Margaret Walters - Feminism – A Very Short Introduction
This is a historical account of feminism that looks at the roots of feminism, voting rights, and the liberation of the sixties, and analyzes the current situation of women across Europe, in the United States, and elsewhere in the world, particularly the Third World countries. Walters examines the difficulties and inequities that women still face, more than forty years after the “new wave” of 1960s feminism–difficulties, particularly, in combining domesticity, motherhood and work outside the home. How much have women’s lives really changed? In the West, women still come up against the “glass ceiling” at work, with most earning considerably less than their male counterparts. What are we to make of the now commonplace insistence that feminism deprives men of their rights and dignities? And how does one tackle the issue of female emancipation in different cultural and economic environments–in, for example, Islam, Hinduism, the Middle East, Africa, and the Indian sub-continent?
From the nice little paperback series by Oxford University Press, called “A Very Short Introduction..” forming useful primers into a great variety of topics.
Paperback, 159 pages, published in 2005.
€9.50

Julia Eckhardt and Leen De Graeve (editors) - The Second Sound: Conversations On Gender And Music
An imaginary conversation between musicians and sound artists on the role of gender and sex within their field and for their artistry. It gathers testimonies fr..(read more)
Publisher: Q-02 / ISBN: 9789082649512
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Feminism, Gender Theory, Music Theory.

Lee Grieveson & Colin MacCabe (Ed.) - Empire and Film
One of two volumes about the history of British colonial cinema stretching from the emergence of cinema at the height of imperialism around the turn of the cent..(read more)
Publisher: British Film Institute / ISBN: 978-1-84457-421-6
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Cinema, Sociology, UK.

Neil Ortenberg and Daniel O‘Connor - Obscene
OBSCENE is the definitive film biography of Barney Rosset, the influential publisher of Grove Press and the Evergreen Review. He acquired the then fledgling Gro..(read more)
Label: Arts Alliance / MC-834
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Documentary, Politics.
