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My
Secret Garden by Nancy Friday | |
| Usually dispatched in 24
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The
Whole Woman by Germaine Greer | |
| Usually dispatched in 2-3
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| Amazon.co.uk For women born in the immediate post-war period there were the years BG and AG--"before Greer" and "after Greer". It's all too easy to underestimate its influence, but the fact is that in 1970 every self-respecting woman on the Left owned a copy of The Female Eunuch. Greer's book broke the ground... Read more | |||
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The
Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir | |
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| Amazon.co.uk In The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir posed questions many men, and women, had yet to ponder when the book was released in 1953. "One wonders if women still exist, if they will always exist, whether or not it is desirable that they should..." she says in this comprehensive treatise on women. She... Read more | |||
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The
Power of Identity by Manuel Castells | |
| Usually dispatched in 2-3
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| Book Description This is an account of the two great and conficting trends now shaping the world: globalization and identity. The information technology revolution and the restructuring of capitalism have induced the network society, and ushered in the globalization of strategic economic activities, flexibility and... Read more | |||
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Gender
Trouble by Judith Butler | |
| Usually dispatched in 2-3
days Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd Paperback - 256 pages 10th Anniversary Ed edition (September 1999) Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd |
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| Synopsis Butler examines the 'trouble' with unproblematized appeals to sex/gender identities. She challenges a variety of psychological assumptions about what it means to be a gender and gives re-readings of Lacan, Freud, and Kristeva. This book should be of interest to advanced students of women's studies,... Read more | |||
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| 6. | Fat
Is a Feminist Issue by Susie Orbach | ||
| Arrow Paperback - 304 pages 3d revised edition edition ( 7 May, 1998) Arrow |
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| Synopsis A new, single-volume edition of both classic anti-diet books. Read more | |||
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| 7. | The
Whole Woman by Germaine Greer | ||
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| Amazon.co.uk For women born in the immediate post-war period there were the years BG and AG--"before Greer" and "after Greer". It's all too easy to underestimate it's influence, but the fact is that in 1970 every self-respecting woman on the Left owned a copy of The Female Eunuch. Greer's book broke the ground... Read more | |||
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| 8. | Literature
in the Modern World by Dennis Walder(Editor) | ||
| Usually dispatched in 24
hours Oxford University Press Paperback - 394 pages (November 1990) Oxford University Press |
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| Synopsis Literature in the Modern World offers a unique combination of English, European, feminist and `new writing', or `Commonwealth', perspectives on literary studies from the 1920s to the 1980s. It is designed to enable students to gain an understanding of the main theoretical issues involved in the... Read more | |||
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| 9. | In
a Different Voice by Carol Gilligan | ||
| Usually dispatched in 24
hours Harvard University Press Paperback - 204 pages (June 1982) Harvard University Press |
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| Synopsis Siince its publication more than a decade ago, this highly influential book has won international acclaim and pioneered a revolution in our understanding of female development psychology. Now, witth more than half a million copies of the first edition inprint, CArol Gillgan reflects on the impact... Read more | |||
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| 10. | Girls'
Night Out by Kathy Lette | ||
| Usually dispatched in 2-3
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| Synopsis A satire on sex, surf and shenanigans in Australia. In a series of conversations, the lifestyle of the modern Aussie woman is revealed, as they discuss the man shortage, Aussie footballers, the married man syndrome and have-it-all feminists. Read more | |||
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| 11. | Bodies
That Matter by Judith Butler | ||
| Usually dispatched in 2-3
days Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd Paperback - 288 pages ( 1 December, 1993) Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd |
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| Synopsis In "Bodies that Matter", Judith Butler further develops her distinctive theory of gender by examining the workings of power at the most "material" dimensions of sex and sexuality. Deepening the inquiries she began in "Gender Trouble", Butler offers an original reformulation of the materiality of... Read more | |||
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| 12. | The
Madwoman in the Attic by Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar | ||
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| Synopsis In this work of feminist literary criticism the authors explore the works of many major 19th-century women writers. They chart a tangible desire expressed for freedom from the restraints of a confining patriarchal society and trace a distinctive female literary tradition. Read more | |||
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| 13. | The
Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan | ||
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| Synopsis An analysis of the position of women in Western society. When published in 1963 it met with an enormous response and led to Friedan being called the mother of the new feminist movement. Read more | |||
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| 14. | Mary
Wollstonecraft by Janet Todd | ||
| Temporarily out of stock Weidenfeld & Nicolson General Hardcover - 352 pages (13 April, 2000) Weidenfeld & Nicolson General |
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Identified as one of the founders of modern feminism, the life of Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) has become a symbol of women's struggle between love and politics. Janet Todd's outstanding biography does justice to both aspects of that life from Wollstonecraft's girlhood--as a child, she was a keen... Read more | |||
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| 15. | Zeros
and Ones by Sadie Plant PhD | ||
| Usually dispatched in 2-3
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| Amazon.co.uk Meet Ada Lovelace, daughter of mathematician Annabella Byron and poet Lord Byron, and a major contributor to Charles Babbage's famous Analytic Engine. Lovelace is in many ways the patron saint of Sadie Plant's exploration of women's roles in the creation of modern technology. The book begins with... Read more | |||
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| 16. | The
Subversive Stitch by Rozsika Parker | ||
| Usually dispatched in 2-3
days The Women's Press Paperback - 256 pages Reissue edition ( 9 May, 1996) The Women's Press |
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| Womens expression and oppression with and by
the needle. This book is a review of the way that embroidery has been used historically both to oppress women, and by them to express themselves. The divide between Art and crafts is discussed, and photographs are used to ilustrate many of the points Parker makes about the subject matter used by women for their...Read more | |||
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| 17. | The
Selected Melanie Klein by Melanie Klein, Juliet Mitchell(Editor) | ||
| Usually dispatched in 2-3
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| Synopsis Freud has little to say about "the dim and shadowy era" of earliest infancy. It was Melanie Klein, one of the greatest of Freud's disciples, whose pioneering investigations illuminated the baby's most primitive fantasies. The small baby, dominated by overpowering feelings of love and hate towards... Read more | |||
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| 18. | Why
Feminism? by Lynne Segal | ||
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| Amazon.co.uk From the beginning of the Women's Liberation Movement in the 1960s there has been an acute tension in feminist theory; feminists have been arguing simultaneously for the abolition of gender difference and for the unique nature of women; for social equality and a better understanding of subjectivity.... Read more | |||
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| 19. | The
Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft by Claire Tomalin | ||
| Usually dispatched in 24
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| Synopsis One of the most controversial figures of her day, Mary Wollstonecraft published "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman", travelled to revolutionary France and lived through the terror and destruction of the incipient French feminist movement, produced an illegitimate daughter and married William... Read more | |||
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| 20. | SCUM
Manifesto by Valerie Solanas | ||
| Usually dispatched in 1-2
weeks AK Press Paperback - 60 pages new edition edition (31 October, 1996) AK Press |
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| A scathing insight into a hatred of male
autonomy Valerie Solanos brings us a hate filled manifesto wishing to crush all traces of male autonomy. Flawed in detail, but concisive in its sentiment the S.C.U.M Manifesto heralds a wish to entrap all males and belittle them in a state of female autonomy, whilst loathing so called feminists who still...Read more | |||
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| 21. | Truth
and Moral Progress by Richard Rorty | ||
| Usually dispatched in 24
hours Cambridge University Press Paperback - 363 pages ( 1 June, 1998) Cambridge University Press |
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| Synopsis This volume complements two, previously-published volumes of Richard Rorty's philosophical papers: "Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth", and "Essays on Heidegger and Others". The essays in this book engage with the work of many contemporary thinkers including Robert Brandom, Donald Davidson, Daniel... Read more | |||
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| 22. | An
Introductory Guide to Post-structuralism and
Postmodernism by Madan Sarup | ||
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hours Prentice Hall / Harvester Wheatsheaf Paperback - 254 pages 2nd Ed edition ( 1 April, 1993) Prentice Hall / Harvester Wheatsheaf |
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| Synopsis Designed for introductory and intermediate undergraduate courses in cultural theory, cultural studies and contemporary philosophy, this book introduces post-structuralist and postmodern theory. The book discusses the meaning of concepts such as modernity, postmodernity, modernization, modernism and... Read more | |||
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| 23. | Simians,
Cyborgs and Women by Donna Haraway | ||
| Usually dispatched in 2-3
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| Synopsis Donna Haraway analyses accounts, narratives, and stories of the creation of nature, living organisms, and cyborgs (cybernetic components); showing how deeply cultural assumptions penetrate into allegedly value-neutral medical research. Read more | |||
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| 24. | A
Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft | ||
| Temporarily out of stock Dover Publications Paperback - 201 pages 2nd Ed edition (22 November, 1996) Dover Publications |
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| Synopsis First published in 1792, this book was written in a spirit of outrage and enthusiasm. In an age of ferment, following the American and French revolutions, Mary Wollstonecraft took prevailing egalitarian principles and dared to apply them to women. Her book is both a sustained argument for... Read more | |||
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| 25. | Introducing
Postfeminism by Sophia Phoca, Rebecca Wright | ||
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| Synopsis Including sections on psychoanalysis, postmodernism, cyberfeminism, postcolonialism, queer theory, art and popular culture, this introduction to postfeminism also covers the key figures in postfeminine thinking - Camilia Paglia, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Julia Kristeva and Donna Haraway. Read more | |||
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