Appealing to reason rather than religious belief, this book is the most comprehensive case against the choice of abortion yet published. This Second Edition of The Ethics of Abortion critically evaluates all the major grounds for denying fetal personhood, including the views of …
Using sophisticated rhetorical analysis, Marika Seigel works to deconstruct the manuals while also identifying ways to improve communication about pregnancy and healthcare. She traces the manuals' evolution from early twentieth-century tomes that instructed readers to turn over …
"Using sophisticated rhetorical analysis, Marika Seigel works to deconstruct the manuals while also identifying ways to improve communication about pregnancy and healthcare. She traces the manuals' evolution from early twentieth-century tomes that instructed readers to turn over…
1. Abigail Adams (1744-1818) / Patricia Moynagh -- 2. Chantal Akerman (1950-2015) / Lori Marso -- 3. Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua (1942-2004) / AnaLouise Keating -- 4. Mary Astell (1666-1731) / Patricia Springborg -- 5. Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) / Lori Marso -- 6. Judith Bult…
The feminist thinkers in this collection are the designated "fifty-one key feminist thinkers," historical and contemporary, and also the authors of the entries. Collected here are fifty-one key thinkers and fifty-one authors, recognizing that women are fifty-one percent of the p…
Collected here are fifty-one key thinkers and fifty-one authors, recognizing that women are fifty-one percent of the population. There are actually one-hundred-and-two thinkers featured in these pages, as each author is a feminst thinker, too: scholars, writers, poets, and activ…
"Collected here are fifty-one key thinkers and fifty-one authors, recognizing that women are fifty-one percent of the population. There are actually one-hundred-and-two thinkers featured in these pages, as each author is a feminst thinker, too: scholars, writers, poets, and acti…
"What science has gotten so wrong about women, and the fight, by both female and male scientists, to rewrite what we thought we knew. For hundreds of years it was common sense: women were the inferior sex. Their bodies were weaker, their minds feebler, their role subservient. No…
"When Mahnaz Afkhami picked up the phone in a New York hotel room early one morning in November 1978, she learned she could never go home again: she had been declared an apostate and enemy of the Iranian Revolution and was now on its death list. Afkhami, Iran's first minister fo…
"Today, the issue of Muslim women is held hostage between two extreme perceptions: that of a rigid and conservative Islamic approach and that of a Western ethnocentric and Islamophobic approach. These two perceptions lead to an impasse in which it is virtually impossible, given …
A challenge to the liberal and traditional teachings about women in Islam.
"Today, the issue of Muslim women is held hostage between two extreme perceptions: that of a rigid and conservative Islamic approach and that of a Western ethnocentric and Islamophobic approach. These two perceptions lead to an impasse in which it is virtually impossible, given …
