Download or read book Introducing Feminism written by Cathia Jenainati and published by Graphic Guides. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A graphic guide to the key ideas of feminism, from the seventeenth century to the present day, and the remarkable individuals who fought against the oppression of women.
Download or read book Feminism A Graphic Guide written by Cathia Jenainati and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is feminism? Why are we still talking about it, and what can it tell us about ourselves, our societies and prejudices? In this unique, illustrated introduction, we'll explore 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. We'll look at critical theory, popular action and the social and cultural forces that affect attitudes toward gender, women's lives and the struggle for equality. And we'll hear about the contributions of pioneers like Mary Wollstonecraft, Simone de Beauvoir and Kimberlé Crenshaw. As we'll see, feminism is at once global, local and individual. Written by Cathia Jenainati with illustrations from Judy Groves and Jem Milton, Feminism: A Graphic Guide engages with the heated debates taking place in our homes, workplaces and public spaces -- and the work still to be done.
Download or read book Introducing Feminism written by Cathia Jenainati and published by Totem Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the major developments that have affected women's lives from the 17th century to the present day.
Download or read book Data Feminism written by Catherine D'Ignazio and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new way of thinking about data science and data ethics that is informed by the ideas of intersectional feminism. Today, data science is a form of power. It has been used to expose injustice, improve health outcomes, and topple governments. But it has also been used to discriminate, police, and surveil. This potential for good, on the one hand, and harm, on the other, makes it essential to ask: Data science by whom? Data science for whom? Data science with whose interests in mind? The narratives around big data and data science are overwhelmingly white, male, and techno-heroic. In Data Feminism, Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein present a new way of thinking about data science and data ethics—one that is informed by intersectional feminist thought. Illustrating data feminism in action, D'Ignazio and Klein show how challenges to the male/female binary can help challenge other hierarchical (and empirically wrong) classification systems. They explain how, for example, an understanding of emotion can expand our ideas about effective data visualization, and how the concept of invisible labor can expose the significant human efforts required by our automated systems. And they show why the data never, ever “speak for themselves.” Data Feminism offers strategies for data scientists seeking to learn how feminism can help them work toward justice, and for feminists who want to focus their efforts on the growing field of data science. But Data Feminism is about much more than gender. It is about power, about who has it and who doesn't, and about how those differentials of power can be challenged and changed.
Download or read book Introducing Feminist Theology written by Anne M. Clifford and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing Feminist Theology responds to the questions "What is feminist theology?" and "Why is it important?" by considering the perspectives of women from around the globe who have very diverse life experience and relationships to God, Church and creation. Clifford introduces the major forms of feminist theology: "radical, " "reformist, " and "reconstructionist, " and highlights some of their specific characteristics.
Download or read book Introducing Postfeminism written by Sophia Phoca and published by Totem Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In style typical of this series Introducing Postfeminism uses text and integrated illustration to trace the effect of French feminist theory on contemporary gender, politics and culture.
Download or read book Governance Feminism written by Janet Halley and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describing and assessing feminist inroads into the state Feminists walk the halls of power. Governance Feminism: An Introduction shows how some feminists and feminist ideas—but by no means all—have entered into state and state-like power in recent years. Being a feminist can qualify you for a job in the United Nations, the World Bank, the International Criminal Court, the local prosecutor’s office, or the child welfare bureaucracy. Feminists have built institutions and participate in governance. The authors argue that governance feminism is institutionally diverse and globally distributed. It emerges from grassroots activism as well as statutes and treaties, as crime control and as immanent bureaucracy. Conflicts among feminists—global North and South; left, center, and right—emerge as struggles over governance. This volume collects examples from the United States, Israel, India, and from transnational human rights law. Governance feminism poses new challenges for feminists: How shall we assess our successes and failures? What responsibility do we shoulder for the outcomes of our work? For the compromises and strange bedfellows we took on along the way? Can feminism foster a critique of its own successes? This volume offers a pathway to critical engagement with these pressing and significant questions.
Download or read book Introducing Redemption in Christian Feminism written by Rosemary Radford Ruether and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity begins with what appears to be an inclusive promise of redemption in Christ without regard to gender. Paul proclaimed that 'In Christ there is no more male and female.' Yet Christianity soon developed a patriarchal social structure, excluding women from public ministry, with the argument that women were created subordinate in nature and were more culpable for sin. Here, distinguished feminist theologian, Rosemary Ruether, traces the tension between patriarchal and egalitarian patterns in Christian theology historically. She then examines key theological themes--Christology, the self, the cross and future hope--in the light of her critique.
Download or read book Introducing Feminism written by Susan Alice Watkins and published by Icon Books Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For some people, the word "feminism" conjures up the fearful spectre of gender competition, the "sex war" and man-hating females. Introducing Feminism cuts through the myths surrounding the subject and provides an incisive account of the women's movement from its surprisingly recent birth in the French Revolution to the worldwide explosion of women's liberation in the 1970s and the conservative backlash of the Reagan and Thatcher years of the 1980s. It looks at the achievements of feminism and the challenges still confronting women throughout the world as we enter the 21st century. This is a timely guide to the struggle for women's rights - a stormy history of conservative male opposition from the outside and disagreements within the movement. Susan Alice Watkins, Marisa Rueda and Marta Rodriguez have created a highly entertaining canvas of words and pictures which tells the story of some very remarkable women, past and present.
Download or read book Feminism for Beginners written by Susan Alice Watkins and published by Icon Books Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book cuts through the myths surrounding the subject and provides an incisive account of the women's movement. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Download or read book Financial Feminism written by Jessica Robinson and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As we face global challenges like climate change and inequality, what if women could use their investments to build a cleaner, fairer and more sustainable world? Financial feminism – the belief in the financial equality of women – has been gathering momentum, largely in the context of the gender pay gap: on average a woman earns 80% of what a man does. But there’s another gap – the gender investing gap – which shows women are investing less than men, saving less for retirement and parking more in cash. When compounded by the gender pay gap, this results in a significant shortfall, but there’s more to financial feminism than simply addressing these gaps: women also care about where their money is invested and the impact it can have. In this practical and accessible guide, sustainable investing expert Jessica Robinson shows how through financial feminism, women can use their financial power to invest in a sustainable future and build the kind of world they want to live in. With jargon-free explanations and real-world examples, she demystifies the financial services industry, breaks down just what sustainable investing is and demonstrates the societal and environmental impact of the investment decisions we make. Arming women with the information they need to get started – and keep going – she hopes that more women will embrace financial feminism, invest to grow their own wealth and, in doing so, use their financial decisions to demand a better world.
Download or read book Introducing the Women s Hebrew Bible written by Susanne Scholz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing the Women's Hebrew Bible is an up-to-date feminist introduction to the historical, socio-political, and academic developments of feminist biblical scholarship. In the second edition of this popular text Susanne Scholz offers new insights into the diverse field of feminist studies on the Hebrew Bible. Scholz provides a new introductory survey of the history of feminism more broadly, giving context to its rise in biblical studies, before looking at the history and issues as they relate specifically to feminist readings and readers of the Hebrew Bible. Scholz then presents the life and work of several influential feminist scholars of the Bible, outlining their career paths and the characteristics of their work. The volume also outlines how to relate the Bible to sexual violence and feminist postcolonial demands. Two new chapters further delineate recent developments in feminist biblical studies. One chapter addresses the relationship between feminist exegesis and queer theory as well as masculinity studies. Another chapter problematizes the gender discourse as it has emerged in the Christian Right's approaches to the Old Testament.
Download or read book Critical Realism Feminism and Gender A Reader written by Michiel van Ingen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-10 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In assessing the current state of feminism and gender studies, whether on a theoretical or a practical level, it has become increasingly challenging to avoid the conclusion that these fields are in a state of disarray. Indeed, feminist and gender studies discussions are beset with persistent splits and disagreements. This reader suggests that returning to, and placing centre-stage, the role of philosophy, especially critical realist philosophy of science, is invaluable for efforts that seek to overcome or mitigate the uncertainty and acrimony that have resulted from this situation. In particular, it claims that the dialectical logic that runs through critical realist philosophy is ideally suited to advancing feminist and gender studies discussions about broad ontological and epistemological questions and considerations, intersectionality, and methodology, methods, and empirical research. By bringing together four new and eight existing writings this reader provides both a focal point for renewed discussions about the potential and actual contributions of critical realist philosophy to feminism and gender studies and a timely contribution to these discussions.
Download or read book Introducing Feminism written by Cathia Jenainati and published by Icon Books Ltd. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term 'feminism' came into English usage around the 1890s, but women's conscious struggle to resist discrimination and sexist oppression goes much further back. This completely new and updated edition of "Introducing Feminism" surveys the major developments that have affected women's lives from the 17th century to the present day. "Introducing Feminism" is an invaluable reference book for anyone seeking the story of how feminism reconfigured the world for women and men alike.
Download or read book An Introduction to Feminism written by Lorna Finlayson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As well as providing a clear and critical introduction to the theory, this refreshing overview focuses on the practice of feminism with coverage of actions and activism, bringing the subject to life for newcomers as well as offering fresh perspectives for advanced students. Explanations of the main strands to feminism, such as liberalism, sit alongside an exploration of a range of approaches, such as radical, anarchist and Marxist feminism, and provide much-needed context against which more familiar historical themes may be understood. The author's broad and inclusive view conveys the diversity and disagreement within feminism with accessible clarity. The analysis of key terms equips readers with a critical understanding of the vocabulary of feminist debates that will be invaluable to undergraduate students.
Download or read book Introducing Asian Feminist Theology written by Kwok Pui-lan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2000-07-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asian women comprise more than a quarter of the world's population, and the forms in which they express feminist theology are many and varied, extending through grassroots movements, theological networks, ecumenical conferences and journals. Those involved in the process include community organizers, theological students, church leaders and social activists, among whom even the concept 'feminism' assumes many definitions and substitutes. Kwok Pui-lan's introduction to this huge subject begins with a survey of the social, political and cultural contexts of Asian women's experiences, and then traces the emergence of feminist consciousness and the organization of women's networks. She describes the resources of Asian feminist theology and the appropriation of Asian religious traditions, and considers the reconstructions of the concept of God in inclusive categories. Finally, she summarizes Asian women's critique of the patriarchal church and outlines the search for a new spirituality that express women's embodiedness and sexuality.
Download or read book Introducing Women s Studies written by Victoria Robinson and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1997-07-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of the bestselling Introducing Women's Studies provides the reader with an up- to-date beginner text that covers major debates in women's studies in a comprehensive and accessible way. Fully revised and expanded, with new chapters on social policy, science and technology, and feminist research methodologies, this book explores the major subject areas of women's studies. Each chapter, written by an expert in the particular subject area, provides a clear overview of the main issues and debates, as well as suggestions for further reading. Chapters focus on the following subjects: turning the tide in women's studies; feminist theory; sexuality, power, and feminism; women, violence, and male power; representations of women in contemporary popular culture; women, writing, and language; women, marriage, and family relationships; motherhood and women's lives; women and reproduction; women and health; women at work; women, history, and protest; women and education; feminist research methodology; feminism and social policy; and women's studies, science, and technology.
