Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books
The Politics of Passion
Women's Sexual Culture in the Afro-Surinamese Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2006
Gloria Wekker analyzes the phenomenon of mati work, an old practice among Afro-Surinamese working-class women in which marriage is rejected in favor of male and female sexual partners. Wekker vividly describes the lives of these women, who prefer to create alternative families of kin, lovers, and...
Canon Fodder
Historical Women Political Thinkers
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2009
This book is an exercise in the recovery of historical memory about a set of thinkers who have been forgotten or purposely ignored and, as a result, never made it into the canon of Western political philosophy. Penny Weiss calls them “canon fodder,” recalling the fate of soldiers in war who are...
The Fair Sex
White Women and Racial Patriarchy in the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2002
Once the egalitarian passions of the American Revolution had dimmed, the new nation settled into a conservative period that saw the legal and social subordination of women and non-white men. Among the Founders who brought the fledgling government into being were...
Romanticism and Civilization
Love, Marriage, and Family in Rousseau’s Julie
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Romanticism and Civilization examines romantic alternatives to modern life in Rousseau’s foundational novel Julie. It argues that Julie is a response to the ills of modern civilization, and that Rousseau saw that the Enlightenment’s combination of science and of democracy degraded human life by...
Cultural Studies 50 Years On
History, Practice and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Stuart Hall conceptualized his time at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies as a series of interruptions. It was this fluidity that gave rise to Hall’s conception of cultural studies as a ‘moving target’, a fusion of a range of disciplinary approaches that was uniquely influenced by...
The User Unconscious
On Affect, Media, and Measure
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Wide-ranging essays and experimental prose forcefully demonstrate how digital media and computational technologies have redefined what it is to be human
Over the past decade, digital media has expanded exponentially, becoming an essential part of daily life. The stimulating essays and experimental...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
This handbook provides a comprehensive look at the study of gender and security in global politics.
The volume is based on the core argument that gender is conceptually necessary to thinking about central questions of security; analytically important for thinking about cause and effect in security;...
Wilderness Therapy for Women
The Power of Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Wilderness Therapy for Women offers women risktaking adventure activities in the outdoors as an alternative to traditional therapy. The contributing authors illustrate the empowerment, confidence, and self-esteem women can derive from adventure and experiential activities. This is the first book of...
Bellezza femminile e verità
Modelli e ruoli nella comunicazione sessista
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Il tuo mestiere è o sarà nel mondo della comunicazione? Hai un figlio o una figlia che vivono incollati alla Tv? Insegni o ti occupi della formazione delle nuove generazioni? Sei una ragazza o un ragazzo alla ricerca di un modello culturale che rispetti la tua vera personalità, unica e inimitabile?...
Transforming Images
Screens, affect, futures
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Contemporary social and cultural life is increasingly organised around a logic of self-transformation, where changing the body is seen as key. Transforming Images examines how the future functions within this transformative logic to indicate the potential of a materially better time. The book explores...
by Voltairine de Cleyre, Normand Baillargeon, Chantal Santerre
Language: French
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Emma Goldman tenait Voltairine de Cleyre (1866-1912) pour « la femme anarchiste la plus douée et la plus brillante que l’Amérique ait jamais produit », et ce jugement avancé il y a près d’un siècle n’a toujours pas été infirmé. Pionnière du féminisme américain, poétesse, musicienne,...
Machonomics
Die Ökonomie und die Frauen
Language: German
Release Date: February 8, 2016
"Kein Aspekt der weiblichen Biologie prädestiniert die Frau für unbezahlte Hausarbeit. Oder dafür, ihren Körper für einen lausig bezahlten Job im öffentlichen Sektor zu schinden. Will man den globalen Zusammenhang zwischen ökonomischer Macht und dem Besitz eines Penis legitimieren, muss...
De armas tomar
Feministas y luchadoras sociales de la Revolución Mexicana
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 14, 2017
Activistas, luchadoras sociales, transgresoras, feministas, ejemplo de acción y compromiso por la patria.
Matilde Montoya, Juana B. Gutiérrez, María Arias Bernal, Hermila Galindo, María del Pilar Moreno Díaz, Mimí Derba, Palma Guillén, Clementina Batalla, Tina Modotti, Adelaida Argüelles,...
by Catherine Mayer
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
‘Buy it for yourself, your husband or partner. Most importantly, buy it for your children’ Sunday Express Essential reading from Catherine Mayer, recently named one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Global Policy on Gender Equality. Not a single country anywhere in the world has achieved...