Feminism and feminist theory Books

This book examines the proliferation of troubled, unstable and unreadable female figures in the English novels written by men between 1870 and 1910. This period saw the birth of literary modernism, the advent of psychoanalysis and the first wave of...

Global contributors discuss the theoretical controversies concerning the merits and demerits of affirmative action, and explain why affirmative action is needed in multiethnic countries. They analyze actual experience with affirmative action policies -...

Concentrating on a period of significant social and political change and exploring both canonical and newly rediscovered texts, this book critically assess the changing culture of the late-Victorian period as represented by a range of women writers...

Kia Carson, a Los Angeles district attorney with beauty, brains, taste, and style, is about to turn thirty-five. There's just one problem with her picture-perfect life -- she's not got one eligible man in sight. Well, thank God she has her career . . ...

La Constitución de la Nación Argentina de 1853, promulgada en Santa Fe bajo el liderazgo de Justo José de Urquiza, es un documento fundamental en la historia política y social de Argentina. Inspirada en las ideas progresistas de Juan Bautista Alberdi,...

«Es sólo nuestra humanidad, es decir, nuestro ‘núcleo’ lo que hace que la comparación (e incluso la discriminación, me atrevería a decir) entre nosotros sea aceptable, en lugar de adoptar nuestras...

By the mid 1800s, American feminism began gaining momentum. Women writers belonged to a small group of women whose voices had cultural weight, and they had to negotiate between the demands of their writing and their involvement in the feminist movement...

Zentraler Gedanke dieses Bandes ist die Feststellung, dass das Unheimliche integraler Bestandteil der Heimat ist. Es fungiert als dynamisierendes Element, das gegen die Erstarrung eines homogenen Heimatverständnisses wirkt, das heißt gegen die...

Der Band schließt eine Lücke in der Erforschung der Zensur als Herrschaftsinstrument der Frühen Neuzeit. Er analysiert Begriffe, Diskurse und Praktiken der Kommunikationskontrolle und -lenkung von der Reformationszeit bis zur Aufklärung und schlägt eine...

Der Eintritt der Frauen ins Medizinstudium und in die Arztpraxis seit 1850 wird ländervergleichend und im Kontext des frühen Feminismus und der unterschiedlichen Frauenrechtsbewegungen in Europa und Amerika dargestellt. Zehn Porträts prominenter...

Finn Hemingway knows for a fact that she's been born at the wrong time into the wrong family with the wrong talents, making her three dreams for the future almost impossible to attain. She burns to be a trial lawyer in an era when Ruth Bader Ginsburg is...

In the twilight of life, a black ribbon emerges from a frame and coils itself inside the mind of one of the great French chroniclers of the internal. Across the world, a young girl stares at an image in a book: a woman, naked but for slippers, jewels,...

When Jane marries the elderly grocer William Chirp, she thinks she has moved up into the comfort of middle class. Instead, she discovers that William exerts a control over her life that forces her to live like a prisoner. His tight-fistedness and...

Rhoda Broughton (1840-1920), whose career spanned over fifty years, was one of the most popular writers of the late-Victorian era. She burst into literary prominence-and notoriety-in 1867, with the publication in volume form of her first two novels,...

Jane Anger is credited with being the first feminist writer in the English language. Her pamphlet ‘Protection for Women’ provides insight into the relationship between the sexes, regarded, for the first time, solely from a woman’s...

This book explores the nature of poetic reading using a creative approach to understanding Old Norse poetry. Through a poetic enactment, an epic poem and its companion reader, the author explores critical approaches to Old Norse poetry and poetics,...

Multicultural stories from women about women that will delight, entertain and occasionally break your heart. What happens when eleven women from around the world team up and challenge each other to write a story outside their genre? The result: the...

Anaïs Nin says:Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as basic as poetry.I would like to see women more concerned with women's contributions than with this great battle of attacking men. . . . We should be very busy creating the pattern...

Mary McCarthy says:In general I would say that men actually have more feeling, and women perhaps more intelligence.I do seem to have some confessional impulse, and it may have to do with my Catholic training.The writer, if he has any ability, is looking...

Although a prolific and popular writer in her day, Mary Wilkins Freeman has only recently been rediscovered and reevaluated as a realistic recorder of the status and sensibility of the New England woman in the early years of this century. Women form the...

Contemporary popular culture has created a slew of stereotypical roles for girls and women to (willingly or not) play throughout their lives: The Princess, the Nymphette, the Diva, the Single Girl, the Bridezilla, the Tiger Mother, the M.I.L.F, the...

Slaves Du Sud: Ou Le Peuple Serbe Avec Les Croates Et Les Bulgares (1853) est un livre �����crit par Alexander Iankovitch. Le livre explore l'histoire et la culture des peuples slaves du sud, en particulier les Serbes, les Croates et les Bulgares...

Offene Briefe �����ber das Armenwesen im K������nigreich Sachsen (1859) von Friedrich Moritz Leberecht ist eine Sammlung von Briefen, die sich mit der Frage des Armenwesens in Sachsen befassen. Der Autor, ein bekannter Sozialreformer und Politiker, setzt...

The Postfeminist Biopic explores the influence of postfeminist culture on cinematic representations of female biographies. While earlier research has described the subgenres of the classical female biopic and the feminist biopic, Polaschek proposes a...

This handbook is a timely academic adaptation of information contained in the Global Report on the Status of Women in News Media, a study commissioned by the International Women's Media Foundation and published in 2011. The study was conducted by the...

This book draws together international scholars to examine the representation of female trauma and women's version of history in contemporary literature and culture. Focusing on texts by or about women, the book explores the variety of representational...

Imagine if one moment of indiscretion changed the entire course of your life, catapulted you into single parenthood, and required that you give up all of your youthful dreams. What would you do? For Mary Watson, the feisty protagonist of No Love Is...

The Routledge Companion to Gender, Media, and Violence is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems and debates in this important subject and is the first collection on media and violence to take a gendered approach.

The AAUW Journal is a publication dedicated to promoting gender equity and women's rights in education and the workplace. It features articles, research papers, and news items on a wide range of topics related to women's empowerment and advocacy. This...

The Kurdish women's movement is at the heart of the most exciting revolutionary experiment in the world today: Rojava. Forged over decades of struggle, most recently in the fight against ISIS, Rojava embodies a radical commitment to ecology, democracy,...

At the age of 80, Marion has seen the world change.It is 2070. Climate change and soaring oil prices have taken their toll. Some countries have adjusted and prospered, while others have sunk into poverty and internal warfare.Marion has seen Australia...

An essay collection in which the subject matter provides an insight into some of the issues important to women: education; workplace politics; economic disparity; housing; race; media; and relationships. The collection also provides encouragement to the...

Originally published in 1984, this volume falls in to three parts: the verbal index, the word frequency table, and the field reference. The user can look to the alphabetical listing in the word frequency table to see how many times a word occurs in the...

Originally published in 1983, this volume follows others in the series. The user is provided with a Verbal Index, citing each type and its location, a Word Frequency Table, and a Field of Reference. This volume is part of a series which produced verbal...

Originally published in 1979, this concordance consists of a Verbal Index listing the location of all words used by Conrad, a Word Frequency Table listing number occurrences for each word in his text, and a Field of Reference in which the user can locate...

Originally published in 1982, this volume follows others in the series. By looking at the word frequency table, the user will find how many times the word occurs in the work. The verbal index tells at what page and line number the word occurs. By looking...

Bringing together ecofeminism and ecological literary criticism (ecocriticism), this book presents diverse ways of understanding and responding to the tangled relationships between the personal, social, and environmental dimensions of human experience...

We know that way we dress says a lot about us. It's drilled into us by our parents as children, as adults throughout our working lives, and eternally from the culture surrounding us. Our dress tells the outside world of the culture and era we come from...

With no sure bets and after near-fatal mistakes, survival was never mandatory.In 1947, Janet's family was surprised with a girl. It's not the first time in history this has happened to a family, but hers had very clear ideas about it. If she had been a...

Someday there will be nothing left to destroy. Women age out of the system. These men keep playing these games and the shitty slutty women eventually drink tea and become vanity novelists.

Some women are good at only in their professional life. Some women are only good at their (personal) family life. Some can balance both. When a woman feels that there is no safety at her home, it is not at all a home first. Women face hard labour pain to...

The Great Spirit of All Living Things has decided the Bertie has grieved long enough. A Monarch butterfly delivers the Spirit's message. Suddenly, Bertie's life has new meaning! She and husband George set out to redefine pornography; rebranding the genre...