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  • Intersexualization

    The Clinic and the Colony

    by Lena Eckert ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Critical Diversities
    Since the 1970s, research into ‘Intersex’ has been a central fascination for feminist theorists seeking to make arguments about how men and women are created as social/gender categories. Intersexualization: The Clinic and the Colony takes the case of Olympic runner Caster Semenya as a starting point to explore the issue of determining sex, and the ways in which intersexuality is a ‘threat’ to the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • I Will Find You

    A Reporter Investigates the Life of the Man Who Raped Her

    by Joanna Connors ...
    The journalist's "brutally affecting [and] powerful" memoir of her quest to uncover the life of the man who raped her twenty-one years earlier ( Guardian, UK).Joanna Connors was thirty years old and on assignment for the Cleveland Plain Dealer to review a college theater production when she was held at knifepoint and raped by a stranger who had grown up five miles away from her. Once her assailant ... Read more

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  • I Call Myself A Feminist

    The View from Twenty-Five Women Under Thirty

    by Victoria Pepe ...
    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 hear from Laura Bates (of the Everyday Sexism Project), Reni Eddo-Lodge (award-winning journalist and author), Yas Necati (an eighteen-year-old activist), Laura Pankhurst, great-great granddaughter of Emmeline Pankhurst and an activist in her own right ... Read more

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  • The Treasure of the City of Ladies

    Or the Book of the Three Virtues

    by Christine de Pizan, Sarah Lawson ...
    Translated by Sarah Lawson ...
    Written by Europe’s first professional woman writer, The Treasure of the City of Ladies offers advice and guidance to women of all ages and from all levels of medieval society, from royal courtiers to prostitutes. It paints an intricate picture of daily life in the courts and streets of fifteenth-century France and gives a fascinating glimpse into the practical considerations of running a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants

    Based on a True Story

    by Jill Soloway ...
    From the creator and director of Transparent and Emmy-nominated writer for Six Feet Under comes a hilarious and unforgettable memoir.When Jill Soloway was just thirteen, she and her best friend donned the tightest satin pants they could find, poufed up their hair and squeezed into Candies heels, then headed to downtown Chicago in search of their one-and-only true loves forever: the members of ... Read more

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  • In Our Time

    Memoir of a Revolution

    by Susan Brownmiller ...
    There once was a time when the concept of equal pay for equal work did not exist, when women of all ages were "girls," when abortion was a back-alley procedure, when there was no such thing as a rape crisis center or a shelter for battered women, when "sexual harassment" had not yet been named and defined. "If conditions are right," Susan Brownmiller says in this stunning memoir, "if the anger of ... Read more

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  • Women and the Vote

    A World History

    by Jad Adams ...
    Before 1893 no woman anywhere in the world had the vote in a national election. A hundred years later almost all countries had enfranchised women, and it was a sign of backwardness not to have done so. This is the story of how this momentous change came about. The first genuinely global history of women and the vote, it takes the story of women in politics from the earliest times to the present ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Writing Academic Texts Differently

    Intersectional Feminist Methodologies and the Playful Art of Writing

    Edited by Nina Lykke ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality
    This edited volume combines cutting-edge research on feminist and intersectional writing methodologies with explorations of links between academic and creative writing practices. Contributors discuss what it means for academic writing processes to explore intersectional in-between spaces between monolithic identity markers and power differentials such as gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Ventriloquized Voices

    Feminist Theory and English Renaissance Texts

    by Elizabeth D. Harvey ...
    Patronage, medicine, madness and eroticism. Harvey explores the discourse of power and sexuality in a fascinating range of early modern texts, and examines the use of the feminine voice by male authors. ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • A Voice From the South

    by Anna Julia Cooper ...
    Series series The ^ASchomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers
    Considered one of the original texts foretelling the black feminist movement, this collection of essays, first published in 1892, offers an unparalleled view into the thought of black women writers in nineteenth-century America. A leading black spokeswoman of her time, Anna Julia Cooper came of age during a conservative wave in the black community, a time when men completely dominated African ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Beitraege zum Islamischen Recht XI

    Edited by Irene Schneider, Thoralf Hanstein ...
    Series Book 34 - Leipziger Beitraege zur Orientforschung
    Der Band enthält die auf der Jahrestagung der «Gesellschaft für Arabisches und Islamisches Recht» (GAIR) im Oktober 2015 an der Universität Göttingen gehaltenen Vorträge. Thema der Tagung war «Genderforschung und Genderfragen im islamischen Recht». Die Vorträge werden ergänzt um zwei weitere, themenrelevante Fachbeiträge. Die Autoren gehen in den Beiträgen zum einen der Frage nach, welche Rolle ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Shadow Bodies

    Black Women, Ideology, Representation, and Politics

    by Julia S. Jordan-Zachery ...
    What does it mean for Black women to organize in a political context that has generally ignored them or been unresponsive although Black women have shown themselves an important voting bloc? How for example, does #sayhername translate into a political agenda that manifests itself in specific policies? Shadow Bodies focuses on the positionality of the Black woman’s body, which serves as a ... Read more

    $23.99 USD