Feminism and feminist theory Books

Liberation Theology in Chicana/o Literature looks at the ways in which Chicana/o authors who have experienced cultural disconnection or marginalization because of their gender, gender politics and sexual orientation attempt to forge a connection back to...

It is only recently that transgenderism has been accepted as a disorder for which treatment is available. In the 1990s, a political movement of transgender activism coalesced to campaign for transgender rights. Considerable social, political and legal...

Is it possible that changes in rhetorical practice could alter not just how thought is expressed, but also how it is made? Through a close stylistic and rhetorical analysis of contemporary feminist writing - from the cultural theory of Judith Butler to...

An ecofeminist criticism of neoliberalism, this book uses economic growth, CSR and the press coverage of environmental affairs as a case study. The author argues that CSR is part of a wheel of neoliberalism that continually perpetuates inequality and the...

The fifth edition of the Feminist Theory Reader assembles readings that present key aspects of the conversations within intersectional US and transnational feminisms and continues to challenge readers to rethink the ways in which gender and its multiple...

This book begins with a 'cautionary tale' about a development wide area in rural Zambia, with the purpose of lessening the burden of labour on women who previously had to fetch water from faraway streams. The result of the programme was exactly the...

Do you feel undervalued, unheard, and invisible as a single mid-life Christian woman? The majority of the Christian church's congregation in the USA is made up of single women.Single mid-life Christian women face a unique challenge in expressing their...

To appreciate a multi-layered and question-asking piece like 'Khargosh', a reader needs to have a broad, flexible and comprehensive perspective. Its reader will have to keep his outlook broad and perspective broad as well.Looking at it from one side, if...

"Myths are stories created to bring us to the goddess, not the goddess to us, and the truth is far more complicated." - Meru SesarWhen Meru Sesar encounters a "mythical" lisca on her way to marry a prince, she has no idea she's the mortal manifestation...

The philosophy of feminism is promoted by the West. Over the course of history, feminism has come to be recognized as a strong concept worldwide, despite its diverse colors. It is only possible to recognize feminist tendencies in Urdu writing against the...

Camus once stated that fiction is a lie through which we tell the truth. The main characters in Heart and Salt all have truths, lies, and in-betweens, similar to every human being you've ever met. We all carry scraps of our past in our heart, the hope of...

Dans sa vie privée comme dans sa vie publique, Mill s'acharna à démontrer la nécessité d'accorder aux femmes l'égalité avec les hommes et à dénoncer les mauvaises conditions de vie des femmes, combat dont l'apogée fut la publication de ce livre en 1869...

Esta obra colectiva, a lo largo de sus 17 capítulos cuestiona el travestismo en sus diferentes acepciones lingüísticas, autorales/textuales y de género. Las tres partes que la componen se mantienen en diálogo, a pesar de la diversidad de sus enfoques y...

Die Dresdner Handschrift Mscr.Dresd.Ob.5 (1460) stammt aus Florenz und enthält Teile des Hiobkommentars Papst Gregors I. sowie Texte Giovanni Dominicis im Florentinischen des 14. Jhds. Der vorliegende Band präsentiert die Ergebnisse eingehender...

Günter Grass mussten vor 1945 70 der Mutter gehörende Bände aus der deutschen wie der Weltliteratur die fehlende Gymnasial- und Universtätsbildung weitgehend ersetzen. Das Buch erschließt die rekonstruierte Sammlung durch kommentierte Kataloge und...

Al revisar los mitos y generar nuevos iconos, las autoras españolas contemporáneas se apropian de la tradición cultural y contribuyen a redefinir la identidad colectiva. Sus obras promueven unas representaciones de género más igualitarias, que buscan...

The book presents an ethnolinguistic study on lexical expressions of honor in the Language of Early Arabic Poetry. It applies the methodology of Cultural Linguistics in the research on language and culture of Arabs of al-Jahiliyya. It offers a...

El libro se divide en cuatro apartados que contemplan diversos aspectos de la Guerra Civil española, la posguerra y la dictadura franquista en cuanto a alguna impronta periférica: nuevas miradas sobre la novela de la memoria histórica; la memoria de y en...

Cemeteries in East Central Europe; Ethnic, Linguistic, and Narrative Aspects of Sepulchral Culture and the Commemoration of the Dead in Borderlands; Bleiburška Tragedija; Hlučín Region; Medzev; Upper Lusatia; Danube Swabians; Southeastern Banat; Realms...

En este libro se rastrea la obra de escritoras contemporáneas en lengua española que plantean visiones de la vida alternativas a la exclusivamente antropocéntrica. Se analizan títulos que aúnan el mundo humano y el mundo natural y que muestran cómo la...

Harriet Martineau (the feminist and thinker 'who made the nineteenth century the dawn of freedom for half the human race’) was certainly the most intelligent woman of her time, and she argued with uncompromising logic (which led her to abandon...

George Sand's first novel, Indiana develops a love story in which a young woman, weary of an unsympathetic and overbearing husband, is courted by a young man, Raymon de la Ramière, an unreliable seducer. Through this story, George Sand denounces the...

Esta iniciativa recupera algunas de las voces artísticas de mujeres contemporáneas relegadas aun segundo plano por la historiografía y reflexiona sobre cómo ha evolucionado la asignaciónsocial de los roles de género en nuestra cultura.

In the 19th century France, philanthropy was primarily thought to be a personal virtue. At first, women were not intended to be part of the philanthropic world but, then, men from privileged classes realized that their wives and daughters, symbols of...