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Across communication industries, women face barriers and a Catch-22 situation at all organisational levels and suffer from cultural masculinities. Offering a systematic overview of women's lived experiences, this book discusses major issues in contemporary communication industries, including public relations, journalism and advertising, to understand the barriers that still exist.With a particular focus on office culture, the book concentrates on analysing the position and experiences of women working across communication industries and uses the theoretical framework of cultural masculinities to explore whether women's organisational experiences and the lack of opportunities span across sectors. The author explores how cultural masculinities as well as discrimination, sexism and harassment can work against women's interests and impede their career progression. The chapters provide a quality overview of existing theories as well as new insights to demonstrate how organisations operate and function in a way that systematically disadvantages women.The book will be a valuable resource for academics and researchers in the fields of organisational studies, public relations, advertising and journalism, as well as postgraduate and doctoral students in these areas. The interdisciplinary nature will also appeal to those across gender and labour studies and human resource management.

Opportunisme, fumisterie ou solidarité? Théâtre politique ou alliance véritable? Les féministes ont vu neiger. Tant d'hommes font mine de rejoindre leurs rangs pour des motivations douteuses, qui n'ont rien à voir avec l'émancipation des unes ou le disempowerment des autres. Or certains, que l'on soupçonne d'être moins bruyants, chercheraient à être solidaires pour vrai. Ils voudraient incarner des alliés authentiques dans la vie privée comme dans la sphère publique et l'action militante, sans tomber dans une attitude paternaliste ni décamper au premier obstacle. Quoi?! Mais où se cachaient-ils donc? Francis Dupuis-Déri formule quelques réponses — parfois troublantes — à ces questions en forme d'énigme. Dans une enquête passionnante qui puise dans l'histoire méconnue des hommes proféministes et de leurs engagements en Europe, en Afrique, en Asie et dans les Amériques, l'auteur rappelle que cette posture paradoxale peut entraîner son lot de problèmes pour les féministes elles-mêmes, qui ne souhaitent ni mener la lutte en vase clos, ni voir des hommes l'usurper (en portant une cape de superhéros). Suivi d'un « Petit guide de disempowerment » à l'intention des hommes du futur

Analyses how conservative and anti-feminist ideas are filtered through social media, and how we can collectively fight back against them to reclaim our future online.Collapse Feminism explores how conservative and anti-feminist ideas spread through social media—and how we can resist to reclaim a better future online.This timely analysis focuses on the rise of'collapse'as a dominant framework for discussing societal issues, which often paves the way for conservative ideologies in mainstream discourse. When fear dominates, people tend to retreat into traditional values, making space for anti-feminist movements.Key topics include:- The reactionary politics of the'manosphere'- The impact of sexual liberation and hookup culture- The rise of traditional femininity and self-help content- How online spaces are shaping the future of feminismCollapse Feminism emphasizes the urgency of countering the'collapse'narrative and explores bold new ways to fight back, ensuring a more inclusive, forward-thinking society for women in the 21st century.

This book serves to shed a light on the position of women in media and how these institutions shape the women's contributions to national development. The authors argue that women are unsung heroes, driving the growth of nations. Nevertheless, their stories are seldom told, they are often stereotyped and marginalized within society. This form of discrimination serves to take away the voices of women in all social stratas, especially in the developing nations of Africa. It is little wonder that there is gender inequality, gender bias, and gender injustice in society. This book highlights literature which may be used to actualize gender equality and social justice for women. By creating a discussion around gender, society will begin to understand the value and importance of women in engineering development. Women are vital to social change.

In Archive of Tongues Moon Charania explores feminine dispossession and the brown diaspora through a reflection on the life of her mother. Drawing on her mother's memories and stories of migration, violence, sexuality, queerness, domesticity, and the intimate economies of everyday life, Charania conceptualizes her mother's tongue as an object of theory and an archive of brown intimate life. By presenting a mode of storytelling that is sensual and melancholic, piercing and sharp, Charania recovers otherwise silenced modes of brown mothers'survival, disobedience, and meaning making that are often only lived out in invisible, intimate spaces, and too often disappear into them. In narrating her mother's tongue as both metaphor for and material reservoir of other ways of knowing, Charania gestures to the afflictions, limits, and failures of feminist, queer, and postcolonial scholarly interrogations and the consequences of closing the archive of the brown mother.

En el presente libro se abordan las construcciones, narraciones y tecnologías históricas, religiosas, filosóficas y científicas del lenguaje y del discurso del «saber» que han determinado la identidad, la función y la constitución psíquica y corporal de las mujeres, así como su inscripción en los roles simbólicos, sociales, sexuales y laborales de género y su exclusión del espacio público. Aporta materiales y (con)textos para una crítica feminista de la violencia y enfoca las luchas de las mujeres para enfrentarse al silencio y a la injusticia de su condición, desde figuras trágicas como Antígona, Casandra e Ifigenia hasta las declaraciones, escritos y miradas de ilustradas, revolucionarias, filósofas, teóricas y artistas en la actualidad, a través de sus escritos, argumentos y razonamientos. Erigidas en sujetos políticos de lenguaje, las autoras afrontan y desenmascaran en la escritura y las obras artísticas las mitologías, los discursos y las leyes que las han sometido –aunque no acallado–, manifiestan su resistencia al victimismo y a la esclavitud, y denuncian la guerra –de Troya a Bosnia, Palestina o Iraq– como fundamento de la violencia del patriarcado.

'An astute and persuasive page-turner'OBSERVER'Powerful'SUNDAY TIMES'I challenge any man to read this and still deny there's a problem'NEW STATESMAN _____________________________________________________ Too often, we blame women. For walking home alone at night. For not demanding a seat at the table. For not overcoming the odds that are stacked against them. This distracts us from the real problem: the failings and biases of a society that was not built for women. In this explosive book, feminist writer and activist Laura Bates exposes the systemic prejudice at the heart of five of our key institutions.EducationPoliticsMediaPolicingCriminal justice Combining stories with shocking evidence, Fix the System, Not the Women is a blazing examination of sexual injustice and a rallying cry for reform. ________________________________________________'A blistering manifesto for change'Dr PRAGYA AGARWAL'I am in awe of Laura Bates... her writing is nothing short of perfect'SOFIE HAGEN, author of Happy Fat‘Finish the book furious – before rallying for the next fight'GRAZIA Latest Must-Reads

'A must-read for any activist or reader in search for a piece of inspiration.'—Liz Shuler, president, AFL-CIO2022 Sarton Awards Finalist for Memoir 2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medalist - Women's Issues category9 to 5 wasn't just a comic film—it was a movement built by Ellen Cassedy and her friends. Ten office workers in Boston started out sitting in a circle and sharing the problems they encountered on the job. In a few short years, they had built a nationwide movement that united people of diverse races, classes, and ages. They took on the corporate titans. They leafleted and filed lawsuits and started a woman-led union. They won millions of dollars in back pay and helped make sexual harassment and pregnancy discrimination illegal. The women office workers who rose up to win rights and respect on the job transformed workplaces throughout America. And along the way came Dolly Parton's toe-tapping song and a hit movie inspired by their work.Working 9 to 5 is a lively, informative, firsthand account packed with practical organizing lore that will embolden anyone striving for fair treatment.

La historia de la mujer que buscó justicia en una botella de gasolina El 17 de octubre de 1998, el Pincelito, un hombre de sesenta y dos años, violó a Verónica, una niña de trece, en la localidad alicantina de Benejúzar. Seis años más tarde, cuando el Pincelito gozaba de un permiso penitenciario, Mari Carmen, la madre de Verónica, se cruzó con él por el pueblo, le prendió fuego y le causó la muerte. Este libro reconstruye los entresijos de aquella historia real y explora sus múltiples recovecos. Pero Gema Peñalosa no se detiene en este caso concreto, sino que además se interroga por los mecanismos sociales que posibilitan que las mujeres sigan sometidas a tanta violencia sexual. SOBRE LA AUTORANació en Aracena (Huelva) en 1980, pero se trasladó a Alicante cuando tenía seis años. Durante su infancia se le quedaron grabados algunos casos célebres de violencia contra las mujeres, como el asesinato de la niña onubense Ana María Jerez Cano, en 1991, o el crimen de las niñas de Alcàsser, al año siguiente. Desde entonces, no ha dejado de preguntarse por qué aquellos casos la dejaron tan marcada y cómo reaccionó la sociedad ante ellos. Es muy probable que este tipo de preguntas expliquen por qué acabó dedicándose al periodismo de sucesos y tribunales. Primero, en la Comunidad Valenciana. Y más tarde, en Madrid, donde actualmente cubre la información del Ministerio del Interior para el diario El Mundo. Ha investigado casos como Gürtel, Brugal o el asesinato de la viuda del empresario Vicente Sala.

Le privilège de dénoncer cherche à savoir pourquoi les femmes et les filles noires sont largement absentes du débat public lorsqu'il est question de violences sexuelles. Kharoll-Ann Souffrant explore sans détour les raisons historiques de ce constat à partir d'exemples tirés du Québec, de la France et des États-Unis. Entre les impacts actuels de la colonisation et de l'esclavage, les stéréotypes liés à la sexualité des Noir·es ainsi que les failles du système de justice criminelle, l'autrice assemble les pièces du casse-tête pour révéler les dynamiques à l'œuvre derrière la marginalisation des femmes afrodescendantes. La parole des survivantes noires serait-elle doublement invisibilisée, tant par les institutions patriarcales que par un certain féminisme blanc et libéral qui aurait accaparé le mouvement #MeToo? Une invitation à élargir sans délai notre compréhension des violences sexuelles et racistes, et ce, pour le bénéfice de l'ensemble de la société. «Dans un Québec qui – comme tant de sociétés – s'élance encore d'un pas hésitant lorsqu'il s'agit de confronter le racisme systémique, la parole de Kharoll-Ann Souffrant est précieuse. Elle est une femme noire dont les racines se trouvent sur la terre où s'est érigée la première république noire au monde, à Haïti, née d'une révolution victorieuse contre la France coloniale, contre l'oppression esclavagiste. Aujourd'hui Kharoll-Ann Souffrant pose sa plume telle la digne héritière de celles et ceux qui se sont dressé·es il y a plus de deux cents ans. Avec verve, elle décrypte ce racisme conçu pour écraser ses aïeux, dont les résidus persistent à obstruer les regards qui se posent sur elle.» —Rokhaya Diallo, extrait de la préface

“An insightful, provocative, and practical guide... a toolkit for white women to become more effective racial justice allies. Highly recommended.” —Paul Kivel, author of Uprooting RacismBlending real-life stories, theory, and anti-racism practices from decades of on-the-ground work, the authors invite white women to understand their gendered role in systemic racism and their unique opportunity for action. Both frank and compassionate, coverage includes:Stories of white women's experiences with sexism, racism, and white privilegeHow white women harm BIPOC and ourselves by colluding with systems of oppressionWhy and how white women often hijack race conversationsA powerful six-stage identity development model for self-reflection and growthGuiding questions and practical actions for strengthening anti-racism practicesTools to cultivate genuine partnerships with BIPOC individuals and groups.White women are positioned in a power hierarchy between white men and BIPOC. It is time for white women to step up and undertake deep reflection on their role in systemic racism and take concrete actions that support equity and justice for all people.Silver, 2022 IPPY Awards—Current Events II (Social Issues/Humanitarian)“This analysis helps white women with two simultaneous character-forming tasks: healing from wounds of sexism and using the power we get from privilege to weaken racism in ourselves and in the world.” —Peggy McIntosh, PhD, author of White Privilege“If you identify as white and female and are serious about your anti-racism work in the world, this is your next book.” —Kathy Obear, author of But I'm NOT Racist

Power Play is an honest guide for women who aspire to leadership in the workplace and in the world, from the trailblazing Julia Banks. Having won the ‘unwinnable'seat that secured the Coalition Government majority in 2016, Julia Banks shocked Australia when she announced she would stand as an independent MP in 2018, having experienced a toxic workplace culture in the country's centre of power – designed by men for their dominance. Julia doesn't just know what power looks like in a political sense; she made it to the top of her game in the legal and corporate sectors before running for parliament. And at every level, she had to navigate through the bias, barriers and boys'clubs that aim to silence women or deter them from leadership roles. Power Play reveals the unvarnished realities of any workplace where power disparities and gender politics collide: from the unequal opportunities, casual sexism and systemic misogyny, to pressures around looks, age and family responsibilities, and the consequences of speaking out. Julia shares personal stories, practical advice, and a resounding argument for why women aren't the problem – but why more women in decision-making positions will help us find the solution. For anyone who is aspiring to lead, this book will help you to navigate there. And for anyone who believes that women's voices need to be heard equally, it will inspire you to strive until that is our reality.

Migration is a multifaceted phenomenon that plays a critical role in today's world, yet there have been few attempts to look beneath the surface of the mass movements of people. Particularly, the changing face of migration is becoming more feminized, with women increasingly moving as independent or single migrants rather than as the wives, mothers, or daughters of male migrants. Yet, in literature on migration, the voices of women are still silent. This creates an urgent need to advance academic research on female international migration by examining women as independent migrants. Immigrant Women's Voices and Integrating Feminism Into Migration Theory comprehensively documents the experiences of immigrant women across the globe and the important theories that define their experiences. The chapters give firsthand accounts of women speaking about their own experiences on migration and topics associated with women and migration. This book aims to give women their own voice and to stand apart from previous literature in which male relatives spoke on behalf of immigrant women to tell their stories for them. While highlighting topics on women in migration including feminism, gendered social roles, first-person narratives, and the female identity, this book is ideally for professionals in social science disciplines as well as practitioners, stakeholders, researchers, academicians, and students wanting to expand their knowledge on women and migration, gender violence, and women empowerment.

Written by an award-winning leadership trainer and career coach, Her Allies is a practical toolkit that empowers men to lead through advocacy and champion gender equality.Hira Ali introduces readers to the knowledge, strategies, and confidence needed to embrace the role of an ally and discusses the barriers that might hold them back. Through five interactive sections, she exposes the obstacles that impede women's equality, and encourages readers to not only challenge their own perspectives but also to confront societal norms, organizational dynamics, and the institutional structures that perpetuate gender disparities. Join the movement and turn the page on gender inequality. This book is more than just a guide, it's a call to action!

These empowering essays from leading women writers examine the power of the gendered language that is used to diminish women -- and imagine a more liberated world.Words matter. They wound, they inflate, they define, they demean. They have nuance and power.'Effortless,''Sassy,''Ambitious,''Aggressive': What subtle digs and sneaky implications are conveyed when women are described with words like these? Words are made into weapons, warnings, praise, and blame, bearing an outsized influence on women's lives -- to say nothing of our moods.No one knows this better than Lizzie Skurnick, writer of the New York Times'column'That Should be A Word'and a veritable queen of cultural coinage. And in Pretty Bitches, Skurnick has rounded up a group of powerhouse women writers to take on the hidden meanings of these words, and how they can limit our worlds -- or liberate them. From Laura Lipmann and Meg Wolizer to Jennifer Weiner and Rebecca Traister, each writer uses her word as a vehicle for memoir, cultural commentary, critique, or all three. Spanning the street, the bedroom, the voting booth, and the workplace, these simple words have huge stories behind them -- stories it's time to examine, re-imagine, and change.

This book contains an Open Access Chapter In 1995, the Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace affirmed the need to address gender inequalities and foster gender integration. Ever since, the field of gender professionals has been growing, yet the experiences, insights and data gathered have not been systematically examined and incorporated into an accessible body of knowledge. Working to address this, expert contributors demonstrate the depth and breadth of gender and practice. Including examples from Brazil, Cameroon, Ecuador, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, the USA, and Vietnam, as well as chapters that take a global perspective, the research here looks at issues and activities relating to infusing gender in knowledge management, training, and practice. Including subjects such as education, agricultural production, and tourism, this volume offers a variety of perspectives that will appeal to any researcher in gender. Throughout the volume, expert practitioners situate their real-world experiences in the broader intersectional framework employed by their academic colleagues, offering policy makers, students, scholars, practitioners, and activists concrete examples of how and why gender is central to development.

In After #MeToo, Gerard Casey provides a critical assessment of the #MeToo movement, situating it in the context of the radical feminism of which it is just the latest manifestation. Apart from its legitimating an indiscriminate attack on men and masculinity, Casey argues that the #MeToo movement has exposed a conceptual fault-line in radical feminist anthropology. Are women fully-developed moral agents, able to exercise moral choice and to take responsibility for what they do; or are women elements of a collective made up of the victims of sexual crimes, whose suffering is not just that of any one individual woman but of the group as a whole? Casey's analysis of the #MeToo movement is prefaced by a brief typology of forms of feminism and by an account of the supposedly universal oppression of women by a malign patriarchy. He argues that if there is such a thing as the patriarchy, it is singularly and spectacularly ineffectual in its operation inasmuch as women, on the whole, are not only not oppressed in comparison to men but are rather the beneficiaries of legal and social privileges. After #MeToo concludes with a consideration of the changing legal definitions of rape. Once understood to be essentially a crime of violence, rape has now come to be regarded as a violation of personal autonomy. In common law systems, a certain conception of consent is now central to the definition of rape, a conception that, Casey argues, is unworkable, at once infantilising women and, at the same time, potentially criminalising every sexual encounter in which a man is involved.

Bestselling author, journalist, and human rights activist Sally Armstrong argues that humankind requires the equal status of women and girls.The facts are indisputable. When women get even a bit of education, the whole of society improves. When they get a bit of healthcare, everyone lives longer. In many ways, it has never been a better time to be a woman: a fundamental shift has been occurring. Yet from Toronto to Timbuktu the promise of equality still eludes half the world's population.In her 2019 CBC Massey Lectures, award-winning author, journalist, and human rights activist Sally Armstrong illustrates how the status of the female half of humanity is crucial to our collective surviving and thriving. Drawing on anthropology, social science, literature, politics, and economics, she examines the many beginnings of the role of women in society, and the evolutionary revisions over millennia in the realms of sex, religion, custom, culture, politics, and economics. What ultimately comes to light is that gender inequality comes at too high a cost to us all.

Ziel dieser Einführung ist es, mit feministischen Strömungen außerhalb Europas vertraut zu machen. Nachgezeichnet werden Debatten zu Feminismus und Gendergerechtigkeit in Afrika, Asien und Lateinamerika der letzten Jahrzehnte sowie der rege Austausch über regionale, nationale und auch kulturell-religiöse oder Sprachgrenzen hinweg. Der Band enthält sowohl Kapitel mit regionalem als auch Kapitel mit themenzentriertem Fokus, wie dem postkolonialen Feminismus, Feminismen im Islam oder dem Ökofeminismus. Er stellt so eine Einladung an europäische feministische Perspektiven dar, sich zu öffnen und weiterzudenken.

'Somos lo que nos han hecho, lentamente al correr los años', escribió María Teresa León. El problema es que la sociedad, al correr los años, solo valora un tipo de poder: el político que va unido, o busca, al económico. El feminismo ha pasado de enarbolar la bandera del pacifismo y de la defensa de los derechos civiles que caracterizó a las sufragistas (...) a considerar la toma del poder como objetivo principal y necesario para alcanzar la igualdad. Olvidan que las mujeres tienen poder o, mejor, debería decir poderes. Uno de estos poderes, el de las artistas es, parafraseando a Nietzsche, el poder de una maga que cura y que salva, el poder de lo sublime para someter lo espantoso. Ese poder me interesa.

Shortlisted for the 2018 Parliamentary Book Awards (Best Memoir by a Parliamentarian) Why is gender inequality so stubbornly persistent? Power. Even today, power remains concentrated in the hands of men right across the worlds of business, politics and culture. Decisions taken by those with power tend to perpetuate gender inequality rather than accelerate solutions. And those who see the problem often feel powerless: ingrained sexism and gender inequality can seem too huge to solve. Equal Power holds a mirror up to society, showing the stark extent of gender inequality while making the case that everyone has the power to create change. Whether you are a teenage student, a global CEO or a taxi driver, there is much we can do as friends, consumers, parents and colleagues to create a world of Equal Power. In this inspiring and essential book, deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats and former Government Minister for Women Jo Swinson outlines the steps we can all take, small and large, to make our society truly gender equal.

Economía feminista propone, basándose en evidencias estadísticas, una mirada que cuestiona la economía como ciencia y plantea nuevas dimensiones a las viejas disputas sobre desigualdad y pobreza, al tiempo que aporta ideas para construir una sociedad más igualitaria y justa. Economía feminista presenta una mirada que sacude todo el esqueleto conceptual de la economía como ciencia y plantea nuevas dimensiones a las viejas discusiones sobre desigualdad o pobreza. D´Alessandro profundiza sobre la brecha salarial, el trabajo no remunerado, el papel de la maternidad en las posibilidades profesionales de la mujer, la feminización de la pobreza y el techo de cristal al que nos enfrentamos las mujeres en la política y el mundo laboral. «Las mujeres, la mitad de la población mundial, hoy son minoría en todos los ámbitos en los que se toman decisiones de peso. Disputar estos lugares implica transformar el modo enel que hemos pensado el rol de la mujer en toda la historia pasada. Es un cambio muy profundo... que ya comenzó y que es irreversible. La economía feminista es revolucionaria o no es, porque no se puede conseguir igualdad en un mundo de opresión, porque no hay igualdad en un mundo de pobreza, porque no hay igualdad en un mundo de explotación.»Mercedes D'Alessandro

Hoje em dia as mulheres estão em toda parte: nas empresas, nas universidades e também na política (hoje, uma mulher dirige nossa nação). O livro faz um percurso da discriminação que as mulheres sofreram através dos tempos e como os avanços na luta por seus direitos têm transformado nossa sociedade.

Close to Home is the classic study of family, patriarchal ideologies, and the politics and strategy of women's liberation. On the table in this forceful and provocative debate are questions of whether men can be feminists, whether'bourgeois'and heterosexual women are retrogressive members of the women's movement, and how best to struggle against the multiple oppressions women endure.Rachel Hills's foreword to this new edition explores how Christine Delphy's analysis of marriage as the institution behind the exploitation of unpaid women's labor is as radical and relevant today as it ever was.

What is feminism? In this short, accessible primer, bell hooks explores the nature of feminism and its positive promise to eliminate sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. With her characteristic clarity and directness, hooks encourages readers to see how feminism can touch and change their lives—to see that feminism is for everybody.

In this feminist critique of the politics of religion, Sheila Jeffreys argues that the renewed rise of religion is harmful to women's human rights. The book seeks to rekindle the criticism of religion as the founding ideology of patriarchy.Focusing on the three monotheistic religions; Judaism, Christianity and Islam, this book examines common anti-women attitudes such as ‘male-headship', impurity of women, the need to control women's bodies, and their modern manifestations in multicultural Western states. It points to the incorporation of religious law into legal systems, faith schools, and campaigns led by Christian and Islamic organisations against women's rights at the U.N., and explains how religious rights threaten to subvert women's rights. Including highly-topical chapters on the burka and the covering of women, and polygamy, this text questions the ideology of multiculturalism which shields religion from criticism by demanding respect for culture and faith, whilst ignoring the harm that women suffer from religion.Man's Dominion is an incisive and polemic text that will be of interest to students of gender studies, religion, and politics.

In 1972 Selma James set out a new political perspective. Her starting point was the millions of unwaged women who, working in the home and on the land, were not seen as “workers” and their struggles viewed as outside of the class struggle. Based on her political training in the Johnson-Forest Tendency, founded by her late husband C.L.R. James, on movement experience South and North, and on a respectful study of Marx, she redefined the working class to include sectors previously dismissed as “marginal.” For James, the class struggle presents itself as the conflict between the reproduction and survival of the human race, and the domination of the market with its exploitation, wars, and ecological devastation. She sums up her strategy for change as “Invest in Caring not Killing.” This selection, spanning six decades, traces the development of this perspective in the course of building an international campaigning network. It includes excerpts from the classic The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community which launched the “domestic labor debate,” the exciting “Hookers in the House of the Lord” which describes a church occupation by sex workers, an incisive review of the C.L.R. James masterpiece The Black Jacobins, a reappraisal of the novels of Jean Rhys and of the leadership of Julius Nyerere, the groundbreaking “Marx and Feminism,” and more. The writing is lucid and without jargon. The ideas, never abstract, spring from the experience of organising, from trying to make sense of the successes and the setbacks, and from the need to find a way forward.

This book provides the most comprehensive account to date of women's persistent underrepresentation in leadership roles, why it matters, and what can be done to change it.

In Beyond Comparison: Sex and Discrimination Timothy Macklem addresses foundational issues in the long-running debate in legal, political and social theory about the nature of gender discrimination. He takes the highly original and controversial view that the heart of discrimination lies not in the unfavorable comparisons with the treatment and opportunities that men enjoy but rather in a denial of resources and opportunities that women need to lead successful and meaningful lives as women. Therefore, to understand what women need we must first understand what it is to be a woman. By displaying an impressive command of the feminist literature as well as intellectual rigor, this work promises to be a milestone in the debate about gender equality and will interest students and professionals in the areas of legal theory and gender studies.

Throughout the ages, the female body has been enshrined as an aesthetic object, associated with nature, sin and danger. This collection of essays covers a range of topics related to the female body.

Feminism challenges both the theory and practice of politics, opening up new ways of thinking about political change. In this latest volume in the Oxford Readings in Feminism series, Anne Phillips brings together twenty outstanding articles dealing with various aspects of feminism and politics, covering political studies, political theory, interests and representation, identities and coalitions, equality and anti-discrimination, and citizenship. This collection will be essential reading for any feminist who has doubted the important of political studies, and any student of politics who has doubted the relevance of feminism.