Entertainment and profit constitute the driving force behind popular representations of women in correctional facilities. But the creative influence of film and television also generates legal meaning. The women-in-prison (WIP) genre...
Women's Studies
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Auteur:Bouclin, SuzanneSommaire: - Auteur:Pinkola Estés, ClarissaSommaire:
First published three years before the print edition of Women Who Run With the Wolves made publishing history, this original audio edition quickly became an underground bestseller. For its insights into the inner life of women, it...
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Gathering together powerful voices of feminist writers, peace activists, and matriarchal studies scholars from around the globe, The Legacy of Mothers reconceptualizes mothers, motherhood, and mothering as an alternative human logic to...
- Auteur:VAN RIEL, FransjeSommaire:
The Crowing of the Roosters is a remakable modern day tale of South Africa's former apartheid regime and one black woman's struggle to free herself from its chains. When Nomfusi Yekani sets her mark at the polling station...
- Auteur:Wunker, ErinSommaire:
Following in the tradition of Sara Ahmed (the originator of the concept 'feminist killjoy'), Wunker brings memoir, theory, literary criticism, pop culture, and feminist thinking together in this collection of essays that take...
- Auteur:Michaud, JacintheSommaire:
From the mid-1960s to the mid-80s, feminist activism in North America and Europe reached its peak, animated by a disparate array of issues and ideas. Frontiers of Feminism compares Québécois and Italian feminisms, revealing both the...
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Auteur:Dean, Amber, Johnson, Jennifer L., Luhmann, SusanneSommaire:In Feminist Praxis Revisited, Women's and Gender Studies (WGS) practitioners reflect on how the field has sought to integrate its commitment to activism and social change with community-based learning in post-secondary institutions...
- Auteur:Sangster, JoanSommaire:
One hundred years of feminist activism, from the 1880s to the 1980s, presented multiple paths for women's search for equality, autonomy, and dignity. Women fashioned different dreams of freedom and social transformation, yet what...
- Auteur:McGregor, HannahSommaire:
How do you tell the story of a feminist education, when the work of feminism can never be perfected or completed? In A Sentimental Education, Hannah McGregor, the podcaster behind Witch, Please and Secret Feminist Agenda, explores what...
