Vegetarian Books
Bookmark the site !
Select Country
UK Vegetarians
US Vegetarians
DE Vegetarier
FR Végétariens
Best Selling > Books > Feminist Criticism
page 1 of 250
| Average Rating:   |
Gender Trouble (Routledge Classics)by: Judith Butler May 01, 2006 Best Selling > Books > Feminist Criticism |
List Price: £10.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £9.89 You Save: £1.10 (10%)Prices subject to change. Used Price: £9.89 |
|
|
This book is a powerful argument that overthrows essentialist discourse in favour of gender as a performative entity. Whilst a seminal work, and in my opinion, a very important viewpoint capable of pushing the feminist movement on by lightyears, I feel that Butler's writing style does not suit the message she puts forward. For someone who's aim is to spread a message to the masses, she writes in an overly academic style. Although I appreciate that she may have needed to do this so that bodies under the influence of a partriachy may take her more seriously, it leaves this book only accesible to the highest academics. I am currently referencing this book in an argument put forward in my thesis for my masters degree and i am having great trouble ... Read More:
>>More Details |
|||
| Average Rating:   |
The Second Sex (Vintage classics)by: Simone de Beauvoir August 07, 1997 Best Selling > Books > Feminist Criticism |
List Price: £10.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £7.69 You Save: £3.30 (30%)Prices subject to change. Used Price: £5.52 |
|
|
Simone de Beauvoir was scandalised and ridiculed particularly by the church when this first came out in 1949 which must have been a disappointment for her. Perhaps a radical book at the time but very relevant to the present and this is worth reading by all women and any man who agrees that women should have a better time whilst on this planet.
The book covers many aspects of being a woman, begining when humans first roamed the earth as nomads and the tyranny of life as a woman giving birth constantly as unlike many animals humans are always fertile. Infant death and infantacide were a means of survival then and the reason why the human population was realatively small for tens of thousands of years. Then tilling the earth when the ... Read More: >>More Details |
|||
| Average Rating:  |
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Woman and the Rise of Raunch Cultureby: Ariel Levy June 19, 2006 Best Selling > Books > Feminist Criticism |
List Price: £7.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £5.99 You Save: £2.00 (25%)Prices subject to change. Used Price: £2.92 |
|
|
I found this book incredibly illuminating. I have experienced, as a young person growing up, both my parents views on sex etc and my friends- both highly contrasting. This book has helped me to understand why nowadays somethings are accepted that would have been seen in a worse light years ago.
Levy writes in an easy to read prose (unlike me) and the book works in chapters linking together different ideas. I definitely will be looking at this one again. Highly recommended!! >>More Details |
|||
| Average Rating:   |
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-century Literacy Imagination (Yale Nota Bene)by: SM Gilbert September 05, 2000 Best Selling > Books > Feminist Criticism |
List Price: £12.50 Vegetarian Books Price: £9.13 You Save: £3.37 (27%)Prices subject to change. Used Price: £7.44 |
|
|
This book by Gilbert and Gubar was groundbreaking literary criticism when it was first published, and paved the way for an explosion in feminist literary criticism that allowed much existing work to be re-evaluated and enriched by what women had to say
I recently re-read this work, and have to say that some of it is now dated, and the enormous preface to the recent edition does not really add anything to the main body of text, although it does go some way to setting the scene for the research. It seems dated because what Gilbert and Gubar once fought for is now taken for granted by so many, which just shows the success of their achievements. The majority of the work on the 19th Century novels themselves, particularly the work of Charlotte Bronte ... Read More: >>More Details |
|||
| Average Rating:  |
A Room of One's Own (Penguin Modern Classics)by: Virginia Woolf February 28, 2002 Best Selling > Books > Feminist Criticism |
List Price: £5.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £4.79 You Save: £1.20 (20%)Prices subject to change. Used Price: £1.74 |
|
|
This book has so much more to offer than simply a treatise on the feminist needs of creative women (although this is a very important topic, and as relevant now as when Woolf wrote her essays); it also offers excellent advice on the art of writing well, and the need for a good writer to resist the urge to use their craft as a stage from which to proclaim their views. I already know this book will have a profound effect on my own writing, and for that alone it thoroughly deserves five stars.
>>More Details |
|||
| Average Rating:  |
The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England (Yale Nota Bene)by: A Vickery November 14, 2003 Best Selling > Books > Feminist Criticism |
List Price: £7.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £6.39 You Save: £1.60 (20%)Prices subject to change. Used Price: £3.96 |
|
|
Many books can be found outlining Georgian political history and more than one biography has been written on Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, but the everyday lives of genteel women have had less attention. In this book, Vickery uses surviving letters, diaries, accounts and pocketbooks of a selection of Georgian women living genteel lives in Northern England. I found the book interesting, but fairly heavy going in places. Any modern woman reading the chapter on childbirth will be glad to live in the current age! This is a good insight into everyday life and the role and functions of women within society. However, the type in my copy I found to be quite small, and so a little hard on the eyes. Chapters are also quite long with few breaks in the text. Vickery ... Read More:
>>More Details |
|||
| Average Rating:  |
The Weaker Vessel (Women In History)by: Antonia Fraser August 01, 2002 Best Selling > Books > Feminist Criticism |
List Price: £9.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £6.99 You Save: £3.00 (30%)Prices subject to change. Used Price: £0.01 |
|
|
This book is fascinating. It is a really easy and highly informative read. I love the fact that it covers all levels of 17th century society and not just the upper classes. It focuses on the role of women in society at the time and provides a fantastic insight into the everyday life of women from all walks of life. The research behind the book is very impressive. A very interesting read for any history and/or feminist enthusiast.
>>More Details |
|||
| Average Rating:  |
Vision and Difference: Feminism, Femininity and Histories of Art (Routledge Classics)by: Griselda Pollock April 24, 2003 Best Selling > Books > Feminist Criticism |
List Price: £9.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £9.49 You Save: £0.50 ( 5%)Prices subject to change. Used Price: £8.89 |
|
|
This book is fascinating. It is a really easy and highly informative read. I love the fact that it covers all levels of 17th century society and not just the upper classes. It focuses on the role of women in society at the time and provides a fantastic insight into the everyday life of women from all walks of life. The research behind the book is very impressive. A very interesting read for any history and/or feminist enthusiast.
>>More Details |
|||
| Average Rating:  |
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against Womenby: Susan Faludi March 18, 1993 Best Selling > Books > Feminist Criticism |
List Price: £11.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £8.39 You Save: £3.60 (30%)Prices subject to change. Used Price: £2.78 |
|
|
I found this book interesting and well written, but maybe a bit over the top. Listening to Ms. Faludi's recent interview on [...], she's an intelligent and likeable person. She's also not afraid to tell you what she thinks...for a good 500 pages. This is an apparently well researched book, but not being a scholar of feminism, I can't place it in its proper historical context. She seems to be trying to get a reaction out of people, however, with a bit of shock value, and I thought a journalist wasn't supposed to do that? It's fun to draw a comparison between Ms. Faludi and Elizabeth Wurtzel, who's the author of Prozac Nation and other controversial books. The two women: are similar in age, are Harvard graduates trained in journalism, are dare I say attractive, do not censor ... Read More:
>>More Details |
|||
| Average Rating:  |
The Feminine Mystique (Penguin Women's Studies)by: Betty Friedan January 30, 1992 Best Selling > Books > Feminist Criticism |
List Price: £12.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £9.09 You Save: £3.90 (30%)Prices subject to change. Used Price: £6.70 |
|
|
First off I'll declare my bias, in that I'm a man; I believe I'm unusually feminist, however a man nonetheless. Secondly, this review needs to be framed within the premise that it's a review of its value in 2008, rather than in the early 1960's when it was originally published, and so the emphasis is more upon recommendation on whether to read it now, than commentary on its historical or political value.
That said, Friedan's tome on the re-oppression of women through the 1950's, after their earlier liberation was overall not particularly enjoyable and quickly became a laborious read. Bearing in mind that such books are not necessarily meant to be fun, I found Friedan's writing style overly repetitive, often confusing and apparently self-contradictory. Read More: >>More Details |
|||
