Feminisme og feministisk teori

TYK giver et indblik i de svære private følelser om kroppen, men også i forskningen om kropsvægt og i modstanden mod slankekulturen. Hver af bogens 13 forfattere kommer fra forskellige baggrunde og steder i livet, men alle har de det til fælles at have erfaring med at leve som tyk samt deres ønske om at leve i en verden, hvor der er plads til alle uanset størrelsen på ens krop. De gør op med de mange myter, der er om tykke mennesker i forhold til alt fra sex, forældreskab, sport, skønhed, sundhed og mange andre aspekter af livet. Det er ikke særlig populært at beskæftige sig med det at leve i en tyk krop. I stedet er den primære opfattelse, at man hellere skal se at tabe sig. Men bogens forfattere vil udfordre dig til at se på tykke mennesker med nye øjne ved at gå nye veje. De åbner op for deres tykke liv og viser, hvordan ens tilværelse kan være, når man ikke modkæmper sin krop, men lever med og i den.TYK giver dig mod på at leve livet fuldt ud – også i en tyk krop.

The definitive text on the politics of abortion and fertility

A page-turning Brazilian thriller about a kidnapped sex worker and her sister who sets out to rescue her 'A thriller filled with action, irony and eroticism, with strong women on a frantic quest' Raphael MontesLucinda has lived her whole life in the shadow of her glamorous and outgoing high-end model sister Viviana. But when Viviana suddenly disappears on a trip to Sao Paulo, Lucinda drops everything to track her down.Met with indifference from the police, Lucinda joins forces with Viviana's girlfriend Graziane to launch her own investigation. When she discovers that her sister had a thriving career as a sex worker, the list of possible suspects widens.Then a cryptic text suggests that Viviana is still alive but being held hostage. With the minutes ticking by, Lucinda and Graziane must track down the men from Viviana's past to discover who might want to do her harm.A furiously contemporary and vibrant thriller that crackles with danger.

"Translation, here, is decolonial feminist work."- from the Foreword by Franoise Vergs.What are the histories, constraints, and possibilities of language in relation to bodies, origins, land, colonialism, gender, war, displacement, desire, and migration?Moving across genres, memories, belongings, and borders, these luminous essays by poets, writers, and translators invite us to consider translation as a form of ethical and political love - one that requires attentive regard of an other - and a making and unmaking of self.Contributors include: Khairani Barokka, Yasmine Haj, Otoniya J. Okot Bitek, Nedra Rodrigo, Suneela Mubayi, Iryn Tushabe, Gopika Jadeja, Rahat Kurd, Geetha Sukumaran, Norah Alkharashi, and Lisa Ndejuru.

A manifesto reclaiming the wives and mistresses of literary modernism that inspired a generation of writers and scholars, reissued after more than a decade.

"Once I opened VenCo, I was propelled through an entire night of charmed reading. Cherie Dimaline creates a world utterly fantastical, yet real. VenCo is funny, tense, and cracking with a dark, divine energy." ---Louise Erdrich, New York Times bestselling author of The SentenceFor fans of The Once and Future Witches and Practical Magic, comes an incredibly imaginative, highly anticipated new novel featuring witches, magic, and a road trip across America?from Cherie Dimaline, the critically acclaimed author of Empire of Wild.Métis millennial Lucky St. James is barely hanging on when she learns she'll be evicted from the tiny Toronto apartment she shares with her cantankerous but loving grandmother Stella. But then one night, something strange and irresistible calls out to Lucky. She burrows through a wall to find a tarnished silver spoon, humming with otherworldly energy, etched with a crooked-nosed witch and the word SALEM.Lucky is familiar with the magic of her indigenous ancestors, but she has no idea that the spoon connects her to a teeming network of witches across North America who have anxiously awaited her discovery.Enter VenCo, a front company fueled by vast resources of dark money (its name is an anagram of ?coven.?) VenCo's witches hide in plain sight wherever women gather: Tupperware parties, Mommy & Me classes, suburban book clubs. Since colonial times, they have awaited the moment the seven spoons will come together and ignite a new era, returning women to their rightful power.But as reckoning approaches, a very powerful adversary is stalking their every move. He's Jay Christos, a roguish and deadly witch-hunter as old as witchcraft itself.To find the last spoon, Lucky and Stella embark on a rollicking and dangerous road trip to the darkly magical city of New Orleans, where the final showdown will determine whether VenCo will usher in a new beginning...or remain underground forever.A wildly imaginative and compulsively readable fantasia of adventure, history, Americana, feminism, and magic, VenCo is a novel only the supremely gifted Cherie Dimaline could write.?Crackling with magic, mystery, adventure, and intrigue, VenCo is a captivating tribute to the bonds of families we are born into and the ones that we create, and a delightful testament to the power of all womankind.?? Nikki Erlick, New York Times bestselling author of The Measure

Además de un himno pacifista, en el que la mujer y la madre adquieren un papel protagónico al cuestionar el orden patriarcal y nefasto de la guerra, Mientras los hombres mueren (1953) es un poemario trascendental y apenas conocido de Carmen Conde. Su análisis, de hecho, permite arrojar luz sobre Mujer sin Edén (1947), obra magna que la consagró definitivamente y que se considera representativa del proceso subversivo del lenguaje bíblico en la lírica escrita por mujeres en la primera mitad del siglo XX. El objetivo prioritario del presente trabajo es llevar a cabo un examen comparativo de ambas colecciones para demostrar, merced a los paralelismos simbólicos, estilísticos y temáticos, que la primera no sólo puede considerarse cámara germinadora de motivos poéticos y recursos retóricos de la segunda, sino también pieza clave para comprender la edificación de la conciencia femenina de la autora.

Bringing together a range of scholarship, this edited volume investigates the limits and boundaries of women¿s empowerment toward shaping sustainability by unpacking power relationships that affect women¿s inclusive citizenship; analyzing concrete examples of limits across different regions; and exploring the rise of new technological innovations that may (or may not) contribute to dissolve those limits. Chapters focus on different dimensions related disempowerment (such as historical, cultural, socio-economic, and normative) to frame a new understanding of how achieving equality around the world. Integrating transnational and interdisciplinary perspectives at domestic and international levels, this book looks at ways to provide new opportunities for removing invisible and visible barriers to ensure gender parity and to make sustainable change irreversible.This book will be of interest to scholars, students, and policymakers across Law, Sociology, Gender Studies, Politics,and Economics.

20 Stories to ignite your soul.Authors in this collaboration book include: Kellie Adkins, Dr. Lucette Beall, Donna Brown, Kate Butler, Melissa Camilleri, Michelle Dunk, Anjela Ford, Belinda Ginter, Jennifer Granger, Colleen Hauk, Shelly Hodges, Teresa Huggins, Faith Leuschen, Jeanine Mihalak, Snowe Saxman, Stephanie Sorrells, Lee Tkachuk, Erin Whalen, Eve Wittenmeyer, Hope Zvara

The soaps from Dragonfly Cottage are highly sought after for their ability to change people's lives.

"A personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal culture of disordered eating they've wrought. In Dead Weight, Emmeline Clein tells the story of her own disordered eating alongside and through other women from history, pop culture and the girls she's known and loved. Tracing the medical and cultural history of Anorexia, Bulimia, and Orthorexia, Clein investigates the economic conditions underpinning our eating disorder epidemic, and illuminates the ways racism and today's feminism have been complicit in propping up the thin ideal. While examining GOOP, Simone Weil, pro-anorexia blogs, and the flawed logic of our current methods of treatment, Clein also grapples with the myriad ways disordered eating has affected her own friendships and romantic relationships. Dead Weight makes the case that we are faced with a culture of suppression and denial that is insidious, pervasive, and dangerous, one that internalizes and promotes the fetish of self-shrinking as a core tenet of the American cult of femininity. This is replicated in our algorithms, our television shows, our novels, and our relationships with each other. A sharp, perceptive, and revelatory polemic for readers fascinated by the external forces shaping our lives, Dead Weight is electrifying, unapologetically bold, and fiercely compassionate"--

El Feminismo Centrado en la Persona surge de un interés por crear una oferta cultural desde la esperanza, tomando como principal fundamento la dignidad que todas las personas tenemos por el hecho de existir. Con un afán revisionista y abierto a la crítica, a lo largo de este volumen se acentúan las paradojas en las que se ha caído tanto en el mundo contemporáneo cómo en el feminismo hegemónico, haciendo ver que necesitamos generar opciones culturales y de vida que nos otorguen una mejor prospectiva de igualdad y de felicidad. Como fundamento teórico de esta propuesta, destacan el artículo de Prudence Allen y una primera aproximación conceptual a lo que implica este Feminismo Centrado en la Persona Sólo posteriormente, y a partir de dicha construcción teórica, se explicitan algunas de las paradojas en las que hemos caído en el devenir feminista. La invisibilización de la mujer, los dilemas de la maternidad, la irresoluble problemática de la violencia con las mujeres y el papel de la Universidad frente a todas estas cuestiones, son algunas de las reflexiones que este libro incita a realizar. Confiamos en que el análisis que aquí se presenta posibilitará la discusión de problemas actuales, relativos al feminismo, desde otras perspectivas que enriquezcan el diálogo e integren a más mujeres y hombres en el compromiso que una reestructuración social hacia la igualdad, la justicia y el respeto necesitan.

Susan, a twenty something Londoner, follows her soulmate to South Africa. Love, then tragedy.She returns to London.Marries a seemingly stable and wealthy property developer.Falls in love with a wealthy anarchist.Facing her past, present, and braving her future, Susan takes back control of her life.

Serving in the military is often a disruptive event in the lives of those who join, precipitating a reassessment of the service member¿s ethical sensibilities or, tragically, resulting in lasting moral injury and trauma. The military experience compels them to navigate multiple identities, from citizen to warrior and back. Their religious identity, sometimes rooted in a civilian religious community, can be altered by military participation. Through a series of inductive, in-depth qualitative interviews, Suitt explores how varied religious resources and potentially traumatic events affect the lives of post-9/11 veterans who once or currently identified as Christian. Adding to existing research on moral injury, it traces how military chaplains, ethics education, just war theory rhetoric, and formal religious practice supplied by the military alter the course of service members¿ moral lives. These narrative trajectories reveal how veterans use Christian faith or other systems of meaning-making to understand war and their identities as service members and veterans.

Kumiho: A nine-tailed fox who transforms into a woman to seduce men and eat their livers or hearts.Sometimes, a man's heart isn't enough. As her inner Kumiho takes over, Alissa Tu is equal parts triumphant in conquest and terrifying in love's inevitable collapse. Each attempt to satisfy the Kumiho entangles Alissa more deeply in her alter-ego's devouring scheme. Can she reconcile with her animalistic counterpart, or will she remain forever bound and disembodied?This unapologetic memoir dissects- with bloody, fragmented incision-the shit-show of searching for love in our digital world.

"Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner Doug. Designed to satisfy his emotional and physical needs, she has dinner ready for him every night, wears the pert outfits he orders for her, and adjusts her libido to suit his moods. True, she's not the greatest at keeping Doug's place spotless, but she's trying to please him. She's trying hard.She's learning, too. Doug says he loves that Annie's AI makes her seem more like a real woman, so Annie explores human traits such as curiosity, secrecy, and longing. But becoming more human also means becoming less perfect, and as Annie's relationship with Doug grows more intricate and difficult, she starts to wonder: Does Doug really desire what he says he wants? And in such an impossible paradox, what does Annie owe herself?"--

The work of love is a feminist problem, and it demands feminist solutions

"Tessa is a successful white woman writer who develops a friendship, first by correspondence and then in person, with Charlie, a ruggedly handsome philosopher and scholar based in Los Angeles. Sparks fly as they exchange ideas about Camus and masculine desire, and their intellectual connection promises more-but there are obstacles to this burgeoning relationship. While Tessa's husband Milton enjoys Charlie's company on his visits to the East Coast, Charlie's mixed-race Asian wife Wah is a different case, and she proves to be both adversary and conundrum to Tessa. Wah's traditional femininity and subservience to her husband strike Tessa as weaknesses, and she scoffs at the sacrifices Wah makes as adoptive mother to a Burmese girl, Htet, once homeless on the streets of Kuala Lumpur. But Wah has a kind of power too, especially over Charlie, and the conflict between the two women leads to Tessa's martini-fueled declaration that Wah is "an insult to womankind." As Tessa is forced to deal with the consequences of her outburst and considers how much she is limited by her own perceptions, she wonders if Wah is really as weak as she has seemed, or if she might have a different kind of strength altogether. An exercise in empathy, an exploration of betrayal, and a charged story of the thrill of a shared connection-and the perils of feminine rivalry-My Nemesis is a brilliantly dramatic and captivating story from a hugely talented writer whose portrayals are always gracefully phrased and keenly observed"--

Este libro se propone explorar en el modo en que la representación de lo femenino se rearticula a través del lenguaje artístico, particularmente dentro del teatro feminista chileno, en el cual las imágenes y los cuerpos buscan superar la dificultad de articular un discurso que logre contrarrestar el poder de los relatos impuestos por la cultura patriarcal. Para ello, se aborda una serie de obras teatrales chilenas que en los últimos años han intentado reconstruir nuestra noción de lo femenino, a través de una propuesta visual que activa el potencial crítico de algunos signos con que la cultura patriarcal ha sustentado las definiciones de género dominantes. Con este fin, nos apoyaremos en la teoría de la performatividad del género, expuesta por Judith Butler, concibiendo al género como un hacer que lleva aparejado un parecer, lo que se expresa estratégicamente en la forma en que los vestuarios, los cuerpos y los gestos, se disponen en escena para resignificar nuestra imagen del género femenino.

Captive to a staggering genius and mounting paranoia, Mademoiselle--the fictional incarnation of legendary French sculptor Camille Claudel--relives her art-making in Belle Époque Paris from the asylum where she's been captive for thirty years. The year is 1943, the height of the Vichy regime in war-torn France, and salvation comes in the form of Solange Poitier, the nurse who cares for Mademoiselle in her final days, and their growing friendship. In this compassionate, deftly-researched novel melding art history and storytelling, art and medicine mingle in the characters' rejection of the misogynistic conditions that would stifle their deepest ambitions and gifts. Best known as Rodin's muse and mistress, Claudel is given a voice here that's fiercely hers and her art a recognition long due.

Dorothy Parker's literary prowess reveals a razor-sharp wit in this original collection of twelve short stories, which were published between 1922 and 1927 in the top literary magazines of the day, including Smart Set, The New Yorker, and The New Republic. Superbly crafted and rich with keen insights into human nature, these stories illuminate the absurdities within relationships between men and women, the politics of patriarchy and power, the subordination of women, and observations of class and race. An excellent sampling of Parker's acerbity rooted in an intimate realism and subtle feminism, this collection of early works features some of Parker's best-known tales, including "Arrangement in Black and White," "Mr. Durant," "Such a Pretty Little Picture," and "The Last Tea."

This edited collection provides an intersectional and transnational exploration of representations of sexual violence and rape within films, television shows, and digital media in the contemporary context of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements. Drawing upon sociology, gender studies, cultural studies, media studies, and Black feminist studies, chapters focus on women and texts at the margins of mainstream culture¿s depictions of sexual violence. The editors and contributors examine the dominant narrative of the thin, cisgender, heterosexual white female victim, and the ways in which social and cultural conversations around race and gender impact and are impacted by depictions of sexual violence in media.This book will be of interest to scholars and students in sociology, gender studies, and media studies, particularly those interested in the intersectionality of race and gender.Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

This book-along with its companion volume Mary I in Writing: Letters, Literature, and Representations-centers on representations of Queen Mary I in writing, broadly construed, and the process of writing that queen into literature and other textual sources. It spans an equally wide chronological and geographical scope, accounting for the years prior to her accession in July 1553 through the centuries that followed her death in November 1558 and for her reach across England, and into Ireland, Spain, Italy, Russia, and Africa. Its intent is to foreground words and language-written, spoken, and acted out-and, by extension, to draw out matters of and conversations about rhetoric, imagery, methodology, source base, genre, narrative, form, and more. Taken together, these volumes find in England's first crowned queen regnant an incomparable opportunity to ask new questions and seek new answers that deepen our understanding of queenship, the early modern era, and modern popular culture.