Feminism & Feminist Theory

Forty years after their first groundbreaking work of feminist literary theory, The Madwoman in the Attic, award-winning collaborators Sandra M. Gil...

Vulnerability and resistance have often been seen as opposites, with the assumption that vulnerability requires protection and the strengthening of...

This book is a powerful narrative of how six women experienced their lives alongside their desire to overcome the challenging and empowering nature...

This book is a powerful narrative of how six women experienced their lives alongside their desire to overcome the challenging and empowering nature...

Every user knows the importance of the @ symbol in internet communication. Though the symbol barely existed in Latin America before the emergence o...

We found so much to say, to share, to learn...For it wasn't just the Marquis de Sade profile and the sporty thighs-and-calves that seduced me. It w...

This book introduces a compelling new personality to the modernist canon, Marisa Mori (1900-1985), who became the only female contributor to The Fu...

The idea that gender equality in education has been achieved is now a staple of public debate. As a result, educational policies and practices ofte...

Born and raised in French Algeria, Assia Djebar and Helene Cixous represent in their literary works signs of conflict and enmity, drawing on discor...

What is Fat Activism and why is it important? Charlotte Cooper, a fat activist with around 30 years experience, answers this question by lifting t...

In Muddying the Waters, Richa Nagar embarks on an eloquent and moving exploration of the promises and pitfalls she has encountered during her two d...

After the Exodus examines how forced migration of the Rohingya from Myanmar to Bangladesh has affected the gendered subjectivities and lived experi...

The Promise of Happiness is a provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy. It asks what follows when we make our desires and even o...

A thoroughly researched and deeply personal examination of how women unintentionally condone workplace abuse in a post-#MeToo worldand a guide to c...

The mid-twentieth-century woman was stereotypically seen as a housewife and mother, who shopped. But whether as purchaser, parent or professional, ...

This is the first book-length account of the women's liberation movement in Scotland, which, using documentary evidence and oral testimony, charts ...

In The Fantasy of Feminist History, Joan Wallach Scott argues that feminist perspectives on history are enriched by psychoanalytic concepts, partic...

When the French government passed a ban on the veil in 2011, surprisingly few French feminists spoke out against the racist measure. Christine Delp...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...