Enlightened Women
Title | Enlightened Women PDF eBook |
Author | Alison Assiter |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 301 |
Release | 2005-08-02 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1134889038 |
This is a bold and controversial feminist, philosophical critique of postmodernism. Whilst providing a brief and accessible introduction to postmodernist feminist thought, Enlightened Women is also a unique defence of realism and enlightenment philosophy. The first half of the book covers an analysis of some of the most influential postmodernist theorists, such as Luce Irigaray and Judith Butler. In the second half Alison Assiter advocates a return to modernism in feminism. She argues, against the current orthodoxy, that there can be a distinction between "sex" and "gender". For students trying to pick their way through the maze of literature in the area of postmodernist feminism, Enlightened Women is a concise guide to contemporary thought - as well as a radical contribution to the debate.
Enlightened Power: How Women are Transforming the Practice of Leadership
Title | Enlightened Power: How Women are Transforming the Practice of Leadership PDF eBook |
Author | Lin Coughlin |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 573 |
Release | 2011-01-11 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1118046803 |
How are women transforming the practice of leadership in the 21st century? Enlightened Power is a first-of-a-kind book that answers this question--and forever changes the traditional notions involving women in leadership. The book features the accumulated wisdom of 40 influential men and women who represent the most compelling voices in the field, including: Dynamic business leaders such as Eileen Fisher (founder, Eileen Fisher, Inc.), Barbara Corcoran (founder and chairman, The Corcoran Group), and Pat Mitchell (president and CEO, PBS) Trailblazing women from other arenas such as politics (Ambassador Swanee Hunt), the military (Rear Admiral Deborah A. Loewer, USN), and sports (U.S. Olympian Marilyn King) Renowned thought leaders such as Riane Eisler, Rayona Sharpnack, Sally Helgesen, Peggy Klaus, Bruce Patton, Nancy J. Adler, and Gail Evans Leading-edge academics, activists, executives, entrepreneurs, and practitioners
Women, Gender and Enlightenment
Title | Women, Gender and Enlightenment PDF eBook |
Author | B. Taylor |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 788 |
Release | 2005-05-27 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0230554806 |
Did women have an Enlightenment? This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the controversial, innovative role played by women and gender issues in the age of light.
Society Women and Enlightened Charity in Spain
Title | Society Women and Enlightened Charity in Spain PDF eBook |
Author | Catherine M. Jaffe |
Publisher | LSU Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2022-04-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0807177059 |
In original essays drawn from a myriad of archival materials, Society Women and Enlightened Charity in Spain reveals how the members of the Junta de Damas de Honor y Mérito, founded in 1787 to administer charities and schools for impoverished women and children, claimed a role in the public sphere through their self-representation as civic mothers and created an enlightened legacy for modern feminism in Spain.
Women in the Chinese Enlightenment
Title | Women in the Chinese Enlightenment PDF eBook |
Author | Zheng Wang |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 1999-07-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520218744 |
"Rarely does a reviewer or publisher encounter a milestone: this is it. It is the first major study of the development of Chinese feminism in what is arguably the most formative period in the history of modern China. In its women-centered approach, the book challenges the official women's history authored by the Chinese Communist Party and long accepted by Euro-American scholars. This book will set the agenda for future scholars researching the relationship between feminism and nationalism in China."—Dorothy Ko, author of Teachers of the Inner Chambers
Passionate Enlightenment
Title | Passionate Enlightenment PDF eBook |
Author | Miranda Shaw |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2022-06-07 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0691235597 |
The now-classic exploration of the role of women and the feminine in Buddhist Tantra The crowning cultural achievement of medieval India, Tantric Buddhism is known in the West primarily for the sexual practices of its adherents, who strive to transform erotic passion into spiritual bliss. Historians of religion have long held that this attempted enlightenment was for men only, and that women in the movement were at best marginal and subordinated and at worst degraded and exploited. In Passionate Enlightenment, Miranda Shaw argues to the contrary and presents extensive evidence of the outspoken and independent female founders of the Tantric movement and their creative role in shaping its distinctive vision of gender relations and sacred sexuality. Including a new preface by the author, this Princeton Classics edition makes an essential work available for new audiences.
She's Conservative
Title | She's Conservative PDF eBook |
Author | Karen Lips |
Publisher | |
Pages | 114 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Women college students |
ISBN | 9780578416229 |