In this eagerly anticipated interpretation of the life and work of quintessential "public intellectual" Jane Addams (1860-1935), Jean Bethke Elshtain explores Addams's legacy thematically and chronologically, recounting her embrace of "social feminism," her challenge to the usual cleavage between "conservative" and "liberal," and the growth of Chicago's famed Hull House into a thriving cultural and intellectual center. Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy is a rich and revealing portrait of one of the most extraordinary figures in American history.

A historian presents the first full-length biography of the black woman crusader for racial justice and women's rights in the period after Reconstruction, detailing her efforts to eliminate lynching and her complicated relationship with the feminists of the time. UP.

The reader is led through an impressive amount of documentation on 'Gender, Environment and Development': introductory readings, conference materials, theoretical writings, examinations of global and local issues, policy rhetoric, analytical tools and work on social movements.

This book is the first broad survey of feminist critical theory and practice, and one of the few contributions to the subject to have been written by a male academic, in the belief that the basic premise of feminist literary criticism - that gender is the crucial factor in the production, circulation, and reception of literary texts - is of fundamental importance to all serious students of literature. The book focuses on three main aspects: first, the impact of Marxism, structuralism, and post-structuralism on feminist critical practice; second, the argument that in a male-dominated society literary language, conventions, and forms are shaped by masculine biases; third, analyses of the characteristic styles and traditions of women's writing as distinct from men's.

A feminist literary study of the friendship between two modern British writers as manifested in their works.

"Despite the progress of the women's movement, many women still feel silenced in their families and schools. This moving and insightful bestseller, based on in-depth interviews with 135 women, explains"

Four Black women talk candidly about their lives, their roles as wives, mothers, and daughters, and their work, set within the context of the history of Black women in America

An anthology gathers essays, poems, and photography by twenty-seven contemporary Black women who chronicle the lives of ancestors, and uphold the value of activism

Bundel essays waarin de schijnoplossingen die aan de - voornamelijk door de moderne media bepaalde - wensen en verlangens van vrouwen tegemoetkomen, geanalyseerd worden.

Klappentext: Sexualitätsdarstellungen, zumal pornographische, fallen bei Frauen schnell unter Zensur und Selbstzensur. Trotz derartiger gerade in der Frauenbewegung verbreiteter Vorbehalte untersuchen Hofstadter/Körbitz, wie filmische Szenarien von Sexualitätsdarstellungen in der modernen Version des Video-Heimkinos auf Frauen wirken. Entstanden ist ein differenziertes Buch, in dem Frauen über ihre erotischen Phantasien und sexuellen Wünsche nachdenken und ihr Verhältnis zu Pornographie jenseits von Verboten und (Selbst-) Zensur klären. In anschaulicher Darstellung kann der Prozess der Auseinandersetzung von Frauen mit Pornographie in seinem bewussten und unbewussten Dimensionen nachvollzogen werden.

Artikelen over de zelfstandige positie van de moeder.