Search Results - "Feministing"

The Routledge Guidebook to Foucault's The history of sexuality / by Taylor, Chloe, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…The History of Sexuality and feminist theory -- 6. The History of Sexuality and queer theory -- 7. …”
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Desi divas political activism in South Asian American cultural performances / by Garlough, Christine L., 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Toward acknowledgment: care in diasporic performances -- Performing South Asian American histories -- National recognition and community acknowledgment -- A future in relation to the other -- Cultural activism and sexuality in feminist performance -- Intertwining folklore and rhetoric: cultural performance, acknowledgment, and social justice.…”
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Family theories: foundations and applications / by Allen, Katherine R., Henderson, Angela C.

Table of Contents: “…-- Functionalist Theory -- Conflict Theory -- Symbolic Interactionist Theory -- Family Developmental Theory -- Family Systems Theory -- Social Exchange Theory -- Feminist Theory -- Life Course Theory -- Family Ecological Theory -- Family Stress and Resilience Theory -- Conclusion.…”

The politics of collective advocacy in India tools and traps / by Deo, Nandini, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Rhetoric and reality : the many dimensions of civil society -- Transnational women's advocacy and Indian agendas -- Transnational human rights advocacy and the might of local action -- Transnational environmental advocacy and ethnic identity in India -- Transnational feminist and religious advocacy in India -- Negotiating networks.…”
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MTV and teen pregnancy critical essays on 16 and pregnant and Teen mom /

Table of Contents: “…pt. I. Feminist interventions or tired narratives? -- pt. …”
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Passions, pedagogies, and 21st century technologies

Table of Contents: “…Revisiting notions of teaching and access in an electronic age -- pt. 3. Ethical and feminist concerns in an electronic world -- pt. 4. …”
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Recovering Armenia : the limits of belonging in post-genocide Turkey / by Ekmekçioğlu, Lerna, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Afterlife of Armenians in post-genocide Turkey : an introduction -- The rebirth of a nation -- Can feminists revive a nation? -- An exodus and its aftermath -- A tamed minority -- Can Armenian feminism survive the new Turkey? …”
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Feminism, absolutism, and Jansenism Louis XIV and the Port Royal nuns / by Kostroun, Daniella J., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Jansenism as a "woman problem" -- Controversy and reform at Port Royal -- Jansenism's political turn, 1652-1661 -- The limits to obedience, 1661-1664 -- A feminist response to absolutism, 1664-1669 -- The unsettled peace, 1669-1679 -- A royal victory, 1679-1709.…”
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Forging the bubikopf nation journalism, gender, and modernity in interwar Yugoslavia / by Vujnovic, Marina, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Interwar Yugoslavia, gender, and history of women's magazines -- The becoming of Zagorka : life, works, and heritage -- A feminist political-economic analysis of Ženski list : from its rise to the transformation and demise -- Ženski list : the making and re-making of the alternative public sphere -- Conclusion.…”
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Critical Alliances : Economics and Feminism in English Women’s Writing, 1880–1914 / by Cameron, Brooke, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Educating new women for feminist futures -- Sisterly kinship and the modern sexual contract -- Cosmopolitan communities of female professionals -- Women's artistic connoisseurship and the pleasures of a lesbian aesthetic -- Virginia Woolf's post-Victorian feminism -- Coda : The post-Victorian legacy of women's work.…”
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Friendship fictions the rhetoric of citizenship in the liberal imaginary / by Kaplan, Michael A., 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Imagining citizenship as friendship -- friendship and the politics of community: The big chill -- Friendship, rebel-citizenship, and the feminist critique of liberalism: Thelma & Louise -- Liberalism, friendship, and the predicament of cybernetic sociality: Lost in translation -- Race, friendship, and the speculative politics of infinite debt: Smoke -- Conclusion: the friendship supplement and the rule of allegory.…”
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Learning to be old gender, culture, and aging / by Cruikshank, Margaret

Table of Contents: “…Cultural myths and aging -- Fear of an aging population -- Sickness and other social roles of old people -- Overmedicating old Americans -- Healthy physical aging -- The politics of healthy aging -- Class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender -- Ageism -- Countercultural gerontology -- A feminist's view of gerontology and women's aging.…”
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Democracy and the political unconscious by McAfee, Noëlle, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…The political unconscious -- Modernity's traumas -- Targeting the public sphere -- The repetition compulsion or the endless war on terror -- Recovering community -- Deliberative democracy -- Feminist theory, politics, and freedom -- Public knowledge -- Three models of democratic deliberation -- The limits of deliberation, democratic myths, new frontiers -- Media and the public sphere -- Epilogue.…”
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Between feminism and Islam human rights and Sharia Law in Morocco / by Salime, Zakia

Table of Contents: “…Gender and the nation state: family law, scholars, activists, and dissidents -- Feminization of the Islamist movements: the one million signature campaign -- Reversing the feminist gains: the Islamist mass rally of 2000 -- Feminism and Islamism redefined: in light of the 2003 terror attack on Casablanca -- Subversive veiling: beyond the binary of the secular and the religious.…”
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Gendered commodity chains : seeing women's work and households in global production /

Table of Contents: “…A feminist approach to overcoming the closed boxes of the commodity chain / Jane Collins -- Feminist commodity chain analysis : a framework to conceptualize value and interpret perplexity / Priti Ramamurthy -- Through the portal of the household : conceptualizing women's subsidies to commodity chains / Wilma A. …”
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Bombay to Bloomsbury a biography of the Strachey family / by Caine, Barbara

Table of Contents: “…An Anglo-Indian family -- An imperial marriage -- Strachey childhoods -- School days -- University life -- Modern marriages -- Single life -- Sibling ties -- Work, income, and changing career patterns -- Gender transformations and the question of sexuality -- A feminist family -- Continuity and change -- A literary family -- Old age and death.…”
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City / by Hubbard, Phil

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements -- Preface to the second edition -- Introduction -- Urbanization and the urban question -- Segregation and divided cities -- Globalization and mobile cities -- Post-colonial and superdiverse cities -- Feminist theory and gendered cities -- Queer theory and cities of desire -- Urban media and representation -- Technology and post-human cities -- Embodiment and the lived city -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Women Poets and the American Sublime / by Diehl, Joanne Feit, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…From Emerson to Whitman : engendering the sublime -- Another way to see : Dickenson and the counter-sublime -- Dickinson, Moore, and the poetics of deflection -- Marianne Moore : toward an engendered sublime -- The "piercing, melting word" : Moore's "Octopus" -- Bishop's sexual poetics -- Plath's bodily ego : restaging the sublime -- "Of woman born" : Adrienne Rich and the feminist sublime.…”
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Early detection women, cancer, & awareness campaigns in the twentieth-century United States / by Gardner, Kirsten E. (Kirsten Elizabeth)

Table of Contents: “…Look cancer straight in the face: public discussions of women's cancers in the early twentieth century -- Expanding networks of women: the Amanda Sims Memorial Fund and the Women's Field Army -- From awareness to screening: early detection redefined -- Cancer survivors: public discussions of postdiagnostic concerns -- Screening technology, feminist health movement, cancer critics.…”
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Women in African studies scholarly publishing /

Table of Contents: “…Women's scholarly publishing in African studies / Cassandra Rachel Veney and Paul Tiyambe Zeleza -- Women publishers in Africa and the North / Rebecca Clarke -- Feminist scholarship in Africa / Tuzyline Jita Allan -- From both sides now : gendering the Black Atlantic / Cheryl Johnson-Odim -- The politics of gender in African studies in the North / Nkiru Nzegwu.…”
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