Gemma Correll: The Feminist Activity Book

USA 2016, 64 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Looking to smash the patriarchy and get your arts and crafts on? Want to have a laugh while taking down sexist stereotypes? - Look no further than Gemma Correll's »Feminist Activity Book« , where your dress up doll can wear whatever she wants and the only thing limiting your sexuality is the size of your colored pencil collection. Welcome to ... Weiterlesen

Naomi Alderman: The Power

UK 2018, 341 pp., pb., € 14.95
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Penguin UK
Imagine if one day, suddenly, girls developed a strange physical power: they can produce electricity inside them. They can use this power to hurt, to torture, and to kill. The whole world that is built on patriarchy is suddenly upturned - being a woman is synonymous with power and strength, men are the ones afraid to walk alone at night, ... Weiterlesen

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: We Should All Be Feminists

UK 2014, 52 pp., pb., € 8.95
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What does »feminism« mean today? That is the question at the heart of »We Should All Be Feminists«, a personal, eloquently-argued essay - adapted from her much-viewed Tedx talk of the same name - by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the award-winning author of »Americanah« and »Half of a Yellow Sun«. With humour and levity, here Adichie offers readers a unique definition ... Weiterlesen

Dorothy Sue Cobble, Linda Gordon and Astrid Henry: Feminism Unfinished

A Short, Surprising History of American Women's Movement. USA 2015, 256 pp. illustrated, pb., € 19.95
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W. W. Norton
Eschewing the conventional wisdom that places the origins of the American women's movement in the nostalgic glow of the late 1960s, this book traces the beginnings of this seminal American social movement to the 1920s, in the process creating an expanded, historical narrative that dramatically rewrites a century of American women's history. Also challenging the contemporary lean-in, trickle-down feminist philosophy ... Weiterlesen

Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett: New Amazonia

A Foretaste of the Future. UK 2014 (reprint), 148 pp., brochure, € 28.95
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In her novel, Corbett envisions a successful suffragette movement eventually giving rise to a breed of highly evolved »Amazonians« who turn Ireland into a utopian society. The book's female narrator wakes up in the year 2472 and is given an account of intervening history by one of the Amazonians. In the early 20th century, war between Britain and Ireland decimated ... Weiterlesen

Andrea Weiss: Paris Was a Woman

Portraits from the Left Bank. USA 2013, 256 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 24.95
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Publishers Group West
Originally published more than twenty years ago and winner of a Lambda Literary Award, »Paris Was a Woman« is a rare profile of the female literati in Paris at the turn of the last century. Now with a new preface and illustrations, this »scrapbook« of their work - along with Andrea Weiss' lively commentary - highlights the political, social, and ... Weiterlesen

Gloria Anzaldúa: Borderlands / La Frontera

USA 2012, 304pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa's experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the essays and poems in this volume profoundly challenged, and continue to challenge, how we think about identity. »Borderlands / La Frontera« remaps our understanding of what a »border« is, presenting it not as a simple divide between here and there, us and them, but ... Weiterlesen

Kira Cochrane (ed.): Women of the Revolution

Forty Years of Feminism. UK 2012, 396 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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Guardian
When hundreds gathered in 1970 for the first British women's liberation conference, a movement that had been gathering strength for years burst into a frenzy of radical action that was to transform the way we think, act, and feel. This collection of the Guardian's best articles and interviews is the ultimate portrait of an ongoing revolution. This anthology produces a ... Weiterlesen

Silvia Federici: Revolution at Zero Point

Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle. USA 2012, 189 S., brochure, € 14.69
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PM Press
Written between 1974 and the present, »Revolution at Point Zero« collects 40 years of research and theorizing on the nature of housework, social reproduction, and women's struggles on this terrain - to escape it, to better its conditions, to reconstruct it in ways that provide an alternative to capitalist relations. Indeed, as the author reveals, behind the capitalist organization ... Weiterlesen

Jack Halberstam: Gaga Feminism

Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal. USA 2012, 157 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Beacon
The author makes sense of the tectonic cultural shifts that have transformed gender and sexual politics in the last few decades. This colorful landscape is populated by symbols and phenomena as varied as pregnant men, late-life lesbians, SpongeBob SquarePants, and queer families. So how do we understand the dissonance between these real lived experiences and the heteronormative narratives that dominate ... Weiterlesen

Kat Banyard: The Equality Illusion

The Truth about Women and Men Today. UK 2011, 291 pp., brochure, € 16.95
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Faber and Faber
Women (in the Western world) have apparently never had it so good. In today's supposedly post-feminist world, cosmetic surgery is seen as empowering, lap dancing as a sexually liberating career, and the lack of women in the boardroom a result of women's free choices. But the author isn't buying it. Only 22 per cent of British MPs are women. 100,000 ... Weiterlesen

Stephanie Staal: Reading Women

How the Great Books of Feminism Changed My Life. USA 2011, 278 pp., brochure, € 15.39
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The first time Stephanie Staal read feminist authors like Simone de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan, she was a 19-year-old student taking a Feminism 101 class, her eyes as wide as the horizon of limitless possibility that stretched in front of her. A decade later, Stephanie is a wife and mother who has traded the stability and independence of full-time work ... Weiterlesen

Nuala O'Faolain: A Radiant Life

USA 2011, 302pp., brochure, € 15.95
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The selected journalism of Nuala O'Faolain presents an unequivocal voice - tackling a vast range of subjects - from Catholicism to Feminism - from Frank Sinatra to Africa - and from Irish American Culture to Islam and the West. Curious and funny, tender and scathing, O'Faolain's columns were never less than trenchant and always passionate. Through the prism of casual, ... Weiterlesen

Susan S. Douglas: Enlightened Sexism

The Seductive Message That Feminism's Work is Done. USA 2010, 355 pp., hardbound, € 21.59
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This look at our pop-culture icons reveals the unfinished business of the women's movement. Women today are inundated with conflicting messages from the mass media: they must be either strong leaders in complete command or sex kittens obsessed with finding and pleasing a man. This book takes readers on a journey through TV Programs, popular songs, movies, and news coverage ... Weiterlesen

Pamela A. Brand (ed.): Lesbians and Work

The Advantages and Disadvantages of »Comfortable Shoes«. UK/USA 2009, 115 pp., brochure, € 36.39
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What differences and similarities exist at work between lesbian women in various careers around the world? This book discusses the variability among lesbians in their experiences of and responses to workplace heteronormativity and cites the similarities among this population across geographical and national boundaries. Presented in their own words, these women's viewpoints reveal a wide spectrum of experiences - both ... Weiterlesen

Jennifer Baumgardner: Look Both Ways

USA 2008, 244 pp., brochure, € 18.95
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Bisexuality has always been more than »the sexual non-preference of the '90s«. In her book, the author and activist Jennifer Baumgardner takes a close look at gay and bisexual people on the national cultural stage and the issues their growing visibility raises, particularly for younger women navigating the murky waters of identity. In a society supposedly grown more open and ... Weiterlesen

Marina Grzinic, Rosa Reitsamer (eds.): New Feminism

Ö 2008, 470 S., Broschur, € 29.80
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Löcker Verlag
»New Feminism« analyzes the worlds of Feminism, queerness and networking. One way to point to the »new« in feminism is to locate it at the junction of the postcolonial, the post- and transhuman, the cyber, the transnational, the color and queer struggles. If we are queering sexuality, we need new mapping on the nomadic organization of our pleasures and desires. ... Weiterlesen

Audre Lorde: Sister Outsider

Foreword by Cheryl Clarke. USA 2007 (1984), 190 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Crossing Press
Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, »Sister Outsider« celebrates an influential voice in 20th-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle ... Weiterlesen