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Feminism and Science

Existential Eroticism: A Feminist Approach to Understanding Women’s Oppression-Perpetuating Choices

The Return of the Political

The Force of Nonviolence: The Ethical in the Political

Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?

Beyond Female Masochism: Memory-Work and Politics

Postmodern Chick Flicks: The Return of the Woman’s Film

No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women

The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling

The Social Origins of Private Life: A History of American Families 1600-1900

Dolly Parton, Gender, and Country Music

Jane Austen and the Victorian Heroine

Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture

Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City’s Underground Economy

You Are an Artist: Assignments to Spark Creation

Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality

Beyond Explicit: Pornography and the Displacement of Sex

Rules for Writers

Finding Her in History: Confronting the Traditions of Misogyny

The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born

Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York

Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons

Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny

Feminism’s New Age: Gender, Appropriation, and the Afterlife of Essentialism

After the Rise and Stall of American Feminism: Taking Back a Revolution

In the Name of Women’s Rights: The Rise of Femonationalism

Stand Up and Shout Out: Women’s Fight for Equal Pay, Equal Rights, and Equal Opportunities in Sports

Go West, Young Women!: The Rise of Early Hollywood

Feminist Spirituality Under Capitalism: Witches, Fairies, and Nomads

Feminist Media Studies

The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home

Women’s Life Writing and Early Modern Ireland

Feminists Rethink the Neoliberal State: Inequality, Exclusion, and Change

The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World

Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future

And the Mirror Cracked: Feminist Cinema and Film Theory

Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself—and the Consequences for Your Health and Our Medical Future

Brazilian Women’s Filmmaking: From Dictatorship to Democracy

Colombian Women: The Struggle Out of Silence

Daughters of 1968: Redefining French Feminism and the Women’s Liberation Movement

Women Filmmakers of the African Asian Diaspora: Decolonizing the Gaze, Locating Subjectivity

Classic French Noir: Gender and the Cinema of Fatal Desire

Women Through the Lens: gender and nation in a century of Chinese cinema

Gaming Masculinity: Trolls, Fake Geeks, and the Gendered Battle for Online Culture

Beyond the Frame: Women of Color and Visual Representation

Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Trump

Fashion Victims: The Dangers of Dress Past and Present

Cleverlands: The secrets behind the success of the world’s education superpowers

Comic Venus: Women and Comedy in American Silent Film

Race, Culture, and Gender: Black Female Experiences of Violence and Abuse

Black Lives Matter and Music: Protest, Intervention, Reflection

Liberation in Print: Feminist Periodicals and Social Movement Identity

1968 and Global Cinema

Turkish Guest Workers in Germany: Hidden Lives and Contested Borders, 1960s to 1980s

Borderwork: Feminist Engagements With Comparative Literature

The Social Meaning of Money: Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief, and Other Currencies

The Bodies of Women: Ethics, Embodiment and Sexual Differences

Feminism and Contemporary Art: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Laughter

Earning Power: Women and Work in Los Angeles, 1880-1930

Rebel Daughters: Women and the French Revolution

Graphic Design: The New Basics

Women In Europe Between The Wars: Politics, Culture And Society

Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait

Reclaiming the F Word: The New Feminist Movement

The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in a New Age of Empire

Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics

Women’s Colonial Gothic Writing, 1850-1930: Haunted Empire

A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870

African American Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students

Pioneering Women: Short Stories by Canadian Women, Beginnings to 1880

Conflicting Stories: American Women Writers at the Turn Into the Twentieth Century

Priestess, Mother, Sacred Sister: Religions Dominated by Women

Women on Their Own: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Being Single

Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community

In the Wake: On Blackness and Being

Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies

When Rape Was Legal: The Untold History of Sexual Violence During Slavery

Epistemology of the Closet

Nothing Mat(t)ers: A Feminist Critique of Postmodernism

Power and Feminist Agency in Capitalism: Toward a New Theory of the Political Subject

Critical Thinking Skills: Developing Effective Analysis and Argument

In The Company Of Women: Contemporary Female Friendship Films

Rebellious Feminism: Camus’s Ethic of Rebellion and Feminist Thought

Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Individuation: The Problem of the Second Sex

Unruly Bodies: Life Writing by Women with Disabilities

Time Travels: Feminism, Nature, Power

A To Z Of Women In Science And Math

Men, Women, and God(s): Nawal El Saadawi and Arab Feminist Poetics

Preventing Workplace Harassment in a #MeToo World: A Guide to Cultivating a Harassment-Free Culture

Women and Teaching: Global Perspectives on the Feminization of a Profession

The Grind: Black Women and Survival in the Inner City

Reclaiming the Archive: Feminism and Film History

Reclaiming Feminism: Challenging Everyday Misogyny

Maid to Order in Hong Kong: Stories of Migrant Workers

Letting Go: Feminist and Social Justice Insight and Activism

Fields of Protest: Women’s Movements in India

Climate Chaos: Ecofeminism and the Land Question

Becoming Modern Women: Love and Female Identity in Prewar Japanese Literature and Culture

Challenging Women: Gender, Culture and Organization

Women in Culture: An Intersectional Anthology for Gender and Women’s Studies

Talking Back to the Indian Act: Critical Readings in Settler Colonial Histories

Women and Cultural Citizenship in Turkey: Mass Media and “Woman’s Voice” Television

Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema

Fashion, History, Museums: Inventing the Display of Dress

Sustainable Fashion & Textiles

Fashioning Horror: Dressing to Kill on Screen and in Literature

The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir

Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea: Indian Women as Cultural Intermediaries and National Symbols

Marked Women: The Cultural Politics of Cervical Cancer in Venezuela

Women in Western Political Thought

Women: The Last Colony

Neglected or Misunderstood: The Radical Feminism of Shulamith Firestone

Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour

Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?

Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity

Woman Suffrage and the Origins of Liberal Feminism in the United States, 1820-1920

Beyond Feminism and Islamism: Gender and Equality in North Africa

Feminism and Affect at the Scene of Argument: Beyond the Trope of the Angry Feminist

Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings: The Emotional Costs of Everyday Life

Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All

Contemporary Arab Women Writers: Cultural Expression In Context

Sisters in Spirit: Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Influences on Early American Feminists

Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era

Between Women: Biographers, Novelists, Critics, Teachers and Artists Write about Their Work on Women

Echo and Narcissus: Women’s Voices in Classical Hollywood Cinema

Endless Crusade: Women Social Scientists and Progressive Reform

Women Filmmakers in Mexico: The Country of Which We Dream

Encyclopedia of Arab Women Filmmakers

Feminist Generations: The Persistence of the Radical Women’s Movement

Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality

Contemporary Feminist Historical Crime Fiction

The Early Feminists: Radical Unitarians and the Emergence of the Women’s Rights Movement, 1831-51

Gendered Frames, Embodied Cameras: Varda, Akerman, Cabrera, Calle, and Maiwenn

Political Worlds of Women: Activism, Advocacy, and Governance in the Twenty-First Century

Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany

Simple Habits for Complex Times: Powerful Practices for Leaders

Funding Feminism: Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women’s Movement, 1870-1967

Feminist Perspectives on Social Work Practice: The Intersecting Lives of Women in the 21st Century

Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam

Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject

Womanist and Black Feminist Responses to Tyler Perry’s Productions

The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy

Pursuing Intersectionality, Unsettling Dominant Imaginaries

Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction: The Mothers of the Mystery Genre

Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate

Religious Resistance to Neoliberalism: Womanist and Black Feminist Perspectives

Speaking Power: Black Feminist Orality In Women’s Narratives Of Slavery

The Specter of Sex: Gendered Foundations of Racial Formation in the United States

Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: Women and Gay Male Pornography and Erotica

Digital Platforms and Feminist Film Discourse: Women’s Cinema 2.0

Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction (Fifth Edition)

Living a Feminist Life

The Routledge History of Women in Europe Since 1700

Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare’s English Histories

Handbook on Well-Being of Working Women

Feminist Film Studies

Historical Dictionary of Feminist Philosophy

The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory

Women’s Cinema, World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms

Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism

Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film

Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age

Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity

Inside The Gender Jihad: Women’s Reform in Islam

Anna Julia Cooper, Visionary Black Feminist: A Critical Introduction

Embodied Performances: Sexuality, Gender, Bodies

Women Scientists: Reflections, Challenges, and Breaking Boundaries

Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body

Women’s Writing in Colombia – An Alternative History

Feminist Activism in the 1990s: Gender & Society (Feminist Perspectives on the Past and Present)

Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature

How to Make Things Happen: A blueprint for applying knowledge, solving problems and designing systems that deliver your service strategy

Dangerous Books for Girls: The Bad Reputation of Romance Novels Explained

Raciolinguistics: How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race

What Is a Woman to Do? A Reader on Women, Work and Art, c. 1830-1890

The World of Prostitution in Late Imperial Austria

Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Terror in Literature and Culture

Lives Lived, Lives Imagined

Finding Feminism: Millennial Activists and the Unfinished Gender Revolution

A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare

Art and Politics under Modern Dictatorships: A Comparison of Chile and Romania

Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease

African Women Writing Resistance: Contemporary Voices

Modernism and Phenomenology: Literature, Philosophy, Art

Postmodern and Film: Rethinking Hollywood’s Aesthetics

Lyric Interventions: Feminism, Experimental Poetry, and Contemporary Discourse

Last Things: Emily Brontë’s Poems