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Demeter Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The 2nd edition includes a new preface that considers how matricentric feminism in positioning mothering as a verb affords a gender-neutral understanding of motherwork and allows for an appreciation of how motherwork is deeply gendered and how this may be challenged and changed through empowered mothering The book argues that the category of mother is distinct from the category of woman, and that many of the problems mothers face are specific to...
Publisher
Demeter Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Theory on mothers, mothering and motherhood has emerged as a distinct body of knowledge within Motherhood Studies and Feminist Theory more generally. This collection, the first ever anthology on maternal theory, introduces readers to this rich and diverse tradition of maternal theory. Composed of 50 chapters and covering more than three decades of scholarship, Maternal Theory includes all the "must read" theorists on motherhood. Writers include: Adrienne...
Publisher
Worth Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Handmaid's Tale tells you what you need to know--before or after you read Margaret Atwood's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This short summary and analysis of The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood includes: Historical context Part-by-part summaries Analysis of the main characters Themes...
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Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Letters to a Young Feminist is a visionary message from a leading feminist to the next generation of feminists, both women and men. Phyllis Chesler discusses basic aspects of feminism, explains feminism's relevance in a world that has taken it for granted and derided it and helps the next generation reclaim feminism for itself. Chesler examines sisterhood, sex, families, motherhood, work, feminist heroism and the economics of power, providing guidance...
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Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A powerful feminist examination of the deeply ingrained roots of rape in our shared cultural values Rape is the most frequently occurring violent crime in America. In this courageous, controversial, and groundbreaking work, the poet, feminist, and philosopher Susan Griffin examines rape as an inevitable result of a culture that celebrates and rewards aggressive sexual behavior in men, and one in which male dominance and female submissiveness have...
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Language
English
Description
The Heavenly Twins (1893) is a novel by Sarah Grand. Written the same year Grand moved to London, divorced her husband, and created a new identity for herself, The Heavenly Twins explores the feminist ideal of the New Woman. As a pioneering feminist ,whose marriage ended in bitter disappointment, Grand sought, to address the frustrations of women, whose every move in life was measured against the expectations of a patriarchal society. In her novel,...
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Distinguished feminist philosophers consider the future of their field and chart its political and ethical course in this forward-looking volume. Engaging with themes such as the historical trajectory of feminist phenomenology, ways of perceiving and making sense of the contemporary world, and the feminist body in health and ethics, these essays affirm the base of the discipline as well as open new theoretical spaces for work that bridges bioethics,...
8) The Crux
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Language
English
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Description
When a group of New England women move to the western frontier, they encounter a new set of problems testing their love, friendship and spirits. In The Crux, Gilman highlights women's need for economic independence and sexual autonomy. The strain of New England life pushes a group of progressive women to move to Colorado. Together, they open a boarding house and create a bustling business that supports both men and women. When one of the ladies fall...
Author
Publisher
Microcosm Publishing LLP
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Happiness is big business. Books, consultants, psychologists, organizations, and even governments tout happiness secrets that are backed by scientific findings. The problem is that all of this science is done by and for cis white men. And some of the most vocal of these happiness experts were announcing that women could become happier by espousing traditional" values and eschewing feminism. Skeptical of this hypothesis, Ariel Gore took a deep dive...
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Language
English
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Description
Presented here are three of the most important feminist novels ever written: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and The Awakening by Kate Chopin. Each of these works is an early, groundbreaking piece of fiction from some of literature's finest female writers as they explore life, love and the struggle of women to find their voices in a time where they were too often silenced and suppressed.
Mrs....
11) Moods
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Language
English
Description
Originally published in 1864, "Moods" was the first book produced by Louisa May Alcott under her real name and pre-dated her hugely popular novel "Little Women". Written for a noticeably more mature audience then her most famous works, "Moods" revolves around the intersecting lives of an abolitionist spinster and a fallen Cuban beauty. Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888) was an American short story writer, novelist, and poet most famous for writing the...
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Español
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La sacerdotisa griega Casandra está harta, hasta los mismos ovarios, de que los troyanos no crean en sus profecías. En una aldea medieval de Gales, una niñita escucha a su mamá contarle el típico cuento del dragón y la virgen sacrificada, y ese es en verdad el principio de un cuento de brujas. En un campus universitario cualquiera, el fantasma de un predicador puritano insulta y acosa (con bastante ternura, todo sea dicho), a una joven madre...
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Language
Deutsch
Description
Seltsame Dinge geschahen im Dorf. Magenhäute wurden als Flaggen gehisst, Vorhäute um Arme gewickelt und die losen Frauen schlackerten mit ihren Kehlen im Wind. Die Großmutter und die Mutter hielten Wache über die Bräuche im Dorf. Sie führten Aufgaben aus, die bald auf eine junge Frau übertragen werden sollten. Was es zu bewachen gilt, bleibt verborgen. Die Protagonistin versucht, den Klauen dieser bizarren Dorfgemeinschaft durch die Flucht...
14) Not yours, Truly
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Language
English
Description
Not yours, Truly is a collection of ten short stories that tell the story of ten different women. Each woman tells her story, whether it has a happy ending or not. She struggles to survive her circumstances and the demons that come with it and tells her tale through uncensored yet poignant prose. Not yours, Truly sends the reader into ten different battles, and recounts the tale of ten different women's struggle to survive.
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Español
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A través de las protagonistas de cada historia de Las que somos, Rosalí León-Ciliotta nos muestra las diferentes aristas del ser mujer en un tiempo tan remoto como el Perú de la independencia, un país machista y misógino latinoamericano o un lugar tan lejano como el confín del mundo. Cada uno de los tres cuentos de este libro pone a sus protagonistas en lugares insólitos y situaciones límite de las cuales emergerán: Ventura hará lo que...
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Language
English
Description
Turn Key and Other Stories is a brilliant short story collection by renowned Virginia author Susan Pepper Robbins. Featuring some of her best short stories, the collection delivers powerful, gritty characters full of heart and spirit. Ranging from longer stories to one-page hitters, Robbins masters the pen and sprays ink economically.
17) Amina
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Language
English
Description
Novels in English by northern Nigerian writers are few, so the arrival of a new one is an exciting literary event. This dramatic story of the efforts of the heroine and her friends to bring about change in the social conditions of women in Nigeria addresses pressing political issues which rarely appear in fiction-the legal status of Muslim women, the limitations imposed on them by traditional and religious conventions, the restrictions on their economic...
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Language
English
Description
Rose has always dreamed about marrying a prince charming, but instead she married an evil stepmother. Rose was born as a Princess, but got exiled from royalty when she was a child. Marriage proposal from Prince Kit is a chance of returning to royal life, so she takes it. Unfortunately, what a 21st century Princess thinks of as a dream, turns out to be a nightmare. She desires a peaceful, calm family life, but the endless cycle of rigorous rules, strict...
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Language
English
Description
Written while she was still a teenager, My Brilliant Career catapulted young Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (writing as Miles Franklin) into worldwide fame. In fact, the sudden popularity of the book in Australia (and the perceived closeness of the plot to her own family history) caused Franklin to withdraw the book from publication until after her death.
The story centers on Sybylla Melvyn, a headstrong girl growing up in rural Australia...
20) Una vieja cámara
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Español
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Después de sufrir durante años el maltrato de su marido ha tomado, por fin, la decisión: Mar huye de su hogar.
Es una mujer joven y preparada. Sin embargo, ha seguido el mismo patrón que su madre años atrás. Abandona su vida y coge un tren dirección a París. Será un viaje largo y de noche. Sabe que no podrá dormir. No le importa, necesita tiempo para pensar.
Durante el trayecto su mente volverá a la infancia. Recordará los años tan horribles...
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