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The Gay Science (Philosophical Classics)

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In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development

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Review: This book is truly amazing. For any woman who feels she has lost clarity and fierceness and the ability to tell the truth about how she feels and what is going on in the world of feelings and relationships, the social world which she inhabits, read Gilligan's work....

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Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Feminity

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Review: I bought this book, with a view to a quick read , then selling on. Not possible now as my copy is covered with underlines & notes I made in the margins! Julia puts into words & a framework structure, many thoughts & half observations I've made about my interacti....

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The Gay Science, with a prelude in rhymes and an appendix of songs. Translated, with commentary , by Walter Kaufmann

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Review: Of all the philosophers you are ever likely to come across, Nietzsche is perhaps the easiest to read. His creative prose is graceful and poetic, whilst his aphoristic style delivers quick, witty and deeply profound insights. However, whilst his writings are the e....

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Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters

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Review: If ever there was a woman that proved C.H. Sommer's arguments irrefutably, it would be Valenti. Never have I had the severe displeasure of reading such coyly misogyny-inspiring muck since the SCUM Manifesto. If you are a young woman looking to find out what femini....

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Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex

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Review: This book clarifies much of Foucault was saying in History of Sexuality. Butler is careful, however, to not borrow the models Foucault uses, thereby, avoids some of the mistakes and gaps that occur in his thinking, namely the silence on women. Butler, more than....

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The Information Age: Power of Identity v.2: Economy, Society and Culture: Power of Identity Vol 2 (The information age: economy, society & culture)

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Review: This book is more the application of the theories expounded by Toeffler (Future Shock and Third Wave) and John Naisbitt (Megatrends) in the context of the Geo-political and Social happenings today. While the concepts are not necessarily new, the application is in d....

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Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women

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Review: What a great book! I write from personal experience too. I have had to drop out of university and leave two jobs as a result of oppression by women, not men - I was bullied. I now find myself having to leave another university having been given uncharacteristical....

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Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body

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Review: A fantastic Feminist study of popular culture using a Foucauldian approach, arguing how our body is not only a text of culture, but also a direct locus of social control. The book argues that the so defined 'women's diseases' of hysteria in the 19th century, and ag....

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Excitable Speech: Politics of the Performative

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Review: The results of Butler's attempt to tackle the very serious issue of speech rights are disappointing in the extreme. With no legal background whatsoever and a myopic philosophical vision which seems ingorant of the liberal tradition upon which the right of free s....

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