Feminism and feminist theory Books

"The Woman of it; or, Our Friends the Anti-suffragists" by Mary Shaw offers a fascinating glimpse into the heated debates surrounding women's suffrage in the early 20th century. This satirical work critiques the arguments and perspectives of those...

Nixandra: Deusa da Beleza é um romance lírico, filosófico e mitopoético que transcende as formas tradicionais do conto épico para aventurar-se pelos territórios mais íntimos da experiência humana. Narrado pela voz de um soldado sem nome, esta obra...

Este libro explora las literaturas del Océano Índico en inglés y francés, tratando de averiguar sus concomitancias, recurriendo a la antropología poética como metodología principal. Se centra en cuatro mujeres poetas, Ranu Uniyal, Meena Kandasamy, Ananda...

This volume examines the often-overlooked crisis of sexual misconduct within Korean Protestant churches, exploring how militarized culture, hierarchical power, and institutional silence contribute to the abuse of congregants—especially those in...

With the backlash against feminism and reproductive rights since Roe v. Wade was overturned, many people are asking whether feminism is lost, if not dead. With so many rights on the chopping block, including rights to contraception and...

Studies in Rhetorics and FeminismsSeries Editors: Cheryl Glenn and Shirley Wilson LoganWhat People Are SayingRhetorical Reception addresses scholars in feminist historiography and theories of rhetoric, as well as scholars in the rhetoric of science and...

Joseph, Judah, and Plot is an exploration of narrative continuity in Genesis 37-50. It offers a new and literary reading of the story about Jacob and his sons, tracing its plot-structure from the narrative world of Genesis to the world of the reader...

It investigates the impact of financial capability and decision-making ability on the financial wellbeing of women associated with Community Based Organisations. In light of the evolving socio-economic landscape in South Asia and the growing gender...

In this book, Sedgwick examines texts from Europe and America such as Wilde, Nietzsche and Proust, and considers the historical moment when sexual orientation came to be as important a signifier of personhood as gender had been for centuries.

Focusing on the ground-breaking work of Laura Mulvey, Kaja Silverman, Teresa de Lauretis and Barbara Creed, this book explores how, since it began in the 1970s, feminist film theory has revolutionized the way that films and their spectators can be...

In the mountain village of Han-Nuk, silence is sacred and caste is law. A child begins to hear whispers no one else can - voices rising from water, from stone, from something waiting beneath the ancient Well House. As the village prepares for a sacred...

African-American scholars in the United States and Western Europe continue to concentrate on African-American literary studies. The expanding interest in Caribbean publishing, which focuses on the intersection of Afro-Caribbean and African-American...

Drive Here and Devastate Me is a powerful and honest exploration of love, queerness, and the triumph over shame.Falley's words shock you with their raw honesty, whether delivered with sharp wit or detailed imagery. It is evident that the...

The law of the gods is simple: those who kill must pay for it in blood.In the land of Armadin, where nine clans exist in a fragile peace, Ashilde is one of the few chosen to pay the blood price. Through it, she becomes a warrior, capable of killing to...

ARE ELIZABETH AND MICHAEL DESTINED FOR EACH OTHER-OR WILL THEIR SECRETS TEAR THEM APART? When Elizabeth, a sophisticated beauty from exotic Trinidad, meets Michael, a European prince and the world's most eligible bachelor, they're irresistibly drawn to...

Before the ConcubineA Cautionary Tale of Betrayal, Darkness, and SurvivalIn an empire built on beauty, silence, and secrets-one woman dares to speak through fire.Meilin has been trained in elegance, submission, and deadly poise. Once a loyal agent of the...

Mi van, ha azoknak a nőknek a történetei, akik valaha a szerelem templomának papnői voltak, olyan igazságokat rejtenek, amelyek ma is a társadalom felszíne alatt izzanak?A Vénusz templomának tanúi egy különleges történet az átalakulásról. A lelki...

The image of women in Russian culture has undergone profound changes: from the origins of modern Russian literature in the eighteenth century until the Revolution of 1917, when women were a source of fascination for Russian writers, to the socialist...

Many nations affirm the principle of gender equality. As women continue to advance in most walks of life, the impression that equality has been reached and that gender issues no longer pose real problems has naturally gained ground. Yet, many cultural,...

Este libro interpreta aspectos de la literatura afroecuatoriana en el context de Esmeraldas, la provincial donde vive la mayoría de la población. Mi propósito es analizar desde una perspectiva post-colonial, el impacto duradero de la esclavitud, el...

This collection intervenes into the debates surrounding feminism's contentious relationship with domesticity in popular culture. The contributors touch on topics ranging from reality television shows like How Clean is Your House? to the figure of...

Ecological security seems increasingly precarious and battles over land and models of economic development now lead to military conflicts. The Gendered New World Order addresses the compelling issue of how gender connects the global problems of...

This collection responds to the need to re-evaluate the very important concept of citizenship in light of recent feminist debates. In contrast to the dominant universalizing concepts of citizenship, the volume argues that citizenship should be...

In the wake of the #MeToo movement, gender scholars and activists have asked whether a reconcilliation between Zionism and feminism is possible in the current political landscape. Fictions of Gender explores the contemporary controversies surrounding...

If feminism has always been characterized by its divisions, it is metafeminism, a term coined by Lori Saint-Martin, that defines and embraces that disorder. As a carefully devised reading practice, metafeminism understands contemporary feminist...

""An Entire And Complete History, Political And Personal, Of The Boroughs Of Great Britain V2: Together With The Cinque Ports"" is a historical book written by Thomas Hinton Burley Oldfield in 1792. The book provides a detailed account of the political...

Il libro ""Il Tipo Estetico Della Donna Nel Medioevo"" scritto da Renier, Rodolfo, ����� un'opera storica che esplora il concetto di bellezza femminile nel periodo medievale. Pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1885, il testo analizza le diverse...

""Die Geschichte des Ursprungs der belgischen Beghinen und Weister Edart"" ist ein Buch von E. Hallmann, das im Jahr 1843 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Das Buch beschreibt die Entstehung und Entwicklung der belgischen Beghinen und Weister Edart, die im...

Die Futurbildung Im Altfranz������sischen (1880) ist ein Buch von Johannes Brohan, das sich mit der Zukunftsbildung in der altfranz������sischen Sprache besch�����ftigt. Das Buch ist eine detaillierte Studie �����ber die verschiedenen Formen der...

""Die Frauen der Franz������sischen Revolution"" ist ein historisches Buch von Jules Michelet, das 1854 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Es besch�����ftigt sich mit der Rolle der Frauen w�����hrend der Franz������sischen Revolution, einem bedeutenden Ereignis...

""Die Englische Armenpflege"" ist ein Buch, das im Jahr 1863 von Karl Gustav Kries ver������ffentlicht wurde. Es beschreibt das System der Armenpflege in England und wie es sich von anderen L�����ndern unterscheidet. Kries untersucht die verschiedenen...

The Real Grievance Of The Irish Peasantry: As Immediately Felt And Complained Of Among Themselves (1825) is a book written by an anonymous Clergyman of the Established Church. The book provides a detailed account of the grievances faced by the Irish...

This book explores the emergence of "lifestyle" in the US, first as a term that has become an organizing principle for the self and for the structure of everyday life, and later as a pervasive form of media that encompasses a variety of domestic and...

This book characterises the problematic status of motherhood in present-day Iranian society - that is, problem in the Foucauldian sense of an object of thought and a source of tension, not as a pathological issue - and explains the historical processes...

The Routledge International Handbook of Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health is the authoritative reference work on important, leading-edge developments in the domains of women's sexual and reproductive health.The handbook adopts a life-cycle approach...

This book studies the relevance of dowry as a customary practice in Indian marriages. It examines the historical articulation between traditional cultural texts and modern statutory law to understand how daughters are valued, and how dowry as a custom...

Readers will be ushered into their own spiritual experience of literature as they consider how American writers craft images of God that affirm the aging process. In deploying the motif of the imago Dei, it establishes that literature reveals how...

In this book, leading law academics along with lawyers, activists and others demonstrate what legislation could look like if its concern was to create justice for women.

Revolutionary Care provides original theoretical insights and novel applications to offer a comprehensive approach to care as personal, political, and revolutionary. Exploring many disciplines, including authors of color, queer scholars, and indigenous...

In Justice, Care, and Value Thomas Randall argues for the radical potential of care ethics as a distinct and preferable theory of distributive justice. 

Challenging the longstanding interpretation of the early English public sphere as polite, inclusive, and egalitarian this book re-interprets key texts by representative male authors from the period-Addison, Steele, Shaftesbury, and Richardson-as...

This book offers a transnational feminist response to the gender politics of torture and terror from the viewpoint of populations of color who have come to be associated with acts of terror. Using the War on Terror in Afghanistan and Iraq, this book...

The Lemonade Reader is an interdisciplinary collection that explores the nuances of Beyoncé's 2016 visual album, Lemonade. The essays and editorials present fresh, cutting-edge scholarship fueled by contemporary thoughts on film, material culture,...

The story of Medusa Gorgonis is partly based on the classical Medusa, one of the three Gorgon sisters, and Greek mythology. It depicts the untold story of Medusa: the brave girl who becomes a powerful leader of women warriors, the monstrous Serpent...

The edited volume tackles two main questions: first, what are the main claims, struggles, and possibilities of contemporary intersectional feminisms; and second, how shall we, as scholars, address intersectional (feminist) activisms in our research -...