Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books

WHEN "Little Women," the play, reopened to many readers the pages of "Little Women," the book, that delightful chronicle of family life, dramatist and producer learned from many unconscious sources the depth of Louisa M. Alcott's human appeal. Standing one night at the back of...

This is a book of the collective poetry of Kathleen Woolrich with rare photographic images of Colonial Algeria. This book contains information about the Algerian revolution in an easy to read format along with beautiful images of Algeria

Girls being fearless. Girls being silly. Girls being wild, stubborn, and proud. Girls whose faces are smeared with dirt and lit up with joy. So simple and yet so powerful, Strong Is the New Pretty celebrates, through more than 175 memorable photographs, the strength and spirit of girls being 100%...

Edición actualizada de este libro de referencia. Una investigación rigurosamente documentada sobre la violencia de género. La violencia contra las mujeres en el siglo XXI perdura con la misma fuerza con que ha recorrido toda la historia de la humanidad. Los agresores no son locos...

Cansadas es una mirada feminista que contempla recuerdos, reflexiones, repotajes, artículos, notas de viaje y conversaciones a lo largo de una década. Cansadas es el sugerente título del nuevo libro de la autora de Ibamos a ser reinas y Feminismo para principiantes (publicados por Ediciones...

Edición revisada, actualizada y ampliada del libro de referencia, en España, de la historia del feminismo. ¿Quiénes eran las sufragistas? ¿De dónde sale el feminismo radical? ¿Por qué se habla de marxismo y feminismo como de un matrimonio mal avenido? ¿Por qué el feminismo ha sido...

A bite-sized guide to making change happen and the story behind the No More Page 3 campaign, written by its founder. Change doesn’t just happen. It starts with the idea that something could be different, could be better. It starts with a person who is brave enough to stand up and say, ‘Stop.’...

One of the most didactic of Wilkie Collins' 'novels with a purpose', treating the then fashionable theme of the 'fallen woman' who attempts to put her past behind her but is repeatedly thwarted by the prejudices of respectable English society. Mercy Merrick has been tricked into the tragic...

The fact that for equal work equally well performed by a man and by a woman, it is ordained that the woman on the ground of her sex alone shall receive a less recompense, is the nearest approach to a wilful and unqualified "wrong" in the whole relation of woman to society today. Olive Schreiner, "Woman and Labour" (1911).

"Tess" is an exemplification of all the horrors of malignant destiny. By nature its heroine is incarnate goodness: every fibre of her being is pure; and yet, under the stress of circumstances, the compulsion of force and the beguilement of fraud, partly through ignorance, partly through...

Esta selección de textos de Emilia Pardo Bazán constituye un testimonio incomparable de las diferencias que existían entre los hombres y las mujeres a finales del siglo XIX, y una ocasión única para acercarse a la obra y la ideología de esta escritora española.

La Carte de Tendre or the Map of the country of Tenderness made its debut in the first volume of Madeleine De Scudery’s novel CLELIE (1654).  It is a map of the mythical country of Tenderness, which is also a metaphor for Mlle. De Scudery’s heart and for her Salon. As a salon game that soon became...

Clare Wright's award-winning research challenges the myth that the Australian pub is a male domain, revealing the enduring and dynamic presence of female publicans behind the bar. Wright takes the reader on a pub crawl through this history: from Sarah Bird, the 27-year-old convict who was Australia's...

"Astonishing, original....an early chapter in women's revisionary history [that] offers true eloquence resurrected from the silence of the past."—The New York Times Book Review In dialogues with three celestial ladies, Reason, Rectitude, and Justice, Christine de Pizan (1365-ca....