Tag: Feminists

Free Download Feminists Read Habermas: Gendering the Subject of Discourse By Johanna Meehan; Nancy Fraser; Jean L. Cohen; Joan B. Landers; Jane Braaten; Simone Chambers; Seyla Benhabib; Jodi Dean; Georgia Warnke; Alison Weir
1995 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0415907144 | PDF | 2 MB
This collection considers Jurgen Habermas’s discourse theory from a variety of feminist vantage points. Habermas’s theory represents one of the most persuasive current formulations of moral and political notions of subjectivity and normativity. Feminist scholars have been drawn to his work because it reflects a tradition of emancipatory political thinking rooted in the Enlightenment and engages with the normative aims of emancipatory social movements.

Mona Rocha, "The Weatherwomen: Militant Feminists of the Weather Underground"
English | ISBN: 1476676658 | 2020 | 235 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Assertive, tough, and idealistic, the Weatherwomen-members of the Weather Underground Organization (WUO) from the late 1960s-were determined to stamp out sexism and social injustice. They asserted that militancy was necessary in the pursuit of a socialist revolution that would produce gender, racial, and class equality. This book excavates their long buried history and reclaims the voices of the Weatherwomen. The Weatherwomen’s militant feminism had many facets. It criticized the role of women in the home, was concerned with the subordination of women to men, attacked the gender pay gap, and supported female bodily integrity. The Weatherwomen also refined their own feminist ideology into an intersectional one that would incorporate multiple identity perspectives beyond the white, American, middle-class perspective. In shaping a feminist vision for the WUO, the Weatherwomen dealt with sexism within their own organization and were dismissed by some feminist groups of the time as inauthentic. This work strives to recognize the WUO’s militant feminist efforts, and the agency, autonomy, and empowerment of its female members, by concentrating on their actions and writings.

June Eric-Udorie, "Can We All Be Feminists?: Seventeen writers on intersectionality, identity and finding the right way forward for feminism"
English | 2018 | pages: 288 | ISBN: 0349009872 | EPUB | 0,3 mb
Why do some women struggle to identify as feminists, despite their commitment to gender equality? How do other aspects of our identities – such as race, religion, sexuality, gender identity, and more – impact how we relate to feminism? Why is intersectionality so important?

Who Should Be First?: Feminists Speak Out on the 2008 Presidential Campaign By Beverly Guy-Sheftall; Johnnetta Betsch Cole
2010 | 357 Pages | ISBN: 1438433751 | PDF | 4 MB
Feminists speak out on race and gender in the 2008 Presidential campaign.

Changing Methods: Feminists Transforming Practice By Sandra Burt and Lorraine Code
1995 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 1551110334 | PDF | 20 MB
Changing Methods is a collection of original essays by feminist practitioners, scholars, and activists. The authors show why "the method question" has moved to the top of many feminist research and interpretive research strategies, and engage in thinking about how ideas and actions have developed within complex social circumstances.The essays in this book challenge the tradition that has allowed abstracted, formalized versions of the ideas and experiences of privileged white men to set standards for how everyone should conduct themselves. The authors use new-found knowledge to displace the dominant ideology constructed around race, class, gender, and heterosexual privilege, and then propose innovative feminist-informed analyses of subjects as diverse as political change, critical linguistics, child care, religious studies, and violence against women.

The Trouble with Marriage: Feminists Confront Law and Violence in India By Srimati Basu
2015 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 0520282442 | PDF | 4 MB
The Trouble with Marriage is part of a new global feminist jurisprudence around marriage and violence that looks to law as strategy rather than solution. In this ethnography of lawyer-free family courts and mediations of rape and domestic violence charges in India, Srimati Basu depicts everyday life in legal sites of marital trouble, reevaluating feminist theories of law, marriage, violence, property, and the state. Basu argues that alternative dispute resolution, originally designed to empower women in a less adversarial legal environment, has created new subjectivities, but, paradoxically, has also reinforced oppressive socioeconomic norms that leave women no better off, individually or collectively.