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Feminism and Suffrage

In the two decades since Feminism and Suffrage was first published, the increased presence of women in politics and the gender gap in voting patterns have focused renewed attention on an issue general perceived as nineteenth-century.
For this new edition, Ellen Carol DuBois addresses the changing context for the history of woman suffrage at the millennium.
Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women's Movement in America, 1848-1869 by Ellen Carol DuBois
ISBN: 0801486416

Feminist Standpoint Theory reader

Leading feminist scholar and one of the founders of standpoint theory, Sandra Harding, brings together a prestigious list of scholars, such as Dorothy Smith, Donna Haraway, Patricia Hill Collins, Nancy Hartsock, Hillary Rose. Not only to showcase the most influential essays, but also to highlight subsequent developments of these approaches from a wide variety of disciplines and intellectual and political positions. This Reader is essential reading for feminist scholars.
The Feminist Standpoint Theory reader: Intellectual and Political Controversies by Sandra Harding
ISBN: 0415945011

Feminist Frontiers

The most widely used anthology of feminist writings and the first to incorporate issues of sexual orientation and sexual diversity, Feminist Frontiers has stood the test of time. With readings that cut across disciplines and generational lines, Feminist Frontiers presents the full diversity of women's issues and experiences, exploring their similarities as well as their differences.
Feminist Frontiers offers analyses of the causes and consequences of gender inequality and introduces students to feminist theory and methodology. A sociological analysis opens each of the four Parts and eleven Sections of the book. Boxed inserts, with news articles, humor, and other writings from the popular press complement the readings.
Feminist Frontiers by Laurel Richardson
ISBN: 0072824239

Sisters in the Wilderness

In this landmark work of emerging African American womanist theology, Delores Williams finds in the biblical figure of Hagar - mother of Ishmael, cast into the desert by Abraham and Sarah, but protected by God - a prototype for the struggle of African-American women.
African slave, homeless exile, surrogate mother, Hagar's story provides an image of survival and defiance appropriate to black women today. Exploring all the themes inherent in Hagar's story, poverty and slavery, ethnicity and sexual exploitation, exile and encounters with God, Sisters in the Wilderness traces parallels in the history of African-American women from slavery to the present.
A particular theology, a womanist theology, emerges from this shared experience; specifically, from the interplay of oppressions on account of race, sex, and class. In Part I, Delores Williams shows how reading Hagar's story exemplifies the issues and problems black women face. The forced motherhood, single motherhood and surrogate motherhood, Hagar experienced have been part of black women's lives. Delores Williams also explores the dismal reality of contemporary racial narcissistic ... consciousness, which finds its parallel in Hagar's travail as foreign servant and outcast.
Finally, there is the religious resonance of Hagar's sojourns in the wilderness and her encounters with God. These themes Delores Williams finds echoed in the cultural and literary traditions of African-American women. Part II considers the theological implications of the womanist understanding of Hagar's history. Delores Williams explores the relationship between womanist and black liberation theology, and womanist theology and the black church. Through the combination of social history, political theology, and literary criticism, Williams demonstrates how approaching theology consciously informed by the awareness of the identity of black women results in a rich and vibrant knowledge of the sacred.
Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk by Delores S. Williams
ISBN: 1570750262