Feminism PDF EBooks
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The Glass Slipper
Why is the story of romance in books, magazines, and films still aimed at women rather than at men? Even after decades of feminism, traditional ideas and messages about romantic love still hold sway and, in our “postfeminist” age, are more popular...
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Subject to Debate
Subject to Debate, Katha Pollitt's column in The Nation, has offered readers clear-eyed yet provocative observations on women, politics, and culture for more than seven years. Bringing together eighty-eight of her most astute essays on...
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No Man's Land
This book is intended as the first part of a three-volume sequel to 'The madwoman in the attic, ' our study of the woman writer and the nineteenth-century literary imagination.--Pr
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Reasonable Creatures
It's not that Katha Pollitt is a bad writer, or even that she's wrong about most of the issues. What makes her writing so hard to take is the sense of entitlement -- the rich white college girl who has all the answers. Read the essay on...
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From Homebreakers to Jailbreakers
Against all the odds, Southall Black Sisters, a poorly funded, radical Asian women's group, has become synonymous with black British feminism and activism. Active in Southall near London since early 1979, the Black Sisters have developed both a...
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The Mommy Myth
Taking readers on a provocative tour through thirty years of media images about mothers -- the superficial achievements of celebrity moms, the sensational coverage of dangerous day care, the media-manufactured "mommy wars" between working mothers...
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Le Rire de la Méduse et autres ironies
Hélène Cixous is a Jewish-French, Algerian-born feminist well-known as one of the founders of poststructuralist feminist theory along with Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva. She is now a professor of English Literature at University of...
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Sparks Fly
Assata Olugbala Shakur (born JoAnne Deborah Byron, married name Chesimard) is an African-American activist and escaped convict who was a member of the Black Panther Party (BPP) and Black Liberation Army (BLA).Between 1971 and 1973, Shakur...
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Postmodernism and Popular Culture
Postmodernism and Popular Culture brings together eleven recent essays by Angela McRobbie in a collection which deals with the issues which have dominated cultural studies over the last ten years.A key theme is the notion of postmodernity as a...
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Resisting Citizenship
Political participation in America-supposedly the world's strongest democracy-is startlingly low, and many of the civil rights and economic equity initiatives that were instituted in the 1960s and '70s have been abandoned, as significant proportions...
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Learning for a Diverse World
This book explains the basic concepts of six critical theories in popular academic use - psychoanalytic, Marxist, feminist, gay/lesbian, African-American, and post-colonial - and shows how they can be employed to interpret the five short literary...
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Femininity
Disclaimer: ARC read via Netgalley for a fair review. Thank you to Open Road.There is apparently a rule for the Olympics that can require female athletes to prove that they are, in fact, female. There is no corresponding rule for male...
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Fittstim
Ur förordet till boken:"Varför gör ni boken?" För att vi vill visa att det finns tjejer som har högre mål än att bli framröstade till Fröken Sverige. Vi vill visa att vi finns och att vi bryr oss....
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On the Road to Healing
On The Road To Healing is a pro-feminist anthology for men against sexism. Originally published as a series of zines between 1995 and 2004, the works inside have served as a resource and as a challenge to all men who want a world that is free from...
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Who Stole Feminism?
Philosophy professor Christina Sommers has exposed a disturbing development: how a group of zealots, claiming to speak for all women, are promoting a dangerous new agenda that threatens our most cherished ideals and sets women against men in all...
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Could I Have My Body Back Now, Please
Beth Goobie is best known for her quirky and dark young adult novels. She's published several of them, beginning in 1994. Her novel Before Wings won the Canadian Library Association's Young Adult Book Award in 2000, and was chosen by young readers...
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Sex Equality
Sex Equality is a legal casebook that breaks the mold and defines the field. Theoretical and practical, scholarly and engaged, domestic and transnational, this volume combines a thorough canvas of the law of the status of the sexes with an...
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Revolution at Point Zero
Written between 1975 and the present, the essays collected in this volume represent years of research and theorizing on questions of social reproduction and the consequences of globalization. Originally inspired by Federici's organizational work in...
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The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order
Both a literary magazine and a chronicle of girl culture, Bust was born in 1993. With contributors who are funny, fierce, and too smart to be anything but feminist, Bust is the original grrrl zine, with a base of...
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What Women Want
American women fare worse than men on virtually every major dimension of social status, financial well-being, and physical safety. Sexual violence remains common, and reproductive rights are by no means secure. Women assume disproportionate burdens...
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Sisterhood is Powerful
This would be worth picking up for the SCUM manifesto alone (far more witty and self-aware than you might expect). But reactionary demagogues only represent a handful of the diverse voices that resound beneath the large ideological tent of this...
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Black Sexual Politics
In Black Sexual Politics, Hill Collins offers up a dense look at the current & historical landscape of Blackness in the U.S.A. Hill Collins opens the book by explaining why issues of Black identity centered around sexuality are unique, a point...
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Feminist Thought
In this second edition of her 1989 survey on feminist theory, Rosemarie Tong provides a more comprehensive and substantially redrawn map of twentieth-century feminist thinking. Besides providing up-to-date coverage of liberal, radical (libertarian...
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The Purity Myth
The United States is obsessed with virginity — from the media to schools to government agencies. In The Purity Myth Jessica Valenti argues that the country’s intense focus on chastity is damaging to young women. Through in-depth cultural and social...
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The Feminist Porn Book
The Feminist Porn Book brings together for the first time writings by feminists in the adult industry and research by feminist porn scholars. This book investigates not only how feminists understand pornography, but also how feminists...
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Pretty in Punk
Pretty in Punk combines autobiography, interviews, and sophisticated analysis to create the first insider’s examination of the ways punk girls resist gender roles and create strong identities.Why would an articulate, intelligent, thoughtful...
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Queen of the Fall
Whether pulled from the folds of memory, channeled through the icons of Greek mythology and Roman Catholicism, or filtered through the lens of pop culture, Sonja Livingston’s Queen of the Fall considers the lives of women. Exploring the...
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Read My Desire
In Read My Desire, Joan Copjec stages a confrontation between the theories of Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault, protagonists of two powerful modern discourses – psychoanalysis and historicism. Ordinarily, these discourses only cross paths...
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Feminism and War
Women - both within and without the United States - are being dramatically affected by war as currently waged by that country. But there has been little public space for dialogue about the complex relationship between feminism, women, and U.S. war....
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To Write Like a Woman
"To Write Like a Woman is a rare example of a feminist tackling science fictuion using postmodern theory, which makes for a much more sophisticated and nuanced appraisal than the usual fare." --Passion"Russ' essays are witty and insightful....
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Feminism Unmodified
Catharine A. MacKinnon, noted feminist and legal scholar, explores and develops her original theories and practical proposals on sexual politics and law. These discourses, originally delivered as speeches, have been brilliantly woven into a book...
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Against Our Will
"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."NEWSWEEKAs powerful and timely now as when it was first published, AGAINST OUR...
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Rethinking American Women's Activism
In this enthralling narrative, Annelise Orleck chronicles the history of the American women's movement from the nineteenth century to the present. Starting with an incisive introduction that calls for a reconceptualization of American feminist...
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Feminist Epistemologies
Feminist philosophy began on the margins, in the applied fields where practical concerns met with the political issues central to the women's movement. The traditional core of philosophy - including epistemology - remained intact, impervious to any...
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Sex Exposed
Over the past twenty years debates about pornography have raged within feminism and beyond. Throughout the 1970s feminists increasingly addressed the problem of men's sexual violence against women, and many women reduced the politics of men's power...
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Word.
From Barbara Kingsolver to Dorothy Allison, Isabel Allende to Nawal El Saddawi, some of the world’s most famous literary voices meditate on what it means to be a woman writer.Despite their increased visibility, women who write are still...
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Women's Images of Men
When a woman picks up the brush, chisel, or camera and focuses her attention on the male, she invites an avalanche of patriarchal opprobrium. Nobody wants an informer in the kitchen or bedroom and as wife, mother or lover, women know far too much...
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Fierce Angels
An important work on an essential subject, Fierce Angels explores and explodes the idea of the “strong black woman” as never before. Authoritative yet deeply personal and daringly confessional, Sheri Parks’s bold new study...
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Failure is Impossible
Most of us (both men and women) who take the right to vote for granted have no way to comprehend the struggle it was for those who fought and won that right. I thoroughly enjoyed reading Susan B. Anthony's own words from the beginning of her work...
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Prolife Feminism
"We need a new way of seeing!" --Jennifer Ferguson, South African musician & Former MP, African National Congress Is abortion on "demand" a woman's right, or a wrong inflicted on women? Is it a mark of liberation,...
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The Morning After
When Katie Roiphe arrived at Harvard in the fall of 1986, she found that the feminism she had been raised to believe in had been radically transformed. The women's movement, which had once signaled such strength and courage, now seemed lodged in a...
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Feminism and Popular Culture
Feminism and Popular Culture maps the fraught and often unpredictable relationship between popular culture, feminism and postfeminism. From the shadowy city spaces of Mad Men and Homeland to the dystopic suburbia of The Stepford Wives and American...
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Women and Madness
Feminist icon Chesler's pioneering work--2.5 million copies sold--revised and updated for the first time in 30 years. This definitive book was the first to address critical questions about women and mental health. Combining patient interviews with...
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Beyond God the Father
Daly was popular at seminary, but I didn't get around to reading her until years later. I was visiting an old high school friend in Springfield, Vermont, had finished the book I'd brought along for the trip and asked his wife for recommendations...
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The Gender Knot
I was a little skeptical at first when I saw that we were reading a book about patriarchy written by a man (a white man, to say the least! Come on, Multicultural Ed class! Get out of the system!). After reading it, though, I think that...
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At the Root of This Longing
Spirituality often comes with mandates to maintain silence or to strive for egolessness, but women are oppressed, so they're often forced to be silent or egoless. In addition, many religious traditions add to this oppression. How then can a woman...
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Abortion & Life
“In her role as author and activist, Jennifer Baumgardner has permanently changed the way people think about feminism . . . and will shape the next hundred years of politics and culture.”—The Commonwealth Club of California, hailing Baumgardner as...
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Divided Sisters
Since the advent of the women's movement, women have often expressed the belief that black and white women in society have a great many common concerns, and are in fact natural allies. The reality is more sobering. In "Divided Sisters," Midge Wilson...
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Feminism is Queer
Feminism is Queer is an introduction to the intimately related disciplines of gender and queer theory. While guiding the reader through complex theory, the author develops the original position of “queer feminism,” which presents queer...
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Responsibility for Justice
Contemporary theories of justice typically focus on the problem of distribution and what John Rawls calls the "core institutions" of a well-ordered, democratic society. Young's book argues for expanding justice beyond basic social institutions to...
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Black Feminist Cultural Criticism
"Black Feminist Cultural Criticism" is the first comprehensive analysis of the full range of Black women's creative achievements. In this outsdanding collection, writers and scholars in literature, film, television, theatre, music, art, material...
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Images of Women in Peace and War
As warriors, freedom fighters and victims, as mothers, wives and prostitutes, and as creators and members of peace movements, women are inevitably caught up in the net of war. Yet women’s participation in warfare and peace campaigns has often been...
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Methodology of the Oppressed
In a work with far-reaching implications, Chela Sandoval does no less than revise the genealogy of theory over the past thirty years, inserting what she terms "U.S. Third World feminism" into the narrative in a way that thoroughly alters our...
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Feminist Porn Book
If this book were a machine it would be one that did a lot of different jobs and had a lot of moving parts. Moreover, it would come as a kit which one would have to put together for oneself in accordance with the particular uses that came to mind....
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Remaking Women
Contrary to popular perceptions, newly veiled women across the Middle East are just as much products and symbols of modernity as the upper- and middle-class women who courageously took off the veil almost a century ago. To make this point, these...
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Websters' First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language
I've heard a lot of people call Mary Daly a misandrist. I say that's nonsense. She also hates any woman who is trans and/or disagrees with her. Which would be most women. But I digress.Not only is this book misanthropic, but it's unreadable....
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Patriarchal Attitudes
Eva Figes (born Eva Unger) is a German-born English author.Figes has written novels, literary criticism, studies of feminism, and vivid memoirs relating to her Berlin childhood and later experiences as a Jewish refugee from Hitler's Germany....
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Fundamental Differences
This work brings together interdisciplinary critiques of social conservative politics and ideas in the areas of welfare, family and social policy, gender representation, and conservative doctrine. It responds directly to New Right political...
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Feminist Contentions
Seyla Benhabib is a Turkish Jewish professor of political science and philosophy at Yale, and director of the program in Ethics, Politics, and Economics, and a well-known contemporary philosopher. She previously taught in the departments of...
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Body Outlaws
Pick up a magazine, turn on the TV, and you'll find few women who haven't been fried, dyed, plucked, or tucked. In short, you'll see no body outlaws. The writers in this groundbreaking anthology reveal a world where bodies come in all their...
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Living My Life
Anarchist, journalist, drama critic, advocate of birth control and free love, Emma Goldman was the most famous—and notorious—woman in the early twentieth century. This abridged version of her two-volume autobiography takes her from her birthplace in...
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Colonize This!
It has been decades since women of color first turned feminism upside down, exposing the ‘70s feminist movement as exclusive, white, and unaware of the concerns and issues of women of color from around the globe. Now a new generation of brilliant,...
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Uses of the Erotic
"There are many kinds of power, used and unused, acknowledged or otherwise." Thus begins this powerful essay; Uses of the Erotic defines the power of the erotic, names the process by which women have been stripped of this power, and considers how...
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Deeper Shades of Purple
Womanist approaches to the study of religion and society have contributed much to our understanding of Black religious life, activism, and women's liberation. Deeper Shades of Purple explores the achievements of this movement over the past two...
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Dislocating Cultures
Discussing the notions of nation, identity and tradition, this text shows how Western and Third World scholars have misrepresented Third World cultures and feminist agendas. Drawing attention to the political forces that have spawned, shaped and...
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The Revolution Starts at Home
"Was/is your abusive partner a high-profile activist? Does your abusive girlfriend’s best friend staff the domestic violence hotline? Have you successfully kicked an abuser out of your group? Did your anti-police brutality group fear retaliation...
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Our Bodies, Ourselves
With more than four million copies sold, "Our Bodies, Ourselves" is the classic guide for women of all ages to every aspect of their health.
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Beyond the Fragments
A generation ago, they wrote Beyond the Fragments. Inspired by the activism of the 1970s and facing the imminent triumph of the Right under Margaret Thatcher, they sought to apply our experiences as feminists to creating stronger bonds of...
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An Introduction to Sociology
This third edition of this best-selling book confirms the ongoing centrality of feminist perspectives and research to the sociological enterprise, and introduces students to the wide range of feminist contributions in key areas of sociological...
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Enlightened Sexism
From the author of Where the Girls Are, a sharp and irreverent critique of how women are portrayed in today’s popular cultureWomen today are inundated with conflicting messages from the mass media: they must either...
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Ecological Feminist Philosophies
Here feminist philosophers and ecofeminist scholars pursue the connections betweenfeminism and environmentalism. Topics include the ecofeminist ethic; the role ofpatriarchal concepts in perpetuating the domination of women and nature;...
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The Voltairine de Cleyre Reader
“God is a lie, / and Faith is a lie, / And a tenfold lie is Love; / Life is a problem without a why, / And never a thing to prove.”—Voltairine de CleyreNever as infamous as Emma Goldman, Voltairine de Cleyre distinguished herself as a...
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Politics of Reality
I enjoyed the essay on oppression, which set the stage for what I was hoping to be an excellent collection of feminist essays. I found the subsequent essays to be dreadfully academic, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, it's just not my idea of...
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Woman and Nature
In this famously provocative cornerstone of feminist literature, Susan Griffin explores the identification of women with the earth—both as sustenance for humanity and as victim of male rage. Starting from Plato’s fateful division of the world into...
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It's So You
It's So You explores the intersection between personal style and personal expression through lively personal essays by thirty-five top women writers—including two artists. In a culture that uses oppressive beauty standards to influence and...
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Created Equal
The Palgrave Macmillan/Amnesty International Series illuminates the greatest human rights issues facing the world today. From human trafficking to poverty, terrorism to freedom of expression, this dynamic and accessible series encourages...
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Ecofeminism
Leading feminist scholars and activists as well as new voices introduce and explore themes central to contemporary ecofeminism.Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth first offers an historical,...
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The Second Wave
The Second Wave collects many of the major essays of feminist theory of the past forty years, essays by the figures who have made key contributions to feminist theory during this period and have generated extensive discussion. Organized...
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Maneuvers
Maneuvers takes readers on a global tour of the sprawling process called "militarization." With her incisive verve and moxie, eminent feminist Cynthia Enloe shows that the people who become militarized are not just the obvious...
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I am an Emotional Creature
In this daring, provocative, and insightful book, bestselling author and internationally acclaimed playwright Eve Ensler writes fictional monologues and stories inspired by girls around the globe. Moving through a world of topics and emotions, these...
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Nomadic Subjects
"Nomadic Subjects" argues for a new kind of philosophical thinking, one that would include the insights of feminism and abandon the hegemonic mode that is conventionally adopted in high theory.Braidotti's personal, surprising, and lively...
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Answering Back
Answering Back exposes the volatility of gender reform in many different schools and classrooms. It tells stories in close up and from below, allowing everyone to talk: anxious boys, naughty girls, cantankerous teachers, pontificating principals and...
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Color of Violence
What would it take to end violence against women of color? How does the mainstream antiviolence movement help? How does it hinder? When will we admit that repositioning women of color at the center of the movement--women more often harmed by the...
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How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America
this book made me really angry. like gripping the book so hard that my knuckles turned red angry. so i think page accomplished her goal. it's a look at the measures that the anti-choice movement goes to to prevent access to contraceptives. of...
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Going Out of Our Minds
Women's Studies, Politics, Spirituality
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Women of the Revolution
When hundreds gathered in 1970 for the UK's first women's liberation conference, a movement that had been gathering strength for years burst into a frenzy of radical action that was to transform the way we think, act and live. In the 40 years since...
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Reweaving the Web of Life
Pam McAllister edited and comprised a great collection of essays and stories on Acts of Civil Disobedience, protests, Marches, Speeches, Rallys, and Policy reform, for the Womens Movement for Equality and Peace rom the 1870's to the 1980's.To...
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Joyous Greetings
Over one hundred fifty years ago, champions of women's rights in the United States, Britain, France, and Germany formed the world's earliest international feminist movement. Joyous Greetings is the first book to tell their story. From Seneca...
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Feminism and Methodology
"In this collection, Sandra Harding offers a broad spectrum of feminist research... an incisive introduction... With this collection, Harding offers an outline of possibilities to students and practicing social scientists whose questions lie outside...
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Rose
Praise for Cunt:"Bright, sharp, empowering, long-lasting, useful, sexy."—San Francisco Chronicle"Cunt does for feminism what smoothies did for high-fiber diets—it reinvents the oft-indigestible into...
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As If Women Matter
Everyone should read some feminist literature, and Steinem is definitely a good place to start in my opinion. Easy to read and thought-provoking, her essays are generally still relevant in today's America and certainly in other parts of the world....
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Scream Quietly or the Neighbors Will Hear
Terrifying in her blunt honesty and recital of women's stories, Pizzey wastes no time in taking to task society, the government, and social service agencies for their utter failure to help women trying to escape from abusive relationships. I think...
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Feminism and Science
..". thoughtful critiques of the myriad issues between women and science." --Belles Lettres"Outstanding collection of essays that raise the fundamental questions of gender in what we have been taught are objective sciences."...
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Girl Zines
With names like The East Village Inky, Mend My Dress, Dear Stepdad, and I’m So Fucking Beautiful, zines created by girls and women over the past two decades make feminism’s third wave visible. These messy,...
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The Abortion Myth
The feminist position on abortion is little changed from thirty years ago, argues Leslie Cannold. Mired in the rhetoric of "rights," feminists have failed to appreciate women's actual experience of abortion and have ceded the debate on the morality...
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Beyond Rosie the Riveter
The iconic bicep-flexing poster image of "Rosie the Riveter" has long conveyed the impression that women were welcomed into the World War II work force and admired for helping "free a man to fight." Donna Knaff, however, shows that "Rosie" only...
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Misogyny
In this compelling, powerful book, the late Irish journalist and essayist Jack Holland set out to answer a daunting question: how do you explain the oppression and brutalization of half the world's population by the other half, throughout history?...
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The W Effect
In this unique and essential collection, Molly Ivins, Maureen Dowd, Maria Hinojosa, and a host of other frontline thinkers, journalists, and activists employ wit, outrage, and cold, hard facts to expose the “W Effect,”a comprehensive incursion into...
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Feminism and Linguistic Theory
Feminism, as a movement for social change, has always recognized the significance of language in both theory and practice. In the new feminist scholarship of the past two decades, theories about language have played an...
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New Essays on Their Eyes Were Watching God
After decades of relegation to the margins of American literary history, Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God has recently been rediscovered by American literary and cultural scholars who have begun to explore the novel's thematic,...
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The Essential Feminist Reader
Including: Susan B. Anthony Simone de Beauvoir W.E.B. Du Bois Hélène Cixous Betty Friedan Charlotte Perkins Gilman Emma Goldman Guerrilla Girls Ding Ling • Audre Lorde John Stuart Mill Christine de Pizan Adrienne Rich Margaret Sanger Huda...
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The Vintage Book Of Historical Feminism
This anthology gathers together the essential historical writings of feminism. Many of the works, long out of print, are brought out of obscurity & into the light of contemporary analysis & criticism. More than 40 selections cover 150 years...
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The Dialectic of Sex
“No one can understand how feminism has evolved without reading this radical, inflammatory second-wave landmark.” —Naomi WolfOriginally published in 1970, when Shulamith Firestone was just twenty-five years old, and going on...
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The Creation of Feminist Consciousness
A pioneer in women's studies and long-term activist for women's issues, and a past president of the Organization of American Historians, Gerda Lerner is one of the founders and foremost scholars of Women's History. The Creation of Patriarchy, the...
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Psychoanalysis And Feminism A Radical Reassessment Of Freudian Psychoanalysis
In 1974, at the height of the women's movement, Juliet Mitchell shocked her fellow feminists by challenging the entrenched belief that Freud was the enemy. She argued that a rejection of psychoanalysis as bourgeois and patriarchal was fatal for...
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The Black Woman
A collection of early, emerging works from some of today's most celebrated African American female writers When it was first published in 1970, The Black Woman introduced readers to an astonishing new wave of voices that demanded to be...
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Amazons, Bluestockings, and Crones
Cheris Kramarae is the co-editor of the new Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women's Issues and Knowledge, and a past professor of communications and of women's studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,...
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Whores and Other Feminists
Whores and Other Feminists is the first volume to examine sex work and the sex industry through the eyes of self-identified feminist sex workers - strippers, prostitutes, porn writers, producers and performers, dominatrices - and their...
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What You Really Really Want
In this empowering, accessible guide, Jaclyn Friedman—co-editor of Yes Means Yes—gives young women the tools to decipher the modern world’s confusing, hypersexualized, sometimes dangerous landscape so they can define their own sexual...
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Becoming Myself
An inspiring collection of essays from a wide range of notable women, on the experience of being female. Sixty-seven original essays from celebrities and writers, including Meryl Streep, Kate Winslet, J.K. Rowling, Julia Stiles, Maya Angelou, Kate...
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Beauty Bites Beast
Book by Ellen B. Snortland
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The Masculinity Studies Reader
Rachel Adams is a writer and Professor of English and American Studies at Columbia University. She is the author of numerous academic articles and book reviews, as well as two books: Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination and...
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Imaginary Bodies
Moira Gatens investigates the ways in which differently sexed bodies can occupy the same social or political space. Representations of sexual difference have unacknowledged philosophical roots which cannot be dismissed as a superficial bias on the...
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The Frailty Myth
Can women be equal to men as long as men are physically stronger? And are men, in fact, stronger?These are key questions that Colette Dowling, author of the bestselling The Cinderella Complex, raises in her provocative new book. The...
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Becoming Myself
"The women in this collection were asked, simply, to recall a significant memory of growing up female. They responded generously, with intimate stories of their lives. Instead of the superficial prepackaged blurbs of TV sound bites and press...
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Living With Contradictions
Some people believe that feminist ethics is little more than a series of dogmatic positions on issues such as abortion rights, pornography, and affirmative action.This caricature was never true, but Alison Jaggar’s Living with...
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Still Ain't Satisfied
A collection of twenty-seven articles on the major women's issues of the decade shows why feminists have only begun to fight. Women are still paid less than their male counterparts, and rape and wife battering remain brutal social problems.
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All Women Are Psychics
Fascinating stories of psychic occurrences by over 70 women, interwoven through the text, illustrate the powers available to you when you discover your psychic powers. ALL WOMEN ARE PSYCHICS is an inspiring book that will help you reclaim this...
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SCUM manifest
SCUM Manifesto (Society for Cutting Up Men) av Valerie Solanas från 1967 är en av de viktigaste feministiska texterna någonsin. Den orimligaste, den rimligaste. En rasande utopi för kvinnor som känner sig redo att regera...
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The Little Black Book of Griselidis Real
They have to come back to us, because we know every detail of their orgasms, their little caprices, their little weaknesses and strengths. We know all of them. I mean, where do you expect them to go? They'll be disappointed anywhere else. Except for...
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Hellions
Who is the iconic rebel? Is it a character from the legacy of James Dean or Clint Eastwood, or maybe a Beat Generation writer? Is it a woman?Modern pop culture and the media have distorted the notion of rebellion. Classic male rebels appear...
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A Vindication of the Rights of Men & A Vindication of the Rights of Woman & An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution (3 in 1)
This volume brings together the major political writings of Mary Wollstonecraft in the order in which they appeared in the revolutionary 1790s. It traces her passionate and indignant response to the excitement of the early days of the French...
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Going Too Far
The personal papers of one of feminism’s most passionate leaders, with a new preface by the author As an activist for social justice, Robin Morgan has acquired a reputation for strong convictions and a life-affirming way of...
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Catfight
Women often behave toward one another in sneaky, underhanded, ruthlessly competitive ways. Catfight is a remarkably researched and insightful foray into the American woman's world of aggression, rivalry, and competition. Tanenbaum draws on...
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The American Sisterhood
This out-of-print, unpretentious-looking volume is a treasure trove of speeches and letters from feminist luminaries, from Sojourner Truth and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, on up through Emma Goldman and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, to the so-called radical...
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Gynocide
Nonfiction. Feminism. Women's Health. Political Science. Translated from the Italian by Danila Obici and Ralph D. Church. The powerful essays (and accompanying glossaries and testimonials) collected in GYNOCIDE examine the historical, legal,...
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The Feminist Philosophy Reader
Bailey and Cuomo bring together 55 of the most influential and time-tested works in the field of feminist philosophy. Featuring perspectives from across the philosophical spectrum, this text displays the range, depth and diversity of feminist...
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From Motherhood to Mothering
In the years since the publication of Adrienne Rich's Of Woman Born, the topic of motherhood has emerged as a central issue in feminist scholarship. Arguably still the best feminist book on mothering and motherhood, Of Woman Born is not only a...
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What Is the Measure of Nothingness
Published in conjunction with the Documenta 13 exhibition in Kassel, Germany, the Documenta notebook series "100 Notes,100 Thoughts" ranges from archival ephemera to conversations and commissioned essays. These notebooks express director Carolyn...
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Homophobia
I first read this when I was a teenager, who knew nothing of feminist theory, gender studies, and had very limited knowledge about the reality of life in America for people who transgress against cultural norms, who disregard socially constructed...
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Fresh Lipstick
Fresh Lipstick shakes feminist fashion down to its Birkenstocks. Linda M. Scott wants to put an end to the belief that American women have to wear a colorless, shapeless uniform to achieve liberation and equality.A pointed attack on...
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On Intersectionality
Over the past twenty years, the concept of “intersectionality” has emerged as an influential approach to understanding the complex facets of discrimination and exclusion in a society whose members—with often complex racial, gender, or sexual...
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Feminist Fables
A collection of short (most less than one page), tweaked fairy tales and fables, exposing the male-centric ideas and values instilled in us since childhood. It was okay. Some of the poems were clever, but a lot of them had a clipped tone to...
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