Another Mother
A groundbreaking volume introduces the unique feminist thought of the longstanding Italian group known as Diotima Introducing Anglophone readers to a potent strain of Italian feminism known to French, Spanish, and German audiences but as yet unava...
The Complete Kama Sutra
This definitive volume is the first modern translation of Vatsyayana's Kama Sutra to include two essential commentaries: the Jayamangala of Yashodhara and the modern Hindi commentary by Devadatta Shastri. Alain Danilou spent four years co...
Duels and Duets
Why do men and women talk so differently? And how do these differences interfere with communication between the sexes? In search of an answer to these and other questions, John Locke takes the reader on a fascinating journey, from human evolution ...
Gendering Historiography
Comparing various European and American historiographies from the past two hundred years, "Gendering Historiography" provides insights into the establishment and cultivation of gendered power relations in different societies and ...
Carnal Aesthetics
Art today is an increasingly multifaceted phenomenon, encompassing transgressive works that intervene in war and ecological disasters, in inequalities and revolutionary changes in technology. Carnal Aesthetics is a fascinating, new examination of ...
Feminist Interpretations of David Hume
This book is the first collection of feminist essays on one of the central figures in the history of English-speaking philosophy. Besides providing a rich variety of feminist viewpoints on a wide range of Humes writings, the contributors introduce...
Images of Bliss
Aristotle believed semen to be the purest of all bodily secretions, a vehicle for the spirit or psyche that gives form to substance. For Prousts narrator in Swanns Way, waking to find he has experienced a nocturnal emission, it is the product of s...
Simone de Beauvoir, Philosophy, and Feminism
In the introduction to The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir notes that "a man never begins by establishing himself as an individual of a certain sex: his being a man poses no problem." Nancy Bauer begins her book by asking: &qu...
Deconstructing Dirty Dancing
Renowned film critic Roger Ebert said Dirty Dancing "might have been a decent movie if it had allowed itself to be about anything." In this broadly researched and accessible text, Stephen Lee Naish sets out to deconstruct and unl...
Radical Gestures
The first comprehensive history of feminist performance art in North America highlighting the important contributions of women artists.
Cutting Performances
This book sheds light on the critical role that women artists have played in the evolution of the American avant-garde. ""Cutting Performances"" boldly challenges four decades of scholarship to revise the histor...
Good Wives
This enthralling work of scholarship strips away those abstractions to reveal the hidden -- and not always stoic -- face of the "goodwives" of colonial America. In these pages we encounter the awesome burdens -- and the considera...
Testo Junkie
This visionary book on gender and sexuality weaves together high theory and intimate memoir, with "e;spectacular"e; results"e;and the gendered body will never be the same again"e; (Jack Halberstam). What constitutes...
The Dancing Goddesses
From southern Greece to northern Russia, people have long believed in female spirits, bringers of fertility, who spend their nights and days dancing in the fields and forests. So appealing were these spirit-maidens that they also took up residence...
Gender
Gender: Psychological Perspectives synthesizes the latest research on gender to help students think critically about the differences between research findings and stereotypes, provoking them to examine and revise their own preconceptions. The text...
Moving Subjects
Moving Subjects is the first of its kind to make a case not simply for the necessity of a spatial analysis of imperial formations, but for the indispensability of an investigative approach that links space and movement with the domain of the intim...
Worlds of Roman Women
An intermediate reader in Latin on the theme of women in the Roman world. Readings, exercises and extensive on line resources.
Aftermath of Feminism
In this trenchant inquiry into the state of feminism, Angela McRobbie breaks open the politics of sexual equality and 'affirmative feminism' and sets down a new theory of gender power. Challenging the most basic assumptions of the 'end' of feminis...
Women and Climate Change
How ideas of gender and climate change intersect with our path to a livable future. When you think "climate change," who comes to mind? Who's doing the science, the reporting, the protesting, the suffering? In Women and Cl...
Bodies Of Subversion
Bodies of Subversion was the first history of women's tattoo art when it was released in 1997, providing a fascinating excursion to a subculture that dates back to the nineteenth-century and including many never-before-seen photos of tattooed wome...
Feminist Readings of Antigone
New and classic essays on Antigone and feminist philosophy.
Feminist Interpretations of John Dewey
This is the first collection of essays to evaluate John Dewey's pragmatist philosophy from a feminist perspective. The variety of feminist interpretations offered here ranges from Jane Addams's praise for his collegial efforts to...
Globalizing Women
Globalization may offer modern feminism its greatest opportunity and greatest challenge. Allowing communication and information exchange while also exacerbating economic and social inequalities, globalization has fostered the growth of transnation...
The Abortion Myth
The feminist position on abortion is little changed from thirty years ago, argues Leslie Cannold. Mired in the rhetoric of "rights," feminists have failed to appreciate women's actual experience of abortion and have ceded the deb...
Abortion to Abolition
The history of abortion decriminalization and critical advocacy efforts to improve access in Canada deserve to be better known. Ordinary people persevered to make Canada the most progressive country in the world with respect to abortion care. But ...
Women and Land
The typical face of poverty in South Africa isAfrican, rural, and female.As the primary users ofrural land, women engage in farming and subsistenceactivities. Despite this pivotal role played by ruralwomen, they experience grave problems under com...
Morgondagens könsroller : från vaggan till graven - hur ditt liv formas beroende på vulva och penis
Många vill påstå och tro, att den uppdelade datan i vad det gäller kön speglar vårt naturliga beteende. Att vi helt enkelt bara är födda sådana. Våra hormoner, våra vulva eller penis och vår hjärna är alla direkt länkade till varandra och därför v...
The Development Dictionary
The original critical guide to key concepts in development studies from some of the world's most eminent critical development scholars and practitioners. Each essay in this now classic collection examines one key development concept, from...
Women of the Underground: Art
The unconventional, the radical, the subversive, the unorthodox: revealing interviews with underground women artists.
Sacred Places of Goddess
This fascinating travel perspective is sure to become an invaluable resource in every library and on every coffee table and bookshelf as the past is uncovered through the lens of sacred travel. Including both academic and popular religious perspec...
Gender terrains in African cinema
The highly talented author, Dominica Dipio was inspired by a desire to undertake this study from her interest in gender, and the increasing attention African cinema is drawing in the history of world cinemas. Attaining its identity in the 1960s, t...
Sacred Woman, Sacred Dance
Shows how dance, the highest expression of spirituality in cultures and traditions all over the world, is being integrated into the lives of women today *The first book to explore women's spiritual expression--women's ways--through a study of danc...
CyberFeminism
A diverse and, at times, fractious discussion of issues raised by the development of the Internet, multimedia development, fiction and hypertext, and electronic publishing and education. The text asks such questions as: what is cyberfeminism?; and...
In A Day's Work
Apple orchards in bucolic Washington state. Office parks in Southern California under cover of night. The home of an elderly man in Miami. These are some of the workplaces where female workers have suffered brutal sexual assault and shocking haras...
Breaking the silence sisterhood
An anthology of poems, short stories, and personal essays, this collection embodies the meaning of sisterhood: relationships in which girls and women give and receive friendship, love, and support. Embracing this theme, the contributors of this co...
Chicks Dig Gaming: A Celebration of All Things Gaming by the Women Who Love It
In Chicks Dig Gaming, editors Jennifer Brozek (Apocalypse Ink Productions), Robert Smith? (Who is the Doctor?) and Lars Pearson (editor-in-chief, the Hugo Award-winning Chicks Dig series) bring together essays by nearly three dozen female writers ...
Nkrumah's Legacy and Africa's Triple Heritage Between Globallization and Counter Terrorism
The struggle for gender equality within academic life continues to meet strong resistance and African campuses are no exception. In the one area where women should be able to command respect and equality, the day-to-day reality of female academics...
Land Reform and Diminishing Spaces for Women in Zimbabwe
This thesis is a gender analysis of the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) in Zimbabwe focusing on the socio-economic and political consequences for women. The thesis acknowledges the critical importance of land reform in Zimbabwe as a count...
Kön och Politiskt Våld : Attityder Under Svensk Efterkrigstid
En majoritet av Sveriges kvinnor vill totalförbjuda svensk vapenexport. Andelen män som förespråkar ett totalförbud är endast 28 procent. Åsiktsskillnaden mellan män och kvinnor i vapenexportfrågan är större än i någon annan enskild sakfråga i de ...
Pictures of People
In this vibrant chronicle of the life and work of the prolific painter and bohemian eccentric Alice Neel, whose career spanned the decades from the 1920s to the 1970s, Pamela Allara highlights portraits that constitute a virtual gallery of America...