The Essential Feminist Reader

Author : Estelle Freedman
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812974607

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Including: Susan B. Anthony Simone de Beauvoir W.E.B. Du Bois Hélène Cixous Betty Friedan Charlotte Perkins Gilman Emma Goldman Guerrilla Girls Ding Ling • Audre Lorde John Stuart Mill Christine de Pizan Adrienne Rich Margaret Sanger Huda Shaarawi • Sojourner Truth Mary Wollstonecraft Virginia Woolf The Essential Feminist Reader is the first anthology to present the full scope of feminist history. Prizewinning historian Estelle B. Freedman brings decades of teaching experience and scholarship to her selections, which span more than five centuries. Moving beyond standard texts by English and American thinkers, this collection features primary source material from around the globe, including short works of fiction and drama, political manifestos, and the work of less well-known writers. Freedman’s cogent Introduction assesses the challenges facing feminism, while her accessible, lively commentary contextualizes each piece. The Essential Feminist Reader is a vital addition to feminist scholarship, and an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the history of women.

Author : Estelle Freedman
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812974607

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The Essential Feminist Reader by Estelle Freedman Pdf

Including: Susan B. Anthony Simone de Beauvoir W.E.B. Du Bois Hélène Cixous Betty Friedan Charlotte Perkins Gilman Emma Goldman Guerrilla Girls Ding Ling • Audre Lorde John Stuart Mill Christine de Pizan Adrienne Rich Margaret Sanger Huda Shaarawi • Sojourner Truth Mary Wollstonecraft Virginia Woolf The Essential Feminist Reader is the first anthology to present the full scope of feminist history. Prizewinning historian Estelle B. Freedman brings decades of teaching experience and scholarship to her selections, which span more than five centuries. Moving beyond standard texts by English and American thinkers, this collection features primary source material from around the globe, including short works of fiction and drama, political manifestos, and the work of less well-known writers. Freedman’s cogent Introduction assesses the challenges facing feminism, while her accessible, lively commentary contextualizes each piece. The Essential Feminist Reader is a vital addition to feminist scholarship, and an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the history of women.

Author : Jessie Kindig
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781788739269

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The Verso Book of Feminism by Jessie Kindig Pdf

An unprecedented collection of feminist voices from four millennia of global history Throughout written history and across the world, women have protested the restrictions of gender and the limitations placed on women's bodies and women's lives. People–of any and no gender–have protested and theorized, penned manifestos and written poetry and songs, testified and lobbied, gone on strike and fomented revolution, quietly demanded that there is an "I" and loudly proclaimed that there is a "we." The Book of Feminism chronicles this history of defiance and tracks it around the world as it develops into a multivocal and unabashed force. Global in scope, The Book of Feminism shows the breadth of feminist protest and of feminist thinking, moving through the female poets of China's Tang Dynasty and accounts of indigenous women in the Caribbean resisting Columbus's expedition, British suffragists militating for the vote and the revolutionary petroleuses of the 1848 Paris Commune, the first century Trung sisters who fought for the independence of Nam Viet to women in 1980s Botswana fighting for equal protection under the law, from the erotica of the 6th century and the 19th century to radical queer politics in the 20th and 21st. The Book of Feminism is a weapon, a force, a lyrical cry, and an ongoing threat to misogyny everywhere.

Author : Stephanie Staal
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781586488765

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Reading Women by Stephanie Staal Pdf

When Stephanie Staal first read The Feminine Mystique in college, she found it “a mildly interesting relic from another era.” But more than a decade later, as a married stay-at-home mom in the suburbs, Staal rediscovered Betty Friedan's classic work—and was surprised how much she identified with the laments and misgivings of 1950s housewives. She set out on a quest: to reenroll at Barnard and re-read the great books she had first encountered as an undergrad. From the banishment of Eve to Judith Butler's Gender Trouble, Staal explores the significance of each of these classic tales by and of women, highlighting the relevance these ideas still have today. This process leads Staal to find the self she thought she had lost—curious and ambitious, zany and critical—and inspires new understandings of her relationships with her husband, her mother, and her daughter.

Author : Estelle Freedman
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307416247

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No Turning Back by Estelle Freedman Pdf

Repeatedly declared dead by the media, the women’s movement has never been as vibrant as it is today. Indeed as Stanford professor and award-winning author Estelle B. Freedman argues in her compelling new book, feminism has reached a critical momentum from which there is no turning back. A truly global movement, as vital and dynamic in the developing world as it is in the West, feminism has helped women achieve authority in politics, sports, and business, and has mobilized public concern for once-taboo issues like rape, domestic violence, and breast cancer. And yet much work remains before women attain real equality. In this fascinating book, Freedman examines the historical forces that have fueled the feminist movement over the past two hundred years–and explores how women today are looking to feminism for new approaches to issues of work, family, sexuality, and creativity. Freedman begins with an incisive analysis of what feminism means and why it took root in western Europe and the United States at the end of the eighteenth century. The rationalist, humanistic philosophy of the Enlightenment, which ignited the American Revolution, also sparked feminist politics, inspiring such pioneers as Mary Wollstonecraft and Susan B. Anthony. Race has always been as important as gender in defining feminism, and Freedman traces the intricate ties between women’s rights and abolitionism in the United States in the years before the Civil War and the long tradition of radical women of color, stretching back to the impassioned rhetoric of Sojourner Truth. As industrialism and democratic politics spread after World War II, feminist politics gained momentum and sophistication throughout the world. Their impact began to be felt in every aspect of society–from the workplace to the chambers of government to relations between the sexes. Because of feminism, Freedman points out, the line between the personal and the political has blurred, or disappeared, and issues once considered “merely” private–abortion, sexual violence, homosexuality, reproductive health, beauty and body image–have entered the public arena as subjects of fierce, ongoing debate. Freedman combines a scholar’s meticulous research with a social critic’s keen eye. Sweeping in scope, searching in its analysis, global in its perspective, No Turning Back will stand as a defining text in one of the most important social movements of all time.

Author : Carole Ruth McCann,Seung-Kyung Kim
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0415931525

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Feminist Theory Reader by Carole Ruth McCann,Seung-Kyung Kim Pdf

Feminist Theory Reader is an anthology of classic and contemporary works of feminist theory, organized around the goal of providing both local and global perspectives.

Author : Sandra G. Harding
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0415945011

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The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader by Sandra G. Harding Pdf

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Alison M. Jaggar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317264743

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Just Methods by Alison M. Jaggar Pdf

The supplemented edition of this important reader includes a substantive new introduction by the author on the changing nature of feminist methodology. It takes into account the implications of a major new study included for this first time in this book on poverty and gender (in)equality, and it includes an article discussing the ways in which this study was conducted using the research methods put forward by the first edition. This article begins by explaining why a new and better poverty metric is needed and why developing such a metric requires an alternative methodological approach inspired by feminism. Feminist research is a growing tradition of inquiry that aims to produce knowledge not biased by inequitable assumptions about gender and related categories such as class, race, religion, sexuality, and nationality."Just Methods" is designed for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in a range of disciplines. Rather than being concerned with particular techniques of inquiry, the interdisciplinary readings in this book address broad questions of research methodology. They are designed to help researchers think critically and constructively about the epistemological and ethical implications of various approaches to research selection and research design, evidence-gathering techniques, and publication of results.A key theme running through the readings is the complex interrelationship between social power and inequality on the one hand and the production of knowledge on the other. A second and related theme is the inseparability of research projects and methodologies from ethical and political values."

Author : Robert R.M. Verchick
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780814719121

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Feminist Legal Theory by Robert R.M. Verchick Pdf

Feminist Legal Theory is a groundbreaking collection of feminist work proceeding from the core assumption that the differences among women are essential to feminist analysis. Rather than presenting feminist legal theory sequentially, with “African American feminism” or “critical race feminism” added on at the end, the volume thoroughly integrates key readings from non-white, non-middle class, and non-mainstream writers throughout. The volume explores the intersections of race, class, and gender in such areas as theory, family, work and economic issues, and violence against women. Each section of the book begins with an introduction providing context and insights into how the particular pieces included challenge norms and create new paradigms. This vibrant, challenging collection of work by a broad range of authors represents the cutting edge of feminist theory in concrete applications essential to gender equality. Contributors include: Patricia Hill Collins, Bonnie Thornton Dill, Angela P. Harris, Sylvia A. Law, Mari Matsuda, Martha Minow, Esther Ngan-Ling Chow, john a. powell, Jenny Rivera, and Maxine Baca Zinn.

Author : Elizabeth Frazer,Jennifer Hornsby,Sabina Lovibond
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0631178295

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Ethics by Elizabeth Frazer,Jennifer Hornsby,Sabina Lovibond Pdf

Author : Kimberle Crenshaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 1620975513

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On Intersectionality by Kimberle Crenshaw Pdf

A major publishing event, the collected writings of the groundbreaking scholar who "first coined intersectionality as a political framework" (Salon) For more than twenty years, scholars, activists, educators, and lawyers--inside and outside of the United States--have employed the concept of intersectionality both to describe problems of inequality and to fashion concrete solutions. In particular, as the Washington Post reported recently, "the term has been used by social activists as both a rallying cry for more expansive progressive movements and a chastisement for their limitations." Drawing on black feminist and critical legal theory, Kimberlé Crenshaw developed the concept of intersectionality, a term she coined to speak to the multiple social forces, social identities, and ideological instruments through which power and disadvantage are expressed and legitimized. In this comprehensive and accessible introduction to Crenshaw's work, readers will find key essays and articles that have defined the concept of intersectionality, collected together for the first time. The book includes a sweeping new introduction by Crenshaw as well as prefaces that contextualize each of the chapters. For anyone interested in movement politics and advocacy, or in racial justice and gender equity, On Intersectionality will be compulsory reading from one of the most brilliant theorists of our time.

Author : Catherine Belsey,Jane Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Feminism and literature
ISBN : OCLC:1162679033

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The Feminist Reader by Catherine Belsey,Jane Moore Pdf

Author : Catherine Belsey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1074064711

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˜Theœ feminist reader by Catherine Belsey Pdf

Author : Henrik Ibsen,Charlotte Brontë,Marietta Holley,Henry James,Louisa May Alcott,John Stuart Mill,Zona Gale,Jane Austen,Thomas Hardy,Edith Wharton,Gene Stratton-Porter,Rebecca Harding Davis,Margaret Fuller,Elizabeth Cady Stanton,Elia Wilkinson Peattie,Virginia Woolf,Mary Wollstonecraft,Willa Cather,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Mary Johnston,Grant Allen,Theodore Dreiser,Kate Chopin,Sojourner Truth,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,Harriet Martineau,Fanny Burney,Mary Ware Dennett,Julia Ward Howe,Ada Cambridge,H. G. Wells,Sarah H. Bradford,D. H. Lawrence,Nikolai Leskov,Lucy Maud Montgomery,Leo Tolstoy,Margaret Deland,Elizabeth Gaskell,Margaret Oliphant,Margaret Mitchell,Elizabeth von Arnim,Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 14223 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547782322

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The Essential Feminist Collection – 60 Powerful Classics in One Volume by Henrik Ibsen,Charlotte Brontë,Marietta Holley,Henry James,Louisa May Alcott,John Stuart Mill,Zona Gale,Jane Austen,Thomas Hardy,Edith Wharton,Gene Stratton-Porter,Rebecca Harding Davis,Margaret Fuller,Elizabeth Cady Stanton,Elia Wilkinson Peattie,Virginia Woolf,Mary Wollstonecraft,Willa Cather,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Mary Johnston,Grant Allen,Theodore Dreiser,Kate Chopin,Sojourner Truth,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,Harriet Martineau,Fanny Burney,Mary Ware Dennett,Julia Ward Howe,Ada Cambridge,H. G. Wells,Sarah H. Bradford,D. H. Lawrence,Nikolai Leskov,Lucy Maud Montgomery,Leo Tolstoy,Margaret Deland,Elizabeth Gaskell,Margaret Oliphant,Margaret Mitchell,Elizabeth von Arnim,Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett Pdf

Good Press presents to you this meticulously edited collection of feminist masterpieces - from fictional protagonists who influenced generations of young women to the real heroines of the past, their life stories and their legacy. Fiction: Camilla (Fanny Burney) Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman (Mary Wollstonecraft) Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) Lady Macbeth of the Mzinsk District (Nikolai Leskov) Hester (Margaret Oliphant) Life in the Iron Mills (Rebecca Davis) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy) North and South (Elizabeth Gaskell) The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman) Herland (Charlotte Perkins Gilman) A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen) Hedda Gabler (Henrik Ibsen) The Awakening (Kate Chopin) The Woman Who Did (Grant Allen) Miss Cayley's Adventures (Grant Allen) New Amazonia (Elizabeth Corbett) A Girl of the Limberlost (Gene Stratton-Porter) The Iron Woman (Margaret Deland) My Ántonia (Willa Cather) The House of Mirth (Edith Wharton) Summer (Edith Wharton) Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser) Sisters (Ada Cambridge) Hagar (Mary Johnston) Samantha on the Woman Question (Marietta Holley) The Precipice (Elia Wilkinson Peattie) To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf) Miss Lulu Bett (Zona Gale) Lady Chatterley's Lover (D. H. Lawrence) The Enchanted April (Elizabeth von Arnim) Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell) Emily of New Moon (Lucy Maud Montgomery) Memoirs: Madame Vigée Lebrun Jane Austen Caroline Herschel Mrs. Seacole Elizabeth Cady Stanton Emmeline Pankhurst Biographies: Lucretia Sappho Aspasia of Cyrus Portia Octavia Cleopatra Julia Domna Zenobia Valeria Hypatia Roswitha the Nun Marie de France Mechthild of Magdeburg Joan of Arc Catharine of Arragon Anne Boleyn Queen Elizabeth Mary, Queen of Scots Queen Anne Maria Theresa Marie Antoinette Madame de Stael Augustina Saragoza Charlotte Brontë Florence Nightingale Harriet Tubman

Author : Lynne Pearce
Publisher : Hodder Education
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0340700629

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Feminism and the Politics of Reading by Lynne Pearce Pdf

Feminism and the Politics of Reading is the first major work to theorize the processes and practices of reading within a gendered context. Looking at what it is to be a self-conscious "feminist reader", and at what happens when that feminism is "off-duty", Lynne Pearce explores the complex personal and political implications of what we do every time we read. Engaging with a wide range of literary and visual texts, and including a cross-national case-study of five groups of feminist readers, this book breaks important new ground both in terms of its theoretical conclusions and its critical approach. It moves from questioning the power of feminist readers of male-authored texts, and examining how women are defined by contemporary feminist writers, towards a new understanding of the fully interdependent, but highly volatile, relationship between reader and text. What emerges is a new theory of reading which resists ideal scenarios in favour of the chaos and the confusion, the pleasure and the