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Was bedeutet Feminismus? Wie ist er entstanden? Wer war eigentlich die erste Feministin? Was hat sich seit den Anfängen verändert? Ist der Feminismus nicht nur eine andere Bezeichnung für Männerhass? Wir leben im 21. Jahrhundert, brauchen wir den Feminismus überhaupt noch? Und was hat das Ganze mit Pornos zu tun? Mit diesen und weiteren Fragen wollen wir uns in diesem Buch ausführlich beschäftigen und ganz genau ergründen, warum wir den Feminismus auch heute noch so dringend brauchen.

"El silencio de las madres" es una recopilación de artículos, prólogos y publicados por Laura Freixas en veinte años de carrera como periodista de opinión en diferentes medios de comunicación. Dichos artículos abordan, en el estilo de su autora, el tema de la literatura escrita por mujeres, tanto de su estado actual como de su escasez desde un punto de vista histórico, y sobre cómo ciertas tendencias heteropatriarcales han invisibilizado a autoras desde siempre.

At once disturbing and fascinating, Women Who Love Men Who Kill is a compelling psychological study of prison passion in the new millennium. Through extensive research and interviews with women who seek relationships with convicted killers through snail and email, and through conversations with psychiatrists, social workers, and prison officials, Isenberg sheds light on why these women are drawn into relationships with incarcerated outcasts.

Examines how Black women elders have managed stress, emphasizing how self-care practices have been present since at least the mid-19th century, with roots in African traditions. How have Black women elders managed stress? In Black Women's Yoga History, Stephanie Y. Evans uses primary sources to answer that question and to show how meditation and yoga from eras of enslavement, segregation, and migration to the Civil Rights, Black Power, and New Age movements have been in existence all along.

MeToo-Bewegung, Gender-Pay-Gap, Manspreading, Catcalling - diese Begriffe hört man heutzutage immer öfter, und sie alle drehen sich um ein Thema: Feminismus. Feminismus betrifft uns alle und gerade aktuell ist ein fundiertes Grundwissen unerlässlich. In diesem Buch erfahren Sie, was all diese Begriffe bedeuten und inwiefern sie mit Feminismus zu tun haben. Doch was ist Feminismus eigentlich? Sind wir nicht längst alle gleichberechtigt? In welchen Bereichen ist Feminismus nötig? Hilft der Feminismus auch Männern?

It was the Golden Age of Travel, and everyone wanted in. As flying boomed in the 1960s, women from across the United States applied for jobs as stewardesses. They were drawn to the promise of glamorous jet-setting, the chance to see the world, and an alternative to traditional occupations like homemaking, nursing, and teaching.

As cleaners and caregivers are exported from poor regions into rich ones, they leave behind a material and emotional absence that is keenly felt by their families. In the US, many of these women’s voices are silenced by language or fear or the habit of powerlessness. Mothercoin sets out to tell these stories, recounting the experience of Mexican and Central American women living and working in the private homes of Houston, Texas, while also telling a larger story about global immigration, working motherhood, and the private experience of the public world we have all created.

Recent reports show that women make up the fastest-growing population within the United States’ criminal justice system. And yet, despite necessary conversations about incarceration and prison abolition, their stories of abuse, neglect, poverty, and family separation often go untold. Now, through immersive storytelling and expert analysis of women’s lives after prison, anthropologist Jorja Leap explores their journeys into, through, and beyond the jail cell.

Witchcraft has made a comeback in popular culture, especially among feminists. A growing subculture of BIPOC witches, led by Afro-Caribbean immigrants, Indigenous Americans, and other witches of color, is reclaiming their ancestral traditions and contributing their voices to the feminist witchcraft of today.

From 1970 to 1980, the Third World Women’s Alliance lived the dream of third world feminism. The small bicoastal organization was one of the earliest groups advocating for what came to be known as intersectional activism, arguing that women of color faced a “triple jeopardy” of race, gender, and class oppression. Interweaving oral history, scholarly and archival research, and first-person memoir, We Were There documents how the TWWA shaped and defined second wave feminism.

From award-winning writer and critic Alison Croggon, Monsters is a hybrid of memoir and essay that takes as its point of departure the painful breakdown of a relationship between two sisters. It explores how our attitudes are shaped by the persisting myths that underpin colonialism and patriarchy, how the structures we are raised within splinter and distort the possibilities of our lives and the lives of others. Monsters asks how we maintain the fictions that we create about ourselves, what we will sacrifice to maintain these fictions.

Endlich wütend! Eine Liebeserklärung an ein ungeliebtes Gefühl. Zicken, Diven, Hysterikerinnen, Schreckschrauben: Frauen, die ihrer Wut freien Lauf lassen, haben schnell ihren Ruf weg. Mädchen werden zu stiller Eleganz erzogen, nicht zu Durchsetzungsfähigkeit. Doch weibliche Wut ist ein Geschenk, und wir müssen lernen, sie als solches wahrzunehmen. Das Frauenwahlrecht, #Aufschrei und der Women's March: Richtig eingesetzt, kann Wut zu einer mächtigen Waffe gegen persönliche und politische Unterdrückung werden und uns helfen, die Welt zu verändern.

Una meditación sobre el feminismo el año de la huelga feminista y el #MeToo. Tres acontecimientos más una sentencia (el #MeToo, la carta de las intelectuales francesas, la huelga feminista del 8 de marzo y la sentencia de La Manada) han marcado la agenda en los últimos meses y han puesto en el punto de mira el concepto del feminismo hoy. Marta Sanz reflexiona acerca de lo que ello supone, cómo posicionarse ante esos hechos concretos, cómo "proteger" la lucha feminista de la simplificación y comercialización de un capitalismo que lo puede absorber todo.

This is the story of the women who took part in the Long March, seen through the biographies of three key players. Lee and Wiles trace the womens' stories in three time periods: the Long March itself, a decade later at liberation and then 40 years on. Drawing on published and unpublished sources, including interviews, this is the moving story of one of the great events of 20th-century history.

How do we explain our newfound cultural investment in empathy and social justice? For decades, Joseph Campbell had defined our cultural aspirations in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, emphasizing the value of seeking glory and earning immortality. His work became the playbook for Hollywood, with its many male-centric quest narratives. Challenging the models in Campbell's canonical work, Maria Tatar explores how heroines, rarely wielding a sword and deprived of a pen, have flown beneath the radar even as they have been bent on social missions.

In a nation deeply divided by race, the “Karens” of the world are easy to villainize. But in Nice White Ladies, Jessie Daniels addresses the unintended complicity of even well-meaning White women. She reveals how their everyday choices harm communities of color.

Women including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, and Sheryl Sandberg are commonly celebrated as leaders of feminism. Yet they have fought for the few, not the many. As award-winning scholar Kyla Schuller argues, their White feminist politics dispossess the most marginalized to liberate themselves. In The Trouble with White Women, Schuller brings to life the 200-year counter-history of Black, Indigenous, Latina, poor, queer, and trans women pushing back against White feminists and uniting to dismantle systemic injustice.

Brown Girl Like Me is an inspiring memoir and empowering manifesto that equips women with the confidence and tools they need to navigate the difficulties that come with an intersectional identity. Jaspreet Kaur unpacks key issues such as the media, the workplace, the home, education, mental health, culture, confidence and the body, to help South Asian women understand and tackle the issues that affect them and help them be in the driving seat of their own lives.

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 y Teresa abortaron, la primera para salvar su vida y la segunda para ocultar la pérdida de su virginidad tras una violación.

In 1964, Nina Simone sat at a piano in New York's Carnegie Hall to play what she called a "show tune". Simone, and her song, became icons of the civil rights movement. But her confrontational style was not the only path taken by black women entertainers. In How It Feels to Be Free, Ruth Feldstein examines celebrated black women performers, illuminating the risks they took, their roles at home and abroad, and the ways that they raised the issue of gender amid their demands for black liberation.