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81) Looking for Ashley: Re-reading What the Smith Case Reveals about the Governance of Girls, Mother
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The 2007 death by self-induced strangulation in prison of nineteen year old inmate Ashley Smith drew a great deal of public attention. The case gave rise to a shocking verdict of homicide in the 2013 inquest into the cause of her death. In this book, I inquire into questions about of what social problem or phenomenon Ashley Smith is a "case," and what governmental work is done by prevalent constructions of her as an exemplar. This book performs a...
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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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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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"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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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...
86) 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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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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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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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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"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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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...
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Get the Summary of Janina Ramirez's Femina in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Femina" by Janina Ramirez offers a comprehensive exploration of medieval women's lives, examining their roles in diplomacy, art, warfare, literacy, and leadership. The book emphasizes the importance of considering social class, religion, age, and family status in historical narratives and advocates for an inclusive perspective that acknowledges...
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Astonishing. Luminous. A book about being human.
She I Dare Not Name is a compelling collection of fiercely intelligent, deeply intimate, lyrical reflections on the life of a woman who stands on the threshold between two millennia. Both manifesto and confession, this moving memoir explores the meaning and purpose Donna Ward discovered in a life lived entirely without a partner and children.
The book describes what it is like to live on the edge...
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¿Qué significa (y qué debería significar) "ser hombre" hoy en día. Este divertidísimo e inteligente manifiesto nos da la clave.
¿Qué clase de hombres haría "del mundo un lugar mejor para todos"? ¿Qué pasaría si redefiniésemos la vieja, machista y anticuada versión de la masculinidad para abrazar una nueva manera de "ser hombre"? La práctica de lo masculino suele identificarse con experiencias extremas: ganar batallas, seducir a mujeres...
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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...
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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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La antropóloga italiana Paola Tabet es una de las teóricas feministas más apasionantes, innovadoras y audaces de los últimos decenios. Este libro es una sintesís de sus principales trabajos, en el que se despliega su análisis materialista de las relaciones sociales en torno al sexo. En este volumen se ofrece una crítica radical de la naturalización de la procreación y de la división sexual del trabajo y desarrolla, además, su concepto de,...
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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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"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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