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Book cover for Richard A. Bauman: Women and Politics in Ancient Rome

Women and Politics in Ancient Rome

Richard A. Bauman
Paperback - $96.95

A groundbreaking study of women's political involvement in the classical age, "Women and Politics in Ancient Rome" delineates not only the influential role of Roman women in business, government, law and public affairs, but also the emergence of wome ...

Book cover for Jennifer Baumgardner: Grassroots

Grassroots : A Field Guide for Feminist Activism

Jennifer Baumgardner
Paperback - $24.95

Aimed at everyone from students to professionals, stay-at-home moms to artists, "Grassroots" is an activism handbook for social justice.

Book cover for Jane H. Bayes: Globalization, Gender, and Religion

Globalization, Gender, and Religion : The Politics of Women's Rights in Catholic and Muslim Contexts

Jane H. Bayes
Paperback - $77.95

In the early 1970s, accompanying the current wave of globalization, conservative nationalist religious movements began using religion to oppose non-democratic and often Western oriented regimes. Reasserting patriarchal gender relations presumably aut ...

Book cover for Kellie Bean: Post-Backlash Feminism

Post-Backlash Feminism : Women and the Media Since Reagan-Bush

Kellie Bean
Paperback - $86.95

This work scrutinizes the prefix-based language of post-backlash feminism and calls for a reclamation of American feminist terminology. The author argues that the proliferation of so-called "prefix feminisms" has weakened the feminist movement by nar ...

Book cover for Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex

The Second Sex

Simone de Beauvoir
Hardcover - $39.95

Introduction by Margaret Crosland; Translation by H. M. Parshley

Book cover for Ruth Behar: Women Writing Culture

Women Writing Culture

Ruth Behar
Paperback - $56.95

"A rich collection that I will use in teaching graduates and undergraduates about the weave of ethnography, narrative, the women's movement, and feminism. Crafted by an impressive range of scholars, the essays are empirically rich and theoretically c ...

Book cover for Donna A. Behnke: Religious Issues in Nineteenth Century Feminism

Religious Issues in Nineteenth Century Feminism

Donna A. Behnke
Hardcover - $96.95

This book is a clear and informative resource for anyone interested in feminism, history, or both.

Book cover for Vikki Bell: Culture and Performance

Culture and Performance : The Challenge of Ethics, Politics and Feminist Theory

Vikki Bell
Paperback - $60.95

Cultural theory has taken a 'performative turn', shifting its focus from the textual nature of the world to how the social world is narrated, its subjects are subjected and its relations are ritually enacted. The rise of performativity in cultural th ...

Book cover for Vikki Bell: Feminist Imagination

Feminist Imagination : Genealogies in Feminist Theory

Vikki Bell
Paperback - $107.95

Reading feminist theory as a complex imaginative achievement, Feminist Imagination considers feminist commitment through the interrogation of its philosophical, political and affective connections with the past, and especially with the race' trials o ...

Book cover for Seyla Benhabib: Feminist Contentions

Feminist Contentions : A Philosophical Exchange

Seyla Benhabib
Paperback - $64.95

Begun as a symposium on the issue of feminism and postmodernism, this unique volume presents a debate between four of the top feminist theorists in the United States today. The authors discuss key questions facing feminist theory and respond to each ...

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