Feminism and feminist theory Books

"La Guerre des Femmes" est une œuvre écrite par Antoine Redier, traitant de l'histoire de Louise de Bettignies et de ses compagnes. L'auteur explore le rôle et l'engagement des femmes pendant une période de conflit, faisant référence à la Première Guerre...

Renee Halsie is a born and bred New-Yorker. A child of divorce, she finds herself a young, biracial lesbian coming of age in the contemporary south; the daughter of a movie producer working 24/7 to launch her own studio. It's enough to give anyone...

This book tells the story of a little girl's journey from silence to empowerment. Feeling seen and (un) heard for most of her life, Patricia courageously shares how she was able to navigate a life of mental abandonment, abuse and trauma, and ultimately,...

Can There Be Freedom After Trauma?In Finding Feminism, Rachel Overvoll tells a story about what it’s like growing up in fundamentalist Evangelical Christianity. She shows how her well-meaning parents and her indoctrination within a rigidly...

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Charlotte Brönte's Jane Eyre, a story of a young woman who challenged social norms. As a classic novel written in the Victorian era, Jane Eyre is thought to be one of the...

Over twenty years after the publication of her groundbreaking work, Waking Sleeping Beauty: Feminist Voices in Children's Novels, Roberta Seelinger Trites returns to analyze how literature for the young still provides one outlet in which feminists...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...

""White and Black Under the Old Regime"" is a historical book written by Victoria Virginia Hunter Clayton and published in 1899. The book explores the social and racial dynamics of the antebellum South in the United States, specifically focusing on the...

Waking and Working: Or From Girlhood to Womanhood is a book written by Isabel Reaney and published in 1874. The book is a guide for young women on how to navigate the transition from girlhood to womanhood. It covers a wide range of topics including...

Votes For Men is a book written by Mary Eleanor Gawthorpe in 1913. It is a historical account of the suffrage movement in England, which fought for women's right to vote. The book covers the period from the late 19th century to the early 20th century,...

The Youth and Womanhood of Helen Tyrrel is a novel written by Mary Matilda Howard and published in 1854. The story follows the life of the titular character, Helen Tyrrel, from her youth to her womanhood. Helen is a young woman who is intelligent,...

The Other Side Of The Opium Question is a book written by William James Moore, first published in 1882. The book provides an in-depth analysis of the opium trade and its impact on China, from a perspective that was largely ignored by Western powers at...

This collection explores the contributions of Hispanic women writers to ongoing Western debates on gender, power, ethics, and the environment, offering a wide range of essays that specifically portray the ways in which contemporary writers focus on...

First published in 1987, this is an introductory study of the most widely read Canadian women novelists of the 1970s and 1980s. At its centre lies the question of how the search for a distinctive cultural identity relates to the need for a national...

This book tracks the trajectory of gender in the social sciences and humanities through an exploration of the challenges and contradictions that confront contemporary feminist analysis as well as future directions. Drawing on research in India, the...

CINDY AND ANGIE KNOW IT'S BETTER TO BE NOT TAKEN Continuing where the book AURORA ended, Cindy and her 16-year-old daughter Angie had been trafficked, taken to Russia an sold to an oil-rich sheik. Then kill him.They vow to stop traffickers... dead. ...

"Maybe blessings are like a coin flip, and someone has to land face down."With the end of a life of parties and drinking came the end of all of Ashley's friendships and the life she had always known. All Ashley has is her little sister, who seems to have...

The central thesis of this book is to utilize the notion of the heroic ideal and the immortality projects that humans pursue to fulfill that ideal. This analytical framework will shed light on how characters in select novels impose their will on and...

Estudio sobre la obra de Francisco Zamora, autor de Guinea Ecuatorial que vivió su vida en el exilio. Zamora es un ejemplo perfecto de exilio, poscolonialidad, hibridez y denuncia de la explotación del continente africano y las consecuencias de la...

Durante la censura del régimen franquista en España (1939-1975), muchas autoras lograron transmitir sus reivindicaciones y sus frustraciones.

Composé selon trois axes fédérateurs : Littérature ; Arts scéniques et audiovisuels ; Éducation, et s'encadrant dans les memory studies, ce volume collectif donne à lire des analyses qui se penchent sur les enjeux actuels des oeuvres mémorielles dans...

Basado en un corpus de más de seiscientos cincuenta poemas, este libro aborda el análisis del imaginario de la poesía erótica de los Siglos de Oro en función de los órganos y prácticas sexuales y del campo semántico al que pertenece cada palabra. El...

The analysis offered in this book is based on the unprecedented representation and dissemination of disaster in the relaciones de sucesos; it also attempts to demonstrate how this specific type of popular print provides relevant elements for probing the...

Der Band enthält Beiträge aus Deutschland, Belarus und Serbien zu politischen Protesten, insbesondere in Belarus 2020.

The book focuses on the minority literature of the Chicanas. Topics such as the deconstruction of pre-established roles and patriarchal beliefs, female identity construction and the new mestiza consciousness which are intertwined with the transgression...

The book traces the reverberations of Ronald Reagan's ideology in selected Hollywood blockbuster movies. The analysis includes filmic content as well as production and distribution. It is concluded that political metaphors and an economic setting...

Die vorliegende Publikation untersucht die Darstellung von Homo- und Bisexualität in der Holocaustliteratur. Abhängig von der Rolle, die die Autorin gegenüber dem Holocaust einnimmt, fragt sie nach den literarischen Darstellungsstrategien, die dabei zur...

Este ensayo reflexiona sobre si las adaptaciones de obras literarias contemporáneas del mundo hispánico a formatos audiovisuales en el presente siglo reactualizan algunos roles de la mujer en la sociedad actual e integran puntos de vista que refuerzan la...

From space opera to weird fiction to indie games and NaNoWriMo, this collection represents the best in nonfiction dedicated to geekery. Founded by Holly Lyn Walrath, Interstellar Flight Magazine is an online SFF and pop culture mag devoted to essays...

Portrait of a Young Girl Falling is unapologetic in its feminist exploration of desire, consent, identity, and gendered experience. Katrina Moinet's poems tug at violences and tensions present in language, the way it constructs, shapes, limits, or opens...

Elsie Angelos was the Chief Editor of Malibu Publishing, but she did not belong just to this world. She is the first agent to encompass all three kinds in the supernatural and mortal realms. She is the Moon Angel and the only one who can create peace...

The last two decades have been transformational, often discordant ones for German feminism, as a new cohort of activists has come of age and challenged many of the movement's strategic and philosophical orthodoxies. Mad Mädchen offers an incisive...

There can be no doubt that discrimination based on sex, race, ethnicity, religion or beliefs should not be tolerated in academia. Surprisingly, however, in recent years, policies of Diversity, Inclusion and Equity (DIE), officially introduced to...

Tending Inner Gardens: The Healing Art of Feminist Psychotherapy transforms the theory and practice of psychotherapy, one that values both the feminine and masculine perspectives. Set within a naturalistic framework, this model utilizes nature's growing...

Preparing For Womanhood is a book written by Edith Belle Lowry in 1918. The book is a guide for young girls on how to prepare for womanhood. It covers a wide range of topics, including physical and emotional changes that occur during puberty, hygiene,...

Der Antifeminismus formierte sich im deutschen Kaiserreich im Kampf gegen das Wahlrecht von Frauen und hat somit eine historische Kontinuität. In der Sozialforschung und in feministischen Bewegungen hat sich seit den 1990er Jahren der Begriff zunehmend...

Este libro tiene como objetivo analizar la guerra anglo-español y la posterior paz desde la perspectiva de la interacción entre la diplomacia y la opinión pública y las dinámicas que surgieron en torno a ellas, demostrando cómo los conflictos menores...

Este volumen se un análisis del Centinela contra judíos y su uso de las imágenes de monstruos para denigrar los judíos, y una versión moderna del texto Centinela en español moderno estándar. Explora la caracterización del judío como monstruo para que...

Este libro estudia la producción novelesca que construye el relato de las transiciones políticas acontecidas en el Sur y el Este de Europa en el último cuarto del siglo XX. Se centra en España, Grecia, Polonia, Portugal y República Checa. Propone una...

›Wende‹ und ›Wandel‹ prägen nicht nur persönliche Lebenswege, sondern sind auch ein wesentliches Element des klassischen Dramas. Sie sind Folge von und Anlass zu Handlungen und bringen Wandlungen hervor, die ein bevorzugter Gegenstand der Literatur und...

This book is based on a true story with the author's request to empty all pockets of opinions before entering the space. What are the true beginnings of Pete to have such strong connections to animals, mountains and trees while generally avoiding...

Scientist Sara Almquist is asked to investigate a death of a participant in a clinical trial conducted by a biotechnology company making cultured meat-meat made in a test tube. She learns although the product may sometimes contain toxic components,...

Since the Women’s March on Washington and the Me Too movement, a new, more diverse generation of feminists is raising questions about how to effect change. Ask a Suffragist: Stories and Wisdom from America’s First Feminists channels the first...