Lívia de Souza Lima / Edith Otero Quezada / Julia : Feminisms in Movement

Theories and Practices from the Americas. D 2022, 300 pp., brochure, € 36.00
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Feminist organizing and theorizing from the Americas have provided some of the most innovative, visible, and all-encompassing spaces of resistance against sexism and sexualized violence, misogyny, racism, homo- and transphobia, coloniality, extractivism, climate change, and neoliberal capitalist exploitation. Current feminist movements address different axes of oppression and thereby represent, practice, and theorize a truly »intersectional« politics. The contributors bring together ... Weiterlesen

Laurie Penny: Sexual Revolution

Modern Fascism and the Feminist Fightback. UK 2022, 256 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Bloomsbury
This is a story about how modern masculinity is killing the world, and how feminism can save it. It's a story about sex and power and trauma and resistance and persistence.It's a story about how you can track the crisis of democracy against the crisis of White masculinity, and how the far right is rising in response to both.It's a ... Weiterlesen

Cathia Jenainati / Judy Groves / Jem Milton: Feminism

A Graphic Guide. UK/USA 2019, 192 pp., b/w illustrated, brochure, € 14.99
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What is feminism? Why are we still talking about it, and what can it tell us about ourselves, our societies and prejudices? This illustrated introduction explores the early history of conscious struggle against sexist oppression, through the modern »waves« of feminism, up to present-day conversations about MeToo, intersectional feminism, and women's rights in the Middle East. It offers a look ... Weiterlesen

Niharika Banerjea / Kath Browne / Eduarda Ferreira: Lesbian Feminism

Essays Opposing the Global Heteropatriarchy. USA 2019, 332 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Zed
Drawing on the wealth of diversity of languages, cultures and movements in which lesbian feminisms have been articulated, this book confronts the historic devaluation of lesbian-feminist politics within Anglo-American discourse and ignites a transnational and transgenerational discussion regarding the relevance of lesbian feminisms in today's world, a discussion that challenges the view of lesbian feminism as static and essentialist. These ... Weiterlesen

Christina Dalcher: Vox

USA 2018, 326 pp., brochure, € 18.95
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Penguin USA
Set in a United States in which half the population has been silenced, »Vox« is the harrowing dystopia of what one woman will do to protect herself and her daughter. On the day the government - influenced by the religious right - decrees that women are no longer allowed more than one hundred words per day, Dr. Jean McClellan is ... Weiterlesen

Marion Kraft: Empowering Encounters with Audre Lorde

D 2018, 120 pp., brochure, € 13.20
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Unrast
A hommage to the great Afroamerican lesbian poet and feminist Audre Lorde. Her works were essential for liberation movements in many countries and are still up to date today. She as a person gave the new Black movement in Germany during the 1980s direction. Marion Kraft was a personal friend of Audre Lorde. She uses essays, speeches and interviews of ... Weiterlesen

Camille Paglia: Free Women, Free Men

Sex, Gender, Feminism. USA 2017, 352 pp., hardcover, € 27.95
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Penguin USA
From the fiery intellectual provocateur: a brilliant essay collection that both celebrates and challenges modern feminism from motherhood to Madonna, football to Friedan, stilettos to Steinem. When Camille Paglia first burst onto the scene with »Sexual Personae«, she established herself as a smart, and often dissenting voice among feminists. Now, for the first time, her best essays on the subject ... Weiterlesen

Laurie Penny: Bitch Doctrine

Essays for Dissenting Adults. UK 2017, 384 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Bloomsbury
This collection of Laurie Penny's writing establishes her as one of the most urgent and vibrant feminist voices of our time. From the shock of Donald Trump's election and the victories of the far right, to online harassment and the transgender rights movement, these darkly humorous articles provoke challenging conversations about the definitive social issues of today. Penny is lyrical ... Weiterlesen

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

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

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