Women week at the Knowledge Hub: essays

Essays on Women: Diversity and Feminisms at the Knowledge Hub

We librarians are curious. We like to exchange ideas, to debate and to confront contradictions. So here is a focus on what you can find in our shelves about women. Diversity is the order of the day, embracing different disciplinary fields and currents of opinion, and this is food for thought! Journalists, philosophers, historians, sociologists, gender theorists, professors, economists, entrepreneurs ... each of them presents in his or her own way the singularities of women's journeys and struggles, thus defining not one but many feminisms.

So let's honor pluralism and give way to inspiration!

Find our selection on the dedicated bookshelf!

 

Gender studies

To question the female gender and the gender in general, here are two essential books:

• Research handbook on gender and innovation : Ulla Hytti; Elisabet Ljunggren (2019)
• Trouble dans le genre : le féminisme et la subversion de l'identité : Judith Butler (2006)

 

A women History

From Prehistory ( ! ) to now, follow the evolution of the place of women in our not-always-very-inclusive societies:

• Broad band: the untold story of the woman who made the Internet: Claire L. Evans (2018)
• A brief history of feminism : Patu, Ante Schrupp et Sophie Lewis (2017)
• Women in sports : Rachel Ignotofsky (2017)

 

Feminism & FeminismS

From Simone de Beauvoir's seminal text to Witches, podcasts and soccer, discover works that stimulate thought and question what we took for granted:

• Learning to sell sex(ism): Aileen O'Driscoll (2018)
• Invisible women : exposing data bias in a world designed for men: Criado-Perez (2020)
• What works: gender equality by design: Iris Bohnet (2018)
• Dear Ijeawele: a feminist manifesto: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2017)
• Nice girls don't get the corner office : Lois P. Frankel (2014)
• We should all be feminists: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2015)

 

Women's bodies

Exposed, desired, too often violated, the body of women belongs to them only too little. An invitation to liberation and to the pleasure of being oneself thanks to the following works:

• Fruit of Knowledge: the vulva VS the patriarchy : Liv Stromquist (2016)
• Femmes-femmes sur papier glacé : la presse « féminine », fonction idéologique : Anne-Marie Lugan Dardigna (2019)
• King Kong Theory: Virginie Despentes (2007)

 

Women's economic power

What about the role of women in the economic sphere? Here are some books that demonstrate their resources and their spirit of conquest:

• Women in business families: from past to present : Jarna Heinonen; Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen (2018)
• #MeToo in the corporate world: Sylvia Ann Hewlett (2020)
• The cost of being a girl: Yasemin Bessen-Cassino (2018)
• Rising Stars : Developing Millennial Women As Leaders : Elisabeth Kelan (2012)
• Ask for it : Linda Babcock (2008)