The #MeToo and the #TimesUp movements have prompted conversations about male privilege and entitlement, freedom and equality, with women across the world opening up and sharing their experiences.
Feminism is a subject that continues to play an important part in political debates, our experience of the society we live in and influences our daily behaviour. As such, there’s an increasing trend to explore the topic to understand how we’re able to empower ourselves on the evolution of modern day culture.
Many feminists, from Professor Eva Tuchall to Joanna Williams, have been writing about equality matters for years. The recent fifth wave feminism has brought equality conversation back into mainstream culture. We wanted to delve in a bit deeper, so we’ve wrapped up the best feminism books that have been published recently and the top equality books making a mark on society today.
The Stalled Revolution: Is equality For Women An Impossible Dream?
By Professor Eva Tutchell, Professor John Edmonds
Eva Tutchell and John Edmonds draw upon historical perspectives and contemporary interviews to convey what it felt like to be in the heart of the Women’s Liberation Movement campaign for equal rights, highlighting the excitement, the solidarity, the suffering and the humour. The Stalled Revolution poses a vital question about the future, and provides the new generation of campaigners how to confront the many challenges that face women in the modern world.
Gender and the Media: Women’s Places
By Marcia Teller Segal, Vasilikie Demos
Women’s Places consider a variety of media to explore the impact of how media images shape and are shaped by society. From how college women and men respond to the masculinity reflected in hip-hop lyrics and videos, advice books for American tween girls, as well as an in depth look at how social change is reflected across different mediums.
Women vs Feminism: Why we all need liberating from the Gender Wars
By Joanna Williams
Thanks to the feminists who fought for liberation, found women today have freedom and opportunities their grandmothers couldn’t have imagined. Women are taking more of the top jobs and the gender pay gap is disappearing. Yet rather than encouraging women to seize the new possibilities open to them, contemporary feminism tells them they are still oppressed. Women vs Feminism: Why We All Need Liberating from the Gender Wars challenges this stance, unpicking statistics to explore the reality of women’s lives. From analysing trivial issues, the regulation of male behaviour and the pitching of men and women against each other. Williams questions, ‘maybe it’s time we were all liberated from the gender wars.’
Global Currents in Gender and Feminisms: Canadian and International Perspectives
By Glenda Time Bonifacio
Global Currents In Gender And Feminisms looks to examine feminist struggles in Canada as a western society and how this case compares across Latin America, Africa, Asia and Europe. It touches upon a wide range of themes including inclusion, equity and policies, reproductive labour, work, the economy, health, culture and violence for a comprehensive overview of gender equality, empowerment and justice.
Seven Faces of Women’s Sport
By Irene A. Reid & Jane Dennehy
Seven Faces of Women’s Sport looks to disrupt conventional ways of thinking about gender inequalities in sport. Media and political figures often proclaim that achieving gender parity has advanced, but important events like the Women’s Football World Cup and Olympic Games suggest otherwise. From discussion around commercial sponsorship, from grassroots support to elite performance, this book highlights that there are still barriers helping women to succeed and looks to amplify how investment in different skills and knowledge within governance, economics, nationhood, competition, sport for development and media can rebalance existing gender inequalities.
Discourses on Gender and Sexual Inequality: The legacy of Sandra L. Bem
By Marla Kohlman & Dana Balsink Krieg
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Long before the terms transgender and cisgender were introduced into mainstream, academic, and activist discourses on gender, Sandra L.Bem was busy interrogating the use of gender as an essential organising principle in society. The book aims to draw attention to the significance of Bem’s research for discussion on gender and gender roles in the social sciences, questioning the ways in which the instuition of gender has been, and remains, deeply contested.
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