Feminist Review: - Issue 47 (Feminist Review)

Virginia Woolf's blazing polemic on female creativity, the role of writers and the silent fate of Shakespeare's imaginary sister remains a powerful reminder of a woman's need for financial independence and intellectual freedom.

A new cover re-issue of the ground-breaking, worldwide bestselling feminist tract.

A work of anthropology and sociology, of biology and psychoanalysis, which stands - almost five decades after its first appearance - as the first landmark in the modern feminist upsurge that has transformed perceptions of the social relationship of man and womankind in our time.

Provides a historical account of feminism, exploring its earliest roots and key issues such as voting rights and the liberation of the sixties. This book presents a global analysis of the situation of women, from Europe and the United States to Third World countries.

What has been the impact of this age of transformation on women's lives in China? This wide ranging and interdisciplinary collection brings together scholars from China and the West to examine the many dimensions of debate around gender issues in contemporary China.

This Reader provides students with a comprehensive selection of readings covering a range of key issues in women's studies which are representative of the diversity of current feminist thinking. Designed as a text for classroom use, the Reader is divided into 15 sections reflecting primary topic areas within women's studies.

Presents an overview of the important issues raised for feminist theory and practice by the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and outlines the direction in which feminist debates about the subject are developing. The essays discuss medical issues; the social and political impact of HIV/AIDS on women and more.

Beyond Inequalities is a series of publications which profile the status of women in Southern Africa, and the initiatives being made to mainstreamgender in development processes in the region. The series presents the situation of women and men in the Southern African Development Community(SADC) as a region, and in each member country; and reviews the roles and responsibilities, access to and ...