Feminism and feminist theory Books

In a world under the thumb of an empire, pirates sail away searching for a breath of freedom. But even the ocean is tainted by the powerful nation that has spread lies about women being bad luck at sea.Glenlivet has never cared about the fear-mongering...

Rose has always dreamed about marrying a prince charming, but instead she married an evil stepmother. Rose was born as a Princess, but got exiled from royalty when she was a child. Marriage proposal from Prince Kit is a chance of returning to royal life,...

"Por Qué las Mujeres Merecen Más" es un inspirador libro que enfatiza la importancia de la igualdad de género y explica por qué no es solo una cuestión de justicia, sino también un impulsor de una...

The book deals with the reception of Georgian national literature in the context of the world literary process. It depicts the place of Georgian literature on the world literary map, starting from Middle Ages and going through the different periods...

This book applies the analytical methods of third-wave ecocriticism to selected twenty-first century Italian literary works. The author demonstrates that these works offer an invaluable opportunity to communicate meaningfully and accessibly the...

The case studies of Joe Namath, Dennis Rodman and Barry Bonds show how this phenomenon has become visible from the 1960s onwards because of profound changes within the media and sports. These athletes undermined the original sports-hero ideology and...

The book examines the literary representation of smell throughout American literature. In her innovative close readings, the author combines insights from cultural studies, critical race, gender, intersectionality, trauma, and affect theories to show how...

Auf Basis des Ecocriticism analysiert der Band literarische Repräsentationen ökologischen Wandels im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert. Im Zentrum stehen die engen Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Mensch und Umwelt sowie die Frage nach den ästhetischen Möglichkeiten...

Der Band etabliert einen Dialog zwischen Fachwissenschaft und Fachdidaktik für das Französische in einem innovativen Format: Interdisziplinäre Teams erarbeiten zentrale Aspekte der in Frankreich populären und angesehenen Krimikultur. Die Ergebnisse...

Der Band beschäftigt sich mit der außerhalb des Kanons stehenden Literatur der Zwischenkriegszeit in Österreich und widmet sich der Frage, wie die Kanonisierungen zustande kamen. Die Fallbeispiele bieten ein breites Panorama der Zwischenkriegszeit, von...

Das Buch betrachtet das Lebenswerk des Reiseagenten und Schriftstellers Carl Stangen und seinen Beitrag zur Geschichte des Fremdenverkehrs und der Reiseliteratur. Die Autorin untersucht die Anfänge der Tourismusgeschichte und analysiert die Ursachen des...

Die Beiträge dieses Bandes fokussieren metonymische und metaphorische Figurationen von Integrität und Partialität, in denen das geteilte und staatenlos gewordene Polen im langen 19. Jahrhundert imaginiert wird.

Dieses Buch stellt das Leben und Werk der österreichischen Dichterinnen jüdischer Herkunft Mimi Grossberg, Margarete Kollisch, Gertrude Urzidil und Maria Berl-Lee im New Yorker Exil zwischen 1938 und dem Anfang der 1980er Jahre vor. Dank ihrer Werke,...

The author compares explicit statements on language by Polish Modernist writers such as Wacław Berent, Bolesław Leśmian, Stanisław Brzozowski or Karol Irzykowski with notions deduced from their literary works. He demonstrates that these writers'...

Die Autoren erweitern mit diesem Buch die seit vielen Jahren geführte Debatte um die deutsch-jüdische Identität. In den letzten Jahren sind neue Forschungsansätze mit Nuancen und neuen Hypothesen entstanden. Die Publikation soll den seit vielen Jahren...

Muses No More: Portraits of Occult Women is a meandering ghost train through the lives,work, politics and beliefs of both familiar and lesser known female occultists from thedistant past to the 20th century. From the freedom fighting New Orleans Voudon...

WHY half-arse your way through life?Rock Your Stripes is a frank, fierce, full-arse femoir; part insightful memoir, infused with feminism, lively spirited, deliberately confronting, and purposefully instructional. Packed full of real and raw stories,...

CIXOUS, IRIGARAY, KRISTEVATHE JOUISSANCE OF FRENCH FEMINISM This book is a poetic study of three French feminists, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva and Hélène Cixous, the 'holy trinity' of French feminism. EXTRACT FROM THE INTRODUCTION Hélène Cixous,...

Throughout her life, Virginia Woolf worked and reworked short story ideas, trying to encapsulate her thoughts perfectly in a concise form, but rarely did she publish them. This volume brings together the stories from her own collection 'Monday or...

No, this book is not about Delilah. Nor is it a rant against men. It is written to bring attention to the shrinking Y chromosome and hopefully to save it.We have lived for thousands of years with men and it is usually a good parasitic relationship,...

What will it take to achieve gender equality in our lifetime?This is the question that kicks off a curious and winding learning journey in How to Make the Matriarchy: The Power and Promise of Prioritizing Women. Maureen Devine-Ahl explores inspiring...

Feminine Sense in Southern Memoir: Smith, Glasgow, Welty, Hellman, Porter, and Hurstonby Will BrantleyThis study is an intertextual examination of selected self-writings by Lillian Smith, Ellen Glasgow, Eudora Welty, Lillian Hellman, Katherine Anne...

Margaret Atwood's Fairy-Tale Sexual Politicsby Sharon Rose WilsonSharon Rose Wilson's analysis of Margaret Atwood's sexual politics through a study of fairy-tale patterns offers a new reading of Atwood and a fresh appreciation of the traditional fairy...

Examines the relationship between time and sexual difference in the work of French feminists Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray.

Grounded in the revolutionary Marxist view that "theory . . . becomes a material force when it has seized by the masses," Teaching Spivak - Otherwise: A Contribution to the Critique of the Post-Theory Farrago activates the practice of critique as a mode...

Pursuing the Sublime in the Digital Age presents an historical and cultural overview of the sublime as personal experience and as described in fiction and culture.

Muslim Women and White Femininity: Reenactment and Resistance explores how Whiteness travels through Muslim women's bodies, who in turn reenact or resist White womanhood by examining three relevant archetypes: the Oppressed, the Advocate, and the...

This book explores the consistent and prevalent themes in the fiction of Alice McDermott.

Literature and Error comprises a series of essays from French scholars who seek to lay down the foundations of a literary theory that would argue for the productivity of errors (and mistakes) in literary works.

A Literary History of the Fourteenth Century: Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio. A Study of Their Times and Works (Storia Letteraria del Trecento) focuses equally on Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio while minor writers are introduced in proportion to their...

In Marxism and the Open Mind, John Lewis seeks to explain Marxism as a system of thought. In doing so, he addresses the studied neglect or grotesque misrepresentation that he feels characterizes Western attitudes toward Marxism. Lewis also aims to...

Social work as a profession and academic discipline has long centered women and issues of concern to women, such as reproductive rights, labor rights, equal rights, violence and poverty. In fact, the social work profession was started by and maintained...

This book offers Dimen's classic take on psychosexuality, drawing on relational theory, feminism and postmodernism, with a new foreword by Virgina Goldner and Velleda Ceccoli honouring the late Muriel Dimen and introducing a new audience to her profound...

In this seminal work, M. Carey Thomas advocates for the education and empowerment of women. Drawing on her own experiences as a president of a women's college, Thomas argues that women must have access to the same educational opportunities as men. This...

In a society where women's rights are still being fought for, these speeches from the late 1800s shed some light on the beginning of the fight. Augusta Cooper Bristol talks about the present phase of women's advancement, and what needs to be done to push...

This report is a comprehensive account of the proceedings of the International Council of Women's first meeting, held in Washington D.C. in 1888. It includes speeches, reports, and resolutions on a wide range of issues related to women's rights and...

Dieses Buch untersucht die Geschichte und die Ziele der deutschen Frauenbewegung, insbesondere im Hinblick auf das Frauenwahlrecht.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as...

In this groundbreaking work, Maravene Thompson offers a new vision for women's rights and social justice. Drawing on her experiences as a lawyer and social activist, Thompson argues that women's equality cannot be achieved through legal reform alone, but...

What is the role of sex in the age of democratic beginnings? Despite the sober republican ideals of the Enlightenment, the literature of America's early years speaks of unruly, carnal longings. Elizabeth Dill argues that the era's proliferation...

Joselyn was building her career in Los Angeles recording commercials, producing nationally syndicated radio shows and meeting music producers when the 2008 economic downturn hit. After transitioning from Hollywood to homelessness for too long, she...

Women and British Party Politics examines the characteristics of women's participation at the mass and elite level in contemporary British politics; as voters, party members and elected representatives respectively. It explores what this means for ideas...

The American scholar and activist Nancy Fraser has written about a wide range of issues in social and political theory, and is well-known for her philosophical perspectives on democratic theory and on feminist theory. Her work on justice and identity...

This book explores the gendered contexts of the Indian nation through a rigorous analysis of selected women's fiction ranging from diverse linguistic, geographical, caste, class, and regional contexts.Indian women's writing across languages, texts, and...

Evolving from a rigorous study of post-9/11 women's writing, Dr. Heather Hillsburg's new monograph identifies an emerging genre, which she names Urban Captivity Narratives. Using examples ranging from memoir to young adult fiction, each of the texts...