In this landmark addition to scholarship, Nancy F. Cott, author of the 'The Bonds of Womanhood, ' offers a new interpretation of feminism in the United States during the early decades of this century-
Yael Israel-Cohen has produced a thoughtful, well-researched, and extremely readable book on a neglected subject: women and feminism in conservative religious tradition. The author conducted interview
Adams (women's studies and religion, Elizabethtown College) places Jameson, Fuller, and Eliot in the context of the 19th-century women's movement, in which they participated as both activists and auth
A comprehensive defense of biblical manhood and womanhood, this handbook provides readers with an invaluable “encyclopedia” of responses to 118 evangelical feminist arguments against traditional gende
The eight essays contained in Philosophical Feminism and Popular Culture explore the portrayal of women and various philosophical responses to that portrayal in contemporary post-civil rights society.
Within both feminist theory and popular culture, establishing similarities between embodied practices rooted in different cultural and geo-political contexts (e.g. ‘African’ female genital cutting and
The relationship between feminism and domesticity has recently come in for renewed interest in popular culture. This collection makes an intervention into the debates surrounding feminism’s contentiou
One of the less discussed achievements of the women’s movement is the option to reject the patronymic naming system (or?the convention of women replacing their own family names by their husbands’ name
This book opens up a new field at the intersections of transnational, feminist, and media studies. The collection brings feminist theories to bear on the discourses of transnationality embedded in a
This is a history of the individualist feminism movement and of three prominent publications that rose in its defense: The Word, Liberty and Lucifer the Light Bearer. These often-overlooked 19th centu
This collection of new essays looks carefully at the broad spectrum of Neil Gaiman's work and how he interacts with feminism. Sixteen diverse essays from Gaiman scholars examine highlights from Gaiman
"Chapters cover topics such as globalization, virtual reality, cyborg culture, environmentalism, religion, motherhood and queer rights. Interviews with feminist cyberpunk authors are provided, reveali
In 2003, Fadela Amara founded Ni Putes Ni Soumises (NPNS), a French feminist social movement that arose in the banlieues, or impoverished suburbs of Paris. Growing up in the banlieues as a child of Al
In contemporary feminist theory, the problem of feminine subjectivity persistently appears and reappears as the site that grounds all discussion of feminism. In Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom, Lind
Of the many women who worked to improve Japanese women's lives after the end of the Meiji era, Hitatsuka (1886-1971) made unique contributions through her involvement with the Seito Society and the in
Audacity within Confinement examines the cultural work of American women writers of the Left during the years immediately following World War II, and the feminist consciousness that developed in those