Titoli in Studi sulla femminilità

Egyptian-born and London-raised, Alya Mooro grew up between two cultures and felt a pull from both. Where could she turn for advice and inspiration when it seemed there was nobody else like her? Today, Mooro is determined to explore and explode the myth that she must identify either as ‘Western’ or as one of almost 400 million other ‘Arabs’ across the Middle East.

Why are there so few women in politics? Why is public space, whether it’s the street or social media, still so inhospitable to women? What does Carrie Fisher have to do with Mary Wollstonecraft? And why is a wedding ceremony Satan’s playground? These are some of the questions that best-selling author and acclaimed journalist Elizabeth Renzetti examines in her new collection of essays.

On May 23, 2009, Amanda Stott-Smith drove to the middle of the Sellwood Bridge in Portland, Oregon, and dropped her two children into the Willamette River. Forty minutes later, rescuers found the body of four-year-old Eldon. Miraculously, his seven-year-old sister, Trinity, was saved. As the public cried out for blood, Amanda was arrested, convicted, and sentenced to thirty-five years in prison.

On August 6, 1993, twenty-year-old Natasha Alexenko was assaulted at gunpoint. After nearly a decade, her backlogged rape kit was finally tested and her rapist, who roamed free for ten years, was brought to justice. On the day he was sentenced, Alexenko vowed that she would no longer be a statistic and would do whatever she could to help police on behalf of other rape victims. In 2011, she founded Natasha’s Justice Project (NJP), a nonprofit committed to ending the rape-kit backlog. This unflinching memoir chronicles her journey from trauma to triumph.

Beauty in a Box uses an interdisciplinary framework, engaging with African American history, critical race and cultural theory, consumer culture theory, media studies, diasporic art history, Black feminism, visual culture, film studies and political economy to explore the history of Black beauty culture in both Canada and the United States.

Amy Butcher was an accomplished college professor, mentor, and writer, but in her own home, she was embarrassed and emotionally burdened by an increasingly abusive relationship. Exhausted and terrified of the ways her partner’s behavior could escalate, Amy reached out to Instagram celebrity Joy “Mothertrucker” Wiebe. Joy was a 50-year-old wife and mother and the nation’s only female ice road trucker, a woman who maneuvered big rigs through the Alaskan wilderness along the deadliest road in America.

At a time when most of the public discourse was dominated by men, Anna Julia Cooper’s writings offered a blistering rebuke to that status quo. The essays and speeches collected here anticipated the debates about racism, sexism, and intersectionality that we are still having today. Cooper argues in particular for the importance of Black women’s participation in identifying and combating the structures of oppression that surrounded them - and that made life so much more difficult for many other groups as well.

Sono più interessanti le storie belle o le storie tristi, quelle nere o quelle rosa? Le storie sono storie, e raccontano la vita.

Cinco mujeres juzgadas en las décadas de 1930 y 1940: Clementina asesinó a su marido cuando este le propinaba una terrible golpiza; María Antonieta terminó con la vida de su agresor después de años de hostigamiento sexual; Carmen mató a golpes al dueño de una cantina para robarle; Amelia...

Shawna Potter, singer for the band War on Women, has tackled sexism and harassment in lyrics and on stage for years. Taking the battle to music venues themselves, she has trained night clubs and community spaces in how to create safer environments for marginalized people. Now she’s turned decades of experience into a clear and concise guide for public spaces of all sorts, from art galleries to bagel shops to concert halls, that want to shut down harassers wherever they show up.

Feminismo y la España olvidada: un ensayo en primera persona sobre la realidad de las mujeres en el campo y en el mundo rural. Hija y nieta de veterinarios, la última de varias generaciones vinculadas desde hace años a la tierra y a los animales, María Sánchez (Córdoba, 1989) es la primera...

Fleeing intimate partner violence at age 20, Julie was stalked by her ex-partner for more than 10 years, rarely mentioning it to friends, let alone addressing it publicly. The contrast between her public career as a brave champion for women with her own private life of violence and fear meant a shaky and exhausting balancing act. Resilience Is Futile is a story of survival, courage, and ultimately, hope. But it is also a challenge to the ways we understand trauma and resilience. It is the story of one survivor who won’t give up and refuses to shut up.

Es este uno de esos libros esenciales que nacen de la necesidad y de la urgencia. Porque Leticia Dolera necesita contar por qué es feminista y por qué todas deberíamos serlo. Un camino vital en el que se ha encontrado con personas inspiradoras, lecturas reveladoras, anécdotas —de las...

Políticas, escritoras, maestras, poetas, abogadas, inventoras, artistas… Sandra Sabatés se sumerge en nuestro pasado para rescatar las vidas de mujeres ilustres y valientes que desafiaron prejuicios, superaron barreras y abrieron caminos. Un audiolibro que nos ofrece la oportunidad de...

Pocas voces tienen tanta autoridad para hablar de feminismo e identidad como Najat El Hachmi. Más allá de su condición de hija de familia musulmana marroquí, su mundo narrativo es un mundo de mujeres. Con este conocimiento, se ha formado una opinión sobre lo que supone ser feminista hoy...

Iwona Majewska-Opiełka porusza tu kwestie nurtujące kobiety od zarania dziejów. Pokazuje, że nie trzeba być radykalną feministką, by być jednocześnie silną i kobiecą. Podkreśla wartość dialogu damsko-męskiego i męsko-damskiego, przy czym nie atakuje, ani nie oskarża żadnej ze stron; obiektywnie patrzy na ich argumenty. Rozkłada na czynniki pierwsze naturę kobiet i mężczyzn, ukazuje mechanizmy, które kierują nami na co dzień, a niekoniecznie działają na naszą korzyść.

Kim były kobiety niepodległości? Żonami i powiernicami polityków? Działaczkami społecznymi? Prekursorkami feminizmu? A może celebrytkami II RP? Okrągła rocznica odzyskania przez Polskę niepodległości to dobra okazja, aby przyjrzeć się kobietom tamtej epoki. Iwona Kienzler, znana popularyzatorka historii i autorka bestsellerów biograficznych, w swojej najnowszej książce przybliża postacie rzadko dostrzegane przez historyków, niesłusznie pozostające w cieniu sławnych mężczyzn.

As women, we're expected to be sexy, but not sexual. We're bombarded with conflicting, shame-inducing, and disempowering messages about sex, instead of being encouraged to connect with our true sexual selves. Sexy gets reduced to a performance, leaving us with little to no space to reckon with the complexities of sexuality. In a culture intent on telling you who and how to be, standing in your truth is revolutionary.

What's the recipe for a successful relationship? How does one look after intimacy and overcome a crisis? After the success of her previous book Chill. You Can't Be Perfect Anyway, Tatiana Mindewicz-Puacz focuses on relations between partners. It would seem that when it comes to love, the most important thing is to fall in love and after that everything will fall into place - we will live happily ever after. Why, then, do so many of us feel lonely in our relationships? Why, after some time, do our conversations turn into battles?

Your menstrual cycle is your fifth vital sign - a barometer of health and wellness that is as telling as your pulse or blood pressure. Yet most of us see our periods as nothing more than a source of inconvenience and embarrassment. The reasons for this are vast and complex and many are rooted in misogyny. The fact is, women the world over are taught the bare minimum about menstruation, and the messages they do receive are negative: That periods are painful and gross, that they turn us into hormonal messes, and that they shouldn't be discussed.