Gender

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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
 

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.