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Feministische und Queer-Theorie / Feminist and Queer Theory
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
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.)
How Men Came to Rule
Award-winning journalist Angela Saini goes in search of the roots of what we call patriarchy, uncovering a complex history of how it became embedded in societies and spread across the globe from prehistory into the present. Saini asks what part we all play in keeping patriarchal structures alive, and why we need to look beyond the old ....
Autor_innen: Saini, Angela
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
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
A groundbreaking survey of the language used around queerness in the Arab world, with contributions by leading Arab queer writers, thinkers and activist
Autor_innen: Kabbour, Marwan (Hg.)
The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternativesoto conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that has extensively theorized hegemony but paid little attention to ....
Autor_innen: Halberstam, Judith
How should we talk about sex? It is a thing we have and also a thing we do; a supposedly private act laden with public meaning; a personal preference shaped by outside forces; a place where pleasure and ethics can pull wildly apart. To grasp sex in all its complexity - its deep ambivalences, its relationship to gender, class, race and ....
Autor_innen: Srinivasan, Amia
Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form"One is not born, but rather becomes, woman"First published in Paris in 1949, The Second Sex by Simone de Beavoir was a groundbreaking, risqué book that became a runaway success. Selling 20,000 copies in its first week, the book earned its author both notoriety and admiration. ....
Autor_innen: Beauvoir, Simone de
Self-described "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet" Audre Lorde is an unforgettable voice in twentieth-century literature, and one of the first to center the experiences of black, queer women. This essential reader showcases her indelible contributions to intersectional feminism, queer theory, and critical race studies in twelve ....
Autor_innen: Lorde, Audre
A bold and uncompromising feminist manifesto that shows women and girls how to defy, disrupt, and destroy the patriarchy by embracing the qualities they've been trained to avoid. Seizing upon the energy of the #MeToo movement, feminist activist Mona Eltahawy advocates a muscular, out-loud approach to teaching women and girls to harness ....
Autor_innen: Eltahawy, Mona
Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America. 2nd Edition.
When African women arrived on American shores, the three-headed hydra servile Mammy, angry Sapphire, and lascivious Jezebel followed close behind. These stereotypes persist to this day through newspaper headlines, Sunday sermons, social media memes, cable punditry, government policies, big screen portrayals, and hit song lyrics. Author ....
Autor_innen: Harris, Tamara Winfrey
