Women's Studies

UNABRIDGED AND AVAILABLE ON AUDIO FOR THE FIRST TIME Simone de Beauvoir’s essential masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of “woman,” and a revolutionary exploration of inequality and otherness. This unabridged edition of the text reinstates significant portions of the...

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Natalie Dormer, best known for her standout role as Queen Margaery in Game of Thrones, as well as her roles in The Hunger Games and Captain America: The First Avenger. A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College...

THE WORLD THROUGH A FEMINIST LENSFor Nivedita Menon, feminism is not about a moment of final triumph over patriarchy but about the gradual transformation of the social field so decisively that old markers shift forever. From sexual harassment charges against international figures to the...

A Life in Words, the first complete translation of Ismat Chughtai's celebrated memoir Kaghazi hai Pairahan, provides a delightful account of several crucial years of her life. Along side vivid descriptions of her childhood years are the conflicted experiences of growing up in a large Muslim...

The Bengalis are the third largest ethno-linguistic group in the world, after the Han Chinese and the Arabs. A quarter of a billion strong and growing, the community has produced three Nobel laureates, world-class scientists, legendary political leaders and revolutionaries....

What is feminism?

In this short, accessible primer, Bell Hooks explores the nature of feminism and its positive promise to eliminate sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. With her....

"Required reading for every woman who longs to step into her power and live with pleasure and purpose." — Kris Carr, New York Times best-selling author Author, educator, and School of Womanly Arts founder Regena Thomashauer has been working with women for the past 25 years, and what began as...

The Heroine’s Journey describes contemporary woman’s search for wholeness in a society where she has been defined according to masculine values....

The author of the international bestseller 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do turns her focus to parents, teaching them how to raise mentally strong and resilient children. Do today’s children lack the flexibility and mental strength they need to cope with life’s challenges in an...

From Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Part Three of Her Masterwork on The Dangerous Old Woman "It is the nature of the saplings to quake in the winds; hesitant, learning to hold their own places. But, the older trees, with their years of testing and being tested, they are the ones who, whether in...

The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity....

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Anjli Mohindra, best known for her role as Nadia in the BBC One series Bodyguard. This definitive edition includes an Introduction by Elaine Showalter, read by Kristin Atherton. On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is...

Volume Four of the Dangerous Old Woman Series with Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés "What makes talent bloom? Ask what makes a tree blossom. They are the same. It is not unfathomable. It only takes concentration. Concentration of energies is what makes a tree flower. Not bigger, not faster, not...

It's time to take control of your life and get the love you deserve. This isn't about online dating gimmicks, how to submit to male techniques, or any nonsense that publishers push down your throat....

This audiobook narrated by Nancy Crane traces women’s journey to close the gender wage gap and sheds new light on the continued struggle to achieve equity between couples at home....

Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés Presents Volume Five of the Dangerous Old Woman Series “What makes an elder, a heartfelt spirit, a clear mind, a talented heart, one who is young while old and old while young, an activist for the Soul? Is it formulae, schemas, lexicons? It could be. But also, and...

I have discovered a group of women who refuse to be exploited, are immune to manipulation, and who never settle in the name of love. These ladies know what they want and take what they want by beating men at their own game....

“One of those life-changing reads that makes you see—or, in this case, hear—the whole world differently.” —Megan Angelo, author of Followers “At times chilling, often funny, and always perceptive and cogent, Cultish is a bracing reminder that the scariest thing about cults is that...

Radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help to help us shape the futures we want....

--WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER-- The Gospel of Mary Magdalene reveals a very different love story from the one we've come to refer to as Christianity. Harvard-trained theologian Meggan Watterson leads us verse by verse through Mary's gospel to illuminate the powerful teachings it contains. A...

Healing the Feminine Energy is a spiritual guide, written with love and empathy for those who want to nurture their feminine energy. It’s the perfect catalyst for those looking to ignite or go deeper into their healing journey....

What if you could live your life in partnership with divinity, using intuition as your guide? According to Clarissa Pinkola Estés, PhD, and Caroline Myss, such a life is possible. In fact, it has been the life that mystics have chosen throughout history, and only one thing is required: the...

Punjab was the arena of one of the first major armed conflicts of postcolonial India. This audiobook makes an urgent intervention in the history of the conflict, which to date has been characterized by a fixation on sensational violence - or ignored altogether....

How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Author and editor Adrienne Maree Brown finds the answer in something she calls “pleasure activism"....

Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women is the story of Brooks’ intrepid journey toward an understanding of the women behind the veils.....

In Die Mütter setzt sich Hedwig Dohm mit schonungsloser Klarheit mit dem gesellschaftlichen Bild der Mutter auseinander – ein visionärer Text über Erziehungsnormen, weibliche Selbstbestimmung und patriarchale Machtverhältnisse. Mit analytischem Blick entlarvt sie Ideale von Mutterliebe, Erziehungsauftrag und Familiendisziplin als soziale Konstrukte. Was damals provozierte, regt auch heute noch zum Nachdenken an. Ein kraftvoller Klassiker der Frauenbewegung – unbequem, hellsichtig und mutig.

Exploring the growing phenomenon of women gun owners in middle America, this book challenges the conventional narratives that often dominate discussions of gun culture. By applying a feminist and critical cultural framework, A Gun of Her Own: The Everyday Lives of Women Who Shoot argues that...

Not Just For the Boys looks back at how society has historically excluded women from the scientific sphere and discourse, what progress has been made, and how more is still needed. Athene Donald, herself a distinguished physicist, explores societal expectations during both childhood and working...

In telling the history of women in medicine, the pioneers are rightly remembered and celebrated in books, articles, memorials, awards, names of buildings, and organizations. In contrast, the generation who began the transition from minority status to the current numerical equity are seldom...

Le destre reazionarie si stanno impossessando di temi e parole che accompagnano da decenni le battaglie femministe, e ne stravolgono il significato. La stessa parola "femminista" è stata svuotata e manipolata, piegata a servire un progetto politico di esclusione delle minoranze e delle alterità, una nuova idea di società e di umanità, in cui nel nome delle donne si invocano razzismo, xenofobia, omotransfobia, guerra.

For 30 years, since the publication of her landmark book The Sexual Politics of Meat, Carol J. Adams and her fans have continued to document and hold to account the degrading interplay of language about women, domesticated animals, and meat in advertising, politics, and media. Serving as sequel and visual companion, The Pornography of Meat charts the continued influence of this language and the fight against it.

Neither Man Nor Beast explores the common link between cultural attitudes to women and animals in modern Western culture that have enabled the systematic exploitation of both. A vivid work that takes in environmental ethics, theological perspectives and feminist theory.

In this work, slut-shaming expert Leora Tanenbaum explains that when we criticize young women for wearing body-revealing outfits and sharing sexy selfies, we are losing the plot. Young people are sick of being held responsible for others' inability to keep their eyes off their bodies. They...

जनाब यह सुन्दर दुनिया एक दूसरे से नफ़रत, कुढ़न और बदले की कामना से बदरंग हो इससे पहले ही क्यों न इसरे रंगों को सहेज...

Ogni donna che oggi in Italia scelga di avere un figlio deve mettere in conto di "spingere": per difendere il lavoro e la propria indipendenza economica, per mantenersi spazi di realizzazione personale e - addirittura - per proteggere il suo stesso corpo da forme devastanti di violenza, psicologica e fisica. Perciò in questo libro Bubba presenta un'inchiesta senza precedenti su ogni aspetto dell'esperienza di maternità, fino alla violenza ostetrica e alle derive irrazionali, portando casi sconvolgenti e chiedendo a gran voce un radicale cambio di paradigma.

A celebration and exploration of gossip, reclaiming it as a powerful tool for building relationships, sharing vital information and enabling women’s voices to be heard. Tittle-tattle. Hearsay. Rumours. Bitching. Tea. Call it what you will: the fact remains that gossip is entwined into our...

This acclaimed, accessible, and thoroughly researched biography documents the life of Ann Lee, a controversial, religious leader and early feminist figure. Lee established the Shaker movement in 1770 in Manchester, England. The core principles of the Shakers were radical: in an era when wives were the possession of their husband, Lee proclaimed the equality of men and women. The Shakers were dedicated to beliefs in absolute pacifism, equality of the sexes, absolute celibacy, and the cleansing of sin through dancing and chanting to shake away the past.

Uma denúncia contundente da armadilha ideológica que responsabiliza as mulheres pelo cuidado com as próximas gerações. Notória especialista no tema da parentalidade, a psicanalista Vera Iaconelli apresenta sua contribuição mais radical para a crítica da ideologia que considera as mulheres insubstituíveis no cuidado com as crianças. Com clareza e concisão, a autora sublinha a dimensão política do trabalho reprodutivo, já que cuidar das novas gerações é uma tarefa imprescindível para a manutenção da sociedade.

Parcourant l'ensemble des temps préhistoriques, de l'origine de l'humanité il y a 7 millions d'années jusqu'aux peuples de la protohistoire qui inventèrent l'écriture aux âges du Bronze il y a 5 000 ans, Claudine Cohen retrace le processus qui a conduit, en plusieurs étapes cumulatives, de l'apparition des premières traces de domination exercée par les hommes sur les femmes à l'institutionnalisation du patriarcat.

In Good Girl, Goodbye, Caitlin Judd—founder of the award-winning lady-brains podcast—offers a bold roadmap to break the patterns keeping us small. Drawing from her work coaching thousands of women, interviewing Australia’s best female founders, and her background in business and positive psychology, Judd shows women how to set fierce boundaries and build a life they love.