Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books
Postfeminism(s) and the Arrival of the Fourth Wave
Turning Tides
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
This book addresses the current resurgence of interest in feminism–notably within popular culture and media–that has led some to announce the arrival of the fourth wave. Research explores where fourth-wave feminism sits in relation to those that preceded it, and in particular, how fourth-wave...
Can We All Be Feminists?
New Writing from Brit Bennett, Nicole Dennis-Benn, and 15 Others on Intersectionality, Identity, and the Way Forward for Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
**“As timely as it is well-written, this clear-eyed collection is just what I need right now.” —Jacqueline Woodson, author of Brown Girl Dreaming
“The intersectional feminist anthology we all need to read” (Bustle), edited by a feminist activist and writer who “calls to mind...
Transforming the Disciplines
A Women's Studies Primer
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
A jargon-free, non-technical, and easily accessible introduction to women's studies!
All too many students enter academia with the hazy idea that the field of women's studies is restricted to housework, birth control, and Susan B. Anthony. Their first encounter with a women's studies textbook...
Feminist Review
Issue 42: Feminist Fictions
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
This theme issue is an exploration of the way in which feminist ideas appear in popular forms, especially feminist novelists, such as Angela Carter and Marge Piercy, have handled particular issues; it considers writing and it duscusses the popular genres that have been taken up by feminist writers...
Women, Knowledge, and Reality
Explorations in Feminist Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
This second edition of Women, Knowledge, and Reality continues to exhibit the ways in which feminist philosophers enrich and challenge philosophy. Essays by twenty-five feminist philosophers, seventeen of them new to the second edition, address fundamental issues in philosophical and feminist methods,...
Moral Understandings
A Feminist Study in Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2007
This is a revised edition of Walker's well-known book in feminist ethics first published in 1997. Walker's book proposes a view of morality and an approach to ethical theory which uses the critical insights of feminism and race theory to rethink the epistemological and moral position of the ethical...
Problematic
How Toxic Callout Culture Is Destroying Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
From Beyoncé’s Lemonade to The Force Awakens to the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot, the entertainment industry seems to be embracing the power of women like never before. But with more feminist content comes more feminist criticism—and it feels as if there’s always something to complain about.
Dianna...
The Feminism Book
Big Ideas Simply Explained
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Discover more than 85 of the most important ideas, movements, and events that have defined feminism and feminist thought throughout history with this original, graphic-led book.
Using the Big Ideas series' trademark combination of authoritative, accessible text and bold graphics, this book...
by Hilary Neroni
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
The Film Theory in Practice series fills a gaping hole in the world of film theory. By marrying the explanation of a film theory with the interpretation of a film, the volumes provide discrete examples of how film theory can serve as the basis for textual analysis. Feminist Film Theory and Cléo from...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2008
The relationship between feminism and domesticity has recently come in for renewed interest in popular culture. This collection makes an intervention into the debates surrounding feminism’s contentious relationship with domesticity and domestic femininities in popular culture. It offers an understanding...
Nomadic Theory
The Portable Rosi Braidotti
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Rosi Braidotti's nomadic theory outlines a sustainable modern subjectivity as one in flux, never opposed to a dominant hierarchy yet intrinsically other, always in the process of becoming, and perpetually engaged in dynamic power relations both creative and restrictive. Nomadic theory offers an original...
Feminism is Queer
The Intimate Connection between Queer and Feminist Theory
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Provides a comprehensive introduction to gender and queer theory, and presents complex theories and concepts in a way which remains accessible to undergraduates.
This new edition engages with the most recent developments within feminism/queer theory, many of which are highly topical (trans issues, online communities etc).
The Dialectic of Sex
The Case for Feminist Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2003
"No one can understand how feminism has evolved without reading this radical, inflammatory second-wave landmark." —Naomi Wolf
Originally published in 1970, when Shulamith Firestone was just twenty-five years old, and going on to become a bestseller, The Dialectic of Sex was the...
Feminist Postcolonial Theory
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2003
Feminism and postcolonialism are allies, and the impressive selection of writings brought together in this volume demonstrate how fruitful that alliance can be. Reina Lewis and Sara Mills have assembled a brilliant selection of thinkers, organizing them into six categories: "Gendering Colonialism and Postcolonialism/Radicalizing Feminism," "Rethink