Common Women, Uncommon Practices
Title | Common Women, Uncommon Practices PDF eBook |
Author | Sasha Roseneil |
Publisher | Burns & Oates |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Political Science |
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Based on detailed interviews with 35 Greenham women, this book engages 'queer studies' with everyday lived experience and politics as they have actually been practised.
Women and Gender Issues in British Paganism, 1945–1990
Title | Women and Gender Issues in British Paganism, 1945–1990 PDF eBook |
Author | Shai Feraro |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 325 |
Release | 2020-06-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3030466957 |
This book explores the ways in which changing views on gender and the place of women in society during the latter half of the twentieth century affected women’s participation and standing within British Paganism. More specifically, it examines how British Wiccans and Wiccan-derived Pagans reacted to the rise of 'second-wave' feminism and the Women's Liberation Movement in the UK – with a special emphasis on the reception of feminist theory hailing from the USA – and to the emergence of feminist branches of Witchcraft and Goddess Spirituality during the 1970s and 1980s. The book draws on primary sources never before analyzed in an academic context and makes a valuable contribution to the growing body of knowledge on gender and religion during the twentieth century, as very little research has been conducted on the relations between the history of modern Paganism and that of second-wave feminism in the UK.
Iconic Works of Art by Feminists and Gender Activists
Title | Iconic Works of Art by Feminists and Gender Activists PDF eBook |
Author | Brenda Schmahmann |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 323 |
Release | 2021-07-22 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1000415058 |
In this book, contributors identify and explore a range of iconic works – "Mistress-Pieces" – that have been made by feminists and gender activists since the 1970s. The first volume for which the defining of iconic feminist art is the raison d’être, its contributors interpret a "Mistress-Piece" as a work that has proved influential in a particular context because of its distinctiveness and relevance. Reinterpreting iconic art by Alice Neel, Hannah Wilke and Ana Mendieta, the authors also offer important insights about works that may be less well known – those by Natalia LL, Tanja Ostojić, Swoon, Clara Menéres, Diane Victor, Usha Seejarim, Ilse Fusková, Phaptawan Suwannakudt □and Tracey Moffatt, among others. While in some instances revealing cross influences between artists working in different frameworks, the publication simultaneously makes evident how social and political factors specific to particular countries had significant impact on the making and reception of art focused on gender. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual studies and gender studies.
Feminist Ecologies
Title | Feminist Ecologies PDF eBook |
Author | Lara Stevens |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2017-12-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3319643851 |
This edited volume critically engages with ecofeminist scholarship. It tracks the ongoing dialogue between women’s issues and environmental change by republishing the work of pioneering scholars and activists in the field. Together with new essays by contemporary ecofeminist scholars, the book uncovers the dialectical relationship between environmental and feminist causes, the relational identities of feminists and ecofeminists, and the concept of ecofeminism as a rallying point for environmental feminism. The volume defines ecofeminism as a multidisciplinary project and will appeal to readers working within the field of Environmental Humanities.
Feminism, Digital Culture and the Politics of Transmission
Title | Feminism, Digital Culture and the Politics of Transmission PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah Withers |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 215 |
Release | 2015-10-02 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1783483520 |
Feminism, Digital Culture and the Politics of Transmission argues that despite the prevalence of generational narratives within feminism, the technical processes through which knowledge is transmitted across generations remain unexplored. Taking Bernard Stiegler's concept of the already-there as its starting point the book considers how the politics of transmission operates within digital culture. It argues that it is necessary to re-orient feminism's political project within what is already-there so that it may respond to an emergent feminist tradition. Grounded in the author's work collecting and interpreting the music-making heritage of the UK Women's Liberation Movement, it explores how digital technologies have enabled empassioned amateurs to make 'archives' within the first decade of the 21st century. The book reflects on what is technically and politically at stake in the organization and transmission of digital artifacts, and explores what happens to feminist cultural heritage when circuits shut down, stall or become diverted.
Sociological Research Methods in Context
Title | Sociological Research Methods in Context PDF eBook |
Author | Fiona Devine |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 1999-06-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1349275506 |
This book seeks to introduce students to the challenges of 'real life' social research through a detailed consideration of eight recent empirical studies. Designed to complement existing introductory methods texts, it emphasises the importance of context in understanding and interpreting both the practice and 'product' of empirical research. The book focuses on research from eight key sub-areas of sociology, making it a useful secondary text for introductory courses on contemporary British society.
The Changing Nature of Eco/Feminism
Title | The Changing Nature of Eco/Feminism PDF eBook |
Author | Niamh Moore |
Publisher | UBC Press |
Pages | 285 |
Release | 2015-04-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0774826304 |
In the summer of 1993, activists set up a peace camp blocking a logging road into an extensive area of temperate rainforest in Clayoquot Sound that was slated for clear-cutting. Twenty-odd years later, Clayoquot holds a prominent place in environmental discourse, yet it is not generally associated with feminist or eco/feminist movements. The Changing Nature of Eco/Feminism argues that Clayoquot offers a potent site for examining a whole range of feminist issues. Through a careful study of eco/feminist activism against clear-cut logging practices in British Columbia, the book explores how a transnational eco/feminist practice insisted on an account of logging situated in histories of colonialism, holding the Canadian state to account for its deforestation practices. Moore demonstrates that the sheer vitality of eco/feminist politics at the Peace Camp in the summer of 1993 confounded dominant narratives of contemporary feminism and has re-imagined eco/feminist politics for new times.