Feminist Erasures

Feminist Erasures

Author: K. Silva

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-01-20

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 113745492X

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Feminist Erasures presents a collection of essays that examines the state of feminism in North America and Western Europe by focusing on multiple sites such as media, politics and activism. Through individual examples, the essays reveal the extent to which feminism has been made (in)visible and (ir)relevant in contemporary Western culture.


Female Erasure

Female Erasure

Author: Ruth Barrett

Publisher:

Published: 2016-09-21

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780997146707

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Female Erasure is an anthology that celebrate female embodiment while exposing the current trend of gender-identity politics as a continuation of female erasure and silencing as old as patriarchy itself.


Material Girls

Material Girls

Author: Kathleen Stock

Publisher: Fleet

Published: 2022-04-07

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780349726625

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'A clear, concise, easy-to-read account of the issues between sex, gender and feminism . . . an important book' Evening Standard 'A call for cool heads at a time of great heat and a vital reminder that revolutions don't always end well' Sunday Times Material Girls is a timely and trenchant critique of the influential theory that we all have an inner feeling known as a gender identity, and that this feeling is more socially significant than our biological sex. Professor Kathleen Stock surveys the philosophical ideas that led to this point, and closely interrogates each one, from De Beauvoir's statement that, 'One is not born, but rather becomes a woman' (an assertion she contends has been misinterpreted and repurposed), to Judith Butler's claim that language creates biological reality, rather than describing it. She looks at biological sex in a range of important contexts, including women-only spaces and resources, healthcare, epidemiology, political organization and data collection. Material Girls makes a clear, humane and feminist case for our retaining the ability to discuss reality, and concludes with a positive vision for the future, in which trans rights activists and feminists can collaborate to achieve some of their political aims.


Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War?

Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War?

Author: Maria Eriksson Baaz

Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.

Published: 2013-05-09

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 178032166X

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All too often in conflict situations, rape is referred to as a 'weapon of war', a term presented as self-explanatory through its implied storyline of gender and warring. In this provocative but much-needed book, Eriksson Baaz and Stern challenge the dominant understandings of sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict settings. Reading with and against feminist analyses of the interconnections between gender, warring, violence and militarization, the authors address many of the thorny issues inherent in the arrival of sexual violence on the global security agenda. Based on original fieldwork in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as research material from other conflict zones, Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War? challenges the recent prominence given to sexual violence, bravely highlighting various problems with isolating sexual violence from other violence in war. A much-anticipated book by two acknowledged experts in the field, on an issue that has become an increasingly important security, legal and gender topic.


Feminist Erasures

Feminist Erasures

Author: K. Silva

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-01-20

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 113745492X

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Feminist Erasures presents a collection of essays that examines the state of feminism in North America and Western Europe by focusing on multiple sites such as media, politics and activism. Through individual examples, the essays reveal the extent to which feminism has been made (in)visible and (ir)relevant in contemporary Western culture.


Repurposing Composition

Repurposing Composition

Author: Shari J. Stenberg

Publisher: University Press of Colorado

Published: 2015-08

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 0874219914

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"Stenberg responds to the neoliberal discourse that pervades academe through the vernacular practice of repurposing. She demonstrates how tactics informed by feminist praxis can repurpose current writing pedagogy, assessment, and public engagement. Stenberg disrupts the entrenched mode of neoliberalism enacted through local practices in the classroom using feminist scholarship's history of repurposing seemingly "neutral" practices"--


The Dark Queens

The Dark Queens

Author: Shelley Puhak

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2022-02-22

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 1635574927

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National Bestseller “A well-researched and well-told epic history. The Dark Queens brings these courageous, flawed, and ruthless rulers and their distant times back to life.”--Margot Lee Shetterly, New York Times-bestselling author of Hidden Figures The remarkable, little-known story of two trailblazing women in the Early Middle Ages who wielded immense power, only to be vilified for daring to rule. Brunhild was a foreign princess, raised to be married off for the sake of alliance-building. Her sister-in-law Fredegund started out as a lowly palace slave. And yet-in sixth-century Merovingian France, where women were excluded from noble succession and royal politics was a blood sport-these two iron-willed strategists reigned over vast realms, changing the face of Europe. The two queens commanded armies and negotiated with kings and popes. They formed coalitions and broke them, mothered children and lost them. They fought a decades-long civil war-against each other. With ingenuity and skill, they battled to stay alive in the game of statecraft, and in the process laid the foundations of what would one day be Charlemagne's empire. Yet after the queens' deaths-one gentle, the other horrific-their stories were rewritten, their names consigned to slander and legend. In The Dark Queens, award-winning writer Shelley Puhak sets the record straight. She resurrects two very real women in all their complexity, painting a richly detailed portrait of an unfamiliar time and striking at the roots of some of our culture's stubbornest myths about female power. The Dark Queens offers proof that the relationships between women can transform the world.


Radical Feminism

Radical Feminism

Author: F. Mackay

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-02-17

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 1137363584

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Feminism is not dead. This groundbreaking book advances a radical and pioneering feminist manifesto for today's modern audience that exposes the real reasons as to why women are still oppressed and what feminist activism must do to counter it through a vibrant and original account of the global Reclaim the Night March.


Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics

Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics

Author: Lynn Fujiwara

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2018-12-04

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 0295744375

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Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics brings together groundbreaking essays that speak to the relationship between Asian American feminisms, feminist of color work, and transnational feminist scholarship. This collection, featuring work by both senior and rising scholars, considers topics including the politics of visibility, histories of Asian American participation in women of color political formations, accountability for Asian American “settler complicities” and cross-racial solidarities, and Asian American community-based strategies against state violence as shaped by and tied to women of color feminisms. Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics provides a deep conceptual intervention into the theoretical underpinnings of Asian American studies; ethnic studies; women’s, gender, and sexual studies; as well as cultural studies in general.


Feminist Theory

Feminist Theory

Author: bell hooks

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-10-03

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 1317588347

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When Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center was first published in 1984, it was welcomed and praised by feminist thinkers who wanted a new vision. Even so, individual readers frequently found the theory "unsettling" or "provocative." Today, the blueprint for feminist movement presented in the book remains as provocative and relevant as ever. Written in hooks's characteristic direct style, Feminist Theory embodies the hope that feminists can find a common language to spread the word and create a mass, global feminist movement.