The Feminist Press at CUNY

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  • The Answer / La Respuesta (Expanded Edition)
    The Answer / La Respuesta (Expanded Edition)

    The answer / la respuesta (expanded edition)

    Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Electa Arenal, Amanda Powell

    New materials in the classic bilingual literary and critical edition of extraordinary Mexican 17th-century feminist nun.

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  • Savage Coast
    Savage Coast

    Savage coast

    Muriel Rukeyser, Rowena Kennedy-Epstein

    Never before published, this autobiographical novel captures the politics and passion of the Spanish Civil War.

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  • Grieving
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    Grieving

    Cristina Rivera Garza, Sarah Booker

    This philosophical investigation into state violence and mourning in twenty-first-century Mexico weaves together personal essay and literary theory, giving voice to the political experience of collective pain.

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  • Porque Estamos Aquí
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    Porque estamos aquí

    Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón

    A future classic collection of Puerto Rican feminist writing that spans time, terrain, and phases, invokes voices across generations and fields, and bridges island and diaspora.In her years of scholarship and activism with fellow Puerto Rican feminists, editor Jessica N. Pabón-Colón reached for a...

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  • Fiebre Tropical
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    Fiebre tropical

    Julián Delgado Lopera

    Lit by the hormonal neon glow of Miami, this heady, multilingual debut novel follows a Colombian teenager’s coming-of-age and coming out as she plunges headfirst into lust and evangelism.

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  • Daughter of Earth
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    Daughter of earth

    Agnes Smedley, Paola Mendoza, Alice Walker, Nancy Hoffman

    This gritty, sweeping novel recreates the life story of an American working-class woman and burgeoning political activist in the early twentieth century.

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  • Wild Geese
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    Wild geese

    Soula Emmanuel

    Winner of the Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Fiction Irish novelist Soula Emmanuel’s debut novel is an intimate sprawl of memory, migration, and queer desire—charting the messy layers of love and loss that constitute a life.Phoebe Forde has a new home, a new name, and is newly thirty. An Ir...

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  • Head above Water
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    Head above water

    Shahd Alshammari

    This lyrical hybrid memoir revisits a lifetime's worth of personal journals to slowly piece together a narrative of chronic illness—a moving account of survival, memory, loss, and hope.Shahd Alshammari is just eighteen when she is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and told by her neurologist tha...

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  • Tastes Like War
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    Tastes like war

    Grace M. Cho

    A powerful account of a Korean American daughter's exploration of food and family history to understand her mother's schizophrenia.

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  • Rites of Compassion
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    Rites of compassion

    Willa Cather, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Gordon

    Cather and Flaubert's ultimate "servants" provide piercing commentary on aging and individuals taken for granted. Personally selected by award-winning writer Mary Gordon, these two stories by Willa Cather and Gustave Flaubert render a flawless portrait of characters who unquestioningly offer thei...

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  • A Short Walk
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    A short walk

    Alice Childress, La Vinia Jennings

    A woman's odyssey from the rural south to Harlem explores the black American experience between 1900 to 1950.

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  • Leaving Home
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    Leaving home

    Elizabeth Janeway, Rachel M. Brownstein

    Rich in emotional detail, Leaving Home tells the absorbing story of three siblings who must make the transition to independent adult life during the Depression: Nina, just out of Vassar and working in publishing; Kermit, a Columbia student, sarcastic and manipulative; and Marion, pretty, vulnerab...

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  • Cassandra
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    Cassandra

    Florence Nightingale, Myra Stark

    The world knows Florence Nightingale as "the lady with the lamp"—the revered founder of nursing as a respectable profession for women. But few people are aware that Nightingale's career began only after years of struggle to free herself from her suffocating Victorian family. In this surprisingly ...

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  • Doctor Zay
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    Doctor zay

    Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Michael Sartisky

    The heroine of this novel, a rational, rural Maine physician, finds herself courted by a patient whose bones she has patched together after an accident. He is a Boston lawyer who insists that marriage will not end her career. In Doctor Zay, Phelps takes on a subject unusual for 1882: the conflict...

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  • Red Sand Blue Sky
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    Red sand blue sky

    Cathy Applegate

    Two young girls from very different backgrounds discover what they hold in common in this funny Australian classic.

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  • Inventing the Real
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    Inventing the real

    Edith Wharton, Henry James, Mary Ann Caws

    An Edith Wharton and Henry James pairing explores "reality" in two classic tales.

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