Tag: Feminism

Transnational Feminism in Non-English Speaking Europe, c.1960-1990


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English | ISBN: 3031691377 | 2024 | 262 pages | EPUB, PDF | 6 MB + 6 MB
This edited collection aims to look beyond established narratives of feminist history, by focusing on non-English speaking European countries. Recent scholarship on the history of the women’s liberation movement in individual countries has enhanced our understanding of the importance of transnational influences in the history of European feminism, and problematised the periodisation of feminisms. Additionally, the translation of feminist practices and texts have received interest during the past years. Despite this work, the United States, and to a lesser extent the United Kingdom, are still the main points of reference in histories of post-war feminism. This book asks what happens to the picture if we place non-English speaking European countries in the centre. Using Lucy Delap’s concept of ‘mosaic feminism’, its contributors emphasise the variety of patterns that women’s feminist organising showed in different cultural contexts despite similarities in their ideological corner stones.

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The Black Marxist Feminism of bell hooks Towards an Intersectional Theory of White-Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy


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English | ISBN: 3031746961 | 2024 | 402 pages | EPUB | 521 KB
This book explores bell hooks’ trajectory of work and cohesiveness of thought about the meaning and meaningfulness of black womanhood in terms of a Black Marxist feminism, which uniquely confronts the dimensions of feminism and womanism; the relations between the secular and the religious; the problems of gender and sexism; and the structural and systemic issues of oppression, domination, white supremacy, and capitalism. In making sense of black womanhood in its philosophical, social, cultural, institutional, and historical complexities, hooks’ Black Marxist feminism constructs an intersectional theory about what hooks describes as white supremacist capitalist patriarchy. In this sense, hooks’ Black Marxist feminism conceptualizes the ways and means by which white supremacist capitalist patriarchy imposes intersectional predicaments upon black womanhood, drawing foundationally on Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels, working within the purview of a host of Marxisms in Antonio Gramsci, Louis Althusser, Karl Kautsky, Nikolai Bukharin, and Georgi Plekhanov, and speaking to the Marxist proclivities of Cedric Robinson, Cornel West, Charles W. Mills, James H. Cone, Stuart Hall, and Angela Y. Davis.

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Enchanted Feminism The Reclaiming Witches of San Francisco


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English | 2001 | pages: 337 | ISBN: 041522392X | PDF | 2,2 mb
This is the first major study of the most famous Reclaiming Witch community, founded in 1979 in San Francisco, written by an author who herself participated in a coven for ten years. Jone Salomonsen describes and examines the communal and ritual practices of Reclaiming, asking how these promote personal growth and cultural-religious change.

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Divine Dicks and Mortal Pricks Feminism and humour collide in these outrageously fun new retellings of the Greek


Free Download Divine Dicks and Mortal Pricks: Feminism and humour collide in these outrageously fun new retellings of the Greek myths you know and love – a delightful Christmas gift for 2024 by Walburga Appleseed
English | January 21, 2025 | ISBN: 0008664056 | 144 pages | EPUB | 47 Mb
This is a book about divine dicks, mortal pricks, and some epically long-suffering women.

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Kantianism, Liberalism, and Feminism Resisting Oppression


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English | ISBN: 1349434450 | 2013 | 215 pages | PDF | 766 KB
In this book Hay argues that the moral and political frameworks of Kantianism and liberalism are indispensable for addressing the concerns of contemporary feminism. After defending the use of these frameworks for feminist purposes, Hay uses them to argue that people who are oppressed have an obligation to themselves to resist their own oppression.

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History of Feminism Mansplained by a White Man Men and Feminism, a Necessary Alliance (Easy History)


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English | August 23, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0CW1GGYTV | 99 pages | EPUB | 1.40 Mb
If someone were to ask, "What makes a man a man?" the first qualities that might come to mind are physical strength, endurance, leadership, and a certain emotional detachment. These traits are often seen as typical of the male identity.

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Generational Feminism New Materialist Introduction to a Generative Approach


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English | ISBN: 0739190172 | 2014 | 178 pages | EPUB | 616 KB
Iris van der Tuin redirects the notion of generational logic in feminism away from its simplistic conception as conflict. Generational logic is said to problematize feminist theory and gender research as it follows a logic of divide and conquer between the old and the young and participates in patriarchal structures and phallologocentrism. Examining the continental philosophies of Bergson and Deleuze and French feminisms of sexual difference, van der Tuin paves the way for a more complex notion of generationality. This new conception of the term views generational cohorts as static measurements that happen in the flow of being. Prioritizing this generative flow gives what is measured its proper place as an effect.

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