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Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture by Diane Negra 9780822340324 [USED COPY]
RRP: $44.58$4.61This timely collection brings feminist critique to bear on contemporary postfeminist mass media culture, analyzing phenomena ranging from action films featuring violent heroines to the "girling" of aging women in productions such as the movie Something's... -
Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture by Diane Negra
RRP: $44.58$38.58This timely collection brings feminist critique to bear on contemporary postfeminist mass media culture, analyzing phenomena ranging from action films featuring violent heroines to the "girling" of aging women in productions such as the movie Something's... -
Feminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory by Chris Weedon
RRP: $59.95$52.88Feminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory offers a clear and accessible introduction to poststructuralist theory, focusing on questions of language, subjectivity and power. Key book features: Classic text.Now updated and revised.New final chapter on... -
The New Avengers by Jacinda Read 9780719059056 [USED COPY]
RRP: $34.29$17.15A study of the rape-revenge film, in which Jacinda Read suggests that the rape-revenge cycle can be read as one of the primary ways in which Hollywood has attempted to make sense of feminism and the changing shape of heterosexual femininity in the... -
The New Avengers by Jacinda Read 9780719059056
RRP: $34.29$32.18A study of the rape-revenge film, in which Jacinda Read suggests that the rape-revenge cycle can be read as one of the primary ways in which Hollywood has attempted to make sense of feminism and the changing shape of heterosexual femininity in the... -
Images of The National Archives: Suffragettes by Lauren Willmott 9781526729453
RRP: $25.71$15.301918 was a watershed moment for the development of British democracy: for the first time, some women could vote. The occasion marked the culmination of a fifty-year long and arduous struggle of thousands of women and men up and down the country. Using... -
Stripped: The Bare Reality of Lap Dancing by Jennifer Hayashi Danns 9781905570324
RRP: $15.42$11.06Is lap dancing harmless fun, providing entertainment for men and well-paid, self-empowering work for women? The lap dancing industry has long argued that it offers an everyday service within free market guidelines, but in 2010 the UK government... -
A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue by Wendy Shalit 9781476756653
RRP: $30.86$20.93When A Return to Modestywas first published in 1999, it began an important and much-needed national conversation. Wendy Shalit persuasively argued that modesty is not some hang-up we should set out to cure, but rather a wonderful instinct that, if... -
The Extra Woman: How Marjorie Hillis Led a Generation of Women to Live Alone and Like It by Joanna Scutts 9781631492730
RRP: $37.72$31.82The Extra Woman transports us to the turbulent and transformative years between suffrage and the sixties, when, thanks to the glamorous grit of one Marjorie Hillis, single women boldly claimed and enjoyed their independence. Gone were the days of the... -
The Maternal in Creative Work: Intergenerational Discussions on Motherhood and Art by Elena Marchevska
RRP: $68.59$60.14The Maternal in Creative Work examines the interrelation between art, creativity and maternal experience, inviting international artists, theorists and cultural workers to discuss their approaches to the central feminist question of the relation between... -
African Women And Feminism: Reflecting on the Politics of Sisterhood by Oyeronke Oyewumi 9780865436282
RRP: $51.37$33.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865436282Author Oyeronke OyewumiFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 459g -
Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier by Joanna Stratton 9780671447489
$26.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671447489Author Joanna StrattonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 462g -
The Essential Feminist Reader by Estelle B. Freedman
RRP: $29.14$21.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812974607Author Estelle B. FreedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 362g -
Struggle and Suffrage in Bradford: Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality by Rachel Bellerby 9781526716927
RRP: $25.71$23.07In 1850, the population of Bradford was 103,000, having soared from 34,000 just ten years earlier. The town was on the cusp of worldwide fame as, over the coming decades, it would grow to become the wool capital of the world. Women of Bradford... -
The Economization of Life by Michelle Murphy
RRP: $39.43$34.32What is a life worth? In the wake of eugenics, new quantitative racist practices that valued life for the sake of economic futures flourished. In The Economization of Life, Michelle Murphy provocatively describes the twentieth-century rise of... -
Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India by Srila Roy
RRP: $39.43$34.32In Changing the Subject Srila Roy maps the rapidly transforming terrain of gender and sexual politics in India under the conditions of global neoliberalism. The consequences of India's liberalization were paradoxical: the influx of global funds for... -
The Women, Gender and Development Reader by Nalini Visvanathan 9781848135871
$50.55The Women, Gender and Development Reader is the definitive volume of literature dedicated to women in the development process. Now in a fully revised second edition, the editors expertly present the impacts of social, political and economic change by... -
Intimate Outsiders: The Harem in Ottoman and Orientalist Art and Travel Literature by Mary Roberts
RRP: $39.43$34.32Until now, the notion of a cross-cultural dialogue has not figured in the analysis of harem paintings, largely because the Western fantasy of the harem has been seen as the archetype for Western appropriation of the Orient. In Intimate Outsiders, the art... -
Women of the Highlands by Katharine Stewart 9781906817923
RRP: $13.71$10.19What was the crime of the last wich burnt in the Highlands? Which Jacobite lady led men to war while her Hanoverian husband stayed at home? Who were the first Highland women to be recorded in history? And how have wome's lives changed since medieval... -
Dear Black Girl: Letters from Your Sisters on Stepping Into Your Power by Tamara Winfrey Harris
RRP: $27.43$19.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523092291Author Tamara Winfrey HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Berrett-Koehler PublishersPublisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers -
Leftover in China: The Women Shaping the World's Next Superpower by Roseann Lake
RRP: $36.00$30.45Forty years ago in China, marriage was universal, compulsory and a woman's only means to a livelihood. Then the one-child policy resulted in China's first generations of urban only-daughters-girls who were pushed to study, achieve and succeed as if they... -
When Biology Became Destiny: Women in Weimar and Nazi Germany by Renate Bridenthal
$34.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853456438Author Renate BridenthalFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 499g -
Scarred: A Feminist Journey Through Pain by L. Ayu Saraswati
RRP: $39.43$34.32PROSE Award Winner for Biography and Autobiography Named one of Library Journal's Best Books of 2023. Offers thought-provoking theories and life-transforming ways to deal with pain What can we ask of pain? How can we be more creative and courageous in... -
Feminisms by Sandra Kemp 9780192892706
$94.39`A feminist is a woman who does not allow anyone to think in her place.' Michele Le Doeuff Spanning nearly two decades (1980-1996), the six sections of this reader investigate the debates which have most characterized feminist theory to date. ... -
The Natural Superiority of Women by Ashley Montagu 9780761989820
RRP: $72.04$66.49Among the central issues of the modern feminist movement, the debate over biology and culture over sex and gender, over genetics and gender roles has certainly been one of the most passionately contested. Making revolutionary arguments upon its first... -
Daughters Healing from Family Mobbing: Stories and Approaches to Recover from Shunning, Aggression, and Family Violence by Stephanie A. Sellers, Phd
RRP: $29.14$20.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623178437Author Stephanie A. Sellers, PhdFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S. -
Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution by Sheila Jeffreys
RRP: $34.22$22.02The sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s is remembered as a time of great freedom for women. But did the sexual revolution have the same goals as the Women's Liberation Movement? Was it truly liberation for women or just another insidious form of... -
The Persistence of Gender Inequality by Mary Evans 9780745689920
RRP: $27.43$24.72Despite centuries of campaigning, women still earn less and have less power than men. Equality remains a goal not yet reached. In this incisive account of why this is the case, Mary Evans argues that optimistic narratives of progress and emancipation... -
(Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love: Gender and Aspirational Labor in the Social Media Economy by Brooke Erin Duffy
RRP: $30.86$30.14An illuminating investigation into a class of enterprising women aspiring to "make it" in the social media economy but often finding only unpaid work Profound transformations in our digital society have brought many enterprising women to social media... -
English Feminism, 1780-1980 by Barbara Caine 9780198204343
$113.84Barbara Caine's fascinating analysis of feminism in England examines the relationship between feminist thought and actions, and wider social and cultural change over tow centuries. Professor Caine investigates the complex question surrounding the concept... -
The Essential Ellen Willis by Ellen Willis 9780816681211
RRP: $37.72$33.60Out of the Vinyl Deeps, published in 2011, introduced a new generation to the incisive, witty, and merciless voice of Ellen Willis through her pioneering rock music criticism. In the years that followed, Willis's daring insights went beyond popular... -
Feminine Lost: Why Most Women are Male by Jennifer Granger 9781602861862
$24.99Feminine Lost explores the premise that all human beings are constructed of two energies, one masculine and one feminine. With the rise of the feminist movement, many women have migrated to their masculine side, some to the extent of losing access to... -
Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese 9780807842324
$63.77Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women, this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped women's experiences and determined their identities. Drawing upon massive research in diaries, letters,... -
Women in the Renaissance by Margaret L. King 9780226436180
RRP: $53.17$51.78In this informative and lively volume, Margaret L. King synthesizes a large body of literature on the condition of western European women in the Renaissance centuries (1350-1650), crafting a much-needed and unified overview of women's experience in... -
Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism by Barbara Winslow
RRP: $29.14$24.19Along with her mother Emmeline, and her sister Christabel, Sylvia Pankhurst was one of the leading women's suffrage activists in early twentieth-century England, working with the militant Women's Social and Political Union. Unlike her family, however,... -
Words and Women by Casey Miller 9780595159222
RRP: $24.85$19.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595159222Author Casey MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 272g -
Slut! Growing up Female with a Bad Reputation by Leura Tanenbaum 9780060957407
RRP: $32.57$23.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060957407Author Leura TanenbaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Why We Lost the Sex Wars: Sexual Freedom in the #metoo Era by Lorna N Bracewell
RRP: $37.72$32.92Reexamining feminist sexual politics since the 1970s-the rivalries and the remarkable alliances Since the historic #MeToo movement materialized in 2017, innumerable survivors of sexual assault and misconduct have broken their silence and called out their... -
Parite!: Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism by Joan W. Scott
RRP: $51.46$50.17France today is in the throes of a crisis about whether to represent social differences within its political system and, if so, how. It is a crisis defined by the rhetoric of a universalism that takes the abstract individual to be the representative not... -
The Subsistence Perspective: Beyond the Globalised Economy by Maria Mies 9781856497763
$70.76A product of twenty years of analysis and activism, this unique book poses a radical alternative to the current free-market industrial system. A book of history, theory and polemic, the authors show how, if we are to survive, economies must become...