By Claire Colebrook

"Death of the PostHuman undertakes a chain of severe encounters with the legacy of what had grow to be often called 'theory,' and its modern supposedly post-human aftermath. There should be no redemptive post-human destiny within which the myopia and anthropocentrism of the species reveals an go out and manages to emerge with ecology and lifestyles. whilst, what has emerge as often called the human - regardless of its normative depth - grants neither beginning nor severe lever within the Anthropocene epoch. demise of the PostHuman argues for a twenty-first century deconstruction of ecological and probably post-human futures."--Publisher's description.

By Jane Duran

Jane Duran's Worlds of realizing starts off to fill a big hole within the literature of feminist epistemology: a wide-ranging, cross-cultural primer on worldviews and epistemologies of assorted cultures and their appropriations by way of indigenous feminist pursuits in these cultures. it's the a lot wanted epistemological counterpart to paintings on cross-cultural feminist social and political philosophy. This undertaking is actually breath-taking in scope, but a workable learn for someone with a few heritage in feminist thought, background, or anthropology. Duran attracts many comparisons and connections to Western philosophical and feminist rules, but avoids facile or imperialistic over-universalization. Her e-book is robust, finished, and courageous. it is going to turn out an greatly resource for students in women's experiences, philosophy, anthropology, non secular reports and heritage.

By Sara Mills

Discourse (The New serious Idiom) If language used to be an easy act of messages and responses our approach of figuring out wouldn't be riddled with the frustrations, nuances, and idiosyncracies that make communique a veritable time bomb. From Noam Chomsky to Deborah Tannen's use of language deconstruction and knowing, Sara turbines presents readers with a succinct explication of a posh subject. do not permit this little booklet idiot you. it's a concise and good written exposition of the time period "discourse." Sara generators use and realizing of the time period either traditionally and socially make this a useful software to knowing the evolution of the time period "discourse" from Foucault right down to the systematic research of language and constitution. She presents a origin for the time period whereas breaking down the complexities of the Foucauldian discourse concept and utilizing it to different severe theories that tell the best way lecturers use language as a sort of energy, wisdom, and knowing. generators define strikes the reader from the old use and knowing of the time period "discourse" to the method of the constitution of discourse the entire solution to the software of discourse as a medium for significantly studying, knowing, and interpreting the context of discourse during the the serious theories of Feminism, Colonial/Post-Colonial, and Sociolinguistic theories. This booklet packs a punch of formal and casual examples that is helping the reader conceptualize the theoretical frameworks provided through the studying.

By Brooke A. Ackerly

From the varied paintings and sometimes competing insights of women's human rights activists, Brooke Ackerly has written a feminist and a common idea of human rights that bridges the relativists' issues approximately universalizing from details and the activists' dedication to justice. not like common theories that depend upon shared commitments to divine authority or to an 'enlightened' approach of reasoning, Ackerly's thought depends upon rigorous methodological consciousness to distinction and war of words. She units out human rights as instantly a study ethic, a device for feedback of injustice and a choice to acknowledge our duties to advertise justice via our activities. This booklet can be of serious curiosity to political theorists, feminist and gender stories students and researchers of social hobbies.

By Sue Thornham

For the prior twenty-five years, cinema has been a necessary terrain on which feminist debates approximately tradition, illustration, and identification were fought. This anthology charts the historical past of these debates, bringing jointly the main, vintage essays in feminist movie idea. Feminist movie Theory maps the impression of significant theoretical advancements in this turning out to be field-from structuralism and psychoanalysis within the Nineteen Seventies, to post-colonial concept, queer idea, and postmodernism within the 1990s.

Covering quite a lot of issues, together with oppressive photos, "woman" as fetishized item of hope, woman spectatorship, and the cinematic pleasures of black girls and lesbian ladies, Feminist movie Theory is an crucial reference for students and scholars within the field.

Contributors contain Judith Butler, Carol J. Clover, Barbara Creed, Michelle Citron, Mary Ann Doane, Teresa De Lauretis, Jane Gaines, Christine Gledhill, Molly Haskell, bell hooks, Claire Johnston, Annette Kuhn, Julia Lesage, Judith Mayne, Tania Modleski, Laura Mulvey, B. Ruby wealthy, Kaja Silverman, Sharon Smith, Jackie Stacey, Janet Staiger, Anna Marie Taylor, Valerie Walkerdine, and Linda Williams.

By Kathryn Greene-McCreight

What's the dating among feminist theology and classical Christian theology? Is feminist theology "Christian," and if that is so, in what appreciate and to what volume? This examine seeks to research and assessment the relation of feminist "reconstructions" to conventional Christian educating. Greene-McCreight makes use of the level to which the biblical depiction of God is authorized to steer theological hermeneutics as a try out of orthodoxy. She seems to be on the writings of a variety of modern feminist theologians, discusses their doctrinal styles, and demonstrates how the Bible is utilized in undergirding their theological reconstructions.

By Rudolph P. Byrd, Johnnetta Betsch Cole, Beverly Guy-Sheftall

Audre Lorde used to be not just a well-known poet; she was once additionally some of the most vital radical black feminists of the previous century. Her writings and speeches grappled with a powerful extensive record of themes, together with sexuality, race, gender, type, disorder, the humanities, parenting, and resistance, they usually have served as a transformative and critical beginning for theorists and activists in contemplating questions of strength and social justice. Lorde embraced distinction, and at every one flip she emphasised the significance of utilizing it to construct shared power between marginalized groups. I Am Your Sister is a suite of Lorde's non-fiction prose, written among 1976 and 1990, and it introduces new views at the intensity and diversity of Lorde's highbrow pursuits and her commitments to revolutionary social swap. awarded right here, for the 1st time in print, is an incredible physique of Lorde's speeches and essays, in addition to the total textual content of A Burst of Light and Lorde's landmark prose works Sister Outsider and The melanoma Journals. jointly, those writings exhibit Lorde's dedication to an intensive process proposal and motion, situating her works in the women's, homosexual and lesbian, and African American Civil Rights pursuits. additionally they position her inside a continuum of black feminists, from Sojourner fact, to Anna Julia Cooper, Amy Jacques Garvey, Lorraine Hansberry, and Patricia Hill Collins. I Am Your Sister concludes with own reflections from Alice Walker, Gloria Joseph, Johnnetta Betsch Cole, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, and bell hooks on Lorde's political and social commitments and the indelibility of her writings for all who're dedicated to a extra equitable society.

By Sándor Márai

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By Audrey Hunt (eds.)

By Teresa A. Meade

A significant other to Gender background surveys the heritage of girls worldwide, stories their interplay with males in gendered societies, and appears on the position of gender in shaping human habit over millions of years.

• An vast survey of the background of ladies around the globe, their interplay with males, and the position of gender in shaping human habit over hundreds of thousands of years.
• Discusses relations background, the heritage of the physique and sexuality, and cultural background along women’s background and gender historical past.
• Considers the significance of sophistication, zone, ethnicity, race and faith to the formation of gendered societies.
• Contains either thematic essays and chronological-geographic essays.
• Gives due weight to pre-history and the pre-modern period in addition to to the fashionable period.
• Written via students from around the English-speaking global and students for whom English isn't really their first language.