Duke University Press Books, 2017. — 312 p. In Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist at home and at work. Building on legacies of feminist of color scholarship in particular, Ahmed offers a poetic and personal meditation on how feminists become estranged from worlds they...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 270 p. The multifaceted notion of gender pervades every aspect of life and of living. Gender differences form the basis for family life, patterns of socialization, distribution of tasks, spheres of responsibility, and occupational predilections. An understanding of the nature of gender is central to many disciplines - social sciences such as...
Routledge, 2007. — 449 p. Colonialism and Homosexuality is a thorough investigation of the connections of homosexuality and imperialism from the late 1800s - the era of 'new imperialism' - until the era of decolonization. Robert Aldrich reconstructs the context of a number of liaisons, including those of famous men such as Cecil Rhodes, E.M. Forster or André Gide, and the...
Nordic Africa Institute, August 2004. — 276 p. The volume brings together papers by African and Nordic /Scandinavian gender scholars and anthropologists in an attempt to investigate and critically discuss existing lines of thinking about sexuality in Africa, while at the same time creating space for alternative approaches. Issues of colonial and contemporary discourses on...
Open University Press, 2004. – 188 p. In recent years there has been a marked increase in both the volume and diversity of sexual imagery and talk on television, condemned by some as a ‘rising tide of filth’, celebrated by others as a ‘liberation’ from the regulations of the past. Television and Sexuality questions both these responses through an examination of television’s...
Sage Publications, 1996. — 190 p. "Carol Lee Bacchi takes a social constructionist view of categories such as "women" and "men" and explores the political uses of such categories. For the many people who have wondered why affirmative action so often yields disappointing results, Bacchi's examinations are a gold mine of insights. The variety of her national cases combined with...
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1902. — 510 p. A clear and delightful peek into the world of Japanese girls and women of the late 1800s: their childhood, education, marriage and intimate family life.
Routledge, 2007 - 256 p. ISBN10: 0415402832 ISBN13: 9780415402835 (eng) Gender and Education in China analyzes the significance, impact and nature of women's public education in China from its beginnings at the turn of the twentieth century. Educational change was an integral aspect of the early twentieth century state-building and modernizing reforms implemented by the Qing...
Palgrave, 2017. — 206 p. This book questions gendered readings of violence by analyzing how this paradigm has become normalized in Italy since the feminist term ‘femminicidio’, or ‘femicide’, entered the mainstream media during the 2013 general election. It also sheds light on discourses of contestation on the part of family activists, men’s rights campaigners and divorced...
London: Verso, 1980. — 286 p. This is a classic book about the relationship between Marxism and feminist theory. The book is divided into 8 chapters, each of which discusses one aspect of marxist feminist theory. It consists of 300 p. and includes a rich bibliography of extra readings on the topic. The titles of the chapters are as follows: Some Conceptual Problems in Marxist...
Vintage, 2011. — 832 p. — ISBN10: 030727778X; ISBN13: 978-0307277787. Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir’s masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of woman, and a groundbreaking exploration of inequality and otherness. This long-awaited new edition reinstates significant portions of the original French text that...
University of Massachusetts Press, 2015. — 264 p. Among the most influential and insightful thinkers of her generation, Audre Lorde (1934–1992) inspired readers and activists through her poetry, autobiography, essays, and her political action. Most scholars have situated her work within the context of the women's, gay and lesbian, and black civil rights movements within the...
Publisher: Routledge (1997) - 252 p. Once seen as synonymous with 'any-feminism' postfeminism is now understood as the theoretical meeting ground between feminism and anti-foundationalist movements such as postmodernism, post-structuralism and post-colonialism. In this clear exposition of some of the major debates, theorists and practitioners, Ann Brooks shows how feminism is...
Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape. Ballantine Books, 1975 — 480 p. —ISBN10: 0449908208 Language: English "The most comrpehensive study of rape ever offered to the public...It forces readers to take a fresh look at their own attitudes toward this devastating crime." NEWSWEEK As powerful and timely now as when it was first published, AGAINST OUR WILL stands as a unique...
2006 Wilfrid Laurier University Press Waterloo, Ontario, Canada The essays in Killing Women: The Visual Culture of Gender and Violence find important connections in the ways that women are portrayed in relation to violence, whether they are murder victims or killers. The book’s extensive cultural contexts acknowledge and engage with contemporary theories and practices of...
New York University Press, 1999. - 480 p. ISBN: 0814715532 In late 1995, the Million Man March drew hundreds of thousands of black men to Washington, DC, and seemed even to skeptics a powerful sign not only of black male solidarity, but also of black racial solidarity. Yet while generating a sense of community and common purpose, the Million Man March, with its deliberate...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1998. — 180 p. — ISBN10: 0333746066; ISBN13: 978-0333746066 Pat Carlen's compelling and compassionate analysis of the penal control of women at the end of the twentieth century is based on new research completed in 1997. She develops many of the themes of previous work, while introducing new concepts such as 'gender-testing', and 'ameliorative...
Edinburgh University Press, 2018. — vi, 248 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4744-1466-1 (hardback), 978-1-4744-1467-8 (PDF), 978-1-4744-1468-5 (EPUB). True PDF Explores the depiction of transgender identity in twentieth-century and contemporary literary fiction. Transgender and the Literary Imagination is the first full length study to revisit twentieth century narratives and their...
6 edition, Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, 2010. - 642 p. ISBN: 0495601748 Written within a biopsychosocial framework, Cavanaugh and Blanchard-Fields' best-selling text covers the specific ages-stages of adult development and aging. In its unparalleled coverage of current research and theory, the authors draw clear connections between research and application. The book's focus on...
Stanford University Press, 2019. — 264 p. It is more than fifty years since Betty Friedan diagnosed malaise among suburban housewives and the National Organization of Women was founded. Across the decades, the feminist movement brought about significant progress on workplace discrimination, reproductive rights, and sexual assault. Yet, the proverbial million-dollar question...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 274 p. In the current English-language publication market, this book is one of the earliest academic monographs to comparatively investigate different feminist scholars and academic feminism across the Taiwan Strait. It problematizes recent scholarly understanding of feminist complexity in various Chinese-speaking areas. This book addresses...
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2018. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 9781250094421; ISBN13: 978-1250094421 Phyllis Chesler was a pioneer of Second Wave Feminism. Chesler and the women who came out swinging between 1972-1975 integrated the want ads, brought class action lawsuits on behalf of economic discrimination, opened rape crisis lines and shelters for battered women, held marches and...
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 20128. — xii, 255 p. — ISBN: 9780295743486 (ebook). What was sex like in China, from imperial times through the post-Mao era? The answer depends, of course, on who was having sex, where they were located in time and place, and what kind of familial, social, and political structures they participated in. This collection offers a variety...
Springer, 2014. - 210 p. - When is the "right" time? How can I meet the demands of a professorship whilst caring for a young family? Choosing to become a mother has a profound effect on the career path of women holding academic positions, especially in the physical sciences. Yet many women successfully manage to do both. In this book 15 inspirational personal accounts describe...
[n.s.]: Communist Research Cluster, 2016. — 438 p. The third volume of the Communist Interventions reader series, on Revolutionary Feminism. A century of debates between communist, anarchist, and radical feminist militants on women's oppression and capitalism. This reader provided the basis for reading groups in 21 cities and four countries during the fall and winter of 2015....
[n.s.]: Communist Research Cluster, 2016. — 438 p. The third volume of the Communist Interventions reader series, on Revolutionary Feminism. A century of debates between communist, anarchist, and radical feminist militants on women's oppression and capitalism. This reader provided the basis for reading groups in 21 cities and four countries during the fall and winter of 2015....
[n.s.]: Communist Research Cluster, 2016. — 438 p. The third volume of the Communist Interventions reader series, on Revolutionary Feminism. A century of debates between communist, anarchist, and radical feminist militants on women's oppression and capitalism. This reader provided the basis for reading groups in 21 cities and four countries during the fall and winter of 2015....
Cambridge: Polity Press, 1987. – 334 p. Sexual politics - from economic equality to anti-gay violence - is a vast area of debate. This exceptional new book seeks to integrate gender and sexuality into the mainstream of social and political theory with the aim of challenging and transforming these traditional areas. The book is an original contribution to theory, setting out for...
Allen Lane, 2012. — 496 p. Nowadays we believe that consenting adults have the freedom to do what they like with their own bodies. We publicise and celebrate sex; we discuss it endlessly; we are obsessed with the sex lives of celebrities. We think it wrong that in other cultures people suffer for their sexual orientation, that women are treated as second-class citizens, or that...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 496 p. A man admits that, when drunk, he tried to have sex with an eighteen-year-old girl; she is arrested and denies they had intercourse, but finally begs God's forgiveness. Then she is publicly hanged alongside her attacker. These events took place in 1644, in Boston, where today they would be viewed with horror. How-and when-did such a...
Sage Publication, 2003, 212 p. Sara Delamont. Feminist sociology. Language: English. Introduction: Of silverbacks and tree houses - When the patriarchy gets worried - Neither young, nor luscious, nor sycophantic: developments in feminist sociology, 1968–2002 - The new forms possible to women? The achievements of feminist sociology - Organising the necessary work: the...
Psychology Press, 1998. — 187 p. — ISBN: 0-415-91812-X; ISBN: 0-415-91813-8. The essay focus on such modern concerns as feminism, deconstruction, textual theory, and queer theory.
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 1089 p. — ISBN: 9780199328581 The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory provides a rich overview of the analytical frameworks and theoretical concepts that feminist theorists have developed to analyze the known world. Featuring leading feminist theorists from diverse regions of the globe, this collection delves into forty-nine subject areas,...
Oxford University Press, 2015. - 360 p. In the United States and Great Britain, 20-30% of all homicides involve the killing of a woman by a man, and it is far rarer when a woman is killed by another woman. Unfortunately, this is not a very well understood phenomenon. Most books on the topic discuss serial killings, but those only make up 2% of sexual murder-a sensationalist...
New York, St. Martin's Press, 2010. — 384 p. — ISBN: 0312673922. Women today are inundated with conflicting messages from the mass media: they must either be strong leaders in complete command or sex kittens obsessed with finding and pleasing a man. In The Rise Of Enlightened Sexism, Susan J. Douglas, one of America's most entertaining and insightful cultural critics, takes...
Leipzig: Fues's Verlag (R. Keisland), 1885. — 111 s. Begrenzung der Aufgabe Aerztliche Thätigkeit Hochwissenschaftlicher Lehrerberuf von und für Frauen Weibliches Studium und heutige Universitätszustände Natürliche Vorbereitung fur das praktische Hauptziel Einschaltung über die Ranke des Gelehrtenneides gegen meine Thätigkeit Frauenbildung Gesichtspunkte für Selbstausbildung...
Anadolu University, 2011. — 207 s. Içindekiler Önsöz Toplumsal Cinsiyet Sosyolojisine başlangiç Epistemoloji Siyaset ve Katılım Eğitim Kent yaşamı Aile ve Evlilik Hukuk Tarih yazımı
Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr ( 30. Juli 2008) - 262 p. "Through the voices of those who have weathered the storm, Mama, Ph.D. provides invaluable lessons for young scholars-both men and women-striving to navigate family and academic careers."-Robert Drago, author of Striking a Balance: Work, Family, Life "All those sleepless nights and dirty diapers and baby food in your...
SAGE Publications Ltd, London, 2014. - 680 p. At no point in recorded history has there been an absence of intense, and heated, discussion about the subject of how to conduct relations between women and men. This Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to these omnipresent issues and debates, mapping the present and future of thinking about feminist theory.
Fourth Estate Limited, 1994. — 331 p. The Myth of Male Power: Why Men are the Disposable Sex is a book by Warren Farrell. In the book, Farrell argues that the widespread perception of men having inordinate social and economic power is false, and that men are systematically disadvantaged in many ways.
Fourth Estate Limited, 1994. — 331 p. The Myth of Male Power: Why Men are the Disposable Sex is a book by Warren Farrell. In the book, Farrell argues that the widespread perception of men having inordinate social and economic power is false, and that men are systematically disadvantaged in many ways.
Routledge, 1997. — 244 p. Death, Gender and Ethnicity examines the ways in which gender and ethnicity shape the experiences of dying and bereavement, taking as its focus the diversity of modes through which the universal event of death is encountered. As well as offering an extensive critical review of existing work on death, gender and ethnicity, the book addresses such topics...
London: Routledge, 2002. — 462 p. — ISBN-10: 1560239727; ISBN-13: 978-1560239727 — (Haworth Innovations in Feminist Studies) A compelling look at the crisis of disadvantaged women This powerful document takes a sobering look at the phenomenon of marginalized women pushed to the edges of society, holding on with the barest of hope and extraordinary bravery. Handicapped by the...
8th printing (first printed in 1970). Bantam Books, USA. — 245 p. (Dialectics of sex. Foundations of the feminist revolution.) No one can understand how feminism has evolved without reading this radical, inflammatory second-wave landmark. —Naomi Wolf Originally published in 1970, when Shulamith Firestone was just twenty-five years old, and going on to become a bestseller, The...
New York: Modern Library, 2007. — 472 p. This compendium consist of works of famous feminist from XV to XXI century and give a hand to everyone,who wants to depth his knowledge about origins of this political and cultural stream.
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill. 2006. 270 p. Language: English. Freedman in the past thirty years has produced a body of work in which scholarship and politics have never been mutually exclusive. This collection brings together eleven essays — eight previously published and three new — that document the evolving relationship between academic...
Recorded Books, LLC, 2004. — 74 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4361-7292-9. Since the time of the abolitionists, no movement has so politicized social life in the United States as feminism. Responsible for wide-ranging legislation, such as women’s right to vote and the right to an abortion, feminists have fought their way to the center of the country’s political dialogue and made themselves...
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2001. — 473 p. Introduction by Anna Quindlen Metamorphosis: Two Generations Later Introduction to the Tenth Anniversary Edition Preface and Acknowledgments The Problem That Has No Name The Happy Housewife Heroine The Crisis in Woman’s Identity The Passionate Journey The Sexual Solipsism of Sigmund Freud The Functional Freeze, the Feminine Protest,...
Cambridge University Press, 1998. — 214 p. — ISBN: 0-521-63190-4; ISBN: 0-521-63576-4. This important interdisciplinary 1999 volume explores what might constitute a feminist approach to institutional design and reshaping. What is the scope, it asks, in contemporary Australian society, for ensuring that institutions acknowledge gender difference and deliver more equitable...
ANU E Press, 2012. — 278 p. Since the time of decolonisation in Fiji, women’s organisations have navigated a complex political terrain. While they have stayed true to the aim of advancing women’s status, their work has been buffeted by national political upheavals and changing global and regional directions in development policy-making. This book documents how women activists...
New York: Nation Books, 2018. — 145 p. Godsey R. Christen. Why women's intimate lives are better under socialism, and other reasons for economic independence (In English) Kristen R. Ghodsee has her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and is professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She has written six books on gender, socialism, and postsocialism in...
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr ( 1. Mai 2010) - 240 p. The question of how best to combine work and family life has led to lively debates in recent years. Both a lifestyle and a policy issue, it has been addressed psychologically, socially, and economically, and conclusions have been hotly contested. But as Neil Gilbert shows in this penetrating and provocative book, we haven't looked...
Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2009. 212 p. The concept of gender continues to be a central issue in literary and cultural studies, with a significance that crosses disciplinary boundaries and provokes lively debate. In this fully revised and updated second edition, David Glover and Cora Kaplan offer a lucid and illuminating introduction to ’gender’ and its implications,...
Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 1988. — 645 p. — ISBN10: 0226306275; ISBN13: 978-0226306278 At various times, homosexuality has been considered the noblest of loves, a horrible sin, a psychological condition or grounds for torture and execution. David F. Greenberg's careful, encyclopedic and important new book argues that homosexuality is only deviant because society has...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 313 p. Much has been made of the complex social arrangements that girls and women navigate, but little scholarly or popular attention has focused on what friendship means to men. Drawing on in-depth interviews with nearly 400 men, therapist and researcher Geoffrey L. Greif takes readers on a guided tour of male friendships, explaining what makes...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 246 p. — (Citizenship, Gender and Diversity). — ISBN10: 1137531800, ISBN13: 978-1137531803. This book offers a novel, detailed and sensitive exploration of women's engagement with feminism. Centred on the themes of generations, hope, emotions and belonging, each chapter attends to the specific and particular practices of 'becoming feminist' via a...
Reissue ed. — Pathfinder Press, 1993. — 172 p. — ISBN: 0873486595, 9780873486590. Sixty years ago, an article published in the socialist weekly the Militant sparked a lively debate on how the cosmetics and “fashion” industries play on the economic and emotional insecurities of women and youth to rake in profits. Today that exchange, contained in this book, a Marxist classic,...
West Asia-North Africa Institute, 2016. — 77 p. Executive Summary Islam Shari’a The Sources Of Shar’ia The Major Schools Of Islamic Jurisprudence (Madhhab) Shari’a And The State Basic Legal Principles In Islam Justice And Equality Before The Law Freedom Human Dignity Gender And Islam Gender Equality And Protection As Fundamental Tenets Of Islam Scholars’ Explanations For Gender...
Open University Press, 2003. — 205 p. Social practices and cultural arenas: institutional sites Key concepts Introduction: masculinity in context What is this book about? Aims of the book Framing men and masculinities: towards a sociology 6 Sex role theory For feminism: sociology, masculinity and oppression Beyond oppression Men and masculinities in late modernity Moving beyond...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 216 p. — (Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences) Over a couple of generations new possibilities have opened up for how we organize our relationships. This is especially true of same sex relationships where there is an increasing acceptance of civil unions and same-sex marriages. Many young same sex couples and partners are now living more...
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr (Oktober 2006) - 273 p. A remarkable number of women today are taking the daunting step of having children outside of marriage. In Single By Chance, Mothers By Choice, Rosanna Hertz offers the first full-scale account of this fast-growing phenomenon, revealing why these middle class women took this unorthodox path and how they have managed to make...
University of California Press, 2003, - 322 p. Arlie Russell Hochschild, author of three New York Times Notable Books, has been one of the freshest and most popular voices in feminist sociology over the last decades. Her influential, unusually perceptive work has opened up new ways of seeing family life, love, gender, the workplace, market transactions-indeed, American life...
University of California Press; 2nd edition (May 5, 2003) - 330 p. In private life we try to induce or suppress love, envy, and anger through deep acting or "emotional work," just as we manage our outer expressions through surface acting. But what happens when this system of adjusting emotions is adapted to commercial purposes? Hochschild examines the cost of this kind of...
Penguin Books, 2003, - 352 p. Fifteen years after its first publication, The Second Shift remains just as important and relevant today as it did then. As the majority of women entered the workforce, sociologist and Berkeley professor Arlie Hochschild was one of the first to talk about what really happens in dual-career households. Many people were amazed to find that women...
Los Angeles a.o.: SAGE, 2007. — 216 p. What is Gender? explores these complex and important questions, helping readers to critically analyze how women's and men's lives are shaped by the society in which they live. The book offers a comprehensive account of trends in sociological thinking, from a material and economic focus on gender inequalities to the debates about meaning...
Washington Square Press, 2004. — 208 p. Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways that patriarchal culture keeps them from knowing themselves, from being in touch with their feelings, from loving. In The Will to Change, bell hooks gets to the heart of the matter and shows men how to express the emotions that are a...
Routledge, 2003. — 184 p. "When women get together and talk about men, the news is almost always bad news," writes bell hooks. "If the topic gets specific and the focus is on black men, the news is even worse." In this powerful new book, bell hooks arrests our attention from the first page. Her title--We Real Cool; her subject--the way in which both white society and weak black...
Paperback: 222 p. Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd; 1 edition (October 8, 2002) Language: English This original and engaging text explores the core concepts in feminist theory. This up-to-date text addresses the implications of postmodernism and post-structuralism for feminist theorizing. It identifies the challenges of this through the development of 'conceptual literacy'....
PublicAffairs, 2011. — 752 p. Lianyungang, a booming port city, has China's most extreme gender ratio for children under four: 163 boys for every 100 girls. These numbers don't seem terribly grim, but in ten years, the skewed sex ratio will pose a colossal challenge. By the time those children reach adulthood, their generation will have twenty-four million more men than women....
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 560 p. This handbook brings together recent and emerging research in the broad areas of women and gender studies focusing on pre-revolutionary Russia, the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet Russian Federation. For the Soviet period in particular, individual chapters extend the geographic coverage of the book beyond Russia itself to examine women and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 560 p. This handbook brings together recent and emerging research in the broad areas of women and gender studies focusing on pre-revolutionary Russia, the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet Russian Federation. For the Soviet period in particular, individual chapters extend the geographic coverage of the book beyond Russia itself to examine women and...
Duke University Press, 2006. — 280 p. Introduction. Neoliberal Citizenship. The Governmentality of Rights and Consumer Culture. Becoming American: The Novel and the Diaspora. Traveling Barbie: }ndian Transnationalities and the Global Consumner. "Wolen's Rights as Human Rights": The Transnational. Production of Global Feminist Subjects. Gendering Refugees: New...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 239 p. List of Tables page Preface and Acknowledgments The Causes of the Rising Tide Introduction: Explaining the Rising Tide of Gender Equality From Traditional Roles toward Gender Equality Religion, Secularization, and Gender Equality The Consequences of the Rising Tide The Gender Gap in Voting and Public Opinion Political Activism Women as...
Rowman & Littledield Publishers Inc.,2010. - 196 p. 1 Introduction: Geography, Bodies, Sex, and Gender 2 "The Geography Closest In": The Body 3 At Home with Sex 4 Communities: A Sense of Belonging 5 "Sex and the City" 6 Rural Erotics 7 Nations and National Identity 8 Global Intimacies 9 Conclusion
Routledge, 2018. — 141 p. — ISBN 9781138286160, ASIN 1138286168. Queering Autoethnography articulates for the first time the possibilities and politics of queering autoethnography, both in theoretical terms and as an intervention into narratives and cultures of apology, shame and fear. Despite the so-called mainstreaming of same-sex relationships and trans* visibility, many...
Tirana: The Political Book Publishing House, 1973. — 284 p. Capo Vito. Issues of the struggle for the complete emancipation of women (In English) English translation of a monograph written and published in socialist Albania by the chairman of the Union of Albanian Women, Vito Capo. The teachings of Comrade Enver Hoxha on the best treatment and solution of the problems regarding...
6th Ed. — Oxford University Press, 2017. — 554 p. — ISBN10: 0190260378, ISBN13: 978-0190260378. In The Gendered Society Reader, Sixth Edition, coeditors Michael Kimmel and Amy Aronson pull together an array of dynamic voices--both male and female, classic and contemporary--to examine various interpretations of gender. These lively, in-depth readings explore gender discourse...
Toruń: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, 2012. — 324 s. — ISBN: 978-83-7780-162-8. Próba odnalezienia odpowiedzi na pytanie, dlaczego (jak do tego doszło oraz na podstawie jakich milcząco zakładanych założeń) kobiety w Polsce po 1989 r. zdają się być wykluczane ze sfery (szerzej) demokratycznej, jak i (węziej) politycznej dyskusji, dotyczącej dobra wspólnego (procesu negocjowania...
Candlewick, 2014. — 123 p. — ISBN: 0763656119, 9780763656119, 0763656119. A groundbreaking work of LGBT literature takes an honest look at the life, love, and struggles of transgender teens. Author and photographer Susan Kuklin met and interviewed six transgender or gender-neutral young adults and used her considerable skills to represent them thoughtfully and respectfully...
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. — 317 p. — ISBN10: 0520262069; ISBN13: 978-0520262065. One evening, while watching the news, Roger N. Lancaster was startled by a report that a friend, a gay male school teacher, had been arrested for a sexually based crime. The resulting hysteria threatened to ruin the life of an innocent man. In this passionate and provocative...
George Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2012. — ISBN10: 0297866397; ISBN13: 978-0297866398. Is there any truth to the epidemic of sex addiction? Are our children really getting sexualised younger? Are men the only ones who like porn? Brooke Magnanti looks at all these questions and more - and proves that perhaps we've all been taking the answers for granted. Brooke Magnanti is no...
IGI Global, 2011. — 386 p. — ISBN: 1609607597. With the advancement of information and communication technology, virtual teams are becoming more popular as geographical constraints in collaboration have become a non-issue. Features of the technology and characteristics of the group influence interaction processes and outcomes. Two elements are the focus of this paper. The first...
Ixia Press, 2017 — 144 p. "Lorde's words — on race, cancer, intersectionality, parenthood, injustice — burn with relevance 25 years after her death." — O, The Oprah Magazine Winner of the 1988 Before Columbus Foundation National Book Award, this path-breaking collection of essays is a clarion call to build communities that nurture our spirit. Lorde announces the need for a...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 298 p. Audre Lorde was not only a famous poet; she was also one of the most important radical black feminists of the past century. Her writings and speeches grappled with an impressive broad list of topics, including sexuality, race, gender, class, disease, the arts, parenting, and resistance, and they have served as a transformative and...
W. W. Norton & Company, 1995 — 136 p. The Black Unicorn is a collection of poems by a woman who, Adrienne Rich writes, "for the complexity of her vision, for her moral courage and the catalytic passion of her language, has already become, for many, an indispensable poet." Rich continues: "Refusing to be circumscribed by any simple identity, Audre Lorde writes as a Black woman,...
Aunt Lute Books, 2006. — 104 p. Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political as she reflects on her experience coping with breast cancer and a radical mastectomy. Includes photos and tributes to Lorde written after her death in 1992. The Cancer Journals is a 1980 book of non-fiction by poet and activist Audre Lorde. It deals...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2000. — 512 p. A complete collection — over 300 poems — from one of this country's most influential poets. Collected here for the first time are more than three hundred poems from one of this country's major and most influential poets, representing the complete oeuvre of Audre Lorde's poetry. Lorde published nine volumes of poetry which, in her words,...
The Crossing Press; First Edition edition, 1982. — 256 p. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name is a 1982 autobiography by African American poet Audre Lorde. It started a new genre that the author calls biomythography, which combines history, biography, and myth. In the text, Lorde writes that "Zami" is "a Carriacou name for women who work together as friends and lovers," Carriacou...
University Of Minnesota Press, 2018. — 312 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8166-9825-7; 978-0-8166-9823-3. How women-only communities provide spaces for new forms of culture, sociality, gender, and sexuality Women’s lands are intentional, collective communities composed entirely of women. Rooted in 1970s feminist politics, they continue to thrive in a range of ways, from urban households to...
Text Publishing Company, 2010. — 247 p. After many waves of feminism, where are we? Are young women really either massive sluts or helpless dolls? And anyway, what's the definition of a slut? Young women have a lot of questions. In Your Skirt's Too Short- Sex, Power, Choicea revised young adult edition of her book Princesses and Pornstars, Emily Maguire ignites discussion on...
State University of New York Press, 2016. — 214 p. In lively, accessible prose, this book expands the reach and depth of age studies. A review of age studies methods in theory, literature, and practice leads readers to see how their own intersectional identities shape their beliefs about age, aging, and old age. This study asks readers to interrogate the “texts” of menopause,...
Routledge, 2014. — 452 p. This collection brings together cutting-edge work by established and emerging scholars focusing on key societies in the East Asian region: China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, North and South Korea, Mongolia and Vietnam. This scope enables the collection to reflect on the nature of the transformations in constructions of sexuality in highly developed,...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. — 208 p. Issues surrounding precarity, debility and vulnerability are now of central concern to philosophers as we try and navigate an increasingly uncertain world. Matthew R. McLennan delves into these subjects enthusiastically and sensitively, presenting a vision of the discipline of philosophy which is grounded in real, lived experience. Developing...
Routledge, 1995. 291 p. This important new collection considers Jurgen Habermas's discourse theory from a variety of feminist vantage points. Feminist scholars have been drawn to Habermas's work because it reflects a tradition of emancipatory political thinking rooted in the Enlightenment and engages with the normative aims of emancipatory social movements. The essays in...
Harrington Park Press, 2003. — 212 p. Take an in-depth look at what works--and what doesn't--in research with GLBT populations! This essential book examines the usefulness of current frameworks for research with GLBT populations and highlights the necessity for greater complexity in the conceptualization and design of research with these populations. It will help you understand...
Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2000. — 211 p. The book is regarded as a classic of feminism and "the first book of academic feminist literary criticism".
University of California Press, 2014. — 275 p. How do modern women in developing countries experience sexuality and love? Drawing on a rich array of interview, ethnographic, and survey data from her native country of Kenya, Sanyu A. Mojola examines how young African women, who suffer disproportionate rates of HIV infection compared to young African men, navigate their...
University of Toronto Press, 2016. — 280 p. As media coverage of terrorism and terroristic acts has increased so too has the discussion about the identities, motives, and gender of the perpetrators. Over the past fifteen years, there have been over 150 reported suicide bombings committed by women around the world. Because of its prominence in media reporting, the phrase “female...
Engineering and Mathematics Faculty Committee on Gender Differences in the Careers of Science, Engineering and Medicine Committee on Women in Science, National Research Council - National Academies Press, 2010. - 384 p. ISBN10: 0309114632 This book paints a timely picture of the status of female faculty at top universities, clarifies whether male and female faculty have similar...
Publisher: New York Univ Pr (März 2012) - 257 p. They go by many names: helicopter parents, hovercrafts, PFHs (Parents from Hell). Drawing on a wealth of eye-opening interviews with parents across the country, Margaret K. Nelson cuts through the stereotypes and hyperbole to examine the realities of what she terms "parenting out of control". Situating this phenomenon within a...
Greenwood, 2001. — 410 p. — ISBN10: 0313304386. — ISBN13: 978-0313304385. A comprehensive resource profiling individuals and organizations associated with Russian women's movements from the early 19th century to the post-Soviet era. Contributions by approximately fifty authors from the United States, Russia, Europe, and Canada focus upon the struggle of women to change their...
Cologne, Germany: International Initiative Edition, 2013. — 65 p. Ocalan Abdullah. Liberating Life: Women's Revolution in Kurdistan (In English) Introduction by the International Initiative. Women’s Revolution: Neolithic Era. The First Major Sexual Rupture. Patriarchal authority became deep-rooted. All slavery is based on housewifisation. The Second Major Sexual Rupture....
The University of Wisconsin Press, 2012. — 384 p. — ISBN: 978-0-299-29034-4. A fine study based on interviews, history and folklore showing how lives of Russian women in villages have evolved from the Soviet era to the present and continue to change.
Harper, 2016. — 320 p. The author of the New York Times bestseller Cinderella Ate My Daughter offers a clear-eyed picture of the new sexual landscape girls face in the post-princess stage — high school through college — and reveals how they are negotiating it. A generation gap has emerged between parents and their girls. Even in this age of helicopter parenting, the mothers and...
New York: Canongate Canons, 2018. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 1786892189; ISBN13: 978-1786892188 From the fiery intellectual provocateur - and one of our most fearless advocates of gender equality - a brilliant, urgent essay collection that both celebrates modern feminism and affirms the power of men and women and what we can accomplish together. Sex and Violence, or Nature and Art The...
New York: Canongate Canons, 2018. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 1786892189; ISBN13: 978-1786892188 From the fiery intellectual provocateur - and one of our most fearless advocates of gender equality - a brilliant, urgent essay collection that both celebrates modern feminism and affirms the power of men and women and what we can accomplish together. Sex and Violence, or Nature and Art The...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 291 p. A fascinating glimpse into the history of sexual perversions and diversions including fetishism, cross-dressing, 'effeminate' men and 'masculinized' women, sodomy, tribadism, masturbation, necrophilia, rape, paedophilia, flagellation, and sado-masochism, asking how these sexual inclinations were viewed at a particular time in history
Northeastern; Rev. ed., 1990. — 416 p. — (Series: Northeastern Series on Feminist Theory) A holistic understanding of abortion from a feminist perspective, including the history of its practice and state policies to contain it; the social, economic, and cultural conditions under which women utilize it; and the legal, moral, and political battles that surround it. Frontmatter...
Brentwood: Chipmunkapublishing, 2010. — 157 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84991-281-5. From age 17 German young men, no matter if they enlist or are conscripted to serve their country, are legally obliged to subject themselves to repeated, humiliating medical examinations carried out mainly by female staff. Military regulations and old perverted habits demand they strip, present testicles,...
Routledge, 1999. — 208 p. In this introductory text for A level students and undergraduates, the author covers the main issues debated about women in Britain today. Subjects covered include: women and gender - sociological perspectives; education and training; women and paid work; household work and caring; love and sexuality; crime and punishment; and politics and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 246 p. — (Critical and Applied Approaches in Sexuality, Gender and Identity). — ISBN10: 1137510528, 13 978-1137510525. This book addresses the emerging field of genderqueer or non-binary genders - that is, individuals who do not identify as male or female. It considers theoretical, research, practice, and activist perspectives; and outlines a basis...
3rd edition. — Palgrave, 2008. — 352 p. — ISBN13: 978-0230-54300-3; ISBN10: 0230-54300-6; ISBN13: 978-0230-54299-0; ISBN10: 0230-54299-9. This thoroughly revised third edition of a best-selling textbook is carefully designed to reflect classic and new developments in the popular fields of gender and women's studies. Its unique breadth and depth makes it ideal for students...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 248 p. Anna Riehl investigates the aesthetic, political, and gender-related meanings inscribed in Queen Elizabeth I's face by her contemporaries.
University of Minnesota Press, 1989. — 126 p. Writing about changes in the notion of womanhood, Denise Riley examines, in the manner of Foucault, shifting historical constructions of the category of "women" in relation to other categories central to concepts of personhood: the soul, the mind, the body, nature, the social. Feminist movements, Riley argues, have had no choice but...
New York/London: Springer, 2013. X, 162 p. - ISBN: 978-94-007-5523-9 (Print) 978-94-007-5524-6 (Online) This book examines the dynamics of power within the families of married women who have migrated from rural areas to China's Dalian Economic Zone. Engaging the question of whether waged work gives women power in their families, this ethnographic study finds that women do...
Princeton University Press, 1998. — 392 p. From the Beat poets' incarnation of the "white Negro" through Iron John and the Men's Movement to the paranoid masculinity of Timothy McVeigh, white men in this country have increasingly imagined themselves as victims. In Taking It Like a Man, David Savran explores the social and sexual tensions that have helped to produce this...
Duke University Press, 2011. — 187 p. In this book author deals with genesis of feminist theories and practices, constructing feminist identity and secularism impact on feminism.
İnsan yayınları, 2005. — 115 s. İçindekiler Paleotik ve Neolotik dönemler İlk Uygarlıklarda Kadın Mitoslarda ve Dinlerde Kadın Kadının Ortaçağdan XIX. Yüzyıla De¤in Serüveni XIX. Yüzyılda Kadın XX. Yüzyılda Kadın II. Kuflak Feministler Feminizm çeşit Liberal Feminizm Kültürel Feminizm Anarflist Feminizm Marksist Feminizm Varoluflçu Feminizm Radikal Feminizm Lezbiyen Feminizm...
HarperBusiness, 2009. - 256 p. ISBN: 0061697184 You are not alone. Finally, here is a book that gets to the heart of what professional women want. You've probably been loath to admit it, but like most of us, you have had enough of the sixty-hour workweeks, the day-care dash, and the vacations that never get taken. You don't want to quit, you want to work — but on your own terms...
Oxford University Press, 2001. — 145 p. Brilliant, stubborn, and astonishingly far-sighted, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the chief architect of the American women's movement. Here, Harriet Sigerman presents a fascinating profile of the woman who courageously campaigned for women's absolute right to social and political equality in the 1800s. Her stands on issues such as birth...
Publisher: Routledge Chapman & Hall ( 18. Juli 1996) - 256 p. Currently, lone mothers and their children make up almost 20 per cent of families with dependent children in the UK, a threefold increase since 1970. Yet, while they are often cited by politicians as both a symptom and cause of social breakdown, relatively little is known of the causes, consequences and conditions of...
NY: Routledge, 1996. – 208 p. The postmodernization of sex; Sexual scripts: Permanence and change; Adolescence and sexuality: Unremembered youth; Adolescence and sexuality: Almost remembered youth; Adolescence in retrospection: Movies, Men and myths; Deviance as history: The future of perversion; Sexuality: A discontinuous discourse on a discontinuous subject
Publisher: Palgrave (2007) - 354 p. Mother-child relationships in Western Europe were greatly affected by political decisions during the early 1900s, and the maternal role has been transformed over the years. To understand the dilemmas faced by women concerning motherhood and work, Allen argues that problems must be examined in terms of their demographic and political...
Editors. — DK Publishing, 2019. — 352 p. — (Big Ideas). — ISBN: 978-1465479563. Discover more than 85 of the most important ideas, movements, and events that have defined feminism and feminist thought throughout history with this original, graphic-led book. Using the Big Ideas series' trademark combination of authoritative, accessible text and bold graphics, this book traces...
Springer, 2013. — 408 p. This book is the product of a collaborative effort involving partners from Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America who were funded by the International Development Research Centre Programme on Women and Migration (2006-2011). The International Institute of Social Studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam spearheaded a project intended to distill and refine...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 160 p. — (Very Short Introductions). This is a historical account of feminism that looks at the roots of feminism, voting rights, and the liberation of the sixties, and analyzes the current situation of women across Europe, in the United States, and elsewhere in the world, particularly the Third World countries. Walters examines the difficulties...
Tango Media, 2009. - 36 p. Let’s be honest. We’re all doing it… and if we’re not, we’re thinking about doing it. The old-fashioned advice on dating at work has always been uncomplicated — JUST DON’T — and totally unrealistic. When tensions are flaring, office space is tight, and we’re logging 60 hours of face time a week, how couldn’t we expect a little chemical reaction? I’m...
Princeton University Press, 2000. — 283 p. Here Christina Wolbrecht boldly demonstrates how the Republican and Democratic parties have helped transform, and have been transformed by, American public debate and policy on women's rights. She begins by showing the evolution of the positions of both parties on women's rights over the past five decades. In the 1950s and early 1960s,...
Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (September 24, 2002), 368 p. In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restrictive as...
Www.TaleBooks.com. 167 p. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792), written by the 18th-century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. In it, Wollstonecraft responds to those educational and political theorists of the 18th century who did not believe women should have an...
Publisher: Princeton University Press (March 26, 2007) - 368 p. In their personal lives, people consider it essential to separate economics and intimacy. We have, for example, a long-standing taboo against workplace romance, while we see marital love as different from prostitution because it is not a fundamentally financial exchange. In The Purchase of Intimacy, Viviana Zelizer...
Bookboon, 2015. — 71 p. — ISBN: 978-87-403-0840-2. This book is part of Project awomansplace. The objective is to have an online conversation on the kind of society we want our children and their children to inherit. The focus is on how we can remake our society by remaking the workplace. We need to change the way society treats women but are solving the right problem? Is a...
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