Tag: Feminist

Free Download Women’s Rights in Movement: Dynamics of Feminist Change in Latin America and the Caribbean
by Inés M. Pousadela, Simone R. Bohn
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031391810 | 215 Pages | True PDF | 5.4 MB

Free Download Susan Watkins, "Twentieth-Century Women Novelists: Feminist Theory into Practice"
English | 2000 | ISBN: 0333683455, 0333683463 | PDF | pages: 244 | 61.1 mb
This provocative, lively book discusses two of the most significant influences on writing and thinking in the twentieth century: women novelists and feminist theory. It demonstrates, in an accessible but imaginative manner, ways of reading women’s novels alongside work by feminist theorists. Each chapter situates a small number of theoretical texts in their intellectual context and then links them with a widely taught novel to produce fresh interpretations. The novels and theorists represent examples of extremely significant, but also pedagogically useful feminist writing this century.

Free Download Sasha Mobley, "The Strong Woman Trap: A Feminist Guide for Getting Your Life Back"
English | ISBN: 168350335X | 2017 | 162 pages | EPUB | 979 KB
Are you the one who saves the day at work? Does your family expect you to do it all when you get home? Perhaps you used to like being thought of as reliable, but you long for a life of your own again―one with fewer emergency circumstances and people who need lots of "help." It isn’t just you. Many women have been socialized to quietly pick up the slack and not complain―this is a setup for isolation, second guessing, and waiting for rewards that never come. This is what Sasha Mobley calls The Strong Woman Trap. We are playing too hard at a rigged game that we didn’t create. We spend our energies managing demands and treat our own emotions and needs as irrelevant. Sasha provides a hard look at the cultural beliefs that set strong, driven, ambitious women up for a life spent constantly saving others from themselves, filling in gaps, and going it alone like a hybrid of Wonder Woman and Working Girl.

Free Download Cathy Yue Wang, "Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters: Feminist Adaptations of Traditional Tales in Chinese Fantasy "
English | ISBN: 0814348637 | 2023 | 236 pages | EPUB | 504 KB
Contemporary Chinese film and literature often draw on time-honored fantastical texts and tales which were founded in the milieu of patriarchy, parental authority, heteronormativity, nationalism, and anthropocentrism. Author Cathy Yue Wang examines the processes by which modern authors and filmmakers reshape these traditional tales to develop new narratives that interrogate the ingrained patriarchal paradigm. Through a rigorous analysis, Wang delineates changes in both content and narrative that allow contemporary interpretations to reimagine the gender politics and contexts of the tales retold. With a broad transmedia approach and a nuanced understanding of intertextuality, this work contributes to the ongoing negotiation in academic and popular discourse between past and present, traditional and contemporary, and text and reality in a globalized and postmodern world.

Free Download Anindita Datta, Lynda Johnston, "Routledge Handbook of Gender and Feminist Geographies"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1138057681, 1032570024 | PDF | pages: 573 | 154.4 mb
This handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of contemporary gender and feminist geographies in an international and multi-disciplinary context. It features 48 new contributions from both experienced and emerging scholars, artists and activists who critically review and appraise current spatial politics. Each chapter advances the future development of feminist geography and gender studies, as well as empirical evidence of changing relationships between gender, power, place and space. Following an introduction by the Editors, the handbook presents original work organized into four parts which engage with relevant issues including violence, resistance, agency and desire:

Free Download Joseph I. Breidenstein Jr., "Nietzschean, Feminist, and Embodied Perspectives on the Presocratics: Philosophy as Partnership"
English | ISBN: 3031447794 | 2023 | 358 pages | EPUB, PDF | 599 KB + 10 MB
This book is the first sustained scholarly account of women and goddesses in presocratic philosophy. It approaches the origin of western philosophy via Nietzsche, Feminism, and Embodied Cognition in order to argue that the presocratics were reviving, within the largely patriarchal and death-glorifying culture of archaic Greece, a paleo/neolithic goddess-centered religiosity that affirmed life and rebirth. By taking readers from prehistoric Europe to classical Athens, Joseph I. Breidenstein Jr. provides a novel narrative of the dawn of western philosophy which is more comprehensive than traditional accounts and which helps us address contemporary problems―the patriarchal attitudes and ideas that continue to corrupt academic-philosophical culture; the fascist-dominator lifestyle that continues to threaten western democracy and which is encouraged by the patriarchal aspects of academia; and the consumerism that continues to result from a materialistic-secular paradigm that is being increasingly recognized as both intellectually untenable and socially unsustainable.

Free Download Pamela Sue Anderson, "New Topics in Feminist Philosophy of Religion: Contestations and Transcendence Incarnate"
English | 2010 | pages: 340 | ISBN: 1402068328, 940079097X | PDF | 2,7 mb
Having enjoyed more than a decade of lively critique and creativity, feminist philosophy of religion continues to be a vital field of inquiry. New Topics in Feminist Philosophy of Religion maintains this vitality with both women and men, from their own distinctive social and material locations, contributing critically to the rich traditions in philosophy of religion. The twenty contributors open up new possibilities for spiritual practice, while contesting the gender-bias of traditional concepts in the field: the old models of human and divine will no longer ‘simply do’! A lively current debate develops in re-imagining and revaluing transcendence in terms of body, space and self-other relations.

Free Download Joel Hawkes, "Mary Butts: Necessary Contradictions and Feminist Reconstructions"
English | ISBN: 1501380710 | 2024 | 272 pages | PDF | 9 MB
A scholarly and experimental collection that offers fresh insight-with a feminist focus-into the often overlooked modernist writer Mary Butts and the contested processes of recovering such an author.

Free Download Christine Sylvester, "Feminist Theory and International Relations in a Postmodern Era"
English | 1994 | ISBN: 0521459842, 0521393051 | PDF | pages: 288 | 66.9 mb
This book argues that the identities and activities commonly associated with women have been eliminated from the theories formulated about international relations. The author points out that these theories often rely on the hidden activities of women and their assigned tasks in life to establish a sphere of politics that is for men only. Using case studies of the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp in the UK, and of Zimbabwean women’s efforts to secure international funding for producer cooperatives, the book explores the possibility of undermining the masculine identity politics of international relations.

Free Download Ewa Płonowska Ziarek, "Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism"
English | 2012 | pages: 288 | ISBN: 0231161484, 0231161492 | EPUB | 16,1 mb
Ewa Ziarek fully articulates a feminist aesthetics, focusing on the struggle for freedom in women’s literary and political modernism and the devastating impact of racist violence and sexism. She examines the contradiction between women’s transformative literary and political practices and the oppressive realities of racist violence and sexism, and she situates these tensions within the entrenched opposition between revolt and melancholia in studies of modernity and within the friction between material injuries and experimental aesthetic forms. Ziarek’s political and aesthetic investigations concern the exclusion and destruction of women in politics and literary production and the transformation of this oppression into the inaugural possibilities of writing and action. Her study is one of the first to combine an in-depth engagement with philosophical aesthetics, especially the work of Theodor W. Adorno, with women’s literary modernism, particularly the writing of Virginia Woolf and Nella Larsen, along with feminist theories on the politics of race and gender. By bringing seemingly apolitical, gender-neutral debates about modernism’s experimental forms together with an analysis of violence and destroyed materialities, Ziarek challenges both the anti-aesthetic subordination of modern literature to its political uses and the appreciation of art’s emancipatory potential at the expense of feminist and anti-racist political struggles.