Feminism and feminist theory Books

Using the magic of movement, dance, and drama, and the devices of humor and metaphor, Osonye Tess Onwueme has created a post-feminist epic  drama that transcends current feminist theories. An ideologically and politically powerful work, Tell It to...

In this enjoyable volume, Kay Stone has selected writings from her scholarly articles and books spanning 1975–2004 that contain reflections on the value of fairy tales as adult literature. The title Some Day Your Witch Will Come twists a Walt...

Laughing Feminism focuses on comedy in the works of Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen, authors who scrutinized the subjected prejudices against women in order to expose their absurdity and encourage readers to laugh at the folly of sexist...

Called the "Quintessence of the Baroque" and "Bridge to the Enlightenment," Mexican writer and nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz has also been celebrated as the "First Feminist of the New World." Feminist Perspectives on...

This global, multicultural anthology shows how women from some thirty countries, across twenty-six centuries, have found ways to resist oppression and gain power over their lives. Organized around themes of concern to contemporary readers, Women Imagine...

In Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban, Linda Peake and Martina Rieker embark on an ambitious project to explore the extent to which a feminist re-imagining of the twenty-first century city can form the core of a new emerging analytic of...

This book outlines a compelling new agenda for feminist theories of identity and social relations. Using Lacanian psychoanalysis with feminist epistemology, the author sets out a groundbreaking psychoanalytic social theory. Campbell's work offers answers...

J. Ann Tickner is ranked among the most influential scholars of international relations. As one of the founders of the field of feminist international relations, she is also among the most pioneering. In many ways her academic career has traced the...

Atomic Scars. A collection of poetry by the Danish poet and writer Lene Henningsen. Poetic images floating in superposition. Stories told in an atomised form. Stories about the state of love, countries, the world.Memory and vision, clothed...

A remarkable collection of essays, poems, and art by scholars who have researched Her, artists who have envisioned Her, women who have known Her in their personal story—and combinations of all those capacities. All have spoken with Her and share...

Founded by Holly Lyn Walrath, Interstellar Flight Magazine is an online SFF and pop culture mag devoted to essays on what's new in the world of speculative genres. With interviews, personal essays, rants, and raves, the authors of Interstellar Flight...

Hannah Lynch (Dublin 1859 - Paris 1904), restless wanderer, cosmopolitan, cultural observer and commentator, was the author of feminist fiction, travel writing and journalism. Her short story for girls, 'A Girl Revolutionist' (1899) and serialised...

It's a fairy tale come true for Julia Jones, a stalled artist living in Boston's Old World Italian neighborhood, the North End. She's engaged to marry the impossibly wonderful (and impossibly wealthy) Asher Bartlett - in a Swiss castle, no less. And...

Audre Lorde (1934-1992), the author of eleven books of poetry, described herself as a "Black feminist lesbian poet warrior mother," but she added that this phrase was inadequate in capturing her full identity. The interviews in this collection portray...

Originally published in 1912, this book contains a fantastic collection of illustrated, satirical poems written by The Women Suffrage Party. The Woman Suffrage Party was founded in New York, 1909. Fighting for the right to vote, these poems highlight the...

In the early 1970s, the national conversation regarding feminism was very different. Public discussions of womanhood—single life, marriage, workplace harassment, rights, gripes—were often channeled through movement spokeswomen and always...

The Arab region continues to be among the most challenging in the world for the progress of women's rights. Equality remains elusive for women and vulnerable groups in the region due to traditional patriarchal cultures, protracted crises, lack of...

Asks how Black women tap into their feelings to develop ways to live freely.

Liber ""Demosthenis De Corona Oratio: In Vsvm Scholarvm"" auctore Lipsivs, Ivstvs Hermannvs, anno 1887 editus, est commentarius in orationem Demosthenis De Corona, quae in Athenis habita est. Oratio De Corona est controversia inter Demosthenem et...

De Vergilio In Informandis Muliebribus Quae Sunt In Aeneide Personis Inventore est liber auctore Rebelliau, Alfred, editus anno MDCCCXCII. In hoc libro, auctor de vita et operibus Vergilii, poetae Romani, scribit, sed focus est in personis feminis, quae...

El libro ""De La Beneficencia En Inglaterra Y En Espa�����a"" es una obra escrita por Salustiano de Olozaga en el a�����o 1864. En esta obra, el autor realiza una comparativa entre los sistemas de beneficencia y caridad existentes en Inglaterra y...

This book presents humiliation as a key harm of sexual violence against women, showing that humiliation manifests within the relation of self to itself, and that Foucault's critique of subjectivity provides resources for feminist...

Disruptive Feminisms provides a revolutionary new approach to feminism as a disruptive force. By examining various films and filmmakers who are not so obviously read as feminist or Marxist, Gwendolyn Foster showcases their ability to disrupt and...

 This book draws on the hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer to inform a feminist perspective of social identities. Lauren Swayne Barthold moves beyond answers that either defend the objective nature of identities or dismiss their significance...

This critical account of the American Girl brand explores what its books and dolls communicate to girls about femininity, racial identity, ethnicity, and what it means to be an American. Emilie Zaslow begins by tracing the development of American Girl...

This is the first book-length empirical study of lesbian, transgender and queer BDSM practices, identities, relationships and communities. Based on interviews and participant observation, Queer BDSM Intimacies explores various women's and queer BDSM...

As gender training is applied increasingly as a development solution to gender inequality, this book examines gender inequality in Pakistan's public sector and questions whether a singular focus on gender training is enough to achieve progress in a...

In this book Paddy McQueen examines the role that 'recognition' plays in our struggles to construct an identity and to make sense of ourselves as gendered beings. It analyses how such struggles for gender recognition are shaped by social discourses and...

Feminist Community Engagement argues that feminism, with its emphasis on consciousness-raising, interrogating power structures, and activism, is strategically necessary for the community engagement (CE) movement in higher education. Following an editorial

Revisiting Iris Marion Young on Normalisation, Inclusion and Democracy presents an innovative collection of politically and theoretically inspiring papers by feminist, queer and postcolonial writers. All authors engage with Young's politics of cultural...

This volume offers a wide-reaching overview of current academic research on women's participation in combat sports within a range of different national and trans-national contexts, detailing many of the struggles and opportunities experienced by women at...

Against Violence Against Women is a journey through time and across the globe to bring to light the roots of sanctioned violence against women. Rona M. Fields utilizes an interdisciplinary approach combining psychology, sociology, anthropology, and...

How can feminism draw productively on its own history, without passively conforming to expectations of the past, or elevating the past as a nostalgic ideal against which to measure and compare the present? Feminism, Time, and Nonlinear History proposes an

The Asian continent which is composed of tiger and emerging economies, is both a big producer and consumer of computer mediated communication. Research on cyberspace in the Asian context, however, began only after the 1990's when the digital revolution...

Postfeminist Digital Cultures explores some of the more controversial and contested social media practices engaged in by girls and young women, including sexual self-representations on social network sites, sexting, and self-harm vlogs. Informed by...

The female terrorist circulates within contemporary Western culture as an object of fascination and heightened concern. Gender and the Political analyses cultural constructions of the female terrorist, arguing that she operates as a limit case of both...

There is increasing resistance to gendering in contemporary society, seen in gender-neutral childrearing and pronouns, expansion of legal sex categories and intersex rights, and queer and genderqueer movements. This timely book considers the utopian...

The ethics of care has flourished in recent decades yet we remain without a succinct statement of its core theoretical commitment. This study argues for a simple care ethical slogan: dependency relationships generate responsibilities. It uses this slogan...

Dieses Buch ist ein Bericht über die Deutsche Nationalkonferenz zur Bekämpfung des Mädchenhandels. Es bietet einen Einblick in die damalige Konferenz und zeigt auf, wie Deutschland mit diesem Problem umgegangen ist. Dieses Buch ist ein wichtiger...

In this gripping novel, James Otis presents a compelling case for a woman's right to divorce in a time when it was not widely accepted. Through the story of a woman trapped in a loveless marriage, Otis comments on the state of women's rights and the...

Dieses Buch behandelt die Geschichte der Frauenbewegung in der Schweiz. Es enthält sechs Vorträge, die von der Pestalozzi-Gesellschaft veranstaltet wurden. Es richtet sich an Leser, die sich für die Geschichte der Frauenbewegung interessieren.This work...

Celebrated "Diva of the Demimonde [who writes] a love song to life on the shday side" (Katherine Dunn, "Geek Love"), Viva Las Vegas, the award-winning author of "Magic Gardens" and "The Last Days of My Left Breast" returns with a collection of popular...

Do men really love and marry bitches?The short answer is NO... and you probably wouldn't want the men who do.Third-wave feminists advise women who feel like they're "too nice" to succeed with men to be manipulative bitches...

Judy Juanita views activism and feminism as it plays out in her political, artistic and spiritual life. A distinguished semifinalist for OSU’s 2016 Non/Fiction Collection Prize, De Facto… blends essays, poems, graphics by the late Rini...

This new sci-fi novel from author Eva Laurenson creates a world in the not-too-distant future where a pandemic threatens the existence of humankind, not with sickness and death, but hitting right at the core by changing our way of reproduction. As...

Women in Policing provides an insight into women's role within policing, their emergence, and development, offering a theoretical underpinning to explore this role as well as incorporating two empirical studies, one which reassesses the lived experiences...

Within much contemporary feminist theory there is a tendency to forget or ignore its own historicity and consider itself as primarily oriented towards the present. This book explores the historical roots of some of feminism's central concepts and...