Feminism
The Great Feminist Denial
$34.95 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
Feminism, if not dead, is at least seriously ill. It is now common to hear women declare themselves 'Not Feminists', whereas in the 1970s it was taken as given that any thinking woman would be proud to wear that label.
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Feminist Theory In Pursuit Of The Public
$43.00 – Paperback book / Palgrave
Feminist Theory in Pursuit of the Publicargues that feminism needs to develop a theory of the public. The waning of power in the public sphere diminishes the influence that citizens can have in deciding on the conditions... Buy or find out more →
The Second Sex
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
A New translation by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevalier
'One is not born, but rather becomes, woman'. First published in Paris in 1949, The Second Sex by Simone de Beavoir was a groundbreaking, risque book tha... Buy or find out more →
The Second Sex
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Of all the writing that emerged from the existentialist movement, Simone de Beauvoir's groundbreaking study of women will probably have the most extensive and enduring impact. It is at once a work of anthropology and soc... Buy or find out more →
Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Little Brown
Empowerment, liberation, choice. Once the watchwords of feminism, these terms have now been co-opted by a society that sells women an airbrushed, highly sexualised and increasingly narrow vision of femininity. While the ... Buy or find out more →
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women And The Rise Of Raunch Culture
$22.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
Meet the ‘female chauvinist pigs’ – a new generation of ‘empowered women’. If the male chauvinist pigs of yesteryear saw women as pieces of meat, today’s female chauvinist pigs go one better, wearing the Playboy bunny wi... Buy or find out more →
The Female Eunuch
$19.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
A worldwide bestseller, translated into over twelve languages, THE FEMALE EUNUCH is a landmark in the history of the women's movement. Drawing liberally from history, literature and popular culture, past and present, Ger... Buy or find out more →
Gender Trouble
$32.95 – Paperback book / Routledge
Since its publication in 1990, Gender Trouble has become one of the key works of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexualit... Buy or find out more →
This Sex Which Is Not One
$29.95 – Paperback book / Cornell Univ Pr
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Stigmata
$39.95 – Paperback book / Routledge
Hèléne Cixous -- author, playwright and French feminist theorist -- is a key figure in twentieth-century literary theory. Stigmata brings together her most recent essays. Buy or find out more →
Cyborgs And Barbie Dolls: Feminism, Popular Culture And The Posthuman Body
$54.00 – Paperback book / I B Tauris
Bringing a lively and accessible style to a complex subject, "Cyborgs and Barbie Dolls" explores the idea of the 'posthuman' and the ways in which it is represented in popular culture. Toffoletti explores images of the p... Buy or find out more →
The Female Thing: Dirt, Sex, Envy, Vulnerability
$22.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
With the gleeful, viperish wit of Dorothy Parker (Slate), Kipnis offers a fresh and provocative assessment of the female condition in the post-post-feminist world of the twenty-first century. For every advance towards se... Buy or find out more →
Are Women Human And Other International Dialogues
$43.95 – Paperback book / Harvard Univ Pr
More than half a century after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights defined what a human being is and is entitled to, Catharine MacKinnon asks: Are women human yet? If women were regarded as human, would they be sol... Buy or find out more →
Happy Stripper
$0.00 – Paperback book / I B Tauris
If the burlesque stripper, with her bawdy spirit and unruly insubordination, has emerged for many as a new 'empowering' model for the sexually aware woman, then she also strikes horror in the heart of second wave feminis... Buy or find out more →
Next Wave Cultures: Feminism, Subcultures, Activism
$64.00 – Paperback book / Routledge
Whereas once young women’s feminist activism could be easily identified, today this resistance seems obscure, transitory, and disorganized. In Next Wave Cultures, established and emerging scholars provide an interdiscipl... Buy or find out more →
Fight Like A Girl: How To Be A Fearless Feminist
$29.95 – Paperback book / Sage
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Talking Visions : Multicultural Feminism In A Transnationalage
$79.95 – Trade paperback / Mit Press
This multivoiced collection of essays and images presents the perspectives of activists, scholars, artists, and curators from a broad range of constituencies. Challenging traditional disciplinary and cultural boundaries,... Buy or find out more →
Third Wave Feminism
$67.00 – Paperback book / Palgrave
This revised and expanded edition, new in paperback, provides a definitive collection on the current period in feminism known by many as the 'third wave'. Three sections - genealogies and generations, locales and locatio... Buy or find out more →
Feminist Review 87 Italian Feminisms
$45.00 – Paperback book / Palgrave
This issue of Feminist Review engages critically and imaginatively with Italian feminism, where precariousness has become an organising principle for articulating conditions of work, life, politics and creativity. Topics... Buy or find out more →
Making Space For Indigenous Feminism
$53.00 – Paperback book / Zed Books
The majority of scholarly and activist opinion by and about Indigenous women claims that feminism is irrelevant for them. Yet there is also an articulate, theoretically informed and activist constituency that identifies ... Buy or find out more →
Interrogating Postfeminism Gender And Politics Of Popular Culture
$49.95 – Paperback book / Duke Univ Pr
This timely collection brings feminist critique to bear on contemporary postfeminist mass media culture, analyzing phenomena ranging from action films featuring violent heroines to the “girling” of aging women in product... Buy or find out more →
Outlaw Culture
$32.95 – Paperback book / Routledge
According to the Washington Post, no one who cares about contemporary African-American cultures can ignore bell hooks' electrifying feminist explorations. Targeting cultural icons as diverse as Madonna and Spike Lee, Out... Buy or find out more →