Book Description
The common theme in this collection is rejection of assimilation, an embrace of boundary living, and a commitment to women's invention of women at and beyond the limits of patriarchy.
Author : Marilyn Frye
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,36 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
The common theme in this collection is rejection of assimilation, an embrace of boundary living, and a commitment to women's invention of women at and beyond the limits of patriarchy.
Author : Daphne Patai
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 19,29 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780847689880
Once confident in the potential of feminism to create a more equitable and just society, Daphne Patai persuasively demonstrates in Heterophobia how the efforts of some feminists - members of what she calls the "sexual harassment industry" - have created an environment that stifles healthy and natural interactions between the sexes. The tremendous growth of sexual harassment legislation represents feminism's greatest contemporary success, but this victory has dubious consequences - a world where kindergarten boys face legal action for kissing female classmates and men are sued by coworkers for offenses such as unwanted hugs, uninvited compliments, or glances that last too long.
Author : Kathleen Coyne Kelly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,19 MB
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1134737556
This book challenges the belief that female virginity can be reliably and unambiguously defined, tested and verified. Kelly analyses a variety of medieval Western European texts - including medical treatises and their Classical antecedents - and historical and legal documents. The main focus is the representation of both male and female virgins in saints' legends and romances. The author also makes a comparative study of examples from contemporary fiction, television and film in which testing virginity is a theme. Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages presents a compelling and provocative study of the parodox of bodily and spiritual integrity as both presence and absence.
Author : Claudia Card
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 38,97 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780231080095
In this compellingly honest collection of her writings, renowned feminist philosopher Claudia Card courageously explores the complex ethical and political questions lesbians face, considering these issues in regard to their identities and relationships both within and outside of lesbian communities. Lesbian Choices is written with a grace and clarity that readers inside and outside academia will appreciate. Claudia Card's lucid presentation of complicated philosophical and ethical concepts offers a better understanding of the explosive issue of gender construction in our society. Lesbian Choices is recommended reading for anyone interested in lesbianism, feminism, ethics, and philosophy.
Author : David Seed
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 27,68 MB
Release : 1995-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780815626404
This volume of essays examines early, primarily nineteenth-century, examples of science. fiction. The essays focus particularly on how this fiction engages with such contemporary issues as exploration, the development of science and social planning. Several of the writers discussed (Mary Shelley, Poe, Verne, Wells) have been proposed by literary historians as the founders of science fiction. The aim in these essays, however, is not to privilege one individual, but rather to look at the gradual convergence of a number of different genres and at the process of continuing influence of one writer on his/her successor. The collection strikes a balance between a discussion of the established names within the field and less well known works such as Symzonia and The Battle of Darking. The volume concludes with a consideration of the utopias and dystopias of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Author : Theodora A. Jankowski
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,47 MB
Release : 2000-07-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780812235524
Noting that though Christian thought has consistently held virginity to be purer than married life, a virgin woman has always queer been in social terms, Jankowsky (English, Washington State U.) explores the tensions behind the many representations of virgin women in English stage plays from 1590 to about 1670 and how those representations can be considered queer. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Jacquelyn N. Zita
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 25,87 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Body, Human
ISBN : 9780231105439
In this book, Jacquelyn N. Zita questions the assumptions of heterosexual society, queer theory, postmodernism, and lesbian feminism in order to investigate the relationship between power, knowledge, identity formation, and the body.
Author : Helene Meyers
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 37,55 MB
Release : 2001-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791451526
Argues that contemporary female Gothic novels of death can, in fact, breathe new life into feminist debates about victimization, essentialism, agency, and the body.
Author : Karen Bouris
Publisher : Conari Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,51 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1609256468
This valuable book for teens and their parents offers vivid portraits by 150 women, who tell of their "first time". By sharing their stories, they offer a much-needed woman's perspective and impart a heartfelt widsom that can lead to positive, healthy discussions of sexuality between parents and teens.
Author : Heidi Rice
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 14,3 MB
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1426839030
Tycoon Connor Brodie has just apprehended an intruder! One clad in lacy satin underwear…and not a trespasser at all, but his feisty neighbor Daisy Dean. The red-hot encounter leaves him aching for more—could the luscious Ms. Dean be the answer to his prayers in more ways than one? Connor needs to close a business deal, and he fully intends to finish what they've started. Unable to resist his lethal charm, Daisy finds herself agreeing to two hedonistic weeks in New York—as Connor's fake fiancée!