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Feministische und Queer-Theorie / Feminist and Queer Theory
In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin tells the story of human origin by redefining technology as a cultural carrier bag rather than a weapon of domination.Hacking the linear, progressive mode of the Techno-Heroic, the Carrier Bag Theory of human evolution proposes: ‘before the tool that forces ....
Autor_innen: Le Guin, Ursula
199 konkrete Handlungstipps für Gleichberechtigung im Alltag - Mikrofeminismus wirkt!
Kleiner Aufwand, große Wirkung!Unsere Gesellschaft unterliegt der männlichen Norm – seien es Arbeitszeiten, Job-Chancen, Sprache, Schönheit, Gesundheit oder Sexualität. Wo Männer sich Raum nehmen, wird Frauen häufig ein Platz zugewiesen. Dabei sind es meist nicht die offensichtlichen Ungerechtigkeiten, die frustrieren, sondern die ....
Autor_innen: Höllrigl Tschaikner, Evelyn
The Case for Feminist Revolution
An international best-seller, first published in 1970 when Shulamith Firestone was just twenty-five years old, "The Dialectic of Sex" broke new ground in presenting a theory of politics for the women’s liberation movement. Firestone posits that feminism is the key radical ideology, the missing link between Marx and Freud, uniting the ....
Autor_innen: Firestone, Shulamith
Despite the West's privileging of slenderness as an aesthetic ideal, the African Diaspora has historically displayed a resistance to the Western European and North American indulgence in 'fat anxiety.' The Embodiment of Disobedience explores the ways in which the African Diaspora has rejected the West's efforts to impose imperatives of ....
Autor_innen: Shaw, Andrea Elizabeth
Do colleagues roll their eyes in a meeting when you use words like sexism or racism? Do you refuse to laugh at jokes that aren't funny? Have you been called divisive for pointing out a division? Then you are a feminist killjoy, and this handbook is for you.The term killjoy has been used to dismiss feminism by claiming that it causes ....
Autor_innen: Ahmed, Sara
Making An African Sense Of Western Gender Discourses
The “woman question,” this book asserts, is a Western one, and not a proper lens for viewing African society. A work that rethinks gender as a Western construction, The Invention of Women offers a new way of understanding both Yoruban and Western cultures.Author Oyeronke Oyewumi reveals an ideology of biological determinism at the ....
Autor_innen: Oyewumi, Oyeronke
How the AI Revolution is Reinventing Misogyny
AI is here, bringing a seismic shift in the way our society operates.With misogyny baked into their design, new AI-driven technologies are putting women and marginalised groups in danger, their rights and safety sacrificed at the altar of profitability and reckless speed.In The New Age of Sexism, author and campaigner Laura Bates ....
Autor_innen: Bates, Laura
"The New Woman: Literary Modernism, Queer Theory, and the Trans Feminine Allegory" traces the use of the trans feminine as an allegorical figure, from the practice's origins in nineteenth-century sexology through writings in the fields of psychoanalysis, Modernist fiction, and contemporary Queer Theory.The book is the first to identify ....
Autor_innen: Heaney, Emma
A Celebration of the Fat & Fierce
Chubby. Curvy. Fluffy. Plus-size. Thick. Fat.The time has come for fat people to tell their own stories. The (Other) F Word combines the voices of Reneée Watson, Julie Murphy, Jes Baker, Samantha Irby, Bruce Sturgell, and more in a relatable and gift-worthy guide about body image and fat acceptance. This dazzling collection of art, ....
Autor_innen: Manfredi, Angie (Hg.)
For centuries, societies have treated male domination as natural to the human species. But how would our understanding of gender inequality—our imagined past and contested present— look if we didn’t assume that men have always ruled over women? If we saw inequality as something more fragile that has had to be constantly remade and ....
Autor_innen: Saini, Angela
As myths of progress and modernisation collapse in the relentless polycrisis of our time, how do we strengthen other plots—in community, practice and struggle? How do we come together as movements for earthcare?This book weaves stories, proposals, and analyses around a key domain of living reproduction in crisis: agriculture. Looking at ....
Autor_innen: Zechner, Manuela
The Promise of Happiness is a provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy. It asks what follows when we make our desires and even our own happiness conditional on the happiness of others: “I just want you to be happy”; “I’m happy if you’re happy.” Combining philosophy and feminist cultural studies, Sara Ahmed reveals the ....
Autor_innen: Ahmed, Sara
