This volume engages with questions of justice and equality, and how these can be achieved in modern society. It explores how theory and research can inform policy and practice to bring about real change in people's lives, helping readers understand and interrogate patterns and causes of inequality, while investigating how these might be remedied. Chapters outline ways in which theories of justice inform and are factored into effective actions, programmes and interventions. The book includes an international selection of case studies. These range from global inequalities in development and health to cross-border conflict; from gender justice to disability violence; from child protection to disability-inclusive research; from illicit drug use to torture prevention; and from prison wellbeing to sexual and reproductive health and rights. Together, contributors explore: how social science and humanities scholarship can lead to a better understanding of, and capacity to respond to, key social issues and problems the importance of normative reflection and a concern for principles of justice in pursuit of social change the importance of community voice and grassroots action in the pursuit of justice, equity and equality. Envisioning a better world - in which concern for the just treatment of all trumps the pursuit of privilege and inequality - Practical Justice: Principles, Practice and Social Change will appeal to students and academics in disciplines as diverse as philosophy, political science, sociology, anthropology, geography and education, and in fields such as policy studies, criminology, healthcare, social work and social welfare.

Gender and Human Rights in a Global, Mobile Era delves into feminist debates surrounding the relationship between gender and human rights through engaging feminist perspectives on the multifaceted issue of human trafficking. Building on analyses of domestic servitude, commercial sex, and labor trafficking by military contractors, and grounded in intersectional feminist cosmopolitanism and feminist theorizing on vulnerability, precarity, and ethical interdependence, Laura Hebert makes several interrelated contributions. As she explores how a feminist gender analysis illuminates the structures and norms enabling trafficking, Hebert simultaneously considers the future of feminist rights advocacy. Emphasizing the sociality of human rights, she encourages feminist scholars and activists to look beyond states as the duty-bearers of human rights and the assumption that human rights are made meaningful mainly through the establishment of legal rights at the national level. She challenges the idea that "feminism" can be reduced to advocacy on behalf of women's rights. She also encourages critical reflection on how divisions associated with feminist politics have impeded opportunities for the building of feminist solidarities across differences aimed at the realization of the human rights of all. Strongly interdisciplinary, Gender and Human Rights in a Global, Mobile Era will be of interest to students and scholars throughout the social sciences and humanities.

Cultural theory has taken a 'performative turn', shifting its focus from the textual nature of the world to how the social world is narrated, its subjects are subjected and its relations are ritually enacted. The rise of performativity in cultural theory - spearheaded in many ways by feminist theory - has profound implications for the way we think about ethics and politics. Indeed, as it concerns all aspects of 'difference', it reshapes the ways we think about the continuities and interruptions of social life itself. Drawing on thinkers such as Foucault, Butler, Levinas, Arendt and Deleuze, "Culture and Performance" explores the development and direction of the notion of performativity. It interrogates the idea of subjectivity, the possibility of ethics and, beyond this, how such abstract questions relate to the world of political action. It traces the implications of the concept, and discusses the critique that is emerging from a renewed interest in creativity.

Harriet Martineau responds to the strong revival of interest in her life and writing, exploring Martineau's controversial views through her innovative use of popular cultural forms-journalism, travel writing, didactic fiction, novels, translation, autobiography and history. This is the first collection of essays to revisit and reassess Martineau's leading place in Victorian culture and in the development of nineteenth-century liberalism. Distinguished contributors-including Isobel Armstrong, Lauren Goodlad, Catherine Hall, Deborah Logan and Linda Peterson-offer critical analyses of her trailblazing career as a professional 'woman of letters'. The essays collected here move from personal to global concerns in Martineau's oeuvre. The opening essays centre on her bold self-fashioning as a writer, while the second section focuses on the domestic complexities of laissez-faire liberalism in her economic and social vision. Finally, the volume analyses her provocative writings on race, Empire and history - from Atlantic slavery to the Indian Mutiny - demonstrating the international breadth and impact of a remarkable career. -- .

Winner of the Montserrat Ordonez Prize 2018 This book provides an original and exciting analysis of Colombian women's writing and its relationship to feminist history from the 1970s to the present. In a period in which questions surrounding women and gender are often sidelined in the academic arena, it argues that feminism has been an important and intrinsic part of contemporary Colombian history. Focusing on understudied literary and non-literary texts written by Colombian women, it traces the particularities of Colombian feminism, showing how it has been closely entwined with left-wing politics and the country's history of violence. This book therefore rethinks the place of feminism in Latin American history and its relationship to feminisms elsewhere, challenging many of the predominant critical paradigms used to understand Latin American literature and culture.

Since the MeToo hashtag went viral in 2017, the movement has burgeoned across social media, moving beyond Twitter and into living rooms and courtrooms. It has spread unevenly across the globe, with some countries and societies more impacted than others, and interacted with existing feminist movements, struggles, and resistances. This interdisciplinary handbook identifies thematic and theoretical areas that require attention and interrogation, inviting the reader to make connections between the ways in which the #MeToo movement has panned out in different parts of the world, seeing it in the context of the many feminist and gendered struggles already in place, as well as the solidarities with similar movements across countries and cultures. With contributions from gender experts spanning a wide range of disciplines including political science, history, sociology, law, literature, and philosophy, this groundbreaking book will have contemporary relevance for scholars, feminists, gender researchers, and policy-makers across the globe.

This book studies male activists in American feminism from the 1830s to the late 19th century, using archival work on personal papers as well as public sources to demonstrate their diverse and often contradictory advocacy of women's rights, as important but also cumbersome allies. Focussing mainly on nine men-William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, James Mott, Frederick Douglass, Henry B. Blackwell, Stephen S. Foster, Henry Ward Beecher, Robert Purvis, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the book demonstrates how their interactions influenced debates within and outside the movement, marriages and friendships as well as the evolution of (self-)definitions of masculinity throughout the 19th century. Re-evaluating the historical evolution of feminisms as movements for and by women, as well as the meanings of identity politics before and after the Civil War, this is a crucial text for the history of both American feminisms and American politics and society. This is an important scholarly intervention that would be of interest to scholars in the fields of gender history, women's history, gender studies and modern American history.

This book analyses rape culture through the lens of the 'me too' era. Drawing feminist theory into conversation with peace studies and improvisation theory, it advocates for peace- building opportunities to transform culture and for the improvisatory resources of 'culture- jamming' as a mechanism to dismantle rape culture. The book's key argument is that cultural attitudes and behaviours can be shifted through the introduction of disrupting narratives, so each chapter ends with a 'culture- jammed' re- telling of a traditional fairy tale. Chapter 1 traces an overlap of feminist theory and peace studies, arguing that rape culture is most fruitfully understood through the concept of 'structural violence.' Chapter 2 investigates the gender scripts that rape culture produces, considering a female counterpart to the concept of 'toxic masculinity': 'complicit femininity.' Chapter 3 offers analysis of non- consensual sex and a history of consent education, culminating in an argument that we need to move beyond consent to conceptualise a robust 'respectful mutuality.' Chapter 4 's history of sexual harassment in the workplace and the rise of #metoo argues that its global manifestations are a powerful peace- building initiative. Chapter 5 situates 'me too' within a culture- jamming history, using improvisation theory to show how this movement's potential can shape cultural reconstruction. This is a provocative and interventionist addition to feminist theory scholarship and is suitable for researchers and students in women's and gender studies, feminist theory, sociology and peace studies.

Feminist theory has enhanced and expanded the agency, influence, status and contributions of women throughout the globe. However, feminist critical analysis has not yet examined how the assumption that religion is natural, timeless, universal and omnipresent supports sexist and race-based oppression. This book proposes radical new thinking about religion in order to better comprehend and confront the systematic disempowerment of women and marginalized groups. Utilising feminist and post-colonial analysis of access, equity and violence, contributors draw on recent critical theory to collapse accepted boundaries between religion and secularity with the aim of understanding that religion is a technology of governance in its function, meaning and history. The volume includes case studies focusing on how the category of religion is deployed to perpetuate male hegemony and racist inequities in Australia, Mexico, the United States, Britain and Canada. This trenchant feminist critique and academic analysis will be of key interest to scholars and students of Religion, Sociology, Political Science and Gender Studies.

Despite several decades of feminist activism and scholarship, women's bodies continue to be sites of control and contention both materially and symbolically. Issues such as reproductive technologies, sexual violence, objectification, motherhood, and sex trafficking, among others, constitute ongoing, pressing concerns for women's bodies in our contemporary milieu, arguably exacerbated in a neoliberal world where bodies are instrumentalized as sites of human capital. This book engages with these themes by building on the strong tradition of feminist thought focused on women's bodies, and by making novel contributions that reflect feminists' concerns-both theoretically and empirically-about gender and embodiment in the present context and beyond. The collection brings together essays from a variety of feminist scholars who deploy diverse theoretical approaches, including phenomenology, pragmatism, and new materialisms, in order to examine philosophically the question of the current status of gendered bodies through cutting-edge feminist theory.

Contents:
Volume I: Suffrage
Edited and Introduced by Janet Beer
Janet Beer Introduction: The Woman Suffrage Movement in America - 1848-1920
1. The First Convention: Seneca Falls, including the Declaration of Sentiments [1848]
2. Lucretia Mott Discourse on Woman, Philadelphia [T.B. Peterson, 1850]
3. Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Woman's Rights Conventions at Worcester [1850] and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Woman's Rights Conventions at Syracuse [1852] Woman's Rights Tracts, Syracuse [Master's Print, Malcolm Block, 1852]
4. Matilda Gage to Woman's Rights Conventions at Syracuse, Woman's Rights Tracts, Syracuse [Master's Print, Malcolm Block, 1852]
5. Theodore Parker A Sermon of the Public Function of Women, Women's Rights Tracts, Syracuse [Master's Print, Malcolm Block, 1853]
6. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Colored People in America, from The Colored People in America: Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects Philadelphia [1857]
7. Sojourner Truth Address to the American Equal Rights Association [1867]
8. Hamilton Wilcox Women are Voters! New York Suffrage Law [John W. Lovell Co., 1885]
9. Angelina French Newman Woman Suffrage in Utah [Government Print Office, 1886]
10. Henry Blair Woman Suffrage Speech to the Senate [1886]
11. Clara Benwick Colby The Ballot and the Bullet Theory The Woman's Tribune [Editor, 1883-86]
12. Thomas Wentworth Higginson Unsolved Problems in Woman Suffrage, reprinted from The Forum [Forum Publishing Company, 1887]
13. F.G. Adams The Women's Vote in Kansas [American Woman Suffrage Association, 1888]
14. Olympia Brown Woman's Suffrage a Political Necessity, abstract of address before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives, [January 28, 1889]
15. Lucy Stone Questions for Remonstrants [American Woman Suffrage Association, 1889]
16. Olive Schreiner Three Dreams in a Desert [American Woman Suffrage Association, 1889]
17. Various Authors, The Elective Franchise [American Woman Suffrage Association, 1889]
18. Ednah D. Cheney Municipal Suffrage for Women [American Woman Suffrage Association, 1889]
19. Thomas Wentworth Higginson Straight Lines or Oblique Lines? [American Woman Suffrage Association, 1893]
20. Henry Blackwell Objections to Woman Suffrage Answered [American Woman Suffrage Association, 1896]
21. Katherine A.G. Patterson, Helen G. Ecob et al Colorado Speaks for Herself [American Woman Suffrage Association, 1897]
22. Carrie Chapman Catt, Florence Kelley and Evelyn W. Ordway How the Women of New Orleans Discovered their Wish to Vote [Political Science Study Series, Vol. V. No. 4, 1900]
23. William M. Salter What is the Real Emancipation of Woman? [Woman Suffrage Association, 1902]
24. Marion B. Schlesinger, Mary A.E.M. Buckminster, and Mary Leavens Arguments in Favour of Woman Suffrage [Committee of the College Equal Suffrage Law, 1905]
25. Ida Husted Harper Suffrage a Right [North American Review Publishing Co., 1906]
26. Ida Husted Harper History of the Movement for Women Suffrage [Interurban Woman Suffrage Council, 1907]
27. Martha Carey Thomas New Fashioned Argument for Woman Suffrage [National American Women Suffrage Association, 1908]
28. Julia Ward Howe Woman and the Suffrage The Outlook [1909]
29. Max Eastman Woman's Suffrage and Sentiment [The Equal Franchise Society, 1909]
30. Lucia Ames Mead What Women Might Do with the Ballot [National American Woman Suffrage Association, circa 1910]
31. Amelia MacDonald Cutler Six Reasons Why Farmers' Wives Should Vote [National American Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc., circa 1910]
32. The Truth versus Richard Barry [National American Woman Suffrage Association, circa 1911]
33. Equal Suffrage Meeting [Frank Facey, 1911]
34. Women in the Home [California Equal Suffrage Association, circa 1911]
35. Ida Husted Harper How Six States Won Woman Suffrage [National American Woman's Suffrage Association, 1912]
36. Theodore Roosevelt Speech on Suffrage [Allied Printing, 1912]
37. Ella S. Stewart The Ballot for the Women of the Farm [Chicago, 1913]
38. Official Program, Woman Suffrage Procession [1913]
39. George Creel What Have Women Done with the Vote? [National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company, 1915]
40. Alice Stone Blackwell Jane Addams Testifies Woman's Journal [1915]
41. Alice Stone Blackwell Woman Suffrage [1915]
42. Edith Abbot Are Women a Force for Good Government? National Municipal Review Vo. IV, No.3 July [1915]
43. Mary Beard and Florence Kelley Why Women Demand a Federal Suffrage Amendment [Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, 1916]
44. Mrs. Guilford Dudley The Negro Votes in the South [National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company, 1918]
45. Carrie Chapman Catt An Address to the Legislatures of the United States [National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., 1919]
Volume II: Work and Education
Edited and introduced by Anne-Marie Ford
Anne-Marie Ford Introduction: The Woman's Place
Part 1: Education
46. C.D.B Colby Concerning Farmers' Wives [New England Publishing Company, 1880]
47. Maria Mitchell The Collegiate Education of Girls [New England Publishing Company, 1881]
48. Kate Morris Cone The Gifts of Women to Educational Institutions [Association of Collegiate Alumnae, 1884]
49. Kate Holladay Claghorn The Problem of Occupation for College Women Educational Review March 1898, pp. 217-230
50. Sui Sin Far and Edith Maude Eaton Its Wavering Image Mrs. Spring Fragrance [1912]
51. Zitkala-Sa and Gertrude Simmons Bonnin 'The Ground Squirrel' and 'The Big Red Apples' from 'Impressions of an Indian Childhood',Atlantic Monthly [1900]
52. Francis Squire Potter Education and Democracy [College Equal Suffrage League, July 1909]
Part 2: Women's Work
53. Caroline Dall The Opening at the Gates The College, the Market and the Court, or Women's Relations to Education, Labor and Law [Boston, Lee and Shepherd, 1867]
54. May Wright Sewall A Report on the Position of Women in Industry and Education in the State of Indiana [Indiana Department of the New Orleans Exposition, 1885]
55. Agnes Nestor The Working Girl's Need of Suffrage [Literature of the Mississippi Valley Suffrage Conference, circa 1910]
56. Wages of Women in the Corset Factories in Massachusetts [Minimum Wage Commission, 1914.]
57. Maggie Hinchey Senators vs. Working Women [Wage Earners' Suffrage League, circa 1918.]
Part 3: The Rights and Wrongs of Women
58. Great Auction Sale of Slaves at Savannah, Georgia Tribune, March 1859, [American Anti-Slavery Society, 1859]
59. Southern Proofs of the 'Chivalrous and High-Minded Character' produced by slavery [American Anti-Slavery Society, 1860]
60. Southern Proofs that Slavery is a 'Parental Relation' [American Anti-Slavery Society, 1860]
Part 4: Angels of Mercy
61. Seventh Report of the Ladies' Aid Society of Philadelphia [1865]
62. C.E. Hopkins and E.C. Hobson A Report Concerning The Coloured Women of the South [Trustees of the John F. Slater Fund, 1896]
63. Anna Julia Cooper The Status of Woman in America A Voice from the South [The Aldine Printing House, 1892, pp.127-145]
64. N. Mosell, The Work of the Afro-American Woman, [G.S. Ferguson, 1894, reprinted 1908.]
65. Elise Johnson McDougald The Task of Negro Womanhood [The New Negro, ed. Alain Locke.]
66. The Fadettes Woman's Orchestra of Boston Boston Evening Transcript [14 August 1906]
67. Women's National Agricultural and Horticultural Association, May 1914
68. Edith Wharton 'Reverence' and 'The New Frenchwoman,' French Ways and Their Meaning New York and London [D. Appleton, 1919.]
Volume III: Health, Birth-Control and Prostitution
Edited and introduced by Katherine Joslin
Katherine Joslin Introduction: The Female Body
69. Victoria Woodhull The Elixir of Life, or Why do We Die? [Woodhull and Clafin, 1873]
70. Mary Putman Jacobi A Question of Rest for Women During Menstruation [1877]
71. John Noyes Male Continence The Oneida Community [Office of the American Socialist, 1877]
72. Dr Elizabeth Blackwell The Human Element in Sex [J.&A. Churchill, 1894]
73. Maria E. Ward Bicycling for Ladies [Brentano's, 1896]
74. Police Records of Prostitution from 1907-1908 in The Records of the Enforcement of the Laws of Prostitution
75. Helen Keller The Modern Woman Metropolitan Magazine, 1912 [Congressional Record, September 17, 1913]
76. Dr. Anna Blount The Woman Voter and the Eugenic Ideal (c.1915) [Research Publications, Inc., 1977]
77. Dr. Marie Carmichael Stopes The Problem of Unrest SNE, volume 31
78. Margaret Sanger Family Limitation [Fifth Edition, 1916]
79. S. Adolphus Knopf Birth Control [A.R. Elliott Publishing Company, 1916]
80. Katharine Bushnell Plain Words to Plain People
81. Virginia Brooks Eliminating Vice from the Small City [Chicago]
82. M.P. Dowling, Paul L. Blakely and Austin O'Malley Race, Suicide, Birth Control [New York Press]
83. Florence Kelley and Alzina Stevens Wage Earning Children in Hull House Maps and Papers [Thomas Y. Crowell, 1895]
84. Caroline Hedger, M.D. The School Children of the Stockyards District, Reprinted from the Transactions of the Fifteenth International Congress on Hygiene and Demography, held at Washington D.D., September 23-28, 1912, [Washington Government Printing Office, 1913]
85. The Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor in Collaboration with the Women's Education and Industrial Union of Boston, 'Household Expenses,' [Wright and Potter Printing Company, 1900]
86. Jane Addams Increased Social Control in a New Conscience and an Ancient Evil [Macmillan, 1912]
87. Emma Goldman The Traffic in Women (1911), Red Emma Speaks edited by Alix Kates Shulman, [Random House, 1972]
88. Frances E. Willard The Beautiful in How to Win: A Book for Girls [Funk & Wagnalls, 1886]
89. Charlotte Perkins Gilman Women and Social Service, Address before the Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government [November 14, 1907]
90. Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Emmeline Pethick Lawrence Does a Man Support his Wife? And Who Supports the Children? [National American Woman Suffrage Association]
Volume IV: Women's Clubs and Settlements
Edited and introduced by Katherine Joslin
Katherine Joslin Introduction: The Gathering of Women
91. Mrs. Percy Pennybacker The Eighth Biennial Convention of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, No. 519 [The American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1906]
92. Sarah S. Platt Decker The Meaning of the Women's Club Movement, No. 513, [The American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1906]
93. Mrs. John Dickinson Sherman The Women's Clubs in the Middle-Western States, No.515 [The American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1906]
94. Mary Alden Ward The Influence of Women's Clubs in New England, and in the Middle-Eastern States, No. 514 [The American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1906]
95. 'Clara de Hirsche Home for Working Girls,' Pamphlet, [Keystone Printery New York, 1905]
96. Elizabeth Lindsay David Chapters 1 and 2 from The Story of the Illinois Federation of Colored Women's Clubs [Pamphlet, 1922]
97. Dorothea Moore The Work of Women's Clubs in California, No. 517, [The American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1906]
98. Mrs A.O Granger The Effect of Club Work in the South, No. 516 [The American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1906]
99. Frances E. Willard The Ballot for the Home, Equal Suffrage Leaflet, Volume VII, Number 2 [March 1898]
100. Eliza Daniel Stewart Memories of the Crusade: A Thrilling Account of the Great Uprising of the Women of Ohio in 1873, Against the Liquor Crime [Columbus: Wm. G. Hubbard and Co., 1888]
101. Alice Stone Blackwell Suffrage and Temperance [Woman Suffrage Association and the Woman's Journal, circa 1912]
102. Elizabeth Tilton Is Beer the Cure for the Drink Evil? The Survey February 24, [1917]
103. Jane Addams Hull House: A Social Settlement at 335 South Halstead Street [Privately Published, 1894]
104. Jane Addams The Subjective Value of Social Settlements Philanthropy and Social Progress [Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, 1893]
105. South End House: Its 18th Year of Cumulative Progress [March 1910]
106. Ellen Gates Starr Art and Labor Hull House Maps and Papers [Thomas Y. Crowell, 1895]
107. Florence Mabel Dedrick Our Sister or the Streets Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls or War on the White Slave Trade [G.S. Ball, 1910]
108. Lillian D. Wald Organizations within the Settlements in The House on Henry Street [Rinehart and Winston, 1915]
109. Jane Addams Women's Memories - Reacting on Life as Illustrated by the Story of the Devil Baby The Long Road of Woman's Memory [Macmillan, 1916]
110. Mary Antin The Law of the Fathers They Who Knock at Our Gates [Houghton Mifflin, 1914]
111. Anna Julia Cooper The Social Settlement: What It Is and What It Does [privately published, Murray Brothers Press, 1913]
112. Ida B. Wells-Barnett A Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynchings in the US, 1892-1893-1894 [Donohue & Henneberry, 1895]
113. Alice Hamilton 'Journey and Impressions of Congress' and 'At the War Capitals' Women at the Hague [Macmillan, 1915]
114. Emily Greene Blach and Mercedes M. Randall Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Appendix in Peace and Bread in Time of War [Macmillan, 1922]
115. Zitkala-Sa and Gertrude Bonnin The Warlike Seven Old Indian Legends [Ginn & Company, 1902]
116. Mary Austin Sex Emancipation through War, Forum 59 [1918]
117. Caroline Bartlett Crane What Every Woman Wants Everyman's House [Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925]

TRANSLATED BY CONSTANCE BORDE AND SHEILA MALOVANY-CHEVALLIER ANNOTATED AND INTRODUCED BY MARTINE REID 'Everyone who cares about freedom and justice for women should read The Second Sex' Guardian Simone de Beauvoir famously wrote, 'One is not born, but rather becomes, woman'. In this groundbreaking work of feminism she examines the limits of female freedom and explodes our deeply ingrained beliefs about femininity. Liberation, she argues, entails challenging traditional perceptions of the social relationship between the sexes and, crucially, in achieving economic independence. Drawing on sociology, anthropology and biology, The Second Sex is as important and relevant today as when it was first published in 1949.

The searing, must-read feminist essay from the author of A Girl is a Half-formed Thing 'Fearless ... A fierce and fascinating manifesto in McBride's persuasive prose' Sinead Gleeson 'Formidable' Vogue In this galvanizing essay, Eimear McBride unpicks the contradictory forces of disgust and objectification that control and shame women. From playground taunts of 'only sluts do it' but 'virgins are frigid', to ladette culture, and the arrival of 'ironic' porn, via Debbie Harry, the Kardashians and the Catholic church - she looks at how this prejudicial messaging has played out in the past, and still surrounds us today. McBride asks - are women still damned if we do, damned if we don't? How can we give our daughters (and sons) the unbounded futures we want for them? And, in this moment of global crisis, might our gift for juggling contradiction help us to find a way forward? 'A satisfying feminist polemic' Susie Orbach 'Remarkable' Scotsman 'Eimear McBride is that old fashioned thing, a genius' Guardian

'But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction - what has that got to do with a room of one's own?' A Room of One's Own grew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had been invited to give at Girton College, Cambridge in 1928 and became a landmark work of feminist thought. Covering everything from why a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write, to authors such as Jane Austen, Aphra Behn and the Bronte sisters, and the tragic story of Shakespeare's fictional sister Judith, it remains a passionate assertion for female creativity and independence in a world dominated by men. 'Fierce, energetic, humorous' Hermione Lee

This book examines the life of Virginia Gildersleeve, the dean of Barnard College from 1911 to 1947, who dedicated her life to expanding women's collegiate opportunities to match those of men, and to allow women entry into professional and graduate programs. Gildersleeve was the first academic to use the media to define for the American public what higher education--and particularly what higher education for women--meant. The only woman to sign the United Nations charter, she made waves by implementing the first program to allow women into the Navy. This book explores how Gildersleeve's life exemplifies the expanded and changing educational opportunities for women during the Progressive Era and early twentieth century, with the rise of feminists, progressive reformers, and educational philosophers. Although Gildersleeve is nearly forgotten, her importance to women's higher education, women's inclusion in the US military, and world peace is captured in this blend of historical analysis and life history.

Creating trauma-sensitive, interdisciplinary performance and research Vital need for trauma-informed performance practice Adding scholarship on Cecilia Vicuna and Renee Green specifically, as BIPOC female artists Trauma studies and performance studies growing areas internationally Healing in creating performance, that is not therapy Equipping artists and makers with language around trauma

This book constitutes a feminist literary analysis of motherhood as presented in selected Indian women's fictions across a diverse range of geographical, linguistic, class and caste contexts. Situated at the crossroads of motherhood studies and literary studies, this book offers a rigorous examination of the prosody and politics of motherhood in this corpus. In its five thematically focused chapters, the book scrutinises in depth such key concerns as maternal ambivalence; maternal agency and caste; mother-daughter relationships; motherhood and diaspora; and non-biological motherhood. It attempts to understand the literary ramifications of these issues in order to identify the ways in which fiction writers reconceive of the notion of motherhood and maternal identities from and against multiple perspectives. Another pressing concern is whether these Indian women writers' visions furnish readers with any different understandings of motherhood as compared to dominant Western feminist discourses. Maternal Fictions advances feminist literary criticism in the specific area of Indian women's writing and the overarching areas of motherhood and literature by acting as a launchpad into a complex constellation of ideas concerning motherhood. The fictional universe is at once ambivalent, diverse, contingent, grounded in a specific location, and yet well placed to converse with discourses emanating from other times and places.

In this book, international psychoanalytic writers address the question 'What do Women Want Today?' from a variety of lenses, bringing into focus the creative, resilient forces shown by women in their multiple social and psychological tasks. The book reviews classic psychoanalytic theories about the feminine within a new cultural context. It challenges hegemonic gender prejudices and discusses new conceptions that do not pathologize 'different' lifestyles and family configurations. With chapters by leading, international thinkers in the field, this book explores how to think about new feminine scenarios, gender identities, gender dynamics, motherhood, and desire, in light of modern psychoanalytic theories. In presenting how these changing contemporary notions of the feminine challenge classic psychoanalytic theory and practice, this book will compel both training and experienced analysts to think about new psychoanalytic theories and engage with their own prejudices regarding changing notions of the feminine. Offering ideas relevant to psychoanalysis, sociology, gender studies, psychology, and activism, this book will be of great interest to professionals, teachers and students in addition to any with an interest in psychoanalytic theory and women's studies.

In this book, international psychoanalytic writers address the question 'What do Women Want Today?' from a variety of lenses, bringing into focus the creative, resilient forces shown by women in their multiple social and psychological tasks. The book reviews classic psychoanalytic theories about the feminine within a new cultural context. It challenges hegemonic gender prejudices and discusses new conceptions that do not pathologize 'different' lifestyles and family configurations. With chapters by leading, international thinkers in the field, this book explores how to think about new feminine scenarios, gender identities, gender dynamics, motherhood, and desire, in light of modern psychoanalytic theories. In presenting how these changing contemporary notions of the feminine challenge classic psychoanalytic theory and practice, this book will compel both training and experienced analysts to think about new psychoanalytic theories and engage with their own prejudices regarding changing notions of the feminine. Offering ideas relevant to psychoanalysis, sociology, gender studies, psychology, and activism, this book will be of great interest to professionals, teachers and students in addition to any with an interest in psychoanalytic theory and women's studies.

In the first major update to this classic book in many years, Collins traces the history and contours of Black women's ideas and actions to argue that Black feminist thought is the discourse that fosters Black women's survival, persistence, and success against the odds. Through meticulous research that synthesizes the important intellectual work done by Black women, Collins's timely update demonstrates that Black women's ideas and actions are not marginal concerns but rather are central to the future of social justice within democratic societies. The combination of the text's classic arguments and a preface and epilogue written expressly for this edition speak to people who have long been working on social justice and to a new generation of readers who are encountering the ideas and actions of Black women for the first time. For this 30th year anniversary edition, Patricia Hill Collins examines how the ideas in this classic text speak to contemporary social issues and identifies the directions needed for the future of Black feminist thought.

Winner of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Best Book Prize 2018 Since the 1980s the number of women regularly directing films has increased significantly in most Western countries; in France, Claire Denis and Catherine Breillat have joined Agnes Varda in gaining international renown, while British directors Lynne Ramsay and Andrea Arnold have forged award-winning careers in feature film. This new volume in the "Thinking Cinema" series draws on feminist philosophers and theorists from Simone de Beauvoir on to offer readings of a range of the most important and memorable of these films from the 1990s and 2000s, focusing as it does so on how the films convey women's lives and identities. Mainstream entertainment cinema traditionally distorts the representation of women, objectifying their bodies, minimizing their agency, and avoiding the most important questions about how cinema can "do justice" to female subjectivity. Kate Ince suggests that the films of independent women directors are progressively redressing the balance, reinvigorating both the narratives and the formal ambitions of European cinema. Ince uses feminist philosophers to interpret such films as Sex Is Comedy, Morvern Callar, White Material, and Fish Tank anew, suggesting that a philosophical understanding of female subjectivity as embodied and ethical should underpin future feminist film study.

This book looks back to the early days of new and social media, to examine the potential threat that such technologies and platforms posed to the mainstream corporate media's gatekeeping, and its ability to exploit, humiliate, and even violate famous women Drawing on her own experiences working as part of this gatekeeping system, Stephanie Patrick argues that, in order to combat this threat, the mainstream media doubled down on gendered narratives of meritocracy that legitimized certain (male) celebrities over others Using a range of case studies spanning "old" media sites and "new," including Disney, Playboy, and reality television, this book demonstrates that sexual exploitation and violation could be considered constitutive of female celebrity, rather than a side effect Patrick's case studies include some of America's most (in)famous celebrities, including Miley Cyrus, Lindsay Lohan, Anna Nicole Smith, Paris Hilton, and Donald Trump, urging readers to question their assumptions about these figures and their public trajectories This nuanced exploration of patriarchal capitalism and women's ongoing sexual exploitation by the media will be an important reference for scholars and students of digital and new media, journalism, celebrity studies and gender studies

This book reveals how categories of gender, class, culture and religion are modes of power which inform hierarchies of social locations and people's sense of belonging within these spaces and temporalities. It offers an alternative and innovative theoretical framework - new womanhood - for studying middle-class, urban, educated, professional women in South Asia. The book places respectable femininity at the centre of the construction and performance of new womanhood in Bangladesh: a complex and heterogeneous construction of womanhood in relation to women's negotiations with public and private sphere roles and cultural norms of female propriety. It establishes new women as part of the neoliberal middle class as they construct their class identity as a status group, claiming inter-class and intra-class distinction from other women. It also explains how new womanhood is legitimized by alternative and multiple practices of respectability, varying according to women's age, stage of life, profession, household setting and experience of living in Western countries. Finally, as new women forge alternative forms of respectability, theirs is not a straightforward abandonment of old structures of respectability; rather they substitute, conceal or legitimize particular practices of respectability in particular fields. While these new women's gains are vested in the self, rather than a wider feminist politics, they have the potential to positively influence the terrain of possibilities for other women. Finally, through a study of cosmopolitan third world women who are part of a new and potentially powerful social group who occupy a privileged position in the society they live in, the book critiques Western feminist writing and challenges binary social construction of the 'Muslim woman' either as victims of patriarchal culture and religion or as a danger to Western liberalism, developing an understanding of cosmopolitan Muslim women's classed gender identity as a struggle against classifications in the neoliberal times. It is the first book-length project of its kind to provide an understanding of the concept of new women in the Global South, which will be of interest to academics in the fields of sociology, gender studies, feminist theory, postcolonialism, inequality studies, cultural theory, development studies and South Asian Studies.

The feminist book they tried to ban in France 'A delightful book' Roxane Gay Women, especially feminists and lesbians, have long been accused of hating men. Our instinct is to deny it at all costs. (After all, women have been burnt at the stake for admitting to less.) But what if mistrusting men, disliking men - and yes, maybe even hating men - is, in fact, a useful response to sexism? What if such a response offers a way out of oppression, a means of resistance? What if it even offers a path to joy, solidarity and sisterhood? In this sparkling essay, as mischievous and provocative as it is urgent and serious, Pauline Harmange interrogates modern attitudes to feminism and makes a rallying cry for women to find a greater love for each other - and themselves.

This project is a feminist study of the idiosyncratic oeuvre of Kathy Acker and how her unique art and politics, located at the explosive intersection of punk, postmodernism, and feminism, critiques and exemplifies late twentieth-century capitalism. There is no female or feminist writer like Kathy Acker (and probably no male either). Her body of work-nine novels, novellas, essays, reviews, poetry, and film scripts, published in a period spanning the 1970s to the mid 1990s-is the most developed body of contemporary feminist postmodernist work and of the punk aesthetic in a literary form. Some 20 years after her death, Kathy Acker: Punk Writer gives a detailed and comprehensive analysis of how Acker melds the philosophy and poetics of the European avant-garde with the vernacular and ethos of her punk subculture to voice an idiosyncratic feminist radical politics in literary form: a punk feminism. With its aesthetics of shock, transgression, parody, Debordian detournement, caricature, and montage, her oeuvre reimagines the fin-de-siecle United States as a schlock horror film for her punk girl protagonist: Acker's cipher for herself and other rebellious and nonconformist women. This approach will allow the reader to more fully understand Acker as a writer who inhabits an explosive and creative nexus of contemporary women's writing, punk culture, and punk feminism's reimagining of late capitalism. This vital work will be an important text at both undergraduate and graduate levels in gender and women's studies, postmodern studies, and twentieth-century American literature.