Feminism and feminist theory Books

Through staging dialogues between scholars, activists, and artists from a variety of disciplinary, geographical, and historical specializations, Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues explores the possible resonances and dissonances between the...

Examining the ways in which feminist and queer activists confront privilege through the use of intersectionality, this edited collection presents empirical case studies from around the world to consider how intersectionality has been taken up (or indeed...

Obsession, coercion, and blackmail!?Estelle Li is a young and aspiring, Chinese-American model who's equally vulnerable as she is strong and independent.She's willing to sacrifice everything and do whatever it takes to achieve her dream of becoming the...

This book takes the contentious issue of designer babies and argues against the liberal eugenic current of bioethics that commends the logic and choice regimes of selective reproduction. Against conceptions of Procreative Beneficence that trade on a...

Restaging Feminisms offers a re-encounter with the tripartite modelling of liberal, radical, and socialist feminisms foundational to establishing feminist approaches to theatre. This lucid account of past-present connections to the staging of feminism...

This book provides a feminist analysis of #MeToo and the sexual assault allegations against celebrity perpetrators which have emerged since the Weinstein story of October 2017. It argues for the importance of understanding #MeToo in relation to an...

This book explores the place of feminism and uptake of trauma in contemporary work against sexual violence. Egan presents a refreshing alternative position on arguments about the co-optation or erasure of feminism within institutionalized,...

This book is the first to undertake a gendered analysis of geoengineering and alternative energy sources. Are either of these technologies sufficiently attendant to gender issues? Do they incorporate feminist values as articulated by the renowned social...

Jessica Heriot discovered Women's Liberation in 1969 and became an avid feminist. A few years later, she was introduced to "feminist therapy" and decided to use her social work degree to counsel women. In 1973, she and four other women founded the...

What is a feminist? And how does one ‘feminist’ today? This question is answered in Feminist Activism 2.0: 101 Tips to Contribute, Lead, and Make a Positive Impact with the New Feminist Revolution.Referred to as the F word, feminism...

Phoebe Wagner’s poetry is a kind of undressing. Offering up the social and sexual uncertainties of our time, she forges these into a bolder understanding of contemporary angst. Language heady as Plath melts into a precise, Carson-like wit...

THE AWAKENINGby Kate ChopinEDITION: Cactus Classics Large Print - 16 Point FontFONT: 16 point GaramondBOOK TRIM SIZE: 6" x 9" (15.2 cm x 22.9 cm)COVER: GlossyPAPER: CreamTABLE OF CONTENTS: YesCactus Classics Large Print (16 point size) editions...

"Playing Shakespeare's 　Beautiful People" is an in-depth, comprehensive look at the concepts and standards of "beauty" found in Shakespeare's plays and poems, both in staged performances and in critical literary analyses.

This book will be of interest to upper-level undergraduates as well as graduate students and scholars. A significant new contribution to Hemmingway scholarship, this book seeks to show that the moral world of The Sun Also Rises is profoundly unstable,...

This book examines gay men and feminist women's alliances and obstacles over the past 50 years, as well as their communications of, between, and about each other. New findings help illuminate understandings of the past and present of US women's and LGBTQ...

Examines how Jewish women have used poetry to challenge their historical limitations while rewriting their potential futures.

Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Feminist Origins of the Arthurian Legend provides the first feminist analysis of both the Arthurian section of The History of the Kings of Britain and The Life of Merlin. Fiona Tolhurst argues that because Geoffrey creates...

This book examines women's participation in the Olympic Games since they were allowed to be included in that global arena. Using a holistic, social scientific approach, and emphasizing the rhetoric of sport mediatization, Female Olympians reviews the...

Bibliographie De L'Anarchie (1897) de Nettlau, Max est un livre qui r�����pertorie les publications sur l'anarchie et les mouvements anarchistes dans le monde entier jusqu'en 1897. L'auteur, Max Nettlau, �����tait un historien et un militant anarchiste...

Das Buch ""Beitr�����ge zur Deutsch-B������hmischen Volkskunde V3, Buch 1: Volksschauspiele aus dem B������hmerwalde III"" von Adolf Hauffen wurde im Jahr 1900 ver������ffentlicht. Es ist der dritte Band einer Reihe von B�����chern, die sich mit der...

A seminal work of feminist legal theory, this book lays out the case for women's rights and equality before the law. McLaren argues that the exclusion of women from many areas of public life is a form of systemic oppression, and calls for a broad range...

This groundbreaking work by feminist critic Kate Trimble Woolsey examines the role of gender in the formation and operation of modern republics. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from political theory to literature, the book argues that women have been...

In this passionate call to social action, Henry Rowley argues that the issue of social purity is one of the most pressing moral questions of our time. From discussions on the sexual exploitation of women to a call to end the double standard of sexual...

This groundbreaking work traces the history of women's rights and status around the world. It explores topics such as women's education, marriage and family life, and political participation. The book draws on a wealth of historical sources to paint a...

Victoria Woodhull's Sexual RevolutionPolitical Theater and the Popular Press in Nineteenth-Century AmericaAmanda Frisken"Covers all facets . . . of Woodhull's life, and much more."--Journal of American History"Frisken provides fresh insight into...

Not only does this book offer a fresh and insightful look into women's psycho-spirtual lives, but it serves as a bridge between psychology and theology, between the psyche and the culture, and between liberal and radical feminism.

Bringing together issues of religion and life, politics and personal identity, feminism and liberation theology, Dorothee Soelle presents a powerful critique of modern society, striking at dehumanizing elements that combine to oppress both women and men...

Marie Byles was a pioneer in many fields: feminism, environmentalism, and introducing mindfulness meditation to the West. The first female lawyer of New South Wales, Marie worked on behalf of women's rights in law and also devoted her legal services...

When Japan transitioned from 264 years of rule under the military-led Tokugawa Shogunate to the restoration of imperial power during the Meiji era, it embarked on a path of rapid modernization. This modernization came at an enormous cost, a cost that was...

A collection of classic texts and new black feminist scholarship that traces the crucial developments and debates of the last twenty years. It is the first volume entirely dedicated to the writings of black women in a British context.

Originally published in 1985, this concordance lists all the words in the text indexed, along with the locations of their appearance in the Field of Reference. The Verbal Index lists the location of the context of each word in the Field of Reference...

Originally published in 1982, this title supplies a complete verbal index, listing all the words in the texts with their locations, a word frequency table, and a field of reference which establishes a page/line reference system for locating each context...

Gidget: Origins of a Teen Girl Transmedia Franchise examines the multiplicity of books, films, TV shows, and merchandise that make up the transmedia Gidget universe from the late 1950s to the 1980s. The book examines the Gidget phenomenon as an early and...

Female Sexuality in Modernist Fiction: Literary Techniques for Making Women Artists provides a chronological investigation of the innovative writing styles of canonical modernist writers to reveal a shift in gendered representations of sexual...

This feminist investigation of the works of Clemence Dane joins the growing body of research into the relationship of female-authored texts to the ideology and cultural hegemony of the Edwardian and inter-war period. An amalgam of single-author study and...

Sexual Citizenship and Queer Post-Feminism makes new connections between post-feminism and queer theory to explore the complexities of contemporary gender and sexuality. In a wide-ranging examination of sex education, safe sex, and sexual healthcare,...

This timely book provides new insights into debates around the relationship between women and film by drawing on the work of philosopher Luce Irigaray. Arguing that female-directed cinema provides new ways to explore ideas of representation and...

Using Lacanian psychoanalysis and queer theory to explore the unstable relationship between heterosexual masculine identity and cultural representation, this book examines the ways straight men are queered and abjected in literature, theory, and film.

Addressing the contradictions surrounding modern-day femininity and its complicated relationship with feminism and postfeminism, this book examines a range of popular female/feminist icons and paradigms. It offers an innovative and forward-looking...

In the newly-identified genre of medieval patience literature, female protagonists move to the center of the action-an unusual feature compared to most medieval literature. Out of this development, fresh interpretations of early medieval works and...

Today's Latino poetry scene is bursting at the seams. While Latino poetry has played an important role in establishing Latino letters, surprisingly only a few scholars have spent time analyzing its form. The first of its kind, Formal Matters in...

This book provides an uptodate survey of existing economic literature on the dimensions of growing income inequalities in both advanced and emerging countries. The different explanations and dimensions of inequalities are addressed, particularly...

This book, the first of its kind, provides a multi-disciplinary, empirical account of pregnant embodiment and how it fits into wider sociological and feminist discourses about gender, bodies, "fitness," "fat," feminism, celebrity and motherhood. This...