Feminism and feminist theory Books

This book promotes the research of present-day women working in ancient and medieval philosophy, with more than 60 women having contributed in some way to the volume in a fruitful collaboration. It contains 22 papers organized into ten distinct parts...

This work addresses the erasure of popular women writers in the formation of Victorian studies. Mid-century critical work on the Victorian novel, which established a long-standing canon, was mainly concerned with the form of the novel rather than the...

This is an enlarged edition of Professor Beer's volume on George Eliot which initially appeared in the 'Key Women Writers' series issued by The Harvester Press.

A gripping courtroom drama that explores the struggle between morality vs. professional obligation, Devil's Defense will appeal to fans of female-lead courtroom dramas like The Good Wife. Jessica Fischer wants nothing more than to build her law practice...

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Kate Chopin's The Awakening, one of the earliest American novels that focuses on women's issues without condescension. As a feminist novel of the American South at the...

If the first phase of feminist criticism of English Renaissance studies unduly stressed women's victimization, the revisionist trend, this collection argues, is in denial about gender inequality altogether. This exciting volume represents the newest,...

Deborah Siegel, PhD is a writer and consultant specializing in women's issues and a Fellow at the Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership. She is co-editor of the anthology Only Child: Writers on the Singular Joys and Solitary Sorrows of Growing Up...

Are bad girls casualties of patriarchy, a necessary evil, or visionary pioneers? By tracing the concept of the bad girl in Japan as a product of specific cultural assumptions and historical settings, Bad Girls of Japan maps new roads and old detours in...

From Liz Taylor to Queen Latifah, a provocative examination of the afterlife of Cleopatra in popular culture

This volume provides one of the first comprehensive feminist readings of international statebuilding, with a specific focus on the case of Kosovo.

Growing up in a remote valley on a sparsely populated planet, Shevra doesn't remember ever encountering anyone other than her parents and sister. And she longs to explore more of what she is certain lies beyond. But when tragedy thrusts her out into that...

Within academic circles, there is a longstanding issue concerning the portrayal and understanding of African womanhood. Frequently, these narratives are crafted by outsiders, predominantly Western scholars, often distorting the lived experiences and...

" Ce serait une entreprise téméraire que de vouloir donner, dans une bro- chure de 80 pages, une encyclopédie du féminisme. Aussi l'auteur s'est- elle bornée à étudier ce mouvement aux États-Unis de l'Amérique du Nord, en France, dans la Grande-Bretagne,...

I Am Man is a collection of reflections and poems on gender difference. In a profound and quirky way, Ana María Munar combines biographical experiences, philosophy, feminist thought, literature and art. She creatively reveals the interlinkages of...

This book combines the theory of intertextuality and intermediality with imagological reflections. It focuses on the circulation of "culture images" as a multilayer text, where reality is represented through verbal means and interpretational proceedings.

This book explores how recent textual and visual narratives from the Americas and Spain challenge the traditional notion of the monstrous in the twenty-first century, focusing on representations that give life to mutants:s that dislocates regimes of...

Auf interdisziplinäre Weise verarbeiten fünf Maraini-Frauen ihre Familienhistorie. Diese ist von bedeutenden Reisen geprägt. Neben Dacia Maraini beschäftigen sich auch ihre Vor- und Nachfahrinnen literarisch und kinematographisch mit dem Frau-Sein in...

Theatralisierung frühneuzeitlicher Berufsgruppen, aristokratische Verhaltensrituale auf der Bühne, Ritualisierungen folkloristischer Traditionen, rituelle Glaubenspraktiken in der Alten und der Neuen Welt, theatrale Entsakralisierungen der Politik um...

This book is devoted to four Slavonic translations of three homilies of John of Damascus dedicated to the Mother of God. It examines their translational peculiarities and textual history. It provides an edition of the Church Slavonic translations and a...

At the center of The Ballad of Two Sisters are Stella and Helen, two sisters who die on the same day. One fragile and one strong, the sisters confront the troubles of the past and the uncertainty of the future as they seek connection, joy, and completion...

At the ripe old age of 39, Lily didn't expect to still be single. Determined to change her luck and find love before the big four-oh deadline, she starts adating campaign: she will go on forty dates before her fortieth birthday and find The One, so help...

Susan, a twenty something Londoner, follows her soulmate to South Africa. Love, then tragedy.She returns to London.Marries a seemingly stable and wealthy property developer.Falls in love with a wealthy anarchist.Facing her past, present, and braving her...

Unleash your inner financial feminist and smash the patriarchy, one dollar at a time Women don't build wealth in the same way that men do - and it's not because we shop too much. Younger generations are struggling to match the financial successes...

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...

Chapters include: A Letter for Laxmi The image of a painful soul: Laxmi's fatherAll over the World: Laxmi's MotherConfessions of the priest in the story 'Laxmi's Adventure'Prayer by the Soul of the pondThe best works of fiction: 'Laxmi's Adventure'...

'ବାସନ୍ତୀ' ଆଧୁନିକ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ସାହିତ୍ୟର ତଥାକଥିତ ସବୁଜ ଯୁଗର ଏକ ଚର୍ଚ୍ଚିତ ଓ କ୍ରାନ୍ତିକାରୀ ଉପନ୍ୟାସ । ବଙ୍ଗଳାର 'ବାରୋୟାରୀ' ଉପନ୍ୟାସ ଢାଞ୍ଚାରେ ଏହାର ସଂରଚନା-ସଂକଳ୍ପ ହୋଇଥିଲେ ହେଁ, ଓଡ଼ିଶାର ସମକାଳୀନ ସମାଜର ପୁଙ୍ଖାନୁପୁଙ୍ଖ ଚିତ୍ର ଏଥିରେ ସଜୀବ ଓ ଖୁବ୍ ପ୍ରଭାବଶାଳୀ ଭଙ୍ଗୀରେ ରୂପାୟିତ । କଟକର...

A fascinating combination of cultural history, media studies, and oral history, Pin Up! The Subculture is the story about how a subculture is subverting and reviving an historic aesthetic for the twenty-first century.

Liber De Priscis Servientibus Regiis Et Reginalibus In Hungaria Partibusque Eidem Adnexis In Genere, In Specie De Aulae Regiae Familiaribus Disquisitio, auctore De Benedekfalva, Pauli Kiszel, anno MDCCCXIII editus est. In hoc libro, auctor de...

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The position of women in Austrian society, politics, and in the economy follows the familiar trajectory of Western societies

Many well-known male writers produced fictions about colonial spaces and discussed the advantages of realism over romance, and vice versa, in the 'art of fiction' debate of the 1880s; but how did female writers contribute to colonial fiction?This volume...

Provides the first broad introduction to feminist work in classical studies. Including lesbian theory, black feminist theory, American and French feminist theory, classics will never be the same again.

Political Narratosophy offers a critically subversive rethinking of the political and philosophical significance of narrative, and why feminist epistemology and feminist social theory matters for the meaning of the 'self' and narrativity.

Feminist approaches to international law have been mischaracterised by the mainstream of the discipline as being a niche field that pertains only to women's lived experiences and their participation in decision-making processes. Exemplifying how feminist...

This book offers a jurisprudential meditation on and methodological performance of how feminist and legal thought come into relation. This book is about the conduct of one's scholarship and why it requires examination.Across six essays, the book...

This book brings together a wide range of case studies to explore the experiences and significance of women warriors in Southeast Asian history from ancient to contemporary times.Using a number of sources, including royal chronicles, diaries, memoirs and...

This book analyzes Margaret Atwood's dystopian novels The Handmaid's Tale, The MaddAddam trilogy, The Heart Goes Last and The Testaments from perspective of posthuman theory in the Anthropocene. Atwood shows the evolution of Western society's maladies...

This accessible introduction challenges fixed understandings of the geographical or conceptual 'origins' of feminist performance, offering a fresh and open-ended guide to the moments and movements that have come to define this vital field.

Gültan Kışanak, a Kurdish journalist and former MP, was elected co-mayor of Diyarbakır in 2014. Two years later, the Turkish state arrested and imprisoned her. Her story is remarkable, but not unique. While behind bars, she wrote about her own...

Stay Awake. Be Aware. Be Informed. Take Action"Stick and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you." -Unknown Black women are loud, ghetto, and gold-digging sluts. They are angry, bitter, independent, and either prudish or...

This book focuses on the ways in which second-wave feminism has been represented in American popular culture, and on the effects that these representations have had on feminism as a political movement. Kim Loudermilk provides close readings of four...

This book presents an exploration of the reinvented utopia that provided second-wave feminists of the 1970s with a conceptual space to articulate the politics of change. Tatiana Teslenko argues that utopian fiction of this decade offered a means of...

In The Science Glass Ceiling, Sue Rosser chronicles the plight of women faculty across the country. Noting difficulties, double standards, and backlash that they routinely face. Rosser interviewed some of the country's best female scientists about...

Naples draws on different research topics, such as welfare, poverty, sexual identity, and sexual abuse, to illustrate some of the most salient dilemmas of feminist research: the debate over objectivity, the paradox of discourse, the dilemma of...

Leading feminist scholar and one of the founders of Standpoint Theory, Sandra Harding brings together the biggest names in the field--Dorothy Smith, Donna Haraway, Patricia Hill Collins, Nancy Hartsock and Hilary Rose--to not only showcase the most...

Examining mothers of newly diagnosed disabled children within the context of new reproductive technologies and the discourse of choice, this book uses anthropology and disability studies to revise the concept of "normal" and to establish a social...