Feminism and feminist theory Books
Princeton University Press Accidental Feminism
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Co-Winner of the Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association""Honorable Mention for the Herbert Jacob Book Prize, Law & Society Association""Shortlisted for the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Book Prize, New India Foundation""Revealing the infrastructural scaffolding and affective registers through which the accidental works its power, this book is an important contribution to expanding legal and organisational sociology beyond Euro-American contexts in deepening readers’ understanding of professional women’s entry into the workforce in India."---Dr Hemangini Gupta, LSE Review of Books
£74.80
Princeton University Press Helen of Troy in Hollywood
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Engaging."---Harry Strawson, Times Literary Supplement"An enlightening and accessible overview of the pervasive presence of Zeus’s daughter in American popular culture, ranging from silent Hollywood cinema to televised speculative fiction . . . [and] a must read for scholars of both classical reception and popular culture."---Gabrielle Stecher, Popular Culture Studies Journal"A smart exploration of how this mythic figure has been portrayed in film and television. [Blondell] has written a thematically bold book that entertainingly contemplates what Helen of Troy signifies in old and modern Hollywood productions."---Christopher Schobert, The Film Stage
£29.75
Pluto Press EcoSufficiency and Global Justice
Book SynopsisFemale academics discuss the big issues of our timeTrade Review'The Eco-Sufficiency anthology based on the diversity and pluralism of perspectives inspired by ecofeminism is a must read for anyone searching for alternatives' -- Vandana Shiva, Director of the Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology, New Delhi; author, activist, and winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize'By far and away the best collection of ecological feminist writing I have found' -- Richard Norgaard, Professor of Energy and Resources, University of California at Berkeley'People are much more than the atomised units of neoclassical and environmental economics. Economic and ecological practices conducted by women and other marginalised groupings must be recognised as a source of new theoretical understandings, critical for social and environmental justice to be achieved' -- Peter Dickens, Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge; author of the award winning book Society & Nature (Polity, 2004)'These new and incisive perspectives put forth a transformative agenda for global justice. And in doing so, the collection draws all of us -- activists and academics alike -- closer to a common political denominator in the search for a true alternative to globalisation' -- Lim Li Ching, leading international biodiversity activist, Third World Network, Kuala LumpurTable of ContentsEcological Debt: Embodied Debt by Ariel Salleh PART I - HISTORIES 1. The Devaluation of Women's Labour by Silvia Federici Who is the 'He' of He Who Decides in Economic Discourse? by Ewa Charkiewicz 2. The Diversity Matrix: Relationship and Complexity by Susan Hawthorne PART II - MATTER 3. Development for Some is Violence for Others by Nalini Nayak 4. Nuclearised Bodies and Militarised Space by Zohl de Ishtar 5. Women and Deliberative Water Management by Andrea Moraes and Ellie Perkins PART III - GOVERNANCE 6. Mainstreaming Trade and Millennium Development Goals? by Gig Francisco and Peggy Antrobus 7. Policy and the Measure of Woman by Marilyn Waring 8. Feminist Ecological Economics in Theory and Practice by Sabine U. O'Hara PART IV - ENERGY 9. Who Pays for Kyoto Protocol? Selling Oxygen and Selling Sex by Ana Isla 10. How Global Warming is Gendered by Meike Spitzner 11. Women and the Abuja Declaration for Energy Sovereignty by Leigh Brownhill and Terisa E. Turner PART V - MOVEMENT 12. Ecofeminist Political Economy and the Politics of Money by Mary Mellor 13. Saving Women: Saving the Commons by Leo Podlashuc 14. From Eco-Sufficiency to Global Justice by Ariel Salleh Index
£31.50
Pluto Press Commoning with George Caffentzis and Silvia
Book SynopsisA passionate collection rediscovering the work of two giants of autonomist Marxism and feminism.Trade Review'An impassioned tribute' -- LSE Review of Books'In this labour of love, radical theory joins passionate praxis to honour the social thought and political vision of Silva Federici and George Caffentzis, whose work together and apart offers hope that another world can be made' -- Eileen Boris, co-author of 'Caring for America''The path breaking work of Caffentzis and Federici is continually generative for contemporary anticapitalist thinkers and activists because it is at once critical and visionary. This fine collection of essays pays homage to their writing not through mere praise, but by putting their ideas to work toward the ongoing struggle for new understandings and better worlds' -- Kathi Weeks, author of 'The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries''We need comrades with a clear sight and an open, affective heart. Many of us have found in George Caffentzis and Silvia Federici that company... And here they are, to celebrate them, with an exceptional cohort of intellectuals/activists, with compas, who are saying today what needs to be said to continue the struggle, to resist the horror and to create a new world' -- Gustavo Esteva, activist, 'deprofessionalised intellectual' and founder of Universidad de la Tierra in Oaxaca, Mexico'No one has taught us more that communism is with us than George Caffentzis and Silvia Federici... the greatest living theorists of commoning' -- Stefano Harney, co-author of 'The Undercommons''This collection offers an extraordinary kaleidoscope of critical reflections on social reproduction and class struggle. More than that, it is fitting testimony to the inspiration and grounding that Silvia and George continue to provide for those seeking a life beyond the sway of capital' -- Steve Wright, author of Storming Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist MarxismTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Always Struggle - Camille Barbagallo, Nicholas Beuret and David Harvie I - REVOLUTIONARY HISTORIES 1. In Conversation with George Caffentzis and Silvia Federici - Carla da Cunha Duarte Francisco, Paulo Henrique Flores, Rodrigo Guimaraes Nunes and Joen Vedel 2. Comradely Appropriation - Harry Cleaver 3. The Radical Subversion of the World - Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar 4. Strange Loops and Planetary Struggles: A Postscript to Midnight Notes - Malav Kanuga II - MONEY AND VALUE 5. Cogito Ergo Habo: Philosophy, Money and Method - Paul Rekret 6. Thomas Spence’s Freedom Coins - Peter Linebaugh 7. Standardisation and Crisis : The Twin Features of Financialisation - Gerald Hanlon 8. Reading ‘Earth Incorporated’ through Caliban and the Witch - Sian Sullivan III - REPRODUCTION 9. WTF is Social Reproduction? - Nic Vas and Camille Barbagallo 10. Extending the Family: Reflections on the Politics of Kinship - Bue Rübner Hansen and Manuela Zechner 11. They Sing the Body Insurgent - Stevphen Shukaitis 12. The Separations of Productive and Domestic Labour: An Historical Approach - Viviane Gonik 13. Another Way Home: Slavery, Motherhood and Resistance - Camille Barbagallo 14. Along the Fasara – A Short Story - P.M. IV - COMMONS 15. The Strategic Horizon of the Commons - Massimo De Angelis 16. A Vocabulary of the Commons - Marcela Olivera and Alexander Dwinell 17. A Bicycling Commons : A Saga of Autonomy, Imagination and Enclosure - Chris Carlsson 18. Common Paradoxes - Panagiotis Doulos 19. The Construction of a Conceptual Prison - Edith Gonzalez V - STRUGGLES 20. In the Realm of the Self-Reproducing Automata - Nick Dyer-Witheford 21. Notes from Yesterday: On Subversion and the Elements of Critical Reason - Werner Bonefeld 22. Sunburnt Country: Australia and the Work/Energy Crisis - Dave Eden 23. Commons at Midnight - Olivier de Marcellus 24. Practising Affect as Affective Practice - Marina Sitrin Contributor Biographies Index
£25.19
Pluto Press Commoning with George Caffentzis and Silvia
Book SynopsisA passionate collection rediscovering the work of two giants of autonomist Marxism and feminism.Trade Review'An impassioned tribute' -- LSE Review of Books'In this labour of love, radical theory joins passionate praxis to honour the social thought and political vision of Silva Federici and George Caffentzis, whose work together and apart offers hope that another world can be made' -- Eileen Boris, co-author of 'Caring for America''The path breaking work of Caffentzis and Federici is continually generative for contemporary anticapitalist thinkers and activists because it is at once critical and visionary. This fine collection of essays pays homage to their writing not through mere praise, but by putting their ideas to work toward the ongoing struggle for new understandings and better worlds' -- Kathi Weeks, author of 'The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries''We need comrades with a clear sight and an open, affective heart. Many of us have found in George Caffentzis and Silvia Federici that company... And here they are, to celebrate them, with an exceptional cohort of intellectuals/activists, with compas, who are saying today what needs to be said to continue the struggle, to resist the horror and to create a new world' -- Gustavo Esteva, activist, 'deprofessionalised intellectual' and founder of Universidad de la Tierra in Oaxaca, Mexico'No one has taught us more that communism is with us than George Caffentzis and Silvia Federici... the greatest living theorists of commoning' -- Stefano Harney, co-author of 'The Undercommons''This collection offers an extraordinary kaleidoscope of critical reflections on social reproduction and class struggle. More than that, it is fitting testimony to the inspiration and grounding that Silvia and George continue to provide for those seeking a life beyond the sway of capital' -- Steve Wright, author of Storming Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist MarxismTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Always Struggle - Camille Barbagallo, Nicholas Beuret and David Harvie I - REVOLUTIONARY HISTORIES 1. In Conversation with George Caffentzis and Silvia Federici - Carla da Cunha Duarte Francisco, Paulo Henrique Flores, Rodrigo Guimaraes Nunes and Joen Vedel 2. Comradely Appropriation - Harry Cleaver 3. The Radical Subversion of the World - Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar 4. Strange Loops and Planetary Struggles: A Postscript to Midnight Notes - Malav Kanuga II - MONEY AND VALUE 5. Cogito Ergo Habo: Philosophy, Money and Method - Paul Rekret 6. Thomas Spence’s Freedom Coins - Peter Linebaugh 7. Standardisation and Crisis : The Twin Features of Financialisation - Gerald Hanlon 8. Reading ‘Earth Incorporated’ through Caliban and the Witch - Sian Sullivan III - REPRODUCTION 9. WTF is Social Reproduction? - Nic Vas and Camille Barbagallo 10. Extending the Family: Reflections on the Politics of Kinship - Bue Rübner Hansen and Manuela Zechner 11. They Sing the Body Insurgent - Stevphen Shukaitis 12. The Separations of Productive and Domestic Labour: An Historical Approach - Viviane Gonik 13. Another Way Home: Slavery, Motherhood and Resistance - Camille Barbagallo 14. Along the Fasara – A Short Story - P.M. IV - COMMONS 15. The Strategic Horizon of the Commons - Massimo De Angelis 16. A Vocabulary of the Commons - Marcela Olivera and Alexander Dwinell 17. A Bicycling Commons : A Saga of Autonomy, Imagination and Enclosure - Chris Carlsson 18. Common Paradoxes - Panagiotis Doulos 19. The Construction of a Conceptual Prison - Edith Gonzalez V - STRUGGLES 20. In the Realm of the Self-Reproducing Automata - Nick Dyer-Witheford 21. Notes from Yesterday: On Subversion and the Elements of Critical Reason - Werner Bonefeld 22. Sunburnt Country: Australia and the Work/Energy Crisis - Dave Eden 23. Commons at Midnight - Olivier de Marcellus 24. Practising Affect as Affective Practice - Marina Sitrin Contributor Biographies Index
£72.25
Pluto Press Social Reproduction Theory and the Socialist
Book SynopsisHow can we use Social Reproduction Theory to inform political strategy?Trade Review'Timely, urgent and highly original. Jaffe provides social reproduction theory with a sustained discussion of its ethical stakes and implicit assumptions, offering important theoretical and philosophical tools to make us able to wage political struggle, and possibly win.' -- Cinzia ArruzzaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword by Cinzia Arruzza Introduction: Why Theorize Social Reproduction? 1. Social Reproduction Theories as Frameworks for Empirical Analysis 2. Power as Potentiality or the Critical Dimension of Labor Power 3. The Question of Immanence and the Social Form of Labor Power 4. The Body and Gender in Social Reproduction Theory 5. Reproducing Intersections and Social Reproduction 6. The Socialist Horizon of Emancipation 7. Social Reproduction Theory and Political Strategy Postscript Notes Index
£20.69
Pluto Press A Social Ecology of Capital
Book SynopsisAn original theory of contemporary capitalist growth and its socio-ecological contradictionsTrade Review'A remarkably insightful analysis of the complex interface between capital and nature. This is indispensable reading for scholars, students and activists' -- William Carroll, Professor of Sociology, University of Victoria, Canada'A Social Ecology of Capital is essential reading for all interested in ecological crises, limits to growth, and alternatives. Its materialist-feminist analysis of growth as biophysical expansion and accumulation presents a much-needed foundation for understanding our current predicament' -- Matthias Schmelzer, author of 'The Hegemony of Growth''In systematically illuminating the material flows and constraints of fossil-fuelled capitalism, Pineault has compiled a useful guide to social metabolism for Marxists. He shows that, to understand our global ecological predicament, we must go beyond Marx in establishing a materialist social science' -- Alf Hornborg, Professor Emeritus of Human Ecology, Lund University and author of 'The Magic of Technology: The Machine as a Transformation of Slavery''A timely and urgent analysis which seeks to comprehend our ecological plight through an elucidation of monopoly capital' -- Gareth Dale, Reader in Political Economy, Brunel University, UK'Social ecology is further developed by Éric Pineault with this fascinating theoretical and empirical study. He shows how capital as a social relation exercises its domination - and how contested this is. A must read for scholars, students, activists, progressive politicians and the interested public!' -- Ulrich Brand, University of Vienna, co-author of the book 'The Imperial Mode of Living. Everyday Life and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism'‘Eric Pineault's book is a true Capital in the 21st Century. One where ecology matters’ -- Giorgos Kallis, ICREA Professor, ICTA-UAB.'Applying biophysical accounting methods from social ecology, Pineault analyses the metabolism of capitalism. It provides important lessons for scholars and activists about the root causes of ongoing environmental crises and the need for an encompassing social ecological transformation' -- Christoph Görg, Institute of Social Ecology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, AustriaTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Material Flow 2. Nature's Work: The Ecology of the Material Flow 3. Metabolic Regimes in a Historical Perspective 4. Fossil Based Industrial Metabolism 5. On Capitalist Metabolism 6. Accumulation and Social Metabolism in the Great Capitalist Acceleration Conclusion: Emancipation amid the Ruins of Fossil Metabolism
£18.99
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Feminism and Criminology
Book SynopsisThis much--needed book is a concise and accessible account of the contribution of feminist thinking to the study of crime.Trade Review"This is both a significant and intelligent contribution to the transformation of criminology by one of the most challenging feminist theorists working in the field." Carol C. Smart, University of Leeds "This thought-provoking book challenges the dominant criminological tradition from a feminist perspective. But it is more than a polemical argument about what is omitted and silenced in that tradition. It is both an intellectual history of criminology, told in an accessible way and a book of feminist jurisprudence that will be of interest to students and scholars working in that area. The book offers a new way of seeing, a new paradigm for feminist criminology, addressed to criminologists in general, inviting them to break out of the prison of their own masculine standpoints and conventional scholarship." Katherine O'Donovan, University of London "The book provides an excellent synthesis of ideas relating to the relationship between feminism and criminology ... essential ... for its detailed exploration of the intellectual relationship between feminism and criminology ... Extremely important in stimulating critical thinking about current directions and reflections in feminism and criminology." International LawTable of ContentsIntroduction. Part 1: A Feminist History of Criminology. . 1. The Scientific Origins of Criminology. 2. The Criminologist as Partisan. 3. Examining our Frames of Reference: Realism to Derrida. Part 2: Effecting Change. 4. Reinterpreting the Sexes (through the Crime of Rape). 5. Relocating the Sexes (through Crime Fiction). 6. An Ethical Relation. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
£49.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Introducing Contemporary Feminist Thought
Book Synopsisaeo This is an introductory textbook, offering a concise and lucid guide to the main developments in contemporary feminist thinking; its introductory nature is a strong selling point (other books on this subject tend to be written at a more exclusive level).Trade Review"This is a compelling and elegantly written book, focusing on the main areas of feminist thinking from the early 1970s up to the present day. Mary Evans departs from other writing on feminist thought, by avoiding sterile debates which categorize feminism into different perspectives. Instead, she charts the changing nature of feminist ideas into a number of key themes, demonstrating both their wide-ranging and interdisciplinary character. The book shows how feminism has been a simultaneously destabilizing and creative force in intellectual and political life, arguing that it holds rich possibilities for rethinking our social worlds. Introducing Contemporary Feminist Thought is at the cutting edge of feminist work in the area and will be crucial reading for those wishing to understand contemporary debates and how they have evolved historically." Mary Maynard, The University of York "Mary Evans has provided a wide-ranging interdisciplinary snapshot of the history of western feminism over the last twenty years. She draws on a wealth of sources and locates many of the texts that were influential in western feminism in their historical context. As such, the book will be a useful addition to the range of texts available for the beginning student of women's studies." Women's Philosophy ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Enter Women. 2. Public and Private: Women and the State. 3. Engendering Knowledge. 4. Representation. 5. The Body. 6. Feminism and the Academy. 7. Worlds of Difference?. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
£15.19
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Reconstructing Political Theory
Book SynopsisIn this volume leading feminist theorists re-think the traditional concepts of political theory and expand the range of problems and concerns regarded as central to the analysis of political life. Written by well-known scholars in philosophy, political science, sociology and law, the book provides a rich interdisciplinary account of key issues in political thought. While some chapters discuss traditional concepts such as rights, power, freedom and citizenship, others argue that less frequently discussed topics in political theory - such as the family, childhood, dependency, compassion and suffering - are just as significant for an understanding of political life. The opening chapter by Narayan and Shanley shows how this diverse set of topics can be linked together and how feminist theory can be elaborated systematically if it takes notions of independence and dependency, public and private, and power and empowerment as central to its agenda. This book will be oTrade Review"This disciplined collection of essays bears witness to the live and dynamic state of feminist political theory ... fresh perspectives on some of feminist theory's more intractable problems; and some much-needed attention to neglected issues, such as compassion and dependency ... [It is] a useful and stimulating anthology, to be recommended not least for the dextrous argument and taut analysis of many of its contributions." Women's Philosophy Review "A most welcome addition to any political theory course." Political StudiesTable of ContentsList of Contributors. Editor's Note. Introduction by Narayan and Shanley. 1. Alchemy or Fool's Gold? Assessing Feminist Doubts about Rights: E. Kiss. 2. Decoding 'Dependency': Inscriptions of Power in a Keyword of the US Welfare State: N. Fraser and L. Gordon. 3. Towards a Feminist Vision of Citizenship: Rethinking the Implications of Dignity, Political Participation, and Nationality: U. Narayan. 4. The Jurispolitics of Privacy: A. L. Allen. 5. Revisioning the Family: Relational Rights and Responsibilities: M. Minow and M. L. Shanley. 6. Political Children: Reflections on Hannah Arendt's Distinction between Public and Private Life: J. Bethke Elshtain. 7. The Heady Political Life of Compassion: E. V. Spelman. 8. Feminism and Power: A. Yeatman. 9. Rethinking Anarchism/Rethinking Power: A Contemporary Feminist Perspective: M. Ackelsberg. 10. Intersectionality and Identity Politics: Learning from Violence against Women of Color: K. Crenshaw. 11. The Theory and Practice of Freedom: The Case of Battered Women: N. Hirschmann. Further Reading. Index.
£49.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Hegel and Feminist Philosophy
Book SynopsisHegel and Feminist Philosophy traces the legacy of Hegel in the work of thinkers such as de Beauvoir, Irigaray and Butler, and also in contemporary debates in feminist ethics and political philosophy. As Hutchings demonstrates, this is an ambivalent legacy.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Chapter One: Feminist Philosophy and the Way of Despair. Introduction. Thinking as a Feminist. Feminist Re-thinkings of Reason and Truth. Feminist Re-thinkings of Moral Agency and Judgement. Feminist Re-Thinkings of Politics. Conclusion. Chapter Two: Philosophy as the Task of Comprehension. Introduction. Phenomenology and Science. On Nature, History and Right. Feminist Readings of Hegel. Conclusion. Chapter Three: Thinking the Second Sex. Introduction. Ambiguities. How Has 'Woman' Come to Be?. Thinking Being as Life; Existence as Spirit. Conclusion. Chapter Four: Re-thinking the Second Sex. Introduction. Antigone's Story. Hegel's Antigone. Towards a Hegelian Feminist Philosophy. Conclusion. Chapter Five: Hegel and Feminist Ethics. Introduction. Moral Identity and an Ethics of Difference. Hegel, the 'Moral Point of View' and 'Ethical Life'. Conclusion. Chapter Six: Hegel and the Sexual Contract. Introduction. Modern Patriarchy. Beyond the Sexual Contract. Towards a Hegelian Feminist Ethical Theory. Conclusion. Conclusion. Notes. References
£54.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Jung A Feminist Revision
Book SynopsisJung: A Feminist Revision explores the relationship between feminist theory and Jungian studies.Trade Review"Susan Rowland's Jung: A Feminist Revision makes a powerful contribution to criticism. More than assert Jung's relevance for postmodern and feminist theories, she succeeds, single-handedly, in restoring Jung to his rightful place in contemporary thought. Encyclopaedic in scope yet original in its aims and approach, Jung: A Feminist Revision will become the seminal, standard work in its field. Readers new to Jung will find Rowland's outline of his life and writings highly accessible; Jungian scholars will find her interpretations as sensible and compelling as they are revisionary; most important, contemporary feminists will now find in Jung a surprising new ally and resource for constructing ‘postmodern feminisms'. Featuring background surveys of current feminist theories, postmodernism, and deconstruction as well as of Jungian (and post-Jungian) psychology, this book provides no less than a primer of recent criticism. Here and in previous studies, Rowland establishes herself as one of Jung's most sensitive and original contemporary critics. The distinctions she makes between Jung the ‘grand theorist' and Jung the author of ‘personal myth' will prove particularly useful to scholars interested in postmodern approaches to Jungian psychology and criticism. " James S. Baumlin, Southwest Missouri State University "This is a truly ground-breaking book. Rowland has done what has needed to be done by introducing Jung and the post-Jungians to the academy in a way that will promote dialogue and lead to all manner of unpredictable outcomes. Jung: A Feminist Revision is a book for everyone interested in feminism, gender studies, cultural studies, intellectual history and psychoanalysis, from professors to undergraduates" Andrew Samuels, Professor of Analytical Psychology, University of Essex "Susan Rowland brings Jungian psychology face-to-face with contemporary feminism and stakes a brilliant claim in the critical territory that is postmodern Jungian studies." Christopher Hauke, Goldsmith's College, University of London; Jungian analyst "...an immensely enjoyable and stimulating book which amply fulfils its aim of opening up a new dialogue between Jung and feminism." Angela Connolly, The Journal of Analytical PsychologyTable of ContentsPreface. Abbreviations. Chronology. 1. The Lives of C. G. Jung. 2. Introducing Jungian Theory. 3. The Goddess and the Feminine Principle: Gender and the Feminine After Jung (1) Grand Theory. 4. Jungian Feminisms?: Gender and the Feminine after Jung (2) Personal Myth. 5. Jungian Feminisms in Deconstruction and Post-Freudian Feminism. 6. Postmodern Jungian Feminisms: Alchemy, the Body, the Postmodern Sublime, Narrative Form and the Gothic. Notes. Glossary. Index.
£49.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Eve Escapes
Book Synopsis* Cixous is generally regarded as one of the leading, if not the leading French feminist writer. * All of her books tend to be written as philosophical novels, combining elements of autobiography and fiction with reflection of a more philosophical and psychoanalytic kind.Trade Review"Suggests the mysteriousness of parents and the inacccessible internal lives barely imaginable to their children." Times Higher Education "Eve Escapes is all at once a poetic meditation on aging, a performative novel on the powers of writing, and a passionate description of a literary family. This book, published in a beautiful translation, is a high point in Cixous's narrative oeuvre, whose singularity and magic are simply inextinguishable." Laurent Dubreuil, Cornell University "Cixous's ongoing saga of farewell to her mother offers an unprecedented exploration of what it means to live old age. Moving between Freud and Montaigne, between broccoli and Balzac, the writer has created a poignant yet joyful celebration of her nonagenerian mother's determination to live life to the full." Mairéad Hanrahan, University College LondonTable of ContentsDay of SufferanceThe Prisoner's DreamFreud Dreams No MoreThe ShrinkingTales and Days of ReadingThe Cane and the ParasolOn Board the MagnoliaI Become a Cemetery CitizenTranslator's Notes
£14.99
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Irigaray
Book SynopsisThe work of French Philosopher Luce Irigaray has exerted a profound influence on feminist thinking of recent decades and provides a far-reaching challenge to western philosophy's entrenched patriarchal norms. This book guides the reader through Irigaray's critical and creative transformation of western thought.Trade Review"The book is eloquent, well researched, and written by one of the sharpest feminist philosophers and brightest academic thinkers on the UK scene. It should in fact establish itself as a model for introductory philosophical texts. This is absolutely first-rate work – philosophy at its best." Tina Chanter, DePaul University "Rachel Jones provides an excellent introduction to Irigaray's thought which will benefit feminist philosophers and theorists as well as students. Jones gives a lucid and original account of central themes in Irigaray's work, such as the relation between matter and form, the nature of sexual difference, and the idea of a female subject position." Alison Stone, Lancaster University "This valuable and accessible book meets an urgent need for all those who have wrestled with the intricacies of Luce Irigaray's prose - or who have found the most important of her writings, Speculum of the Other Woman, simply too baffling. Written in an admirably clear style, Rachel Jones's book breaks new ground in showing why and how Irigaray's 'fling with the philosophers' still matters today." Christine Battersby, University of Warwick "This is an astonishing book in its depth and framing of Irigaray. It offers an important contribution to feminist philosophy and has daring, bold, insightful claims that are not seen in other texts." Breanne Fahs, Arizona State UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Towards a Sexuate Philosophy 1. Approaching Irigaray: Feminism, Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy2. Re-visiting Plato's Cave: Orientation and Origins3. The Way Out of the Cave: A Likely Story...4. Woman as Other: Variations on an Old Theme5. Freud, Lacan, and Speaking (as a) Woman6. The Status of Sexuate Difference7. An Ethics of Sexuate Difference Conclusion: The Incalculable Being of Being BetweenNotesBibliography
£49.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Irigaray
Book SynopsisThe work of French Philosopher Luce Irigaray has exerted a profound influence on feminist thinking of recent decades and provides a far-reaching challenge to western philosophy's entrenched patriarchal norms. This book guides the reader through Irigaray's critical and creative transformation of western thought.Trade Review"The book is eloquent, well researched, and written by one of the sharpest feminist philosophers and brightest academic thinkers on the UK scene. It should in fact establish itself as a model for introductory philosophical texts. This is absolutely first-rate work – philosophy at its best." Tina Chanter, DePaul University "Rachel Jones provides an excellent introduction to Irigaray's thought which will benefit feminist philosophers and theorists as well as students. Jones gives a lucid and original account of central themes in Irigaray's work, such as the relation between matter and form, the nature of sexual difference, and the idea of a female subject position." Alison Stone, Lancaster University "This valuable and accessible book meets an urgent need for all those who have wrestled with the intricacies of Luce Irigaray's prose - or who have found the most important of her writings, Speculum of the Other Woman, simply too baffling. Written in an admirably clear style, Rachel Jones's book breaks new ground in showing why and how Irigaray's 'fling with the philosophers' still matters today." Christine Battersby, University of Warwick "This is an astonishing book in its depth and framing of Irigaray. It offers an important contribution to feminist philosophy and has daring, bold, insightful claims that are not seen in other texts." Breanne Fahs, Arizona State UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Towards a Sexuate Philosophy 1. Approaching Irigaray: Feminism, Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy2. Re-visiting Plato's Cave: Orientation and Origins3. The Way Out of the Cave: A Likely Story...4. Woman as Other: Variations on an Old Theme5. Freud, Lacan, and Speaking (as a) Woman6. The Status of Sexuate Difference7. An Ethics of Sexuate Difference Conclusion: The Incalculable Being of Being BetweenNotesBibliography
£17.09
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Changing Difference
Book Synopsis* Catherine Malabou is a rising star of French philosophy and has a high reputation in the English speaking world. * She is particularly well known for her innovative arguments about plasticity and the body, and for her work at the intersection of philosophy, feminism and neuroscience.Trade Review"Complex and suggestive … Malabou's concept of plasticity has considerable potential to advance our thinking about gender and essentialism." LSE Review of Books "Confronting the current anti-essentialist doxa, Malabou claims for woman an essence that is never more itself than when it escapes its own clutches. This essentialism is not merely tactical or pragmatic, it is a bold philosophical position that gives back to feminism its prematurely sacrificed reason to be. A rare book, one of the few in history, in which philosophy rises to the challenges posed by sexual difference." Professor Joan Copjec, University of Buffalo "Changing Difference will introduce many new readers to the remarkable work of Catherine Malabou. It extends the profound philosophical iconoclasm of her readings of Derrida, Hegel and Heidegger and her emergent thought of plasticity to an encounter with queer and gender theory on the question of ontological and sexual difference. Yet it is above all a passionate and inspiring meditation on 'what, for a woman, is the life of a philosopher'." Professor Howard Caygill, Kingston University LondonTable of ContentsTranslator's PrefaceInsertIntroduction The Meaning of the "Feminine" Admiring the Wonders of Difference Why the "Feminine"? Isn't the privilege of the feminine determined by a particular situation of "woman"?The Vulva's Schema The Dangers of Deneutralizing Difference, or the Ambivalence of the Feminine The Neuter and EvilGrammatology and Plasticity The Phoenix, The Spider and The Salamander Woman's Possibility, Philosophy's ImpossibilityActing As If Acting Together Acting Without
£15.19
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Feminine Subject
Book SynopsisIn 1949 Simone de Beauvoir asked, What does it mean to be a woman? Her answer to that question inaugurated a radical transformation of the meaning of woman that defined the direction of subsequent feminist theory.Trade ReviewSusan Hekman has written a brilliant and much needed book. She encourages contemporary scholars to pursue the radical, boundary-breaking project of bringing ‘woman’ into philosophical traditions and offers a shrewd analysis of what has impeded this project. This accessible book will be of great value to students of feminist philosophy, feminist theory, gender studies, and in fact, anyone who recognizes that the search for ‘woman’ is on-going and continues to evolve Carol Gilligan, New York University Feminist theorists are fortunate that Susan Hekman has written this well-argued book. It will no doubt be read with interest and delight and assigned to students for classes. It is a pleasure to see a mature scholar take account of the field with an engaging thesis. Eloise Buker, Saint Louis University In The Feminine Subject, Susan Hekman has crafted an original account of feminist theory as a positive cumulative enterprise with discernible lineages to Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex. The intriguing result of this approach, which treats feminist theory as an ‘evolving tradition,’ is a feminism that embraces its differences within, rather than being undone by them. Christine Di Stefano, University of WashingtonTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Chapter 1: Simone De Beauvoir and the Beginnings of The Feminine Subject Chapter 2: Difference I: The “French Feminists” Chapter 3: Difference Ii: Radical Feminism and the Relational Self Chapter 4: Continuing the Tradition: Liberalism and Marxism Chapter 5: From Difference to Differences: Postmodernism, Race, Ethnicity, and Intersectionality Chapter 6: The Material Subject Bibliography
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Feminine Subject
Book SynopsisIn 1949 Simone de Beauvoir asked, What does it mean to be a woman? Her answer to that question inaugurated a radical transformation of the meaning of woman that defined the direction of subsequent feminist theory.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Chapter 1: Simone De Beauvoir and the Beginnings of The Feminine Subject Chapter 2: Difference I: The “French Feminists” Chapter 3: Difference Ii: Radical Feminism and the Relational Self Chapter 4: Continuing the Tradition: Liberalism and Marxism Chapter 5: From Difference to Differences: Postmodernism, Race, Ethnicity, and Intersectionality Chapter 6: The Material Subject Bibliography
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Spirit of Revolution
Book SynopsisIn recent years, feminist and queer theory have effectively disavowed both the human and revolutionary politics.Trade Review"A remarkable book, worthy of the twenty-first century and the new demands placed on theory and practice. Cornell and Seely argue for a spirit of revolution that is at once wary of the false hegemony of man, while nevertheless insisting on the promise of a new politics that finds its energy in sexual difference and queerness. This book will generate lively debate; it is not one more “turn” towards inhuman, posthuman or non-human materialisms, but it is all the more revolutionary for holding on to struggles of the polity."Claire Colebrook, Penn State"The Spirit of Revolution is a courageous, very engaging and timely work that packs a real revolutionary punch. Supplementing political economy, the authors speak directly and brilliantly to the erotic, racial, and spiritual challenges of self-transformation that must be integral parts of any attempt at re-imagining the urgently needed socialist alternative to contemporary capitalism. This is engaged philosophy at its best, with great power to expand consciousness and deepen our ethical responses to the planetary dimensions of crisis that we must now address. An extremely important philosophical work."Paget Henry, Brown UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Legacies of Erotic Transformation: Feminism and Revolution2. Burning Problems of Our Time: Revolution, Erotic Ethics, and Political Spirituality3. An Other Future: The Erotics of Revolution, The Psychosis of Colonialism, and the Haunting Promise of a New Humanity4. Undertaking Man, Making the Human: Toward a New CeremonyConclusion
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Spirit of Revolution
Book SynopsisIn recent years, feminist and queer theory have effectively disavowed both the human and revolutionary politics. In the face of massive geopolitical crisis, posthumanists have called for us to reconsider fundamentally the superiority and centrality of mankind and the human, and question how Man can presume to change the world by revolutionary action, particularly when Marx's dreams seem to have been swept into the dustbin of history.This provocative book reaffirms what is most basic in feminism the attack on the universality and sovereignty of Man but contends that the only way this can mean anything other than pessimistic rhetoric is to embrace human agency and the struggle against colonialism and capitalism. In a series of creolized readings Foucault with Ali Shari'ati, Lacan with Fanon, and Spinoza with Sylvia Wynter the authors demonstrate what is at stake in the ongoing debate between humanism and posthumanism, putting this debate in the context of contemporary Trade Review"A remarkable book, worthy of the twenty-first century and the new demands placed on theory and practice. Cornell and Seely argue for a spirit of revolution that is at once wary of the false hegemony of man, while nevertheless insisting on the promise of a new politics that finds its energy in sexual difference and queerness. This book will generate lively debate; it is not one more “turn” towards inhuman, posthuman or non-human materialisms, but it is all the more revolutionary for holding on to struggles of the polity."Claire Colebrook, Penn State"The Spirit of Revolution is a courageous, very engaging and timely work that packs a real revolutionary punch. Supplementing political economy, the authors speak directly and brilliantly to the erotic, racial, and spiritual challenges of self-transformation that must be integral parts of any attempt at re-imagining the urgently needed socialist alternative to contemporary capitalism. This is engaged philosophy at its best, with great power to expand consciousness and deepen our ethical responses to the planetary dimensions of crisis that we must now address. An extremely important philosophical work."Paget Henry, Brown UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Legacies of Erotic Transformation: Feminism and Revolution2. Burning Problems of Our Time: Revolution, Erotic Ethics, and Political Spirituality3. An Other Future: The Erotics of Revolution, The Psychosis of Colonialism, and the Haunting Promise of a New Humanity4. Undertaking Man, Making the Human: Toward a New CeremonyConclusion
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John Wiley & Sons Architecture in the Family Way Doctors Houses and Women 18701900
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John Wiley & Sons Awkward Politics Technologies of Popfeminist
Book SynopsisA cutting-edge study that shows how awkwardness uncovers feminist politics at work in the digital age.Trade Review"By using the concept of 'awkwardness' to dramatically shift how we talk about activism, Awkward Politics brings a new perspective to the field of feminist theory." - Margaret R. McCarthy, Davidson College
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University of British Columbia Press Painting the Maple
Book SynopsisGathering insights from numerous fields about the construction of Canada, this provocative volume illuminates the challenges that lie ahead for all Canadians who aspire to create a better future.Trade ReviewSuch a diverse range of essays is likely to be of most interest to practitioners of interdisciplinarity ... Others will find the theoretical discussions of the construction of Canada as an exclusive nation, characterized by racial and gender discrimination at worst and cultural insensitivity at best, instructive for any branch of Canadian studies. -- Judith Fingard * Atlantis *A collaborative tour de force from a coterie of scholars at the University of British Columbia ... The debates and issues raised by Painting the Maple deserve the attention of all interested Canadians and should not be restricted to academic readers alone. -- Valerie J. Korinek * The Canadian Historical Review *Table of ContentsConstructing Canada: An Introduction by Sherrill Grace, Veronica Strong-Boag, Avigail Eisenberg, and Joan Anderson Methodology on the Line: Constructing Meanings about 'Cultural Difference' by Isabel Dyck Domination and Political Representation by Avigail Eisenberg On the Outskirts of Empire: Race and Gender in Canadian TV News by Yasmin Jiwani Keeping 'em Out: Gender, Race, and Class Biases in Canadian Immigration Policy by Yasmeen Abu-Laban Documenting Racisim: Sharon Pollock's The Komagata Maru Incident by Sherrill Grace and Gabriele Helms Re-Constructing Canadian Literature: The Role of Race and Gender by Christyl Verduyn 'In Another Place, Not Here': Dionne Brand's Politics of (Dis)Location by Peter Dickinson 'Red Girl's Reasoning': E. Pauline Johnson Constructs the New Nation by Veronica Strong-Boag Encountering Anomalies: A Cultural Study of Chinese Migrants to Early Canada by Lisa Chalykoff The Mountie and the Nurse: Cross-Cultural Relations North of 60 by Linda Warley A Lesbian Politics of Erotic Decolonization by Becki Ross Hegemonic Nationalism and the Politics of Feminism and Multiculturalism in Canada by Jo-Ann Lee and Linda Cardinal Constructing Canada: The Gendering and Racializing of the Health Care System by Joan Anderson and Sheryl Kirkham Building Transdisciplinary Standpoints: An Integrative Bibliography by Gabriele Helms, Matt James, and Patricia Rodney
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University of British Columbia Press Painting the Maple
Book SynopsisGathering insights from numerous fields about the construction of Canada, this provocative volume illuminates the challenges that lie ahead for all Canadians who aspire to create a better future.Trade ReviewSuch a diverse range of essays is likely to be of most interest to practitioners of interdisciplinarity ... Others will find the theoretical discussions of the construction of Canada as an exclusive nation, characterized by racial and gender discrimination at worst and cultural insensitivity at best, instructive for any branch of Canadian studies. -- Judith Fingard * Atlantis *A collaborative tour de force from a coterie of scholars at the University of British Columbia ... The debates and issues raised by Painting the Maple deserve the attention of all interested Canadians and should not be restricted to academic readers alone. -- Valerie J. Korinek * The Canadian Historical Review *Table of ContentsConstructing Canada: An Introduction by Sherrill Grace, Veronica Strong-Boag, Avigail Eisenberg, and Joan Anderson Methodology on the Line: Constructing Meanings about 'Cultural Difference' by Isabel Dyck Domination and Political Representation by Avigail Eisenberg On the Outskirts of Empire: Race and Gender in Canadian TV News by Yasmin Jiwani Keeping 'em Out: Gender, Race, and Class Biases in Canadian Immigration Policy by Yasmeen Abu-Laban Documenting Racisim: Sharon Pollock's The Komagata Maru Incident by Sherrill Grace and Gabriele Helms Re-Constructing Canadian Literature: The Role of Race and Gender by Christyl Verduyn 'In Another Place, Not Here': Dionne Brand's Politics of (Dis)Location by Peter Dickinson 'Red Girl's Reasoning': E. Pauline Johnson Constructs the New Nation by Veronica Strong-Boag Encountering Anomalies: A Cultural Study of Chinese Migrants to Early Canada by Lisa Chalykoff The Mountie and the Nurse: Cross-Cultural Relations North of 60 by Linda Warley A Lesbian Politics of Erotic Decolonization by Becki Ross Hegemonic Nationalism and the Politics of Feminism and Multiculturalism in Canada by Jo-Ann Lee and Linda Cardinal Constructing Canada: The Gendering and Racializing of the Health Care System by Joan Anderson and Sheryl Kirkham Building Transdisciplinary Standpoints: An Integrative Bibliography by Gabriele Helms, Matt James, and Patricia Rodney
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University of British Columbia Press Assembling Unity
Book SynopsisEstablished narratives portray Indigenous unity as emerging solely in response to the political agenda of the settler state. But the concept of unity has long shaped the modern Indigenous political movement. With Indigenous perspectives and frameworks in the foreground, Assembling Unity explores the relationship between global political ideologies and pan-Indigenous politics in British Columbia through the history of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs (UBCIC). Sarah Nickel demonstrates that while unity has been an enduring goal for BC Indigenous peoples, its expression was heavily negotiated between UBCIC members, grassroots constituents, and Indigenous women's organizations. Nickel draws on oral interviews, newspaper articles, government documents, and UBCIC records to expose the uniquely gendered nature of political work, as well as the economic and emotional sacrifices that activists make. This incisive work unsettles dominant Western and patriarchal political iTrade Review"Assembling Unity offers a great deal to scholars interested not only in the Canadian context but more broadly in Indigenous politics and Indigenous feminisms. Nickel’s conceptual framework stands as a model to inspire other scholars who seek to use insights from Indigenous studies in order to reframe old debates and frameworks." -- Paige Raibmon * Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal *Assembling Unity is an important book. Sarah Nickel’s timely study of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs was shortlisted for the Canadian Historical Association’s 2020 Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize and was recently announced the winner of this year’s CHA Indigenous History Book Prize. Both accolades are much deserved. -- Chelsea Horton * Ormsby Review *A rich examination of the work Indigenous political leaders and grassroots organizers did to negotiate unity as part of a longer history of political activism in the context of continued settler colonialism. -- Lianne C. Leddy * Herizons, Fall 2019 *Table of ContentsBeginningsPart 1: Pan-Indigenous Unity1 Unity: “United we stand, divided we perish”2 Authority: “Ordinary Indians” and “the private club”3 Money: “A blessing and a golden noose”Part 2: A Philosophical Revolution and Competing Nationalisms4 Refusal: “Empty words and empty promises”5 Protest: Direct Action through “Militant May”6 Sovereignty: “If you really believe that you have the right, take it!”ReflectionsAppendixNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of British Columbia Press No Legal Way Out R v Ryan Domestic Abuse and the
Book SynopsisNo Legal Way Out tells the story of one woman who felt trapped in an abusive relationship – and in a system that gave her no way to escape.Trade ReviewI highly recommend this well-written, well-referenced, and accessible book as a must-read for the legal profession. No Legal Way Out should be part of the curriculum for law, women's studies, sociology, and other academic programs that deal with domestic abuse. -- Bobbie A. Walker, Certified Specialist in Criminal Law * Canadian Law Library Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Understanding Domestic Abuse and Femicide2 Nicole Doucet, Her Story, and Her Trial3 Decisions of the Courts4 Policing the Police?5 Trial by MediaConclusionNotes; Selected Bibliography; Index of Cases; Index
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University of British Columbia Press No Legal Way Out
Book SynopsisNo Legal Way Out tells the story of one woman who felt trapped in an abusive relationship and in a system that gave her no way to escape.Trade ReviewI highly recommend this well-written, well-referenced, and accessible book as a must-read for the legal profession. No Legal Way Out should be part of the curriculum for law, women's studies, sociology, and other academic programs that deal with domestic abuse. -- Bobbie A. Walker, Certified Specialist in Criminal Law * Canadian Law Library Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Understanding Domestic Abuse and Femicide2 Nicole Doucet, Her Story, and Her Trial3 Decisions of the Courts4 Policing the Police?5 Trial by MediaConclusionNotes; Selected Bibliography; Index of Cases; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Inside Killjoys Kastle
Book SynopsisExploring the making and experience of a lesbian feminist haunted house, this book reframes and reclaims queer feminist histories with humour, provocation, and theoretical sophistication.Table of ContentsLesbian Rule: Welcome to the Hell House / Cait McKinney and Allyson MitchellRISING FROM THE DEAD: INCEPTION1 Scaling Up and Sharing Out Dyke Culture: Killjoy’s Kastle’s Haunted Block Party / Heather LoveLesbianizing the Institution: The Haunting Effects of Killjoy Hospitality at the Art Gallery of York University / Emelie Chhangur 2 Feminist Killjoys (and Other Wilful Subjects) / Sara AhmedKilljoy in the ONE Archives: Activating Los Angeles’s Queer Art and Activist Histories / David Evans Frantz THE KASTLE: EXECUTION3 Inside Job: Learning, Collaboration, and Queer-Feminist Contagion in Killjoy’s Kastle / Helena Reckitt Valerie Solanas as the Goddamned Welcoming Committee / Felice Shays Valerie Solanas Script 4 Playing Demented Women’s Studies Professor Tour Guide, or Performing Monstrosity in Killjoy’s Kastle / Moynan King Demented Women’s Studies Professor Tour Guide Script The Sound of White Girls Crying / Nazmia Jamal Paranormal Killjoys / Ginger Brooks Takahashi Menstruating Trans Man / Chase Joynt A Ring around Your Finger Is a Cord around Your Genitals! / Chelsey Lichtman Once upon a Time I Was a Riot Ghoul / Kalale Dalton-Lutale Riot Ghoul / Andie Shabbar Inconvenienced / Madelyne Beckles On the Cusp of the Kastle / Karen Tongson 5 Processing Killjoy’s Kastle: A Deep Lez Performance / Ann CvetkovichTHE CRYPT: ARCHIVING AND REFLECTIONFacebook Statements: “We Learn More Every Time We Do This”6 Reflections of a Real-Life Feminist Killjoy: Ball-Busters and the Recurring Trauma of Intergenerational Queer-Feminist Life / Kyla Wazana TompkinsR.I.P. Little Frida’s / Chris E. Vargas 7 Home Sick: Horror, Gothic Storytelling, and the Queers Who Haunt Houses / S. Trimble8 The Graveyards of Community Gathering: Archiving Lesbian and Feminist Life in London / Catherine GrantLeave Britney Alone! and Other Ghostly Feelings / Tobias B.D. Wiggins Index
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University of British Columbia Press The Solidarity Encounter
Book SynopsisThis compassionate yet unflinching exposé of the pitfalls of Indigenousnon-Indigenous solidarity work offers a constructive framework for non-colonizing solidarity that can be applied in any context of unequal power.Trade ReviewCarol Lynne D’Arcangelis has produced a timely and important book that engages meaningfully with relevant scholarship around feminist anti‐colonial and Indigenous resurgence efforts. Students, scholars, and activists alike will find lessons here. -- Shawna Ferris, associate professor, Women’s and Gender Studies, University of ManitobaTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1 White Women, Proximity and Settler/Liberal Self-Making2 Transgressing Cherished Spaces: Indigenous Women on the “Impulse to Solidarity”3 Risky Romanticization: Cultural Difference, National Belonging and Indigenous Resistance4 Making Exceptions as the Rule: “Good/White Settler Allies” and the Politics of Declaration5 Towards Non-Colonizing SolidarityConclusion: The Solidarity Encounter in ReliefNotes; References; Index
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University of British Columbia Press The Solidarity Encounter
Book SynopsisThis compassionate yet unflinching exposé of the pitfalls of Indigenousnon-Indigenous solidarity work offers a constructive framework for non-colonizing solidarity that can be applied in any context of unequal power.Trade ReviewCarol Lynne D’Arcangelis has produced a timely and important book that engages meaningfully with relevant scholarship around feminist anti‐colonial and Indigenous resurgence efforts. Students, scholars, and activists alike will find lessons here. -- Shawna Ferris, associate professor, Women’s and Gender Studies, University of ManitobaTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1 White Women, Proximity and Settler/Liberal Self-Making2 Transgressing Cherished Spaces: Indigenous Women on the “Impulse to Solidarity”3 Risky Romanticization: Cultural Difference, National Belonging and Indigenous Resistance4 Making Exceptions as the Rule: “Good/White Settler Allies” and the Politics of Declaration5 Towards Non-Colonizing SolidarityConclusion: The Solidarity Encounter in ReliefNotes; References; Index
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University of British Columbia Press The Juggling Mother
Book SynopsisThe Juggling Mother upends popular representations of the supermom, showing her to be a cultural construction and the model neoliberal worker.Trade ReviewWatson's book is a crucial, nuanced, and astute analysis of the ways in which our current capitalist system is failing mothers. -- Melinda Vandenbeld Giles, University of Toronto and Lakehead University * University of Toronto Quarterly *Table of Contents1 Coming Undone2 The Juggling Mother3 C-Suite Moms4 You Are What You Nurse5 Avoiding Regret6 Dropping the BallNotes; Works Cited; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Frontiers of Feminism
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University of British Columbia Press Frontiers of Feminism
Book SynopsisFrontiers of Feminism shines new light on the recent history of feminist movements, using the examples of Italy and Québec to bring an international perspective to major themes, strategies, and modes of organizing.Trade ReviewJacinthe Michaud, a professor at York University, writes a history of feminism in Quebec and Italy that captures women’s exuberant hopes in a turbulent decade—in all their messy complexity. -- Elaine Coburn * Herizons *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments1 Contrasting the Québec and Italian Feminist Movements2 Feminist Synergies with the Left3 Wages for Housework: Caught between Refusal to Work and Feminism 4 Double Activism and Feminist Separatism5 The Illusion of Unity and Homogeneity: Emergence of a Fragmented Political Subject6 Angel Makers or Troublemakers? Abortion, Self-Help Politics, and the Management of Feminist Clinics7 Feminist Approaches to Organizing8 Capturing Feminist Transgressions through Cultural Productions9 Who Should Write our History?10 This History Has No End and Offers No ConclusionNotes; References; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Demanding Equality
Book SynopsisIn a wide-ranging survey of Canadian feminism from the 1880s to the 1980s, Demanding Equality reveals a continuous, vibrant, and often contentious search for equality, autonomy, and dignity.Trade Review"There are few, if any, historians better placed than Joan Sangster to write a history of a century of feminism in Canada... Demanding Equality is a book that is at once capacious in its scope and accessibly written." -- Magda Fahrni, Universite du Quebec a Montreal * Labour / Le Travail *Sangster’s precisely written yet wideranging book is a tour de force that chronicles the struggles for ‘equality, autonomy, and dignity’ in all of their rich complexity. -- Elaine Coburn, York University * Literary Review of Canada *"Demanding Equality is a formidable book, wide in scope, commendably readable, expansive in content, and convincing in analysis." -- Rebecca Priegert Coulter, Professor Emerita, University of Western Ontario. * University of Toronto Quarterly *[Demanding Equality] is an impressively balanced account that will undoubtedly become required reading for gender and women's history classes across the country. -- Catherine Carstairs, University of Guelph * JACANZ, Vol. 1, Issue 2 *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Spreading the Word of Women's Emancipation2 The Origins of Socialist and Labour Feminism3 Feminism, Democracy, and Suffrage4 Reform Feminism and Women’s Right to Work5 Agrarian, Labour, and Socialist Feminism after the First World War6 Feminism and the Party Question7 Feminism, War, and Peace8 Feminism in a Cold War Climate9 Liberating Feminisms10 Feminist Organizing in the 1970s and 1980s11 Afterword: Feminist Challenges of the 1990s and BeyondNotes; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Demanding Equality
Book SynopsisIn a wide-ranging survey of Canadian feminism from the 1880s to the 1980s, Demanding Equality reveals a continuous, vibrant, and often contentious search for equality, autonomy, and dignity.Trade Review"There are few, if any, historians better placed than Joan Sangster to write a history of a century of feminism in Canada... Demanding Equality is a book that is at once capacious in its scope and accessibly written." -- Magda Fahrni, Universite du Quebec a Montreal * Labour / Le Travail *Sangster’s precisely written yet wideranging book is a tour de force that chronicles the struggles for ‘equality, autonomy, and dignity’ in all of their rich complexity. -- Elaine Coburn, York University * Literary Review of Canada *"Demanding Equality is a formidable book, wide in scope, commendably readable, expansive in content, and convincing in analysis." -- Rebecca Priegert Coulter, Professor Emerita, University of Western Ontario. * University of Toronto Quarterly *[Demanding Equality] is an impressively balanced account that will undoubtedly become required reading for gender and women's history classes across the country. -- Catherine Carstairs, University of Guelph * JACANZ, Vol. 1, Issue 2 *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Spreading the Word of Women's Emancipation2 The Origins of Socialist and Labour Feminism3 Feminism, Democracy, and Suffrage4 Reform Feminism and Women’s Right to Work5 Agrarian, Labour, and Socialist Feminism after the First World War6 Feminism and the Party Question7 Feminism, War, and Peace8 Feminism in a Cold War Climate9 Liberating Feminisms10 Feminist Organizing in the 1970s and 1980s11 Afterword: Feminist Challenges of the 1990s and BeyondNotes; Index
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MB - Cornell University Press What Can She Know Feminist Theory and the
Book SynopsisIn this lively and accessible book Lorraine Code addresses one of the most controversial questions in contemporary theory of knowledge, a question of fundamental concern for feminist theory as well: Is the sex of the knower epistemologically...Trade ReviewThis book merits serious discussion and deserves a wide readership among philosophers of all persuasions. * The Philosophical Review *Wrtitten for philosophers, this work is remarkably lucid and readable, and is accessible to students and faculty in women's studies and philosophy. * Choice *
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Cornell University Press Whose Science Whose Knowledge
Book SynopsisSandra Harding here develops further the themes first addressed in her widely influential book, The Science Question in Feminism, and conducts a compelling analysis of feminist theories on the philosophical problem of how we know what we...Trade ReviewWhose Science, Whose Knowledge? represents a transition from gender to power considerations in Harding's continuous efforts to raise questions about the theory and practice of science. -- Shulamit Reinharz * Gender & Society *Harding's account offers a good insight into a variety of feminist responses to the hegemony apparently exercised by scientific thinking. Some readers will take the book as a challenge to the sociology of science to examine its arguments and assumptions in the light of standpoint theory and feminist postmodernism. -- Steven Yearley * British Journal of Sociology *This is an important book that has much to offer practicing scientists but probably will not be read by many of them. That is a shame, because its bold claims are usefully unsettling and its argument begs for engagement. One of the basic messages of Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?—that all fields of natural science are best analyzed from within the social sciences, of which they are logically a part, rather than taken as external models for the social sciences—has potential consequences for most, perhaps all, scientific practice. -- Rayna Rapp, New School for Social Research * Science *
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MB - Cornell University Press Shakespeares Foreign Worlds
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Cornell University Press Signifying Woman Culture and Chaos in Rousseau
Book SynopsisWoman has been defined in classic political theory as elusive yet dangerous, by her nature fundamentally destructive to public life. In the view of Linda M. G. Zerilli, however, gender relations shape the very grammar of citizenship. In deeply...Trade ReviewSignifying Woman is in many respects a benchmark in feminist political theory. What Zerilli sets out to do (and successfully does) is to argue that a feminist critical practice of reading texts in political theory is insufficient if confined to efforts to 'get woman' right. -- Kimberly F. Curtis, Duke University * Women and Politics *
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Cornell University Press Retrieving Experience
Book SynopsisIn Retrieving Experience, Sonia Kruks engages critically with the postmodern turn in feminist and social theory. She contends that, although postmodern analyses yield important insights about the place of discourse in constituting subjectivity, they...Trade ReviewOverall Retrieving Experience makes an outstanding political contribution to post-postmodern understandings of the subject that move significantly beyond the current impasse of the Enlightenment/postmodern nexus. Kruks retelling of a tale... offers insights that should well invigorate international mainstream discussions of the subject as well as feminist political engagements into the new millennium. -- Mary Walsh, University of Canberra * Australian Feminist Studies *
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Cornell University Press Social Justice Feminists in the United States and
Book SynopsisWomen reformers in the United States and Germany maintained a brisk dialogue between 1885 and 1933. Drawing on one another's expertise, they sought to alleviate a wide array of social injustices generated by industrial capitalism, such as child labor...Trade ReviewThis collection presents and analyzes documents of the transnational dialogue between German and American women social justice reformers between 1885 and 1933. Speeches, correspondence, publications, and reports of women's conferences make up the wide array of documents that illustrate an intense and transatlantic exchange of ideas and friendships. As the editors write in the informative and in-depth introduction, this book contributes to comparative historical inquiry. -- Jennifer Anne Davy * Journal of Women's History *This selection... contains sufficient documentation of the difficulties and problems feminists went through to make the volume a useful contribution to the comparative history of women's activism and social welfare in Germany and the USA as well as to the ongoing internalization of feminist history. -- Richard J. Evans, University of Cambridge * German History *Well-framed and carefully researched.... Social Justice Feminists affords college readers the opportunity to hear the voices of women as world citizens and agents of social change, individuals for whom the democratic ideal remained a struggle rather than an assurance. * Transformations *
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MB - Cornell University Press A Politics of Impossible Difference The Later Work of Luce Irigaray
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Johns Hopkins University Press Womens Rights
Book SynopsisThe essays address such topics as the rights of Middle Eastern women, rape camps in the former Yugoslavia, and abortion law in Ireland.Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: History and PerspectivesChapter 1. Becoming Human: The Origins and Development of Women's Human RightsChapter 2. Women's Rights as Human Rights: Toward a Re-Vision of Human RightsChapter 3. Human Rights: A Feminist PerspectiveChapter 4. The Gender of Jus CogensChapter 5. Enemies or Allies? Feminism and Cultural Relativism as Dissident Voices in Human Rights DiscoursePart II: Religion, Culture, and Women's Human RightsChapter 6. The Human Rights of Middle Eastern and Muslim Women: A Project for the Twenty-first CenturyChapter 7. Post-Colonialism, Gender, Customary Injustice: Widows in African SocietiesChapter 8. Gendered States: Rethinking Culture as a Site of South Asian Human Rights WorkPart III: Violence and Women Chapter 9. Women's Voices, Women's PainChapter 10. Women, War, and Rape: Challenges Facing the International Tribunal for the Former YugoslaviaChapter 11. Rape Camps as a Means of Ethnic Cleansing: Religious, Cultural, and Ethical Responses to Rape Victims in the Former YugoslaviaChapter 12. Surfacing Children: Limitations of Genocidal Rape DiscourseChapter 13. Rights Talk and the Experience of Law: Implementing Women's Human Rights the Protection from ViolenceChapter 14. Used, Abused, Arrested, and Deported: Extending Immigration Benefits to Protect the Victims of Trafficking and to Secure the Prosecution of TraffickersPart IV: Economic RightsChapter 15. Measuring Women's Economic and Social Rights AchievementChapter 16. The Impact of Structural Adjustment on Women: A Governance and Human Rights AgendaPart V: Reproductive RightsChapter 17. Human Rights Dynamics of Abortion Law ReformChapter 18. Debating Reproductive Rights in IrelandChapter 19. China to CEDAW: An Update on Population PolicyAppendix: Text of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against WomenList of Contributors
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Johns Hopkins University Press Feminist Bioethics
Book SynopsisPhilosophically grounded, methodologically sound, and theoretically rigorous, this paradigm-challenging collection ponders the most dynamic areas of feminist inquiry into bioethical thought and practice and sketches future directions for this rapidly growing field.Trade ReviewThe bite-sized accessible chapters would be useful in undergraduate or graduate courses as a source of readings, research, and presentation topics. Choice 2010Table of ContentsList of ContributorsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart I. Introduction to Feminist Bioethics Chapter 1. The Expanding Landscape: Recent Directions in Feminist Bioethics Chapter 2. "It Is Her Problem, Not Ours": Contributions of Feminist Bioethics to the Mainstream Chapter 3. Broadening the Feminism in Feminist Bioethics Part II. Theory in Feminist Bioethics Chapter 4. Conceptions of Autonomy and Conceptions of the Body in Bioethics Chapter 5. Trust, Method, and Moral Progress in Feminist BioethicsChapter 6. The Right to Life: Rethinking Universalism in Bioethics Part III. From Theory to Method Chapter 7. Bodies, Connectedness, and Knowledge: A Contextual Approach to Hereditary Cancer Genetics Chapter 8. Stories of Innocence and Experience: Bodily Narrative and Rape Chapter 9. Where's the Harm? Challenging Bioethical Support of Prenatal Selection for Sexual OrientationChapter 10. Toward a Methodology for Technocratic Transformation: Feminist Bioethics, Midwifery, and Women's Health in the Twenty-first Century Part IV. Understanding Difference: Making and Breaking Connections within and between the Margins Chapter 11. The Difference Difference Makes: Public Health and the Complexities of Racial and Ethnic Differences Chapter 12. Feminist Bioethics and Indigenous Research Reform in Australia: Is an Alliance across Gender, Racial, and Cultural Borders a Useful Strategy for Promoting Change? Chapter 13. China's Birth Control Program through Feminist Lenses Chapter 14. A Feminist Standpoint on Disability: Our Bodies, Ourselves Conclusion. Reassessment and Renewal Index
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University of Toronto Press Money in Their Own Name The Feminist Voice in
Book SynopsisIn her analysis, McKeen underscores this persistent familialism that has been written and rewritten into Canadian social policy thereby denying women's autonomy as independent claims-makers on the state.
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University of Toronto Press Documenting First Wave Feminisms
Book SynopsisTogether with its first volume, Documenting First Wave Feminisms reveals a more nuanced picture, attentive to nationalism and transnationalism, of the first wave than has previously been understood.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements General Introduction: Documenting First Wave Feminisms Volume Introduction I Imperial/National Feminisms * Introduction * Nahnebahwequa - Catherine Sutton, from "For a Reference" (c1860) * Lucy Waterbury, The Universal Sisterhood (189_) * Lady Ishbel Aberdeen, "Address from the National Council of Women of Canada to Her Majesty the Queen" (1897) * Henriette Forget, "The Indian Women of the Western Provinces" (1900) * E. Pauline Johnson - Tekahioucoaka, "The Iroquois Women of Canada" (1900) * Lally Bernard, "The Ladies Empire Club of London" (1904) * Letter from a Jamaican Immigrant to Lady Aberdeen (1910) * Bessie Bullen-Perry, from From Halifax to Vancouver (1912) * Gertrude Richardson, "My Canadian Letter" (1915) * Women's Century Editorial, "India and Canada" (1915) * Constance Boulton, "Our Imperial Obligations" (1915) * Anonymous, "Nationalism and Racialism" (1918) * Henrietta Muir Edwards, "Imperial or National?" (1918) * British Commonwealth League, "Resolutions Passed at the Conference on Citizen Rights of Women Within the British Empire, July 9th and 10th 1925" (1925) * Florence Custance, "The Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire Discuss Weighty Problems" (1926) * Cairine Wilson, "Address to the Annual Meeting of the Women's Teacher's Federation" (1940) II Internationalism * Introduction * Toronto Ladies' Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Fugitives, "The Affectionate Address of Thousands of the Women of Canada to Their Sisters, The Women of the United States of America" (1853) * Mary Ann Shadd Cary, "A Bazaar In Toronto For Frederick Douglass' Paper, etc." (1854) * Mary Ann Shadd Cary, "Lectures" (1855) * Margaret Munn, "What is a Light Line Union? A Catechism" (188_) * Letitia Youmans, The Women's Christian Temperance Union Comes to Canada - 1874 (1893) * Robertine Barry, "When Will We See [Women in University?]" (1895) * Harriet Boomer, Commentary at the Conference of the International Council of Women (1899) * Anonymous "The Indian Committee" (1913) * Una Saunders, ed. "Canada and Japan in Combination: The YWCA" (1915) * Kate A. Foster, "Friendship House in Winnipeg" (1926) * Woman Worker Editorial, "International Women's Day Celebrations of To-day" (1928) * Canadian Working Women's Delegation, "Soviet Union Inspires Canadian Working Women" (1930) * Anna Mokry, Excerpt of Reminiscences (c.1910s-1930s) * Letter from Mary McGeachy to Violet McNaughton (1931) *"Goodwill" [Illustration] (1937) * Dorothy Heneker, "What Women's Organizations Are Sponsoring Today in Geneva" (1939) * Cairine Wilson, "Message for the Newsletter of the Canadian Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs" (1938) III Suffrage * Introduction * Hantsport Women's Christian Temperance Union, "Petition for Enfranchisement of Women" (1878) * Mary McDonnell, "A Century of Progress for Women "(1893) * Emily Cummings, Further Discussion on A Century of Progress (1893) * Margaret Benedictsson, "Women's Rights, " and "Women's Equal Rights" (1898) * Flora MacDonald Denison, Report on Attendance at the International Woman Suffrage Alliance Conference (1906) * Lena Mortimer, "One Woman's Way of Thinking" (1911) * Sonya Leathes, What Equal Suffrage Has Accomplished (1911 or 1912) * Victoria Political Equality League, "The Study Club" (1912) * Florence Trenholme Cole, "Concerning Suffrage" (1913) * Marion Francis Beynon, "Foreign Woman's Franchise" (1916) * Nellie McClung, "Mrs. McClung's Reply" (1917) * Jus Suffragii Editorial, International Response to Women Gaining Federal Franchise (1917) * Constance Hamilton, Letter to the Editor of Jus Suffragii (1918) * Harriet Prenter, "The Failure of the Suffrage Movement to Bring Freedom to Woman" (1928) * Idola Saint-Jean, Radio Address on Granting Women the Vote in Quebec (1931) IV Citizenship * Introduction * Nahnebahwequa - Catherine Sutton, Speech to the Aborigines' Protection Society of London (1860) *(Mrs. Dr.) Annie Parker, "Women in Nation Building" (1890) * Methodist Women's Missionary Society, Work Among Chinese Women (1892-1893) * Chinese Empire Ladies' Reform Association, Victoria [Illustration] (1903) * Emily Murphy aka Janey Canuck, from Open Trails (1912) * Georgina Binnie-Clark, from Wheat and Women (1914) * Marion Francis Beynon, "The Foreigner" (1914) * Lily B. Levetus, "The Local Council of Jewish Women" (1915) * Mrs. Donald Shaw, "Congress of Coloured Women" (1920) * Anonymous, "The Pays Des Iroquois - The Six Nations of Grand River" (1923) * Sarah Robertson Matheson, "An Appeal to 'Women of the World'" (1925) * Letter From Emily General to Rica Flemyng Gyll, British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society and Aborigines Protection Society (1925) * Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, Emily Murphy, and Irene Parlby, Petition to the Governor General of Canada Regarding Women as Persons (1927) * Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, Emily Murphy, and Irene Parlby, Request to Appeal Supreme Court of Canada Decision to British Privy Council (1928) * Agnes MacPhail, Speech in the House of Commons on the Naturalization of Married Women (1927) *"Ship of State" [Illustration] (1928) * Therese Casgrain, "Woman's Place in a Democracy" (1941) V Moral Reform, Sexuality and Birth Control * Introduction * Women's Christian Association of the City of Halifax, Sixth Annual Report (1880) * Letter from Emma Crosby to Mrs. H.M. Leland, Secretary of the Hamilton, Women's Missionary Society (1881) * Lady Julia Drummond, Age of Consent (1896) * Jessie C. Smith, WCTU Superintendent, "Social Purity" (1898) * Dora Foster (Kerr), from Sex Radicalism (1905) * Anonymous, "The White Slave Trade in Montreal" (1913) * Beatrice Brigden, "One Woman's Campaign for Social Purity and Social Reform" (1913-1917) * Una Saunders, from The Work of the Young Women's Christian Association in Canada (1918) * Florence Rowe, "Better and Fewer Babies" (1924) * Helen MacMurchy, "What Are We Going to Tell the Young People?" (1934) * Winnifred Kydd, President NCWC, Statement on Birth Control (l934) VI Women's Work and Economic Status * Introduction * Jessie McVicar, "Organization our Only Hope" and "Organization for Girls" (1883) * Jean Thomson Scott, from The conditions of female labour in Ontario 1892 (1892) * National Council of Women of Canada, Debate Over Protective Legislation (1895) * Amelia Paget, "Report on Mrs. Paget's Trip to Indian Reserves in Saskatchewan" (1912) * Helena Gutteridge, "Women Organize an Employment League" (1913) * Civic Committee of the University Women's Club of Winnipeg, The Work of Women and Girls in the Department Stores in Winnipeg (1914) * Anonymous, "Orientals in Hotels Displace White Labor" (1915) *Eva Circe-Cote, "Equal Pay-Equal Work" (1917) * Kathleen Derry, Treatment of Women Emigrants (1920) * Irene Parlby, "Married Women's Economic Status" (1925) * Annie Buller, "The Need for Mass Work Among Women" (1935) * Canadian Federation of University Women, "Report of Committee on the Legal and Economic Status of University Women" (1936) VII Peace * Introduction * Margaret McKay, "Report of Provincial Superintendent on Peace and Arbitration" (1896) * Ontario Women's Christian Temperance Union, Resolution on the Boer War (1899) * National Council of Women of Canada, "Resolution as to the Standing Committee to Make Arrangements for the Campaign Contingent to the Transvaal" (1899) * M. Gomar White, "Peace and Arbitration" (1907) * Flora Macdonald Denison, War and Women (1914) * Letter to Jane Adams Regarding Canadian Participation in Women's Peace Conference (1915) * Julia Grace Wales, Untitled Paper on Her Involvement in Women's Peace Conference at the Hague (1915) * Gertrude Richardson, "The Cruelty of Conscription: A Letter to Women" (1917) * Rose Henderson, from Woman and War (192_) * Hilda Laird, "League of Nations" (1932) * Laura Jamieson, "Reply to Questionnaire re Techniques of Developing Public Opinion on Peace (1937) *"The Hand that Rocks the Cradle..." [Illustration] (1937)
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University of Toronto Press Documenting First Wave Feminisms Volume II
Book SynopsisTogether with its first volume, Documenting First Wave Feminisms reveals a more nuanced picture, attentive to nationalism and transnationalism, of the first wave than has previously been understood.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements General Introduction: Documenting First Wave Feminisms Volume Introduction I Imperial/National Feminisms * Introduction * Nahnebahwequa - Catherine Sutton, from "For a Reference" (c1860) * Lucy Waterbury, The Universal Sisterhood (189_) * Lady Ishbel Aberdeen, "Address from the National Council of Women of Canada to Her Majesty the Queen" (1897) * Henriette Forget, "The Indian Women of the Western Provinces" (1900) * E. Pauline Johnson - Tekahioucoaka, "The Iroquois Women of Canada" (1900) * Lally Bernard, "The Ladies Empire Club of London" (1904) * Letter from a Jamaican Immigrant to Lady Aberdeen (1910) * Bessie Bullen-Perry, from From Halifax to Vancouver (1912) * Gertrude Richardson, "My Canadian Letter" (1915) * Women's Century Editorial, "India and Canada" (1915) * Constance Boulton, "Our Imperial Obligations" (1915) * Anonymous, "Nationalism and Racialism" (1918) * Henrietta Muir Edwards, "Imperial or National?" (1918) * British Commonwealth League, "Resolutions Passed at the Conference on Citizen Rights of Women Within the British Empire, July 9th and 10th 1925" (1925) * Florence Custance, "The Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire Discuss Weighty Problems" (1926) * Cairine Wilson, "Address to the Annual Meeting of the Women's Teacher's Federation" (1940) II Internationalism * Introduction * Toronto Ladies' Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Fugitives, "The Affectionate Address of Thousands of the Women of Canada to Their Sisters, The Women of the United States of America" (1853) * Mary Ann Shadd Cary, "A Bazaar In Toronto For Frederick Douglass' Paper, etc." (1854) * Mary Ann Shadd Cary, "Lectures" (1855) * Margaret Munn, "What is a Light Line Union? A Catechism" (188_) * Letitia Youmans, The Women's Christian Temperance Union Comes to Canada - 1874 (1893) * Robertine Barry, "When Will We See [Women in University?]" (1895) * Harriet Boomer, Commentary at the Conference of the International Council of Women (1899) * Anonymous "The Indian Committee" (1913) * Una Saunders, ed. "Canada and Japan in Combination: The YWCA" (1915) * Kate A. Foster, "Friendship House in Winnipeg" (1926) * Woman Worker Editorial, "International Women's Day Celebrations of To-day" (1928) * Canadian Working Women's Delegation, "Soviet Union Inspires Canadian Working Women" (1930) * Anna Mokry, Excerpt of Reminiscences (c.1910s-1930s) * Letter from Mary McGeachy to Violet McNaughton (1931) *"Goodwill" [Illustration] (1937) * Dorothy Heneker, "What Women's Organizations Are Sponsoring Today in Geneva" (1939) * Cairine Wilson, "Message for the Newsletter of the Canadian Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs" (1938) III Suffrage * Introduction * Hantsport Women's Christian Temperance Union, "Petition for Enfranchisement of Women" (1878) * Mary McDonnell, "A Century of Progress for Women "(1893) * Emily Cummings, Further Discussion on A Century of Progress (1893) * Margaret Benedictsson, "Women's Rights, " and "Women's Equal Rights" (1898) * Flora MacDonald Denison, Report on Attendance at the International Woman Suffrage Alliance Conference (1906) * Lena Mortimer, "One Woman's Way of Thinking" (1911) * Sonya Leathes, What Equal Suffrage Has Accomplished (1911 or 1912) * Victoria Political Equality League, "The Study Club" (1912) * Florence Trenholme Cole, "Concerning Suffrage" (1913) * Marion Francis Beynon, "Foreign Woman's Franchise" (1916) * Nellie McClung, "Mrs. McClung's Reply" (1917) * Jus Suffragii Editorial, International Response to Women Gaining Federal Franchise (1917) * Constance Hamilton, Letter to the Editor of Jus Suffragii (1918) * Harriet Prenter, "The Failure of the Suffrage Movement to Bring Freedom to Woman" (1928) * Idola Saint-Jean, Radio Address on Granting Women the Vote in Quebec (1931) IV Citizenship * Introduction * Nahnebahwequa - Catherine Sutton, Speech to the Aborigines' Protection Society of London (1860) *(Mrs. Dr.) Annie Parker, "Women in Nation Building" (1890) * Methodist Women's Missionary Society, Work Among Chinese Women (1892-1893) * Chinese Empire Ladies' Reform Association, Victoria [Illustration] (1903) * Emily Murphy aka Janey Canuck, from Open Trails (1912) * Georgina Binnie-Clark, from Wheat and Women (1914) * Marion Francis Beynon, "The Foreigner" (1914) * Lily B. Levetus, "The Local Council of Jewish Women" (1915) * Mrs. Donald Shaw, "Congress of Coloured Women" (1920) * Anonymous, "The Pays Des Iroquois - The Six Nations of Grand River" (1923) * Sarah Robertson Matheson, "An Appeal to 'Women of the World'" (1925) * Letter From Emily General to Rica Flemyng Gyll, British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society and Aborigines Protection Society (1925) * Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, Emily Murphy, and Irene Parlby, Petition to the Governor General of Canada Regarding Women as Persons (1927) * Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, Emily Murphy, and Irene Parlby, Request to Appeal Supreme Court of Canada Decision to British Privy Council (1928) * Agnes MacPhail, Speech in the House of Commons on the Naturalization of Married Women (1927) *"Ship of State" [Illustration] (1928) * Therese Casgrain, "Woman's Place in a Democracy" (1941) V Moral Reform, Sexuality and Birth Control * Introduction * Women's Christian Association of the City of Halifax, Sixth Annual Report (1880) * Letter from Emma Crosby to Mrs. H.M. Leland, Secretary of the Hamilton, Women's Missionary Society (1881) * Lady Julia Drummond, Age of Consent (1896) * Jessie C. Smith, WCTU Superintendent, "Social Purity" (1898) * Dora Foster (Kerr), from Sex Radicalism (1905) * Anonymous, "The White Slave Trade in Montreal" (1913) * Beatrice Brigden, "One Woman's Campaign for Social Purity and Social Reform" (1913-1917) * Una Saunders, from The Work of the Young Women's Christian Association in Canada (1918) * Florence Rowe, "Better and Fewer Babies" (1924) * Helen MacMurchy, "What Are We Going to Tell the Young People?" (1934) * Winnifred Kydd, President NCWC, Statement on Birth Control (l934) VI Women's Work and Economic Status * Introduction * Jessie McVicar, "Organization our Only Hope" and "Organization for Girls" (1883) * Jean Thomson Scott, from The conditions of female labour in Ontario 1892 (1892) * National Council of Women of Canada, Debate Over Protective Legislation (1895) * Amelia Paget, "Report on Mrs. Paget's Trip to Indian Reserves in Saskatchewan" (1912) * Helena Gutteridge, "Women Organize an Employment League" (1913) * Civic Committee of the University Women's Club of Winnipeg, The Work of Women and Girls in the Department Stores in Winnipeg (1914) * Anonymous, "Orientals in Hotels Displace White Labor" (1915) *Eva Circe-Cote, "Equal Pay-Equal Work" (1917) * Kathleen Derry, Treatment of Women Emigrants (1920) * Irene Parlby, "Married Women's Economic Status" (1925) * Annie Buller, "The Need for Mass Work Among Women" (1935) * Canadian Federation of University Women, "Report of Committee on the Legal and Economic Status of University Women" (1936) VII Peace * Introduction * Margaret McKay, "Report of Provincial Superintendent on Peace and Arbitration" (1896) * Ontario Women's Christian Temperance Union, Resolution on the Boer War (1899) * National Council of Women of Canada, "Resolution as to the Standing Committee to Make Arrangements for the Campaign Contingent to the Transvaal" (1899) * M. Gomar White, "Peace and Arbitration" (1907) * Flora Macdonald Denison, War and Women (1914) * Letter to Jane Adams Regarding Canadian Participation in Women's Peace Conference (1915) * Julia Grace Wales, Untitled Paper on Her Involvement in Women's Peace Conference at the Hague (1915) * Gertrude Richardson, "The Cruelty of Conscription: A Letter to Women" (1917) * Rose Henderson, from Woman and War (192_) * Hilda Laird, "League of Nations" (1932) * Laura Jamieson, "Reply to Questionnaire re Techniques of Developing Public Opinion on Peace (1937) *"The Hand that Rocks the Cradle..." [Illustration] (1937)
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University of Nebraska Press Feminist Utopias
Book SynopsisThe resurgence of the feminist movement since the late 1960s has produced a very different kind of utopian literature. This work explores a body of work that reflects the hopes, fears, and desires of women who have glimpsed the possibilities of a bright new world freed from stifling patriarchal structures.
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