Feminism & Feminist Theory

Boobs. Knockers. Jugs. Cans. Baps. Melons. Puppies. Fun bags. Bosoms. Hooters.In the English language there are over 700 expressions for female mam...

How can current image makers challenge representations of race and gender in visual culture and produce alternate visions? At once delving into t...

Proper Women tells the unprecedented story of an NGO-led womens empowerment program in Tehran that was created to serve young, impoverished Iranian...

Proper Women tells the unprecedented story of an NGO-led womens empowerment program in Tehran that was created to serve young, impoverished Iranian...

This Handbook is an important contribution to the recent history of and contemporary debates on feminist, gender, and womens studies seen in a glob...

This volume focuses on the literary and artistic exploration of female friendship in various geographical contexts, spanning the centuries from the...

Married and divorced in her 20s, looking for friendship in her 30s, and contemplating pregnancy at 40, our narrator wonders if shes going through l...

The Visionary Queen affirms Marguerite de Navarres status not only as a political figure, author, or proponent of nonschismatic reform but also as ...

New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future (1889) is a novel by Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett. In June 1889, British novelist and President of the Womens...

Disability, like questions of race, gender, and class, is one of the most provocative topics among theorists and philosophers today. This volume, s...

Unveiling a Parallel (1893) is a novel by Alice Ilgenfritz Jones and Ella Merchant. Alongside Mary E. Bradley Lanes Mizora (1890) and Elizabeth Cor...

In this landmark work, four of the world's leading scholar-activists issue an urgent call for a truly intersectional, internationalist, abolitionis...

Spinster. Cougar. Carer. Matron. Wife.A rich, provocative and entertaining history of women's words - of the language we have, and haven't, had to ...

In Revisiting Womens Cinema, Lingzhen Wang ponders the roots of contemporary feminist stagnation and the limits of both commercial mainstream and e...

In Insurgent Aesthetics Ronak K. Kapadia theorizes the world-making power of contemporary art responses to US militarism in the Greater Middle East...

From the denial of abortion rights in Ireland to sexual violence against British South Asian women in England, the state and its institutions conti...