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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism

Ecofeminist Subjectivities - Chaucer's Talking Birds (Hardcover): L. Kordecki Ecofeminist Subjectivities - Chaucer's Talking Birds (Hardcover)
L. Kordecki
R1,462 Discovery Miles 14 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"This book analyzes the interaction between gender and species in Chaucer's poetry and strives to understand his adaptation of medieval discourse through an ecofeminist lens. Works that either speak of animals, or more pertinently those with animals speaking, offer fruitful results in the attempt to understand the medieval textual handling of the 'others' of society"--

The Feminism of Flora Tristan (Hardcover): Maire Cross, Tim Gray The Feminism of Flora Tristan (Hardcover)
Maire Cross, Tim Gray
R3,130 Discovery Miles 31 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Flora Tristan was a most remarkable woman. Born at the begining of the 19th century, her short life was packed with adventure and achievement. An illegitimate child, she had a disastrous marriage to a husband who tried to kill her. In vain pursuit of her rightful inheritance, she sailed unchaperoned across the perilous Atlantic to Peru. Returning to France, she became a socialist, and feminist, and commited herself to a life of political radicalism. She recognized that until the economic conditions of the poor were alleviated there was little prospect of female emancipation. Her strategy was to establish a union of workers throughout France to press for socialist measures. However, linking the feminist cause to socialism proved to be fraught with difficulty. Flora Tristan found that working class organizations were indifferent, and even hostile, to the idea of female equality. In short, Flora Tristan exemplifies in her life and work, both the history of feminism, in its phases of optimism, realism and dissillusion, and the tensions between feminism and socialism.

Putting Feminism to Work - Theorising Sexual Violence, Trauma and Subjectivity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Suzanne Egan Putting Feminism to Work - Theorising Sexual Violence, Trauma and Subjectivity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Suzanne Egan
R2,309 Discovery Miles 23 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores the place of feminism and uptake of trauma in contemporary work against sexual violence. Egan presents a refreshing alternative position on arguments about the co-optation or erasure of feminism within institutionalized, professionalized services for sexual assault victims. Using original research on Australian sexual assault services, Putting Feminism to Work effectively illustrates how feminist concepts and ideas have become routinized in contemporary services and enacted in daily practices with survivors and communities. The book engages with, yet resists, the notion that feminist engagement with knowledge (trauma) based in psychiatry and clinical psychology is incompatible with feminism or inevitably reduces sexual violence to a problem of individual healing. Indeed Egan argues that the productive ways practitioners integrate neurobiological understandings of trauma into their work suggests rich possibilities for reintroducing a non-essentialist biology of the body into feminist theories of sexual violence. Scholars, students and practitioners working in the fields of violence against women, sociology, women's and gender studies, health, social work and policy studies, as well as the emerging field of sociologically informed trauma studies, will find this book of interest.

Men, Masculinities and Intimate Partner Violence (Paperback): Lucas Gottzen, Margunn Bjornholt, Floretta Boonzaier Men, Masculinities and Intimate Partner Violence (Paperback)
Lucas Gottzen, Margunn Bjornholt, Floretta Boonzaier
R1,208 Discovery Miles 12 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Men, Masculinities and Intimate Partner Violence examines how gender and other social identities and inequalities shape experiences of, and responses to, violence in intimate relationships. It provides new insights into men as both perpetrators and victims of violence, as well as on how to involve men and boys in anti-violence work. The chapters explore partner violence from the perspectives of researchers, therapists, activists, organisations, media as well as men of different background and sexual orientation. Highlighting the distinct and ambivalent ways we relate to violence and masculinity, this timely volume provides nuanced approaches to men, masculinity and intimate partner violence in various societies in the global North and South. This book foregrounds scholarship on men and masculinities in the context of intimate partner violence. By doing so, it revitalises feminist theorising and research on partner abuse, and brings together the fields of masculinity studies and studies of intimate partner violence. The book will be a vital resource for students and scholars in criminology, gender studies, psychology, social work and sociology, as well as those working with men and boys.

Mary Wollstonecraft and 200 Years of Feminisms (Paperback): Eileen Yeo Mary Wollstonecraft and 200 Years of Feminisms (Paperback)
Eileen Yeo
R436 Discovery Miles 4 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

To mark the 200th anniversary of Mary Wollstonecraft's death, this book brings together contributions which capture an important and continuing moment in feminist scholarship and practice. They range from interdisciplinary readings of Wollstonecraft's texts to historical explorations of later feminist movements to interpretations of the politics of gender in key parts of the world today. The book reflects a convergence of feminist theory, scholarship, and practice.

The book's themes include the roles of imagination, reason, and romance in sexual politics; the problems of forming feminist identities; the tensions between ideas of equality or common humanity; and differences of sex, class, and race power. These make it required reading for anyone engaged in current feminist analysis.

Still Crazy After All These Years (Routledge Revivals) - Women, Writing and Psychoanalysis (Hardcover): Rachel Bowlby Still Crazy After All These Years (Routledge Revivals) - Women, Writing and Psychoanalysis (Hardcover)
Rachel Bowlby
R3,871 Discovery Miles 38 710 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The starting point for this book, first published in 1992, is a question of rhetoric a " as much in the writings of feminism as in other writing about women. How do texts construct possibilities and limits, openings and impasses, which set the terms for the ways in which we think about what a woman is, or where women might be going, whether individually or collectively?

Some possible answers, as well as more questions, are offered in this book which moves from Virginia Woolf to advertising and from Freud to Feminist theory.

Emotional States, Attention, and Working Memory - A Special Issue of Cognition & Emotion (Hardcover): Nazanin Derakhshan,... Emotional States, Attention, and Working Memory - A Special Issue of Cognition & Emotion (Hardcover)
Nazanin Derakhshan, Michael Eysenck
R2,537 Discovery Miles 25 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This Special Issue is concerned with the effects of three emotional states (positive affect; anxiety; and depression) on performance. More specifically, the contributors focus on the potential mediating effects of attention and of executive processes of working memory. The evidence discussed suggests that anxiety and depression both impair the executive functions of shifting and inhibition, in part due to task-irrelevant processing (e.g., rumination; worry). In contrast, positive affect seems to enhance the shifting function and does not impair the inhibition function. The complicating role of motivational intensity is also discussed, as are implications for future research.

Feminism in Popular Culture (Hardcover): Joanne Hollows, Rachel Moseley Feminism in Popular Culture (Hardcover)
Joanne Hollows, Rachel Moseley
R4,259 Discovery Miles 42 590 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

What is the relationship between feminism and popular culture? Has there been a 'backlash' against feminism or is feminism now part of contemporary 'commonsense'? Can feminism learn from popular culture? Feminism in Popular Culture explores these questions through a diverse range of texts and sites - from news coverage, 'The Vagina Monologues', the Scream trilogy, 'Ally McBeal' and 'Sex and the City', sex documentaries and TV cooks, to breakdancing, beauty salons and computer game-playing. Feminism in Popular Culture does not assume that popular culture could benefit from a feminist 'makeover'. Rather, it analyses how different meanings of feminism have been negotiated within popular culture - how popular culture has made sense of feminism.

Feminism and Motherhood in Western Europe, 1890-1970 - The Maternal Dilemma (Hardcover, 2005 ed.): A Allen Feminism and Motherhood in Western Europe, 1890-1970 - The Maternal Dilemma (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
A Allen
R2,839 Discovery Miles 28 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

According to Allen, motherhood and citizenship are terms that are closely linked and have been redefined over the past century due to changes in women's status, feminist movements, and political developments. Mother-child relationships were greatly affected by political decisions during the early 1900s, and the maternal role has been transformed over the years. To understand the dilemmas faced by women concerning motherhood and work, for example, Allen argues that the problem must be examined in terms of its demographic and political development through history. Allen highlights the feminist movements in Western Europe - primarily Britain, France, Germany and the Netherlands, and explores the implications of the maternal role for women's aspirations to the rights of citizenship. Among the topics Allen explores the history of the maternal role, psychoanalysis and theories on the mother-child relationship, changes in family law from 1890-1914, the economic status of mothers, and reproductive responsibility.

The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of the #MeToo Movement (Paperback): Giti Chandra, Irma Erlingsdottir The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of the #MeToo Movement (Paperback)
Giti Chandra, Irma Erlingsdottir
R1,331 R1,232 Discovery Miles 12 320 Save R99 (7%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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.

Usurper Kings (Hardcover, 3rd ed.): Sapha Burnell Usurper Kings (Hardcover, 3rd ed.)
Sapha Burnell
R501 Discovery Miles 5 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Engels Revisited (Routledge Revivals) - Feminist Essays (Hardcover): Janet Sayers, Mary Evans, Nanneke Redclift Engels Revisited (Routledge Revivals) - Feminist Essays (Hardcover)
Janet Sayers, Mary Evans, Nanneke Redclift
R3,881 Discovery Miles 38 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This reissued work, first published in 1987, examines the problematic and divisive attitudes which bourgeois and socialist feminists take to the question of the links between patriarchy and capitalism and the importance of class conflict as a major cause of women's subordination. Engels still occcupies a central role in this debate and feminists writing in the hundred years since the publication of The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State frequently turn to this book in an attempt to find validation for their central argument.

The contributors to this volume reconsider Engels' theories and review evidence from those societies that have attempted to implement his belief that the key to the emancipation of women lies in their entry to social production.

The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Amelia Jones The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Amelia Jones
R4,238 Discovery Miles 42 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Feminism is one of the most important perspectives from which visual culture has been theorized and historicized over the past forty years. Challenging the notion of feminism as a unified discourse, this second edition of The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader assembles a wide array of writings that address art, film, architecture, popular culture, new media and other visual fields from a feminist perspective.

The essays, 40% of which are new to the second edition, are informed by the authors? deep attention to historical, geographical, and disciplinary contexts as well as by cutting edge concerns such as globalization, diasporic cultural shifts, developments in new media technologies, and intersectional identity politics.

The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader combines classic texts with six specially commissioned pieces, all by leading feminist critics, historians, theorists, artists, and activists. Articles are grouped into thematic sections, each of which is introduced by the editor. Providing a framework within which to understand the shifts in feminist thinking in visual studies, as well as an overview of major feminist theories of the visual, this reader also explores how issues of race, class, nationality, and sexuality enter into debates about feminism in the field of the visual.

Globalizing Feminisms, 1789- 1945 (Hardcover): Karen Offen Globalizing Feminisms, 1789- 1945 (Hardcover)
Karen Offen
R4,201 Discovery Miles 42 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This definitive Reader presents a coherent, comprehensive, comparative, and much-needed collective history of women's activism throughout the world.
Including key pieces on the history of feminism from an international group of scholars, the book charts feminists? attempts to restore a balance of power between the sexes against a backdrop of huge cultural, social and political transitions across the world. The collection covers the period from the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789 ? a turning point that gave rise to practical efforts to embody principles of rights, liberty, and equality on behalf of women as well as men ? up until the end of World War II. The chapters reach out well beyond Europe and the Americas to examine the history of feminisms in Japan, India, China, the Middle East and Australasia.
This diverse body of material is drawn together through a comprehensive general introduction, and individual section introductions. The chapters are also supported by a global timeline of events, and there is a bibliography of further reading.
Contributors include Padma Anagol, Marilyn J. Boxer, Jacqueline R. DeVries, Ellen Carol DuBois, Louise Edwards, Ellen L. Fleischmann, Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild, Patricia Grimshaw, Inger Hammar, Nancy Hewitt, Francesca Miller, Barbara Molony, Karen Offen, Florence Rochefort, Leila J. Rupp, Sandra Stanley Holton, Anne Summers, Ann Taylor Allen, Angela Woollacott and Susan Zimmermann.

Recreating Sexual Politics (Routledge Revivals) - Men, Feminism and Politics (Hardcover): Victor Seidler Recreating Sexual Politics (Routledge Revivals) - Men, Feminism and Politics (Hardcover)
Victor Seidler
R5,022 Discovery Miles 50 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This thought-provoking book, first published in 1991, examines sexual politics in a world which is being radically changed by the challenges of feminism. Seidler explores how men have responded to feminism, and the contradictory feelings men have towards dominant forms of masculinity.

Seidlera (TM)s stimulating and original analysis of social and political theory connects personally to everyday issues in peoplea (TM)s lives. It reflects the growing importance of sexual and personal politics within contemporary politics and culture, and demonstrates clearly the challenge that feminism brings to our inherited forms of morality, politics and sexuality.

Cross-Cultural Reflections on Chinese Aesthetics, Gender, Embodiment and Learning (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Eva Kit Wah Man Cross-Cultural Reflections on Chinese Aesthetics, Gender, Embodiment and Learning (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Eva Kit Wah Man
R1,472 Discovery Miles 14 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book gathers research and writings that reflect on traditional and current global issues related to art and aesthetics, gender perspectives, body theories, knowledge and learning. It illustrates these core dimensions, which are bringing together philosophy, tradition and cultural studies and laying the groundwork for comparative research and dialogues between aesthetics, Chinese philosophies, Western feminist studies and cross-cultural thought. Pursuing an interdisciplinary approach, the book also integrates philosophical enquiries with cultural anthropology and contextual studies. As implied in the title, the main methodologies are cross-cultural and comparative studies, which touch on performances in art and aesthetics, social existence and education, and show that philosophical enquiries, aesthetical representation and gender politics are simultaneously historical, living and contextual. The book gathers a wealth of cross-cultural reflections on philosophical aesthetics, gender existence and cultural traditions. The critical thinking within will benefit undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in the area of comparative philosophies. It blends academic rigor with personal reflection, which is a critical practice in feminist philosophy itself.

I Am Man (Hardcover): Ana Maria Munar I Am Man (Hardcover)
Ana Maria Munar
R573 R476 Discovery Miles 4 760 Save R97 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sageism - How to be an Older Woman (Paperback): Clare Shaw Sageism - How to be an Older Woman (Paperback)
Clare Shaw
R241 Discovery Miles 2 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Academic Outsider - Stories of Exclusion and Hope (Paperback): Victoria Reyes Academic Outsider - Stories of Exclusion and Hope (Paperback)
Victoria Reyes
R339 R305 Discovery Miles 3 050 Save R34 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Many enter the academy with dreams of doing good; this is a book about how the institution fails them, especially if they are considered "outsiders." Tenure-track, published author, recipient of prestigious fellowships and awards-these credentials mark Victoria Reyes as somebody who has achieved the status of insider in the academy. Woman of color, family history of sexual violence, first generation, mother-these qualities place Reyes on the margins of the academy; a person who does not see herself reflected in its models of excellence. This contradiction allows Reyes to theorize the conditional citizenship of academic life-a liminal status occupied by a rapidly growing proportion of the academy, as the majority white, male, and affluent space simultaneously transforms and resists transformation. Reyes blends her own personal experiences with the tools of sociology to lay bare the ways in which the structures of the university and the people working within it continue to keep their traditionally marginalized members relegated to symbolic status, somewhere outside the center. Reyes confronts the impossibility of success in the midst of competing and contradictory needs-from navigating coded language, to balancing professional expectations with care-taking responsibilities, to combating the literal exclusions of outmoded and hierarchical rules. Her searing commentary takes on, with sensitivity and fury, the urgent call for academic justice.

Same Sex Marriages - New Generations, New Relationships (Hardcover): B. Heaphy, C. Smart, A. Einarsdottir Same Sex Marriages - New Generations, New Relationships (Hardcover)
B. Heaphy, C. Smart, A. Einarsdottir
R1,786 Discovery Miles 17 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Over a couple of generations new possibilities have opened up for how we organize our relationships. This is especially true of same sex relationships where there is an increasing acceptance of civil unions and same-sex marriages. Many young same sex couples and partners are now living more ordinary lives than ever thought possible before, and marriage can be an important part of this. Based on extensive couple and individual interviews with young partners who have legally formalized their relationships, this fascinating new book argues that same sex marriages in everyday life need to be understood in terms of interlinked developments in lesbian and gay worlds, heterosexual relationships and in personal life. The book sheds light on the generational and biographical factors that influence same sex relationships and discusses the implications for how we understand changing heterosexual relationships and marriages. This topical book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in sexuality, gender, the family and personal life.

Anarchism After Deleuze and Guattari - Fabulating Futures (Hardcover): Chantelle Gray Anarchism After Deleuze and Guattari - Fabulating Futures (Hardcover)
Chantelle Gray
R2,941 Discovery Miles 29 410 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Deleuze and Guattari never identified as anarchists, nor do they seem to know much about its historical development or continued praxis. Yet their individual and collective work belies this apparent and wilful oversight through a steady consideration of revolutionary subjectivity and active political experimentation. Chantelle Gray argues that while we cannot - and should not - attempt to call them anarchists, their work resonates with core anarchist principles such as prefiguration, careful experimentation and emergent strategies aimed at creating a feeling that life is worth living. This involves paying attention to both joyous affects and sad passions, which necessitates the affirmation of all of chance and, from that, fabulating new modes of existence. By bringing together the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari with the theory and practices of anarchism, this book demonstrates that fabulating the future is nothing short of a noetic act, making reasonable something which initially was senseless.

Dostoevsky and the Woman Question - Rereadings at the End of a Century (Hardcover, 1994 ed.): Nina Pelikan Straus Dostoevsky and the Woman Question - Rereadings at the End of a Century (Hardcover, 1994 ed.)
Nina Pelikan Straus
R2,777 Discovery Miles 27 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Nina Pelikan Straus explores Dostoevsky's major works with a focus on his women characters, his references to rape and men's abuse of females, and his construction of 'the feminine'. Intended not to impose feminist ideology upon the writer, but rather to enlarge feminist discourse through Dostoevsky, the chapters explore new readings with a sense of their positioning at the end of a century without subsuming the woman question within a larger frame. Dostoevsky and the Woman Question makes a unique contribution to the new, but growing, field of gender studies within Slavic studies.

Aemilia Lanyer as Shakespeare's Co-Author (Hardcover): Mark Bradbeer Aemilia Lanyer as Shakespeare's Co-Author (Hardcover)
Mark Bradbeer
R3,847 R3,194 Discovery Miles 31 940 Save R653 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

- Topical subject: there is a lot of interest in Ameilia and women authors in the early modern period, and they are being included in more university courses and studied in more depth my researchers. Shakespeare's co-authorship is another hot topic area in Shakespeare research. - Interest in Shakespeare is global, so healthy sale potential within both English and non-English speaking markets. - Author has a solid reputation in Shakespeare authorship research community, and previous works have had a positive impact.

Feminism and 'The Schooling Scandal' (Hardcover): Christine Skelton, Becky Francis Feminism and 'The Schooling Scandal' (Hardcover)
Christine Skelton, Becky Francis
R3,881 Discovery Miles 38 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Feminism and 'The Schooling Scandal' brings together feminist contributions from two generations of educational researchers, evaluating and celebrating the field of gender and education. The focus throughout is on the years of compulsory schooling, examining key concepts in gender and education identified and developed by international thinkers in educational feminism. Topics covered include:


  • social class, ethnicity and sexuality in relation to experiences in school;

  • theories and methodologies for understanding gender;

  • pedagogy and practice in education; and

  • the direction of educational policy and the 'problem of boys'.

Providing a comprehensive overview of contemporary research and theory emerging from 'second wave' feminism and assessing their impact on pupils and teachers in today's schools and classrooms, this book forms essential reading for anyone studying gender and education.

On the Feminist Philosophy of Gillian Howie - Materialism and Mortality (Hardcover): Daniel Whistler, Victoria Browne On the Feminist Philosophy of Gillian Howie - Materialism and Mortality (Hardcover)
Daniel Whistler, Victoria Browne
R4,267 Discovery Miles 42 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Over three decades, Gillian Howie wrote at the forefront of philosophy and critical theory, before her untimely death in 2013. This interdisciplinary collection uses her writings to explore the productive, yet often resistant, interrelationship between feminism and critical theory, examining the potential of Howie's particular form of materialism. The contributors also bring to this debate a serious engagement with Howie's late turn towards philosophies of mortality, therapy and 'living with dying'. The volume considers how differently embodied subjects are positioned within public institutions, discourses and spaces, and the role of philosophy, art, film, photography, and literature, in facing situations such as sexual oppression and life-limiting illness.

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