Feminism and feminist theory Books

Drawing on archival research, this book examines the imagination of Europe in the context of the late Ottoman Empire, focusing on the Turkish and Muslim women's rights movement to shed light on the complex and often contradictory imaginations of Europe...

En esta conferencia, Luis Gonzalvo aborda la situación de la mujer musulmana en España y la necesidad de que se respeten sus derechos y se reconozca su papel en la sociedad. El autor defiende una perspectiva feminista y denuncia la discriminación y el...

This collection of works by Camilla Collett includes her famous feminist novel "The Daughters of the Prefect" and autobiographical writings. Collett was a pioneering women's rights activist in Norway and her works are celebrated for their social...

Can you imagine wanting your true self? More than anything else? Do you think you have the "right" and the capacity to grow and change? And how would you go about making your life authentic, anyway? Do you have enough time alone to give yourself the...

"An important book. . . . A model of concise and elegant research and writing."--Journal of the Early Republic"Branson argues convincingly that, contrary to the claims of recent historians, women in the revolutionary era had an identity as women, that...

This volume is composed chiefly of papers first presented and discussed at the Research Symposium on Feminist Phenomenology held November 18-19, 1994 in Delray Beach, Florida. Those papers have been revised and expanded for...

Feminism is evolutionary. It changed our lives and the world we live in. To a point, that is. Most people know nothing about it. According to author Marilyn Casselman, the culture must absorb the narrative of feminism itself and reflect the changes in...

A war in being waged in American Society in an effort to strip males of their Manhood! It is being waged by a number of repressive forces, but it is most notably resulting from excessive force being used by Radical Feminists to serve the cause of women's...

The State And Charity is a historical book written by Thomas Mackay in 1898. The book explores the relationship between the state and charity, and how they have evolved over time. Mackay examines the role of the state in providing social welfare programs...

A stereotype can be defined as a rendering by consensus. Since WOMANKIND: BEYOND THE STEREOTYPES first appeared in 1971, a turbulent decade has passed. In launching a new edition after such an interval, it seems appropriate to ask how far society has...

Olivia Foster always believed in striving for perfection, but life had a different plan. "The Imperfect Advocate," follows Olivia's unexpected journey as she discovers the profound intricacies of dyslexia and giftedness through her daughter, Natalie, and...

«Veinte escritoras de ficción y veinte estudios críticos modelan una relación íntima a través de la lectura. Hay amplia variedad tanto en los temas de la ficción como en los intereses de la crítica,...

A FUNDAMENTAL TEXT TO UNDERSTAND CHILEAN CULTURE, ITS ARTISTIC AND LITERARY MOVEMENTS, AND ITS REACTION TO THE IRRUPTION OF PABLO NERUDA Through the pages of Impressions of Lucia Richard, we enter the literary and artistic lifework of the poet,...

日本女性正从之前唯美的大和抚子形象，向现代女性渐渐转变。本书讲述了转变之后的日本女性的各种故事，比如日本的美少女文化、女性家庭角色的变异、女性社会角色的困境、女性角色转变带来的社会问题、女性与政治、情色服务中的女性问题，等等。 "说不尽的日本女性那些事，道不完的日本女性那些情。"作者正是以这种笔触，书写了他对日本女性的格外关注。 Japanese women are transformed from the previous...

La autoficción es un punto ineludible en la literatura hispana. A pesar de tener un número considerable de detractores, es indiscutible el auge que vive dicha noción. Frente a la polémica, este libro propone un camino interpretativo que parte de la...

This book brings together different perspectives about ethics in business and communication, with special emphasis on the new challenges of the digital world.

Edición de la epopeya bíblica David. Poema heroico (1624), escrito por el autor sefardí Jacob Uziel, un médico de Venecia en el siglo XVII. Este libro examina su trasfondo cultural y religioso. Además, incluye un análisis del contenido y del lenguaje de...

En el primer capítulo se delimitan estos poemas. En el segundo, se analizan las epístolas éticas en castellano de los autores nacidos hasta 1530. Por último, se aborda la construcción del yo poético epistolar.

The Spanish University Theatre (T.E.U.) is one of the most unique spaces of freedom during the Franco regime. This book analyzes its authors, directors, actors, censorship and other interesting aspects.

The book considers the ways in which people construe events as bounded and unbounded in oral communication, using aspectual forms and co-speech gestures. The results reveal differences in event construal in multimodal terms by speakers of Russian and...

In this book a renewed hermeneutics emerges from the transatlantic relationships between Spain and Latin America. For this book reconnects indigenous knowledge to Western thought; Amazonian, Andean, and African traditional wisdom to European contemporary...

The book discusses Russia's contacts with the West from the eighteenth century to modernist literature to early Soviet poetry and post-revolutionary emigration. The articles offer new perspectives on the study of Russian literature in a comparative...

Johann Friedrich Schink (1755-1835) gehört zu den aktivsten Theatermachern der Goethezeit. Er wirkte als Dramaturg, Bühnendichter und Kritiker in Hamburg, Hannover, Graz und Wien. Der Band untersucht acht Dramen Schinks, sein Verhältnis zu Schiller und...

The collection of essays explores the transnational and intermedial (music, visual arts, digital media) legacy of Walt Whitman. It provides examples of his influence as well as suggestive parallels in contemporary poetry and thought. One common concern...

In der Untersuchung wird verdeutlicht, wie die aus dem südosteuropäischen Raum stammenden Autoren Florescu, Trojanow, Bodrožić und Stanišić Verflechtungen unterschiedlicher Kulturen in ihren Werken artikulieren und die Vorstellung einer transkulturell...

El volumen ofrece análisis e indagaciones de un continuo de la escritura del yo en la obra narrativa, ensayística, lírica y dramática de Unamuno y sondea representaciones del sujeto que se extienden hacia direcciones y formas diversas, tocando tanto su...

Desde una perspectiva interdisciplinaria y con el enfoque en los procesos históricos del siglo XX, las contribuciones de este libro analizan las relaciones entre la infancia y la violencia en el cine latinoamericano, comprendiendo temas como los crímenes...

Die Autorin stellt ein Korpus neuartiger Figurentypen zusammen und befragt diese auf ihr subversives oder perpetuierendes Potential bezüglich Heteronormativität. Allen Romanen, die die Bacha Posh, das Trans*-Kind oder die legitimiert kämpfende Soldatin...

Die Studie untersucht die Konstellationen in der Literatur- und Theaterszene der Nachkriegsära, die den Aufstieg von Max Frisch und Friedrich Dürrenmatt als international berühmte Autoren ermöglichten. Sie verfolgt deren Weg vom Drama und Theater der...

Der Autor analysiert die sprachlich-ästhetischen und inhaltlich-politischen Elemente der literarischen Darstellung von Machthabern und Machtstrukturen in Romanen afrikanischer und deutscher Autoren. Diese schildern verschiedene historische Mächte...

Das Buch ist ein Wegweiser durch die österreichische Literatur des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts. Im Zentrum der Untersuchung stehen zwei aufeinander eingestimmte Bewegungen, die Moderne und die Postmoderne, welche das Bewusstsein der österreichischen...

Essays explore how historically specific literary texts engage with epistemological questions in relation to material and social forms as well as representation. Literature is discussed as a culturally embedded form of knowledge production in its own...

Die Interpretation der Musik in Herta Müllers Werk setzt sich auf der Grundlage des Romans Atemschaukel sowie weiterer Texte der Autorin u.a. mit den Liedern, den Strukturen und der musikalischen Idiomatik auseinander. Sie begreift Musik als neue -...

Cassirers Arbeiten über Literatur werden vor dem Hintergrund seiner in den 20er Jahren geschriebenen Philosophie der symbolischen Formen gelesen. Es zeigt sich, dass diese Texte ein wichtiger Baustein für die spätere neue Kulturwissenschaft darstellen,...

Giovanni Arpino bezeichnete sein Schreiben als ricerca dell'umano, als Erforschung des Menschlichen. Im Vordergrund steht dabei, was eine Figur fühlt und denkt. Auf dieser Grundlage nimmt die Studie eine textnahe Funktions- und Darstellungsanalyse der in...

Anhand der bedeutendsten Texte Benjamins zeichnet das Buch nach, in welcher Weise dieser die Lineamente der Kulturphysiognomie in den aufeinander folgenden Epochen der deutschen Geschichte seit dem 18. Jahrhundert entwickelte.

Anne of Green Gables is a charming and timeless novel that follows the adventures of Anne Shirley, an imaginative and spirited orphan. The story begins when Anne is mistakenly sent to live with Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert, a brother and sister who had...

Elsa Dorlin, 'What a body can do'Rei Terada, 'Hegel’s racism for radicals'Dimitris Vardoulakis, 'Spinoza's law'Maya Kronfeld, 'The philosophyer's bass drum'Dossier: Saba Mahmood in memoriamRatna Kapur: The...

This book critically explores global challenges from linguistic and literary standpoints aimed at contributing towards their mitigation. Composed of two parts, contributors to the first section examine issues such as language use in the Anglophone crisis...

The Wall of Hope is a captivating, cross-cultural journey to discovering family, love, and purpose in a world of chaos and war.  Hope Lê Ketchum-James has struggled to find her place in the world. The daughter of an American soldier and a...

Diamela Eltit's literary work emerged on the Chilean cultural scene in the 1980s when the Pinochet regime (1973-1990) had consolidated its project of extermination, censorship, and neoliberal shock therapy. Forced to write in a suffocating atmosphere of...

This book offers a radical rethinking of Jane Eyre from feminist and post-colonial positions.

In the years after the fall of communist governments in Central, Eastern, and South- eastern Europe (CESEE), a flood of memoir literature began to fill bookstores around the region. The turn to autobiography and personal narrative inspired the theme...

Ever wondered what would happen if the people afraid to go out at night were young men, not young women?Kate, Carly, and Seyram, friends since childhood, are outraged by the acquittal of a local rapist and frustrated at the lack of progress...

Much has been written about gender and the monstrous, but sustained engagement with textual manifestations of cultural and unconscious fears and anxieties about "unnatural" reproduction has been limited. This book expands the current discourse on the...

The global impact of Asian production of the wage goods consumed in North America and Europe is only now being recognized, and is far from being understood. Asian women, most only recently urbanized and in the waged work force, are at the center of a...

Milena Jesenská, born in Prague in 1896, is most famous as one of Franz Kafka's great loves. Although their relationship lasted only a short time, it won the attention of the literary world with the 1952 publication of Kafka's letters to Milena. Her own...