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  • Close to Home

    A Materialist Analysis of Women's Oppression

    by Christine Delphy ...
    Translated by Diana Leonard ...
    Series series Feminist Classics
    Classic analysis of gender relations and patriarchy under capitalismClose to Home is the classic study of family, patriarchal ideologies, and the politics and strategy of women’s liberation. On the table in this forceful and provocative debate are questions of whether men can be feminists, whether “bourgeois” and heterosexual women are retrogressive members of the women’s movement, and how best to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Separate and Dominate

    Feminism and Racism after the War on Terror

    by Christine Delphy ...
    Translated by David Broder ...
    An examination of how mainstream feminism has been mobilized in support of racist measuresFeminist Christine Delphy co-founded the journal Nouvelles questions féministes with Simone de Beauvoir in the 1970s and became one of the most influential figures in French feminism. Today, Delphy remains a prominent and controversial feminist thinker, a rare public voice denouncing the racist motivations of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • French Feminism Reader

    by Simone de Beauvoir, Michele Le Doeuff, Christine Delphy, Colette Guillaumin, Monique Wittig, Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray, Helene Cixous ...
    French Feminism Reader is a collection of essays representing the authors and issues from French theory most influential in the American context. The book is designed for use in courses, and it includes illuminating introductions to the work of each author. These introductions include biographical information, influences and intellectual context, major themes in the author's work as a whole, and ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Delphi Collected Works of Christine de Pizan Illustrated

    by Christine de Pizan ...
    Series Book 16 - Medieval Library
    Europe’s first professional woman of letters, Christine de Pisan was a fifteenth century French poet and author, whose prolific and diverse works include courtly poems, biographies, philosophical treatises and proto-feminist texts. Her masterpiece, ‘The Book of the City of Ladies’ combats medieval beliefs about women by creating an allegorical city. Christine arranges a wide array of famous women ... Read more

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  • Delphi Collected Works of Christine de Pizan (Illustrated)

    by Christine de Pizan, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 16 - Medieval Library
    Europe’s first professional woman of letters, Christine de Pisan was a fifteenth century French poet and author, whose prolific and diverse works include courtly poems, biographies, philosophical treatises and proto-feminist texts. Her masterpiece, ‘The Book of the City of Ladies’ combats medieval beliefs about women by creating an allegorical city. Christine arranges a wide array of famous women ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

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    by Emma Goldman ...
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  • Free Women, Free Men

    Sex, Gender, Feminism

    by Camille Paglia ...
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  • Introducing Postmodernism

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    by Chris Garratt, Richard Appignanesi ...
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    What connects Marliyn Monroe, Disneyworld, "The Satanic Verses" and cyber space? Answer: Postmodernism. But what exactly is postmodernism?This Graphic Guide explains clearly the maddeningly enigmatic concept that has been used to define the world's cultural condition over the last three decades.Introducing Postmodernism tracks the idea back to its roots by taking a tour of some of the most extreme ... Read more

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  • Howard Zinn on Race

    by Howard Zinn ...
    Howard Zinn on Race is Zinn’s choice of the shorter writings and speeches that best reflect his views on America’s most taboo topic. As chairman of the history department at all black women’s Spelman College, Zinn was an outspoken supporter of student activists in the nascent civil rights movement. In "The Southern Mystique," he tells of how he was asked to leave Spelman in 1963 after teaching ... Read more

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  • Fail Better

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  • Why Science Is Sexist

    by Nicola Gaston ...
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