Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics
10 best books like Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics (Cynthia Enloe): Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour, Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and What Women are Worth, Animals and Women: Feminist Theoretical Explorations, Beyond Power: On Women, Men and Morals, In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution, Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice, De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century, Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Feminists of Color, Methodology of the Oppressed, Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism
Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour
| Author | Maria Mies |
| ISBN | 1856497356 |
This now classic book traces the social origins of the sexual division of labor. It gives a history of the related processes of colonization and "housewifization" and extends this analysis to the contemporary new international division of labor and the role that women have to play as the cheapest producers...
Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and What Women are Worth
| Author | Marilyn Waring |
| ISBN | 0802082602 |
Safe drinking water counts for nothing. A pollution-free environment counts for nothing. Even some people - namely women - count for nothing. This is the case, at least, according to the United Nations System of National Accounts. Author Marilyn Waring, former New Zealand M.P., now professor, development...
Animals and Women: Feminist Theoretical Explorations
| Author | Carol J. Adams |
| ISBN | 0822316676 |
Animals and Women is a collection of pioneering essays that explores the theoretical connections between feminism and animal defense. Offering a feminist perspective on the status of animals, this unique volume argues persuasively that both the social construction and oppressions of women are...
Beyond Power: On Women, Men and Morals
| Author | Marilyn French |
| ISBN | 0345334051 |
This book... did more to expand my thinking, raise my consciousness and anger.
With friends/family, I would bring up something I had just read in "Beyond Power" only to have her/him/them fight tooth and nail as to why it wasn't so. I would say, "Why don't you read it, French says it so much better...
| Author | Susan Brownmiller |
| ISBN | 0385314868 |
Male-only admissions policies. Back-alley abortions. The pervasive belief that rape was a woman's fault. These were the shocking conditions that stirred students, mothers, businesswomen, and grandmothers to activism in the latter half of the twentieth century. In this stirring memoir, Susan...
| Author | Loretta J. Ross |
| ISBN | 0896087298 |
“If you have come to help me, please go away. But, if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, let us work together.”—Lila Watson, Aboriginal Activist
Vibrant. Strong. Fierce. Undivided Rights captures the evolving and largely unknown activist history of women...
The unique Chicana voice of Elizabeth Martinez arises from more than thirty years of experience in the movements for civil rights, women's liberation, and Latina/o empowerment.With sections on women's organizing, struggles for economic justice. and the Latina/o youth movement, De Colores Means...
| Author | Gloria E. Anzaldúa |
| ISBN | 1879960109 |
A bold collection of creative pieces and theoretical essays by women of color. New thought and new dialogue: a book that will teach in the most multiple sense of that word: a book that will be of lasting value to many diverse communities of women as well as to students from those communities. The authors...
| Author | Chela Sandoval |
| ISBN | 0816627371 |
In a work with far-reaching implications, Chela Sandoval does no less than revise the genealogy of theory over the past thirty years, inserting what she terms "U.S. Third World feminism" into the narrative in a way that thoroughly alters our perspective on contemporary culture and subjectivity.What...
| Author | Trinh T. Minh-ha |
| ISBN | 0253205034 |
"...methodologically innovative... precise and perceptive and conscious..." -Text and Performance Quarterly
"Woman, Native, Other is located at the juncture of a number of different fields and disciplines, and it genuinely succeeds in pushing the boundaries of these disciplines further....
| Author | Margot Badran |
| ISBN | 0253217032 |
Praise for the first edition:
"An impressive collection of more than 50 pieces--essays, poems, folktales, short stories, memoirs, film scripts, lectures/speeches--by Arab women challenging the widely accepted view of Middle Eastern women as submissive non-thinkers to whom feminism...
| Author | Melody Berger |
| ISBN | 1580051820 |
We Don’t Need Another Wave is a critique of the ways in which feminism is discussed in the mainstream media. Today’s young feminists are wary of being labeled. They are media-savvy, hyper-aware of being categorized and marginalized, and are here to tell the world that feminists are feminists —...
| Author | Rosalind C. Barnett |
| ISBN | 0465006132 |
From respected academics like Carol Gilligan to pop-psych gurus like John Gray, and even the controversial Harvard President Lawrence Summers, the message has long been the same: Men and women are fundamentally different, and trying to bridge the gender gap can only lead to grief. But as the New York...
| Author | Uma Narayan |
| ISBN | 0415914191 |
Dislocating Cultures takes aim at the related notions of nation, identity, and tradition to show how Western and Third World scholars have misrepresented Third World cultures and feminist agendas. Drawing attention to the political forces that have spawned, shaped, and perpetuated these misrepresentations...
| Author | Grace Chang |
| ISBN | 0896086178 |
Contents
Introduction
Breeding Ignorance, Breeding Hatred
Chapter 1: Undocumented Latinas: The New Employable Mother
Chapter 2: The Nanny Visa: The Bracero Program Revisited
Chapter 3: Immigrants and Workfare Workers: Emplyable but "Not Employed"
Chapter 4:...
| Author | Joan Wallach Scott |
| ISBN | 0691125430 |
In 2004, the French government instituted a ban on the wearing of "conspicuous signs" of religious affiliation in public schools. Though the ban applies to everyone, it is aimed at Muslim girls wearing headscarves. Proponents of the law insist it upholds France's values of secular liberalism and...
States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity
Whether in characterizing Catharine MacKinnon's theory of gender as itself pornographic or in identifying liberalism as unable to make good on its promises, Wendy Brown pursues a central question: how does a sense of woundedness become the basis for a sense of identity? Brown argues that efforts...
Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred
| Author | M. Jacqui Alexander |
| ISBN | 0822336456 |
M. Jacqui Alexander is one of the most important theorists of transnational feminism working today. Pedagogies of Crossing brings together essays she has written over the past decade, uniting her incisive critiques, which have had such a profound impact on feminist, queer, and critical race theories,...
Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism
| Author | Chandra Talpade Mohanty |
| ISBN | 0253206324 |
"The essays are provocative and enhance knowledge of Third World women's issues. Highly recommended... " --Choice
..". the book challenges assumptions and pushes historic and geographical boundaries that must be altered if women of all colors are to win the struggles thrust upon us by the...
It's a Jungle Out There: The Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments
| Author | Amanda Marcotte |
| ISBN | 1580052266 |
For all of you humming “I Will Survive” while watching the political debacles gracing the evening news, when getting an earful from your Limbaugh-loving brother-in-law, or as you’re ducking into the bathroom to avoid the date espousing the wisdom of those Mars versus Venus books, this book...
Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy
| Author | Barbara Ehrenreich |
| ISBN | 0805075097 |
In a remarkable pairing, two renowned social critics offer a groundbreaking anthology that examines the unexplored consequences of globalization on the lives of women worldwide.Women are moving around the globe as never before. But for every female executive racking up frequent flier miles there...
Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism
| Author | Katha Pollitt |
| ISBN | 0679762787 |
It's not that Katha Pollitt is a bad writer, or even that she's wrong about most of the issues. What makes her writing so hard to take is the sense of entitlement -- the rich white college girl who has all the answers.
Read the essay on Lorena Bobbitt. (Remember her? The girl who chopped off her husband's...
Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations
| Author | bell hooks |
| ISBN | 0415389585 |
According to the Washington Post, no one who cares about contemporary African-American cultures can ignore bell hooks' electrifying feminist explorations. Targeting cultural icons as diverse as Madonna and Spike Lee, Outlaw Culture presents a collection of essays that pulls no punches. As hooks...
