PHILOSOPHY AND LITERARY STUDIES
Anarchafeminism Chiara Bottici The first introduction to anarchafeminism, setting out a manifesto that proposes how it might actually work in contemporary society. Chiara Bottici argues that feminism needs anarchism and anarchism needs feminism. Radical political movements do not exist in isolation from each other. The fight for freedom and equality needs to operate on more than one connected plane. Anarchafeminism attempts to incorporate the strategems from both feminist and anarchist theories, approaches and grassroots activism to formulate a specific anarchafeminist approach adapted to the challenges of our times. Adopting a global perspective, with examples and theories from around the world, the book introduces key thinkers and ideas, setting out a manifesto that proposes a practical way ahead for a new, more anarchafeminist society. Chiara Bottici is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research, USA.
November 2021 352 pages 216 x 138mm 9781350095878 Bloomsbury Academic Rights sold: Italian, Spanish
The Future is Feminine
Capitalism and the Masculine Disorder
Ciara Cremin An examination of how the patriarchy and toxic masculinity can be challenged by adopting traditionally feminine objects and mannerisms. Cremin illustrates that masculinity is a general disorder of a capitalist society that depends and even thrives upon its very symptoms. From the perspective of a trans woman raised to be a man, the book maps the disorder and speculates on the possible means to overcome it. Drawing on theorists such as Marx and Freud, Cremin demonstrates why there can be no future other than one in which we are all reconciled as a society with the feminine. In such a future, the terms ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ will neither define us nor determine our relationship to one another. Ciara Cremin lectures in sociology and leads the Gender Studies programme at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
June 2021 224 pages 216 x 138mm 9781350149762 Bloomsbury Academic
#MeToo and Literary Studies
Reading, Writing, and Teaching about Sexual Violence and Rape Culture
Edited by Mary K. Holland and Heather Hewett The first book to consider how literary scholars and teachers can bring the energy of the #MeToo movement into their work, and use their work to amplify and inform the cultural impact of #MeToo. This collection of essays on literature, from Ovid to Carmen Maria Machado offers clear ways of using our reading, teaching, and critical practices to address rape culture and sexual violence. It examines the promise and limitations of the #MeToo movement itself, speaking to the productive use of social media as well as to the voices that the movement has so far muted. In uniting diverse voices to enable the #MeToo movement to reshape literary studies, this book is committed to the idea that the way we read and write about literature can make real change in the world. Mary K. Holland is Professor of English at The State University of New York at New Paltz, USA. Heather Hewett is Associate Professor and Chair of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and an affiliate of the English Department at The State University of New York at New Paltz, USA.
October 2021 432 pages 140 x 216mm 9781501372735 Bloomsbury Academic
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