Author: Kobayashi, Yoshie Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This dissertation is the first study of state feminism in a non-western nation state, focusing on the activities and roles of the Women's Bureau of the Ministry of Labor in post-World War II Japan.
Author: MacDonald, Cheryl Publisher: Dundurn Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Adelaide Hunter Hoodless, lifelong crusader for the recognition of the domestic sciences (cooking, sewing, childcare and housework) and an early proponent of home economics in Canada, was considered ...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: African feminism, this landmark volume demonstrates, differs radically from the Western forms of feminism with which we have become familiar since the 1960s. African feminists are not, by and large, c...
Author: Gedalof, Irene Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Theoretically-grounded yet written in an accessible style, this is a unique contribution to ongoing feminist debates about identity, power and difference, focused around the relationship of Western fe...
Author: Adam, Alison Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Alison Adam challenges the masculine slant in the Artificial Intelligence of the world in her book which re-enforces criticisms of the AI project. Adam also shows how gender bias is programmed into AI...
Author: Cornell, Drucilla Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: How can women create a meaningful and joyous life for themselves? Is it enough to be equal with men? In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Drucilla Cornell argues that women should trancend the q...
Author: Macklem, Timothy Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In Beyond Comparison: Sex and Discrimination Timothy Macklem addresses foundational issues in the long-running debate in legal, political and social theory about the nature of gender discrimination. H...
Author: Bock, Gisela Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The essays examine the interaction of the rights of equality and the rights of difference, and the meaning and use of the two concepts in the context of gender relations, both past and present.
Author: Ussher, Jane Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A collection of analyses which provides a new materialist-discursive approach to human experience, reconciling both the traditional, (realist) and socio-cultural approaches.
Author: Sargisson, Lucy Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Contemporary Feminist Utopianism" is a stimulating, original and accessible survey of some of the more complex strands of contemporary thought. Exploring current debates within utopian studies, femin...
Author: Ferree, Myra Marx Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Controversy and Coalition" is a comprehensive and engaging overview of the American women's movement from the 1960s to the 1990s. This third edition is the only short and highly readable book on the ...
Author: Ahmed, Sara Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Differences That Matter challenges existing ways of theorising the relationship between feminism and postmodernism which ask 'is or should feminism be modern or postmodern?' Sara Ahmed suggests that p...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Contemporary challenges for seeking new knowledge in feminist studies are intimately intertwined with methodological renewal that promotes justice and equality in changing global contexts. Written by ...
Description: Contemporary challenges for seeking new knowledge in feminist studies are intimately intertwined with methodological renewal that promotes justice and equality in changing global contexts. Written by ...
Author: Schoenaker, Theo Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Available in English for the first time, Encouragement Makes Good Things Happen is a translation of the bestselling German book Mut Tut Gut. It describes a courageous and encouraging style of living a...
Author: Elam, Diane Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Essential reading for anyone who needs an accessible but stimulating guide to the relationship between feminism and deconstruction. A clear and stimulating guide through one of the mazes of contempora...
Author: Cuomo, Christine Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is one of the first books to acknowledge the importance of postmodern feminist arguements and also presents a rethinking of the ecofeminist movement. Linking both theory and practise it draws tog...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Feminist perspectives have been increasingly influential on philosophy of science. "Feminism and Philosophy of Science" is designed to introduce the newcomer to the central themes, issues and argument...
Author: Plumwood, Val Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Val Plumwood lays foundations for feminist ecology, bringing feminist and postcolonial theory to bear on the problems of environmental philosophy.
Description: Feminism at the Movies: Understanding Gender in Contemporary Popular Cinema examines the way that contemporary film reflects today's changing gender roles. The book offers a comprehensive overview of ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Feminism at the Movies: Understanding Gender in Contemporary Popular Cinema examines the way that contemporary film reflects today's changing gender roles. The book offers a comprehensive overview of ...
Description: In this book, Alison Stone develops a feminist approach to maternal subjectivity. Stone argues that in the West the self has often been understood in opposition to the maternal body, so that one must ...
Author: Stone, Alison Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this book, Alison Stone develops a feminist approach to maternal subjectivity. Stone argues that in the West the self has often been understood in opposition to the maternal body, so that one must ...
Author: Osborne, Susan Publisher: Pocket Essentials Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Feminism has been one of the most important and radical movements in ideas and in society over the last forty years. Yet the roots of modern feminist and post-feminist thought stretch back much furthe...
Author: Buchanan, Mike Publisher: LPS publishing Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Extracts from Erin Pizzey's Foreword: âMike Buchanan is a very brave man. I've known other men who've tried to draw the public's attention to the damage done by the radical ...
Author: Curthoys, Jean Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: <P><b></b><b><i>Feminist Amnesia</i></b> is an important challenge to contemporary academic feminism. Jean Curthoys argues that the intellectual decline of un...
Author: Sylvester, Christine Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this book, Christine Sylvester examines the history of feminists' efforts to include gender relations in the study of international relations. Tracing the author's own 'journey' through the subject...
Author: Feminist, Review Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This issue of the UK's best-known women's studies journal is a theme issue on women and health: from the selling of HRT to AIDS and HIV activism.
Author: Feminist, Review Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this issue each article addresses a topical and controversial theme in contemporary feminist debate: pornography, the veil, HRT, disability and the Inkatha Women's Brigade.
Author: Feminist, Review Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A unique combination of the activist and the academic, Feminist Review has an acclaimed place within women's studies courses and the women's movement.
Author: Lykke, Nina Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this book, feminist scholar Nina Lykke highlights current issues in feminist theory, epistemology and methodology. Combining introductory overviews with cutting-edge reflections, Lykke focuses on a...
Author: Badran, Margot Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The emergence and evolution of Egyptian feminism is an integral, but previously untold, part of the history of modern Egypt. Drawing upon a wide range of women's sources - memoirs, letters, essays, jo...
Description: This book fulfils an urgent to need to bring together an analysis of feminism and international political economy, providing an introduction gender and globalization with a series of global case studi...
Author: Charlebois, Justin Publisher: Lexington Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Gender and the Construction of Hegemonic and Oppositional Femininities investigates how hegemonic and nonhegemonic forms of femininity are constructed in the social institutions of school, the workpla...
Author: Walby, Sylvia Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this lucid and subtle investigation, Sylvia Walby, one of the world's leading authorities on gender, shows how undoubted increases in opportunity for women in Europe and America have been accompani...
Author: Hirschmann, Nancy J. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory, Nancy Hirschmann demonstrates not merely that modern theories of freedom are susceptible to gender and class analysis but that they must be an...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Gender, Ethnicity and Political Ideologies" presents a broad range of international case studies such as inter-ethnic conflict in Yugoslavia, the emergence of a "male democracy" in Chile, the lack of...
