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Queer then and now
Debanuj Dasgupta, Joseph Donica, Margot Weiss, Adrienne Rich, Sarah Schulman, Cathy J. Cohen, Dean Spade, Sara Ahmed and moreAn essential anthology of leading academics, activists, and artists on the state of queer studies today.The David R. Kessler Lectures, established in 1992 by CLAGS: Center for LGBTQ Studies at the City University of New York, represent the cutting edge of queer studies in the United States. Queer...
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$pread
Rachel Aimee, Eliyanna Kaiser, Audacia Ray,$pread, an Utne Award–winning magazine by and for sex workers, was independently published from 2005 to 2011. This collection features enduring essays about sex work around the world, first-person stories that range from deeply traumatic to totally hilarious, analysis of media and culture, and fa...
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It came from the closet
Joe Vallese, Carmen Maria Machado, August Owens Grimm, Zefyr Lisowski, Richard Scott Larson, Sarah Fonseca and moreThrough the lens of horror—from Halloween to Hereditary—queer and trans writers consider the films that deepened, amplified, and illuminated their own experiences. Horror movies hold a complicated space in the hearts of the queer community: historically misogynist, and often homo- and transphobic...
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Sultana's dream
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, Roushan Jahan, Hanna Papanek,Sultana’s Dream, first published in 1905 in a Madras English newspaper, is a witty feminist utopiaa tale of reverse purdah that posits a world in which men are confined indoors and women have taken over the public sphere, ending a war nonviolently and restoring health and beauty to the world."T...
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Encompassing gender
Mary Lay, Janice Monk, Deborah Rosenfelt,Ground-breaking collection that crosses disciplines to bring an international and gendered perspective into our classrooms.
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Juggling
Jane S. Gould,Gould's story personifies the struggles that women still face in combining careers with family life.
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Though i get home
YZ Chin,Subtly interlinked vignettes trace postcolonial memory and political dissidence across Malaysia, England, and the United States.
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Mother finds a body
Gypsy Rose Lee, Erik Lee Preminger,This encore performance by the author of The G-String Murders is simply “one of the greatest mysteries ever written” (Philadelphia Daily News). It’s supposed to be a quiet honeymoon getaway for celebrated stripper Gypsy Rose Lee and Biff Brannigan, ex-comic and ex-Casanova of the Burly Q circuit,...
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Zipper mouth
Laurie Weeks,The long-awaited debut novel destined to join the ranks of On the Road and Naked Lunch.
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Streb
Elizabeth Streb, Anna Deavere Smith,The Evel Knievel of dance creates a new way of seeing the body in action.
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Bearing life
Rochelle Ratner,"Ratner's premier literary anthology widens the family circle to embrace childless women and recognize their invaluable contributions to our collective soul."--Booklist
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The new lesbian studies
Bonnie Zimmerman, Toni A. H. McNaron, Margaret Cruikshank,The best and most up-to-date scholarship and theory in lesbian studies since the first edition in 1982: Lesbian studies considers the history, present, and future of the field, challenging the limits of lesbian studies.
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From eve to dawn, a history of women in the world, volume iii
Marilyn French, Margaret Atwood,From the New York Times–bestselling author: “A rare find: a page-turning, can’t-put-it-down history text.” —Library JournalWriting about what she calls the “most cheering period in female history,” Marilyn French recounts how nineteenth-century women living under imperialism, industrialization, a...
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The end of this day's business
Katharine Burdekin, Daphne Patai,"One of the few serious role-reversal utopias we have. I read it in one sitting." Joanna Russ, author of The Female ManIn a world ruled by women, men live alone and rear boys in a cheerful atmosphere of sports, physical labor, and healthy sexuality, but without the consciousness of anxiety of kn...
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The reality shows
Karen Finley, Kathleen Hanna, Ann Pellegrini,The first decade of the new millennium brought to you by America’s pre-eminent and most notorious performance artist.
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The feminist utopia project
Alexandra Brodsky, Rachel Kauder Nalebuff,This “incredible addition to the feminist canon” brings together the most inspiring, creative, and courageous voices concerning modern women’s issues (Jessica Valenti, editor of Yes Means Yes).In this groundbreaking collection, more than fifty cutting-edge feminist writers—including Melissa Harri...
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Touba and the meaning of night
Shahrnush Parsipur, Havva Houshmand, Kamran Talattof, Houra Yavari,An epic masterpiece by Iran's most celebrated living author, Shahrnush Parsipur.
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The daughters of danaus
Mona Caird, Margaret Morganroth Gullette,This brilliantly witty novel (1894) follows the lives of two sisters in a wealthy Scots family. One escapes to a profession in London and eventually a decent marriage while the heroine, Hadria, vows to become a composer in Paris, but is thwarted. The Daughters of Danaus reveals the power of marri...
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Come out the wilderness
Estella Conwill Májozo,A powerfully written memoir by a black woman artist in search of meaning and "grace" in her family, work, and spiritual lives.
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You have the right to remain fat
Virgie Tovar,This manifesto isn’t about body positivity—it’s about a fat revolution.
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Memories
Aletta Jacobs, Harriet Feinberg, Harriet Pass Friedenreich,The remarkable autobiography of one of the founders of modern feminism.
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Changes
Ama Ata Aidoo, Tuzyaline Jita Allan,Changes explores the complex world in which the lives of working women have changed, but the cultural assumptions have not.
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Shedding and literally dreaming
Verena Stefan, Johanna Seiglander Moore,Sometimes called the feminist equivalent to Mao’s "little red book," Shedding narrates the transformation of a young woman’s consciousness against the background of the rising women’s movement of the early 1970s. Over 300,000 copies have been sold in Germany since 1975.Shedding and Literally Drea...
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Developing power
Irene Tinker, Arvonne Fraser,Founders of the global women's movement share personal accounts about the trials and challenges of their work.
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Living on the borderlines
Melissa Michal,Both on and off the rez, interlinked characters contend with history and identity as contemporary members of the Seneca Nation.
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The iliac crest
Cristina Rivera Garza, Sarah Booker, Elena Poniatowska,A labyrinthine excavation of forgotten Mexican women writers, this Gothic novel illustrates how gendered language can wield destructive power.
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Always a sister
Doris Groshen Daniels,Always a Sister is the inspiring story of Lillian D. Wald (1867-1940), a pioneer in the early public health movement. In 1893 Wald founded the Visiting Nurse Service and the Henry Street Settlement in New York City. She continued actively to direct the settlement throughout a long career that enc...
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The madame curie complex
Julie Des Jardins,The historian and author of Lillian Gilbreth examines the “Great Man” myth of science with profiles of women scientists from Marie Curie to Jane Goodall.Why is science still considered to be predominantly male profession? In The Madame Curie Complex, Julie Des Jardin dismantles the myth of the lo...
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The dance of the demons
Esther Singer Kreitman, Maurice Carr, Ilan Stavans, Anita Norich,A semi-autobiographical portrait of the original "Yentl" and the eccentric Singer family she grew up in.
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The loved ones
Alia Mamdouh, Marilyn L. Booth, Hélène Cixous,A Mahfouz Medal-winner that weaves together a tender tale of bittersweet love between a mother and son.
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The names of all the flowers
Melissa Valentine,A compassionate memoir of a mixed-race childhood that humanizes the devastating frequency of black murder characterizing 1990s Oakland.
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The parish and the hill
Mary Doyle Curran, Anne Halley,"As strong and fiery as undiluted Irish whiskey." New York Times Book Review
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Dreaming of baghdad
Haifa Zangana, Ferial J. Ghazoul,“With passion and commitment,” an exiled Iraqi woman recounts her time organizing resistance to Saddam Hussein and imprisonment in Abu Ghraib (Nawal El Saadawi, author of Zeina).In 1970s Iraq, the Ba’ath Party was at the height of its influence in the Middle East and popularity throughout the Wes...
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Departing at dawn
Gloria Lisé, Alice Weldon,A young woman flees Argentina's Dirty War but cannot leave her past behind.
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The crunk feminist collection
Brittney C. Cooper, Susana M. Morris, Robin M. Boylorn,Unapologetic and necessary, this collection of pop culture criticism takes on beauty parlor politics, Black Lives Matter, and Rihanna.
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Silences
Tillie Olsen, Shelley Fisher Fishkin,Special 25th anniversary edition of the landmark survey that revolutionized the view of literary history.
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Taking on the big boys
Ellen Bravo,Social-journalistic critique with solutions on how economic equity for women benefits everyone.
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Dream homes
Joyce Zonana,A memoir of traditions lost and found, a flooded city and the healing power of food.
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Sisterhood is global
Robin Morgan,A landmark in the development of international women's movement, collecting original articles from women in seventy countries.
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And the world changed
Muneeza Shamsie,Pakistani women open a window on a country propelled into the headlines by war and displacement.
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Changing lives
WSA Committee, Florence Howe,Women from Pakistan, Philippines, China, India, Indonesia, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Vietnam and Singapore describe their individual passages into feminist consciousness and their work in women's studies.
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Islanders
Helen R. Hull, Patricia McClelland Miller,First published in 1927, Islanders tells the story of an indomitable woman. The novel begins as Ellen's lover, brother, and father go off to the gold rush in California in 1849; it concludes as Ellen's grandniece waits for her lover to go off and fight in World War I in 1917. In between, other me...
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Knitting the fog
Claudia D. Hernández,A young Guatemalan immigrant's adolescence is shaped by her journey to the US, as she grapples with Chapina tradition and American culture.
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Return to lesbos
Valerie Taylor,Sapphic suburban housewife Frances seeks fulfillment and love from the odd girls and twilight lovers of small-town America's queer demi-monde.
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Who is ana mendieta?
Christine Redfern, Caro Caron, Lucy R. Lippard,The graphic biography of a cultural icon whose feminist work changed art history until her controversial death.
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Go home!
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Viet Nguyen, Alexander Chee, Chang-Rae Lee, Marilyn Chin, Mia Alvar, Kimiko Hahn and more"Go home!" is always a slur, but often also an impossibility; this collection explores the words' personal and political dimensions.
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Baghdad burning
Riverbend, James Ridgeway,Anonymous Iraqi woman's blog gives a human face to war and occupation.
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Still alive
Ruth Kluger, Lore Segal,The acclaimed Holocaust memoir declared "a book of breathtaking honesty and extraordinary insight." LA Times
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Women writing in india: 600 b.c. to the present, v
Susie Tharu, K. Lalita,These ground-breaking collections offer 200 texts from eleven languages, never before available in English or as a collection, along with a new reading of cultural history that draws on contemporary scholarship on women and India. This extraordinary body of literature and important documentary re...
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You can't get lost in cape town
Zoë Wicomb, Carol Sicherman,The South African novel of identity that "deserves a wide audience on a par with Nadine Gordimer."
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