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Gender

Feminism and Pornography

Author: 
Drucill Cornell
Publishing Year: 
2002
Publishing House: 
Oxford University Press
Number of pages: 
688
Language: 
English
Volumes: 
1

This vibrant collection expands the parameters of the feminist debate on pornography. In an effort to move away from the divisive frameworks in feminist disputes over pornography, this volume seeks to understand what pornography means to those who consume it, fight against it, and work within it. By opening up a space for divergent points of view to address the complexity of sexual material, this book seeks to forge solidarity among academics, activists, and sex workers from diverse social and political contexts.

A Backward Glance: An Autobiography

Author: 
Edith Wharton
Publishing House: 
New York: D. Appleton-Century
Number of pages: 
424
Language: 
English
Volumes: 
1

This volume is the vivid account of Edith Wharton’s public and private life. It describes the sophisticated New York society in which Wharton spent her youth, and chronicles her travels throughout Europe and her literary success as an adult.

The Woman Who Dived into the Heart of the World

Author: 
Sabina Berman
Publishing Year: 
2010
Publishing House: 
Simon & Schuster
Number of pages: 
384
Language: 
English
Volumes: 
1

This work of fiction by gifted Mexican playwright and novelist, Sabina Berman, who offers her reader a glimpse of the delights, the comedy, and the heartbreak that each ultimately experiences as one dives into the heart of the tenuous, ever-changing world.

Fat Is A Feminist Issue

Author: 
Susie Orbach
Publishing Year: 
1989
Publishing House: 
Arrow; New Ed edition London
Number of pages: 
400
Language: 
English
Volumes: 
1

This book explores our love/hate relationship with food and describes how fat is about so much more than food. According to the author, fat is a response to our social situation and the way we are seen by others and by ourselves.

Harvesting Feminist Knowledge for Public Policy: Rebuilding Progress

Author: 
Devaki Jain
Publishing Year: 
2011
Publishing House: 
SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd; 1 edition
Number of pages: 
396
Language: 
English
Volumes: 
1

This volume brings together 14 essays by feminist thinkers from different part of the world reflecting on the flaws in the current patterns of development, and arguing for political, economic, and social changes to promite equality and sustainability.

Woman's Inhumanity to Woman

Author: 
Phyllis Chesler
Publishing Year: 
2001
Publishing House: 
New York: Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books
Number of pages: 
536
Language: 
English
Volumes: 
1

In her cathartic book, Chesler addresses the double standards in psychology. She draws on studies, various theories as well as on many interviews and on her own personal experience. She argues that both women and men are capable of both courage and jealousy and of providing care as well as causing pain.

Women and Land: Securing Rights for Better Lives

Author: 
Debbie Budlender, Eileen Alma
Publishing Year: 
2011
Publishing House: 
IDRC Books; Pap/DVD edition
Number of pages: 
110
Language: 
English
Volumes: 
1

This book focuses on recent findings from sub-Saharan Africa where researchers in 12 countries explored the topic of women and land from many angles - legal, customary, political, and economic. Researchers from NGOs, academics and grassroots activists worked together with communities on the research, exploring the experiences of women in specific contexts. The evidence gathered aims to capture the diversity of women's experiences and provides, as such, insights to policy makers to secure women's right to land.

Living dolls: the return of sexism

Author: 
Walter, Natasha
Publishing Year: 
2010
Publishing House: 
Virago
Number of pages: 
288
Language: 
English

This book is about empowerment, liberation and choice. Once the watchwords of feminism, these terms have now been co-opted by a society that sells women an airbrushed, highly sexualized and increasingly narrow vision of femininity. The author seeks to start a discussion amongst women and between al actors of society.

Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism

Author: 
Karima Bennoune
Publishing Year: 
2013
Publishing House: 
W. W. Norton & Company (August 26, 2013)
Number of pages: 
416
Language: 
English
Volumes: 
1

Bennoune, an activist and law professor, interviews Muslims who are bravely standing up to fundamentalist Islamist groups. The geographic range of the book is vast, including France, Egypt, Senegal, Russia, Mali, and beyond. The author shines a spotlight on those who battle with intelligence and creativity against, fundamentalism, guns and bloodlust
 

Women and Property: In Early Modern England

Author: 
Amy Louise Erickson
Publishing Year: 
1993
Publishing House: 
Routledge
Number of pages: 
320
Language: 
English
Volumes: 
1

This book reveals the economic reality of ordinary women between the late 16th and early 18th centuries. Drawing on little-known sources, the author reconstructs day-to-day lives, showing how women owned, managed and inherited property on a scale previously unrecognised.