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101. Feminism

     Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

     Edited by Mary Evans

     Series: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

     Feminism has always refused compartmentalisation within any one social context, and this collection attests to its universal relevance. This is a guide for specialist and non-specialist readers to the many debates and discussions to which feminists have contributed in the past two hundred years.The...

     Published October 25th 2000 by Routledge
102. Feminism and Youth Culture

     Second Edition

     By Angela McRobbie

     Feminism and Youth Culture brings together eight separate essays written by Angela McRobbie (Zoot Suits and Second-Hand Dresses, 1989) over a period of over ten years. Various themes include the effect of sexual inequality on the everyday lives of working-class girls; the blindness of male...

     Published August 15th 2000 by Routledge
103. Pregnant Pictures

     By Sandra Matthews, Laura Wexler

     In this dazzling collection of over 200 photos of pregnant women taken from art libraries, childbirth manuals, maternity ads, contemporary art, and personal albums, the authors explore the paradox between image and reality. The photos illuminate how society creates feminine roles through the...

     Published July 25th 2000 by Routledge
104. Interviews/Entrevistas

     By Gloria E. Anzaldua

     Edited by AnaLouise Keating

     In this memoir-like collection, Anzaldúa's powerful voice speaks clearly and passionately. She recounts her life, explains many aspects of her thought, and explores the intersections between her writings and postcolonial theory. For readers engaged in postcoloniality, feminist theory, ethnic...

     Published May 23rd 2000 by Routledge
105. How Like a Leaf

     An Interview with Donna Haraway

     By Donna Haraway, Thyrza Goodeve

     The author of four seminal works on science and culture, Donna Haraway here speaks for the first time in a direct and non-academic voice. How Like a Leaf will be a welcome inside view of the author's thought....

     Published November 2nd 1999 by Routledge
106. Women Working In The Environment

     Resourceful Natures

     By Carolyn E. Sachs

     Based on theoretical insights from ecofeminism, women and development, and postmodernism, and the convincing empirical work of numerous scholars, this book is organized around five aspects of gender relationships with the environment: Part I-gender divisions of labor, Part 2-property rights, Part 3...

     Published August 31st 1997 by Taylor & Francis
107. Materialist Feminism

     A Reader in Class, Difference, and Women's Lives

     Edited by Rosemary Hennessy, Chrys Ingraham

     During the 1980s, capitalism triumphantly secured its global reach, anti-communist ideologies hammered home socialism's inherent failure, the New Left increasingly moved into the professional middle class--and many of feminism's earlier priorities were marginalized. "Identity politics", often...

     Published August 11th 1997 by Routledge
108. Dislocating Cultures

     Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism

     By Uma Narayan

     Series: Thinking Gender

     Dislocating Cultures takes aim at the related notions of nation, identity, and tradition to show how Western and Third World scholars have misrepresented Third World cultures and feminist agendas. Drawing attention to the political forces that have spawned, shaped, and perpetuated these...

     Published July 22nd 1997 by Routledge
109. Whores and Other Feminists

     Edited by Jill Nagle

     Whores and Other Feminists fleshes out feminist politics from the perspective of sex workers--strippers, prostitutes, porn writers, producers and performers, dominatrices--and their allies. Comprising a range of voices from both within and outside the academy, this collection draws from...

     Published July 1st 1997 by Routledge
110. Jews and Feminism

     The Ambivalent Search for Home

     By Laura Levitt

     By interrogating America's promise of a home for Jews as citizens of the liberal state, Jews and Feminism questions the very terms of this social "contract". Maintaining that Jews, women, and Jewish women are not necessarily secure within this construction of the state, Laura Levitt links this...

     Published June 24th 1997 by Routledge