Angela Davis's Modern Motherhood examines how English women learned, practised, and thought about mothering across the second half…
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Feminism
Feminism examines gender inequality and advocates for women’s rights and equality.
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Angela Davis argues that gendered identities are actively formed, maintained, and contested through the spatial arrangements of everyday…
Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971–1972 is a poetry collection by Adrienne Rich, first published in 1973.
Living Stories is a compiled community history and family memoir collection centered on the Amish-Mennonite settlement at Kempsville,…
Angela Davis argues that inclusion in oppressive institutions is not liberation; the table itself must be transformed through…
This book is a sustained critical study of Margaret Atwood's fiction, examined through the lens of feminist theory…
The book engages with questions of how gender functions as a social category and how individuals and collectives…
The Queer Intersectional in Contemporary Germany is a work by Judith Butler first published in 2018.
Butler's core thesis is that gender is performative rather than expressive, produced through the repetition of stylized acts,…
The editor presents the Everywoman's Almanac as a living document intended to accompany women through the year with…
On Women is a nonfiction collection of Susan Sontag's essays and exchanges on women, edited by David Rieff…
On Women is a collection of Susan Sontag's essays, exchanges, and an interview concerned with women, feminism, beauty,…
The novel is characterized by its psychological depth, focusing less on external plot events and more on the…
Addams argues that women must possess the vote to continue performing their age-old duties under new circumstances.
Addams reframes woman suffrage from philosophical debate to a practical necessity born of the modern city's transformation into…