Feminism and feminist theory Books

Movimento MeToo, divario retributivo di genere, manspreading, catcalling - questi termini si sentono sempre più spesso al giorno d'oggi, e ruotano tutti intorno ad un unico argomento: il femminismo. Il femminismo riguarda tutti noi e una solida...

Movimiento MeToo, diferencia salarial entre hombres y mujeres, manspreading, catcalling: estos términos se oyen cada vez más a menudo hoy en día, y todos giran en torno a un tema: el feminismo. El feminismo nos afecta a todos y es esencial tener unos...

Le mouvement MeToo, le gender pay gap, le manspreading, le catcalling - autant de termes que l'on entend de plus en plus souvent aujourd'hui et qui tournent tous autour d'un thème : le féminisme. Le féminisme nous concerne tous et il est essentiel...

She Achieves is the sixth book of short stories published by 16 women authors of Indian origin worldwide. Hailing from different professional backgrounds, the SHE project's primary goal is to provide a creative platform for women's voices and their...

Set in a future where human values are more important than technology, Hybrids weaves a science-fiction world with a story of love, friendship and tolerance.Hybrids is divided into four parts: Trouble, Vengeance, Fear and Hope.Summary of Volume 1:...

Back to the Womb traces the complexities of birth in America as well as the voices of homebirth moms in Hawai'i. This book uncovers the struggle for sovereignty, the issues with medicalized birth and the sacredness of home birth. It is a book about...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a slave narrative that was published in 1861 by Harriet Ann Jacobs, using the pen name "Linda Brent". The book is an in-depth chronological account of Jacobs' life as a slave. It addresses the struggles and sexual...

THOMAS HARDY'S TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES: A CRITICAL STUDY A detailed and incisive analysis of Thomas Hardy's classic 1891 novel, using the latest research in feminism, gay, lesbian and queer theory, and cultural studies. Illustrated (includes images...

There was once a time in Ancient Egypt where women ruled like Kings and enjoyed more equal rights than modern women today. Revolutionary Woman reminds us of that time and calls for an all-out revolt. It explains how we came to be a world of women who...

Woman Blooming out of Gloom is a doctoral thesis that provides an in-depth analysis of the works of Senegalese author Mariama Bâ. By addressing such issues as marriage, polygamy, motherhood, and womanhood, Bâ was able to establish a creative space for...

The months between the presidential election of 2016 and the summer of 2019 have been a wild ride, from the unexpected (and for many traumatic) results of the election to growing recognition of how profoundly the Trump presidency has changed our lives,...

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...

There is a contradiction at the heart of digital media. We use commercial platforms to express our identity, to build community and to engage politically. At the same time, our status updates, tweets, videos, photographs and music files are free content...

"I may be arrested, I may be tried and thrown into jail, but I never will be silent; I never will acquiesce or submit to authority, nor will I make peace with a system which degrades woman to a mere incubator and which fattens her on innocent...

Without strong proof, policy advocates along with some scholars have causally linked declines in juvenile offending and incarceration with evidence-based and rehabilitation-oriented policy reform. Such studies have called for a shift back to...

Our Blessed Rebel Queen: Essays on Carrie Fisher and Princess Leia is the first full-length exploration of Carrie Fisher's career as actress, writer, and advocate. Fisher's entangled relationship with the iconic Princess Leia is a focal point of this...

Among the many achievements of the feminist movement of the 1970s was the unprecedented influx of women into academia. Over the last 25 years, women have entered the social sciences in huge numbers - bringing with them new perspectives and new insights...

Through examination of the functions of language and cross-cultural readings of literature - from African queer reading to postcolonial Shakespeare - Rooney explores the nature of the real, providing:a way out of some of the current deadlocks...

Ecofeminist Science Fiction: International Perspectives on Gender, Ecology, and Literature provides guidance in navigating some of the most pressing dangers we face today. Science fiction helps us face problems that threaten the very existence of...

Contemporary Native Fiction: Toward a Narrative Poetics of Survivance analyzes paradigmatic works of contemporary Native American/First Nations literary fiction using the tools of narrative theory. Each chapter is read through the lens of a narrative...

Women and Nature? Beyond Dualism in Gender, Body, and Environment provides a historical context for understanding the contested relationships between women and nature, and it articulates strategies for moving beyond the dualistic theories and practices...

If you still think Canadians are not racist, this book will open your eyes to a different reality.This memoir spans the author's lifetime: childhood in Trinidad where classism is a theme throughout; immigration to Canada at the age of nineteen, which...

Most people think that the difficulty of balancing career and personal/family relationships is the fault of present-day society or is due to their own inadequacies. But in this major new book, eminent moral philosopher Michael Slote argues that the...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Geschlechterstudien / Gender Studies, Note: 1.3, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die folgende Arbeit widmet sich der Frage, inwieweit ein spezifisch islamischer...

“Trash Panda is probably the least pretentious poetry book I’ve ever read. I think it should be taught in prestigious universities and that everyone should wear a panda head while reading it.   This book is a self-aware disaster...

Across the world, it has remained a significant challenge for women to be heard within crucial components of society. Male domination has a vast history of restricting the visibility and voices of women in areas including economics and politics. In...

Migration is a multifaceted phenomenon that plays a critical role in today's world, yet there have been few attempts to look beneath the surface of the mass movements of people. Particularly, the changing face of migration is becoming more feminized,...

Silver Nautilus Book Award--Art & Photography; Next Generation Indie Book Award--Gold--Spirituality.There is a growing awareness that we are threatened as a species and planet unless we have a radical shift in consciousness, and the re-emergence of...

Only Women Can Save the World—all women have to come together to make this happen. This book is to uplift the thinking of women and to motivate them to get the job done. Man is so out of control, you as a woman must be Lord God like my mother, and...

Cultural Studies have been preoccupied with questions of national identity and cultural representations. At the same time, feminist studies have insisted upon the entanglement of gender with issues of nation, class, and ethnicity. Developments in the...

The first exploration of vegan Irish epistemology, one that can be traced along its history of animism, agrarianism, ascendency, adaptation, and activism.

A close examination of the complexity inherent in Michael Jackson's ambiguous racial identity.

Offers a timely reconsideration of the writings of Gloria Anzaldúa, treating issues of multiplicitous agency, identarian politics, and the stakes of coalition building as core themes in the author's work.

Argues that Jewishness is an essential element of Argentina's self-fashioning as a modern nation.The Other/Argentina looks at literature, film, and the visual arts to examine the threads of Jewishness that create patterns of meaning within the fabric of...

The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sexuality and Culture is an intersectional, diverse and comprehensive collection essential for students and researchers examining the intersection of sexuality and culture.

Bringing together two voices, practice and theory, in a collaboration that emerges from lived experience and structured reflection upon that experience, Ueno and O'Mochain show how entrenched discursive forces exert immense influence in Japanese society...

This book provides an overview and analysis of the theoretical foundations of legal feminism from an Italian perspective.

This book explores the impact of major theorist, Donna Haraway, in such diverse areas as feminisms, Marxism, new materialism, science studies, posthumanism, animal studies, ecocriticism, digital media, and life narrative.

What the Bible Really Says About Women challenges and disproves the widely held belief by various denominations and individuals that women were made by God to be subordinate to men, and are thus denied leadership roles within the church...

"Chick Lit and Postfeminism" is a bold and fascinating exploration of the 'most culturally visible form of postfeminist fiction'--chick lit. Demanding and sometimes dizzying in its range and readings, the book moors the genre in the commodified context...

The Progressive Era, falling between the conspicuous materialism of the Gay Nineties and the excesses of the Roaring Twenties, promoted a vision of America united by an emphasis on science and progressive reform. The zeal to modernize business,...

This book visits modernism within a comparative, gendered, and third-world framework, questioning current scholarly categorisations of modernism and reframing our conception of what constitutes modernist aesthetics. It describes the construction of...

This book presents an overview of the varied experiences and representations of motherhood in India from ancient to modern times. The thrust of the arguments made by the various contributors is that the centrality of motherhood as an ideology in a...

Women on the Line is a pioneering ethnographic classic of the world of work in a British motor components factory. Miriam Glucksmann (aka Ruth Cavendish), a well-known contributor to the study of gender, work and employment, is for the first time...