Feminism & Feminist Theory

Fourth wave feminism has entered the national conversation and established a highly visible presence in popular media, especially in cutting-edge s...

Entering the academy at the dawn of the womens rights movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the first generation of feminist academics had a ...

''A fascinating from-the-heart memoir'' Nigel Slater''A revelatory honest read'' Red magazineFUNNY, HEART-WRENCHING, GENEROUS AND TRUE, IN FINDING ...

''Passionate and urgent.'' Guardian, Book of the Week ''A must-read for all.'' Stylist, best new books for 2020 ''Cogently argued and intensely p...

'A beautifully illustrated tome honouring 100 exceptional women dating back to 630BC' RedA Stylist Must-read Book of 2018'This finely illustrated b...

The Three Graces of Val-Kill changes the way we think about Eleanor Roosevelt. Wilson examines what she calls the most formative period in Roosevel...

Upon encountering historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's quote, 'well-behaved women seldom make history', Malebo Sephodi knew that she was tired of eve...

We all know that speech can be harmful. But what are the harms and how exactly does the speech in question brings those harms about? Mary Kate McGo...

We all know who The Girl is. She holds The Hero's hand as he runs through the Pyramids, chasing robots. Or she nags him, or foils him, plays the ...

'Brilliant interweaving of personal experience, imaginative musing and political clarity' Kate Mosse Virginia Woolf exposes the prejudices an...

Novelist, translator, critic, and acerbic book reviewer Frances Newman (1883-1928) was praised by Virginia novelist James Branch Cabell and critic ...

Is feminism still a dirty word? We asked twenty-five of the brightest, funniest, bravest young women what being a feminist in 2015 means to them.We...

In her powerful debut work Lean Out, acclaimed journalist Dawn Foster unpicks how the purportedly feminist message of Sandberg's book neatly exempt...

This classic book provides a historical overview of feminist strands among the modern revolutionary movements of Russia, China and the Third Worl...

Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsi...

Coronavirus did not create the stark social, financial, and political inequalities that define life for so many people, but it has made them more s...

The Combahee River Collective, a path-breaking group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important organizations to develop out of the ...

Though cinema arrived in Spain and Portugal at the end of the nineteenth century, national and industrial problems as well as the dictatorships of ...

Icons features colorful portraits of 50 of the most admired women in the fields of music, politics, human rights, and film. This diverse and inc...

By foregrounding the ways that human existence is bound together with the lives of other entities, contemporary cultural theorists have sought to m...

By foregrounding the ways that human existence is bound together with the lives of other entities, contemporary cultural theorists have sought to m...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Breathes life into conversations about feminism' PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE'Very funny, very clever, very thoughtful and very...

As demonstrated in any conflict, war is violent and causes grave harms to innocent persons, even when fought in compliance with just war criteria. ...

A spirited defense of feminism, arguing that the lack of support for working mothers is less a failure of second-wave feminism than a rejection by ...

Women are not persons.' That was the ruling of the Court of Appeal when Gwynneth Bebb challenged the Law Society to allow her to take exams and bec...

Women and the Ideology of Political Exclusion explores the origin and evolution of the political ideology that has kept women away from centers of ...

This groundbreaking collection gathers together for the first time the essential writings of the contemporary Mormon feminist movement--from its hi...

Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) argues that social contracts must be recreated if they are to fulfil the promise of human ...

The Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Gender series serves undergraduate college students who have had little or no exposure to Gender Studies...

Changing Narratives of Sexuality examines the tensions and contradictions in constructions of gender, sexuality and women's empowerment in the vari...

In the age of #MeToo and a radical re-envisioning of cultural attitudes, Nancy McCabe sets out to re-examine and gain new understanding of her ill-...

Letters, diaries, memoirs, conduct books and early feminist pamphlets: Essays in Defence of the Female Sex: Custom, Education, and Authority in Sev...

Mari Ruti combines theoretical reflection, cultural critique, feminist politics, and personal experience to analyze the prevalence of bad feelings ...

The origins of discrimination against women date back to ancient times. Throughout history, women have been exploited sexually, physically, economi...