feminist movement, from its earliest stirring in the 1830's to the latest developments in the 1980s.
O'Neill's...
Becoming Feminist
Narratives and Memories
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
This book offers a novel, detailed and sensitive exploration of women's engagement with feminism. Centred on the themes of generations, hope, emotions and belonging, each chapter attends to the specific and particular practices of 'becoming feminist' via a series of accessible case studies. Adopting...
No Turning Back
The History of Feminism and the Future of Women
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Repeatedly declared dead by the media, the women’s movement has never been as vibrant as it is today. Indeed as Stanford professor and award-winning author Estelle B. Freedman argues in her compelling new book, feminism has reached a critical momentum from which there is no turning back. A truly...
Fortunes of Feminism
From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Nancy Fraser’s major new book traces the feminist movement’s evolution since the 1970s and anticipates a new—radical and egalitarian—phase of feminist thought and action.
During the ferment of the New Left, “Second Wave” feminism emerged as a struggle for women’s liberation and...
Fairy Tales, Myth, and Psychoanalytic Theory
Feminism and Retelling the Tale
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
At the same time that 1970s feminist psychoanalytic theorists like Jean Baker Miller and Nancy Chodorow were challenging earlier models that assumed the masculine psyche as the norm for human development and mental/emotional health, writers such as Anne Sexton, Olga Broumass, and Angela Carter were...
Feminist Review
Issue 39: Shifting Territories: Feminism and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2005
The 1990s are proving to be a time, quite literally, of shifting territories in Europe - East and West. Both the revolutions in Eastern Europe in 1989 and the breaking of economic boundaries in 1992 are creating a new Europe; a Europe in which old questions have to be re-asked and old assumptions...
Feminist Theory Across Disciplines
Feminist Community and American Women's Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Defying traditional definitions of public and private as gendered terms, and broadening discussion of women’s writing in relation to feminist work done in other fields, this study addresses American women’s poetry from the seventeenth to late-twentieth century. Engaging the fields of literary...
by Merve Emre, Sophie Lewis, Annie Menzel
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Feminist writers and scholars consider whether technology has made good on its promise to liberate women—sexually, biologically, economically, and politically.
In Once and Future Feminist, editor and lead essayist Merve Emre turns a critical eye on the role of technology in feminism both...
Governance Feminism
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Describing and assessing feminist inroads into the state
Feminists walk the halls of power. Governance Feminism: An Introduction shows how some feminists and feminist ideas—but by no means all—have entered into state and state-like power in recent years. Being a feminist can qualify you...
Feminism, Digital Culture and the Politics of Transmission
Theory, Practice and Cultural Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
Feminism, Digital Culture and the Politics of Transmission argues that despite the prevalence of generational narratives within feminism, the technical processes through which knowledge is transmitted across generations remain unexplored.
Taking Bernard Stiegler's concept of the already-there as its...
Feminist Nightmares: Women At Odds
Feminism and the Problems of Sisterhood
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1994
Though all women are women, no woman is only a woman, wrote Elizabeth Spelman in The Inessential Woman. Gone are the days when feminism translated simply into the advocacy of equality for women. Women's interests are not always aligned; race, class, and sexuality complicate the equation. In recent...
by Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan, Robyn Wiegman
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2004
The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism is a history of thinking about the subject of women in twentieth-century China. Tani E. Barlow illustrates the theories and conceptual categories that Enlightenment Chinese intellectuals have developed to describe the collectivity of women. Demonstrating how...