Feminism and feminist theory Books
Rowman & Littlefield Feminist Intersectional Therapy
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Rowman & Littlefield Feminist Intersectional Therapy
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£999.99
Rowman & Littlefield Judith Butler and Marxism
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£999.99
Seal Press (CA) For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press Minds of Our Own: Inventing Feminist Scholarship and Women's Studies in Canada and Québec, 1966-76
Book Synopsis This book of personal essays by over forty women and men who founded women's studies in Canada and Québec explores feminist activism on campus in the pivotal decade of 1966-76. The essays document the emergence of women's studies as a new way of understanding women, men, and society, and they challenge some current preconceptions about ""second wave"" feminist academics. The contributors explain how the intellectual and political revolution begun by small groups of academics - often young, untenured women - at universities across Canada contributed to social progress and profoundly affected the way we think, speak, behave, understand equality, and conceptualize the academy and an academic career. A contextualizing essay documents the social, economic, political, and educational climate of the time, and a concluding chapter highlights the essays' recurring themes and assesses the intellectual and social transformation that their authors helped set in motion. The essays document the appalling sexism and racism some women encounter in seeking admission to doctoral studies, in hiring, in pay, and in establishing the legitimacy of feminist perspectives in the academy. They reveal sources of resistance, too, not only from colleagues and administrators but from family members and from within the self. In so doing they provide inspiring examples of sisterly support and lifelong friendship. Trade Review"The collection of brief, largely autobiographical pieces offers a taster 'menu' of feminist scholarship and women's studies in Canada, and an invitation to read more deeply in the field. A more comprehensive tasting would take up several thousand pages--as do the collecive works of the editors and contributors. The array of scholars and perspectives demonstrates the nature and extent of feminist and women's studies at a pivotal point in Canadian academic history. The preface and opening chapter, 'Changing Times', provide an overview of women's organizations, projects, and actions, and highlight educational and scholarly landmarks.... There are numerous reminders of the particular struggles women academics have survived.... Minds of Our Own offers a multifaceted view of an important chapter in academic history and inspiration and affirmation for women and feminist scholars who still struggle for acceptance, recognition and legitimacy. It should be required reading for administrators, and for all who persist in creating and maintaining obstacles to equality and freedom of enquiry.'" -- Valerie Alia, Royal Roads University -- British Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 24, no. 1, 2011, 201110"A vision and courage--that's all it took for a feminist revolution in academia! This is a book to remind people how this resolute group pulled it off. It will be an inspiration to young feminists as they face the future in our education institutions." -- Marjorie Griffin Cohen, Simon Fraser University -- 200805"The stories are compelling, enthralling, and chilling...and make it clear that women's studies was born in struggle, both as an intellectual project and a political movement.... The anthology opens with a splendid integrated overview of women's history in Canada and Quebec over the remarkable decade. It has a bibliography to die for--a gift in itself... [A]s a record of a moment of joy and hopefulness, it stands as a glowing testimony of how women's studies and the women's liberation movement began as two branches of the same enterprise--wanting nothing less than to change the world." -- Susan Prentice -- 200910"Certainly, the personal accounts of the people involved in the early Women's Studies movement are central to this book, but the introduction and the conclusion should be essential reading for anyone connected with Women's Studies. For those who were not there, or are too young to know, these sections emphasize that there was a time in Canada and Quebec when women could be denied employment or fired if they married, when birth control and abortion were illegal, and as Sandra Pyke tells it, when a married woman could only get credit in the name of her husband, when the ideology of marriage and motherhood had a powerful hold on women, when pay discrimination based on sex was legal, when women's education was narrowly defined, when Aboriginal women's experiences were all but ignored, and a time when sexual orientation was openly viewed as deviant. For those who were part of the Women's Studies revolution in the ten years covered here or who came to the discipline in its early years, these two chapters allow us to reflect on the many limitations women accepted. The emergence of Women's Studies shows that some women were willing to challenge the status quo." -- Margaret Kechnie, Laurentian University -- Historical Studies in Education, Fall 2010, 201101"The aptly named Minds of Our Own is a page-turner. An opening chapter sketches the social, political, economic, and academic conditions under which the first Canadian Women's Studies projectts were launched. The conclusion outlines a series of themes that emerge across the core of the volume, comprise of more than forty brief but telling first-person narratives, some co-authored, all about 'inventing feminist scholarship' at various sites throughout the country between 1966 and 1976.... The gathered narratives are as compelling as the tale of editorial collaboration behind the work emblematic of growing networks among scholars in the field. Three parallel efforts to document Women's Studies' early years are brought together in this text, which offers an archive of personal reflections on a process of academic inquiry that continues to unearth the complexities of knowledge politics. The project is indebted to similar collections by American feminists but emphasizes the Canadian situation as unique. It acknowledges that anglo- and francophone environments for Women's Studies in Canada have remained distinctiv, that finding and generating locally relevant materials for study was both daunting and an on-going revelation from the start, and that there were and still are gaps in shared awareness about how diversely felt and situated the experiences of different communities of women remain in Canadian and international contexts. Graced by a cover that presents in textile art, a bitten pomegranate with at least one seed airborne off the page, the book invokes a time when enough critical mass had formed to defy western cultural interdictions against women's power to know in public and counterpublic ways.... Minds of Our Own lends itself to qualitative analyses that would unpack some of the affinities and contradictions that surface among and within accounts. In advance undergraduate classes, one could place selected narratives beside the galvanized feminist voices that took on poorly informed critiques of Women's Studies in the national media recently, or the untenable claim that gender equity has been achieved in Canada, even as the gender-based disparities abroad become a cornerstone of foreign policy. Minds of Our Own makes a useful contribution to the project of Canadian Women's Studies by detailing some of the groundbreaking strategies that formalized feminist academic inquiry in the mid- to late twentieth centuries. It points at once to past challenges and aTable of Contents Minds of Our Own: Inventing Feminist Scholarship and Women's Studies in Canada and Québec, 1966-76, edited by Wendy Robbins, Meg Luxton, Margrit Eichler, and Francine Descarries PREFACE CHANGING TIMES Women's Organizations (before 1960) Women's Changing Social Position The Women's Movement of the 1960s and 1970s Women in Post-Secondary Education Feminist Scholarship and Women's Studies ESSAYS Creating a Tradition of Canadian Women Writers and Feminist Literary Criticism Clara Thomas Mother Was Not a Person, So I Became a Feminist Marguerite Andersen Fanning Fires: Women's Studies in a School of Social Work Helen Levine with Faith Schneider Feminism: A Critical Theory of Knowledge Marie-Andrée Bertrand Women's Studies: A Personal Story Dorothy E. Smith Contributing to the Establishment of Women's Studies and Gender Relations Anita Caron Feminism and a Scholarly Friendship Jill Ker Conway and Natalie Zemon Davis Midwife to the Birth of Women's Studies at McGill Margaret Gillett How the Simone de Beauvoir Institute of Concordia University Grew from Unlikely Beginnings Maïr Verthuy Moments in the Making of a Feminist Historian Alison Prentice Doing Feminist Studies without Knowing It Micheline Dumont A Matrix of Creativity Frieda Forman Transforming the Academy and the World Deborah Gorham Reminiscences of a Male Supporter of the Movement towards Women's Liberation Leslie Marshall You Just Had To Be There Greta Hofmann Nemiroff The Second Wave: A Personal Voyage Sandra Pyke A Lifetime of Struggling to Belong Vanaja Dhruvarajan Once Upon a Time There Was the Feminist Movement Nadia Fahmy-Eid Women's Studies at the University of Alberta Rosalind Sydie, Patricia Prestwich, Dallas Cullen Women's Studies and the Trajectory of Women in Academe Annette Kolodny Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University, 1966-76: A Dialogue Andrea Lebowitz, Honoree Newcombe, Meredith M. Kimball Nascent, Incipient, Embryonic, and Ceremonial Women's Studies Linda Christiansen-Ruffman To Challenge the World Margrit Eichler From Male and Female Roles to Gender Relations: A Scientific and Political Trajectory Danielle Juteau Second Wave Breaks on the Shore of U of T Lorna Marsden Surviving Political Science ... and Loving It Jill Vickers Blood on the Chapel Floor: Adventures in Women's Studies Kay Armatage Genesis of a Journal Donna Smyth The Saga Marylee Stephenson Coming of Age with Women's Studies Meredith M. Kimball Doing Women's Studies Pat Armstrong Pioneer in Feminist Political Economy: Overcoming the Disjuncture Joan McFarland Women's Studies at Guelph Terry Crowley Women's Studies: Oppression and Liberation in the University Meg Luxton Reflections on Teaching and Writing Feminist Philosophy in the 1970s Susan Sherwin From Marginalized to ""Establishment"": Doing Feminist Sociology Maureen Baker ""To Ring True and Stand for Something"" Wendy Robbins Socialist Feminist and Activist Educator Linda Briskin My Path to Feminist Philosophy, 1970-76 Christine Overall Women's Sight: Looking Backwards into Women's Studies in Toronto Ceta Ramkhalawansingh PERSONAL AND INTELLECTUAL REVOLUTION: SOME REFLECTIONS The Patriarchal Context Countervailing Social Movements Intersections of Gender, Race, Class, Sexual Orientation Inventing a New Scholarship and New Structures Disciplinarity and/or Interdisciplinarity Student-Teacher Relations Personal Impacts Interesting Times APPENDIXES Appendix A. Alphabetical List of Authors Appendix B. List of Authors by Discipline NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS CUMULATIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX.
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press Borrowed Tongues: Life Writing, Migration, and Translation
Book Synopsis Borrowed Tongues is the first consistent attempt to apply the theoretical framework of translation studies in the analysis of self-representation in life writing by women in transnational, diasporic, and immigrant communities. It focuses on linguistic and philosophical dimensions of translation, showing how the dominant language serves to articulate and reinforce social, cultural, political, and gender hierarchies. Drawing on feminist, poststructuralist, and postcolonial scholarship, this study examines Canadian and American examples of traditional autobiography, autoethnography, and experimental narrative. As a prolific and contradictory site of linguistic performance and cultural production, such texts challenge dominant assumptions about identity, difference, and agency. Using the writing of authors such as Marlene NourbeSe Philip, Jamaica Kincaid, Laura Goodman Salverson, and Akemi Kikumura, and focusing on discourses through which subject positions and identities are produced, the study argues that different concepts of language and translation correspond with particular constructions of subjectivity and attitudes to otherness. A nuanced analysis of intersectional differences reveals gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, culture, and diaspora as unstable categories of representation. Trade Review"Eva Karpinski has taken on questions that arise for every reader in a transcultural, multi-linguistic, and diasporic world. Although she focuses on translated texts, her title, 'Borrowed Tongues', names all our tongues; her insights into the ethical and psychosocial dimensions of autobiography, translation, and theory will open new intellectual trade routes among us. This is a sophisticated, smart, and beautifully readable book, and an important addition to WLU Press's wonderful Life Writing series." -- Jeanne Perreault, University of Calgary, co-editor of 'Tracing the Autobiographical' (WLU Press, 2005)"Working within a thoroughly inter-disciplinary framework informed by poststructuralist, feminist, and postcolonial approaches, Eva Karpinski's book articulates a novel and multifaceted concept of translation that approaches immigrant women's life writing as a project of meaning transfer between differing signifying contexts. Through her nuanced close reading s of migrant, diasporic, and postcolonial self-narratives, Karpinski's book displays the potential of translation to unsettle the conventions of the autobiographical genre, problematize monolingual understandings of the relation between language and subjectivity, and elucidate the historical and material conditions underlying the production of immigrant women's writing, as well as the cultural politics informing these texts' reception. What emerges through Karpinski's versatile back and forth between the memoirs and the more theoretical analysis is a rich account of the intertwined registers of translation as textual practice and lived experience for immigrant women writers." -- Paola Bohórquez -- Canadian Woman Studies"The study expands the field of life writing by explicitly theorizing the relationships among translation, gender, ethnic identity, and ethics. Summing Up: Recommended." -- J.M. Utell, Widener University -- Choice"Only recently have autobiographies been theoretically linked to translation studies, and this book offers an important glimpse into how subjectivity and power in migrant contexts is very much a product of such interlinking. More interesting, the book itself is connected to translation insofar as the process is indeed correlated to those migratory practices that are employed by migrants in their life narratives and by the respective authors as they transfer meaning from one signifying context to another. Both migrants and authors, it seems, are living and writing in 'borrowed tongues' which forms the core of this study.... The author...also...makes us aware of evidence of 'non-translation'...that which memory, trauma, and recollection may not render as 'translatable.'" -- Anastasia Christou, Middlesex University -- Auto/Biography StudiesKarpinski's work Borrowed Tongues: Life, Writing, Migration, and Translation deserves a broad audience for this reason...[it is a] serious meditation about the impact that translations have on texts, as well as the forces that influence those translations.... Karpinski beautifully weaves the disparate life stories and strategies of [her] authors into a larger narrative of resistance. In the conclusion of her book, Karpinski points out why it is important that we, in academia, pay attention to these narratives: "If academic institutions can be viewed as a microcosm of such transnational contact zones, I am convinced that we can benefit from the findings of research on life writing in order to learn to read each other's stories, listen to multiple voices, and find the possibility of plurivocal exchanges...." I can think of not better words to illustrate why [this] book [is] important for a more general audience, in addition to those who specialize in the often marginalized sub-genres of translation, theatre, and life-writing. -- Lee Skallerup Bessette -- Canadian LiteratureTable of Contents Borrowed Tongues: Life Writing, Migration, and Translation by Eva C. Karpinski Introduction Migrations of Theories: Autobiography and Translation 1 Literacy Narratives: Mary Antin and Laura Goodman Salverson 2 Immigrant Crypto(auto)graphy: Akemi Kikumura and Apolonja Maria Kojder 3 Experimental Self-Translations: Eva Hoffman and Smaro Kamboureli 4 Translation as Allegorical Metafiction: Marlene Nourbese Philip and Jamaica Kincaid Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index
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Fulcrum Publishing The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of
Book SynopsisThe True Story of Pocahontas is the first public publication of the Powhatan perspective that has been maintained and passed down from generation to generation within the Mattaponi Tribe, and the first written history of Pocahontas by her own people.
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University of Tennessee Press Rampant Women: Suffragists Right Assembly
Book SynopsisDr. Linda J. Lumsden analyzes the First Amendment components of the women's suffrage movement, in particular their right to assembly as they organized pageants, parades, open air meetings and public demonstrations. The book opens with a woman-centered essay on the freedom of expression before the 20th century. The first chapter describes the heroism it took for women in the 19th century to gather in mass meetings, delegations and conventions. Chapter 2 explores Open-Air campaigns; Chapter 3 on petitioning as a political tool. Chapter 4 is on parades, starting with the first suffrage parades in 1908 (New York City; Boone, Iowa; and Oakland, California) and ending with the last one in 1917. Pageants are featured in chapter 5, and the chapter 6 is on picketing. The concluding chapter develops her position that suffrage assemblies provided the leverage for later protestors who sought a public arena to decry their political dissent. Four appendices then follow: a list of suffrage organizations; prominent suffragists in the 1910s; a chronology of major events in the U.S. suffrage movement; and, finally a list of when and where women won the vote. There is a brief mention of the 1913 suffrage paraders in Louisville, but generally the book focuses on states other than Kentucky.
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University of Tennessee Press Louisa May Alcott And Charlotte Bronte: Transatlantic Translations
Book Synopsis“Doyle demonstrates that Alcott kept up a running dialogue with her distinguished British counterpart, both contesting and adapting BrontË’s treatments of woment’s spiritual, social, and vocational lives so as to develop her own distinctively American talent.” —Elizabeth Keyser, author of Whispers in the Dark: The Fiction of Louisa May Alcott“Doyle provides an illuminating discussion of the full range of Louise May Alcott’s writing. Comparisons with Charlotte BrontË spark keen insights into literary traditions and cultural events. General readers will enjoy this book; Alcott and BrontË scholars will need it.” —Beverly Lyon Clark, author of Regendering the School Story: Sassy Sissies and Tattling TomboysThe work and life of British author Charlotte BrontË fascinated America’s Louisa May Alcott throughout her own literary career. As a nineteenth-century writer struggling with many of the same themes and issues as BrontË, Alcott was drawn toward her British counterpart, but cultural differences created a literary distance between them sometimes as wide as the Atlantic. In this comparative study, Christine Doyle explores some of the intriguing parallels and differences between the two writers’ backgrounds as she traces specific references to BrontË and her work—not only in Alcott’s children’s fiction, but also in her novels for adults and “sensation fiction.” Doyle compares the treatment of three themes important to both writers—spirituality, interpersonal relations, and women’s work—showing how Alcott translated BrontË’s British reserve and gender- and class-based repression into her own American optimism and progressivism.In her early career, Alcott was so fascinated by BrontË’s works that she patterned many of her characters on those of BrontË; she later adapted these British elements into a more recognizably American form, producing independent, strong heroines. In observing differences between the writers, Doyle notes that Alcott expresses less anti-Catholic sentiment than does BrontË. She also discusses the authors’ attitudes toward the theater, showing how for BrontË drama is associated with falseness and hypocrisy, while for Alcott it is a profession that expresses possibilities of power and revelation.Throughout her insightful analysis, Doyle shows that Alcott responds as a uniquely American writer to the problems of American literature and life while never denying the powerful transatlantic influence exerted by BrontË. Doyle’s work reflects a wide range of scholarship, solidly grounded in an understanding of the Victorian temperament, nineteenth-century British and American literature, and recent Alcott criticism and gives fuller voice to the multiple dimensions of Alcott as a nineteenth-century writer.
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University Press of Mississippi Inside Peyton Place: The Life of Grace Metalious
Book SynopsisThe juicy biography of the scandalous novelist who lifted the lid off a New England town Indian summer is like a woman. Ripe, hotly passionate, but fickle, she comes and goes as she pleases so that one is never sure whether she will come at all, nor for how long she will stay. . . . So begins Peyton Place by Grace Metalious (1924-1964). In September, 1956, it burst onto the American scene as the most controversial novel of the century. Its publication was also an extraordinary story of personal triumph. Grace Metalious, an unpretentious housewife from the wrong side of the tracks, had written an explosive bestseller. From a ramshackle cottage in a small New England milltown, she zoomed to national stardom. She met movie stars, famous writers, and the hangers-on who gravitate to those who achieve sudden wealth. She partied with the glamorous; she traveled; always a generous friend, she entertained lavishly. It was a Cinderella dream. But it did not last. Grace refused to be confined by the fifties' notions of a woman's place. In her struggle to find herself, she lifted the lid off sex and violence, power and powerlessness, truth and hypocrisy, and became known as the Pandora in Blue Jeans. ""If I'm a lousy writer,"" she said, ""then an awful lot of people have got lousy taste."" Reporters could not resist the story: A wife and mother of three had written this sensational exposé. Her own affairs, her personal excesses, her outspokenness, continually shocked and fascinated America. Emily Toth has given us a complete and sympathetic portrait of Grace: the idealistic young scribbler, the partier, the sometimes reluctant wife and mother. Tracing the television shows, the films, the Peyton Place sequels and later novels, Toth shows Grace plagued by periods of self-doubt and loneliness, striving desperately and feeling pressured to create another ""hit."" Grace Metalious's life is the material modern novels are made of. Inside Peyton Place is the story of a woman out of step with her times, a poignant tale of a strong yet vulnerable individual who dreamed of having everything -- and then unfortunately found it. Emily Toth, a professor of English and Women's Studies at Louisiana State University, is the author or editor of ten books, including Unveiling Kate Chopin (University Press of Mississippi) and Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia.
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Seal Press Cunt (20th Anniversary Edition): A Declaration of
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Seal Press Raising Empowered Daughters: A Dad-to-Dad Guide
Book SynopsisStay-at-home dad and journalist Mike Adamick jumps into the feminist-parenting fray with a book designed to help dads understand the dynamics behind sexist micro-messages our daughters experience every day, so they can combat them in daily life. Addressing a wide range of challenges facing dads who want to raise empowered girls, Raising Empowered Daughterscovers all the angles and issues dads need to know so they can better understand society's subtle silencing of girls, and their own role in the gender imbalance that kids all experience.Taking readers into the home, the schools, and through the public influences of pop culture and media, Adamick shows dads exactly where their daughters are being undermined by male-dominated traditions and standards. Armed with this awareness, he gives dads practical actions they can take to infuse their daughters with the confidence and role models they need to avoid the traps of patriarchy.
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Seal Press Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male
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Greg Kofford Books, Inc. Voices for Equality: Ordain Women and Resurgent Mormon Feminism
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The Library of America Joanna Russ: Novels & Stories (LOA #373): The
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ARC Manor In Defense of Women
£13.62
Cosimo Classics A Vindication of the Rights of Women
£17.58
Haymarket Books Men Explain Things to Me
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Vertvolta Press Anarchism and Other Essays
£11.40
Vertvolta Press Contradictions Contraception
£9.49
Loving Healing Press Nickels: A Tale of Dissociation
£13.25
Bibliotech Press The Woman's Bible
£16.95
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc The Body and the Screen: Female Subjectivities in Contemporary Women’s Cinema
Book SynopsisWinner of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Best Book Prize 2018 Since the 1980s the number of women regularly directing films has increased significantly in most Western countries; in France, Claire Denis and Catherine Breillat have joined Agnès Varda in gaining international renown, while British directors Lynne Ramsay and Andrea Arnold have forged award-winning careers in feature film. This new volume in the “Thinking Cinema” series draws on feminist philosophers and theorists from Simone de Beauvoir on to offer readings of a range of the most important and memorable of these films from the 1990s and 2000s, focusing as it does so on how the films convey women's lives and identities. Mainstream entertainment cinema traditionally distorts the representation of women, objectifying their bodies, minimizing their agency, and avoiding the most important questions about how cinema can "do justice" to female subjectivity. Kate Ince suggests that the films of independent women directors are progressively redressing the balance, reinvigorating both the narratives and the formal ambitions of European cinema. Ince uses feminist philosophers to interpret such films as Sex Is Comedy, Morvern Callar, White Material, and Fish Tank anew, suggesting that a philosophical understanding of female subjectivity as embodied and ethical should underpin future feminist film study.Trade ReviewThe Body and the Screen makes a fine contribution to the field of film philosophy in its examination of how feminist phenomenology can be brought into dialogue with female subjectivity in film. * EuropeNow *This trenchant volume makes a fine and timely contribution to the field of film philosophy in its examination of how the work of leading feminist philosophers may be brought into dialogue with film. Through Simone de Beauvoir and others, Ince makes a case for rigorous thought about embodied female subjectivity as explored through cinema. This she addresses in close readings of works by the major British and French female directors of the last two decades. Whether in her discussion of the phenomenological geography of Agnès Varda's 'film-world' or of performed co-authorship in Sally Potter, Ince is an acute and erudite interlocutor. The Body and the Screen will quickly become a work of reference in its field. * Emma Wilson, Professor of French Literature and the Visual Arts, University of Cambridge, UK *Through insightful and attentive exploration of selected works by French and British women filmmakers of the last 25 years, Kate Ince demonstrates how feminist phenomenology, beginning with Simone de Beauvoir and continuing into the present decade, offers new and exciting ways of understanding women in, and, and of the cinema. Clearly and concisely written, Ince’s book is a tour de force exploration of the ways in which philosophy and women’s cinema can inform and enrich each other. * Judith Mayne, Emerita Professor of French, The Ohio State University, USA *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Chapter 1 Female Subjectivity in Philosophy and Theory Chapter 2 Feminist Film Studies and Women’s Cinema After Psychoanalysis Chapter 3 Body Chapter 4 Look Chapter 5 Speech Chapter 6 Performance Chapter 7 Desire Chapter 8 Freedom Conclusion Bibliography Filmography
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She Writes Press Audacious Voices: Profiles in Intersectional Feminism
Book SynopsisInspiring and hopeful, Audacious Voices is a collection of twelve stories from alumnae/alumni of WILL*, a feminist model for education. Each author featured in this book is working, in their own distinct way, to make their communities more equitable—and their stories illustrate how different elements of the WILL* program influence and inspire them to act with such intentionality. Author-activist Courtney Martin writes in The New Better Off that the times we live in may break our hearts, but they don’t have to break our spirit; it’s that spirit that these stories capture, alongside the power of a feminist educational program that engenders such spirit. Emphasizing hope, empathy, resiliency, and solutions by showcasing the transformative power of inclusive leadership, advocacy, and mentorship, Audacious Voices reminds us that real change is possible, even in the current political climate.
£12.34
Bold Strokes Books A Magnificent Disturbance
£14.72
Kharis Publishing 22 Hours of Grace: A Journey of Letting Go
£19.79
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Anatomía de una rebelde
£14.30
Counterpoint The Deceptions: A Novel
Book SynopsisAn explosive tale of art and myth, desire and betrayal, from New York Times best-selling author Jill BialoskyBialosky urgently captures the moment in an adult's life when reflection leads to regret, and a desire to recapture the promise of one's youth becomes a kind of desperation. A vulnerable and searching tale of art, myth, and mortality. —Oprah DailySomething terrible has happened and I don’t know what to do. An unnamed narrator’s life is unraveling. Her only child has left home, and her twenty-year marriage is strained. Anticipation about her soon-to-be-released book of poetry looms. She seeks answers to the paradoxes of love, desire, and parenthood among the Greek and Roman gods at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. As she passes her days teaching at a boys’ prep school, spending her off-hours sequestered in the museum's austere galleries, she is haunted by memories of a yearlong friendship with a colleague, a fellow poet struggling with his craft. As secret betrayals and deceptions come to light and rage threatens to overwhelm her, the pantheon of gods assume remarkably vivid lives of their own, forcing her to choose between reality and myth in an effort to free herself from the patriarchal constraints of the past and embrace a new vision for her future.The Deceptions is a page-turning and seductively told exploration of female sexuality and ambition as well as a human drama that dares to test the stories we tell ourselves. It is also a brilliant investigation of a life caught between the dueling magnetic poles of privacy and its appropriation in art and literature. Celebrated poet, memoirist, and novelist Jill Bialosky has reached new and daring heights in her boldest work yet.
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Haymarket Books Abolition. Feminism. Now.
Book SynopsisAbolition. Feminism. Now. is a celebration of freedom work, a movement genealogy, a call to action, and a challenge to those who think of abolition and feminism as separate—even incompatible—political projects. In this remarkable collaborative work, leading scholar-activists Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie surface the often unrecognized genealogies of queer, anti-capitalist, internationalist, grassroots, and women-of-color-led feminist movements, struggles, and organizations that have helped to define abolition and feminism in the twenty-first century. This pathbreaking book also features illustrations documenting the work of grassroots organizers embodying abolitionist feminist practice. Amplifying the analysis and the theories of change generated out of vibrant community based organizing, Abolition. Feminism. Now. highlights necessary historical linkages, key internationalist learnings, and everyday practices to imagine a future where we can all thrive.Trade Review“In Abolition. Feminism. Now., Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie—four visionaries whose longstanding abolitionist work is inseparable from their feminist principles—brilliantly show how abolition feminism has always offered the radical tools we need for revolutionary change. Feminist approaches to the carceral regime reveal the connections between state violence and intimate violence, between prisons and family policing, and between local and global organizing. By illuminating the genealogy of anti-carceral feminism and its vital struggles against all carceral systems, the authors compel us to see the urgent necessity of abolition feminism now.” —Dorothy Roberts, author, Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build A Safer World “In this powerful, wise and well-crafted book, filled with insight and provocation, Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie make it patently and abundantly clear why abolitionist feminism is necessary. Offering vivid snapshots from a political movement, the book explains how organizing to end violence without turning to violent institutions such as prisons and the police as remedies, is how we learn what we need to do to make change possible. Abolitionist feminists, they teach us, in taking up the slow, practical and painstaking work of campaigning, also expand our political horizons and create imaginative tools for world building. Attentive to histories of organising that are too quickly erased, and alive to new possibilities for working collectively in the present time, this book is as capacious and demanding as the abolitionist feminism it calls for. It gives us a name for what we want. Abolitionism. Now.” —Sara Ahmed, author of Willful Subjects “This little book is a massive offering on where we have been, where we are right now, and what we are imagining and organizing into being as abolition feminists. Breaking us out of every container and binary, Abolition. Feminism. Now. invites us to be in the complexity and contradictions of our humanity in the massive intersectional work of structural change. The ideas of abolition and feminism are rivers moving through us towards a liberated future which we can already feel existing within and between us. Invigorating and rooting, this text is instantly required reading, showing us how everything we have done and are doing is accumulating towards a post-punitive, transformative future - our lineage is bursting with brilliance! And we are prefiguring this possibility - wherever we are is a site of practice, a place where we are collectively becoming accountable to a justice infused with humanity, compassion and the belief that we can change. This book is a lineage of words and visuals, showing us the beauty of our efforts, and gently reminding us that we are not failing - we are learning, and we are changing.” —adrienne maree brown, author of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and We Will Not Cancel Us and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice “Neither manifesto nor blueprint for revolution, this extraordinary book makes the most compelling case I’ve ever seen for the indivisibility of feminism and abolition, for the inseparability of gendered and state violence, domestic policing and militarism, the street, the home, and the world. Combining decades of analytical brilliance and organizational experience, Davis, Dent, Meiners, and Richie offer a genealogy of the movements that brought us here, lessons learned, battles won and lost, and the ongoing collective struggle to build a thoroughly revolutionary vision and practice. A provocation, an incitement, an offering, an invitation to a difficult struggle to which we must all commit. Now.” —Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination “This is the book we’ve all needed for a long, long time.” —Robyn Maynard, author of Policing Black Lives “Abolition. Feminism. Now. is a demand in every way. It pushes readers not to accept simple stories but to embrace complexity and new ways of thinking. But it is also a celebration of feminist agitators and freedom fighters who undermine the carceral state while building new sources safety, repair, and accountability. Of an ever-changing, growing, and evolving movement that puts survivors at the center of its analysis, not the periphery. And of a historic political struggle that considers freedom worth the fight. And, in the end, the authors make it clear that abolition feminism isn’t on its way; it’s already unfolding all around us.” —Nia T. Evans, Boston Review “Abolition, as a theory and practice, is gaining in public visibility. But abolition’s feminist genealogies are less visible. And at this moment—one of political uncertainty, a global health crisis, the simultaneous proliferation of misinformation and intellectual curiosity, and a collective willingness to discuss and commit to abolitionist ideas and practices—influential thinkers and activists Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie offer a beautifully and accessibly written text on carceral systems and abolition and feminism. Abolition. Feminism. Now. is a timely work, offering an essential and critical genealogy of anticarceral feminism and ongoing conversations about the tools and solutions needed for structural change.” —LaShawn Harris, author of Sex Workers, Psychics, and Number Runners: Black Women in New York City’s Underground Economy “Abolition. Feminism. Now. challenges us to move beyond the accessible, popular, and trendy toward a substantive and meaningful conceptualization of abolition feminism that is capacious enough to fundamentally change us.” —Jenn Jackson, author of Black Women Taught Us “These authors’ exhortation to remember abolition’s feminist lineages are important reminders now that large-scale protests have quieted into less visible (and more protracted) organizing.” —Victoria Law, author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women
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Parlor Press Rhetorical Reception
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Dio Press Inc Distraction: Girls, School, and Sexuality
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Catapult Brutes: A Novel
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Lexington Books Feminist Pragmatism and Social Rights
Book SynopsisJudy D. Whipps delves into the untold legacy of early twentieth-century feminist pragmatists who reshaped American legislative and legal history. As advocates for working women, children, immigrants, and racial justice, they fought for an interpretation of the Constitution that included social rights.
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Bloomsbury Academic Spaces for Resistance
Book SynopsisGeniece Crawford Mondé is the Herman N. Hipp Associate Professor of Sociology at Furman University, USA.Ebonie Cunningham Stringer is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at The Pennsylvania State University-Berks, USA.
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IGI Global Handbook of Research on Gender Studies and Feminism in Literature and Media
Book SynopsisThe evolution of how gender and feminism have been portrayed within media and literature has changed dramatically over the years as society continues to understand the importance of representation within entertainment. To fully understand how the field has changed, further study on the current and past forms of media representation is required. The Handbook of Research on Gender Studies and Feminism in Literature and Media engages with literary texts, digital media, films, and art to consider the relevant issues and empowerment strategies of feminism and gender and discusses the latest theories and ideas. Covering topics such as gender performativity, homophobia, patriarchy, sexuality, LGBTQ community, digital studies, and empowerment strategies, this major reference work is ideal for government officials, policymakers, researchers, scholars, academicians, practitioners, instructors, and students.
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Academica Press Feminist Fiction and the Indian Partition of
Book SynopsisThe Partition of the Indian Subcontinent in 1947 unleashed unprecedented violence. In Feminist Fiction and the Indian Partition of 1947, Indian scholar Priyanka Gupta explores how women were doubly suppressed and victimized before and after the partition. The violence, and the displacement of large populations, made this historical episode of separation more and more significant for women. Novels set during the Partition offer unique viewpoints and perspectives that have not previously been explored.
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Academica Press Ecofeminism and Indian Women Writing in English
Book SynopsisThe theory and praxis of ecofeminism has barely been investigated in an Indian context.Ecofeminism is an inclusive theory and provides an intersectional study of feminism, ecocriticism, and literature. Ecofeminism and Indian Women Writing in English unearths the sensibility of Indian women writings through the lens of ecofeminism. This book gives all the required details about ecofeminism, major movements and ecofeminist theories, in both the Indian as well as Western perspectives. It will help the readers understand the discourse of ecofeminism. The reader will get a thorough understanding on how to critically examine an ecofeminist element in a particular text. The book's main objective is to re(store) the cultural heritage of India against its colonial history that had mis(interpreted) the environmental ethics of Indian philosophy, affinity of women with nature and animals. The so-called developmental models of post-modern era will be beneficial only when they will focus on mutual sustainability of man and nature.
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Academica Press Women and Art: A Post-Feminist View
Book SynopsisWomen and Art surveys the history of women in art and addresses the effects of feminist art history and art production. This book is among the first to offer a critical assessment of the role of feminism in art history and how it has presented and misrepresented women's roles in art. Seeking to counterbalance overwhelmingly pro-feminist narratives, it relies on evidence from artists, statisticians, and historians to support individual women artists while remaining critical of feminism. Cogent and persuasive, Women and Art stands as a key for students and researchers interested in art history, gender studies, feminism, and cultural studies.
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Regnery Publishing Inc Feminism Against Progress
Book SynopsisModern feminism increasingly benefits only a small class of professional women. There is no reason to sacrifice everyone else''s happiness for their sake.Mary Harrington shows that women''s liberation was less the result of moral progress than an effect of the material consequences of the Industrial Revolution. We''ve now left the industrial era for the digital age, in which technology is liberating us from natural limits and embodied sex differences. This shift may benefit the elites, but it also makes it easier to commodify women''s bodies, human intimacy, and female reproductive abilities. Feminism has been captured by well-off white-collar women, who use it to advance their own economic and political interests under the pretense that these are the interests of all women—all the while wielding the term like a club against anyone, male or female, who dissents.
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Chiron Publications Righteous Rage
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Chiron Publications Righteous Rage
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Independently Published Malleus Maleficarum: Deuses Que Não Amavam as Mulheres
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Sourcebooks Landmark The Women of Artemis
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Sourcebooks Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup
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Awaken Village Press The Priestess Transmissions
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