Feminism and feminist theory Books
Daraja Press The Imperative Of Utu/ubuntu In Africana
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£13.29
CRMEP Books Thinking Art: Materialisms, Labours, Forms
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£12.00
De Gruyter Einführung in die Gender Studies
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£21.38
Verlag Herder Maria in Geschichte Und Gegenwart: Befreiende
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£26.60
Peter Lang AG Das Spiel Mit Der Zeit in Portugiesischsprachigen Literatur- Und Filmtexten: Zwischen Erinnern Und Vorhersagen / O Truque Do Tempo Em Literaturas E Filmes de Língua Portuguesa: Entre Lembrar E Prever
Book SynopsisO ser humano sempre foi fascinado pela temporalidade e criou ficções sobre o tempo que lhe permitiram refletir sobre seu presente, seu passado ou imaginar o futuro. No mundo lusófono, em contextos históricos marcados pela colonialidade, violência ou trauma, a ficção literária e cinematográfica que os põe em cena desordena o tempo linear devido à complexidade de representação que implicam, e surgem desajustes temporais. Desta forma, e tendo como pano de fundo o conceito de destempo, as contribuições reunidas na presente coletânea refletem sobre diferentes representações do tempo, bem como sobre as camadas, entrecruzamentos e rupturas das temporalidades em textos literários e cinematográficos em língua portuguesa.Der Mensch war schon immer von der Zeitlichkeit fasziniert und hat Fiktionen über die Zeit geschaffen, die es ihm ermöglichten, über seine Gegenwart oder Vergangenheit nachzudenken bzw. die Zukunft zu imaginieren. In der portugiesischsprachigen Welt, in historischen Kontexten also, die von Kolonialität, Gewalt und Trauma geprägt sind, bringen die literarischen und filmischen Fiktionen, die diese Kontexte in Szene setzen, die lineare Zeit aufgrund der komplexen Darstellungsformen durcheinander; sie lösen sie nachgerade auf und es kommt zu zeitlichen Verwerfungen und Verschmelzungen. Vor dem Hintergrund des Konzepts des destempo reflektieren die in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge unterschiedliche Repräsentationen von Zeit sowie die zahlreichen Schichten, Überschneidungen und Brüche von Zeitlichkeiten in portugiesischsprachigen literarischen und filmischen Texten.
£999.99
Peter Lang AG Frauenfiguren in Gabriela cravo e canela von
Book SynopsisDie vorliegende Studie untersucht die Darstellung weiblicher Figuren in Jorge Amados Roman Gabriela, cravo e canela (1958) aus topologischer, feministischer und intersektionaler Perspektive. Die Autorin zeigt auf, wie der Roman über seine raumnarratologische Gestaltung anhand der Identitätskategorien race, class und gender Differenz und Hierarchien zum Ausdruck bringt. Mittels der Raumsemantik Jurij Lotmans und der Chronotopostheorie Michael Bachtins wird die Verortung der weiblichen Figuren in einem kontrastierenden narrativen Raum ebenso erkennbar wie die binäre Geschlechtermatrix, die den Roman strukturiert.
£63.65
Hirmer Verlag Let’s go equal: The Solange Project
Book SynopsisSince 2018, Katharina Cibulka and her team have been mounting handembroidered scaffold nets on wellfrequented, prominent construction sites, making use of sociopolitical messages to prompt passersby to join in the discussions. A sentence that begins with As long as and ends with I am a feminist, refers to existing inequalities. Let’s go equal! is international and speaks all languages. The art interventions take place in museums, universities, churches and fortresses from Vienna via Cologne, Ljubljana and Rabat to Washington D.C. The subjects are developed on location in a participatory manner. Let’s go equal! raises awareness for gender equality beyond the feminist bubble – also via Instagram. This lavishly illustrated volume describes the 28 projects in 7 countries to date and provides an insight into the background stories as well as their public reception.
£31.96
Transcript Verlag Living with an Infected Planet: COVID-19 Feminism
Book SynopsisLiving with an infected planet has led to an unprecedented crisis of care. Since the outbreak of the coronavirus, life-making and death-making are at the center of global attention. Pandemic terms include COVID-19 response, frontline work, genocidal pandemic, lockdown, mask mandate, shadow pandemic, social distancing, vaccine wars, or virus racism. Elke Krasny presents a feminist mapping of key terms and key images defining the "pandemicscape", looking at a wide range of sources including media coverage, policy by the WHO, the UN or the IMF, recommendations by NGOs and feminist organizations, but also ways of seeing care in photography and painting. Arguing against going back to normal, she outlines a new global international care order.
£24.74
Verlag Barbara Budrich Contested Social and Ecological Reproduction
Book SynopsisDer Menschheit ist es bislang nicht gelungen, die Lebensgrundlagen für alle Menschen zu sichern. Ein wesentlicher Grund dafür ist die vorherrschende kapitalistische Weltwirtschaft, die auf der Ausbeutung und Nutzung der Natur beruht - doch dieser Zustand wird nicht von allen akzeptiert. Dieses Buch wirft einen genauen sozio-analytischen Blick darauf, wie Staaten, soziale Bewegungen und zivilgesellschaftliche Akteure mit dieser Polykrise umgehen. Das Buch schließt mit einem Interview mit Nancy Fraser zu Cannibal Capitalism'.
£34.20
Creative Studio REING IWAKAN Volume 6 : The Masculinity Issue: 6
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£21.85
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Feminism and Feminist Movements in America
Book SynopsisSarah Kornfield is a professor of communication and women's and gender studies at Hope College in Holland, Michigan, USA. Dr. Kornfield is a feminist communication scholar who studies the public persuasion of sexism, and she is the author of Contemporary Rhetorical Criticism (2021), Invoking the Fathers: Dangerous Metaphors and Founding Myths in Congressional Politics (2024), and Watching Women: Femininity on TV (2025).
£124.50
Thorndike Press Large Print The London Seance Society
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£39.90
Crooked Lane Books Hush Little Fire
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£22.94
The University of Chicago Press Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1529, this work argues that women are more than equal to men in all things that really matter, including the public spheres from which they have long been excluded.
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press The Feminism of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Book SynopsisOffers a comprehensive assessment of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's complicated feminism by exploring the renowned writer's theories of sexuality and evolutionary analyses of androcentric, or male-dominated, culture.
£91.00
The University of Chicago Press The Feminism of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Book SynopsisOffers a comprehensive assessment of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's complicated feminism by exploring the renowned writer's theories of sexuality and evolutionary analyses of androcentric, or male-dominated, culture.
£38.00
The University of Chicago Press Having People Having Heart Charity Sustainable
Book SynopsisThis collection of 18 articles shows how conceptions of the political are expanded and revised when viewed through the lens of gender. It re-examines such basic notions as citizenship, collectivity, political resistance and the state.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist The
Book SynopsisA collection of the letters of Laura Cereta (1469-1499), which present feminist issues in a predominantly male environment. Cereta's works circulated widely in Italy, and in them she explores the history of women's contributions to the intellectual and political life of Europe.Table of ContentsIntroduction to the Series Acknowledgments Translator's Introduction 1: Autobiography 2: Women and Society 3: Marriage and Mourning 4: Woman to Woman 5: The Public Lectures 6: Dialogue on the Death of an Ass Bibliography Index
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist The
Book SynopsisA collection of the letters of Laura Cereta (1469-1499), which present feminist issues in a predominantly male environment. Cereta's works circulated widely in Italy, and in them she explores the history of women's contributions to the intellectual and political life of Europe.
£31.35
The University of Chicago Press Literature after Feminism
Book SynopsisThe cariacatures of feminists as grim-faced ideologues destroying the study of literature are comprehensively rebutted in this work, offering instead a clear assessment of the relative merits of various feminist approaches to literature.
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Literature after Feminism
Book SynopsisThe cariacatures of feminists as grim-faced ideologues destroying the study of literature are comprehensively rebutted in this work, offering instead a clear assessment of the relative merits of various feminist approaches to literature.
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Feminist Economics Today Beyond Economic Man
Book SynopsisIn this work, Ferber and Nelson look back at the progress of feminist economics and forward to its future, offering a thorough summary of feminist economic thought followed by original essays from the field's leading scholars.
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press The Worth of Women Wherein Is Clearly Revealed
Book SynopsisIn this work, originally published in 1600, the author creates a conversation among seven Venetain noblewomen. The dialogue explores women's experience in both theoretical and practical terms. The women take as their broad theme men's curious hostility towards women and the possible cures for it.
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press Throughout Your Generations Forever Sacrifice
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£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Women of the Far Right
Book SynopsisThe "mothers' movement" was not pacifist; its members opposed the war on Germany because they regarded Hitler as an ally against the spread of atheistic communism. This book examines their motivations, the impact of their movement and their collaborations with men of the Far Right.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Women the Family and Peasant Revolution in China
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£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Bodies of Knowledge
Book SynopsisThroughout the 1970s and '80s, women argued that unless they gained access to information about their own bodies, there would be no equality. This book focuses on the ways in which ordinary women worked to position the female body at the center of women's liberation.Trade Review"Bodies of Knowledge is a much-needed addition to scholarship on the women's health movement, feminist historiography, and the history of medicine, making it appeal widely to students and teachers in these fields, as well as activists still engaged with trying to transform the health care system." - Susan M. Reverby, Wellesley College"
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Three Cartesian Feminist Treatises
Book SynopsisApplying Cartesian principles to The Woman Question Poullain demonstrated by rational deduction that the inequality of the sexes was merely prejudice. Poullain advocated an enlightened feminine education, laying the groundwork for the future liberation movement.
£76.95
The University of Chicago Press Women Gays and the Constitution The Grounds for
Book SynopsisAn interpretive history of culture and law, political philosophy and constitutional analysis, explaining the background, development and growing impact of two challenging human rights movements: feminism and gay rights. This text argues that both movements are extensions of rights-based dissent.
£30.40
The University of Chicago Press Devotions Phoenix Poets
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£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Women Strike for Peace Traditional Motherhood and
Book SynopsisA historical account of the Women Strike for Peace movement. Amy Swerdlow, a founding member of WSP, restores to the record a chapter on American politics and women's studies. She traces WSP's triumphs, its problems, and its legacy for the women's movement and American society.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Intimate States
Book SynopsisFourteen essays examine the unexpected relationships between government power and intimate life in the last 150 years of United States history.Trade Review"Intimate States is a stunning achievement, challenging conventional thinking that sharply divides public from private; sex and gender from politics; identity from material concerns. In its breadth and depth, originality, and cohesiveness, Intimate States also manages to avoid the usual pitfalls of edited volumes; while far-ranging, it offers a single and coherent argument of profound importance."-- "Deborah Dinner, Emory University"Table of ContentsIntroduction Margot Canaday, Nancy F. Cott, and Robert O. Self 1: Reconstructing Belonging: The Thirteenth Amendment at Work in the World Stephanie McCurry 2: The Comstock Apparatus Jeffrey Escoffier, Whitney Strub, and Jeffrey Patrick Colgan 3: Morals, Sex, Crime, and the Legal Origins of Modern American Social Police William J. Novak 4: The Commerce (Clause) in Sex in the Life of Lucille de Saint-André Grace Peña Delgado 5: “Facts Which Might Be Embarrassing”: Illegitimacy, Vital Registration, and State Knowledge Susan J. Pearson 6: Race, the Construction of Dangerous Sexualities, and Juvenile Justice Tera Eva Agyepong 7: Eugenic Sterilization as a Welfare Policy Molly Ladd-Taylor 8: “Land of the White Hunter”: Legal Liberalism and the Shifting Racial Ground of Morals Enforcement Anne Gray Fischer 9: Sex Panic, Psychiatry, and the Expansion of the Carceral State Regina Kunzel 10: The Fall of Walter Jenkins and the Hidden History of the Lavender Scare Timothy Stewart-Winter 11: The State of Illegitimacy after the Rights Revolution Serena Mayeri 12: What Happened to the Functional Family? Defining and Defending Alternative Households Before and Beyond Same-Sex Marriage Stephen Vider 13: Abortion and the State after Roe Johanna Schoen 14: The Work That Sex Does Paisley Currah Afterword: Frugal Governance, Family Values, and the Intimate Roots of Neoliberalism Brent Cebul Acknowledgments Contributors Index
£24.00
McGill-Queen's University Press Cautiously Hopeful Metafeminist Practices in
Book SynopsisIf feminism has always been characterised by its divisions, it is metafeminism that defines and embraces that disorder. A hopefulness animates this timely work that, like metafeminism, stands alert to the challenges that feminism faces in its capacity to effect social change in the 21st century.Trade Review"Cautiously Hopeful is a genuine pleasure to read and offers an original and timely contribution to feminist literary scholarship in Canada. Carriere moves deftly between Canadian, Indigenous, and Québécois texts with sensitivity and awareness, demonstrating her nuanced understanding and expertise." Heather Milne, University of Winnipeg and author of Poetry Matters: Neoliberalism, Affect, and the Posthuman in Twenty-First Century North American Feminist Poetics
£28.45
McGill-Queen's University Press TwentyFirstCentury Feminismos
Book SynopsisTwenty-First-Century Feminismos provides a compelling account of the important victories attained by Latin American and Caribbean organized women over the course of the last forty years. Ten case studies are examined to better understand the ways in which women’s and feminist movements react to, are shaped by, and advance social change.Trade Review"Bringing together this group of scholars from across the Americas and focusing on a wide range of case studies allows for an interesting explanation of the multiple factors, both local and transnational, that contribute to the wave of feminist mobilization across Latin America over the past decade. This volume offers a panoramic view that is missing in the literature." Sueann Caulfield, University of Michigan, and author of In Defense of Honor: Morality, Modernity, and Nation In Early Twentieth-Century Brazil"Overall, this edited volume engages thoroughly with a broad range of topics and contexts across the region, while providing a cohesive introduction to contemporary feminisms and women’s movements. It pairs prominent examples with less frequently discussed case-studies of Latin American feminism, such as Haiti and Uruguay. Though each chapter is geographically grounded, all the contributors persuasively expose the regional and transnational connections between and across women’s movements. Thus, the book offers a detailed yet accessible overview of regional feminism(s) in the twenty-first century." International Affairs
£26.99
Palgrave MacMillan UK Gender Politics and Institutions Towards a Feminist Institutionalism Gender and Politics
Book SynopsisPolitical institutions profoundly shape political life and are also gendered. This groundbreaking collection synthesises new institutionalism and gendered analysis using a new approach - feminist institutionalism - in order to answer crucial questions about power inequalities, mechanisms of continuity, and the gendered limits of change.Trade Review'This superb book is one of those rare collections that moves a field forward. Scholars of institutionalism, for all their vital contributions to the social sciences, have given short shrift to inequality. Feminist social scientists have made inequality their core concern ... Krook and Mackay ... open up a pathbreaking terrain for the study of feminist institutionalism.' Mary Fainsod Katzenstein, Government Department, Cornell University, USA 'A really innovative and important collection which shows, both theoretically and in rich empirical detail, the considerable challenge that feminism poses to contemporary institutionalism.' Colin Hay, Professor of Political Analysis, University of Sheffield, UK 'Based on original research, the book shows how institutionalism can benefit from a gendered analysis of power, agency and change. A fascinating and productive synthesis that will be of value to students, scholars and policymakers alike.' Vivien Lowndes, Professor of Local Government Studies, de Montfort University, UK 'Does institutionalism need a concept of gender? And does feminism need institutionalism? Probably the answers to these questions will turn on what we think is good social science. Good feminist social science is simply good social science, it is no more or less than good practice. It should concomitantly be impossible to imagine a good social science that ignores gender. Yet this is precisely what most political science does and the new institutionalism, despite its concern with power relations in institutions, is no exception. Arguably any good institutionalist should realise the importance of gender relations to the configuration of institutions. But they do not. They need to be reminded and feminist institutionalism, exemplified by the essays in this groundbreaking volume, is the reminder.' From the Foreword by Joni Lovenduski, Anniversary Professor of Politics, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK 'This book demonstrates how very much feminist and gender studies have to contribute to the 'neo-institutionalist' turn in political science. It offers major insights into the 'gendering' of institutions, with essays by top scholars on a wide range of issues, from government structures to electoral politics, family organization to welfare provision. Most importantly, it makes it clear that gender matters in a multitude of ways, and that one cannot fully understand institutional continuity or change without coming to grips with 'feminist institutionalism'.' Vivien A. Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, Boston University, USA 'In Gender, Politics and Institutions, a group of international and internationally recognized scholars of gender and politics examines how political institutions function to create, sustain, structure, undermine and transform inequalities of political power between women and men. The book provides a careful elucidation of elements of institutional analysis and institutionalist theory. It undertakes a detailed discussion of gender: where gender can be found in institutions and institutional actors, and how gender works as an active if not always visible and explicit process. The various chapters address gendered institutionalist public policy, state structures, electoral competition, political development of new institutions (such as the International Criminal Court), and the continuities and disruptions that confirm and/or recast gendered political arrangements in the context of state transitions to democracy. The volume's scope of institutional analysis is matched by the range of country cases it employs, making it a powerful contribution to comparative politics research.The collection is also an acknowledgment of and a challenge to mainstream comparative political institutionalism, in each of its variants, and offers an opening for enriching and extending political science's appreciation of how political institutions function across time. Gender, Politics and Institutions is an excellent contribution to the study of political institutions, a volume that comparative scholars of institutional politics, state political development, and gender and the state will turn to as the foundational work on gender, institutions, and political power.' Karen Beckwith, Flora Stone Mather Professor of Political Science, Case Western Reserve University, USA 'This collection of essays travels across the world, carefully mixing theory and analysis from gender and institutional studies, with very promising results. The authors manage to maintain an engaging and clear dialogue, and offer a compelling insight into future research possibilities.' LSE Politics and Policy Blog 'Do we need another institutionalism? The answer is absolutely. We need institutionalism to evolve in order to situate formal and informal institutions within a context of wider social divisions including gender. This ground-breaking book, edited by Mona Lena Krook and Fiona Mackay, does precisely this. Feminist institutionalism has arrived!' Allan McConnell, Professor of Politics, University of Sydney, AustraliaTable of ContentsForeword; J.Lovenduski Introduction: Gender, Politics, and Institutions: Setting the Agenda; F.Mackay & M.L.Krook Gender and Institutions of Political Recruitment: Candidate Selection in Post-Devolution Scotland; M.Kenny Discursive Strategies for Institutional Reform: Gender Quotas in Sweden and France; L.Freidenvall & M.L.Krook Gendered Institutions and Women's Substantive Representation: Female Legislators in Argentina and Chile; S.Franceschet Gendering the Institutional Reform of the Welfare State: Germany, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland; M.Beyeler & C.Annesley Gender and Institutions of Multi-Level Governance: Child Care and Social Policy Debates in Canada; J.Grace The Institutional Roots of Post-Communist Family Policy: Comparing the Czech and Slovak Republics; H.Hašková & S.Saxonberg Gendering Federalism: Institutions of Decentralization and Power-Sharing; J.Vickers Gendered Institutionalist Analysis: Understanding Democratic Transitions; G.Waylen Nested Newness and Institutional Innovation: Expanding Gender Justice in the International Criminal Court; L.Chappell Conclusion: Towards a Feminist Institutionalism?; F.Mackay
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Columbia University Press Shifting Scenes
Book SynopsisThis now classic work is the only definitive collection available of interviews with leading French women intellectuals.
£79.20
Columbia University Press Gender in International Relations
Book SynopsisA book on the role of gender in international relations.Trade ReviewTickner's stimulating challenge can be disputed, but it is too well considered and thoughtful to ignore. Gender in International Relations is likely to begin a productive debate involving international relations scholars, feminist thinkers, and others concerned about security in the most inclusive sense. -- Robert O. Keohane, Harvard UniversityTickner's book provides ways to begin to frame discomfort with this narrowly gender-conceived and yet oddly self-satisfied field of [international relations]. It features the new and the bold and the uninvestigated. It provides alternative points of departure for theory and impresses us with the amount of work feminist scholars have already done to clear the brush. Of utmost value, it tells of the many ways the field...needs feminist thinking to get its knowledge and priorities straight. -- Christine Sylvester, American Political Science ReviewTable of ContentsEngendered insecurities; man, the state and war - gendered perspectives on national security; three models of man - gendered perspectives on global economy security; man over nature - gendered perspectives on ecological security; toward a nongendered perspective on global security.
£25.20
Columbia University Press Colonialism and Gender Relations from Mary
Book SynopsisAgainst the historical background of slavery and colonialism, this study investigates how white and Afro-Caribbean women writers have responded to feminist, abolitionist and post-emancipationist issues. It aims to reveal a relationship between colonial exploitation and female sexual oppression.
£23.80
Columbia University Press American Culture Between the Wars Revisionary
Book SynopsisExamines the feminist, African-American and avant-garde counter-cultures that flourished in the USA between the two World Wars. It discusses such topics as public art in the Depression, the proletarian subculture and the social poetics of Kenneth Fearing, Muriel Rukeyser and Langston Hughes.
£28.80
Columbia University Press Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory
Book SynopsisAddresses questions about the analysis and construction of masculinity in contemporary society. This book examines the ways male privilege and power are constituted and represented and explores the effect of such constructions on both men and women. It links the analysis of masculinities with feminism's ethical and political agenda.Trade ReviewWith this volume, 'masculinity studies'comes of age as an intellectual field both in dialogue with and in alliance with feminist theory. Judith Kegan Gardiner has assembled some of the most distinguished practitioners of both masculinity studies and feminist theory working in universities today and they have collectively thought through the different ways in which feminist theory and masculinity are related. -- Michael Kimmel (in the preface) The wisdom of this collection... is its portrayal of feminist theory and masculinities studies as partners. ChoiceTable of ContentsForeword, by Michael Kimmel Introduction, by Judith Kegan Gardiner 1. Unmaking: Men and Masculinity in Feminist Theory, by Robyn Wiegman 2. Reenfleshing the Bright Boys; or How Male Bodies Matter to Feminist Theory, by Calvin Thomas 3. Theorizing Age and Gender: Bly's Boys, Feminism, and Maturity Masculinity, by Judith Kegan Gardiner 4. Getting Up There with Tom: The Politics of American "Nice", by Fred Pfeil 5. Pedagogy of the Opaque: Teaching Masculinity Studies, by Sally Robinson 6. Studying Masculinities As Superordinate Studies, by Harry Brod 7. Masculinity Studies: The Longed for Profeminist Movement for Academic Men?, by Judith Newton 8. Long and Winding Road: An Outsider's View of U.S. Masculinity and Feminism, by R. W. Connell 9. Masculinity and the (M)Other: Toward a Synthesis of Feminist Mothering Theory and Psychoanalytic Theories of Narcissism, by Isaac D. Balbus 10. The Enemy Outside: Thoughts on the Psychodynamics of Extreme Violence with Special Attention to Men and Masculinity, by Nancy J. Chodorow 11. Art, Spirituality, and the Ethic of Care: Alternative Masculinities in Chinese American Literature, by King-Kok Cheung 12. Black Male Trouble: The Challenges of Rethinking Masculine Differences, by Michael Awkward 13. Race, Rape, Castration: Feminist Theories of Sexual Violence and Masculine Strategies of Black Protest, by Marlon B. Ross 14. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Men, Women, and Masculinity, by Judith Halberstam
£90.00
Columbia University Press Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory New
Book SynopsisAddresses questions about the analysis and construction of masculinity in contemporary society. This book examines the ways male privilege and power are constituted and represented and explores the effect of such constructions on both men and women. It links the analysis of masculinities with feminism's ethical and political agenda.Trade ReviewWith this volume, 'masculinity studies'comes of age as an intellectual field both in dialogue with and in alliance with feminist theory. Judith Kegan Gardiner has assembled some of the most distinguished practitioners of both masculinity studies and feminist theory working in universities today and they have collectively thought through the different ways in which feminist theory and masculinity are related. -- Michael Kimmel (in the preface) The wisdom of this collection... is its portrayal of feminist theory and masculinities studies as partners. ChoiceTable of ContentsForeword, by Michael Kimmel Introduction, by Judith Kegan Gardiner 1. Unmaking: Men and Masculinity in Feminist Theory, by Robyn Wiegman 2. Reenfleshing the Bright Boys; or How Male Bodies Matter to Feminist Theory, by Calvin Thomas 3. Theorizing Age and Gender: Bly's Boys, Feminism, and Maturity Masculinity, by Judith Kegan Gardiner 4. Getting Up There with Tom: The Politics of American "Nice", by Fred Pfeil 5. Pedagogy of the Opaque: Teaching Masculinity Studies, by Sally Robinson 6. Studying Masculinities As Superordinate Studies, by Harry Brod 7. Masculinity Studies: The Longed for Profeminist Movement for Academic Men?, by Judith Newton 8. Long and Winding Road: An Outsider's View of U.S. Masculinity and Feminism, by R. W. Connell 9. Masculinity and the (M)Other: Toward a Synthesis of Feminist Mothering Theory and Psychoanalytic Theories of Narcissism, by Isaac D. Balbus 10. The Enemy Outside: Thoughts on the Psychodynamics of Extreme Violence with Special Attention to Men and Masculinity, by Nancy J. Chodorow 11. Art, Spirituality, and the Ethic of Care: Alternative Masculinities in Chinese American Literature, by King-Kok Cheung 12. Black Male Trouble: The Challenges of Rethinking Masculine Differences, by Michael Awkward 13. Race, Rape, Castration: Feminist Theories of Sexual Violence and Masculine Strategies of Black Protest, by Marlon B. Ross 14. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Men, Women, and Masculinity, by Judith Halberstam
£27.20
Columbia University Press In the Beginning Woman Was the Sun
Book SynopsisHiratsuka Raicho (1886-1971) was the most influential figure in the early women's movement in Japan. This autobiography describes her childhood, early youth, and subsequent rebellion against the strict social codes of the time.Trade ReviewThis autobiography of Japan's foremost feminist presents a vivid portrait, rich in detail, of the education and everyday life for the daughter of a government bureaucrat growing up in Tokyo during the 1890s. Raicho Hiratsuka's transformation into an activist intellectual who, as the founding editor of the landmark journal Seito, recast the boundaries of feminist discourse deserves the widest possible readership in Japanese studies. Teruko Craig's admirably smooth and fluid translation is a pleasure to read and a major contribution to our field. -- Joan E. Ericson, associate professor of Japanese, Colorado College, and author of Be a Woman: Hayashi Fumiko and Modern Japanese Women's Literature Everyone interested in Japanese feminism owes Craig an immense debt of gratitude for choosing to undertake this translation, and for doing it so well... Essential. Choice A tour de force of meticulous scholarship and exquisitely rendered English. Monumenta Nipponica A significant contribution to Japanese Studies and to the study of feminist thought as a transnational phenomenon. -- Jan Bardsley Pacific Affairs An absorbing read for Asian specialists and for general readers. -- Kathleen S. Uno The Journa of Asian Studies
£87.40
Columbia University Press Twentyfirst Century Motherhood
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction, by Andrea O'Reilly Part I: Experience 1. Chicana Mothering in the Twenty-first Century: Challenging Stereotypes and Transmitting Culture, by Jessica M. Vasquez 2. Muslim Motherhood: Traditions in Changing Contexts, by Gail Murphy-Geiss 3. Mothering in Fear: How Living in an Insecure-Feeling World Affects Parenting, by Ana Villalobos 4. Mother-Talk: Conversations with Mothers of Female-to-Male Transgender Children, by Sarah F. Pearlman 5. Queer Parenting in the New Millennium: Resisting Normal, by Rachel Epstein 6. Contemporary Mothering Practices in the Context of HIV and AIDS: A South African Case, by Thenjiwe Magwaza Part II: Identity 7. Ambivalence of the Motherhood Experience, by Ivana Brown 8. Supermothers on Film; or, Maternal Melodrama in the Twenty-first Century, by Adrienne McCormick 9. Juno or Just Another Girl? Young Breeders and a New Century of Racial Politics of Motherhood, by Mary Thompson 10. Taking Off the Maternal Lens: Engaging with Sara Ruddick on Men and Mothering, by Andrea Doucet 11. Reproducing Possibilities: Androgenesis and Mothering Human Identity, by Deirdre M. Condit Part III: Policy 12. Mothers of the Global Welfare State: How Neoliberal Globalization Affects Working Mothers in Sweden and Canada, by Honor Brabazon 13. The Erosion of College Access for Low-Income Mothers, by A. Fiona Pearson 14. Academic Life Balance for Mothers: Pipeline or Pipe Dream?, by Michele L. Vancour and William M. Sherman 15. Exclusive Breastfeeding and Work Policies in Eldoret, Kenya, by Violet Naanyu 16. Brown Bodies, White Eggs: The Politics of Cross-racial Gestational Surrogacy, by Laura Harrison 17. What Will Become of Us? New Biotechnologies and the Need for Maternal Leadership, by Enola G. Aird Part IV: Agency 18. From "Choice" to Change: Rewriting the Script of Motherhood as Maternal Activism, by Judith Stadtman Tucker 19. The Mothers' Movement: The Challenges of Coalition Building in the Twenty-first Century, by Patrice DiQuinzio 20. Political Labeling of Mothers: An Obstacle to Equality in Politics, by Marsha Marotta 21. Racially Conscious Mothering in the "Colorblind" Century: Implications for African American Motherwork, by Camille Wilson Cooper 22. It Takes a (Virtual) Village: Mothering on the Internet, by May Friedman 23. Outlaw(ing) Motherhood: A Theory and Politic of Maternal Empowerment for the Twenty-first Century, by Andrea O'Reilly
£98.10
Columbia University Press No Country
Book SynopsisNo Country argues for a rethinking of the genre of working-class literature. Sonali Perera expands our understanding of of working-class fiction by considering a range of international and non-canonical texts, identifying textual, political, and historical linkages often overlooked by Eurocentric and postcolonial scholarship.Trade ReviewCaught in the stampede toward globalism, literary scholars have overlooked the rich archives of working-class internationalism. Sonali Perera's study is a bracing corrective to this trend, putting South Asian voices in dialogue with transcontinental interlocutors. Inspired by Raymond Williams, No Country leads us to a world literature that includes its many proletarian offshoots. -- Srinivas Aravamudan, Duke University, author of Guru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language Sonali Perera's No Country offers a powerful new theorizing of working-class literature in a global dimension. Gender inflections are given in unprecedented detail, through deeply learned and meticulously documented close readings of an astonishingly diversified collection of texts. Perera's readings of Marx are relevant to contemporary realities. -- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor, Columbia University This carefully argued book will interest scholars of contemporary transnational literature, Marxist approaches to literature, and African and South Asian literary studies; to my mind, however, its greatest impact will be on a younger generation of postcolonial critics, including graduate students, whose education has been so saturated with the theoretical truisms of postcolonial theory in its high phase that it is very difficult to imagine fresh readings of new and older texts outside of them. With such as the case I suspect that many younger scholars would rather give up on postcolonial studies altogether, dismissing it, as some have already done, as an outdated theoretical paradigm. This book challenges that claim. -- Ulka Anjaria Contemporary Literature Perera's critical and careful reading of literature is a challenge to all those who read literature politically, and seek to grapple with the larger questions of equality and justice in our uneven and unequal world. -- Ahilan Kadirgamar Himal Southasian Magazine A welcome addition and a worthwhile read. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies Perera acknowledges a global workforce of peasants and coolies and garment workers stretching from India, Sri Lanka, and Botswana to the US, forged between the heyday of proletarian literature in the 1930s and contemporary collective forms of writing... Global workingclass writing is at once deeply local (found in micro struggles over land or ethnicity that impel collectivity) and international (vectored through worker solidarity movements and transnational flows of capital, goods, and workers); moreover, according to Perera, its force comes within and through its aporia and interruptions, not in its discursive totality. Thus, working-class culture theorizes new subjects as it expresses them in varied literary forms-novels, poems, magazines, stories, reports. But read together with Marx and Williams, Perera finds that working-class culture describes the broken contours of a discontinuous field: "'interruption' [is] a structural, not aberrational, aspect of a specifically feminist aesthetic and ethic." Discontinuous and in motion, the new working-class writing, like proletarian revolution, "come[s] back ...to begin it afresh." It travels. -- Paula Rabinowitz American Literary History We can also see the future of Working-Class Studies in books like Sonali Perera's No Country: Working-Class Writing in the Age of Globalization, which reads fiction from India, South Africa, and other colonialized regions of the English-speaking world alongside the work of Tillie Olsen. If nothing else, our increased awareness of the global working class should generate a more comparative, or at least a more contextualized, approach to the study of class. -- Sherry Lee Linkon and John Russo Journal of Working-Class Studies Globalisation makes novels (especially traditional novels) hard to write. With national working-class publics constantly constituted only to be broken apart, jobs (or bodies) shipped around the globe, neither the room of one's own nor the time presents itself for texts modelled on the great working-class novels of the last two centuries. This is one of the strongest implicit arguments in Perera's book - and, I think, an essential point. -- Nicholas Hengen Fox Race and Class The book's primary enquiry is to examine how working-class writing can remain radical in a world of heightened globalisation where neoliberal capitalism pervades modes of reading and interpreting. In so doing, [Perera] aims to provide readings that challenge a sanitised view of world literature in which working-class positions remain marginalised and provincialised within a market-driven elite cosmopolitan literary culture. -- David Firth Wasafiri No Country could and should change the way that we conceptualize international working-class writing. -- Michelle M. Tokarczyk Canadian Review of Comparative LiteratureTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: World Literature or Working-Class Literature in the Age of Globalization? 1. Colonialism, Race, and Class: Mulk Raj Anand's Coolie as a Literary Representation of the Subaltern 2. Postcolonial Sri Lanka and "Black Struggles for Socialism": Socialist Ethics in Ambalavaner Sivanandan's When Memory Dies 3. Gender, Genre, and Globalization 4. Socialized Labor and the Critique of Identity Politics: Bessie Head's A Question of Power Epilogue: Working-Class Writing and the Social Imagination Notes Bibliography Index
£75.15
Columbia University Press The Global and the Intimate
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBalancing feminist theory's commitment to the everyday with a keen understanding of the structures that shape lives, The Global and the Intimate demonstrates how the site-specific material practices undertaken by embodied agents both connect with and affect other people and places across the globe. It is a richly textured book that merits a wide audience while inviting a reconsideration of hierarchies of space and scale and their relevance to feminist investigations. -- Sallie Marston, University of ArizonaTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Global and the Intimate -- Geraldine Pratt and Victoria RosnerI. The Anatomy of Intimacy: Bodies, Feelings, and the Everyday 1. Intimacy: A Useful Category of Transnational Analysis -- Ara Wilson 2. In the Interests of Taste and Place: Economies of Attachment -- Elspeth Probyn 3. Jamaica Kincaid's Practical Politics of the Intimate in My Garden (book) -- Agnese Fidecaro 4. Widening Circles -- Rachel AdamsII. Memory, History, Community: Personal Narrative in a Transnational Frame 5. Facing: Intimacy Across Divisions -- Mieke Bal 6. Objects of Return -- Marianne Hirsch 7. Narratives and Rights: Zlata's Diary and the Circulation of Stories of Suffering Ethnicity -- Sidonie Smith 8. Letter from Argentina -- Nancy K. MillerIII. Legislating Intimacy: Women's Work, State Control, and the Politics of Reputation 9. "Security Moms" in Twenty-First-Century U.S.A.: The Gender of Security in Neoliberalism -- Inderpal Grewal 10. "Like a Family, But Not Quite": Emotional Labor and Cinematic Politics of Intimacy -- Tsung-Yi Michelle Huang and Chi-She Li 11. What We Women Talk About When We Talk About Interracial Love -- Min Jin Lee 12. The Pedagogy of the Spiral: Intimacy and Captivity in a Women's Prison -- Marisa Belausteguigoitia RiusIV. Global Feminism and the Subjects of Knowledge 13. Witnessing, Femicide, and a Politics of the Familiar -- Melissa W. Wright 14. Solidarity, Self-Critique, and Survival: Sangtin's Struggles with Fieldwork -- Sangtin Writers 15. Tehran Kids -- Mikhal Dekel
£82.80
Columbia University Press Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewElegantly argued and often brilliant in its handling of diverse theoretical traditions, Ewa Ziarek's book will speak equally to those interested in the longer history of post-Kantian art-philosophy and to those working in the more recent discourses of critical theory. A major contribution to several scholarly fields and likely to become a touchstone for those seeking rigorous yet enabling language for the ways in which modernism continues to matter. -- Dan Blanton, University of California, Berkeley In her rich, persuasive, and provocative new book, Ewa Ziarek moves between Virginia Woolf and Nella Larsen, negotiates between Theodor Adorno and feminist theory, plays off Giorgio Agamben and Jacques Ranciere against Julia Kristeva and Rita Felski, to develop one central argument: that, to paraphrase Karl Marx, whereas aestheticians have only interpreted the world, now the time has come to change it, and this will happen when the revolutionary potential of art is unleashed by allying itself with feminist critique. -- Jean-Michel Rabate, University of Pennsylvania Bringing together multiple theoretical perspectives in this rich, persuasive and elegant text, Ziarek therefore confronts impossible destruction in order to inaugurate new possibilities of writing and becoming. Culture Machine Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism is an exceptional contribution to modernist studies; no other work to date presents us with such a methodological challenge. Differences A significant contribution to the field of modernist and feminist studies, hopefully spurring a new approach to this field of research. Virginia Woolf MiscellanyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: On Loss 1 Revolutionary Praxis and Its Melancholic Impasses 1. On Suffrage Militancy and Modernism: Femininity and Revolt 2. Melancholia 3. Woolf's Aesthetics of Potentiality 2 Female Bodies Introduction: Rethinking the Form/Matter Divide in Feminist Politics and Aesthetics 4. Abstract Commodity Form and Bare Life 5. Damaged Materialities in Political Struggles and Aesthetic Innovations 3 Toward a Feminine Aesthetics of Renaissance 6. The Enigma of Nella Larsen: Letters Notes Index
£78.20
Columbia University Press Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewElegantly argued and often brilliant in its handling of diverse theoretical traditions, Ewa Ziarek's book will speak equally to those interested in the longer history of post-Kantian art-philosophy and to those working in the more recent discourses of critical theory. A major contribution to several scholarly fields and likely to become a touchstone for those seeking rigorous yet enabling language for the ways in which modernism continues to matter. -- Dan Blanton, University of California, Berkeley In her rich, persuasive, and provocative new book, Ewa Ziarek moves between Virginia Woolf and Nella Larsen, negotiates between Theodor Adorno and feminist theory, plays off Giorgio Agamben and Jacques Ranciere against Julia Kristeva and Rita Felski, to develop one central argument: that, to paraphrase Karl Marx, whereas aestheticians have only interpreted the world, now the time has come to change it, and this will happen when the revolutionary potential of art is unleashed by allying itself with feminist critique. -- Jean-Michel Rabate, University of Pennsylvania Bringing together multiple theoretical perspectives in this rich, persuasive and elegant text, Ziarek therefore confronts impossible destruction in order to inaugurate new possibilities of writing and becoming. Culture Machine Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism is an exceptional contribution to modernist studies; no other work to date presents us with such a methodological challenge. Differences A significant contribution to the field of modernist and feminist studies, hopefully spurring a new approach to this field of research. Virginia Woolf MiscellanyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: On Loss 1 Revolutionary Praxis and Its Melancholic Impasses 1. On Suffrage Militancy and Modernism: Femininity and Revolt 2. Melancholia 3. Woolf's Aesthetics of Potentiality 2 Female Bodies Introduction: Rethinking the Form/Matter Divide in Feminist Politics and Aesthetics 4. Abstract Commodity Form and Bare Life 5. Damaged Materialities in Political Struggles and Aesthetic Innovations 3 Toward a Feminine Aesthetics of Renaissance 6. The Enigma of Nella Larsen: Letters Notes Index
£23.80
Columbia University Press Cut of the Real
Book SynopsisA leading scholar of gender studies and speculative realism carves a universal conception of identity and the subject. Katerina Kolozova reclaims the relevance of categories traditionally rendered "unthinkable" by postmodern feminist philosophies, critically repositioning poststructuralist feminist philosophy and gender/queer studies.Trade ReviewCut of the Real is an important and original contribution to the complex discussions relating to subjectivity and identity. Through her nuanced reading of Lacan and Laruelle, Katerina Kolozova creates a powerful argument for a notion of democratic love that allows us to break through some of the ambiguities that have attended discussions of subjectivity, human nature, and the possibility of meaningful or radical social change. Her book will be a must-read in fields as diverse as philosophy, anthropology, and law. -- Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers UniversityKolozova's important new book is a fascinating disruption of the assumptions of poststructuralist feminism. Her creative extension of the 'non-philosophy' of Laruelle radicalizes feminist philosophy as it expands possibilities for theorizing the real as experienced. This is a major contribution to the new materialism. -- Jodi Dean, Hobart and William Smith CollegesCut of the Real is destined to be an important contribution to ongoing debates in feminist, queer, gender, and race theory, as well as the newly emerging philosophical trend of speculative realism. It is my belief that Kolozova's book is the best introduction to Laruelle's thought to date and that it does an exceptional job discussing why it is valuable and what it can do. -- Levi R. Bryant, Collin CollegeCut of the Real is polemical and adventurous. It is also innovative in the positions it carves out for itself and in the figures and traditions it employs to carve them. On the one hand, it illuminates the value of [speculative realism and object-oriented ontology] for feminist theory, which in itself is an important theoretical achievement seeing as certain figures associated with these traditions. . . . systematically dismiss feminist theory as unimportant. On the other hand, this work also brings to the fore the ethical and political implications of the realist perspective. * Hypatia *Kolozova not only provides a valuable critique of the discursive grammar of contemporary continental philosophy, but also points the way beyond critique towards new constructive iterations of the concepts of the One and the Real. * Parrhesia *This work is an intersection of gender studies, philosophy, culture studies, with pertinent aspects of subjectivity. Anyone interested in any of these fields or connected with the humanities should read this book. * Slavic and East European Journal *Table of ContentsForeword: Gender Fiction, by François LaruelleAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. On the One and on the Multiple2. On the Real and the Imagined3. On the Limit and the Limitless4. The Real Transcending Itself (Through Love)5. The Real in the IdentityGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex
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