Feminism and feminist theory Books
Hodder & Stoughton Hot Feminist
Book SynopsisThe good feminist's guide to being hot. And cool. And fit (all senses). And maybe - just maybe - a little bit thinner. Or firmer (all senses). And definitely extremely well-dressed. And uncompromised. And right.
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John Murray Press Ambition Redefined
Book SynopsisIt''s time to acknowledge that not all working women are interested in climbing the corporate ladder or securing the corner office. Most want and need flexible, less life-consuming work to accommodate their real lives, and it''s not weak, lacking ambition or letting down the sisterhood to pursue professional fulfillment and financial security through less lofty, or headline-making ways.Eye-opening and practical, Ambition Redefined is a welcome alternative to ''women''s business books''. Sollmann calls it like it is: everyday women want and need flexible work that allows them to unapologetically pursue their own brand of ambition and success. She shows them how without sacrificing themselves, their careers or their families. Armed with practical insights and tools, readers will be empowered to go after opportunities beyond traditional definitions of work, career and success. They will learn why they should never leave the workforce, how to make a case for flexibility Trade ReviewFamily schedules don't always meld with a 9-to-5, in-office, 5-day-a-week job, which is why the advice here is critical, so mothers can keep caring for their children and gain financial stability. -- Meredith Bodgas, Editor-in-Chief of Working Mother magazineA great read for women of all ages and career stages. As Sollmann wisely advises, when it comes to work it's not about leaning in or out but leaning in the direction of financial security. -- Lois P. Frankel, Ph.D., author of Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner OfficeCreating greater harmony among the different domains of life is possible.Ambition Redefined, which offers a clear path to realizing how you can make flexwork a real and enriching part of your life, is an essential guide for getting there. -- Stew Friedman, founder of the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project and author of Total LeadershipIn my experience in the flexible job market over more than a decade, I've seen first-hand exactly what Kathryn Sollman is recommending. Professional, high-quality flexible jobs do exist for every age and stage, and this book shares fantastic information and advice for women to find them. -- Sara Sutton Fell, CEO of FlexJobsKathryn Sollmann doesn't pull punches in her provocative new book. Ambition Redefined is a must-read for women of all ages, as they navigate their careers and make crucial choices about what kind of work fits their life stage. This smart guide is a wake-up call. -- Kerry Hannon, New York Times columnist, career and personal finance expertFinally! A smart book for women who want to balance meaningful work and caretaking obligations - without sacrificing their long-term financial security. Chock full of practical advice, tested strategies and vetted resources; Ambition Redefined is a must-read that will guide your work-life choices at pivotal moments throughout your career. -- Nancy Collamer, Founder of MyLifestyleCareer.com and author of Second-Act CareersAmbition does not have to mean dreams of the C-suite, the US author argues...In the book, she argues that the most burning issue for women in the US is not "breaking the glass ceiling" but a rather more modest one: whether or not to continue to work once they have had children. * The FT *
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Hodder & Stoughton The F Word
Book SynopsisA personal celebration of female friendships - the good, the bad and the complicated - by lifestyle content creator, Lily Pebbles.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Feminist Moments
Book SynopsisKatherine Smits is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is the author of Reconstructing Postnationalist Liberal Pluralism (2005) and Applying Political Theory (2009).Susan Bruce is Professor of English at Keele University, UK. She is editor of Three Early Modern Utopias (1999) and Fiction and Economy (2007).Table of ContentsContributors Series Editors' Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. A Feminist-Historical Citadel: Christine de Pizan’s Book of the City of Ladies by Nadia Margolis 2. Anne Bradstreet and the seventeenth-century articulation of ‘the female voice’ by Susan Bruce 3. Mary Astell’s Critique of Marriage by Patricia Springborg. 4. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Women’s Coffee House by Vicki Spencer 5. Justice and Gender in Revolution: Olympe de Gouges Speaks for Women by Joseph Zizek 6. Radical Spirituality and Reason in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Kari Lokke 7. Giving Voice to Feminist Political Theory: The Radical Discourse of Anna Wheeler and William Thompson By Jim Jose 8. 'Supposed to be very calm generally': Anger, Narrative and Unaccountable Sounds in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre by Alexandra Lewis 9. ‘Something Akin to Freedom’: Harriet Jacobs and the Feminist Tradition by Susan Hays Bussey 10. On the Enslavement of Women’s Minds: John Stuart Mill’s The Subjection of Women by Katherine Smits 11. German Maternalist Socialism: Clara Zetkin and the 1896 Social Democratic Party Congress by Catherine Dollard 12. ‘How Turn of the Century Feminism Finds Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”’ by Shirley Samuels 13. Ecology and Virtue in Roquia Sakhawat Hussain’s Sultana’s Dream by Maitrayee Chaudhuri 14. Nazira Zeineddine: Pioneer of Islamic Feminism by Miriam Cooke 15. Virginia Woolf, genre-bending, and feminist life-writing: A Room of One’s Own by Amber Regis 16. “Your sister in the ’gator and the ’gator in your sister”: Judgment in Zora Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God by Glenda R. Carpio 17. ‘One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman’. The Sex-Gender Distinction and Simone de Beauvoir’s Account of Woman: The Second Sex by Céline Leboeuf 18. Betty Friedan’s Feminist Critique of Suburban Domesticity by Rebecca Jo Plant 19. ‘Writing as Re-Vision.’ Female Creative Agency in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich: Diving into the Wreck by Claire Hurley 20. Complicity and Resistance: Andrea Dworkin's Intercourse by Helen Pringle 21. Before Her Eyes: On Luisa Valenzuela’s Bedside Manners (Realidad nacional desde la cama) By Valeria Wagner Postscript: Feminist Revisions of Political Thought Suggestions for Further Reading Notes Index
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Edinburgh University Press Espionage and Exile
Book SynopsisThe first narrative analysis of mid-twentieth century British spy thrillers demonstrating their critiques of political responses to the dangers of Fascism, Nazism, and Communism.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Towards a Feminist Cinematic Ethics
Book SynopsisTowards a Feminist Cinematic Ethics develops an account of non-normative ethics that can be used to think about filmmaking and viewing, using two philosopher - Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Nancy, and the work of filmmaker Claire Denis. It offers new readings of Denis' films, situating them within larger feminist, postcolonial and queer debates.Trade Review"Attuned to what Kristin Hole describes as Denis's cinema of affective reorientation and 'shared vulnerability and responsibility, Towards a Feminist Cinematic Ethics offers fascinating reflections on connections between Denis, Nancy and Levinas, while drawing productively on contemporary feminist philosophies of ethics, co-existence and the body. An insightful, imaginative and lucid study." -- Laura McMahon, Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge "A wondrous journey through the work of Denis, moving toward the cinematic ethics of its title in different ways in each chapter." -- Sarah Cooper, King's College London, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Doris Lessing and the Forming of History
Book SynopsisThis volume views Doris Lessing's writing as a whole and in retrospect, focusing on her innovative attempts to rework literary form to engage with the challenges thrown up by the sweeping historical changes through which she lived.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press May Sinclair
Book SynopsisThis book brings together the most recent research on Sinclair and re-contextualises her work both within and against dominant Modernist narratives. It explores Sinclair's negotiations between the public and private, the cerebral and the corporeal and the spiritual and the profane in both her fiction and non-fiction.
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Edinburgh University Press Simone De Beauvoirs Philosophy of Individuation
Book SynopsisLaura Hengehold presents a new, Deleuzian reading of Simone de Beauvoir s phenomenology, the place of recognition in The Second Sex, the philosophical issues in her novels, the important role of her student diaries and her early interest in Bergson and Leibniz.
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Edinburgh University Press Spinoza and Relational Autonomy
Book SynopsisThis collection of 13 new essays shows what Baruch Spinoza can add to our understanding of the relational nature of autonomy. By offering a relational understanding of the nature of individuals centred on the role played by emotions, Spinoza offers not only historical roots for contemporary debates but also broadens the current discussion.
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Edinburgh University Press Agonistic Mourning
Book SynopsisAthena Athanasiou departs from recent discussions of mourning, including in the work of Judith Butler, by raising an altogether original question which both challenges and extends the current orthodoxy: what would it be like to mourn the dead of the enemy?
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Edinburgh University Press The Reproductive Politics of American Literature and Film 19591973
Book SynopsisDevelops a new approach to the politics of reproduction in literature and film.
£71.25
Edinburgh University Press Queer Defamiliarisation
Book SynopsisHelen Palmer examines the Russian formalist concept of defamiliarisation from a contemporary critical perspective, bringing together new materialist feminisms, experimental linguistic formalism and queer theory.
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Edinburgh University Press Deconstruction Feminism Film
Book SynopsisThis book probes the feminist faultlines in Derrida's thought and generates original feminist insight into key concerns of contemporary film studies, including spectatorship, realism vs artifice, narrative, adaptation, auto/biography and the still.
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Edinburgh University Press Queering the Second Wave
Book SynopsisExplores a series of unsung and sometimes counterintuitive resonances between second-wave feminism and queer theory in both Anglophone and Francophone contexts.Table of ContentsIntroduction, Lara Cox and Lisa Downing; Articles: The Queer Body of MLF Literature, Anne Emmanuelle Berger; `Wittig and Davis, Woolf and Solanas (…) simmer within me’: Reading Feminist Archives in the Queer Writing of Paul B. Preciado, Elliot Evans; Fucking the body, rewriting the text: Proto-queer embodiment through textual drag in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando (1928) and Monique Wittig’s Le Corps lesbien (1973), Kayte Stokoe; Decolonial Queer Feminism in Donna Haraway’s `A Cyborg Manifesto’ (1985), Lara Cox; Queering Sexism and Whiteness with Marilyn Frye, Ulrika Dahl; Anticommunal, Antiegalitarian, Antinurturing, Antiloving: Sex and the `Irredeemable’ in Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon, Alex Dymock; Antisocial Feminism? Shulamith Firestone, Monique Wittig, and Proto-Queer Theory, Lisa Downing; Interviews: Interview with Paola Bacchetta; Interview with J. J. Halberstam; Interview with Clare Hemmings.
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Edinburgh University Press Women Writing and the Iraqi Bathist State
Book SynopsisIn an effort to expand its readership and increase support for its pan-Arab project, the Iraqi Ba?th almost completely eradicated illiteracy among women. As Iraq was metaphorically transformed into a ?female?, through its nationalist trope, women writers simultaneously found opportunities and faced obstacles from the state, as the ?woman question? became a site of contention between those who would advocate the progressiveness of the Ba?th and those who would stress its repressiveness and immorality. By exploring discourses on gender in both propaganda and high art fictional writings by Iraqis, this book offers an alternative narrative of the literary and cultural history of Iraq.
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Edinburgh University Press Michael Fields Revisionary Poetics
Book SynopsisExamines history, modernity, gender, and sexuality through the literary innovations of two late-Victorian female co-authorsTrade Review"Jill R. Ehnenn's brilliant study links two major features of Michael Field's creative practice: their formal experimentation and their repurposing of deep history. Ehnenn's ambitious book represents an invaluable scholarly contribution, not least in its modeling of new insights emerging from serious study of Michael Field. ?" -Carolyn Dever, Dartmouth College
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The MilitaryPeace Complex
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the military and statebuilding components of the international project in Afghanistan since 2001.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press How Literature Comes to Matter
Book SynopsisThrough a rethinking of the relationship between the subject and object, the human and the nonhuman, this volume shows how literature and post-anthropocentric theory can illuminate each other in mutually productive ways.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Biopolitics Materiality and Meaning in Modern
Book SynopsisArguing that existing modernisation theories have been unnecessarily one-sided, Hedwig Fraunhofer offers a rewriting of modernity that cuts across binary methodologies nature and culture, mind and matter, epistemology and ontology, critique and affirmative writing, dramatic and postdramatic theatre.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Variable Objects
Book SynopsisDrawing on new materialism and object-oriented ontology, Variable Objects proposes that Shakespeare is a vibrant object replete with a variable energy that accounts for its infinite meaning-making capacity.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to Vegan Literary Studies
Book SynopsisProvides a scholarly overview of the field of vegan literary studies, traversing the relationship between literature and veganism across a range of periods, cultures, and genres.
£112.50
Globe Pequot Press Shes a Badass
Book SynopsisDuring the rise of second-wave feminism in the 60s and 70s, political activists were not the only ones at work to usher in a more equitable world. In the music world, female rock performers were pursuing a revolution of their own: rejecting the industry's manufactured pop personas and the unacknowledged labor they contributed to male-led groups, women took control of their own music, messages, and images. Even while they often used music to critique rampant chauvinism, they made some of their greatest impacts by paving the way for subsequent musicians to simply be true to themselves. In this way, they helped to transform the music business and society more broadly.In She's a Badass, rock critic Katherine Yeske Taylor interviews more than a dozen of these influential, fearless women about their experiences in an era when female rockers were not given the same respect and opportunities as their male peers. Each chapter focuses on an individual artist, taking an in-depth look at
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Doll
Book SynopsisObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.The haunted doll has long been a trope in horror movies, but like many fears, there is some truth at its heart. Dolls are possessedby our aspirations. They''re commonly used as a tool to teach mothering to young girls, but more often they are avatars of the idealized feminine self. (The word doll even acts as shorthand for a desirable woman.) They instruct girls what to strive for in society, reinforcing dominant patriarchal, heteronormative, white views around class, bodies, history, and celebrity, in insidious ways. Girls' dolls occupy the opposite space of boys' action figures, which represent masculinity, authority, warfare, and conflict. By analyzing dolls from 17th century Japanese Hinamatsuri festivals, to the 80s American Girl Dolls, and even to today's bitmoji, Doll reveals how the objects society encourages us to play with as girls shape the women we become.Object LessonsTrade ReviewSome of the information is jaw dropping ... It is very readable and relatable. * Is This Mutton blog *The fascinating facts [Hart] uncovered about the women behind the industry and her observations about how dolls are emotional vectors—simultaneously objects of scorn and adoration—are revelatory and relatable. * Brevity *Maria Teresa Hart’s Doll is a fascinating personal and public exploration of the deeper meanings behind the plastic, polymer, and porcelain playthings that still shape American girlhood. * Susan Shapiro, New York Times bestselling author of Unhooked, Five Men Who Broke My Heart, and Barbie: Sixty Years of Inspiration *Doll is a heartfelt, intimate, and clever study of objects that terrify some and thrill others. Maria Teresa Hart answers the question "what makes dolls so special, anyway?" while giving us new perspective on these tiny, fragile mirrors. * Allison Horrocks, co-host of the American Girls podcast *Aqua once sang of Barbie, “life in plastic, it’s fantastic.” The same could also be said of the experience of reading this great contribution by Maria Teresa Hart to the Object Lessons series. Through an analysis of “doll culture” Hart demonstrates the value of thinking with things. Dolls have much to teach us about issues of gender, sexuality, and girlhood. Through an exploration of different brands and styles, Hart reveals the stories we tell with and about dolls, and what thinking about them can tell us about our world. * Mary Mahoney, co-host of the American Girls podcast *Entertaining and brilliant, this deceptively slim book packs all the potent drama and intrigue of the world of childhood doll play itself. A fascinating exploration of self and society that is equal parts enlightening, nostalgic, and insightful. An important addition to the literature of feminist cultural history that readers are bound to return to again and again. * Summer Brennan, author of High Heel *Another spectacular part of this (Object Lessons) series. So much packed into such a small package, and yet so immensely readable as well. * Randomly Yours, Alex *Table of ContentsIntroduction Play Date #1 1. Bodies that Matter: The Barbie Doll Play Date #2 2. All that Money Can Buy: The Porcelain Doll Play Date #3 3. The Stories We Tell: The American Girl Doll Play Date #4 4. How to Live Forever: The Celebrity Doll Play Date #5 5. Virtual Proxy: The Avatar “Doll” Conclusion Acknowledgment Index
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Graydon House Books The Favorites
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John Murray Press Privilege
Book Synopsis'Tightly plotted and hugely readable' Jane Rogers, author of PROMISED LANDS'Marvellous . . . fans of immersive historical fiction, the 18th century, all things French and a dash of peril, this one's for you' Emily Brand, author of THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF BYRON'Glasfurd deftly, elegantly captures this volatile world of impoverished attic rooms and gilded literary salons' DAILY MAIL'I thought of the books we carried and the hands that would one day hold them. The pages read, turned and discussed. And how the book would become thought and the thought then become the person gone out into the world. Let Gilbert try and put a stop to that.'After her father is disgraced, Delphine Vimond is cast out of her home in Rouen and flees to Paris. Into her life tumbles Chancery Smith, apprentice printer sent from London to discover the mysterious author of potentially incendiary papers marked only D. In a battle of wits with the French censor, Henri Gilbert, Delphine and Chancery set off in a frantic search for D's author. But who is D and does D even exist?Privilege is a story of adventure and mishap set against the turmoil of mid-18th century France at odds with the absolute power of the King who is determined to suppress opposition on pain of death. At a time when books required royal privilege before they could be published - a system enforced by the Chief Censor and a network of spies - many were censored or banned, and their authors harshly punished. Books that fell foul of the system were published outside France and smuggled back in at great risk.Costa-shortlisted author Guinevere Glasfurd has conjured a vibrant world of entitlement and danger, where the right to live and think freely could come at the highest cost.Trade ReviewPraise for THE WORDS IN MY HAND*shortlisted for the 2016 Costa First Novel Award*Excellent . . . Glasfurd has created an entirely unsentimental love story, with a memorable and engaging heroine. She takes the narrowness of Helena's life and her kicks against its confines, and spins them into an original tale * The Times (Book of the Month) *A striking debut . . . Her portrait of love across barriers of class, and of Helena's yearning for education, is a touching one * The Sunday Times *An accomplished first novel . . . She brilliantly dissects the complex frustrations of a woman in love with a man consumed by intellectual obsessions. There is much to move us here * Guardian *Gloriously readable . . . It feels as though Guinevere Glasfurd has seen into the heart and soul of Helena, as though this really could be her story . . . A truly lovely and captivating debut * LoveReading *Praise for THE YEAR WITHOUT SUMMER*Shortlisted for the HWA Gold Crown Award 2020**Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize 2021*Rich in voice, beautifully told, and with a chilling sting in its tail * Historical Writers’ Association *Superb . . . a stay-up-all-night page-turner . . . a beautifully written, angry, unflinching and unforgettable novel * Financial Times *Glasfurd is a strikingly sharp and subtle writer . . . She has the rare ability to conjure characters vividly in a few deft strokes and the gift, rarer still, of making us care deeply about them * Guardian *Another superb saga, rich in both historical detail and human interest * Observer **Praise for PRIVILEGE*'Set in eighteenth century France, Privilege takes us into the vividly dramatic world of Delphine, self-taught and rebellious, who is effectively orphaned by her father's arrest. In Paris she meets Chancery, a naive Scottish printer's apprentice who is miles out of his depth in this country where freedom of the press - for both readers and writers - is literally a burning issue. Feminism and censorship are just two of the themes that make this novel very timely in 2022. Tightly plotted and hugely readable. * JANE ROGERS, author of PROMISED LANDS *Marvellous . . . fans of immersive historical fiction, the 18th century, all things French and a dash of peril, this one's for you. * Emily Brand, author of THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF BYRON *Glasfurd deftly, elegantly captures this volatile world of impoverished attic rooms and gilded literary salons * DAILY MAIL *Among historical novelists, Glasfurd rides high... Unsentimentally, she takes us by the lapels and insists we pay attention to her characters... This fine novel is a strong reminder of the sovereign importance of the freedom to seek out the truth, wherever we can find it and, without fear of reprisal, to have it published. * Financial Times *A wholly immersive plunge into another world, perfectly realised and a sheer joy to spend time in. Above all, it's a book about books - books and their extraordinary power. * Charlie Carroll, author of THE LIP *A wonderfully engaging novel which reminds us why the freedom to write without fear of persecution remains a privilege which we must always defend. * Alice Jolly, author of MARY ANN SATE, IMBECILE *Glasfurd deftly, elegantly captures this volatile world of impoverished attic rooms and gilded literary salons * Daily Mail *
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Hodder & Stoughton General Division Amazing Disgrace
Book Synopsis''An outpouring of truth, wit, and beautiful comedic wisdom from the hilarious and laudably liberated Grace Campbell. I loved it.''-Katherine Ryan ''Grace has written such a funny and interesting book, partly because she has a unique perspective of the world, but mostly because of her own brilliant mind.''-Sara Pascoe''This book is hilarious, Grace is a bloody badass, finally my vagina has a voice!''-London Hughes ''This book is revolutionary. It''s powerful, bold, vulnerable, beautiful, hilarious, universal, unique.''-Scarlett Curtis ''Furiously funny, gloriously frank...For a book about shame, Grace is unashamedly herself.''-Amelia DimoldenbergFor as long as she can remember, Grace Campbell has been told that she doesn''t suit her name. But being graceful is no fun anyway.Growing up in a world of privilege and politics, she had a lot to feel con
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Hodder & Stoughton Make Some Noise: Speak Your Mind and Own Your
Book SynopsisA bold and unabashed guide to finding your voice, harnessing your true desires, and leading the life you really want. Women are tired of worrying that they are being too loud if they speak up and say what they believe, want, or need, and are ready to feel their power and make themselves heard. A certified life coach and author of the bestseller How to Stop Feeling Like Sh*t, Andrea Owen knows that this is absolutely attainable if women can channel their righteous anger and desire. But she also knows that they'll need to disrupt a status quo in which women have been conditioned and socialized to remain on the sidelines and to put others before themselves. With all of the expertise of a veteran feminist and hell-raiser, and the relatability of a dear friend, Make Some Noise will push women to step outside of rigid societal expectations and show them how to take back control of their lives and make them all their own.In Make Some Noise, Owen deconstructs common behaviour patterns that sabotage our power as women and instead suggests new behaviours for creating a life that truly serves our desires and needs. From unlearning the notion that women should stay quiet and take up little space to trusting your inner wisdom, Make Some Noise is a raw and honest guidebook and, ultimately, a call to arms.Trade ReviewThe ultimate guide to getting your shit together, written by the best shit stirrer I know. Andrea does it again with a book that is as equally thought provoking as it is transformative. Every woman needs a copy, and should gift a copy to that friend that needs that little nudge to shine a little brighter and talk a little louder. -- Rachel DeAlto, author of Relatable: How to Connect with Anyone Anywhere (Even if it Scares You)Andrea Owen and her book, Make Some Noise are the slap on the ass you didn't know you needed. She'll take you from feeling as if you are somehow not "enough" to feeling perfectly equipped to stand up, speak up, and step all the way into your power. You'll want to buy this book for all the women in your life! -- Susan Hyatt, author of BareNow more than ever, women need to come together, own our strength, rise up and empower ourselves and each other. This book is the essential road map to get us there. It's raw, relatable, activating, soul-stirring and a MUST read for every woman on the planet. -- Shannon Kaiser, author of The Self-Love ExperimentI'm so excited for the reader that goes on this book journey. Andrea Owen does an incredible job of giving you a loving kick in the butt that encourages you to claim the life you truly desire and own the dreams you were born to fulfil! -- Christine Gutierrez, author of I Am Diosa: A Journey to Healing Deep, Loving Yourself, and Coming Back Home to SoulAndrea Owen has done it again with bold wisdom from her heart. She points out the ways women stay small and at the same time offers compassion by reminding them it's not their fault-- they're simply playing by the rules and narratives handed to them from the culture at large. Andrea is the sassy best friend that tells it like it is, but always with so much love. -- Christine Hassler, author of Expectation HangoverMake Some Noise is packed with tools that will help any woman who's ready to make some serious shifts in her life. Andrea's insight and energy come through from the very first page. You will not regret picking this book up! -- Lori Harder, author of A Tribe Called Bliss
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Hodder & Stoughton Make Some Noise: Speak Your Mind and Own Your
Book SynopsisA bold and unabashed guide to finding your voice, harnessing your true desires, and leading the life you really want.Women are tired of worrying that they are being too loud if they speak up and say what they believe, want, or need, and are ready to feel their power and make themselves heard. A certified life coach and author of the bestseller How to Stop Feeling Like Sh*t, Andrea Owen knows that this is absolutely attainable if women can channel their righteous anger and desire. But she also knows that they'll need to disrupt a status quo in which women have been conditioned and socialized to remain on the sidelines and to put others before themselves. With all of the expertise of a veteran feminist and hell-raiser, and the relatability of a dear friend, Make Some Noise will push women to step outside of rigid societal expectations and show them how to take back control of their lives and make them all their own.In Make Some Noise, Owen deconstructs common behaviour patterns that sabotage our power as women and instead suggests new behaviours for creating a life that truly serves our desires and needs. From unlearning the notion that women should stay quiet and take up little space to trusting your inner wisdom, Make Some Noise is a raw and honest guidebook and, ultimately, a call to arms.Trade ReviewThe ultimate guide to getting your shit together, written by the best shit stirrer I know. Andrea does it again with a book that is as equally thought provoking as it is transformative. Every woman needs a copy, and should gift a copy to that friend that needs that little nudge to shine a little brighter and talk a little louder. -- Rachel DeAlto, author of Relatable: How to Connect with Anyone Anywhere (Even if it Scares You)Andrea Owen and her book, Make Some Noise are the slap on the ass you didn't know you needed. She'll take you from feeling as if you are somehow not "enough" to feeling perfectly equipped to stand up, speak up, and step all the way into your power. You'll want to buy this book for all the women in your life! -- Susan Hyatt, author of BareNow more than ever, women need to come together, own our strength, rise up and empower ourselves and each other. This book is the essential road map to get us there. It's raw, relatable, activating, soul-stirring and a MUST read for every woman on the planet. -- Shannon Kaiser, author of The Self-Love ExperimentI'm so excited for the reader that goes on this book journey. Andrea Owen does an incredible job of giving you a loving kick in the butt that encourages you to claim the life you truly desire and own the dreams you were born to fulfil! -- Christine Gutierrez, author of I Am Diosa: A Journey to Healing Deep, Loving Yourself, and Coming Back Home to SoulAndrea Owen has done it again with bold wisdom from her heart. She points out the ways women stay small and at the same time offers compassion by reminding them it's not their fault-- they're simply playing by the rules and narratives handed to them from the culture at large. Andrea is the sassy best friend that tells it like it is, but always with so much love. -- Christine Hassler, author of Expectation HangoverMake Some Noise is packed with tools that will help any woman who's ready to make some serious shifts in her life. Andrea's insight and energy come through from the very first page. You will not regret picking this book up! -- Lori Harder, author of A Tribe Called Bliss
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Quercus Publishing In Eve's Attire: Modesty, Judaism and the Female
Book SynopsisDoes modernity trample on tradition, or can it in fact be a vehicle for the sacred?How can one determine whether an interpretation is legitimate, anachronistic or corrupted?Does sexual obsession have a textual origin, and is it woman's destiny to be veiled?In Eve's Attire confronts these questions and more to suggest another interpretation of religious traditions surrounding the female body and the erotic.As current fundamentalist religious discourse expresses a growing fixation on modesty, women are increasingly reduced to those parts of their bodies that arouse desire, effectively "genitalised" until the totality of their bodies becomes taboo. In resistance to such interpretations of religious text, which see even a woman's voice as an erotic organ to be silenced, Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur looks not only at religious texts themselves, but also at their interpreters, as she unpicks readings that make the woman a temptress, and modesty the instrument of her oppression. She shows us how nakedness, as expressed by Adam, Eve or Noah, refers to a culture of desire and not a wish to suppress it and explores how the veil was originally intended: not to reject, but to approach the other.Through her analysis of the meaning of modesty and nudity in Judaism, Delphine Horvilleur explores the societal and religious obsession with the female body and its representation and asks questions about how we can engage more critically with interpretations of sacred texts.Translated from the French by Ruth DiverTrade ReviewA luminous essay -- Marie Lemonnier * Le Nouvel Observateur *Courageous, subtle and often funny -- Marc Riglet * L'Express *A richly detailed reflection on the situation of women in the Jewish tradition * Psychologies *A brilliant deconstruction of fundamentalist religious discourse -- Vincent Remy * Télérama *Brilliant ... A deep dive to the heart of the great monotheistic religions -- Dorothée Werner * Elle *
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Basic Books TIAS PRIMAS
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PublicAffairs,U.S. Breaking Free: The Lie of Equality and The New
Book SynopsisFor more than a century, women have fought for equality. Yet, time and again, their battles have fallen short. Even so-called constitutionally-protected equal rights can be withdrawn by judges and undermined by legislators. But the greater problem is in the notion of equality itself.In Breaking Free, culture writer Marcie Bianco persuasively argues that the very concept of equality is a fallacy, an illusory goal that cannot address historic forms of discrimination and oppression. Starting with the campaign for women's suffrage and traveling through modern history, she shows us how equality has been designed to keep women and disenfranchised communities chasing an unobtainable goal. Conditioned for generations to want equality, it has become an insidious mindset locking us into the gender binary and reductive identity politics. Bianco calls upon a long-overlooked lineage to argue that only freedom can liberate feminism from these constraints, and proposes three freedom practices for women to reclaim their bodily autonomy and power.What happens if we free ourselves of equality? Controversial and thrilling, Breaking Free guides readers toward new hope for the future of the feminist movement.
£22.50
PublicAffairs,U.S. Belabored: A Vindication of the Rights of
Book SynopsisThe U.S. has the worst rate of maternal deaths in the developed world, a rate that is increasing, even as infant mortality rates decrease. Meanwhile, the right-wing assault on reproductive rights and bodily autonomy has also escalated. We can already glimpse a reality where embryos and fetuses have more rights than the people gestating them, and even women who aren't pregnant are seen first and foremost as potential incubators.In Belabored, journalist Lyz Lenz lays bare the misogynistic logic of U.S. cultural narratives about pregnancy, tracing them back to our murky, potent cultural soup of myths, from the religious to the historical. In the present she details, with her trademark blend of wit, snark, and raw intimacy, how sexist assumptions inform our expectations for pregnant people, whether we're policing them, asking them to make sacrifices with dubious or disproven benefits, or putting them up on a pedestal in an "Earth mother" role. Throughout, she reflects on her own experiences of being seen as alternately a vessel or a goddess--but hardly ever as herself--while carrying each of her two children. Belabored is an urgent call for us to embrace new narratives around pregnancy and the choice whether or not to have children, emphasising wholeness and agency, and to reflect those values in our laws, medicine, and interactions with each other.
£19.80
Coach House Books Hard To Do: The Surprising, Feminist History of
Book SynopsisWhatever the underlying motivesbe they love, financial security, or mere masochismthe fact is that getting involved in a romantic partnership is emotionally, morally, and even politically fraught. In Hard To Do, Kelli Marìa Korducki turns a Marxist lens on the relatively short history of romantic love, tracing how the myth of economic equality between men and women has transformed the ways women conceive of domestic partnership. With perceptive, reported insights on the ways marriage and divorce are legislated, the rituals of twentieth-century courtship, and contemporary practices for calling it off, Korducki reveals that, for all women, choosing to end a relationship is a radical action with very limited cultural precedent.Kelli Marìa Korducki is a journalist and cultural critic. Her byline has appeared frequently in the Globe and Mail and National Post, as well as in the New Inquiry, NPR, the Walrus, Vice, and the Hairpin. She was nominated for a 2015 Canadian National Magazine Award for "Tiny Triumphs," a 10,000-word meditation on the humble hot dog for Little Brother Magazine. A former editor-in-chief of the popular daily news blog Torontoist, Korducki is based in Brooklyn and Toronto.
£13.15
Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd I Hate Feminists! : December 6, 1989 and its
Book SynopsisOn December 6, 1989, a man walked into the engineering school Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, armed with a semi-automatic rifle and, declaring "I hate feminists," killed fourteen young women. "I Hate Feminists!", originally published in French in 2009, examines the collective memory that emerged in the immediate aftermath and years following the massacre as Canadians struggled to make sense of this tragic event and understand the motivations of the killer. Exploring stories and editorials in Montreal and Toronto newspapers, texts distributed within anti-feminist "masculinist" networks, discourses about memorials in major Canadian cities and the film Polytechnique, which was released on the twentieth anniversary of the massacre, Melissa Blais argues that feminist analyses and the killer's own statements have been set aside in favour of interpretations that absolve the killer of responsibility or even shift that blame onto women and feminists. In the end, Blais contends, the collective memory that has been constructed through various media has functioned not as a testament to violence against women but as a catalyst for anti-feminist discourse.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Feminist Participation in the Collective Memory of December 6, 1989 From Marginalization to Vilification of Feminist Discourse Commemorations (1999 - 2005) Negotiating Representations of the December 6 Massacre, or When Feminism and Anti-feminism Coexist Conclusion Canada's next
£13.95
Feminist Press at The City University of New York Changing Lives: Life Stories of Asian Pioneers in
Book SynopsisWomen from Pakistan, Philippines, China, India, Indonesia, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Vietnam and Singapore describe their individual passages into feminist consciousness and their work in women''s studies.
£14.93
Coffee House Press Variations on the Body
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£12.99
Red Sea Press,U.S. Sasinda Futhi Siselapha (still Here): Black
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£25.46
Seal Press Physical Disobedience: An Unruly Guide to Health
Book SynopsisWomen have long been taught that their bodies are unruly, weak. We're taught to approach our bodies by shrinking, whittling-and, aided by the traditional beauty industry, constantly "fixing" ourselves. With a fresh voice in troubled times, Physical Disobedience says "stop it"-because mistreating our bodies that way is nothing less than an act of submission to gendered inequality. We need to focus on health, fitness, and strength-as we ourselves define it. Hays Coomer knows that when we strengthen ourselves, we're making our activism personal, by reclaiming our right to a healthy self-image and bodies that function to the best of their ability. And, yes, at the same time we're building stamina for the literal work of activism-the marches and the protests, plus the everyday emotional resilience it takes to face the news. Hays Coomer shows us, step by step, how to reframe our idea of "fitness," reclaiming it and instead associating being fit with being powerful. And as women, now more than ever, we could use that collective fitness and reclaimed power.
£13.29
Seal Press Stop Telling Women to Smile: Stories of Street
Book SynopsisA celebration of the author's art, a rallying read for women who are fed up with their own harassment experiences and a statement on how pervasive the problem of street harassment really is, this is a singular and important book. Sitting at the cross-section of social activism, art, community engagement and feminism, Stop Telling Women To Smile brings to the page the author's arresting and famous street art-featuring the faces and voices of everyday women as they talk about the experience of living in communities that are supposed to be their homes yet are frequently hostile. Among the lessons of the #metoo movement is that countless women experience harassment, and that women are more eager than ever to share experiences and recognise common oppression. Fazlalizadeh has been contributing to these conversations through her street art since 2012. This perfectly timed, singular collection of profiles, short essays and original artwork unforgettably shows how it affects women based on gender presentation, race, class, age and other intersecting identities.
£20.90
Seal Press Cinderella and the Glass Ceiling: And Other
Book SynopsisYou know what? It's super creepy to kiss a woman who is unconscious. And you know what else? The way out of poverty isn't by marrying a rich dude--or by wearing fragile footwear, for that matter. And while we're at it, why is the only woman who lives with seven men expected to do the cooking, cleaning, and laundry?Fairytales need a reboot and comedy queens Laura Lane and Ellen Haun are the women to do it. In Cinderella and the Glass Ceiling, they offer a rollicking parody of classic (read: patriarchal) tales that turns sweet, submissive princesses into women who are perfectly capable of being the heroes of their own stories. Mulan climbs the ranks in the army but wages a different war when she finds out she's getting paid less than her fellow male captains, Wendy learns never to trust a manboy stalking her window, Sleeping Beauty's prince gets a lesson in consent, and more.Busting with laugh-out-loud, razor-sharp twists to these outdated tales, Cinderella and the Glass Ceilingis fun, magical, necessary and totally woke.
£18.04
Monthly Review Press,U.S. Abolitionist Socialist Feminism: Radicalizing the
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£12.34
Seven Stories Press,U.S. 100 Times: A Memoir of Sexism
Book SynopsisA memoir of sexism, harassment, and assault.
£11.39
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Deviant Women of the French Revolution and the
Book SynopsisDespite critical interest in the role of women in the French Revolution, there is no single, comprehensive study of the works of the two most prolific women writers of the period—Olympe de Gouges and Manon Roland. At a time when politicians were molding public policy concerning life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and constituting criteria for citizenship, increasing numbers of women in Paris were clamoring for rights. New medical and philosophical theories redefining female nature were trotted out to justify women's continued exclusion from full political participation. Such theories focused on the female body as the locus of women's intellectual inadequacies and promulgated the idea that women who acted outside of the confines of their physiological nature were considered desensitized and unfeminine. Deviant Women of the French Revolution and the Rise of Feminism aims to uncover the work of those women who challenged prevailing views of female nature, sought social reforms, and were deemed "deviant" for their writing and/or activism during the French Revolution.
£999.99
Akashic Books,U.S. Face: One Square Foot of Skin
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£23.76
Microcosm Publishing How To Start A Feminist Restaurant
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£6.83
PM Press The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female
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£14.24
PM Press Women And The Subversion Of The Community: A
Book SynopsisThis collection brings together key texts and previously unavailable essays of the influential Italian feminist author and activist Mariarosa Dalla Costa.
£18.89
