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During the Enlightenment, rationality becomes not a property belonging to all humans but something that one must achieve. This transformation has the effect of excluding non-whites and non-males from the domain of reason. Heikes seeks to uncover the source of this...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-04-29
Format(s) : ePub
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Do you want to know more about the fight for women’s rights, what we’ve achieved and how we got there? This helpful little guide will teach you the history, theory, big issues and everything you need to know to become a CARD-CARRYING FEMINIST.
Editeur : Summersdale
Parution : 2016-04-14
Format(s) : ePub
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A new edition of Barbara Taylor's classic book, with a new introduction.In the early nineteenth century, radicals all over Europe and America began to conceive of a 'New Moral World', and struggled to create their own utopias, with collective family life, communal...
Editeur : Virago
Parution : 2016-04-07
Format(s) : ePub
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In recent years, feminist and queer theory have effectively disavowed both “the human” and revolutionary politics.In the face of massive geopolitical crisis, posthumanists have called for us to reconsider fundamentally the superiority and centrality of mankind and “the...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-01-19
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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We are living in a time of crisis which has cascaded through society. Financial crisis has led to an economic crisis of recession and unemployment; an ensuing fiscal crisis over government deficits and austerity has led to a political crisis which threatens to become a...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-12-22
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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We rely on two different conceptions of morality. On the one hand, we think of morality as a correct action guide. Morality is accessed by taking up a critical, reflective point of view where our concern is with identifying the moral rules that would be the focus of the...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2015-12-01
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Is feminism still a dirty word? We asked twenty-five of the brightest, funniest, bravest young women what being a feminist in 2015 means to them.We hear from Laura Bates (of the Everyday Sexism Project), Reni Eddo-Lodge (award-winning journalist and author), Yas Necati...
Editeur : Virago
Parution : 2015-11-05
Format(s) : ePub
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'Shocking, heartfelt and well-researched' New Statesman'A ground-shaping book that defines the edge of so many vital contemporary debates. Hers is a voice simultaneously behind and beyond the veil' Colum McCann'A fascinating, can't-look-away, whistle-stop tour of the...
Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2015-04-21
Format(s) : ePub
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'Pink is my favourite colour. I used to say my favourite colour was black to be cool, but it is pink – all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I’m not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. I once live-tweeted the...
Editeur : Corsair
Parution : 2014-08-21
Format(s) : ePub
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WOMAN explores the essence of what it means to be female. In mapping the inner woman - from organs to orgasms - Natalie Angier presents an extraordinary new vision of the female body as an evolutionary masterpiece.'Anyone living in or near a female body should read this...
Editeur : Virago
Parution : 2014-08-07
Format(s) : ePub
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'Utterly magnificent . . . gripping, accomplished and dark' Marian KeyesWINNER: Newcomer of the Year at the IBAs WINNER: Bookseller YA Prize WINNER: CBI Eilis Dillon Award Buzzfeed's Best Books Written by Women in 2014The bestselling novel about beauty, body image and...
Editeur : Riverrun
Parution : 2014-06-30
Format(s) : ePub
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'Ukraine is not a brothel!' This was the first cry of rage uttered by Femen during Euro 2012. Bare-breasted and crowned with flowers, perched on their high heels, Femen transform their bodies into instruments of political expression through slogans and drawings...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-06-05
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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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...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-04-10
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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After 9/11/2001, gendered narratives of humiliation and revenge proliferated in the U.S. national imaginary. How is it that gender, which we commonly take to be a structure at the heart of individual identity, is also at stake in the life of the nation? What do we learn...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2013-12-09
Format(s) : PDF
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Geography is a subject which throughout its history has been dominated by men; men have undertaken the heroic explorations which form the mythology of its foundation, men have written most of its texts and, as many feminist geographers have remarked, men's interests...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-11-18
Format(s) : ePub
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The aim of this volume is to open up reflection on the nature of vulnerability, the responsibilities owed to the vulnerable, who bears these responsibilities, and how they are best fulfilled. In canvassing responses to these questions, the contributors engage with a...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2013-11-04
Format(s) : PDF
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Since the publication of her landmark book In a Different Voice, Carol Gilligan has transformed the way we think about women and men and the relations between them. It was ‘the little book that started a revolution’, and with more than 800,000 copies in print it has...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-05-22
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Half a century after the publication of The Feminine Mystique, have women really exchanged purity and maternity to become desiring machines inspired only by variations of sex, shopping and masochism - all coloured a brilliant neuro-pink?In this volume, fifty women young...
Editeur : Virago
Parution : 2013-03-28
Format(s) : ePub
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I once believed that we only had to put in place the conditions for equality for the remnants of old-fashioned sexism in our culture to wither away.I am ready to admit thatI was wrong.'Empowerment, liberation, choice. Once the watchwords of feminism, these terms have...
Editeur : Virago
Parution : 2011-05-26
Format(s) : ePub
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In 1963, Betty Friedan unleashed a storm of controversy with her bestselling book, The Feminine Mystique. Hundreds of women wrote to her to say that the book had transformed, even saved, their lives. Nearly half a century later, many women still recall where they were...
Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2011-01-04
Format(s) : ePub
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