Titoli in Studi sulla femminilità

Ambition Redefined is a timely alternative to current women's business books that define professional ambition and success as climbing the corporate ladder. In fact, this is not a path that all women want or should feel pressured to follow. Sollmann's focus is on the more critical and widespread...

Shrill is an uproarious memoir, a feminist rallying cry in a world that thinks gender politics are tedious and that women, especially feminists, can't be funny. Coming of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possible -- like a porcelain dove that will also...

A brilliant mathematician examines the complexity of gender and society and forges a path out of inequality.Why are men in charge? After years in the male-dominated field of mathematics and in the female-dominated field of art, Eugenia Cheng has heard the question many times. In x + y, Cheng...

*Finalist for the 2020 RBC Taylor Prize* *Finalist for the 2020 BC and Yukon Book Prizes' Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize* *National Bestseller* *A Hill Times' Best Book of 2019* A searing and revelatory account of the missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls of Highway 16, and an...

Virginia Woolf: The Essays contains the most important and impactful of Woolf's non-fiction writing, including five essay collections and her most renowned essay: A Room of One's Own. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the famous Bloomsbury Group.

Questo è un libro sull’aborto e sulla legge che lo regolamenta nel nostro paese: la legge 194 del 1978. Perché parlare ancora di aborto e della legge 194? Rispondere alla domanda è facile: la possibilità per le donne di interrompere volontariamente la gravidanza è da molta sentita ancora oggi, nel nostro paese, come potentemente scandalosa; l’applicazione della legge 194 è quotidianamente ostacolata e la legge stessa è minacciata da tentativi di limitarla, se non cancellarla.

Smart, sassy, and unapologetically feminine, In Praise of Difficult Women is an ode to the bold and charismatic women of modern history. Karen Karbo spotlights the spirited rule breakers who charted their way with little regard for expectations: Amelia Earhart, Helen Gurley Brown, Edie Sedgwick, and Shonda Rhimes, among others. Their lives provide inspiration and instruction for the new age of feminism we have entered. Karbo distills these lessons with wit and humor, examining the universal themes that connect us to each of these mesmerizing personalities today.

En los últimos años el feminismo se ha revolucionado a través de distintos movimientos como el del #metoo y otros que han vuelto a poner en el tapete el tema de la igualdad entre hombres y mujeres. Por otro lado esto ha despertado una reacción en determinados grupos que se han sentido...

Är du trött på oskrivna regler, orimliga krav och ouppnåeliga ideal som följer med att vara kvinna? Vill du stärka dig själv – eller en vän, syster eller dotter, i kampen för rättvisa, i klassrummet, på jobbet, i relationer och ända in i sovrummet? Oavsett om hon är 17 eller 55...

Feminism affects us all and a sound basic knowledge of the subject is essential, especially at the moment. In this book, you will learn what all these terms mean and how they relate to feminism. Once you understand how sexism works, how it manifests itself and how feminism can help combat it, you too can contribute to creating a modern world without gender discrimination.

'Kyla filters the world through her actual lived experience and turns it into stories that are hilarious and almost impossibly true. There's nobody like Kyla.' ELIZABETH GILBERT, author of EAT, PRAY, LOVE 'Joyful, funny, yet incredibly moving . . . Unpretentious yet uplifting' JENNIE GODFREY...

**As heard on Woman's Hour** ‘Thoughtful and nuanced’ Sunday Times ‘As a parent I was transfixed by recognition. As a therapist it opened my eyes’ Chris Cleave ‘Exceptional. Will change conversations the very next day’ Professor Peter Fonagy 'Insightful. [Garfinkle-Crowell] helps the...

'Makes the punchy case that fertility is being driven down by political decisions' Zoe Williams, The Guardian 'A compelling and humane case to lower the barriers to having kids for those who want them' The New Republic ________________________________ For generations, starting a family was an...

As mulheres passam sua vida profissional inteira adaptando-se a um ambiente criado para os homens e pelos homens: desde alterar a maneira como falam e escrevem até mudar as roupas que vestem. Ainda assim a diferença de gênero persiste. E uma vez que você vê isso...

The Professor Emerita at the University of Sydney makes a radical, compelling new account of the birth of language that puts women at the centre of the story. Conventional explanations for how humans became ‘the language animal’ (proposed by men such as Noam Chomsky, Steven Pinker and Yuval...

Menopause is a hot topic. By debunking myths, banishing shame, and demanding more equitable health care and workplace policies, celebrated journalists Mariella Frostrup and Alice Smellie have sparked a global dialogue and a menopause revolution. Renowned journalists Mariella Frostrup and Alice...

In this bold, illustrated guide, bestselling author and podcaster Florence Given encourages women to rediscover their joy, reject toxic wellness culture, and redefine feminism for themselves. Women Living Deliciously wants us to fall in love with our lives. It will help women uncover the sense...

A deeply researched and highly readable cultural history of queer womens lives in the second half of the twentieth century, told through six iconic spaces. For as long as queer women have existed, theyve created gathering grounds where they can be themselves. From the intimate darkness of the...

Sweet, supportive, dependable, selfless. Long before she had children of her own, journalist Carrie Mullins knew how mothers should behave. But how? Where did these expectations come fromand, more importantly, are they serving the mothers whose lives they shape? Carrie's suspicion, later...

In None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary, Travis Alabanza considers seven phrases people have directed at them throughout their life. These phrasessome deceptively innocuous, some deliberately loaded or violent, some celebratoryhave fundamentally shaped Alabanza, both for...