Feminism and feminist theory Books

Book SynopsisThis book brings together carefully selected essays on feminism and film with a view to tracing major developments in theory, criticism, and practices of women and cinema from 1973 to the present day. It illuminates the powerful, if controversial, role feminist research has played in the emergence of Film Studies as a discipline during these years; reprinting influential 1970s pioneering essays tracing the ensuing debates and challenges to key theories that shaped this field in the next two decades. Kaplan details the Euro-American contexts within which feminist film theories and practices emerged and traces the changing influences of French, German, and American intellectual movements on feminist film research. As well as a wide-ranging introduction which sets the selection of essays in context, readers will find examples of social-role, psychoanalytic, structuralist, post-structuralist, gay and lesbian, postmodern and postcolonial feminist film criticism, prefaced by introductory notTable of ContentsPHASE ONE: PIONEERS AND CLASSICS: THE MODERNIST MODE ; PHASE TWO: CRITIQUES OF PHASE ONE THEORIES: NEW METHODS ; PHASE THREE: RACE, SEXUALITY, AND POSTMODERNISM IN FEMINIST THEORY ; PHASE FOUR: SPECTATORSHIP, ETHNICITY, AND MELODRAMA

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Book SynopsisContemporary theorists use the term social construction with the aim of exposing how what''s purportedly natural is often at least partly social and, more specifically, how this masking of the social is politically significant. In these previously published essays, Sally Haslanger draws on insights from feminist and critical race theory to explore and develop the idea that gender and race are positions within a structure of social relations. On this interpretation, the point of saying that gender and race are socially constructed is not to make a causal claim about the origins of our concepts of gender and race, or to take a stand in the nature/nurture debate, but to locate these categories within a realist social ontology. This is politically important, for by theorizing how gender and race fit within different structures of social relations we are better able to identify and combat forms of systematic injustice.Although the central essays of the book focus on a critical social realisTrade ReviewHaslanger's book contains thoughtful and innovative essays in the field of social construction. * Akos Sivado, Philosophy in Review *There is real insight to be gained from the clarity and carefulness that Haslanger brings to her analyses of these issues. * Alessandra Tanesini, Radical Philosophy *this is an excellent collection that advances philosophical work on social construction, gender and race, and language and knowledge. ... Haslangers collection is well worth a careful exploration, particularly for those philosophers with a broad range of research interests and a commitment to combining philosophical thought with action directed toward social justice. * Sally Haslanger, Social Theory and Practice *extremely insightful analysis of social reality ... is engaged philosophy at its best. * Asta Kristjana Sveinsdottir, TPM *Haslangers transparent philosophical prose provokes the reader to critically engage with the unfolding arguments. * Federica Gregoratto, Journal of Social Ontology *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; I. Social Construction ; 1. "Social Construction: Myths and Reality" ; 2. "On Being Objective and Being Objectified." ; 3. "Ontology and Social Construction." ; 4. "Social Construction: The "Debunking" Project." ; 5. "Feminism and Metaphysics: Negotiating the Natural." ; 6. "Family, Ancestry and Self: What is the Moral Significance of Biological Ties?" ; 7. "Gender and Race: (What) Are They? (What) Do We Want Them To Be?" ; 8. "Future Genders? Future Races?" ; 9. "You Mixed? Racial Identity without Racial Biology." ; 10. "A Social Constructionist Analysis of Race" ; 11. "Oppressions: Racial and Other" ; III. Language and Knowledge ; 12. "What Knowledge Is and What It Ought To Be: Feminist Values and Normative Epistemology" ; 13. "What Are We Talking About? The Semantics and Politics of Social Kinds" ; 14. "What Good Are Our Intuitions? Philosophical Analysis and Social Kinds" ; 15. "But Mom, Crop-Tops Are Cute!" ; 16. "Language, Politics and 'The Folk': Looking for the 'Meaning' of Race " ; 17. "Ideology, Generics, and Common Ground"

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Book SynopsisWhen the noted political philosopher Iris Marion Young died in 2006, her death was mourned as the passing of one of the most important political philosophers of the past quarter-century (Cass Sunstein) and as an important and innovative thinker working at the conjunction of a number of important topics: global justice; democracy and difference; continental political theory; ethics and international affairs; and gender, race and public policy. In her long-awaited Responsibility for Justice, Young discusses our responsibilities to address structural injustices in which we among many are implicated (but for which we not to blame), often by virtue of participating in a market, such as buying goods produced in sweatshops, or participating in booming housing markets that leave many homeless. Young argues that addressing these structural injustices requires a new model of responsibility, which she calls the social connection model. She develops this idea by clarifying the nature of structuralTrade ReviewYoung is wonderful at painting the picture for why we should concern oursleves with structural injustice. * Yolanda Y. Wilson, Mind *Table of ContentsForeword ; Martha C. Nussbaum ; 1. From Personal to Political Responsibility ; 2. Structure as the Subject of Justice ; 3. Guilt versus Responsibility: ; A Reading and Partial Critique of Hannah Arendt ; 4. A Social Connection Model ; 5. Responsibility Across Borders ; 6. Avoiding Responsibility ; 7. Responsibility and Historic Injustice ; Index

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Book SynopsisMedieval Douai left an enormous archive of documents. This text reveals how these documents were produced in an effort to regulate property and gender relations. At the centre was a shift to a property regime based on contract. The book explores why the law changed and assesses its effects.Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments Note on Money, Dates, and Names Introduction Le Libert v. Rohard Ch. 1: From Custom to Contract Ch. 2: The Social Context of Custom Ch. 3: Legal Reform as Social Engineering Ch. 4: The Social Logic--and Illogic--of Custom Ch. 5: An Alternative Logic Ch. 6: Living with the New Ch. 7: The Weight of Experience Ch. 8: The Douaisien Reform in Historical Context Conclusion: Marie, Franchoise, and Their Sisters App. A: The Evolution of Douai's Douaire Coutumier App. B: Written Custom and Old Custom in Douai Glossary of Legal Terminology Glossary of Measures Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisContemporary American women are writing long poems in a variety of styles which repossess history, reconceive female subjectivity, and seek to revitalize poetry itself. This book explores this evolving body of work, offering revealing discussions of its diverse traditions and feminist concerns.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Pushing the Limits of Genre and Gender: Women's Long Poems as Forms of Expansion 1: "To Remember / Our Dis-membered Parts": Sharon Doubiago and the Complementary Woman's Epic 2: "Helen, Your Strength / Is in Your Memory": Judy Grahn's Lesbian Warriors and Gynocentric Tales of the Tribe 3: Sequences Testifying for "Nobodies": Rita Dove's Thomas and Beulah and Brenda Marie Osbey's Desperate Circumstance, Dangerous Woman 4: Measured Feet "in Gender-Bender Shoes": Marilyn Hacker's Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons 5: "The Silences Are Equal to the Sounds": Documentary History and Susan Howe's "The Liberties" 6: Grand Collage "Out of Bounds": Feminist Serial Poems by Beverly Dahlen and Rachel Blau DuPlessis Conclusion: This Genre Which Is Not One: A Short Wrap-up on Long Poems by Women Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisIn this text, Sally Kitch argues that associating feminist thought with utopianism is a mistake. Drawing on the history of utopian thought, she defines utopian thinking, explores the pitfalls of pursuing social change and argues for a higher ground - a contrasting approach she calls realism.

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Book SynopsisForeword; I.Whelehan Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; S.Gillis, G.Howie & R.Munford PART I: GENERATIONS AND GENEALOGIES 'Feminists Love a Utopia': Collaboration, Conflict and the Futures of Feminism; L.S.Sanders On the Genealogy of Women: A Defence of Anti-Essentialism; A.Stone Kristeva and the Trans-missions of the Intertext: Signs, Mothers and Speaking in Tongues; M.Orr Feminist Dissonance: The Logic of Late Feminism; G.Howie & A.Tauchert Transgender Feminism: Queering the Woman Question; S.Stryker Theorizing the Intermezzo: The Contributions of Postfeminism and Third Wave Feminism; A.D.Lotz 'You're not One of Those Boring Masculinists, Are You?': The Question of Male-Embodied Feminist Criticism; A. Shail PART II: LOCALES AND LOCATIONS Wa(i)ving it all Away: Subject Formation and Knowledge Formation in Feminisms of Colour; M.N.Chakraborty 'It's all About the Benjamins': Economic Determinants of Third Wave Feminism in the United States; L.Heywood & J.Drake ImagininTrade Review'This expanded second edition of 'Third Wave Feminism' is an unexpected pleasure. While much work on 'the third wave' is ahistorical, nationally-bounded and analytically bankrupt, here the editors bring together an impressive range of articles living up to the volume's subtitle of 'critical exploration'. The anthology provides a historically and conceptually grounded background to the area, highlights the limits as well as possibilities of generational approaches, and constitutes a politically diverse, international set of reflections on the terrain. Essential reading.' - Clare Hemmings, Gender Institute, London School of Economics 'This is an excellent and important book that left me, as Imelda Whelehan puts it at the end of her foreword, "once again caring that I am a feminist, whatever the era.'' - Alice Ridout, Contemporary Women's WritingTable of ContentsForeword; I.Whelehan Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; S.Gillis, G.Howie & R.Munford PART I: GENERATIONS AND GENEALOGIES 'Feminists Love a Utopia': Collaboration, Conflict and the Futures of Feminism; L.S.Sanders On the Genealogy of Women: A Defence of Anti-Essentialism; A.Stone Kristeva and the Trans-missions of the Intertext: Signs, Mothers and Speaking in Tongues; M.Orr Feminist Dissonance: The Logic of Late Feminism; G.Howie & A.Tauchert Transgender Feminism: Queering the Woman Question; S.Stryker Theorizing the Intermezzo: The Contributions of Postfeminism and Third Wave Feminism; A.D.Lotz 'You're not One of Those Boring Masculinists, Are You?': The Question of Male-Embodied Feminist Criticism; A. Shail PART II: LOCALES AND LOCATIONS Wa(i)ving it all Away: Subject Formation and Knowledge Formation in Feminisms of Colour; M.N.Chakraborty 'It's all About the Benjamins': Economic Determinants of Third Wave Feminism in the United States; L.Heywood & J.Drake Imagining Feminist Futures: The Third Wave, Postfeminism and Eco/feminism; N.Moore A Different Chronology: Reflections on Feminism in Contemporary Poland; A.Graff Global Feminism, Transnational Political Economies, Third World Cultural Production; W.Woodhull Neither Cyborg nor Goddess: The (Im)possibilities of Cyberfeminism; S.Gillis PART III: POLITICS AND POPULAR CULTURE Contests for the Meaning of Third Wave Feminism: Feminism and Popular Consciousness; E.K.Garrison 'Also I Wanted so Much to Leave for the West': Postcolonial Feminism Rides the Third Wave; A.Valassopoulos (Un)fashionable Feminists: The Media and Ally McBeal; K.Gorton 'Kicking Ass is Comfort Food': Buffy as Third Wave Feminist Icon; P.Pender 'My Guns are in the Fendi!': The Postfeminist Female Action Hero; C.L.Stasia Sexing it Up? Women, Pornography and the Third Wave Feminism; M.Waters 'Wake Up and Smell the Lipgloss': Gender, Generation and the (A)politics of Girl Power; R.Munford IN DIALOGUE Interview with Luce Irigaray; G.Howie Interview with Elaine Showalter; S.Gillis & R.Munford Afterword; J.Spencer Index

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Book SynopsisKelli D. Zaytoun draws on Gloria Anzaldúa's thought to present a radically inclusive and expansive approach to selfhood, creativity, scholarship, healing, coalition-building, and activism. Zaytoun focuses on Anzaldúa's naguala/ shapeshifter, a concept of nagualismo. This groundbreaking theory of subjectivity details a dynamic relationship between inner work and public acts that strengthens individuals' roles in social and transformative justice work. Zaytoun's detailed emphasis on la naguala, and Nahua metaphysics specifically, brings much needed attention to Anzaldúa's long-overlooked contribution to the study of subjectivity. The result is a women and queer of color, feminist-focused work aimed at scholars in many disciplines and intended to overcome barriers separating the academy from everyday life and community. An original and moving analysis, Shapeshifting Subjects draws on unpublished archival material to apply Anzaldúa's ideas to new areas of thought and action.Trade Review"A significant text in the scholarship of Gloria Anzaldúa and in Latina/x feminisms in general. Zaytoun's in-depth analysis of la naguala, a key concept in Anzaldúa's work that has been barely theorized, will move Anzaldúa scholarship in new directions."--Mariana Ortega, author of In-Between: Latina Feminist Phenomenology, Multiplicity, and the Self"Shapeshifting Subjects takes us to the radical edge of many untheorized aspects of Gloria Anzaldúa’s theoretical toolbox including shapeshifting, naguala, and intra-relationality. Zaytoun revives the possibilities of shapeshifting for radical feminist work long preoccupied with difference and coalition building, and decolonial methods for healing colonial wounds. Shapeshifing transports ontological becoming with a dazzling array of more-than-human forms of consciousness. Brimming with nuanced critical insights and poignant reflection, you will be moved after reading this book."--Felicity Amaya Schaeffer, author of Love and Empire: Cybermarriage and Citizenship across the AmericasTable of ContentsSeries Editor’s Foreword ix Preface xiii Acknowledgments xvii INTRODUCTION: Toward a Radically Relational Consciousness 1 CHAPTER ONE. La Naguala in Theory and Practice 9 CHAPTER TWO. “An Artist in the Sense of a Shaman”: Border Arte as Decolonial Practice 41 CHAPTER THREE. Connections with Arab American Feminism 65 CHAPTER FOUR. “Reaching Through the Wound to Connect”: Trauma and Healing as Shapeshifting 95 CONCLUSION: Toward New Potentials of Imagination 121 Notes 131 Works Cited 151 Subject Index 165 Gloria Anzaldúa Works Index 171

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"It is a ground-breaking work that builds a robust and outspoken Asian American feminist conceptual framework and praxis with special attention to the complexities of Asian American feminist resistances, struggles, and self-creations." * Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy *"[P]rovides a road map in developing Asian American feminist theory and coalitional politics."

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Book SynopsisHalf a century after the publication of The Feminine Mystique, have women really exchanged purity and maternity to become desiring machines inspired only by variations of sex, shopping and masochism - all coloured a brilliant neuro-pink?In this volume, fifty women young and old - writers, politicians, actors, scientists, mothers - reflect on the shades that inspired them and what being woman means to them today. Contributors include: Margaret Atwood, Joan Bakewell, Bidisha, Lydia Cacho, Shami Chakrabarti, Lennie Goodings, Linda Grant, Natalie Haynes, Siri Hustvedt, Kathy Lette, Kate Mosse, Pussy Riot, Bee Rowlatt, Elif Shafak, Ahdaf Soueif, Sandi Toksvig, Natasha Walter, Timberlake Wertenbaker Jeanette Winterson - alongside the three editors.Trade ReviewEvery contributor could silence a Twitter brigade of #IDontNeedFeminism in her sleep . . . insightful, broad and engaging * Drafted *

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Book Synopsis''You''ll be moved by the brave women in Awakening'' Malala Yousafzai''Awakening goes where no book has gone before. Inspiring, insightful, profoundly moving'' Hillary Rodham ClintonAll over the world, #MeToo inspired generations of women to fight in new ways for their rights.In Brazil, women run for office at the risk of intimidation and murder. In China, activists drown out internet censors and defy arrests. In Egypt, the president calls protestors terrorists. In Tunisia, activists bring down a predatory government minister.In Nigeria, the movement unites Muslim and Christian survivors.In Pakistan, actresses confront accused assailants in court. In Sweden, the movement rocks citizens to their core.Awakening reveals the true scope of the greatest global reckoning on women''s rights in history.Trade ReviewAwakening goes where no book has gone before, taking readers on a journey around the world in a powerful exploration of the most widespread cultural reckoning around women's rights in history. In chronicling the global impact of the #MeToo movement, Meighan Stone and Rachel Vogelstein capture the speed and scale of women-led organizing in the digital age, as well as the social, economic, and legal progress that's possible when we come together to demand change. Inspiring, insightful, and profoundly moving, this book is a must-read for women and men alike. * Hillary Rodham Clinton *You'll be moved by the brave women in Awakening - just like #MeToo founder and activist Tarana Burke was when she read their stories. Through their reporting and research, Meighan Stone and Rachel Vogelstein bring us closer to a new generation of women who are using digital activism to achieve change * Malala Yousafzai *Dynamically told and sharply written, Awakening is the global #MeToo book we've been waiting for, transporting readers over borders and across cultures * Jill Filipovic *A must-read for anyone thinking about the social and political consequences of #MeToo. This book provides critical insight into the movement's global impact and the future of equality for women around the world * Soraya Chemaly *

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Book SynopsisThis is a timely update of a seminal text which re-interprets key films of the horror genre, including Carrie, The Exorcist, The Brood and Psycho.In the first edition, Creed draws on Julia Kristevaâs theory of abjection to challenge the popular view that women in horror are almost always victims, and argues that patriarchal ideology constructs women as monstrous in relation to her sexuality and reproductive body to justify her subjugation. Although a projection of male fears and paranoid fantasies, the monstrous-feminine is nonetheless a terrifying figure. Creedâs argument contests Freudian and Lacanian theories of sexual difference to offer a provocative rereading of classical and contemporary horror. This updated edition includes a new section examining contemporary feminist horror films in relation to nonhuman theory. Creed proposes a new concept of radical abjection to reinterpret the monstrous-feminine as a figure who embraces abTrade Review"Barbara Creed’s The Monstrous-Feminine is one of the most influential books to emerge in the early 90s. The Monstrous-Feminine defined how our generation and our discipline viewed the horror genre. In this new edition, Creed does it again, recontextualizing the conception of the monstrous-feminine to track many of the evolutions in the horror genre and this revised edition will continue to shape our understanding of the horror genre in the new millennium."Aaron Kramer, Professor, and Director of the SFSU School of Cinema, San Francisco State University"Creed’s The Monstrous-Feminine radically changed the logic of abjection and how it is linked with women. In her profoundly original analysis of horror films, Creed upended a concept emanating from psychoanalysis, traditionally perceived as scaffolding supporting patriarchy, to demonstrate how women could be seen as the agents of abjection rather than as its passive victims. In this new edition Creed expands and updates the filmography to include horror films created by women to augment the ways in which the monstrous-feminine functions deliciously as patriarchy’s retribution."Sneja Gunew, Professor Emerita (English/Social Justice Institute), University of British Columbia, Canada"In this new and expanded edition of the classic The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis, Barbara Creed adds a crucial monstrous-feminine register: the nonhuman. With the nonhuman, female horror touches the profound source of abjection. Twenty-first Century feminist horror, Creed shows, introduces a series of startling tropes: the metamorphizing adolescent girl, the female zombie, and the creatrix. Together these female monsters question the stability and uniqueness of the human. In an age at which anthropogenic and patriarchal harms threaten the very survival of the planet, embracing the nonhuman becomes a remedial, even liberating gesture."Anat Pick, Reader in Film, Queen Mary University of London"Thirty years after the publication of Barbara Creed’s classic text, which revolutionised approaches to the analysis of women in horror films, the monstrous- feminine looms large. This updated edition, which includes entirely new chapters, interrogates the concept in contemporary contexts through a range of diverse films directed by women, and through the exploration of recent progressive social movements. What emerges are newer "faces", more nuanced forms of horror that speak to a global audience and that revitalise the force of the abject in more expanded ways that continue to revolt against patriarchal order."Rina Arya, Professor of Visual Culture and Theory, University of HuddersfieldTable of ContentsPreface to the Second EditionPart I Faces of the Monstrous-Feminine: Abjection and the MaternalIntroduction1 Kristeva, Femininity, Abjection2 Horror and the Archaic Mother: Alien3 Woman as Possessed Monster: The Exorcist4 Woman as Monstrous Womb: The Brood5 Woman as Vampire: The Hunger6 Woman as Witch: CarriePart II Medusa’s Head: Psychoanalytic Theory and theFemme CastratricePreface7 ‘Little Hans’ Reconsidered: or ‘The Tale of Mother’s Terrifying Widdler’8 Medusa’s Head: the Vagina Dentata and Freudian theory9 The femme castratrice: I spit on your grave, sisters10 The Castrating Mother: Psycho11 The Medusa’s GazePart III Revolt of the Monstrous-Feminine: Embracing the NonhumanIntroduction: The Nonhuman Turn an Women’s Horror of the New Millennium12 Coming of Age: The Monstrous-Feminine as Virginal Dentata: Ginger Snaps: (2000), Teeth (2007), Jennifer’s Body (2009).13 The Monstrous-Feminine as Avenging Zombie: The Girl With All The Gifts (2016), The Dark (2018), Atlantics (2019). 14 The Monstrous-Feminine as Uncanny Creatrix: Border (2018), Little Joe (2019), Titane (2021). BibliographyFilmographyIndex

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Book SynopsisSubaltern Women''s Narratives brings together intersectional feminist scholarship from the Humanities and Social Sciences and explores subaltern women's narratives of resistance and subversion. Interdisciplinary in nature, the collection focuses on fictional texts, archival records, and ethnographic research to explore the lived experiences of subaltern women in different marginalised communities across a wide geographical landscape, as they negotiate their way through modes of labour and activism. Thematically grouped, the focus of this book is two-fold: to look at the lived experiences of subaltern women as they negotiate their lives in a world of political flux and conflicts; and to examine subaltern women's dissenting practices as recorded in texts and archives. This collection will push the boundaries of scholarship on decolonial and postcolonial feminism and subaltern studies, reading women's subversive practices especially in the themes of epistemology and embTable of Contents1. Introduction: Subaltern Women’s ResistancePART I: EPISTEMOLOGICAL DISSENT2. Narratives of Hidden Curriculum in Fiji3. "Insulting the Modesty of a Woman?!": Examining the Language of Protest in Malawi4. Marginalised Women in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia: Novels as Fictional Intervention5. Unhomed Knowledge: The Diasporic Family as Site of Subaltern Pedagogy6. Searching in the Shadows: Aboriginal Women in Early Colonial New South Wales7. Feminist voice(s) in South African Curriculum-Making and DisseminationPART II: EMBODYING RESISTANCE8. Touching the ‘Untouchable’: Depiction of Body and Sexuality in Select Dalit Women’s Autobiographies9. Rethinking Subalternity through Posthuman and Feminist Entanglements: Violence, Displacement, Exile and the Woman Subject in Contemporary Turkish Literature10. Conjuring up a Shadow: A Case of Castration in a Colonial Archiv11. Voicing Sexual and Social Resistance in Seventeenth-Century ManilaPART III: PRACTICING SUBVERSION12. Survival and Resilience: Rohingya Refugee Women’s Narratives of Life, Loss, and Hope13. Translating into Other Identities: Bama and Her Writing14. Thriving, Surviving and Hanging on: Domestic Workers in Harare Suburbs15. Restitution of Conjugal Rights and the Dissenting Female Body: The Rukhmabai Case16. Subaltern’s Resistance against Rape and Sexual Assault: An Aporia?

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to Intersectionalities is a dynamic reference source to the key contemporary analytic in feminist thought: intersectionality. Comprising over 50 chapters by a diverse, international, and interdisciplinary team of contributors, the Companion is divided into nine parts: Retracing intersectional genealogies Intersectional methods and (inter)disciplinarity Intersectionalityâs travels Intersectional borderwork Trans* intersectionalities Disability and intersectional embodiment Intersectional science and data studies Popular culture at the intersections Rethinking intersectional justice This accessibly written collection is essential reading for students, teachers, and researchers working in womenâs and gender studies, sexuality studies, African American studies, sociology, politics, and other related subjects from across the humanities and social sciences.

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates the barriers to women's economic empowerment in the Global South. Drawing on evidence from a wide range of countries, the book outlines important lessons and practical solutions for promoting gender equality. Despite global progress in closing gender gaps in education and health, women's economic empowerment has lagged behind, with little evidence that economic growth promotes gender equality. International Development Research Centre's (IDRC) Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women (GrOW) programme was set up to provide policy lessons, insights, and concrete solutions that could lead to advances in gender equality, particularly on the role of institutions and macroeconomic growth, barriers to labour market access for women, and the impact of women's care responsibilities. This book showcases rigorous and multi-disciplinary research emerging from this ground-breaking programme, covering topics such as the school-to-work transition, child mTrade Review"With research syntheses on topics including labour markets, care, macroeconomic issues, and social norms, along with diverse case studies from many countries, Women’s Economic Empowerment: Insights from Africa and South Asia represents a vital new contribution to our understanding of the relationship between gender inequality and the dynamics of economies in low-resource settings." -- Ruth Levine, CEO, IDinsight, USA"This edited volume presents cutting-edge research on women’s economic empowerment from diverse settings in the Global South. Through an examination of the gendered continuities, disruptions, and contradictions in the social and economic status of women in developing countries, it demonstrates why structural gender inequalities may persist despite individualised advancement of some women and what can be done about it." -- Bipasha Baruah, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Women’s Issues, Western University, Canada"Does economic growth promote gender equality? Based on rigorous primary research in 50 countries in the developing world, the answers from this ambitious research program reflect the context-specificity of gender relations and the complex relationships among labour markets, social norms, and care work to identify options for programmes and policy." -- Agnes Quisumbing, Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute, USA Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women Programme Part I: Conceptualizing the Relationship Between Economic Growth and Gender Equality 1. Gender Equality, Inclusive Growth, and Labour Markets Part II: Syntheses of Grow-Supported Research on Women’s Economic Empowerment 2. Stalled Progress 3. Macroeconomics and Gender 4. Developing Care 5. Gender, Social Norms, and Women’s Economic Empowerment Part III: Evidence from Grow-Supported Case Studies in Developing Country Contexts 6. A Mine of One’s Own? 7. Picturing Change Through Photovoice 8. Paid Work and Unpaid Care Work in India, Nepal, Tanzania, and Rwanda 9. Women’s Labour Force Participation in Sri Lanka’s North 10. The School-To-Work Transition for Young Females in Sub-Saharan Africa Conclusion: Programming and Policy Lessons and Future Research Priorities for Women’s Economic Empowerment

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Book SynopsisCaught as we are in a grave climate crisis that seems more irreversible with every passing year, our literary portrayals of the future often feature the dystopian collapse of the world as we know it. Science fiction explores how we got here, while pointing toward a more hopeful path forward. From an ecofeminist perspective, a core cause of our current ecological catastrophe is the patriarchal domination of nature, playing out in parallel with the oppression of women. As an alternative to dystopian futures that seem increasingly inevitable, ecofeminist science fiction helps us conjure utopias that promote environmental sustainability based on more egalitarian human relationships.Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond: Feminist Ecocriticism of Science Fiction explores the fictional worlds of such canonical novelists as Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin, Doris Lessing, and Joan Slonczewski, as well as those of lesser-known science fiction writers, asTrade Review"In an era of planetary crisis, Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond: Feminist Ecocriticism of Science Fiction offers a smart, urgent alternative to our collective downward spiral, not only offering fiery critique of our selfish and self-destructive present but galvanizing, positive visions of ‘what futures we might hope for.’" --Gerry Canavan, Associate Professor of English, Marquette University and co-editor of Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction"Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond is a timely and welcome contribution to ecofeminist studies in the age of climate change and the Anthropocene, covering an impressive range of anglophone feminist speculative fictions. The spirited contributions provide powerful insights into both dystopian and utopian visions of our past, current, and future trajectories, urgently highlighting the intersection of patriarchal and anthropocentric domination of women and nature. These ecofeminist imaginaries compellingly provide us with much needed glimpses of hope." --Dunja M. Mohr, Professor of English, University of Erfurt and author of Worlds Apart?: Dualism and Transgression in Contemporary Female Dystopias"Ecofeminist writers have long used science fiction as a futuristic and sometimes other-worldly medium through which to imagine and energize social and ecological solutions in this world, the one we inhabit here and now. Doug Vakoch's latest collection encompasses a dazzling array of international scholarly voices, considering the work of eminent and less-well-known women science fiction writers from the 19th century to the present. This book is an exciting and timely contribution to the field of ecocriticism." --Scott Slovic, University Distinguished Professor of Environmental Humanities, University of Idaho and author of Seeking Awareness in American Nature Writing"With twelve distinctive chapters that explore various ecofeminist dimensions of both dystopic fictional worlds and science fiction utopias of distant planets, this impressive new collection makes us imagine the worst and the best of times here on Earth: a world in environmental turbulence or ecological equilibrium. Only when the oppression of women and the exploitation of the more-than-human environments vanish, is the second option more likely to be our reality." --Serpil Oppermann, Professor of Environmental Humanities, Cappadocia University and co-editor of International Perspectives in Feminist Ecocriticism."I highly recommend this collection of insightful studies of imaginative fiction addressing human and nonhuman communities. The feminist perspective helps us envision ways to sustain our global ecosystem beyond the many threats of our present day." --Joan Slonczewski, Professor of Biology, Kenyon College and author of A Door into Ocean"Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond presents work by a diverse group of scholars whose analyses together demonstrate how feminist authors have mobilized the genre tools of science fiction both to caution and to hope. Especially at a time like ours—a time of great social and environmental distress—readers will come away from this book with a reinforced appreciation for the critical and creative insight of Octavia E. Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin, and others in the canon of feminist and ecological science fiction. Too, readers will find adroit interpretations of works they have yet to encounter, no doubt inspiring an even deeper recognition of the historical intersections among feminism, environmentalism, and science fiction." --Eric C. Otto, Professor of Environmental Humanities, Florida Gulf Coast University and author of Green Speculations: Science Fiction and Transformative Environmentalism"Situated within the broad interdisciplinary context of the environmental humanities, Dystopias and Utopias of Earth and Beyond presents an eminently useful addition to ecofeminist studies of science fiction and dystopianism. Featuring contributions from an international cohort of scholars, the collection harnesses the increasing momentum of environmental literary studies at this crucial juncture in the history of the biosphere." --John Charles Ryan, Southern Cross University and co-editor of The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal WorldTable of ContentsForeword Vandana SinghPreface Douglas A. VakochIntroduction Patrick D. MurphyI. Climate Change and Future Earth Dystopias1. An Ecofeminist Reading of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of Talents Hatice Övgü Tüzün2. An Ecofeminist Treatment of Nourishment and Feeding in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy Debra Wain3. Margaret Atwood’s Ecodystopic SF: Approaching Ethics, Gender, and Ecology Izabel F. O. Brandão and Ildney Cavalcanti4. Ecofeminist (Post) Ice-Age Ecotopia: Doris Lessing’s Mara and Dann Books Julia Kuznetski5. Ecofeminist Climate Fiction: Merlinda Bobis’s Locust Girl Iris RalphII. Utopias on Earth and Beyond6. "Extinction is Forever": Ecofeminism and Apocalypse in Louise Lawrence’s Young Adult Short Fiction Michelle Deininger and Gemma Scammell7. Ecofeminist Utopian Speculations in Henrietta Augusta Dugdale’s A Few Hours in a Far-Off Age (1883), Catherine Helen Spence’s A Week in the Future (1888), Mary Anne Moore-Bentley’s A Woman of Mars; Or, Australia’s Enfranchised Woman (1901), and Joyce Vincent’s The Celestial Hand: A Sensational Story Nicole Anae8. Alien Ecofeminist Societies: "Sharers" in Joan Slonczewski’s A Door into Ocean Irene Sanz Alonso9. Re-reading Ursula K. Le Guin’s SF: The Daoist Yin Principle in Ecofeminist Novels Amy Chan Kit-sze10. Keeping Grows; Giving Flows: Reciprocal Relations and the Gift of Always Coming Home Karl Zuelke11. "The Revolt of the Mother": Romanticizing Nature and Rejecting Science in Sally Miller Gearhart’s The Wanderground and Other Feminist Utopias Christy Tidwell

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Book SynopsisThis anthology is the first such collection to focus on the exclusively philosophical aspects of ecological feminism. It addresses basic questions about the conceptual underpinnings of `women-nature'' connections, and emphasises the importance of seeing sexism and the exploitation of the environment as parallel forms of domination. Ecological Feminism is enriched by the inclusion of essays which take differing views of the importance and nature of ecofeminism. It will be an invaluable resource for courses on women''s studies, environmental studies and philosophy.Trade Review'An introductory text for the philosophical aspects of eco-feminism. It is well referenced, with a useful index. It should be on the reading lists for students of feminism, ecology (of all kinds), philosophy and post-modernism.' - Scientific & Medical NetworkTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Karen J. Warren Is Ecofeminism Feminst? Victoria Davion Wrongs of Passage: Three Challenges to the Maturing of Ecofeminism Deborah Slicer Rethinking Again: A Defense of Ecofeminist Philosophy Douglas J. Buege The Ecopolitics Debate and the Politics of Nature Val Plumwood Ecofeminism, Deep Ecology, and Human Population Christine J. Cuomo The Limits of Partiality: Ecofeminism, Animal Rights, and Environmental Concern David Kenneth Johnson and Kathleen R. Johnson Towards an Ecofeminist Moral Epistemology Lori Gruen Restructuring the Discursive Moral Subject in Ecological Feminism Phillip Payne Nature/Theory/Difference: Ecofeminism and the Reconstruction of Environmental Ethics Jim Cheney Toward an Ecofeminist Peace Politics Karen J. Warren Biographical Sketches of Contributors

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Book SynopsisThis exciting collection of work from leading feminist scholars including Elspeth Probyn, Penelope Deutscher and Chantal Nadeau engages with and extends the growing feminist literature on lived and imagined embodiment and argues for consideration of the skin as a site where bodies take form - already written upon but open to endless re-inscription.Individual chapters consider such issues as the significance of piercing, tattooing and tanning, the assault of self harm upon the skin, the relation between body painting and the land among the indigenous people of Australia and the cultural economy of fur in Canada. Pierced, mutilated and marked, mortified and glorified, scarred by disease and stretched and enveloping the skin of another in pregnancy, skin is seen here as both a boundary and a point of connection - the place where one touches and is touched by others; both the most private of experiences and the most public marker of a raced, sexed and national history.Table of ContentsList of plates, Notes on contributors, Series editors’ preface, Acknowledgements, Introduction: dermographies, PART I: Skin surfaces, 1. Cut in the body: from clitoridectomy to body art, 2. Mortification, 3. Skin memories, 4. Skin-tight: celebrity, pregnancy and subjectivity, PART II: Skin encounters, 5. Eating skin, 6. Open wounds, 7. Carved in skin: bearing witness to self-harm, 8. Three touches to the skin and one look: Sartre and Beauvoir on desire and embodiment, 9. ‘You are there, like my skin’: reconfiguring relational economies, PART III: Skin sites, 10. Inscribing identity: skin as country in the Central Desert, 11. ‘My furladies’: the fabric of a nation, 12. ‘That is my Star of David’: skin, abjection and hybridity, 13. Robotic skin: the future of touch?, Index

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Book SynopsisOne of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century, Julia Kristeva has been driving forward the fields of literary and cultural studies since the 1960s. This volume is an accessible, introductory guide to the main themes of Kristeva's work, including her ideas on:*semiotics and symbolism*abjection*melancholia*feminism*revolt.McAfee provides clear explanations of the more difficult aspects of Kristeva's theories, helpfully placing her ideas in the relevant theoretical context, be it literary theory, psychoanalysis, linguistics, gender studies or philosophy, and demonstrates the impact of her critical interventions in these areas.Julia Kristeva is the essential guide for readers who are approaching the work of this challenging thinker for the first time, and provides the ideal opportunity for those with more knowledge to re-familiarise themselves with Kristeva's key terms.Trade Review'These little books are certainly helpful study guides. They are clear, concise and complete. They are ideal for undergraduates studying for exams or writing essays and for lifelong learners wanting to expand their knowledge of a given author or idea.' - Beth Lord, Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsWhy Kristeva?; Part 1 Key Ideas; Chapter 1 Semiotic And Symbolic; Chapter 2 The Subject In Process; Chapter 3 Abjection; Chapter 4 Melancholia; Chapter 5 Herethics; Chapter 6 Women’s Time; Chapter 7 Revolt; Chapter 9 After Kristeva; further Further Reading; wor Works Cited; Index;

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Book SynopsisThis book is a compelling collection of essays on the intersection of race, gender and class in education written by leading black and postcolonial feminists of colour from Asia, Africa and the Caribbean living in Britain, America, Canada, and Australia. It addresses controversial issues such as racism in the media, exclusion in higher education, and critical multiculturalism in schools. Introducing new debates on transglobal female identity and cultures of resistance the book asks: How does black and postcolonial feminisms illuminate race and gender identity in new global times? How are race, gender and class inequalities reproduced and resisted in educational sites? How do women of colour experience race and gender differences in schools and universities? This book is a must for political and social commentators, academic researchers and student audiences interested in new feminist visions for new global times.This book was Trade ReviewAn inspiring book which addresses some of the most critical questions in education. Feminist thinking at its best. Avtar Brah, Professor of Sociology, Birkbeck College, University of London, UKThis book renders black feminist theory and post-colonial thought more textured, complex and expansive. Bravissimo, a rich collection of research! Annette Henry, Professor of Education, University of Washington, Tacoma USATable of Contents1. Introduction: Plotting a history: Black and postcolonial feminisms in ‘new times’ Heidi Safia Mirza 2. Postcoloniality and ethnography: negotiating gender, ethnicity and power Cynthia Joseph 3. Identity, empathy and ‘otherness’: Asian women, education and dowries in the UK Kalwant Bhopal 4. Embodying diversity: problems and paradoxes for Black feminists Sara Ahmed 5. Is it because I’m Black? A Black female research experience Uvanney Maylor 6. Black Canadian feminist thought: perspectives on equity and diversity in the academy Njoki Nathani Wane 7. Black feminist praxis: some reflections on pedagogies and politics in higher education Suki Ali 8. ‘Who you callin’ nappy-headed?’A critical race theory look at the construction of Black women Gloria Ladson-Billings 9. De-colonising practices: negotiating narratives from racialised and gendered experiences of education Ann Phoenix 10. From ‘crisis’ to ‘activist’: the everyday freedom legacy of Black feminisms Heather A. Oesterreich

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Book SynopsisGender Articulated is a groundbreaking work of sociolinguistics that forges new connections between language-related fields and feminist theory. Refuting apolitical, essentialist perspectives on language and gender, the essays presented here examine a range of cultures, languages and settings. They explicitly connect feminist theory to language research. Some of the most distinguished scholars working in the field of language and gender today discuss such topics as Japanese women''s appropriation of men''s language, the literary representation of lesbian discourse, the silencing of women on the Internet, cultural mediation and Spanish use at New Mexican weddings and the uses of silence in the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings.Table of Contentsneeds: left accent e #13 Mary Bucholtz -- Introduction: Twenty Years After Language and Woman's Place PART I: MECHANISMS OF HEGEMONY AND CONTROL 1 Robin Tolmach Lakoff -- Cries and Whispers: The Shattering of the Silence 2 Norma Mendoza-Denton -- Pregnant Pauses: Silence and Authority in the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas Hearings 3 Susan-Herring, Deborah A. Johnson, and Tamra DiBenedetto -- This Discussion Is Going Too Far!: Male Resistance to Female Participation on the Internet 4 Elinor Ochs and Carolyn Taylor -- The Father Knows Best Dynamic in Dinnertime Narratives 5 Cathyrn Houghton -- Managing the Body of Labor: The Treatment of Reproduction and Sexuality in a Therapeutic Institution 6 Mary Talbot -- A Synthetic Sisterhood: False Friends in Teenage Magazine PART 2: AGENCY THROUGH APPROPRIATION 7 Susan Gal -- Language, Gender, and Power: An Anthropological Review 8 Kira Hall -- Lip Service on the Fantasy Line 9 Bonnie S. McElhinny -- Challenging Hegemonic Masculinites: Female and Male Police Officers Handling Domestic Violence 10 Anna Livia -- I Ought to Throw a Buick at You: Fictional Representations of Butch/Femme Speech 11 Laurel A. Sutton -- Bitches and Skankly Hobags: The Place of Women in Contemporary Slang 12 Shigeko Okamoto -- Tasteless Japanese: Less Feminine Speech Among Young Japanese Women PART 3: CONTINGENT PRACTICES AND EMERGENT SELVES 13 Michele Foster -- Are You With Me: Power and Solidarity in the Discourse of African American Women 14 Mary Bucholtz -- From Mulatta to Mestiza: Passing and the Linguistic Reshaping of Ethnic Identity 15 Tara Goldstein -- Nobody is Talking Bad: Creating Community and Claiming Power on the Production Lines 16 Jenny Cook-Gumperz -- Reproducing the Discourse of Mothering: How Gendered Talk Makes Gendered Lives 17 Maria Dolores Gonzales Velasquez -- Sometimes Spanish, Sometimes English: Language Use Among Rural New Mexican Chicanas 18 Birch Moonwoman -- The Writing on the Wall: A Border Case of Race and Gender 19 Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell-Ginet -- Constructing Meaning, Constructing Selves: Snapshots of Language, Gender, and Class from Belten High

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Book SynopsisMary Field Belenky, Lynne A. Bond, and Jacqueline S. Weinstock, hoping to carry Belenky''s theoretical work in the bestselling Women''s Ways of Knowing into the realm of everyday life, created the Listening Partners project, designed to help young women isolated in rural poverty give voice to their personal and communal needs and come together to create social change . A Tradition That Has No Name explores this project and the work of other women who have created organizations to give voice to and strengthen traditions of community organizing and leadership, particularly as they have developed in communities of women marginalized by race and class. Ranging across cultures and classes,from struggling inner-city neighbourhoods to affluent middle-class suburbs, from African American communities in the South to poor rural communities in Vermont,the book teaches us how to appreciate the ways women create networks of listening and community-building, and how to bring these little-recognizTable of ContentsOtherness * Introduction: Otherness and Silence * Dualisms That Divide and Deny * Confronting Otherness: Previous Research The Development Of Voice In Private Life * An Experiment * The Listening Partners Project * What Was Learned * Relationships and Development * Mothers and Children The Development Of Voice In Public Life * Organizations That Sponsor Development * Public Homeplaces * The Mothers Center Movements * The National Congress of Neighborhood Women * The Center for Cultural and Community Development * Leaders Who Must Nurture Development * The Philosophy and Practice of Developmental Leadership * Passing the Tradition On

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMarina Whitman may be the daughter of a Martian but she is an exemplar of the best of America. In the academic world, in public service, in high corporate positions, she pushed the frontiers of female participation and did so by unambiguously demonstrating both competence and character. The book is a fascinating saga of an exceptionally talented family, initially focused on a mathematic genius but ultimately growing in diversity and influence. - Paul Volcker, formerly Chairman of the Federal Reserve (1979-1987) ""How did a young Hungarian immigrant and his daughter both become leading advisors to Presidents of the United States? This richly detailed memoir not only illuminates Marina von Neumann Whitman's ground-breaking life, but sheds long-awaited new light on her father, bringing us as close as we may ever get to the autobiography that John von Neumann never had the chance to write."" - George Dyson, author of Darwin Among the Machines, Project Orion, and Turing's Cathedral""A fast-paced, readable, and deeply educational account of how the daughter of a genius made her own brilliant way as a heavily involved top economist and an equally involved wife and mother."" - George P. Shultz, The Hoover Institution, formerly U.S. Secretary of State (1982-1989)

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Book SynopsisExamines the contributions of three powerful Meiji women and how their own education and ideas about Japanese women's potential shaped how females were to participate in modern society

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Book SynopsisIn a challenging and authoritative analysis of the role of Iranian women in the political process, Parvin Paidar considers the ways they have been affected by the evolutionary and revolutionary transformations of twentieth-century Iran. In so doing, she demonstrates how political reorganisation has of necessity redefined the position of women, and that, contrary to the view of conventional scholarship, gender issues are fundamental to the political process in contemporary Iran. The implications of the study bear on the broader issues of women in the Middle East and the developing countries generally.Trade Review'Histories of modern Iran and the 1979 revolution in particular have dealt with gender marginally. Parvin Paidar's lucid study successfully demonstrates the centrality of women in the political process.' Shusha Guppy, The Times Higher Education Supplement'Paidar is a scholarly and thorough academic whose research covers an extensive range of Iranian and Western sources.' Haleh Afshar, Development and ChangeTable of ContentsIntroduction: Marginalisation of gender and approaches to women in Middle Eastern studies; Part I. The Discourse of Modernity: 1. Social diversity on women's issues in nineteenth-century Iran; 2. Women and the ear of constitutionalism; 3. Women and the era of nation building; 4. Women and the era of nationalism; 5. Women and the era of modernisation; Part II. The Discourse of Revolution: 6. Gender as a revolutionary discourse; 7. Women and the political transition from modernisation to Islamisation; Part III. The Discourse of Islamisation: 8. The Islamic construction of family; 9. Women and national participation in the Islamic Republic; 10. Policing the family; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisWedded Wife is a feminist study of the institution of marriage and its history.Trade Review“Lennon is adept at weaving together individual stories and historical records in a way that is simultaneously entertaining and thought-provoking.” -- Rachel Cunliffe * New Statesman *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction SHE SAID YES Popping the question Just the two of us Better to marry than burn – or starve The usual inducements of women to marry Political proposals THE BIG DAY A manoeuvring business Making it official Putting on a show A consummation to be devoutly wished WHAT COMES NEXT? What’s in a name? Love, fair looks and true obedience Forsaking all others A fruitful union Having it all – domestic, social and paid labour Till death do us part Keeping up the fight Epilogue Notes

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Book SynopsisDrawing on the author’s decades of experience as a psychologist, trainer and advocate for women, this small but perfectly formed, pocket-sized book contains bite-sized snippets of insight and inspiration on communication, relationships, work, body image, overwhelm, emotional trials and more. Trade ReviewPRAISE FOR A WOMAN IN YOUR OWN RIGHT ‘There’s no doubt we’ve made giant strides towards quality over the decades, but in some ways this advice is even more pertinent today’ Linda Kelsey, Daily Mail‘The classic assertiveness bible… You might be better off with A Woman in Your Own Right than any of the modern girlboss manuals that claim to be able to transform you wholesale into a kickass corporate woman’ Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, Guardian

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Book SynopsisGeography is a subject which throughout its history has been dominated by men; men have undertaken the heroic explorations which form the mythology of its foundation, men have written most of its texts and, as many feminist geographers have remarked, mena s interests have structured what counts as legitimate geographical knowledge.Trade Review'It's very personal, very courageous, and very challenging.' Derek Gregory, Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia '.subtle and sophisticated.this is an important book.' The Geographical Journal 'This is an important book in the development of feminist geography.' Geography '... A greatly needed assessment of recent work influenced by the fertile connections between feminism and geography.' Progress in Human GeographyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. 1. Feminism and Geography: An Introduction. 2. Women and Everyday Spaces. 3. No Place for Women?. 4. The Geographical Imagination: Knowledge and Critique. 5. Looking at Landscape: The Uneasy Pleasures of Power. 6. Spatial Divisions and Other Spaces: Production, Reproduction and Beyond. 7. A Politics of Paradoxical Space. Notes to Chapters.

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Book SynopsisRebels. Warriors. Princesses. Prisoners. Pioneers. 101 of the most extraordinary facts about Suffragettes that you need to know …

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Book SynopsisSticks and stones may break your bones, but words need never hurt you. A tool for transformation and resilience for womxnSticks and Stones is a powerful reclamation of the slurs and insults thrown at womxn for centuries. It's a righting of wrongs - a rewriting of sexist, belittling and shaming language. It's a tool for breaking free from the stereotypes and impossible standards used to confine womxn, transforming them into messages of resilience and resolve. And, most importantly, it's a rallying call for change, healing and empowerment.No matter your race, age, sexual orientation or gender identity, this book is for all womxn everywhere. It takes the words, slurs, insults and labels that are used to diminish womxn every day and breaks them down and tears them apart. It transmutes and rewrites these words - sometimes with all of the pain they trigger, sometimes in the form of positive affirmations, mantras and poems - all told in acrost

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Book SynopsisPeter Filene's path breaking study did both.-Elaine Tyler May, from the ForewordTrade ReviewThis updated edition contains... new material on such timely topics as changing attitudes toward domesticity and work, prostitution, women's friendships, health and sexuality, 'manliness,' fatherhood, and the change and demise of previously all-male institutions. Current LiteratureTable of ContentsForewordPreface to the Third EditionPreface to the First Edition Part I: The End of the Victorian Era (1890–1919)Prologue. As They WereChapter 1. Women and the WorldChapter 2. Women and the HomeChapter 3. Men and ManlinessChapter 4. In Time of WarPart II: The Modern Era (1920–1998)Chapter 5. New GenerationsChapter 6. The Long Amnesia: Depression, War, and DomesticityChapter 7. The Children of DomesticityChapter 8. The Children of the Women's MovementEpilogue. As We Are BecomingAppendix A. The Female Labor Force, 1890–1990Appendix B. Higher Education, 1870–1990NotesEssay on SourcesIndex

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Book SynopsisWith names like "The East Village Inky", "Mend My Dress", "Dear Stepdad", and "I'm So Fucking Beautiful", zines created by girls and women make feminism's third wave visible. This book argues that these quirky, personalized booklets are tangible examples of the ways that girls and women 'do' feminism.Trade Review"Its thrilling to see zines taken seriously in Piepmeiers Girl Zines, which explores the world of handmade magazines created by women as a kind of social activism." * Bookforum *"I’m grateful to Piepmeier for her attempt to rescue zines from inferiority among older generations of feminists." * Bookforum *"Before you could Tweet your every thought to the world, young women cut, pasted, Xeroxed, and traded their own handmade magazines through the mail. In fact, the gorgeously glossy mag youre holding in your hands right now started off as a zine. Girl Zines analyzes the beginning of the movement and its revolution grrrl style roots, as well as the way zinesters used the medium to explore race, sexuality, and identity." * Bust Magazine *"Piepmeiers careful study of the zine movement in girl culture is a powerful and convincing articulation of the ways womens and girls activism has developed, and the creative forms it has taken." -- Leslie Heywood,editor of The Womens Movement Today"Feminist identities are the central concern of Piepmeier's Girl Zines, the first full-length academic study of young women's zine production to take third-wave politics as a serious subject of inquiry." -- Red Chidgey * Signs *"Piepmeier's work is an insightful and long-overdue engagement with the feminist work in zines, which played a pivotal role not only in Riot Grrrl but also in the development of the Third Wave in general." -- Virginia Corvid * Feminist Collections *"“[Piepmeier is] one of third-wave feminism’s astute voices... As the wealth of examples she brings to her argument reveals, the author has done careful research on the significance of this medium and its use as a tool for making the voices of third-wave feminists heard. The study is important in that it affirms the continuity and relevance of feminism and does so in a way that delights as well as informs... Summing Up: Essential." * CHOICE *"“In , author Alison Piepmeier defends the grrrl ethos with a scholarly take that points to the movement as a key part of feminist history; one that enabled women to gain more presence in a male-dominated world, albeit through flimsy, phantasmagorical photocopies passed around in the 1990s. Here Piepmeier brings forth a local study that, whether you agree with it or not, steadfastly lodges zine culture into the feminist archive." -- Broken Pencil"Overall, [Piepmeiers] analysis about the political role that grrrl zines played is dead on. They were central to the evolution of my own feminist development in college in the early 1990s, speaking directly to my feelings of exclusion, disgust with pop culture, and surliness about the lingering sexism that second-wave feminism had failed to abolish." * The American Prospect *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword by Andi Zeisler Introduction 1 "If I Didn't Write These Things No One Else Would Either": The Feminist Legacy of Grrrl Zines and the Origins of the Third Wave 2 Why Zines Matter: Materiality and the Creation of Embodied Community 3 Playing Dress-Up, Playing Pin-Up, Playing Mom: Zines and Gender 4 "We Are Not All One": Intersectional Identities in Grrrl Zines 5 Doing Third Wave Feminism: Zines as a Public Pedagogy of Hope Conclusion Appendix: Where to Find Zines Notes Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is an outstanding collection. The authors write expertly on the surprisingly intimate relation between attitudes toward animals and women in our culture. From reading their work on pornography, the treatment of 'laboratory' animals, hunting, wife-beating, and factory farming I have learned a tremendous amount. This superbly edited volume makes an important contribution to the cause of animal and human liberation." -- Jane Tompkins, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I: Sexism/Speciesism: Interlocking Oppressions 9 1. Sexist Words, Speciesist Roots / Joan Dunayer 11 2. Exploring the Boundaries: Feminism, Animals, and Science / Lynda Birke 32 3. Women Battering and Harm to Animals / Carol J. Adams 55 4. License to Kill: An Ecofeminist Critique of Hunters' Discourse / Marti Kheel 85 5. Speech, Pornography, and Hunting / Maria Comninou 126 6. Abortion and Animal Rights: Are They Compatible Issues? / Gary L. Francione 149 Part II: Alternative Stories 161 7. Beyond Just-So Stories: Narrative, Animals, and Ethics / Linda Vance 163 8. Thinking Like a Chicken: Farm Animals and the Feminine Connection / Karen Davis 192 9. Of Wolves and Women / Diane Antonio 213 10. The Power of Otherness: Animals in Women's Fiction / Marian Scholtmeijer 231 11. Birds Don't Sing in Greek: Virginia Woolf and "The Plumage Bill" / Reginald Abbott 263 12. Taming Ourselves or Going Feral? Toward a Nonpatriarchal Metaethic of Animal Liberation / Brian Luke 290 13. Speciesism, Racism, Nationalism...or the Power of Scientific Subjectivity / Susanne Kappeler 320 Bibliography of Feminist Approaches to Animal Issues 353 Notes on Contributors 363 Index 367

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Book SynopsisBringing together classic and writings of the trailblazing feminist theorist Chandra Talpade Mohanty, this title addresses some of the pressing and complex issues facing contemporary feminism. It offers a sustained critique of globalization and urges a reorientation of transnational feminist practice toward anti-capitalist struggles.Trade Review“Chandra Talpade Mohanty's illuminating analyses take up some of the most urgent questions facing a transnational feminist practice today. She provides resources for feminist engagements with difference, identity politics, the commodification of knowledge, and globalization and its effects. Shifts in the global political and economic landscape as well as Mohanty's own shifting location enable her to identify exhilarating new directions for feminist theory and practice.”—Sandra Harding, coeditor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society“Over the last two decades, Chandra Talpade Mohanty has produced an extraordinary body of writings on transnational feminism, radically changing the way we think about such categories as ‘third world women,’ ‘women of color’ and ‘globalization.’ This volume combines her now classic essays with new writings that accentuate the centrality of anticapitalist feminist theories and practices to the most expansive and forward-looking version of women's studies today.”—Angela Y. Davis"Chandra Talpade Mohanty is unequivocally one of the most important feminist theorists and scholars writing and publishing today. In this collection, her essays take on new meaning to play important parts in what is both a dynamic full-scale analysis of the complex histories of the exploitation of women within neocolonial capitalism and an elaboration of antiracist pedagogies and anticapitalist solidarity practices."—Lisa Lowe, author of Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics”The juxtaposition of these essays brings into sharp focus the theoretical framework Chandra Talpade Mohanty has developed and makes visible the enormity, the force, and the uniqueness of her contribution.”—Ruth Frankenberg, editor of Displacing Whiteness: Essays in Social and Cultural CriticismTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Decolonization, Anticapitalist Critique, and Feminist Commitments 1 Part One. Decolonizing Feminism 1. Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses 17 2. Cartographies of Struggle: Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism 43 3. What's Home Got to Do with It? (with Biddy Martin) 85 4. Sisterhood, Coalition, and the Politics of Experience 106 5. Genealogies of Community, Home, and Nation 124 Part Two. Demystifying Capitalism 6. Women Workers and the Politics of Solidarity 139 7. Privatized Citizenship, Corporate Academies, and Feminist Projects 169 8. Race, Multiculturalism, and Pedagogies of DissentPart Three. Reorienting Feminism 190 9. “Under Western Eyes" Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles 221 Notes 253 Bibliography 275 Index 295

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Book SynopsisOffers a historical guide through the metamorphoses and tumultuous debates that have defined literary study in recent decades, as viewed by one of critical theory's most astute thinkers.Trade Review“Johnson’s real gift was to tackle the ‘dead white males’ of the canon and re-read them, looking for the women, ever alert to what she called ‘muteness envy’ in canonical poetry. She directed her attention to popular works, too, to films such as Thelma and Louise and The Piano, happy to bring Keats into the discussion as she did so. Such essays stress critical and creative vitality in the midst of death, and are still life-giving today, still radical, angry and passionate, yet always disciplined. Johnson asks acute questions, inserts the personal into her academic essays, and gives us new ideas about ‘how to read.’” -- Lesley McDowell * TLS *“Reading these essays, one finds them as sprightly, brilliant, and revelatory as ever. Johnson’s style—famous for the clarity that paradoxically masks and illuminates the argumentative complexity of the writing—is brisk, orderly, and economical. … Perhaps this is the moment to return to the intellectual upheaval of deconstruction, that almost forgotten art of reading and rereading. There is no better place to begin rereading than right here, with Barbara Johnson’s own startling and writerly prose.” -- Judith Brown * Modernism/modernity *“Essays on abortion, corporate personhood, and many other still contemporary issues show that, for Johnson, deconstruction was always deeply intertwined with lived political reality, and many of the best essays in the collection bridge the gap between readings of poems and analysis of life in various forms of political relation, often in the context of the surprising strangeness of the textual or human encounter. For Johnson, ‘the undecidable is the political. There is politics precisely because there is undecidability. And there is also poetry’ (p.227). The forms of her own essays, intriguing in the turns they take, the conclusions they draw, and the interpretations they bring forth from the texts they examine, highlight and perform this causal relationship in consistently insightful and surprising ways.” * Forum for Modern Language Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Editors' Preface xi Personhood and Other Objects: The Figural Dispute with Philosophy / Judith Butler xvii Barbara Johnson by Barbara Johnson xxvii Part I. Reading Theory as Literature, Literature as Theory 1. The Critical Difference: BartheS/BalZac 3 2. Translator's Introduction to Dissemination (abridged) 14 3. Poetry and Syntax: What the Gypsy Knew 26 4. A Hound, a Bay Horse, and a Turtle Dove: Obscurity in Walden 36 5. Strange Fits: Poe and Wordsworth on the Nature of Poetic Language 44 6. The Frame of Reference: Poe, Lacan, Derrida 57 Part II. Race, Sexuality, Gender 7. Euphemism, Understatement, and the Passive Voice: A Geneaology of Afro-American Poetry 101 8. Metaphor, Metonymy, and Voice in Their Eyes Were Watching God 108 9. Moses and Intertextuality: Sigmund Freud, Zora Neale Hurston, and the Bible 126 10. Lesbian Spectacles: Reading Sula,

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction | 1 1 Psyche and Creation: Initial Reflections on Orthodox Theology and Depth Psychology | 19 2 “That Which Is Not Assumed Is Not Healed” | 40 3 An Ontology of Healing? | 78 4 Eros: Healing Fire | 105 Conclusion | 149 Acknowledgments | 155 Notes | 157 Bibliography | 201 Index | 211

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Book SynopsisThe Hroswitha Club was a group of women book collectors who met from 19442004 in the Eastern United States. This Element makes their history accessible, focusing on how members shared knowledge and expertise, providing a space for legitimacy and self-growth in a period where women's access to formal education and academic institutions was limited.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Hroswitha Club, Gender, and Historical Significance; 1. 'Very Serious and Very Excellent': Who Were the Hroswithians?; 2. 'Land of Bibliophilia': Women and Book Collecting; 3. 'And We're Off': Meetings and Activities; 4. 'The Abiding Love of Books': Relationships and Networks; 5. 'Of Maximum Usefulness': Publications and Projects; 6. 'No One Has Time': The Later Years; Coda: Book Collecting, Literary History, and Women's Labor; Appendix: Club Membership 1944–1994.

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Book Synopsis#WakingTheFeminists was a year-long grassroots campaign for gender equality in Irish theatre. Prompted by the gender disparity of Ireland''s Abbey Theatre''s 2016 programme, ''Waking the Nation'', Lian Bell posted a Facebook message that sparked a surge of feminist fury that ignited the #WakingTheFeminists movement. This Element considers the movement both as digital feminist activism and as part of the growing trend of data feminism, by analysing how its combined use of connective and collective action, and qualitative and quantitative data, was critical to its success. It contextualises the movement historically in relation to a series of feminist controversies in Irish theatre since 1990, before considering its impact on both policy and cultural changes across the Irish arts sector. #WakingTheFeminists'' national and international resonance derived from its research-informed strategy which made it the most effective campaign for gender equality in the history of Irish theatre.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers the first major discussion of metatheatre in Australian drama of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It highlights metatheatreâs capacity to illuminate the wider social, cultural, and artistic contexts in which plays have been produced. Drawing from existing scholarly arguments about the value of considering metatheatre holistically, this book deploys a range of critical approaches, combining textual and production analysis, archival research, interviews, and reflections gained from observing rehearsals. Focusing on four plays and their Australian productions, the book uses these examples to showcase how metatheatre has been utilised to generate powerful elements of critique, particularly of Indigenous/non-Indigenous relations. It highlights metatheatreâs vital place in Australian dramatic and theatrical history and connects this Australian tradition to wider concepts in the development of contemporary theatre. This illuminating text w

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Book SynopsisThis book relocates the long life and literary career of the poet, playwright, novelist, philanthropist and teacher Hannah More (1745-1833) in the wider social and cultural contexts that shaped her, and which she helped shape in turn. One of the most influential writers and campaigners of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, More's reputation has suffered unfairly from accusations of paternalism and provincialism, and misunderstandings of her sincerely-held but now increasingly unfamiliar evangelical beliefs. Now, in this book, readers can explore a range of essays rooted in up-to-the-minute research which examines newly-recovered archival materials and other evidence in order to present the fullest picture yet of this complex and compelling author, and the era she helped mould with her words.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Hannah More in ContextKerri Andrews and Sue Edney Tongues in Trees: Hannah More and the Nature Inscription Robin Jarvis Feeling Good: Sentimental Virtue in Hannah More’s The Search After Happiness (1773) and "Sensibility" (1782) Rose Hilton Defending "Reason’s rein": Rationalism as Persuasive Strategy in Hannah More’s Slavery: A Poem (1788) Adam Bridgen Writing Women at Work Maeve Adams "Hunger is not a postponable want": Hannah More’s charity reconsidered Kerri Andrews Hannah More’s Percy, A Tragedy, in the Spanish and French Theatrical Contexts Begoña Lasa Álvarez The Bluestocking and the Preacher: the Bifurcated Reception of Hannah More in Scandinavia Marie Nedregotten Sørbø Hannah More’s Sympathetic Strategies: Coelebs in Search of a Wife and the Evangelical Novel Nicky Lloyd Books and Readers in Hannah More’s Coelebs in Search of a Wife Joanna Maciulewicz Hannah More Rediscoveries: Letters, Literary Manuscripts, and Inscribed Books Nicholas D. Smith Bringing More to the Fore: Championing the life and work of Hannah More in Schools and Community Education Joanne Edwards Hannah More’s Energetic Sociality: Enthusiasms and Consequences Patricia A. DemersAn Extended Sermon on Hannah MoreRev Paula Hollingsworth

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Book SynopsisProviding an overview of different forms of violence against women, this second edition has been significantly updated to reflect the changes that have taken place in recent years.Much has changed since the publication of the first edition, which is reflected throughout this new volume. It is organised thematically into three parts - menâs violence against women in relationships (Part I), in the family (Part II), and in public spaces (Part III) â and every chapter has been thoroughly revised and updated. New chapters have also been added, including on sexual harassment and misconduct in the workplace, on the nighttime economy including spiking, and on violence against women in cyberspace. The book covers the main forms of violence against women, looking at it from a research, policy, and practice perspective, this book widens the lens through which we view menâs violence against women.Violence against Women is an essential reading for social scientists who want

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Book SynopsisIn this vitally important and engaging text, leading feminist linguist Deborah Cameron explores the role of language and discourse in perpetuating sexism and misogyny in the twenty-first century. Covering how the linguistic expression of prejudice against women has evolved during the last fifty years, the author of the blog Language: A feminist guide pays attention both to the persistence of familiar problems, such as the dominance of men in many interactional settings, and to the emergence of new challenges such as the global rise of misogynist extremism online. The book provides students and general readers with an up-to-date survey of ideas, debates and research on a wide range of key topics, including sexist attitudes to womenâs speech, verbal sexual harassment in public spaces offline and online, biases in vocabulary and grammar, the discourse of the online manosphere and the way violence against women is reported by the news media. Moreover, the author outlines tTrade Review"Deborah Cameron’s books are always a compelling and accessible read, and this is no exception. Based on sound scholarly research and illustrated with arresting examples from an impressive range of media and digital sources, her analyses demonstrate a deeply committed engagement with complex linguistic issues involving the treatment of women."—Janet Holmes, Professor Emerita (Victoria University of Wellington), Associate Director, Language in the Workplace Project"This is an endlessly useful resource—for teachers and students to dip into for case studies and research examples, or as a detailed, nuanced and expansive discussion of how ideas about language linked to men and women have been developed, researched, resisted and weaponised over the last fifty years. Cameron transforms familiar and new academic ideas and research into an accessible and engaging read, using up-to-date, real world examples. This is a must-have text for teachers and students wanting to develop their understanding of language and gender research that is also a klaxon call to all those concerned about misogyny right now."—Lisa, Jacky and Dan of the Lexis Podcast TeamTable of ContentsIntroduction: Have we come a long way, baby? Double standards: the policing of women’s language Unequal rights: attention, respect and male entitlement Coded messages: sexism, words and meanings Default male: sexism and grammar Who do you think you are? Sexism and forms of address Something old, something new: investigating misogynist discourse Telling stories: the reporting of violence against women Words and deeds: resisting sexism and misogyny Index

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Book SynopsisThis book studies negotiations of gender politics in the process of nation formation in the aftermath of the Partition. One of the most traumatic events in South Asian history, the Partition forms the basis of numerous literary and cinematic interpretations. Drawing on Hindi, English, Urdu and Punjabi fiction, it shows how gender is irrevocably woven into the idea of the nation and the politics of it. It focuses on the works of Saadat Hasan Manto, Rajinder Singh Bedi, Ismat Chughtai, Yashpal, Khushwant Singh, Abdullah Hussein, Mumtaz Shah Nawaz and Attia Hosain to delve into the horrors of the Partition, toward women in particular, and their representations in literary and cinematic imaginations. As an important contribution to the study of the Partition of India, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literature, culture studies, film studies, politics, gender studies and South Asian studies..Table of ContentsPreface by Sukrita Paul KumarAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Historical Perspectives on the Partition2. Gender and Nationalism3. Fractured Vision of the Nation4. Territorial Conceptualization: Woman and Nation in the Short story of the Partition5. Walk across the border: Questioning stereotypes in Partition CinemaConclusionPostscriptSelect BibliographyIndex

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