Feminist Theory Books


The Feminist, The Housewife, and the Soap Opera (Oxford Television Studies) Best Price: $85.00 The Feminist, the Housewife, and the Soap Opera traces the history of the feminist engagement...	Feminism, the Public, and the Private (Oxford Readings in Feminism) Best Price: $90.33 This latest volume in the Oxford Readings in Feminism series presents the results of a...	Feminism, the Family, and the Politics of the Closet: Lesbian and Gay Displacement Best Price: $13.87 Has feminism failed lesbianism? What issues belong at the top of a lesbian and gay political...	Gendered Worlds Best Price: $57.49 In Gendered Worlds , Second Edition, authors Judy Root Aulette and Judith Wittner use the...	Childhood Socialization Best Price: $57.95



The Ties That Bind: Perspectives on Marriage and Cohabitation (Social Institutions and Social Change) Best Price: $22.00 The Ties That Bind was organized to review and assess the scientific evidence about the causes...	Involuntary Clients in Social Work Practice: A Research-Based Approach (Modern Applications of Social Work) Best Price: $17.46 Aimed at both practitioners and graduate students, this book describes social work practice with...	Women, Politics, and American Society (5th Edition) (Longman Classics in Political Science) Best Price: $57.67 Updated in a new 5 th edition, Women, Politics, and American Society combines historical and...	Higher Ground: From Utopianism to Realism in American Feminist Thought and Theory (Women in Culture and Society) Best Price: $32.49 Many feminists love a utopia?the idea of restarting humanity from scratch or transforming human...	Pragmatism and Feminism: Reweaving the Social Fabric Best Price: $30.00 Though many pioneering feminists were deeply influenced by American pragmatism, their...



The Revolution in Words: Righting Women 1868-1871 (Women's Source Library) Best Price: $78.40 These excerpts from The Revolution, one of the most important radical periodicals in the Western...	Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care Best Price: $39.98 In this work the author aims to provide an original response to the controversial questions...	Appropriating Gender: Women's Activism and Politicized Religion in South Asia (Zones of Religion) Appropriating Gender explores the paradoxical relationship of women to religious politics in...	Never A Dull Moment: Teaching and the Art of Performance (Feminism Takes Center Stage) Best Price: $11.82 Teachers are really performers, classrooms are stages, and students the captivated audience. In...	Women's Activism and Globalization: Linking Local Struggles and Transnational Politics Best Price: $24.99 Women's Activism and Globalization is a broad and comprehensive collection that shows how...

The New Victorians: A Young Woman's Challenge to the Old Feminist Order Best Price: $4.11 Denfeld is dead on target in her scathing but articulate attack on the new feminism. Contrary...	The First Sex: The Natural Talents of Women and How They Are Changing the World Best Price: $3.84 I am amused by the backlash coming from predominantly males, and is it a surprise? Fisher's...	A Vindication of the Rights of Women & The Subjection of Women This was required reading for a graduate course in the Humanities. Wollstonecraft is not easy...	Women of Jeme: Lives in a Coptic Town in Late Antique Egypt (New Texts from Ancient Cultures) Best Price: $75.00 This is a well-written book about women in Egypt from the late Byzantine to the early Arab rule...	Woman and Labor Best Price: $2.18 Olive Schreiner (born in 1855) was a Victorian revolutionist and feminist. At 12 she has left...

Gender, Race, and Class: An Overview (21st Century Sociology) Best Price: $25.00 This book is a well organized summary of the concepts most frequently employed by social...	Irish Women and Irish Migration (Irish World Wide, Vol 4) Best Price: $547.23 The Irish have emigrated in vast numbers for centuries. More than any other Europeans they have...	A Contradiction Still: Representations of the Feminine in the Poetry of Alexander Pope This book offers a stimulating critique of the views concerning gender and gender roles...	Feminist (Re)visions of the Subject Best Price: $35.54 Feminist (Re)visions utilizes the study of space and place--which extends through sociology,...	Professing Feminism: Education and Indoctrination in Women's Studies Best Price: $87.50 Feminists have often called Women's Studies the 'academic arm of the women's...

Controversies in Feminism Best Price: $22.95 Feminism was born in controversy and it continues to flourish in controversy. The distinguished...	Subjectivities, Knowledges, and Feminist Geographies: The Subjects and Ethics of Social Research Best Price: $84.00 Research about people always makes assumptions about the nature of humans as subjects. This...	Gender Struggles Best Price: $81.00 Contemporary feminist theory and postmodernism have left significant marks on how we think about...	Inclusive Feminism: A Third Wave Theory of Women's Commonality Best Price: $21.95 Second Wave feminism collapsed in the early 1980s when a universal definition of women was...	Tidal Wave: How Women Changed America at Century's End Best Price: $10.96 Simultaneously examining the first, second, and third waves of American feminism in her...

The Women's Companion to International Film Best Price: $4.80 This feminist guide to cinema presents the women and men who have been essential to films around...	A Nationality of Her Own: Women, Marriage, and the Law of Citizenship Best Price: $43.70 Prior to picking up this book, I had very little knowledge of the struggle for equal nationality...	Contesting Earth's Future: Radical Ecology and Postmodernity Best Price: $31.92 Radical ecology typically brings to mind media images of ecological activists standing before...	Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics [Updated Edition] Best Price: $15.99 An excellent book for anyone interested in feminism, international politics, or simply if you...	The Feminist Avant-Garde: Transatlantic Encounters of the Early Twentieth Century (Ideas in Context) Best Price: $35.09 In the early twentieth century the term 'feminist' was used by self-consciously...

Geographies of New Feminism (Themes in Tourism) Best Price: $30.00 Geographies of New Femininities examines the emergence of contemporary constructions of...	Margaret Sanger: "Every Child a Wanted Child" (People in Focus Book) Best Price: $13.48 In the early 20th century, birth control was considered immoral. Margaret Sanger set out to...	Vindication of the Rights of Women This was required reading for a graduate course in the Humanities. Wollstonecraft is not easy...	Feminism-Art-Theory: An Anthology 1968-2000 Best Price: $43.70 Huge number of theories covering a wide range of aspects of art and feminism, a little dated as...	The Ethics of Gender: New Dimensions to Religious Ethics Best Price: $21.13 The Ethics of Gender investigates the impact of thinking with gender on modern ethics, and...

A Concise Glossary of Feminist Theory (Hodder Arnold Publication) Best Price: $11.67 This is a perfect introduction to feminist theories. It covers how these theories have affected...	Opting In: Having a Child Without Losing Yourself Best Price: $1.03 Richards book is carefully researched with a plethora of women's voices on motherhood....	Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism Best Price: $6.99 I couldn't disagree more with the negative reviews of this book. For full disclosure, I was...	In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution Best Price: $3.02 I just finished reading Susan Brownmiller's book, having begun it only a few days before (it...	Equality and Alerity: Phenomenological Investigations of Discrimination Examples of prejudice against Jews, women, African-Americans, and other minority groups are...

Friedan Feminine Mystique Revised When Betty Friedan produced "The Feminine Mystique" in 1963, she could not have...	The Beauty Myth	French Feminists on Religion: A Reader Best Price: $20.55 French Feminists on Religion offers the first representative selection of important writings by...	Women and British Party Politics: Descriptive, Substantive and Symbolic Representation (Routledge Advances in European Politics) Best Price: $124.52 Women and British Party Politics examines the characteristics of women?s participation at the...	Femmes Fatales In this work of feminist film criticism, Mary Ann Doane examines questions of sexual difference...

Dictionary If Feminist Theologies Best Price: $29.96	Meditations on Modern Political Thought: Masculine/Feminine Themes from Luther to Arendt (Women and Politics.) Best Price: $1.95 Elshtain rocks. A tremendous writer whose acute philosophical sensibilities she combines with...	Feminist Interpretations of Rene Descartes (Re-Reading the Canon) Best Price: $89.95 A re-reading of the Cartesian corpus from the multiple vantage points of contemporary feminism....	Feminist Interpretations of John Locke (Re-Reading the Canon) Best Price: $33.91 This collection considers one of the most important figures of the modern canon of political...	Is Philosophy Androcentric? Best Price: $15.94 In this book, Landau looks at the title's question and concludes that none of the arguments...

Feminist Interpretations of Alexis de Tocqueville (Re-Reading the Canon) Best Price: $75.00 This book moves beyond traditional readings of Alexis de Tocqueville (18051859) and his...	Resident Alien: Feminist Cultural Criticism Best Price: $17.96 In this fascinating book of critical writings, Janet Wolff examines issues of exile, memoir, and...	Battered Women and Feminist Lawmaking Best Price: $19.85 As recently as the 1960s the harm of domestic violence was not legally recognized. This book...	The Second Sex (Vintage) Best Price: $11.01 Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir?s masterwork...	Comrades and Sisters: Feminism, Socialism and Pacifism in Europe, 1870-1945

Speaking of Friendship: Middle Class Women and Their Friends (Contributions in Women's Studies) Best Price: $107.95 Speaking of Friendship provides an in-depth look at the friendships of middle-class women. It...	Women's Rights: A Global View (A World View of Social Issues) Best Price: $33.36 Are women fighting over the same issues and for the same rights all around the world? What are...	Gender, War, and Militarism: Feminist Perspectives (Praeger Security International) Best Price: $49.95 Feminist scholars have long contended that war and militarism are fundamentally gendered. ...	Cases and Materials on Feminist Jurisprudence: Taking Women Seriously (American Casebook Series) Best Price: $18.62 Insightful and Challenging this text will change the way you view the world and the females in it.	Kato Shidzue: A Japanese Feminist (Library of World Biography Series) Best Price: $4.00 I bought this book because I wanted a counter to another book on another Japanese woman in a...

Women, Politics, and American Society (3rd Edition) Best Price: $5.52 McGlen,Nancy E.;O'Connor, Karen; Van Assendelft, Laura; Gunther-Canada, Wendy, Women,...	Feminist Political Theory: An Introduction, Second Edition Best Price: $19.55 This is an excellent summary of feminist political theory (surprise!). It gives concise,...	Feminist Social Psychology: Developing Theory and Practice	Gender in Third World Politics (Issues in Third World Politics Series) Best Price: $60.46 This book puts forward a gendered analysis of third world politics. It uses a wide definition...	Making Violence Sexy: Feminist Views on Pornography "Making Violence Sexy" chronicles women's resistance to pornography over the last...

Gender, Race, and Class: An Overview (21st Century Sociology) Best Price: $25.00 This book is a well organized summary of the concepts most frequently employed by social...	Irish Women and Irish Migration (Irish World Wide, Vol 4) Best Price: $547.23 The Irish have emigrated in vast numbers for centuries. More than any other Europeans they have...	A Contradiction Still: Representations of the Feminine in the Poetry of Alexander Pope This book offers a stimulating critique of the views concerning gender and gender roles...	Feminist (Re)visions of the Subject Best Price: $35.54 Feminist (Re)visions utilizes the study of space and place--which extends through sociology,...	Professing Feminism: Education and Indoctrination in Women's Studies Best Price: $87.50 Feminists have often called Women's Studies the 'academic arm of the women's...

Controversies in Feminism Best Price: $22.95 Feminism was born in controversy and it continues to flourish in controversy. The distinguished...	Subjectivities, Knowledges, and Feminist Geographies: The Subjects and Ethics of Social Research Best Price: $84.00 Research about people always makes assumptions about the nature of humans as subjects. This...	Gender Struggles Best Price: $81.00 Contemporary feminist theory and postmodernism have left significant marks on how we think about...	Inclusive Feminism: A Third Wave Theory of Women's Commonality Best Price: $21.95 Second Wave feminism collapsed in the early 1980s when a universal definition of women was...	Tidal Wave: How Women Changed America at Century's End Best Price: $10.96 Simultaneously examining the first, second, and third waves of American feminism in her...

Sexual Violence in Western Thought and Writing: Chaste Rape Best Price: $68.21 Sexual Violence in Western Thought and Writing: Chaste Rape focuses on rape scripts and...	Introducing Gender & Womens Studies: Third Edition Best Price: $33.00 This is a substantially revised and refocused third edition of a best-selling and highly...	Feminism, Inc.: Coming of Age in Girl Power Media Culture Best Price: $24.77 A lot of people want to sell books to an academic department chair, so my mailbox has been...	Gender and Sexuality in 1968: Transformative Politics in the Cultural Imagination Best Price: $85.30 If you want great accounts of the sixties combined with a cogent editorial vision, this book is...	In Dora's Case (Gender and Culture) Best Price: $93.02

Revolt Against Chivalry Best Price: $83.05 This newly updated edition connects the past with the present, using the Clarence Thomas...	Feminism and Sexuality Best Price: $10.00 A comprehensive overview of feminist debates surrounding sexuality identifying the main...	Between East and West (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism) Best Price: $27.49 With this book we see a philosopher well steeped in the Western tradition thinking through...	Manly States Best Price: $65.00 -- Choice	Every Tub Must Sit on Its Own Bottom: The Philosophy and Politics of Zora Neale Hurston Best Price: $14.95

Figures of Resistance: Essays in Feminist Theory Best Price: $64.97 The changing face of feminist discourse as reflected by the career of one of its preeminent...	The Challenge of Feminist Biography: Writing the Lives of Modern American Women (Women in American History) Best Price: $6.27 Winner of the Susan Koppelman Award, 1993. This pathbreaking anthology is an illuminating look...	Simone de Beauvoir's Political Thinking Best Price: $4.94 The first book devoted exclusively to Beauvoir?s politics By exploring the life...	Feminist Ethics and Social Policy (A Hypatia Book) Best Price: $7.00 Much work in feminist ethics has been rather abstract. The editors of this work believe that the...	Daughters of Caliban: Caribbean Women in the Twentieth Century Best Price: $8.00 This book gives a decently well-rounded voice to the many different women of the Caribbean. She...

Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability (Theories of Representation and Difference) Best Price: $15.47 applicable to literary theory as well. so well written, especially for a scholarly book!...	Living Across and Through Skins: Transactional Bodies, Pragmatism, and Best Price: $12.00 As someone familiar with most of John Dewey's works, with a distaste for continental...	Perfectionism and Contemporary Feminist Values Best Price: $42.69 Although formal barriers to women's social and political participation have crumbled,...	Imagine There's No Woman: Ethics and Sublimation Best Price: $23.97 Jacques Lacan claimed that his theory of feminine sexuality, including the...

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Women's Studies