Feminism and feminist theory Books

From theoretical analysis to practical teaching tools, an indispensable guide for educators seeking to link feminist theory and activism to their teaching. Included are web sites, videos, recommended texts, and additional course outlines.

This essential text contains contributions from a wide range of fields and provides role models for feminist scientists. Including chapters from scientists and feminist scholars, the book presents a wide range of feminist science studies scholarship-from...

Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective is the first sustained study of gender-consciousness in the Palestinian creative imagination. Drawing on concepts from postcolonial feminist theory, Ball analyses a range of literary...

Feminism at the Movies: Understanding Gender in Contemporary Popular Cinema examines the way that contemporary film reflects today's changing gender roles. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the central issues in feminist film criticism with...

Exploring environmental literature from a feminist perspective, this volume presents a diversity of feminist ecocritical approaches to affirm the continuing contributions, relevance, and necessity of a feminist perspective in environmental literature,...

Via a wide range of case studies, this book examines new forms of resistance to social injustices in contemporary Western societies. Resistance requires agency, and agency is grounded in notions of the subject and subjectivity. How do people make sense...

Defying traditional definitions of public and private as gendered terms, and broadening discussion of women's writing in relation to feminist work done in other fields, this study addresses American women's poetry from the seventeenth to late-twentieth...

This volume brings together twenty original essays on the changes and continuities in gender relations and intersecting politics of sexuality, race, class and location. The book is located in debates about contemporary culture at a moment of rapid...

Is it possible for Tilda to uproot her life and start again when her personality avoids risk-taking at every opportunity? Is steadfastly single Bea really in love with Mal or is her HRT causing emotional turbulence? And how long can Stewart use his...

Under the threat of climate change, corruption, inequality and injustice, Americans may feel they are living in a dystopian novel come to life. Like many American narratives, dystopian stories often focus on males as the agents of social change. ...

Here are stories that challenge the conventional views of working class women and their struggles. Strikes and demonstrations throughout the 20th century shatter traditional images of women as passive victims. From the women of Broken Hill, who fought...

This engaging collection examines the implications and representations of race, class and gender in health care offering new approaches to women's health care. Subjects covered range from reproductive issues to AIDS.

An important volume connecting classical studies with feminism, Feminism and Ancient Philosophy provides an even-handed assessment of the ancient philosophers' discussions of women and explains which ancient views can be fruitful for feminist theorizing...

By interrogating America's promise of a home for Jews as citizens of the liberal state, Jews and Feminism questions the very terms of this social "contract". Maintaining that Jews, women, and Jewish women are not necessarily secure within this...

The attack on Nancy Kerrigan at the 1994 U.S. Figure Skating Championships set the stage for a Winter Olympics spectacle: Tonya versus Nancy. Women on Ice collects the writings of a diverse group of feminists who address and question our national...

This book examines how South Asian women's collective agency is operationalized through civic organizations in the UK. Drawing on black feminist theory and third world feminism, it shows the complexity of political agency and its relationship to identity...

Using gender and modernity as keystones, this book traces Rabindranath Tagore's evolution as a novelist by analyzing texts such as Chokher Bali, Gora and The Home and the World. Arguing that they cannot be readily assimilated within conventional...

Groundswell: Grassroots Feminist Activism in Postwar America offers an essential perspective on the post-1960 movement for women's equality and liberation. Tracing the histories of feminist activism, through the National Organization of Women (NOW)...

This book questions how feminist beliefs are enacted within an artistic context. It critically examines the intersection of violence, gender, performance and power through contemporary interventionist performances. The volume explores a host of key...

Transforming Sport and Physical Cultures through Feminist Knowledges contributes new perspectives on the entanglement of digital and physical cultures, more-than-human relations, post and decolonial ways of knowing, and how onto-epistemologies of sport...

In this groundbreaking work of investigative journalism, the author of the "New York Times" bestseller "Kingdom Coming" exposes the global war on women's reproductive rights and its disastrous and unreported consequences.

The Press And The Public is a book written by Eustace Clare Grenville Murray in 1857. The book explores the relationship between the press and the public, and the role of the press in shaping public opinion. Murray examines the history of the press, its...

German-American women played many roles in the US women's rights movement from 1848 to 1890. This book focuses on three figures-Mathilde Wendt, Mathilde Franziska Anneke, and Clara Neymann-who were simultaneously included and excluded from the nativist...

A generation ago, they wrote Beyond the Fragments. Inspired by the activism of the 1970s and facing the imminent triumph of the Right under Margaret Thatcher, they sought to apply our experiences as feminists to creating stronger bonds of solidarity in a...

Materiality in Modernist Short Fiction provides a fresh approach to reading material things in modern fiction, accounting for the interplay of the material and the cultural. This volume investigates how Djuna Barnes, Katherine Mansfield, and Jean Rhys...

This volume is dedicated to exploring and exposing the challenges, the possibilities, and the processes of empirical work in embodiment. Grounded in qualitative inquiry in the humanities and social sciences, the chapters describe perspectives and...

This book relocates the long life and literary career of the poet, playwright, novelist, philanthropist and teacher Hannah More (1745-1833) in the wider social and cultural contexts that shaped her, and which she helped shape in turn. One of the most...

This book examines the writings of seven English women economists from the period 1735-1811. It reveals that contrary to what standard accounts of the history of economic thought suggest, eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century women intellectuals were...

From the much beloved Cokie Roberts comes a revised and expanded tenth-anniversary paperback edition of the #1 New York Times Bestseller We Are Our Mothers' Daughters--with new profiles.In this revised and expanded tenth-anniversary edition of the #1 New...

More than 45 single mothers from around the world share their struggles and triumphs via essays, poems, art and critique. As Glenys Livingstone Ph.D. wrote in her review, "These are voices that need to be heard ... yet so many block their ears: the pain...

The first volume of the new series "European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies“ focuses on the relation between the avant-garde, modernism and Europe. It combines interdisciplinary and intermedial research on experimental aesthetics and poetics...

A classic surreal & subversive novel by one of the original magical realist authors, Luisa Valenzuela.Here's what the old masters say: "Luisa Valenzuela is the heiress of Latin American Fiction. She wears an opulent, baroque crown, but her...

He probably saw me as an immature, outspoken and thoroughly irritating iconoclast. I certainly hoped he did, at least - I worked hard at that....Meet Alison Weston - outspoken and passionate, a popular and successful English teacher who loves her job and...

The Red Badge of Courage 'would become the godfather of all American war novels, and an inspiration for writers as diverse as Ernest Hemingway and JD Salinger ... the laconic realism of his prose, the fierce investigation of the soldier's psyche,...

For Victorian women, danger lurked between the covers of a book. In an exploration of this notion, Catherine Golden examines women and reading in literary and visual representations in Britain and America, aiming to bring to life the world of the 19th-...

One of the earliest works of protofeminist thought, this startling prescient 1792 book is the first published argument advocating for the societal elevation of women as the intellectual and emotional equals of men. Written against the background of the...

This edited volume of translations covers the major political essays of India's first feminist Hindi poet. A devout follower and advocate of Gandhi, Mahadevi Varma is a household name in India and is a major woman of letters in the modern Hindi world...

Just as feminist scholars began to develop an analysis of "the state" and women in Europe gained access to its political, legal and bureaucratic arenas, increased attention and reliance on European institutions have begun to take precedence over the more...

""Reasons In Favor Of Sir Robert Peel�������s Bill, For Ameliorating The Condition Of Children Employed In Cotton Factories"" is a book written by The Lords������� Committees in 1819. The book argues in favor of Sir Robert Peel�������s bill, which aimed...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

Gender and Human Rights in a Global, Mobile Era delves into feminist debates surrounding the relationship between gender and human rights through engaging feminist perspectives on the multifaceted issue of human trafficking.Building on analyses of...

The Award-Winning Novel Series: Bronze Medal - IPPY Awards Best Second Novel Finalist - Next Generation Indie Book Awards There's a secret society of professional women called the Ceiling Smashers. And Smashers Synched is a brilliant tale that brings...

Hava Shapiro is among the nearly forgotten Jewish women writers who sought acceptance in Jewish literary circles of the last century. Born in Slavuta (modern-day Ukraine) in 1878, she published works of fiction, memoir, literary criticism, and...