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Books · Jan 2024

Women, Gender, and Constitutionalism in Latin America

Francisca Pou Giménez, Ruth Rubio-Marín, Verónica Undurraga Valdés

A comparative study of constitutional law in eleven Latin American jurisdictions, tracing gender-rights innovation alongside gaps in reasoning and implementation.

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Books · Apr 2016

SCUM Manifesto

Valerie Solanas

Valerie Solanas's infamous 1967 manifesto is a scathing, satirical, and radical feminist text that calls for the elimination of the male sex and the overthrow of the government.

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Books · Mar 2014

A Feminist Voyage through International Relations

J. Ann Tickner

J. Ann Tickner reflects on twenty-five years of feminist IR, from reformulating realism and security to methodology, 9/11, religious violence, race, and empire.

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Books · Aug 2013

Gendering Global Conflict

Gendering Global Conflict: Toward a Feminist Theory of WarLaura Sjoberg

Laura Sjoberg’s feminist theory of war shows how gender shapes what counts as conflict, who is imagined to act, and whose lives are treated as expendable.

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Books · Oct 2011

Politics of Piety

Saba Mahmood

Saba Mahmood’s ethnography of Cairo’s women’s mosque movement challenges feminist theories that recognize agency only as resistance to norms and asks how ethical subjects are formed through embodied religious practice.

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Books · Feb 2011

Feminist Security Studies

Annick T. R. Wibben

Annick T. R. Wibben uses narrative analysis to show how security stories define threats, authorize responses, and exclude situated experiences.

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Books · Jan 2001

Radical Women in Latin America: Left and Right

Victoria González-Rivera, Karen Kampwirth

A six-country study of women’s organizing across the Latin American left and right, asking how political agency can coexist with sharply different projects and gender orders.

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Books · Nov 1996

Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures

M. Jacqui Alexander, Chandra Talpade Mohanty (eds.)

A foundational transnational feminist anthology tracing colonial legacies through labor, state power, erotic autonomy, Indigenous sovereignty, and grassroots democratic organizing.