Feminism & Feminist Theory

This book honors the advocacy of Dr. Wangari Maathai, acclaimed environmentalist and the first African woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Peace. ...

Through the study of local and global activism, Women, Social Change and Activism: Then and Now engages scholars interested in the artistic, econom...

African Women and their Networks of Support: Intervening Connections is an interdisciplinary analysis of how African women, in their different cult...

This philosophical monograph on forgiveness is the first of its kind to be written from a feminist perspective. Kathryn J. Norlock urges scholars t...

Feminism, Digital Culture and the Politics of Transmission argues that despite the prevalence of generational narratives within feminism, the techn...

This book proffers a new theory of the radical possibilities of contemporary postcolonial feminist writings from Africa, the Middle East, the Ameri...

Feminism, Digital Culture and the Politics of Transmission argues that despite the prevalence of generational narratives within feminism, the techn...

Paris, along with New York, was one of the main centres of the fashion industry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But although New York ba...

The Body and Shame: Phenomenology, Feminism, and the Socially Shaped Body investigates the concept of body shame and explores its significance when...

Feminism and Power: the Need for Critical Theory is a six-chapter manuscript which offers an important critique of “power feminism.” The latter, ha...

The Politics of State Intervention: Gender Politics in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran examines how three culturally and religiously interconnected ...

This book forwards a line of argument that indicates how feminist analyses can ameliorate the standard consequential (and occasionally deontologica...

Challenging Images of Women and the Media: Reinventing Women’s Lives, edited by Theresa Carilli and Jane Campbell, collects fifteen articles addres...

Drawing broadly on decolonial studies, postcolonial feminist scholarship, and studies on identity, this interdisciplinary edited volume brings toge...

The role of women as writers, literary and dramatic characters, and real queens in early modern Europe was central to the development of Tudor idea...

This book is the outcome of a study conducted in the eastern city of Kolkata in India in the mid-2000s. It is an ethnographic study that looks clos...

Dialogues Across Diasporas focuses on the shared historical legacies of members of the Africana and Latina diasporas, and the cultural impact of th...

The Dimensions of Difference departs from traditional takes on feminist film criticism, and in particular from the psychoanalytical focus on the ga...