Feminist Alliances

Feminist Alliances Author: Lynda Burns
Publisher: Rodopi

Focus on the prospects for alliance between feminism and other political positions. Contributions are: The Complexities of Coalition; Whose Politics? Who's Correct?; Speaking of Feminism . . . What Are We Arguing About?; The Purposes of Politics: A Feminist Inquiry; Foucault, Feminism, and History; Emasculating Metaphor: Whither the Maleness of Reason?; Care Ethics, ...

The Forgotten Victims of Sexual Violence in Film, Television and New Media

The Forgotten Victims of Sexual Violence in Film  Television and New Media Author: Stephanie Patrick
Publisher: Springer Nature

This edited collection provides an intersectional and transnational exploration of representations of sexual violence and rape within films, television shows, and digital media in the contemporary context of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements. Drawing upon sociology, gender studies, cultural studies, media studies, and Black feminist studies, chapters focus on women ...

The Legacy of Second-Wave Feminism in American Politics

The Legacy of Second Wave Feminism in American Politics Author: Angie Maxwell
Publisher: Springer

This book chronicles the influence of second wave feminism on everything from electoral politics to LGBTQ rights. The original descriptions of second wave feminism focused on elite, white voices, obscuring the accomplishments of many activists, as third wave feminists rightly criticized. Those limited narratives also prematurely marked the end of ...

Chaucer's Queens

Chaucer s Queens Author: Louise Tingle
Publisher: Springer Nature

This book investigates the agency and influence of medieval queens in late fourteenth-century England, focusing on the patronage and intercessory activities of the queens Philippa of Hainault and Anne of Bohemia, as well as the princess Joan of Kent. It examines the ways in which royal women were able to ...

Juana I

Juana I Author: Gillian B. Fleming
Publisher: Springer

This book examines the deep and lengthy crisis of legitimacy triggered by the death of Prince Juan of Castile and Aragon in 1497 and the subsequent ascent of Juana I to the throne in 1504. Confined by historiography and myth to the madwoman’s attic, Juana emerges here as a key figure ...

Women, Work, and Patriarchy in the Middle East and North Africa

Women  Work  and Patriarchy in the Middle East and North Africa Author: Fariba Solati
Publisher: Springer

This book investigates why the rate of female labor force participation in the Middle East and North Africa is the lowest in the world. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the book explains that the primary reason for the low rate of female labor force participation is the strong institutions of patriarchy ...

Third Wave Feminism

Third Wave Feminism Author: S. Gillis
Publisher: Springer

This revised and expanded edition, new in paperback, provides a definitive collection on the current period in feminism known by many as the 'third wave'. Three sections - genealogies and generations, locales and locations, politics and popular culture - interrogate the wave metaphor and, through questioning the generational account of ...

Women Writing the Neo-Victorian Novel

Women Writing the Neo Victorian Novel Author: Kathleen Renk
Publisher: Springer Nature

Women Writing the Neo-Victorian Novel: Erotic “Victorians” focuses on the work of British, Irish, and Commonwealth women writers such as A.S. Byatt, Emma Donoghue, Sarah Waters, Helen Humphreys, Margaret Atwood, and Ahdaf Soueif, among others, and their attempts to re-envision the erotic. Kathleen Renk argues that women writers of ...

Destabilising Masculinism

Destabilising Masculinism Author: Brittany Ralph
Publisher: Springer Nature

This book explores how two generations of relatively privileged Australian men have navigated the complex terrain of same-gender friendship across their lives, to offer both empirically unique and theoretically significant insights into the mechanics of social change in masculinities. Applying a feminist poststructuralist lens to data from in-depth interviews with 14 ...

With Oil in Their Lamps

With Oil in Their Lamps Author: Sandra Marie Schneiders
Publisher: Paulist Press

"In this millennial Madeleva Lecture, Sandra Schneiders takes a long and clarifying look at feminism - both its impact on the past and its promise for the future. She explores some of its deeply transformative effects on twentieth-century American culture and on the postconciliar Church. While Schneiders touches on a ...

The Palgrave Handbook of Women’s Political Rights

The Palgrave Handbook of Women   s Political Rights Author: Susan Franceschet
Publisher: Springer

This Palgrave Handbook provides a definitive account of women’s political rights across all major regions of the world, focusing both on women’s right to vote and women’s right to run for political office. This dual focus makes this the first book to combine historical overviews of debates ...

Writing Mary I

Writing Mary I Author: Valerie Schutte
Publisher: Springer Nature

This book—along with its companion volume Mary I in Writing: Letters, Literature, and Representations—centers on representations of Queen Mary I in writing, broadly construed, and the process of writing that queen into literature and other textual sources. It spans an equally wide chronological and geographical scope, accounting for ...

Women's Entrepreneurship and Microfinance

Women s Entrepreneurship and Microfinance Author: Chiranjib Neogi
Publisher: Springer

This book offers a critical perspective on the issues related to women’s empowerment, microfinance, and entrepreneurship in India. Written by distinguishing experts in this field, this book highlights women’s empowerment, which is a process of entrusting power to an individual on the control over resources and decisions. However, ...

Feminist Readings of Edith Wharton

Feminist Readings of Edith Wharton Author: D. Chambers
Publisher: Springer

This close and innovative study of Edith Wharton's major novels reveals the use of increasingly complex narrative techniques to counter the multiple forces working against women writers at the beginning of the twentieth century....

Developing Ecofeminist Theory

Developing Ecofeminist Theory Author: E. Cudworth
Publisher: Springer

An original exploration of how the relationship between society and 'nature' is conceptualized, focusing on theories of social exclusion and difference. A comprehensive overview of feminist and environmental theories of society-environment relations, considering the range of theoretical and political influences on such theorizing such as socialist and Marxist theory amongst ...

Rebellious Feminism

Rebellious Feminism Author: E. Bartlett
Publisher: Springer

In what might seem an unusual pairing, Barlett brings together the insights of Albert Camus and feminist thought, and in doing so sheds new light on both. Looking through a Camusian lens, Bartlett reveals a 'rebellious feminism' that simultaneously refuses oppression and affirms human dignity in solidarity with concrete, diverse ...

A Question For Humanity

A Question For Humanity Author: Hülya Simga
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

This collection of papers covers subjects from obstacles women face due to cultural understandings to the thoughts of prominent philosophers on certain issues related to the diverse aspects of gender distinction. Taking up a variety of topics related to the problem of discrimination against women, the papers implicate the woman ...

Daughters Of 1968

Daughters Of 1968 Author: Lisa Greenwald
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Daughters of 1968 is the story of French feminism between 1944 and 1981, when feminism played a central political role in the history of France. The key women during this epoch were often leftists committed to a materialist critique of society and were part of a postwar tradition that produced widespread social change, ...

Subjectivity, Gender and the Struggle for Recognition

Subjectivity  Gender and the Struggle for Recognition Author: P. McQueen
Publisher: Springer

In this book Paddy McQueen examines the role that 'recognition' plays in our struggles to construct an identity and to make sense of ourselves as gendered beings. It analyses how such struggles for gender recognition are shaped by social discourses and power relations, and considers how feminism can best respond ...

Becoming a Queen in Early Modern Europe

Becoming a Queen in Early Modern Europe Author: Katarzyna Kosior
Publisher: Springer

Queens of Poland are conspicuously absent from the study of European queenship—an absence which, together with early modern Poland’s marginal place in the historiography, results in a picture of European royal culture that can only be lopsided and incomplete. Katarzyna Kosior cuts through persistent stereotypes of an East-West ...

Global Perspectives on Women in Combat Sports

Global Perspectives on Women in Combat Sports Author: Christopher R. Matthews
Publisher: Springer

This volume offers a wide-reaching overview of current academic research on women's participation in combat sports within a range of different national and trans-national contexts, detailing many of the struggles and opportunities experienced by women at various levels of engagement within sports such as boxing, wrestling, and mixed martial arts....