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21) Sexual Politics
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A sensation upon its publication in 1970, Sexual Politics documents the subjugation of women in great literature and art. Beginning in 1830 and targeting four revered authors: D.H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, and Jean Genet, Kate Millett builds a damning profile of literature's patriarchal myths and their extension into psychology, philosophy, and politics. Her eloquence and popular examples taught a generation to recognize inequities masquerading...
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Men are taught to live a story. But the story is a lie.
Because you're a man, you're always the main character. You're physically tough. Stoic and strong. You never cry. You're smart, athletic, and financially successful. You're dominant, in control, and independent. All. The. Time.
Now, what if you could CHANGE that story?
Shu Matsuo Post is a successful businessman in Japan, one of the most gender-rigid nations on the planet. When he got married...
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"Don't women with children travel?" Marybeth Bond and Pamela Michael enquire, in their book A Mother's World: Journeys of the Heart (1998), when discovering the absence of portrayals of travelling mothers. Addressing this absence, our book Travellin' Mama: Mothers, Mothering and Travel explores the multiple dimensions of motherhood and travel. Through a variety of compelling creative pieces and critical essays with a global outlook and wide-ranging...
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Essential Breakthroughs: Conversations About Men, Mothers, and Mothering thinks from the nexus of gender, essentialism, and care. The authors creatively blend the philosophical and the personal to collectively argue that while gender is essential to our social and theoretical definitions of care, it is dangerously co-opted into naturalized discourses, which limit particular identities and negate certain forms of care. The perspectives curated in Essential...
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Including the latest research on prostitution and pornography, this essay anthology shows how the sex industries harm those within them while undermining the possibilities for gender justice, human equality, and stable sexual relationships. From sex industries survivors to social activists and theorists such as Taylor Lee, Adriene Sere, and Kristen Anderberg, this volume asses from a feminist perspective the racism, poverty, militarism, and corporate...
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El camino de las mujeres norteafricanas o de origen norteafricano hacia la igualdad no está exento de retrocesos. Así, tras décadas de lucha para dejar atrás rémoras culturales patriarcales, la llegada de un nuevo islam fundamentalista, fomentado desde los países del Golfo, está en vías de anular los avances del movimiento feminista.
La difusión masiva del velo es el símbolo más claro de este proceso reaccionario: una prenda uniformada,...
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El campo de estudios feministas y de género en el mundo, con diferentes ritmos a nivel local, pasó de ser el cuarto de atrás de las ciencias sociales a convertirse en un espacio dinámico, en crecimiento y con una importante producción editorial desde hace pocas décadas. Los programas de formación académica y los centros de investigación dedicados a estos temas se fortalecieron en los últimos años en Ámerica Latina. Asimismo, en armonía...
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Since secondwave feminism of the 1970s, women's rights and opportunities in education and employment have increased across the globe, but has equality, whether social, political or legal, really been achieved? In this fascinating book, Miriam E. David, a well-known and influential feminist in higher education, celebrates the achievements of international feminists as activists and scholars. She provides a critique of the expansion of global higher...
29) Devenir perra
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A Itziar Ziga le gustan las boas de plumas, en ocasiones se disfraza de camionero, y en otras se autodenomina perra. Este libro, escrito en primera persona desde la voz deslenguada y agreste de una guerrillera incombustible, da fe de ese instante de iluminación en el que el activismo se reviste de lucha divertida y desacomplejada, batalla campal de ideas, gritos estridentes y anormales, reivindicación brutal de lo que queda al margen de una sociedad...
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A large proportion-and in many jurisdictions the majority-of incarcerated women are mothers. Popular attention is often paid to challenges faced by children of incarcerated mothers while incarcerated women themselves often do not "count" as mothers in mainstream discourse. This is the first anthology on incarcerated mothers' experiences that is primarily based on and reflects the Canadian context. It is also trans- national in scope as it covers related...
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Despite checking off the boxes of worldly accomplishments, most high-achieving women are secretly dissatisfied. They feel stuck in lives that look perfect on the outside, yet on the inside, they're unfulfilled, plagued by the nagging feeling that there's got to be more. They feel guilty and ungrateful for feeling trapped in lives that are so good. They disown their pain, or numb it with excessive work, eating, drinking, shopping, social media, or...
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Through ethnographic case studies and activists' narratives, Contesting Publics analyses the challenges feminists face as they seek to engage with new spaces of participatory democracy in Latin America.
Lynne Phillips and Sally Cole analyse how new silences, exclusions and re-inscriptions of inequalities have emerged alongside these new spaces of participation. They re-examine the relationship between public and private and address a larger theoretical...
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"Las gallinitas", un grupo de amigas integrado por seis mujeres, se reúnen en el bar para comentar sus vivencias y experiencias. Durante una semana completa, Paula, Tote, Laura, Ada, Mercedes y María José irán explorando temas clave que afectan de forma clara y directa a las mujeres y su convivencia en una sociedad fálica y machista.
Pablo Martín Tharrats, el autor de este ensayo novelado, completa las reflexiones de las protagonistas con datos...
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Patricia Hill Collins has given new meaning to the institution of motherhood throughout her publishing career. Introducing scholars to new conceptions, such as, "other mothering" and "mothering of mind," Collins through her creative and multifaceted analysis of the institution of motherhood, has in a large sense, reconceived what it means to be a mother in a national and transnational context. By connecting motherhood as an institution to manifestations...
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"Mothers Under Fire: Mothering in Conflict Areas" examines the experiences of women mothering in conflict areas. The aim of this collection is to engage with the nature and meaning of motherhood and mothering during times of war and/or in zones experiencing the threat of war. The essays in the collection reflect diverse disciplinary perspectives through which scholars and field practitioners reveal how conflict shapes mothering practices. One of the...
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Ce livre est un condensé des meilleures chroniques « Grenades » de Safia Kessas diffusées sur La Première. Les thèmes qui y sont abordés avec un ton décalé, parfois acide mais jamais méchant touchent aux féminismes et aux diversités. De metoo au Black Live matters, Safia brosse de façon incisive et malicieuse un fait d'actualité marquant. Qu'est-ce que la masculinité toxiques ? Savez-vous que les sorcières existent vraiment ? Pourquoi...
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Much of this book is dedicated to exploring female rights in Canada, India, the developing world, and other countries, making comparisons and contrasting the experience of these women. For example, the ways that sexuality is handled in many third world countries and the cultures there are to approach female sexuality as a sense of duty to the man or as a feeling of shame if a women should want it for herself. Compare this to Canada where many women...
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This second edition, which includes an epilogue by Marilyn Waring, maps new advances in theories and practices in feminist economics and the valuation of women, care and nature since Marilyn Waring's 1988 groundbreaking critique of the system of national accounts, If Women Counted. It features theoretical, practical and policy oriented contributions, empirical studies, and new conceptualizations, theorizations and problematizations of defining and...
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Woman Up! views historical events through the eyes of women in their pursuit of equality in the United States. The stories of generations of women and the author's own experiences explore how history, legislation, and the evolution of thought from Seneca Falls to today's Supermajority continue to affect women in America. This complicated journey shows how women collaborated-and all too often worked against each other-to win equality. Reflect on your...