Feminism and feminist theory Books

Examining the thought of prominent feminist theologians and the view of practicing clergywomen, Lynn Rhodes articulates a vision of ministry that can enrich the whole church. She focuses on feminist approaches to the vital questions of authority,...

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First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In this book, Stone effects a return to gender, after many years of neglect by Twenty-First-Century critics, via a methodology of close reading that foregrounds moments of sexual decentering and disequilibrium within the text and in the interstices of...

Sexual identity has emerged into the national discourse of post-apartheid South Africa, bringing the subject of rights and the question of gender relations and cultural authenticity into the focus of the nation state's politics. This book is a...

'Other Kinds of Dreams' provides an invaluable insight into the political activity of black and Asian women in the UK both inside and outside the black and Asian communities. The book breaks new ground by: * destroying the misconception that black and...

What does the politics of the self mean for a politics of liberation? Morwenna Griffiths argues that mainstream philosophy, particularly the anglo-analytic tradition, needs to tackle the issues of the self, identity, autonomy and self creation. Although...

This anthology is the first such collection to focus on the exclusively philosophical aspects of ecological feminism. It addresses basic questions about the conceptual underpinnings of `women-nature' connections, and emphasises the importance of seeing...

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction SECTION 1: THEORY - PUTTING WOMEN'S LIVES INTO PRINT: FEMINIST ETHICS, METHODOLOGIES & EPISTEMOLOGIES How Do We Know Past Lives? Methodological and Epistemological Matters Involving Prince Philip, the...

Notes on the Contributors - Introduction; P.Abbott & C.Wallace - Women's Oppression in the World and in Ourselves: a Fresh Look at Feminism and Psychoanalysis; C.New - Women and Citizenship: the Insane, the Insolvent and the Inanimate?; Y.Summers - Money...

Everything I Never Told You Is All I Have Left to Say is an epistolary flash fiction written from the perspective of Bitter Crone on her deathbed. She traverses family, lovers, friends, objects and ideas in her final breaths."This lexicon of grief, this...

Through candid personal interviews with Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, and other visionary performers, Queens of Comedy explores how comediennes have redefined the roles of women in not only the entertainment business, but society as a whole. Detailing...

Two young immigrant women. One historic strike. And the fire that changed America.In 1909, shy sixteen-year-old Rosie Lehrer is sent to New York City to earn money for her family's emigration from Russia. She will, but she also longs to make her mark on...

ORKNEY ISLANDS, 1797 - Agnes Tulloch feels a little cheated. This windswept place is not the island paradise her husband promised it to be when they wed. Now with four young children, she struggles to provide for her family while her husband grows...

Unfairly forgotten Peruvian feminist writer Aurora Cáceres(1877-1958) has gained a new wave of readers in the 21stcentury –ironically, through her engagement of a literary movement, Spanish American modernismo, that denied women...

A collection of twenty nine of Virginia Woolf's essays including: "Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights", The Patron and The Crocus, The Modern Essay, The Death Of The MothEvening Over Sussex: Reflections in a Motor Car, Three Pictures, Old Mrs. Grey,...

'Rewriting Resistance: Caste and Gender in Indian Literature' explores the claustrophobic shadow of discrimination hanging over Indian women and lower caste people from ancient times. It examines how different literary figures paint a vivid and...

Perhaps a word on the status of women in slavery among the Germanic nations will not be out of place. The new nations looked upon a slave as chattel, much as the Romans did. If a wrong was done a slave woman, her master received a recompense from the...

Después de la biografía si te preguntas quienes somos, de dónde venimos a donde vamos. Hay vida después de la muerte, somos ángeles solares, extraterrestres, acaso una copia en miniatura, de La deidad, tu relación con la luna los planetas el sol las...

Feminism and Beyond: a Theological Reflection for the Next Aeon addresses global dimensions with stress on the experience and perspective of the poor. In the context of Third World and contextual theologies, interreligious dialogue, spirituality, and...

Violence against women remains one of the most pervasive human rights violations in the world today, and it permeates every society, at every level. Such violence is considered a systemic, widespread and pervasive human rights violation, experienced...

AFTER YEARS OF SUBMISSION, Mara lives in anxiety and isolation, unsure of herself and her place in the world. But when her nephew Jesus is chased off a cliff, she is thrust into the unknown and forced to confront her deepest fears. As she struggles...

Following in the footsteps of the filmmakers whose work it features—including Miranda July, Janie Geiser, Tracey Moffatt, Sally Potter, Cindy Sherman, Samira Makhmalbaf, Sadie Benning, Agnès Varda, Kim Longinotto, and Michelle...

Examines the effect of prescribed multilingualism as expressed by women writers in colonial contexts What does it mean to be an heir, as a woman writer, to colonial and postcolonial cultures in which European language has become so thoroughly ingrained?...

Motherhood inherently involves labor. The seemingly perennial notion that paid work outside the home and motherhood are incompatible, however, grows out of specific cultural conditions established in Britain and her colonies during the long eighteenth...

"Your book should help bridge the gap between the academic definitions and research on Matriarchy and real world initiatives."BEATA MURRELL, MATRIARCHAL SCHOLAR"When a cork is no longer held down it rises up. This is what has happened with Women."WILLIAM...

Mainstreaming Equality in the European Union provides a critical overview and evaluation of the potential role of the EU in perpetuating or breaking down gender segregation in the EU labour force. Teresa Rees draws upon feminist theoretical frameworks in...

In this interdisciplinary work that ranges from the ancients through the Renaissance to the present, Jonathan Hart examines systems, law, theatre, nature, stereotype, otherness, authority, new historicism, deconstruction, feminism, reading,...

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the emergence, consolidation, and development of the Irish women's movement in the course of the 20th century. It illuminates the processes through which the movement and its networks of organizations came...

Eudine Barriteau exposes the precarious position of women in 20th century Caribbean societies by analyzing the operations of gender systems. She reveals the absence of gender justice and equity, and demonstrates that after 25 years of policies on women...

Dedication Acknowledgements Introduction: Women and Progress Times and Seasons The Romance of Sexual Science and the Making of Modern Feminism Capturing the Ideal: New Men and Women in From Man to Man Love, Death and Money in Mashonaland War Stories...

In this book, Taffy Martin combines traditional scholarship and contemporary critical theory to create a feminist reading of one of the twentieth century's most difficult poets.

Interviews with Simone de Beauvoir open the book; essays by French feminists Sarah Kofman and Luce Irigaray follow; the North American contributors are Judith Butler, Nancy Fraser, Diana J. Fuss, Nancy J. Holland, Eleanor H. Kuykendall, Dorothy Leland,...

Key terms related to gender, gender identity, femininity, masculinity, gender roles, and gender normsGenderGender is a biological characteristic that determines whether a person is male or female. Gender is based on the body's genitals, hormones, and...

"Becoming Medusa" is a contemporary reimagining of the myth of Medusa, exploring her character in a way that has not yet been done before. The story delves into the complexities of her life, beyond the well-known curse, but changing the tragic ending to...

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

En Yo maté a Sherezade la autora muestra como, desde el nacimiento, el cuerpo de la mujer se ve atrapado en un contexto social que lleva a la mujer incluso a la esclavitud. Su voz canta en una reafirmación de la vida, un viaje perpetuo, un acto...

UN TEXTO FUNDAMENTAL PARA ENTENDER LA LITERATURA CHILENA, SUS MOVIMIENTOS ARTÍSTICOS Y CULTURALES Y SU REACCIÓN ANTE LA IRRUPCIÓN DE PABLO NERUDA    A través de las páginas de la obra Impresiones de...