Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books
The Globalization of Motherhood
Deconstructions and reconstructions of biology and care
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
The convergence of dramatic declines in birth rates worldwide, aside from sub-Saharan Africa, the rise of untrammelled global movement of capital, people and information, and the rapid-fire dissemination of a host of new medical technologies has led to the "globalization of motherhood".
This...
Sisterhood Is Global
The International Women's Movement Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
A powerful and essential anthology that sheds light on the status of women throughout the world
Hailed by Alice Walker as “one of the most important human documents of the century,” this collection of groundbreaking essays examines the global status of women’s experiences, from oppression...
Wonder Women
Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Fifty years after the Equal Pay Act, why are women still living in a man's world?
Debora L. Spar never thought of herself as a feminist. Raised after the tumult of the 1960s, she presumed the gender war was over. As one of the youngest female professors to be tenured at Harvard Business School...
The New Victorians
A Young Woman's Challenge to the Old Feminist Order
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2009
Journalist Rene Denfeld explains why her generation has become alienated from the women's movement, maintaining that the actions of the movement's current leadership have actually encouraged a return to the kind of sexual repression and political powerlessness challenged by feminists in the 1970s....
Mothers and Daughters
Complicated Connections Across Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Family stories of the ties between mothers and daughters form the foundation of Mothers and Daughters: Complicated Connections Across Cultures. Nationally and internationally known feminist scholars frame, analyze, and explore mother-daughter bonds in this collection of essays. Cultures from around...
by Meredith Small
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
In this refreshingly down-to-earth exploration of human mating and sexuality, an acclaimed anthropologist looks at the fascinating intersection between the imperatives of our glands and genes, and the culture in which we live. Why do we fall in love with the people we do? Is there an alternative,...
Genealogies of Emotions, Intimacies, and Desire
Theories of Changes in Emotional Regimes from Medieval Society to Late Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Genealogies of Emotions, Intimacies and Desire excavates epistemologies which attempt to explain changes in emotional regimes from medieval society to late modernity. Key in this debate is the concept of intimacy. The book shows that different historical periods are characterized by emotional regimes...
The Intersectional Approach
Transforming the Academy through Race, Class, and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Intersectionality, or the consideration of race, class, and gender, is one of the prominent contemporary theoretical contributions made by scholars in the field of women's studies that now broadly extends across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Taking stock of this transformative...
Man's Dominion
The Rise of Religion and the Eclipse of Women's Rights
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
In this feminist critique of the politics of religion, Sheila Jeffreys argues that the renewed rise of religion is harmful to women’s human rights. The book seeks to rekindle the criticism of religion as the founding ideology of patriarchy.
Focusing on the three monotheistic religions; Judaism,...
Revisioning Women, Health and Healing
Feminist, Cultural and Technoscience Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
This engaging collection examines the implications and representations of race, class and gender in health care offering new approaches to women's health care. Subjects covered range from reproductive issues to AIDS.
by Sara Ahmed
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
In Willful Subjects Sara Ahmed explores willfulness as a charge often made by some against others. One history of will is a history of attempts to eliminate willfulness from the will. Delving into philosophical and literary texts, Ahmed examines the relation between will and willfulness, ill will...
Sweet Nothing
An Elemental Case for Taking Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Sweet Nothing is an eco-feminist, spiritual and philosophical lament against the increasing speed and fragmentation of modern life. It draws parallels between some of the central ideas of existential phenomenology, psychoanalysis and neo-pagan spirituality, in order to make a case for the slowing down...
Women and the Gift Economy
A Radically Different Worldview is Possible
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Women and the Gift Economy: A Radically Different Worldview is Possible is an attempt to respond to the need for deep and lasting social change in an epoch of dangerous crisis for all humans, cultures, and the planet. Featuring articles by well-known feminist activists and academics from around the...
New Femininities
Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
This collection of original essays looks at the way in which experiences and representations of femininity are changing, and explores the possibilities for producing 'new' femininities in the twenty-first century. The volume includes a Preface by leading feminist scholar Angela McRobbie.