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1) Mother God
Author
Publisher
Beaming Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Lexile measure
AD 630L
Language
English
Description
"Mother God introduces readers to a dozen images of God inspired by feminine descriptions from Scripture"--
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Marcello, an editor and a poet, is on the brink of his forties. Like everyone in his life, including his sister-in-law, he's writing a novel. This novel. This novel will be about women. Love. Growing older. Maybe even taking responsibility. But unfortunately for Marcello, the women in his life resist definition. They flit and flicker constantly between archetype and actuality: sirens and saviors, subordinates and savants, vixens and villains. So...
Author
Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Feminine traits that were once disparaged as weaknesses--such as sensitivity, intuition, and feeling emotional--are reclaimed as powerful strengths that can be embraced as the keys to a happier life for everyone Challenging old and outdated perceptions that feminine traits are weaknesses, The Feminine Revolution revisits those characteristics to show how they are powerful assets that should be embraced rather than maligned. It argues that feminine...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In a sparkling, beautifully illustrated social history, Skirts traces the shifting roles of women over the twentieth century through the era's most iconic and influential dresses. While the story of women's liberation has often been framed by the growing acceptance of pants over the twentieth century, the most important and influential female fashions of the era featured skirts. Suffragists and soldiers marched in skirts; the heroines of the Civil...
Author
Publisher
Rodale Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The hosts of the popular podcast and E! show LadyGang offer a relatable, empowering, and hilarious take on being unapologetically yourself (even if that's not always your best self) in a manifesto that redefines womanhood for the twenty-first century lady"--
6) Anna
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
This debut graphic novel by an up-and-coming star of the German comics scene is an audacious allegory of female resistance and radical acceptance.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
We've heard again and again that men and women are engaged in a "battle of the sexes," that we're so differently wired and so foreign to each other that we might as well come from different planets. In this powerful new lecture, renowned speaker and bestselling author Michael Kimmel (The Gendered Society, Manhood in America) turns this conventional wisdom on its head. With clarity and humor, Kimmel moves beyond the popular inter-planetary notion that...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Communication scholar Sut Jhally applies the late sociologist Erving Goffman's groundbreaking analysis of advertising to the contemporary commercial landscape in this provocative new film about gender as a ritualized cultural performance. Uncovering a remarkable pattern of gender-specific poses, Jhally explores Goffman's central claim that the way the body is displayed in advertising communicates normative ideas about masculinity and femininity. The...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
For all of the achievements of the womens movement over the past four decades, misogyny remains a persistent force in American culture. In this important new documentary, Thomas Keith, Professor of Philosophy at California State University-Long Beach, looks specifically at misogyny and sexism in mainstream American media, exploring how negative definitions of femininity and hateful attitudes toward women get constructed and perpetuated at the very...
Author
Publisher
Sounds True
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"F*ck Like a Goddess is a road map for modern women. As a prominent voice in transformational healing and the divine feminine who has emerged stronger and wiser from her own experiences with sexual abuse, mental abuse, and body shaming, Alexandra Roxo has developed the tried-and-true methods in this book for getting beyond our cultural programming and beginning to live and 'fuck' like a Goddess-metaphorically and literally. This book will guide you...
Author
Publisher
The University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Southern Beauty explains a curiosity: why a feminine ideal rooted in the nineteenth century continues to enjoy currency well into the twenty-first. Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd examines how the continuation of certain gender rituals in the American South has served to perpetuate racism, sexism, and classism. In a trio of popular gender rituals-sorority rush, beauty pageants, and the Confederate Pageant of the Natchez (Mississippi) Pilgrimage-young white...
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