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Book cover for Janet L. Abu-Lughod: Remaking Women

Remaking Women : Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East

Janet L. Abu-Lughod
Paperback - $56.95

The last two decades have witnessed an extraordinary burst of energy and richness in Middle East women's studies, and the contributors to this volume exemplify the vitality of this new thinking. They take up issues of concern to historians and social ...

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Class Questions : Feminist Answers

Joan Acker
Paperback - $58.95

Class Questions: Feminist Answers examines feminist theories of class and intersectionality and proposes a theory of gendered and racialized class processes as deeply embedded in capitalist practices, both historically and today. Joan Acker argues th ...

Book cover for Alison Adam: Artifical Knowing

Artifical Knowing

Alison Adam
Hardcover - $275.95

"Artificial Knowing" challenges the masculine slant in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) view of the world. Alison Adam admirably fills the large gap in science and technology studies by showing us how gender is inscribed in AI-based computer systems. ...

Book cover for Carol J. Adams: Sexual Politics of Meat

Sexual Politics of Meat

Carol J. Adams
Paperback - $33.95

New Tenth Anniversary edition of this classic text with a new preface by the author, compares myths about meat-eating with myths about manliness, and seeks to explore the literary, scientific, and social connections between meat-eating, male dominanc ...

Book cover for Mahnaz Afkhami: Women in Exile

Women in Exile

Mahnaz Afkhami
Paperback - $33.95

Attempting to come to terms with her own life in exile, Afkhami, who was forced out of Iran because of her work for women's rights, sought out and talked with 12 other women from all parts of the globe. Their stories offer a rare and special opportun ...

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Differences That Matter : Feminist Theory and Postmodernism

Sara Ahmed
Hardcover - $174.95

Differences That Matter challenges theories of the relationship between feminism and postmodernism that ask "is/should feminism be modern or postmodern?" Pointing out how postmodernism has been allowed to dictate feminist debates, Sara Ahmed argues i ...

Book cover for Sara Ahmed: Thinking Through the Skin

Thinking Through the Skin

Sara Ahmed
Paperback - $99.95

This exciting collection of work from leading feminist scholars extends the growing feminist literature on lived and imagined embodiment and argues for consideration of the skin as a site where bodies take form...already written upon, but open to end ...

Book cover for Hokulani K. Aikau: Feminist Waves, Feminist Generations

Feminist Waves, Feminist Generations : Life Stories from the Academy

Hokulani K. Aikau
Paperback - $52.95

"Feminist Waves, Feminist Generations" challenges the static figuring of feminist generations that positions the second wave of feminist scholars against a homogeneous third wave. Based on life stories from contemporary feminist scholars, this volume ...

Book cover for Stacy Alaimo: Material Feminisms

Material Feminisms

Stacy Alaimo
Paperback - $41.95



Book cover for Stacy Alaimo: Undomesticated Ground

Undomesticated Ground : Recasting Nature as Feminist Space

Stacy Alaimo
Paperback - $46.95

From "Mother Earth" to "Mother Nature", women have for centuries been associated with nature. Feminists, troubled by the way in which such representations show women controlled by powerful natural forces and confined to domestic space, have sought to ...

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