The Trouble And Strife Reader

Author : Deborah Cameron,Joan Scanlon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781849660129

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The Trouble and Strife Reader by Deborah Cameron,Joan Scanlon Pdf

From 1983 to 2002, Trouble and Strife: The Radical Feminist Magazine was a distinctive voice in British feminism. It was the longest-surviving completely independent feminist periodical published in this period and it combined the intellectual depth of an academic journal with the accessibility, topicality and visual appeal of commercial feminst magazines such as Everywoman and Spare Rib. Featuring articles by internationally prominent feminists including Julie Bindel, Deborah Cameron, Beatrix Campbell, Patricia Duncker, Liz Kelly and Diana Leonard, it represented a particular current in feminism, radical rather than liberal, materialist but not marxist, anti-essentialist but not postmodernist. It regularly challenged orthodoxies on controversial issues such as ritual abuse or the sexual politics of religious fundamentalism. This is a collection of the best and most enduring articles published in the magazine during its 20-year life. It offers a unique historical record of an important strand of radical feminist debate, enabling old readers to revisit it and new readers to discover it.

Author : Deborah Cameron,Joan Scanlon
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781849660389

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The Trouble and Strife Reader ebook by Deborah Cameron,Joan Scanlon Pdf

From 1983 to 2002, Trouble and Strife: The Radical Feminist Magazine was a distinctive voice in British feminism. It was the longest-surviving completely independent feminist periodical published in this period and it combined the intellectual depth of an academic journal with the accessibility, topicality and visual appeal of commercial feminst magazines such as Everywoman and Spare Rib. Featuring articles by internationally prominent feminists including Julie Bindel, Deborah Cameron, Beatrix Campbell, Patricia Duncker, Liz Kelly and Diana Leonard, it represented a particular current in feminism, radical rather than liberal, materialist but not marxist, anti-essentialist but not postmodernist. It regularly challenged orthodoxies on controversial issues such as ritual abuse or the sexual politics of religious fundamentalism. This is a collection of the best and most enduring articles published in the magazine during its 20-year life. It offers a unique historical record of an important strand of radical feminist debate, enabling old readers to revisit it and new readers to discover it.

Author : Alison Phipps
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745682778

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The Politics of the Body by Alison Phipps Pdf

Winner of the 2015 FWSA Book Prize The body is a site of impassioned, fraught and complex debate in the West today. In one political moment, left-wingers, academics and feminists have defended powerful men accused of sex crimes, positioned topless pictures in the tabloids as empowering, and opposed them for sexualizing breasts and undermining their 'natural' function. At the same time they have been criticized by extreme-right groups for ignoring honour killings and other 'culture-based' forms of violence against women. How can we make sense of this varied terrain? In this important and challenging new book, Alison Phipps constructs a political sociology of women's bodies around key debates: sexual violence, gender and Islam, sex work and motherhood. Her analysis uncovers dubious rhetorics and paradoxical allegiances, and contextualizes these within the powerful coalition of neoliberal and neoconservative frameworks. She explores how 'feminism' can be caricatured and vilified at both ends of the political spectrum, arguing that Western feminisms are now faced with complex problems of positioning in a world where gender often comes second to other political priorities. This book provides a welcome investigation into Western politics around women's bodies, and will be particularly useful to scholars and upper-level students of sociology, political science, gender studies and cultural studies, as well as to anyone interested in how bodies become politicized.

Author : Cordelia Fine
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0393079252

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Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine Pdf

“[Fine’s] sharp tongue is tempered with humor. . . . Read this book and see how complex and fascinating the whole issue is.”—The New York Times It’s the twenty-first century, and although we tried to rear unisex children—boys who play with dolls and girls who like trucks—we failed. Even though the glass ceiling is cracked, most women stay comfortably beneath it. And everywhere we hear about vitally important “hardwired” differences between male and female brains. The neuroscience that we read about in magazines, newspaper articles, books, and sometimes even scientific journals increasingly tells a tale of two brains, and the result is more often than not a validation of the status quo. Women, it seems, are just too intuitive for math; men too focused for housework. Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience and psychology, Cordelia Fine debunks the myth of hardwired differences between men’s and women’s brains, unraveling the evidence behind such claims as men’s brains aren’t wired for empathy and women’s brains aren’t made to fix cars. She then goes one step further, offering a very different explanation of the dissimilarities between men’s and women’s behavior. Instead of a “male brain” and a “female brain,” Fine gives us a glimpse of plastic, mutable minds that are continuously influenced by cultural assumptions about gender. Passionately argued and unfailingly astute, Delusions of Gender provides us with a much-needed corrective to the belief that men’s and women’s brains are intrinsically different—a belief that, as Fine shows with insight and humor, all too often works to the detriment of ourselves and our society.

Author : Susan Brownmiller
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 767 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781480441958

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Against Our Will by Susan Brownmiller Pdf

DIVDIVSusan Brownmiller’s groundbreaking bestseller uncovers the culture of violence against women with a devastating exploration of the history of rape—now with a new preface by the author exposing the undercurrents of rape still present today/divDIV Rape, as author Susan Brownmiller proves in her startling and important book, is not about sex but about power, fear, and subjugation. For thousands of years, it has been viewed as an acceptable “spoil of war,” used as a weapon by invading armies to crush the will of the conquered. The act of rape against women has long been cloaked in lies and false justifications./divDIV It is ignored, tolerated, even encouraged by governments and military leaders, misunderstood by police and security organizations, freely employed by domineering husbands and lovers, downplayed by medical and legal professionals more inclined to “blame the victim,” and, perhaps most shockingly, accepted in supposedly civilized societies worldwide, including the United States./divDIV Against Our Will is a classic work that has been widely credited with changing prevailing attitudes about violence against women by awakening the public to the true and continuing tragedy of rape around the globe and throughout the ages./divDIV Selected by the New York Times Book Review as an Outstanding Book of the Year and included among the New York Public Library’s Books of the Century, Against Our Will remains an essential work of sociological and historical importance./divDIV/div/div

Author : Abner Alden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1814
Category : English language
ISBN : NYPL:33433081988275

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The Reader by Abner Alden Pdf

Author : Liz Kelly
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745667430

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Surviving Sexual Violence by Liz Kelly Pdf

Women's awareness of the threat and reality of sexual violence is now perhaps more than ever publicly acknowledged. Yet this fact continues to be almost wholly ignored. This new study, based on in-depth interviews with 60 women, is the first to cover the experience of a range of forms of sexual violence over women's lifetimes. Drawing on feminist theory, developing a critique of male research and quoting extensively from the women interviewed, it developes feminist thought in several key areas: the similarities and differences between forms of sexual violence; the ways women define their experiences; and the strategies women use in resisting, coping with and surviving sexual violence. The author stresses the importance for all women of recognizing the incidents of sexual violence in their lives and seeing themselves and other women as survivors rather than victims. In highlighting the ways in which the media, the criminal justice system and even the "helping" profess ions contribute to the trivialization of sexual violence, she demonstrates the necessity of women organizing collectively to end this suffering.

Author : Caroline Criado-Perez
Publisher : Portobello Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781846275807

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Do It Like a Woman by Caroline Criado-Perez Pdf

Doing anything 'like a woman' used to be an insult. Now, as the women in this book show, it means being brave, speaking out, and taking risks, changing the world one step at a time. Here, campaigner and journalist Caroline Criado-Perez introduces us to a host of pioneers, including a female fighter pilot in Afghanistan; a Chilean revolutionary; the Russian punks who rocked against Putin; and the Iranian journalist who uncovered her hair.

Author : William Malone Baskervill,James Albert Harrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Anglo-Saxon language
ISBN : UOM:39015030934601

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Anglo-Saxon Prose Reader, for Beginners by William Malone Baskervill,James Albert Harrison Pdf

Author : Walter Laqueur
Publisher : Penguin (Non-Classics)
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110260929

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The Israel-Arab Reader by Walter Laqueur Pdf

The Israel-Arab Reader is a thorough and up-to-date guide to the continuing crisis in the Middle East. It covers the full spectrum of the Israel-Arab conflict from the earliest days, through the wars and peace-making efforts of the Camp David agreements, up to the Israel-PLO and Israel-Jordan peace accords. This comprehensive reference includes speeches, letters, articles, and reports dealing with all the major interests in the area from all of the relevant political parties and world leaders. Completely updated, consolidated, and revised throughout, The Israel-Arab Reader contains new sections on the Wye River agreement, and other recent developments, making it the essential resource on the ongoing conflict.

Author : Sheila Jeffreys
Publisher : Spinifex Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1876756675

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The Idea of Prostitution by Sheila Jeffreys Pdf

There are (at least) two competing views on prostitution: prostitution as a legitimate and acceptable form of employment, freely chosen by women and men's use of prostitution as a form of degrading the women and causing grave psychological damage. In 'The Idea of Prostitution' Sheila Jeffreys explores these sharply contrasting views.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1819
Category : English literature
ISBN : PRNC:32101063584252

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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry by Anonim Pdf

Author : J. A. Richardson,James Albert Richardson,F. T. Caust,J. A. Hart
Publisher : Lawrence Verry Incorporated
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UVA:X000590309

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Books for the Retarded Reader by J. A. Richardson,James Albert Richardson,F. T. Caust,J. A. Hart Pdf

Author : Lindley Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018476031

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Lindley Murray (1745-1826): English reader by Lindley Murray Pdf

Author : Christine Delphy
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781781688809

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Separate and Dominate by Christine Delphy Pdf

An examination of how mainstream feminism has been mobilized in support of racist measures Feminist Christine Delphy co-founded the journal Nouvelles questions féministes with Simone de Beauvoir in the 1970s and became one of the most influential figures in French feminism. Today, Delphy remains a prominent and controversial feminist thinker, a rare public voice denouncing the racist motivations of the government’s 2011 ban of the Muslim veil. Castigating humanitarian liberals for demanding the cultural assimilation of the women they are purporting to “save,” Delphy shows how criminalizing Islam in the name of feminism is fundamentally paradoxical. Separate and Dominate is Delphy’s manifesto, lambasting liberal hypocrisy and calling for a fluid understanding of political identity that does not place different political struggles in a false opposition. She dismantles the absurd claim that Afghanistan was invaded to save women, and that homosexuals and immigrants alike should reserve their self-expression for private settings. She calls for a true universalism that sacrifices no one at the expense of others. In the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, her arguments appear more prescient and pressing than ever.