The path-breaking Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories is an accessible, multidisciplinary insight into the complex field of feminist thought. The Encyclopedia contains over 500 authoritative entries commissioned from an international team of contributors and includes clear, concis…
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This path-breaking volume offers an accessible multi-disciplinary insight into the complex field of feminist thought.
This book looks at the representation of the body in culture from a feminist perspective. Subjects covered include bodybuilding, cosmetic surgery, and cyberculture.
Jane Duran's Worlds of Knowing begins to fill an enormous gap in the literature of feminist epistemology: a wide-ranging, cross-cultural primer on worldviews and epistemologies of various cultures and their appropriations by indigenous feminist movements in those cultures. It is…
The papers collected here present a critical analysis of popular debates about victimization. The authors argue that we must move beyond polarized positions to examine the "victim" as a socially constructed term and to explore, in nuanced terms, why we see victims the way we do.…
The essays that comprise Sympathy and Solidarity reflect the intersection of the author's eye, work and sometimes politics. All the essays share feminist topics and themes and most deal with the reality of oppression.
The essays that comprise Sympathy and Solidarity reflect the intersection of the author's eye, work and sometimes politics. All the essays share feminist topics and themes and most deal with the reality of oppression.
Simone de Beauvoir made her own distinctive contribution to existentialism in the form of an ethics which diverged sharply from that of Jean-Paul Sartre. In her novels and philosophical essays of the 1940s she produced not just a recognizably existentialist ethics, but also a ch…
