Feminism and feminist theory Books

Explores the role of gender in the visioning of the ideal city in the 19th and 20th centuries, informed by contemporary feminist concern with the way the legacy of patriarchal designs hamper women's urban experiences.Interrogating canonical texts and...

"The Story of an African Farm" by Olive Schreiner is a literary masterpiece that beckons readers into the vast and untamed landscapes of 19th-century South Africa. This groundbreaking novel, published in 1883, stands as a beacon of literary innovation,...

May 4, 1969. Four young women. Four dreams.And then everything changes...Ellen yearns to leave her rural Vermont town to pursue higher education, in defiance of her parents' expectations that she marry and stay close to home. A chance encounter with a...

Dear Goddess: It's time to live bigger, better and bolder, to manifest your heart's wildest desires! Join me, Biss, to activate your GoddessPleasure and create your unique personal and professional empire that you rule with a crown of confidence...

THOMAS HARDY'S JUDE THE OBSCURE A study of Jude the Obscure using contemporary feminist and literary theory. Illustrated, with notes and a bibiography. Jude the Obscure (1895), Thomas Hardy's last novel, is a sister (or brother) book to Tess of the...

WILD ZONES: PORNOGRAPHY, ART AND FEMINISMREVISED AND UPDATED, WITH NEW ILLUSTRATIONS <P> Kelly Ives explores the worlds sexual representation in art and pornography, from a feminist viewpoint. </P>  <P> The book includes...

Navigating the online and offline worlds of pairing up, this spiky collection of short stories delves deep, with dark humour, into what it takes to strap on a smile through thirty-something failure and make human connections in the modern age.Gordon...

A critical resource that carefully examines the context, themes and techniques of contemporary British poetry published between 2000 and 2011 in the Poems of the Decade anthology. In addition, the author shares analytical insights, and interesting...

The 1960s was a decade of massive political and cultural change in Western Europe, as seismic shifts took place in in attitudes towards sexuality, gender, and motherhood in everyday life. Through case studies of British and French films, Pepsi and the...

As Georgia seeks to reinvent itself as a nation-state in the post-Soviet period, Georgian women are maneuvering, adjusting, resisting and transforming the new economic, social and political order. In Gender in Georgia, editors Maia Barkaia and Alisse...

The book is a collection of articles written by the author on utopianism - especially on utopian literature, utopian practice, and utopian social theory

If the Anthropocene heralds both a new age of human supremacy and an out-of-control Nature ushering in a premature apocalypse, this living book insists such assumptions must be hacked. Re-performing selections from two live events staged in 2016, 2017...

A wonderfully ridiculous book about the power of pleasure, fully illustrated and written in Dr. Seuss-style verse. Oh, the Places You’ll Go Oh Oh! is the perfect gift for people who love orgasms, and those who want more of them...

Gender, Communication, and the Leadership Gap is the sixth volume in the Women and Leadership: Research, Theory, and Practice series. This cross-disciplinary series, from the International Leadership Association, enhances leadership knowledge and...

The COVID-19 pandemic both accelerated social and household inequalities and made them more visible as the spatial and social divide between work and home life was broken down. Historically, during times of crisis or huge systematic change, women have...

Yearning for the Sea picks up the story of Homer's Odyssey at the point of Ulysses' return to his wife Penelope, twenty years after the destruction of Troy. He has faced a long struggle to overcome the obstacles interposed by the gods...

Veronica-Latin 'Vero Icon', meaning 'True Image' When Lee Ann Thompson found an old letter she wrote to her grandpa at eight years old asking him to think of her as a son, it intrigued her. Why would a girl who grew up in a family that loved her...

Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in FictionThanks for This Riot explores the limits of kindness, the weight of being needed, and the fear of being misunderstood. A group counselor is taunted by a truth-divining piano bench, a voice...

The women in these stories are at all times, through their many varied emotions, entirely reasonable... at least to themselves. They each do what they need to do and believe what they need to believe. They are trustful, loyal, and believing, but also...

Calling All Women Under 32 ...-Only apply if you are perpetually young, single, and attractive!Oh no, Dusty. I should be thanking you for everything you've done. You're the one who started it all! -Gloria SteinemMeet Dusty Roads, the hidden figure who...

This is a retelling of Margaret Cavendish's THE UNNATURAL TRAGEDY. This play has three plots: One: Monsieur FRERE pursues an incestuous relationship with his sister, Madame SOEUR. Two: The sociable VIRGINS discuss intellectual and social topics. Three:...

When Martha's husband dies, she is left to raise her two daughters on her own. Fearlessly optimistic for her girls' future, Martha moves heaven and earth to give her daughters the best education possible. But despite her efforts, her oldest daughter,...

The Ethics of George Eliot's Works, is many of the old books which have been considered important throughout the human history. They are now extremely scarce and very expensive antique. So that this work is never forgotten we republish these books in...

Why is menstruation so often considered a dirty phenomenon, in both material and symbolic terms? How do ideas and realities of menstrual pollution affect the lived experience of menstruation and everyday hygiene practices? Josefin Persdotter's study...

Beneath a façade of palm trees and sunshine, homelessness and addiction are bubbling to the surface.It can be hard to shake the brands others place on you; Derek, currently homeless, knows this better than most. How can a person with nowhere to hide be...

Este libro es una apuesta académica que pretende ampliar la comprensión deluniverso narrativo del escritor colombiano Tomás Carrasquilla desde concepcionesteóricas amplias y vigentes en los estudios literarios contemporáneos.

Das Buch rekonstruiert die moralische Panik um Homosexuelle über die schrittweise soziale Isolierung bis hin zur physischen Vernichtung in Konzentrationslagern. Die biografische Methode gibt einen Einblick in die individuelle Opferperspektive, die in die...

Mediante narradores con frecuencia infidentes, la fórmula narrativa cervantina pone en pie un discurso que provoca continuamente al lector para que éste ponga en duda la información que se le transmite, fomentando un pensamiento crítico sobre temas hasta...

En este libro se aborda, mediante un recorrido sistemático y detallado, con ejemplos y ejercicios prácticos, diferentes metodologías digitales que nos llevan desde la búsqueda de textos en lengua española en repositorios, su almacenaje, su preparación...

The study focuses on spatio-temporal relations and their dependence on literary genres in Paul Auster's fiction. The author examines how selected novels reflect and redefine both the representation of space and formulaic patterns of genres they can be...

Hong Kunlyu ist Dozentin an der School of German Studies der Beijing Foreign Studies University. Ihre Promotion erfolgte 2022 an der Universität Bonn.

Ce livre explore la poétique de Lorand Gaspar, poète français d'origine hongroise, chirurgien de renommée et arpenteur passionné du désert. Fondé sur l'hypothèse d'une relation latente entre la composition du texte et le mouvement cosmique, il interroge...

Este libro describe y explica la evolución de la poesía de Javier Sologuren como la renovación de unos principios poéticos establecidos. Se reinterpreta la obra de este autor en función de su sensibilidad filológica, su intención comunicativa y su...

Este volumen quiere ser una piedra de toque hacia una mejor comprensión de lahistoricidad de lo obsceno en la literatura española de los Siglos de Oro.

As long as sexual abuse takes place in our community spaces, nothing in our culture can be trusted. And no place is truly safe. This should alarm anyone who cares about Jewish life, not just those who have been abused. Against the backdrop of the...

1860 - In a small town on Lake Ontario, at a time when an affluent young girl is forbidden to have any ambition of her own, Sarah defies her social-climbing mother to marry Joe, the Scottish farmer she loves, convinced he is the only man willing to help...

The title says it all. A collection of close to two hundred exposes and analyses of everyday sexist shit (and gender shit, since gender is aligned with sex) that pisses me off. Includes pieces previously published in The Philosophers' Magazine,...

As They Are is a magnificent and meticulously-researched story of three generations of women and how the sufferings of one give shape to the challenges the next will endure." -Joan Schwighardt, author of RIVERS trilogy: Before We Died, Gifts for the...

Theresa Shanahan was raised in upstate New York in a loving, two-parent Irish-Catholic family. To others, it all seemed normal, nearly idyllic. Theresa failed to thrive, however, and fell prey to a man who nearly took her life.What went wrong? Why did...

Lauer Series in Rhetoric and CompositionSeries Editors: Thomas Rickert and Jennifer BayThe scholars in FEMINIST CIRCULATIONS: RHETORICAL EXPLORATIONS ACROSS SPACE AND TIME work at the nexus of gender, power, and movement to explore the rhetorical nature...

Tillie Olsen and a Feminist Spiritual Visionby Elaine Neil OrrThis intense examination of the writings of Tillie Olsen shows Elaine Neil Orr's deeply sympathetic passion for Olsen's literary world. Orr's objective is not simply to offer literary...

Increasingly there is global attention on the prevalence of women's deaths resulting from intimate partner violence. Campaigns such as 'Counting Dead Women' in Australia, the 'Femicide Census' in England, the Canadian Femicide Observatory, and the...

En esta obra, Néstor Braidot explora los descubrimientos de la neurobiología especializada en los estudios de género que ayudan a comprender -e incluso explicar- el origen de esta maravillosa combinación de inteligencia,...