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Although Sir Isaac Harman didn't think much of the suffragette movement, his female employees certainly did, and he thought it prescient that he too should do his bit for women's rights. His wife totally agreed, so he locked her up. However, this gesture was to have far-reaching reverberations as Sir Isaac's wife becomes the absolute embodiment of women's independence. "The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman" is a novel by H. G. Wells, first written in 1914....
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Ann Veronica is a New Woman novel by H.G. Wells. Ann Veronica describes the rebellion of Ann Veronica Stanley, "a young lady of nearly two-and-twenty," against her middle-class father's stern patriarchal rule. The novel dramatizes the contemporary problem of the New Woman. It is set in Victorian era London and environs, except for an Alpine excursion. Ann Veronica offers vignettes of the Women's suffrage movement in Great Britain and features a chapter...
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Lithuanian born anarchist Emma Goldman immigrated to the United States at the age of sixteen. She first became attracted to anarchism following the Haymarket affair of 1886, a massacre in which seven police officers and an unknown number of civilians were killed during a march of striking Chicago workers. Eight anarchists were subsequently tried for murder. In the early part of the 20th century Emma Goldman would become one the most ardent supporters...
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"Work: A Story of Experience" by Louisa May Alcott immerses readers in the compelling narrative of Christie Devon, a young woman navigating the post-Civil War landscape in pursuit of independence and purpose. Set against the backdrop of the societal constraints of the era, this semi-autobiographical novel chronicles Christie's multifaceted journey through various jobs, each offering a glimpse into the challenges and triumphs of a woman seeking self-reliance.
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Erin Wunker is a feminist killjoy, and she thinks you should be one, too.
Following in the tradition of Sara Ahmed (the originator of the concept of the "feminist killjoy"), Wunker brings memoir, theory, literary criticism, pop culture, and feminist thinking together in this collection of essays that take up Ahmed's project as a multi-faceted lens through which to read the world from a feminist point of view.
Neither totemic nor complete, the non-fiction...
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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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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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"Behind a Mask" is an 1866 novella by American author Louisa May Alcott, originally published under the pseudonym of A. M. Barnard. The story takes place in Victorian England and centres around Jean Muir. Muir is the sly governess of the Coventry family who, through masterful manipulation, manages to attain respect, love, and finally the entire fortune of the wealthy family she serves. Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888) was an American short story writer,...
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Historia del movimiento feministas y de mujeres en Chile. Sus páginas recorren todas las organizaciones históricas de mujeres, enfatizando en las que tuvieron un horizonte feminista, en cuanto lucha por la liberación de la opresión sufrida por las mujeres en tanto sexo-mujer.
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Arguably the earliest written work of feminist philosophy, Wollstonecraft produced this manifesto of woman's rights in the time of the American and French Revolutions. This era induced many to reconsider not only the rights of men, but also of women, and none argued for female emancipation more eloquently or effectively than Wollstonecraft. Her strong use of analogy and philosophical language compared women of her day to both slaves and soldiers,...
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La escasa presencia de mujeres en los puestos de dirección y toma de decisiones evidencia que la discriminación laboral de género es todavía un problema sin resolver. La sociedad actual, en favor de los valores democráticos, no debe permitir esta injusta desigualdad, pero tampoco puede desaprovechar las aportaciones que las mujeres altamente cualificadas y motivadas para promocionar pueden hacer al ámbito directivo. El análisis de los estilos...
12) The New F Word
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As voices rise across the world, in more fora than one, about the need for women to find their place under the sun, feminism continues to be a word, a thought, a phenomenon misunderstood.
The New F Word is a collection of thought-provoking essays designed to help expand understanding of, and empathy towards a movement that strives to create a world where men and women co-exist leveraging the other's strengths, and more importantly, in peace with each...
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El libro asume una lectura plural sobre la irrupción de los feminismos y acerca de la rebelión producida en campus universitarios de todo el país.
No se trata de textos que se apropian de banderas sino más bien dialogan, interpelan, interrogan, analizan esta coyuntura histórica intentando no reducirlo sino entenderlo en toda su complejidad y diversidad. Así, desde la academia, el arte, las ciencias sociales, los estudios culturales, el activismo...
14) Movimientos de mujeres indígenas en Latinoamérica: Género y etnicidad en el Perú, México y Bolivia
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Movimientos de mujeres indígenas en Latinoamérica ilustra cómo, en las últimas décadas, las mujeres indígenas desafiaron varias formas de exclusión utilizando diferentes estrategias para transformar las organizaciones e identidades colectivas de los movimientos indígenas. A través de un análisis comparativo, este libro demuestra cómo el género y la etnicidad están presentes en los discursos de las mujeres que pertenecen a los movimientos...
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Mientras que las ideas del feminismo se transforman en fuerza material en las calles y en las asambleas, en lugares de trabajo e institutos, importantes debates estratégicos cruzan el movimiento: ¿cuál es la relación entre la opresión de las mujeres y el capitalismo?; ¿es posible un feminismo para la mayoría de las mujeres que no sea a la vez antirracista y anticapitalista?; ¿cuáles son las alianzas sociales que tenemos que tejer con esos...
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No puede haber una revolución social exitosa si no se altera la relación de poder desigual entre los sexos. Para que eso ocurra, es necesario redefinir dos instituciones básicas: el matrimonio y la familia. Esta es la tesis fundamental de 'Política sexual' de Kate Millett, una obra clásica del feminismo del siglo XX, que nos ayuda a entender que la relación entre hombres y mujeres es una relación política. Este libro repasa esa obra de referencia,...
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This cross-disciplinary collection considers the intersection of affect and mothering, with the aim of expanding both the experiential and theoretical frameworks that guide our understanding of mothering and of theories of affect. It brings together creative, reflective, poetic, and theoretical pieces to question, challenge, and re-conceptualize mothering through the lens of affect, and affect through the lens of mothering. The collection also aims...
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In that moment, I felt closer to whiteness than not. I was completely complicit and didn’t think twice about entering a space that could cover their walls with images of contemporary Indigenous perspectives, but exclude their physical bodies from entering and experiencing. In that moment, I felt like a real Canadian.
Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being, is the debut collection of nonfiction essays by Amy Fung. In it, Fung takes a closer examination...
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"Internet no es para todo el mundo". Sobre esta premisa, la escritora británica Laurie Penny expone su experiencia y conocimiento sobre lo que significa ser mujer y participar activamente en la red. El acoso, la vigilancia y el machismo son los ejes que sostienen el cibersexismo en Internet, un espacio público donde mujeres y chicas jóvenes se enfrentan a la misoginia y la desigualdad.
Este capítulo es un adelanto del libro de próxima aparición...
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El feminismo se ha corrompido, y en ese declive ha ido desnaturalizándose y perdiendo la esencia justa, ética y loable, con la que antaño luchaba por rescatar del ostracismo y la esclavitud a millones de mujeres. Con este ensayo quiero visibilizar como, a día de hoy, el feminismo tiene cada vez más similitudes con el patriarcado en cuanto a que utiliza los mismos mecanismos ideológicos reduccionistas con los que el hetero centrismo gobierna...
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