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| ACROSS BOUNDARIES : The Journey of a South African Woman Leader [Mamphela Ramphele] "Survival," writes Mamphela Ramphele, "is a stronger force than the fear of offending others.". In Across Boundaries, Ramphele, one of the most distinguished women on the African continent, recounts her personal journey from schoolgirl in rural, apartheid-era South Africa, to medical doctor and founder of community health clinics, to leading activist in the struggle against apartheid, to university president and mother of two sons. In addition to the fascinating and often gripping events of her life, she describes the personal side of her experiences -- her early struggles to maintain dignity and hope in a world that devalued both black people and women; her battles against despair, especially after the murder of her colleague and lover Steven Biko; and the death of their first child, a daughter, in infancy. Across Boundaries chronicles Ramphele's inspiring journey and reveals the staggering personal losses that coexisted with her astonishing political and professional achievements. { 244pp, 140x215mm, November 1999; PB, £10.99, 1558611665:9781558611665 , Feminist Press } |
| ACTIVISMS [Dorothy Hodgson & Ethel C Brooks (eds)] Focusing on the global south, international contributors explore women's activism around social and political issues. Contributors from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Australia, Canada, and more explore social justice and gender equality, particularly in the global south. The issue includes photo-essays about US and South African performance art, an interview with renowned feminist activist Charlotte Bunch, and a discussion forum on Mary Wollstonecraft. Articles and fiction examine how art, humour, protests, detective novels, and transnational networks promote progressive agendas. { 343pp, 155x230mm, December 2007; PB, £14.99, 1558615660:9781558615663 , Feminist Press } |
| ALL THE WOMEN ARE WHITE, ALL THE BLACKS ARE MEN, BUT SOME OF US ARE BRAVE : Black Women's Studies [Gloria T Hull, Patricia Bell Scott, & Barbara Smith (eds)] Winner of the Outstanding Women of Colour Award, and the Women Educator's Curriculum Material Award. This ground-breaking collection provides a wealth of materials needed to develop course units on black women, from political theory to literary essays on major writers to work on black women's contributions to the blues. Bibliographies and a collection of syllabi provide readers with essential classroom materials and a map for further research. For course use in: African American studies, feminist thought, lesbian studies, racism and sexism, women's studies. { 432pp, 150x230mm, January 1982; PB, £15.50, 0912670959:9780912670959 , Feminist Press } |
| ALLEGRA MAUD GOLDMAN : A Novel [Edith Konecky] This comic novel about a feisty Jewish girl-child growing up in a wealthy bourgeois Brooklyn family in the 1920s is evoked by a consciousness witty, authentic, and memorable. { 187pp, 155x230mm, November 2001; PB, £9.99, 1558612815:9781558612815 , Feminist Press } |
| ALMOST TOUCHING THE SKIES : Women's Coming of Age Stories [Florence Howe & Jean Casella (eds)] This book pays tribute to the diversity and vitality of American women writers through more than a century, and to the courage and resilience of young women through a compelling range of life experiences. Selected from the work of two dozen distinguished writers published by The Feminist Press, these stories explore the resonant theme of coming of age as a woman. How do girls and young women discover -- or create -- a sense of who they are and who they may become? How do they recognise what their lives have taught them and envision what their lives may someday be? How do they come to terms with what it means to be a woman in the world -- and imagine how they may change the world as women? The book offers an engaging, multicultural collection of fiction and memoir written between the 1870s and the 1990s. { 261pp, 150x255mm, March 2001; PB, £10.99, 1558612343:9781558612341 , Feminist Press } |
| ALWAYS A SISTER : The Feminism of Lillian D Wald [Doris Groshen Daniels] Always A Sister offers the inspiring biography of Lillian D Wald (1867-1940), a pioneer in the early public health movement. After founding the Henry Street Settlement and the Visiting Nursing Service in New York City, Wald went on to become a major player in the shaping of health care policies during the Progressive period. In the first biography to explore Wald's life and achievements as a public health nurse and social activist, Daniels maintains that Wald's belief in social reform was inseparable from her desire to improve the position of women. Always A Sister traces Wald's life from her early training as a nurse to her life-long lobbying for improvements on behalf of better housing, health care, and labour legislation, and her involvement in the peace movement in World War I. { 208pp, 150x230mm, April 1995; PB, £11.50, 1558611134:9781558611139 , Feminist Press } |
| ALWAYS FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE : A Memoir of My Chilean Jewish father [Marjorie Agosin] Marjorie Agosín traces the life story of her father, Moisés Agosín, a doctor, scientist, and classical pianist whose life reflects the lives of so many Jews of his generation, who were destined to be always refugees, always 'others' -- always from somewhere else. REVIEW: "The reader will feel a sense of privilege at being allowed to share in this very personal yet universal history..." -- British Bulletin of Latin America, April 2002. { 260pp, 115x170mm, December 2000; PB, £7.99, 1558612564:9781558612563 , Feminist Press } |
| AMONG THE WHITE MOON FACES : An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands [Shirley Geok-lin Lim] In this critically acclaimed memoir, Lim lays bare the turns in her early life in wartorn Malaysia, from wealth and security to poverty and family violence. Her struggles to fashion a meaningful life that will include professional achievement and a self-determined sexuality take her on a journey across cultural and geographical borders. In time, she moves from a numbered isolation to a self-forged identity as an Asian American, aware of her relationship to the land she left behind, her new homeland, and the homeland she carries within herself. { 248pp, December 1996; PB, £11.50, 1558611797:9781558611795 / HB, £15.50, 1558611444:9781558611443 , Feminist Press } |
| AMPUTATED MEMORY : A Novel [Werewere Liking; Translated by Marjolijn de Jager] A modern day 'Things Fall Apart', THE AMPUTATED MEMORY explores the ways in which an African woman's memory preserves, and strategically forgets, moments in her tumultuous past as well as the cultural past of her country, in the hopes of making a healthier future possible. Pinned between the political ambitions of her philandering father, the colonial and global influences of encroaching and exploitative governments, and the traditions of her Cameroon village, Halla Njokè recalls childhood traumas and reconstructs forgotten experiences to reclaim her sense of self. Winner of the NOMA Award -- previous honorees include Mamphela Ramphele, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and Ken Saro- Wiwa -- The Amputated Memory was called by the NOMA jury "a truly remarkable achievement... a deeply felt presentation of the female condition in Africa; and a celebration of women as the country's memory." { 445pp, 155x230mm, November 2007; HB, £16.99, 1558615555:9781558615557 , Feminist Press } |
| AND THEY DIDN'T DIE : A Novel [Laurette Ngcobo] This powerful political novel pays homage to the unsung heroism of rural women who opposed apartheid in South Africa. Set in the barren Sabelweni valley from the 1950s to the 1980s, And They Didn't Die follows a community of women who care for their children, the land, and the cattle, through periods of drought, famine, while their husbands labour in the distant mines and cities. The story centres around Jezile, whose struggles culminate in a dramatic act of redemption and revenge. And They Didn't Die forms a moving chronicle of resistance by women who -- despite poverty and political persecution -- rise up to fight for their land, their autonomy, and their children's future. { 282pp, 140x215mm, April 1999; PB, £11.50, 1558612130:9781558612136 / HB, £27.99, 1558612122:9781558612129 , Feminist Press } |
| ANNA TELLER [Jo Sinclair] Highly praised when first published in 1960, Anna Teller portrays the saga of a Jewish-Hungarian family through three quarters of a century in Europe and the United States. The 74-year old Anna, always known to her family as 'the General', ran a farm and a mill in Hungary after her husband's death, endured the worst of the Nazi occupation, and fought the Russians during the failed Hungarian revolt of 1956. The core of the novel lies in Anna's stormy relationship with her son, fuelled by mutual guilt at the death of relatives in concentration camps. The novel has the powerful emotional resonance shared by the best of family sagas. { 624pp, 145x225mm, January 1992; PB, £11.50, 1558610553:9781558610552 / HB, £23.50, 1558610669:9781558610668 , Feminist Press } |
| ANTOINETTE BROWN BLACKWELL : A Biography [Gazden] Steeped in family correspondence, contemporary newspaper accounts, and Blackwell's own work, Elizabeth Cazden has written the first biography of the 19th Century feminist and first American woman to be ordained a Christian minister. Blackwell recreates her dramatic struggles to 'breach the great wall of custom' and become a minister. Equally compelling is the story of her attempt to integrate both public and private lives. Cazden follows Blackwell from her student days at Oberlin, through her feminist activity on the lecture circuit with Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B Anthony, and her marriage and rearing of five daughters. { 328pp, 155x230mm, January 1983; PB, £11.99, 0935312048:9780935312041 , Feminist Press } |
| AUNG SAN SUU KYI : Standing Up for Democracy in Burma [Bettina Ling] When Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, she was unable to accept the prize in person. The military dictatorship controlling her country, Burma, had placed her under house arrest for her efforts to establish a democratic government. Aung San Suu Kyi grew up as the daughter of a national leader, but did not dream that she herself would one day lead her people in their struggle for democracy and human rights. Despite threats and violent attacks against her, Aung San Suu Kyi has continued to teach non-violence, following in the footsteps of such leaders as Mahatma Gandhi and Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. Her leadership, determination, and quiet courage have united a country and inspired the world. { 112pp, 180x235mm, May 1999; PB, £6.99, 1558611975:9781558611979 / HB, £13.50, 1558611967:9781558611962 , Feminist Press } |
| BASE TEN : A Novel [Maryann Lesert] Compelling and fiercely honest, Base Ten exposes the daily battles of women scientists fighting to preserve a family life and succeed in a discipline that functions on the archaic belief that every scientist has a "wife" at home. Based on the real lives of the distinguished scientists Sandra Moore Faber and Vera Rubin, this striking novel vividly captures the struggles of women in science. Reared to believe that she could do anything, astrophysicist Jillian Greer dreamed of going into space. When she and her research partner, Kera, invented a specialised telescope, it looked as though these two dogged scientists would fulfil the dream they shared. Until Jillian met Jack, a handsome and ambitious young doctor that would prove to be more than a distraction. Ten years later, as Kera trains in a space simulator, Jillian is packing lunches and helping her kids with homework. As her fortieth birthday (the unofficial age limit of the space program) draws near, Jillian decides that things have to change. Leaving her family for ten days, one day for each year she has put her career on hold, of solitude in the sand dunes of Lake Michigan, Jillian struggles to see if she can find her way back to the stars. { 304pp, 140x215mm, February 2009; HB, £36.99, 1558615938:9781558615939 / PB, £10.99, 1558615814:9781558615816 , Feminist Press } |
| BEARING LIFE : Women's Writings on Childlessness [Rochelle Ratner] A wall of silence surrounds the experience of women who are childless, whether by choice or by circumstance. This is the first anthology to marshal the power of literature to break the silence. Here more than 50 contemporary writers reflect candidly and movingly on what it means to live as women without children. These stories, poems, and personal essays speak directly from -- and to -- the conflicting, often painful, and sometimes liberating emotions of childless women. In voices that range from mournful to jubilant, this diverse collection explores experiences of accepting infertility and of choosing abortion; of losing children to miscarriage, death, incarceration, or divorce; of creating future in families, reimagined; of acknowledging loss and celebrating solitude. These writers push us with both hands through the ambivalence and denial childless women confront without themselves, to the misunderstanding and hostility they confront in the outside world. { 248pp, 155x230mm, September 2001; PB, £10.99, 1558612750:9781558612754 / HB, £15.99, 155861236X:9781558612365 , Feminist Press } |
| BEDELIA [Vera Caspary] Long before Desperate Housewives, there was Bedelia: pretty, ultra femme, and 'adoring as a kitten'. A perfect housekeeper and lover, she wants nothing more than to please her insecure new husband, who can't believe his luck. But is Bedelia too good to be true? A mysterious new neighbour turns out to be a detective on the trail of a 'kitten with claws of steel' -- a picture-perfect wife with a string of dead husbands in her wake. Caspary builds this tale to a peak of psychological suspense as her characters are trapped together by a blizzard. The true Bedelia, the woman who chose murder over a life on the street, reveals how she turns male fantasies of superiority into a deadly con. { 213pp, 140x215mm, March 2006; PB, £9.50, 1558615075:9781558615076 / HB, £32.99, 1558615083:9781558615083 , Feminist Press } |
| BEHIND CLOSED DOORS : Her Father's House & Other Stories of Sicily [Maria Messina] With an ear for dialogue that may be compared to Tillie Olsen, Grace Paley, and Ernest Hemingway, Sicilian writer Maria Messina presents the captivating and brutal realities of women living in early-twentieth-century Italy in this first collection of her work available in English. "Behind Closed Doors" portrays the habits and gestures, the words spoken and those left unsaid, of individuals caught between the traditions they respect and a desire to ease the social restrictions in their lives. Messina's stories reveal a world in which women are shuttered in their houses, virtual servants to their families, and working men immigrate to the United States in fortune-seeking droves. It is also a world of unstated privileges in which habits and implied commands perpetuate women's servitude. A cultural album that captures the lives of peasant, working-class, and middle-class women, this volume will appeal to millions of Italian descendants and readers everywhere fascinated by Italian history. { 196pp, 135x185mm, April 2007; HB, £13.50, 1558615539:9781558615533 / PB, £9.99, 1558615520:9781558615526 , Feminist Press } |
| BETWEEN MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS : Stories Across a Generation [Susan Koppelman (ed)] In this moving and poignant collection of short stories by a broad and vibrant group of American women writers, mothers and daughters describe their conflicts and consolations, their trusts and mistrusts, their loves and hates. In some stories, a mother sacrifices and struggles in order to provide her daughter with the opportunities she herself had been denied. In others, mothers and daughters share a renewed awareness of women's dependence on one another for survival. This multicultural collection of short stories written between the 1840s and the 1990s explores an ancient relationship with fresh vision and insight. Utilising a range of short story genres and incorporating diverse perspectives, these stories explore the maternal bonds between women and investigate the practice of family, exposing the complicated, bittersweet truths of women's intergenerational relationships. { 336pp, 155x230mm, September 2004; PB, £11.50, 1558614591:9781558614598 , Feminist Press } |
| BEYOND BEIJING -- TOWARD THE 21ST CENTURY OF WOMEN [Florence Howe et al (eds)] This issue includes reportage by Robin Morgan on the NGO Forum in Huariao and Beijing and the Governmental Conference. The writers are distinguished scholars and political figures who made history in Beijing. New National Reports on Women's Studies come from the following countries: Ghana, South Africa, Hungary, Uganda, Latvia, Turkey, Korea, China, Thailand, Bangladesh, Germany, Denmark, United Kingdom, France, Argentina, Chile and Brazil. This volume also covers public policy, international efforts in mainstreaming, teaching about women and the law, women's history in a global perspective, and women's studies. Two noteworthy reports focus on the formation of a World Federation of Women's Studies National Associations and on Shared Visions of Women's Studies in the 21st Century. { 470pp, 140x215mm, August 1996; PB, £14.99, 1558611428:9781558611429 , Feminist Press } |
| BLACK & WHITE SAT DOWN TOGETHER : The Reminiscence of an NAACP Founder [Mary White Ovington] In 1909, Ovington, W E B Du Bois, and 50 others founded the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) with the goal of ending racial discrimination and segregation and achieving full civil and legal rights for black Americans. This modest, intelligent memoir describes her life, the politics of her era, the prejudice that civil rights workers faced, and what drew her to the struggle. { 168pp, 145x225mm, June 1996; PB, £7.50, 1558611568:9781558611566 , Feminist Press } |
| BLACK FOREMOTHERS : Three Lives [Dorothy Sterling] Here are three heroic women whose stories, in the words of Margaret Walker, "every woman, man, and child should know": Ellen Craft, the daring runaway Georgia slave who used her freedom to serve the cause of abolition; Ida B Wells, the firebrand journalist who led a crusade against lynching; and Mary Church Terrell, a leader in the movement for suffrage, civil rights, and world peace. For course use in: African American studies, civil rights movement, education, legal rights, social movements, women's movements. { 224pp, 150x250mm, January 1987; PB, £9.99, 0935312897:9780935312898 , Feminist Press } |
| BLACKBIRDER [Dorothy B Hughes] A classic World War II-era noir with a page-turning plot, a cast of colourfully sinister characters and a protagonist who is thrust into the heart of political intrigue, this captivating 1943 novel parallels the spy novels of Grahame Greene, Eric Ambler, and the films of Hitchcock and Lang. But in signature Hughes fashion, 'The Blackbirder' has a genre-bending twist: its hardboiled protagonist is a woman. Born of American expatriate parents, Julie Guilles was a pretty, sheltered rich girl growing up in Paris, a favourite of the 'Ritz Bar' set. But everything changed when the Nazis rolled into the City of Lights. After three years of life underground, Julie is hiding out in New York; but she knows trouble is coming when the corpse of an acquaintance appears on her doorstep. With a host of possible dangers on her tail -- the Gestapo, the FBI and the New York cops -- she embarks on a desperate journey to Santa Fe in search of her last, best hope. 'The Blackbirder' is a legend among refugees, a trafficker in human souls who flies under the radar to bring people to safety across the Mexican border -- for a price. With no resources at her disposal but a smuggled diamond necklace and her own razor-sharp wits, Julie must navigate a tangle of dangers, and take a stand in the world-wide struggle that has shattered the lives of millions. In contrast to the typical representations of wartime women as 'Mrs Minivers' guarding home and hearth, Dorothy B Hughes gives her intrepid heroine a place at the heart of the action. { 236pp, 130x205mm, June 2004; PB, £8.99, 1558614680:9781558614680 / HB, £27.99, 1558614737:9781558614734 , Feminist Press } |
| BORN IN THE BIG RAINS : A Memoir of Somalia & Survival [Fadumo Korn; Translated by Tobe Levin] This powerful memoir by international anti-FGM activist Fadumo Korn portrays both her life-altering transformation after she undergoes a brutal female circumcision at the age of seven and her journey to recovery and empowerment. As a feisty nomad, Fadumo freely roamed the wild steppes of her native Somalia until her mother delivered her into the hands of an excisor to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM), to be made a woman in the eyes of her tribe. Fadumo Korn weaves together a sensitive understanding of traditional practices with revelations about their disturbing effects. This deftly crafted tale, full of sorrow and surprising humour, provides a candid history of a life sculpted by crippling rheumatism and an unexpected path to recovery. { 186pp, 140x215mm, September 2006; HB, £15.99, 1558615318:9781558615311 , Feminist Press } |
| BRIGHTER COMING DAY [Frances Ellen Watkins Harper] Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was the best known and best loved African American poet of her time, as well as a teacher and lecturer on abolition, suffrage, education, and many other topics. This anthology contains all of her extant poetry and generous selection of prose and letters, and provided moving portraits of suffering under slavery, as well as of freedom, love, infidelity, poverty, and heroism. As the New York Times Book Review notes, "This anthology... not only provides the first modern biography of Harper, but also illuminates her connection to... 20th-century writers like Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison.". For course use in: abolition and slavery, African American studies, 19th-century US literature. { 432pp, 160x230mm, January 1989; PB, £15.50, 1558610200:9781558610200 , Feminist Press } |
| BUILDING INCLUSIVE SCIENCE In this landmark issue of Women's Studies Quarterly, teachers, scholars, researchers, and practitioners representing such wide-ranging fields as biology, boethics, physics, engineering, and computer science join together to report on women's sometimes uneasy participation in scientific fields, and offer new models for the future. { August 2000; £11.99, 1558612432:9781558612433 , Feminist Press } |
| CHILDREN OF THE NEW WORLD : A Novel of the Algerian War [Assia Djebar] Assia Djebar, the most distinguished woman writer to emerge from the Arab world -- and a top candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature -- wrote Children of the New World following her own involvement in the Algerian resistance to colonial French rule. Djebar's novel sheds light on current world conflicts as it reveals a determined Arab insurgency against foreign occupation, from the inside out. However, Djebar focuses on the experiences of women drawn into the politics of resistance. Her novel recounts the interlocking lives of women in a rural Algerian town who find themselves joined in solidarity and empower each other to engage in the fight for independence. Narrating the resistance movement from a variety of perspectives -- from those of traditional wives to liberated students to political organisers -- Djebar powerfully depicts the circumstances that drive oppressed communities to violence and at the same time movingly reveals the tragic costs of war. { 233pp, 140x215mm, September 2006; PB, £10.99, 1558615105:9781558615106 , Feminist Press } |
| CHINESE GARDEN : A Novel [Rosemary Manning] Rosemary Manning's 1962 gem The Chinese Garden is a delicate and finely crafted novel of the discovery -- and betrayal -- of love. In a girls' boarding school in the late 1920s, a world of iron-willed authority, frigid rooms, and forbidden friendships, sixteen-year-old Rachel struggles to find a place for herself. When a rebellious student introduces her to a mystical, secret part of the grounds, the 'Chinese garden', Rachel becomes torn between this hidden world of sensuality and pleasure and the formidable, controlling headmistress who inspires Rachel's intellectual growth. { 194pp, 140x215mm, August 1999; PB, £9.99, 1558612165:9781558612167 , Feminist Press } |
| CIRCLE OF EMPOWERMENT : Twenty-five Years of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women [Hanna Schöpp-Schilling & Cees Flinterman (eds)] The Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is one of the most important human rights tools ever created. Adopted in 1979 by the United Nations General Assembly, it is often described as an international bill of rights for women. These essays and personal reflections from individuals who have served on the committee that monitors CEDAW introduce readers to the issues and the activism. Only a handful of countries have refused to ratify CEDAW; the U.S. is the only industrialised country among them. The Circle of Empowerment reveals the profound impact the convention has had on women's lives around the world and its potential to affect U.S. women. With examples and moving reminiscences from Japan to Tunisia to the Caribbean and beyond, this readable collection addresses CEDAW's impact on women in Islam, labour markets, migration, violence against women, human trafficking, women in politics and more. { 410pp, 155x230mm, December 2007; PB, £16.99, 1558615636:9781558615632 / HB, £36.99, 1558615644:9781558615649 , Feminist Press } |
| CLEAR SPRING [Barbara Wilson] For ages 9--12. Award-winning mystery writer Barbara Wilson's first novel for young readers is funny, exciting, and eco-savvy. Willa C. Lopez is travelling on her own for the first time. She's almost twelve, and grown-up enough to fly on a plane by herself and spend the summer away from home. But is Willa ready for the changes, surprises, and mysteries she will find when she arrives? { 173pp, 130x205mm, February 2001; HB, £8.50, 1558612777:9781558612778 , Feminist Press } |
| COME OUT THE WILDERNESS : Memoir of a Black Woman Artist [Estella Conwill Májozo] At the intersection of poetry and politics, race and gender, analysis and feelings lies this first memoir from Estella Conwill Májozo. Come Out the Wilderness depicts a search for 'some state of grace' amid a life rooted in contradictions as it traces the journey of this African American poet, performance artist, community arts activist, teacher, and single mother. { 256pp, 150x230mm, February 2000; PB, £9.99, 1558612076:9781558612075 / HB, £14.99, 1558612068:9781558612068 , Feminist Press } |
| COMING TO BIRTH [Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye] In this quietly powerful and eminently readable novel, Kenyan writer Marjorie Macgoye deftly interweaves the story of one young woman's tumultuous coming of age with the history of a nation emerging from colonialism. At the age of sixteen, Paulina leaves her small, traditional Luo village in western Kenya to join her new husband, Martin Were, in the bustling, multi-tribal city of Nairobi. It is 1956, and Kenya is in the final days of the 'Emergency' as the British seek to suppress violent anti-colonial revolts. Paulina knows little about politics, and even less about city life. On her second day in Nairobi, she is naive enough to think she can easily find her way home across the vast city, as she always could in her village. Her traumatic journey, which in fact takes two days and two nights, earns her a beating from Martin: Marriage, too, is new to Paulina, and while she is anxious to learn the ways of a proper wife, Martin's clumsy attempts to control her soon lead to a relationship filled with silences, misunderstandings, and unfulfilled expectations. Paulina accepts a job teaching women at a community centre, which will require her to live separately from her husband, and she has an affair that leads to the birth of her first child. But Paulina's hard-won contentment will be shattered when Kenya's turbulent history intrudes once again into her private life, bringing with it tragedy--and a new test of her quiet courage and determination. { 198pp, 155x230mm, March 2001; PB, £9.99, 1558612491:9781558612495 , Feminist Press } |
| COMPLAINTS & DISORDERS : The Sexual Politics of Sickness [Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English] In this sequel to their underground bestseller Witches, Midwives, and Nurses, Ehrenreich and English document the tradition of American sexism in medicine before and after the turn of the century. Citing numerous 'treatments' and 'rest cures' perpetrated on women through the decades, they analyze the biomedical rationales used to justify sex discrimination. { 96pp, December 1973; PB, £4.99, 0912670207:9780912670201 , Feminist Press } |
| CONFESSIONS OF MADAME PSYCHE : A Novel [Dorothy Bryant] This modern day epic is grounded in the history of Northern California in the first half of the twentieth century and peopled by comrades of many classes and cultures and by lovers both male and female. Yet Mei-li's central odyssey remains one of inner discovery. In Confessions of Madame Psyche, Dorothy Bryant has created a character which is so honest in her search for truth, growth, and spiritual understanding that this quest becomes inherent to her survival. { 393pp, 140x220mm, May 1998; PB, £12.99, 155861186X:9781558611863 , Feminist Press } |
| CRESS DELAHANTY : A Novel [Jessamyn West] Set in rural California in the 1940s, this novel wittily portrays an adolescent girl navigating pivotal moments of growing up between 12 and 16. West is equally insightful about the eternal problems of parenthood and how raising children transforms a marriage. REVIEW: "Brimming with humour and charm and youthful animal spirits... There is much true wisdom in Cress Delahanty." -- The New York Times. { 348pp, 140x215mm, July 2006; PB, £10.99, 1558615164:9781558615168 , Feminist Press } |
| CROSS & A STAR : Memoirs of a Jewish Girl in Chile [Marjorie Agosin] Human-rights activist Agosin explores divergent veins of cultural identity in the face of brutality and alienation in a rhapsodic and provocative memoir. { 179pp, 130x180mm, November 1997; PB, £9.50, 1558611762:9781558611764 , Feminist Press } |
| CURRICULUM TRANSFORMATION IN COMMUNITY COLLEGES [Liza Fiol-Matta (ed)] { 244pp, 140x215mm, January 1997; PB, £11.99, 1558611614:9781558611610 , Feminist Press } |
| DAUGHTER OF EARTH [Agnes Smedley; Foreward by Alice Walker; Afterword by Nancy Hoffman] In this gritty autobiographical novel (1929) revered writer and activist Agnes Smedley describes her first 33 years, growing up in a mixed-race family on the wrong side of the tracks, teaching at fifteen, going to college at Berkeley, discovering double standards of race, class, and gender there and among East Coast intellectuals, and surviving two tormented marriages. Alice Walker calls it "a precious, priceless book . . . a remarkably rare affirmation." The Village Voice notes the 'power' of "erotic heat which informs every page of the book, erotic in the original Greek sense of life force." { 432pp, January 1987; PB, £10.99, 0935312684:9780935312683 , Feminist Press } |
| DAUGHTER OF THE HILLS : A Woman's Part in the Coal Miners' Struggle [Myra Page] This powerful account of family life and labor conflicts is told through the eyes of a tough, resilient Appalachian woman who is, according to Richard Wright, "one of the most impressive proletarian characters in our literature." Page (1897-1994) exposes the economic conditions of the working class and the scarcity of opportunities for working-class women, but also tells the story of a loving marriage that endures despite severe hardships. { 304pp, January 1986; PB, £5.99, 0935312595:9780935312591 , Feminist Press } |
| DAUGHTERS OF DANAUS [Mona Caird] 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 vows to become a composer in Paris, but is thwarted. The novel reveals the power marriage and family hold in controlling the lives of talented, spirited women; but unlike other oppressed heroines of the period, the heroine and her feminism both survive. The book includes a trailblazing essay on marriage by Caird (1854-1932), a visionary novelist and social critic. { 544pp, January 1989; PB, £15.99, 1558610154:9781558610156 / HB, £23.50, 1558610146:9781558610149 , Feminist Press } |
| DAVID'S STORY [Zoë Wicomb] Unfolding in South Africa, at the moment of Nelson Mandela's release from prison in 1991, this novel explores the life and vision of a male activist through the pen of a female narrator. David Dirkse is part of the underground world of activists, spies and saboteurs in the liberation movement -- a world seldom revealed to outsiders. With 'time to think' after the unbanning of the movement, David is researching his roots in history of the mixed-race 'Coloured' people of South Africa and of their antecedents among the indigenous people and early colonial settlers. Provides compelling history that is vividly personal, through the powerful filter of storytelling. Through voices that weave together -- responding to, illuminating, and sometimes contradicting one another -- Wicomb depicts a world where 'truth upon conflicting truth wriggles into shape'. The dramatic and violent turns at the close of the novel further testify to the complexity of truth -- and of telling. { 224pp, February 2001; HB, £9.99, 1558612513:9781558612518 , Feminist Press } |
| DAY AT A TIME : The Diary Literature of American Women Writers from 1764 to the Present [Margo Culley (ed)] This portrait of American women reveals the remarkable strengths and resources of ordinary women. Excerpts from 29 diaries include miniatures of the daily life of New England families in the late 1700s, overviews of the great expansion westward, and devastating portraits of the brutal politics of the 1960s and 1970s. The book also contains a bibliography of hundreds of women's diaries. { 368pp, January 1985; PB, £11.50, 093531251X:9780935312515 , Feminist Press } |
| DEAREST ANNE : A Tale of Impossible Love [Judith Katzir. Translated by Dalya Bilu] An Israeli girl's diaries addressed to Anne Frank chronicle romantic trysts with her female teacher. Written by best-selling Israeli author Judith Katzir, this is a stirring record of an artist's coming-of-age during the 1970s and the story of a hidden, erotic love affair between a teenaged girl and her married teacher, Michaela. After reading Anne Frank's diary, young Rivi starts a series of writing notebooks that document the angst of growing up in rural Israel. The entries reveal how her crush on her literature teacher develops into a poignant and turbulent love affair that lasts for years before its scandalous end. Decades later, the grown Rivi, now a mother, wife, and established author, comes to terms with the forbidden love that shaped her future. REVIEW: "More than anything else, the book is a temple of love to the imaginary, and to literature as an option for deep and vigorous living... The story succeeds in arousing interest and emotion... The greatness of the novel is understood only in retrospect, after reading it and tying all the threads, events and vantage points together into one complete picture." -- Ya'ara Muki, Time Out. "Judith Katzir is by far the most talented of the... young Israeli women writers. It is really impressive, how Katzir lets her protagonist trace these two decisive years in her life and to see the emotional depth and the poetic sharpness of her descriptions. Dearest Anne... a great literary achievement." -- Jüdische Zeitung, 2.06. "There is something addictive about Judith Katzir's writing: the ability to pour beauty and meaning into a fleeting moment, to catch it in the tangle of time and shape and polish it all in metaphoric language that is amazingly sensuous and precise." -- Miri Paz, Globes. { 332pp, 140x215mm, May 2008; HB, £36.99, 1558615792:9781558615793 / PB, £10.99, 155861575X:9781558615755 , Feminist Press } |
| DEFIANT MUSE : German Feminist Poems from the Middle Ages to the Present [Susan Cocalis (ed)] Each volume in this series includes 60 to 80 poems by both well-known and rediscovered poets, selected on the basis of their individual merit and as illustrations of the evolution of feminist thought and feeling. Reflecting their own cultural milieus as well as enduring themes, the poets write of love and friendship, revolution and peace, religion, nature, isolation, work, and family. { 163pp, 145x225mm, January 1986; PB, £9.99, 0935312536:9780935312539 / HB, £23.50, 0935312498:9780935312492 , Feminist Press } |
| DEFIANT MUSE : Vietnamese Feminist Poems from Antiquity to the Present [Nguyen thi Minh Ha, Nguyen thi Thanh Bình & Lady Borton (eds)] The only bilingual anthology of Vietnamese women's poetry available anywhere. This unique collection offers over one hundred poems from over one hundred poets in the only bilingual anthology of Vietnamese women's poetry available anywhere in the world. From the deeply personal to the dramatically political, "The Defiant Muse" gives a remarkable insight into the lives of women whose voices have long been consigned to history's margins. As diverse as Vietnam itself, this anthology ranges from the earliest oral poetry and the first written Buddhist spirituals to the angry poems of rebellious youth in Vietnam today. Native Vietnamese speakers and scholars carefully compiled, translated, and edited the texts to maintain the delicate authenticity of each work. Far-reaching in scope, this volume includes groundbreaking new Vietnamese translations of several ancient poems, a number of works from such canonic Vietnamese poets as Ho Xuân Huong, Anh Tho, and Xuân Quynh, as well as poems from contemporary writers from the Diaspora. Whether it is the legendary uprising of the Trung sisters against Chinese rule or the quiet cultivation of silkworms, this volume captures a staggering wealth of women's experiences. These extraordinary texts speak to exceptional moments in everyday realities of women in love and war, in the fields and cities, in their homeland and far abroad. { 286pp, 155x235mm, August 2007; PB, £11.99, 1558615490:9781558615496 / HB, £23.50, 1558615504:9781558615502 , Feminist Press } |
| DEVELOPING POWER : How Women Transformed International Development [Arvonne S Fraser & Irene Tinker (eds)] In these testimonies, a distinguished group of 27 pioneering women from 12 countries tell their own stories, revealing the moments when they realised that they could challenge the received wisdom of the day, and the struggles involved in turning their ideas into actions. These varied accounts come from women involved in creating the four major UN conferences on women held from 1975 to 1995, women scholars, women in institutions that provide development funds, and women in development agencies. { 372pp, 155x230mm, November 2004; PB, £17.99, 1558614842:9781558614840 / HB, £43.50, 1558614850:9781558614857 , Feminist Press } |
| DOCTOR ZAY [Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; Afterword by Michael Sartisky] The heroine of this novel is a rational, rural Maine physician who finds herself courted by a Boston lawyer who insists that marriage will not end her career. The novel takes on a subject unusual for 1882: women's conflict between marriage and meaningful work. Phelps (1844-1911), one of the most prolific and popular authors of her time, masterfully entertains while raising class and gender consciousness. { 336pp, January 1987; PB, £11.50, 0935312722:9780935312720 , Feminist Press } |
| DREAM HOMES : From the Cairo to Katrina, An Exile's Journey ((Jewish Women Writers)) [Joyce Zonana] A memoir of traditions lost and found, a flooded city and the healing power of food. An Egyptian Jewish Under the Tuscan Sun, "Dream Homes" chronicles Joyce Zonana's quest to find a sense of home among people, foods, and places as far from her native Cairo as Oklahoma and Katrina-stricken New Orleans. After the Egyptian-Israeli war of 1948, newlyweds Felix and Nellie Zonana fled Cairo with their infant daughter Joyce, ending up in Brooklyn. Growing up, Joyce swiftly realises that her Jewish family and their Egyptian culture are neither typically American nor typically American-Jewish; they eat kobeba instead of kugel, and speak French instead of Yiddish. Struggling with her feelings of isolation from other Americans and frustrated by never getting full access to the Egyptian-Jewish culture, Zonana strikes out on a life-long journey to find her place in the world. She meets her extended family living in Colombia and Brazil and travels to Cairo to get a glimpse of her parents' past. After she and her mother survive the devastation of Katrina, Zonana comes to see that 'home' is not a location, but a spiritual state of mind. Zonana's heritage and quest are also evoked in numerous photos and family recipes. { 224pp, 140x215mm, August 2008; HB, £36.99, 1558615741:9781558615748 / PB, £10.99, 1558615733:9781558615731 , Feminist Press } |
| EARTHSONG [Suzette Haden Elgin] In EARTHSONG, the trilogy's long-awaited finale, the Aliens have abandoned Earth, taking their technologies with them and plunging the planet into economic and ecological disaster. Devastated, the women decide to take their failed Laadan project back underground, desperately seeking guidance from their long-dead foremothers. The women discover an ingenious solution to the problem of human violence and seek to spread their knowledge -- but has their final solution come too late? { 272pp, October 2002; PB, £10.99, 1558614044:9781558614048 , Feminist Press } |
| ELA BHATT : Uniting Women in India [Jyotsna Sreenivasan] In the midst of India's bustling economy, hundreds of thousands of poor women work in unsafe or unstable conditions for little money. Inspired by the work of Mahatma Ghandhi, Ela Bhatt left behind her privileged upbringing to help those women. The organisation she founded, the Self-Employed Women's Association, functions as a union for 250,000 women, operates a woman's bank, and helps empower women to help themselves. Once a shy, sheltered young woman, Ela grew into a world leader who held on to her vision that everyone deserves respect and the chance to build a better life. Her vision inspired poor women to join together to transform their lives -- and their world. { 112pp, 175x230mm, October 1999; PB, £6.99, 1558612289:9781558612280 , Feminist Press } |
| ELLA PRICE'S JOURNAL [Dorothy Bryant] Dorothy Bryant's pioneer novel of women's consciousness unfolds as a series of entries in the journal of Ella Price, a suburban California housewife with a reliable husband, a teenaged daughter and a deep sense of discontent, who decides to join college for the first time at the age of thirty five. What Ella learns inside and outside of class will leave her irrevocably changed, and force her to make painful and empowering choices. Dorothy Bryant's compassionate depiction of the conflicts that women face -- between freedom and security, between attachment and independence and between the dull comforts of conformity and the frightening challenges of forging a self-determined identity -- will bring no less of a shock reaction today then when it was first published in 1972. A moving and unique story, Ella Price's Journal affirms the possibility of growth towards a richly intense and authentic life at any age. { 265pp, 140x215mm, September 1997; PB, £9.99, 1558611754:9781558611757 , Feminist Press } |
| ENCOMPASSING GENDER : Integrating International Studies & Women's Studies [Mary M Lay, Janice Monk & Deborah S Rosenfelt] This is an anthology of more than forty essays by sixty scholars, many of them working in groups that cut across the humanities, the sciences, and the social sciences, all of them committed to an interdisciplinary approach to internationalising the curriculum. The volume includes essays, course syllabi, annotated bibliographies and videographies, as well as novel teaching strategies for a variety of international materials. The contributors take a fully integrated approach to this transformational work, recommending both theoretical perspectives and strategies for teaching in many different kinds of classrooms. { 563pp, 155x230mm, September 2002; PB, £19.50, 1558612696:9781558612693 / HB, £39.99, 1558612688:9781558612686 , Feminist Press } |
| ENVY [Jane Gallop (ed)] Envy, as one of the seven deadly sins, sparks the imagination towards shades of green, sinful deeds and wicked desires. But while the act of coveting is not unknown to men and women alike, stereotypically the US mainstream conceives the notion of envy in relationship to women. Freud's idea of penis envy made envy feminine. New Wave feminists of the 1970's renegotiated women's envy as part of the concept of Sisterhood. Today, envy has been embedded in a large body of work focusing on emotions, ranging across disciplines from philosophy to neuroscience. With Envy, Women's Studies Quarterly tackles the genealogy of feminist thought and the aims of contemporary feminist cultural criticism. { 295pp, 155x230mm, December 2006; PB, £14.99, 1558615245:9781558615243 , Feminist Press } |
| ESTATE OF MEMORY [Ilona Karmel; Afterword by Ruth Kluger Angress] The Boston Globe called this novel of the Holocaust "gripping... masterful... disturbing and heartbreaking." This spiritual novel of growth and regeneration in the midst of brutality and death recreates in precise detail the daily lives of four women in a Nazi concentration camp, one of whom is not Jewish. The taste and feel of the days are palpable, and the pre-camp memories of the prisoners are woven brilliantly into the narrative. As Adrienne Rich notes, this is "a woman's eye view of living beyond the point where life is supposed to have meaning." { 464pp, January 1986; PB, £15.99, 0935312641:9780935312645 , Feminist Press } |
| EXPANDING THE CLASSROOM : Fostering Active Learning & Activism It is one thing to teach about women; it is another to change the way students and teachers think -- and an even larger step to change the way they shape their own lives and the life of the community. This collection brings together historical perspectives from the founding mothers of women's studies and voices of contemporary women's studies practitioners and activists, creating a rich dialogue about ways to foster consciousness and social change. The volume offers critical insight into the impact of institutionalization, changing conceptions of activism, partnering with communities, and how all of this is shaped by the current conservative climate. Collectively, the pieces suggest strategies for renewing and strengthening the ties between activists and women's studies. { December 1999; £11.99, 1558612327:9781558612327 , Feminist Press } |
| FAMILIES [Meredith Tax; Illustrated by Marylin Hafner] For ages 4-8. This book is a winning introduction to the rich variety of families. Realities such as divorce, stepfamilies, adoption, single parenting, and gay and lesbian parenting are explored through the curious, affectionate, and non-judgemental eyes of six-year-old Angie as she introduces readers to her multicultural groups of friends, who are loved and cared for within many different types of families. Available in Spanish or English. { 32pp, July 1996; PB, £5.99, 1558611576:9781558611573 , Feminist Press } |
| FAMILIES AS WE ARE : Conversations From Around the World [Perdita Huston] This book offers an informed response to the policy makers and media pundits who have joined forces to bemoan the 'decline of the family'. Perdita Huston's fresh perspective -- gained from several decades of working directly with families around the world -- leads her to conclude that while the changes in families "may look like breakdown to those facing backwards, it looks like renovation to those facing the future". While others mourn the loss of 'family values', Huston discovers families who are strengthening themselves to face new realities. She describes the new forces that are changing family structures and relationships, and finds positive as well as negative values in these transformations. While traditional family structures have been undermined by urbanisation, economic shifts, emigration, and the global information culture, the family has also been positively changed by an increased regard for individual liberties and democratic values. Huston's work broadens the concept of family, demonstrating that families come in all sizes and forms, from small nuclear families to large multigenerational groups, from street children who band together for protection and companionship to groups of prostitute women who live together and care for each other's children. Through the words of scores of family members, this volume presents families reinforcing and re-envisioning bonds forged of tradition, pragmatism, respect, and love, as they face the challenges of the new millennium. { 348pp, 160x230mm, October 2001; HB, £17.50, 1558612505:9781558612501 , Feminist Press } |
| FAMILIES IN FLUX [Amy Swerdlow, Renate Bridenthal, Joan Kelly, & Phyllis Vine] Challenging the concept of the 'typical' family, the authors illustrate the diversity of household forms and kinship ties throughout history. They explore the social, political, emotional, and economic functions of the family as well as the importance of gender, class, race, and culture in shaping it. A variety of contemporary families are described, and provocative questions are raised about families of the future. { 208pp, January 1989; PB, £12.99, 0935312692:9780935312690 , Feminist Press } |
| FAULT LINES : Special Tenth Anniversary Edition [A Memoir by Meena Alexander] From India to Sudan to England, and finally to the island of Manhattan, poet Meena Alexander traces her growth as a writer and a woman over borders, through decades, and across cultures. Memories of a privileged childhood in post-colonial India and Africa surface amid her present life in multicultural America. This courageous and candid memoir was selected by Publishers Weekly as one of 1993's best books. { 320pp, 140x215mm, October 2003; PB, £11.50, 1558614540:9781558614543 / PB, £10.99, 1558610596:9781558610590 , Feminist Press } |
| FEMINIST PSYCHOLOGY : Curriculum & Pedagogy { January 1992; £11.99, 1558611282:9781558611283 , Feminist Press } |
| FEMINIST TEACHERS An appreciative and analytical collection of essays, interviews, memoir, and poetry, this issue contains teachers writing about students; students writing about teachers; ruminations about colleagues, friends, and lovers; and the history of women teachers. { January 1994; £11.99, 1558611320:9781558611320 , Feminist Press } |
| FOLLY [Maureen Brady] This is a working-class, lesbian novel about black and white women who go out on strike in a North Carolina factory town. And two of them fall in love. Tillie Olsen said that this novel "speaks with an authenticity, a force, a caring that deepens and enlarges us." Jewelle Gomez noted that this is a novel about "work and passion," in which "women bond together for strength, for a better life, and for love." And Karla Jay called Maureen Brady "one of our most original voices." { 224pp, September 1994; PB, £8.99, 1558610790:9781558610798 / HB, £23.50, 1558610782:9781558610781 , Feminist Press } |
| FRENCH FEMINIST POEMS FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE PRESENT [Edited & with an Introduction by Domna C Stanton] Reflecting their own cultural milieus as well as enduring themes, the poets write of love and friendship, revolution and peace, religion, nature, isolation, work, and family. The Dutch, French, German, and Italian volumes represent their respective countries; the Hispanic volume includes poems from the many Spanish-speaking nations; and the Hebrew volume encompasses writing in Hebrew from around the world. The poems are presented in their original languages alongside English translations. Each volume includes an introduction, placing the poetry in historical and aesthetic perspective, and full biographical and bibliographical notes on the poets. For course use in: biblical studies (Hebrew), comparative literature, Dutch/Flemish, French, German, Hebrew, Hispanic, Italian, and Jewish literatures, medieval literature, women's literature, women's studies, world literature. { 240pp, January 1985; PB, £9.99, 0935312528:9780935312522 / HB, £23.50, 0935312463:9780935312461 , Feminist Press } |
| FROM EVE TO DAWN : Infernos & Paradises - The Triumph of Capitalism in the 19th Century Writing about what she calls the "most cheering period in female history," international best-selling author Marilyn French recounts how nineteenth century women living under imperialism, industrialisation, and capitalism organised for their own education, a more equitable wage, and the vote. { 385pp, 155x230mm, September 2008; PB, £13.50, 1558615830:9781558615830 , Feminist Press } |
| FROM EVE TO DAWN : Origins From Prehistory to the First Millennium [Marilyn French; Foreword by Margaret Atwood] Readable reference guide to the beginnings of women's history, from the best selling author, Marilyn French. Working over two decades with a team of researchers and historians, international best selling author Marilyn French synthesises women's history from our pre-historical roots through the rise of states across the globe to the onset of state-backed religions in this first of four readable volumes. REVIEW: "...draws on a vast body of research and help from consultants in all sorts of fields, to open out areas that are rarely accessible... Above all, she recalls the depth and breadth of the war that has been waged on women down the centuries, the restrictions placed in so many times and so many places on their sexuality, their education, their freedom to travel, their voices" -- The Guardian. "As a reference work it's invaluable: the bibliographies alone are worth the price. And as a warning about the appalling extremes of human behavior and male weirdness, it's indispensable." -- Margaret Atwood, The Times (London). "Nowhere have I ever seen assembled such a quantity and diversity of material about women. Nowhere have I seen such material forged into a consistently readable, entertaining whole, unashamedly slanted in its sympathies towards women and definitely designed to instruct women of this and future generations." -- Clara Thomas, Books in Canada. { 352pp, 155x230mm, April 2008; PB, £11.99, 1558615652:9781558615656 , Feminist Press } |
| FROM EVE TO DAWN : The Masculine Mystique From Feudalism to the French Revolution [Marilyn French; Foreword by Margaret Atwood] Women's history: spanning from Europe to Japan, from the fifth century to the eighteenth. Analysing feudalism in Europe and Japan and European expropriation of lands and peoples across the globe, Marilyn French poses a provocative question: how and why did women, with no power or independence, nourish and preserve the family unit and their own culture? REVIEW: "...draws on a vast body of research and help from consultants in all sorts of fields, to open out areas that are rarely accessible... Above all, she recalls the depth and breadth of the war that has been waged on women down the centuries, the restrictions placed in so many times and so many places on their sexuality, their education, their freedom to travel, their voices" -- The Guardian. "As a reference work it's invaluable: the bibliographies alone are worth the price. And as a warning about the appalling extremes of human behavior and male weirdness, it's indispensable." -- Margaret Atwood, The Times (London). "Nowhere have I ever seen assembled such a quantity and diversity of material about women. Nowhere have I seen such material forged into a consistently readable, entertaining whole, unashamedly slanted in its sympathies towards women and definitely designed to instruct women of this and future generations." -- Clara Thomas, Books in Canada. { 477pp, 155x230mm, April 2008; PB, £13.50, 1558615679:9781558615670 , Feminist Press } |
| FROM EVE TO DAWN, A HISTORY OF WOMEN IN THE WORLD: VOLUME IV : Revolutions & Struggles for Justice in the 20th Century [Marilyn French] In the 20th century, women became a force for change, in part through suffrage, and in part through mass organising. This final volume offers a vibrant history of multiple political revolutions as well as the century's horrors -- including genocides and the atom bomb. It ends with a thoughtful investigation into the various indigenous feminist movements throughout the world and asks what these peaceful revolutions might augur for the future. Eschewing easy answers, French suggests that the defining moral movements of the 21st century should and will build from a global human rights agenda. { 492pp, 155x230mm, September 2008; PB, £13.50, 1558615849:9781558615847 , Feminist Press } |
| G-STRING MURDERS [Gypsy Rose Lee; Afterword by Rachel Shteir] A mystery set in the underworld of burlesque theatre, "The G-String Murders" was penned in 1941 by the legendary queen of the stripteasers -- the witty and wisecracking Gypsy Rose Lee. Narrating a twisted tale of a backstage double murder, Lee provides a fascinating look behind the scenes of burlesque, richly populated by the likes of strippers Lolita LaVerne and Gee Gee Graham, comic Biff Brannigan and Siggy the g-string salesman. This is a world where women struggle to earn a living performing bumps and grinds, have gangster boyfriends, sip beer between acts and pay their own way at dinner. The story unfolds in a New York theatre modelled on the legendary Minsky's, prone to raids by corrupt city cops and fierce competition among strippers. When one performer is found strangled with a g-string, no one is above suspicion. But when a second murder follows, the trail-and the action-really heats up. In the police procedural that follows, a host of clueless coppers faces off against the theatre’s tough-talking guys and dolls, and it's clear that Gypsy and her cohorts will have to crack the case themselves. The basis of the 1943 film 'Lady of Burlesque' starring Barbara Stanwyck, "The G-String Murders" was the first of two murder mysteries written by Gypsy Rose Lee. A natural-born raconteur, Lee also contributed short pieces to The New Yorker and hosted her own television talk show; even her unparalleled stardom in the burlesque world was attributed more to her witty banter than to her risqué moves. It is this fabled wit, along with Gypsy's brassy sociology, that make "The G-String Murders" a must-read primer of sex, commerce and urban living. { 243pp, 130x205mm, July 2005; PB, £9.50, 1558615032:9781558615038 / HB, £32.99, 1558615040:9781558615045 , Feminist Press } |
| GENDER & CULTURE IN THE 1950S [Deborah L Nelson (ed)] In the mainstream American imagination, the 1950s were an era of conformity when women strove to be perfect middle-class suburban housewives a la June Cleaver. But in reality, the 1950s were the decade of The Kinsey Report and The Bell Jar, of Cold War Communists and civil rights activism, and change for women. In this engaging collection, cultural commentators explore the 1950s from the centre to the margins -- from Norman Mailer to Peyton Place, from suburban porn to Patricia Highsmith, and from Soviet women to lesbians in post-Nazi Berlin. Fascinating reviews and interviews include Alicia Ostriker on Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, Diane Wood Middlebrook on Willem De Kooning, and Ivy Meeropol on her documentary about her grandparents Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. { 403pp, 155x230mm, December 2005; PB, £14.99, 1558615121:9781558615120 , Feminist Press } |
| GIRLS IN 3-B [Valerie Taylor] Annice, Pat, and Barby are best friends from Iowa, freshly arrived in booming 1950s Chicago to explore different paths toward independence, self-expression, and sexual freedom. From the hip-hang of a bohemian lifestyle to the sophisticated lure of romance with a handsome, wealthy, married boss to the happier security of a lesbian relationship, these three experience first-hand the dangers and limitations of women's economic reliance on men. Well-known lesbian pulp author Valerie Taylor skilfully paints a sociological portrait of the emotional and economic pitfalls of heterosexuality in 1950s America -- and then offers a defiantly subversive alternative. A classic pulp tale showcasing predatory beatnik men, drug hallucinations, and secret lesbian trysts, this book approaches the theme of sex from the stiffened vantage point of 1950s psychology. { 208pp, 155x230mm, November 2003; PB, £9.50, 1558614567:9781558614567 , Feminist Press } |
| GLOBAL & THE INTIMATE [Geraldine Pratt & Victoria Rosner (eds)] Grand narratives of globalization have frequently adopted a gender-neutral (and implicitly masculine) stance, while women typically are represented as pure victims of globalization, either coerced to migrate or limited to the local scale, mired in their bodies and familial relations. 'The Global and the Intimate' seeks to push past this dichotomy to locate agency for women and to understand how deeply global forces penetrate the intimate spaces of our psyches and bodies. { 536pp, 155x230mm, June 2006; PB, £14.99, 1558615156:9781558615151 , Feminist Press } |
| GUARDIAN ANGEL & OTHER STORIES [Margery Latimer] Margery Latimer (1899-1933) and Meridel Le Sueur (1900-1996) were close friends, both protégées of Zona Gale. Latimer married Jean Toomer in 1931 and died in 1933. The stories in this volume are from the two collections of stories published in her lifetime. Critic Louis Kampf describes the general effect of "Latimer's anatomy of small town life (as) always vivid, often funny, but invariably grim." She has been called a Midwestern Nathalie Sarraute and a feminist Sherwood Anderson. In a distinctly modern idiom she explores women's often repressed dreams and desires. { 264pp, January 1984; PB, £5.99, 0935312137:9780935312133 , Feminist Press } |
| HERE & SOMEWHERE ELSE : Stories & Poems [Grace Paley & Robert Nichols] Husband and wife, parents and grandparents, Grace Paley and Robert Nichols are also two writers and activists who constantly engage the world. This collection, juxtaposing stories and poems by each of them, yields revealing comparisons while validating the truth that artists can write politically in many different ways. 'Here and Somewhere Else' is redolent with implications about the settings and themes in the collection. The stories are rooted in New York City and rural Vermont, yet the world outside constantly intrudes with its problems, its demands, its crises. Includes previously uncollected or unpublished fiction by each author. { 147pp, 125x180mm, March 2007; PB, £8.99, 1558615377:9781558615373 , Feminist Press } |
| HISPANIC FEMINIST POEMS FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE PRESENT [Edited & with an Introduction by Angel Flores & Kate Flores] { 176pp, December 1986; PB, £9.99, 0935312544:9780935312546 , Feminist Press } |
| HOLDING UP HALF THE SKY : Chinese Women, Past, Present, & Future [Tao Jie et al (eds)] These 21 dynamic articles by Chinese women scholars explore the limitations on women's lives in premodern China, detail their involvement in the great political movements of the 20th century and examine how new laws have improved women's status, yet have left them open to exploitation as China enters the global economy. With statistics and reports otherwise unavailable, they give a refreshing outlook on China's women that is breathtaking both for the problems it confronts and for the spirit of struggle it embodies. { 316pp, 155x230mm, April 2004; PB, £17.99, 1558614656:9781558614659 / HB, £46.50, 1558614664:9781558614666 , Feminist Press } |
| HOW I WROTE JUBILEE : And Other Essays on Life & Literature [Margaret Walker] In this first comprehensive collection of autobiographical and literary essays, Margaret Walker -- described by Booklist as "one of the intellectual beacons of her generation" -- recounts the search for family and social history from which she wrote her carefully researched novel of the Civil War. The autobiographical essays reflect on her work and her life as an artist, an African American, and a woman, while the literary essays examine the writings of such giants as Richard Wright, W E B Du Bois, Phillis Wheatley, and others. For course use in: African American studies, autobiography, Southern US literature { 184pp, 150x230m, January 1990; PB, £9.99, 1558610049:9781558610040 , Feminist Press } |
| I DWELL IN POSSIBILITY : A Memoir. Foreword by Louise DeSalvo [Toni McNaron] This 'brave and lovely' memoir details one woman's transformation from a sheltered white childhood in Jim Crow's Alabama to a self-aware and self-accepting educator, lesbian and recovering alcoholic (Booklist). This expanded and revised edition includes a moving, nuanced portrait of racial identity and relations during the civil rights period and new material on a life lived at history's doors. { 301pp, 155x230mm, February 2002; PB, £10.99, 1558612807:9781558612808 , Feminist Press } |
| IN A LONELY PLACE [Dorothy B Hughes] The setting of this classic 1947 noir is post-World War II Los Angeles. For many here, the golden promise of sunny Southern California is running headlong into bleak reality. Returning veterans face a crisis of identity and masculinity -- and in the wide boulevards and dark canyons of the city, a serial killer preys on young working girls who wait alone in bars or at lonely bus stops. Hardboiled mystery writer Dorothy B Hughes employs a bold narrative strategy, writing from inside the mind of a man who may himself be the murderer. The suggestively named Dix Steele is an ex-airman, an isolated, tough-talking drifter who maintains the appearance of a nearly normal life, but spends his nights restlessly roaming the streets of L.A. The first threat to Dix's carefully maintained charade comes in the form of a chance meeting with his best friend from the service, now a detective assigned to the serial strangler case. Playing with fire, Dix offers to help his friend to map the identity of the killer -- and is soon providing eerily accurate theories... { 250pp, 155x230mm, November 2003; PB, £9.99, 1558614559:9781558614550 / HB, £25.99, 1558614613:9781558614611 , Feminist Press } |
| IN HER OWN IMAGE : Women Working in the Arts [Edited & with an Introduction by Elaine Hedges & Ingrid Wendt] The work of Western women artists, past and present, is collected here in a stunning array of forms: fiction, poetry, autobiography, essay, journal and letter writing, sculpture, painting, graphics, photography, ceramics, needlework, music, and dance. The unique experience of women artists from diverse national, ethnic, racial, and economic backgrounds is explored from their own viewpoints, as are the relationships between women's social condition and women's art. { 336pp, January 1980; PB, £13.50, 0912670622:9780912670621 , Feminist Press } |
| IN THE NAME OF FRIENDSHIP [Marilyn French] Marilyn French's seven million copy best seller 'The Women's Room' crystallised the issues that ignited the women's movement. Now the acclaimed author updates that classic with a new exploration of the truths and realities behind women's lives. 'In the Name of Friendship' illuminates how the women's movement changed the lives of women as well as men. Set in the Berkshire mountains of western Massachusetts, this wise novel is a group portrait of four disparate women who forge life-altering friendships despite personalities that vary as greatly as their vocations and ages. The novel weaves together a series of family crises with the friendships that help the four women refashion their lives. { 412pp, February 2008; PB, £10.99, 1558615202:9781558615205 / HB, £16.99, 1558615210:9781558615212 , Feminist Press } |
| INVENTING THE REAL : 'The Old Maid' & 'The Real Thing' ((Two by Two Series)) [Edith Wharton & Henry James; Introduction by Mary Ann Caws] An Edith Wharton and Henry James pairing explores 'reality' in two classic tales. Using shades of irony to capture moments of surprise and sadness, Edith Wharton and Henry James play with reality -- in the work of a portrait artist and in the secret love of a 'fallen' woman for her daughter. Two cousins, one a well-to-do adoptive mother and the other a poor woman whose child knows her only as 'Aunt Chatty', vie for the girl's affection in Wharton's surprisingly explicit novella. James explores reality and illusion when an artist hires an aristocratic couple, who have fallen on hard times, to model and finds that their images do not work for his upper-class paintings. Together, 'The Old Maid' and 'The Real Thing' examine class and gender expectation versus actual experience. { 152pp, 125x180mm, July 2008; PB, £8.99, 1558615768:9781558615762 , Feminist Press } |
| ISLANDERS [Helen R Hull] Prolific writer Helen R. Hull (1888-1971) offers a portrait of rural American women's lives over three generations, from the Gold Rush in California in 1849 to World War I. The men of the novel's family go off to war and to make their fortunes -- leaving the women, 'islanders', to run the farm and care for their families. The New York Times called Islanders (1927) "a novel of power, freshness, ideas... As the history of a brave, clear-thinking, self-reliant woman, it is fascinating." { 344pp, January 1988; PB, £10.99, 0935312919:9780935312911 , Feminist Press } |
| ITALIAN FEMINIST POEMS FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE PRESENT [Beverly Allen, Muriel Kittel & Keala Jane Jewell (eds)] { 151pp, January 1986; PB, £11.99, 0935312552:9780935312553 / HB, £23.50, 093531248X:9780935312485 , Feminist Press } |
| JOSS & GOLD [Shirley Geok-Lin Lim] When cultures clash, when worlds collide, when civil unrest provokes personal upheaval, established roles and values are the first casualties of independence as individuals become entangled in extraordinary events. Beginning in the newly established nation of Malaysia in the late 1960s and stretching to America and Singapore 20 years later, Lim's coming-of-age novel traces the development of Li An, a young, rebellious Chinese woman struggling to find her own place in the world while her fledgling nation strives to forge a unique identity from its contentious, multicultural heritage. Thrown into this melange is Chester, an American Peace Corps volunteer whose friendship Li An relies on as she questions her marriage, her career, and her place in a society that has traditionally limited women's roles. Their alliance sets in motion disruptive changes with unresolved conflicts that neither time nor geography can diminish. Lim's novel is dominated by strong, independent, and goal-oriented women wrestling with individual development issues within the larger framework of a society also in transition. { 274pp, 130x210mm, January 2001; PB, £10.99, 155861401X:9781558614017 / HB, £16.99, 1558612653:9781558612655 , Feminist Press } |
| JOURNEY TOWARD FREEDOM : The Story of Sojourner Truth [Jacqueline Bernard] Born a slave in 1797, Sojourner Truth eventually gained her freedom and travelled the nation crusading against slavery and promoting civil liberties, women's rights, prison reform, and better working conditions. In JOURNEY TOWARD FREEDOM, Bernard gives vivid expression to the great courage, wit, and common sense that made Sojourner Truth an inspirational champion for change in the United States. "Quietly factual when it suits her story, but lyrical when the demand arises, Jacqueline Bernard has succeeded on nearly every account." -- New York Times. { 272pp, January 1990; PB, £11.50, 1558610243:9781558610248 / HB, £23.50, 1558610235:9781558610231 , Feminist Press } |
| JUDAS ROSE [Suzette Haden Elgin] Native Tongue Trilogy reveals to its audiences a frightening future world where the women of Earth are once again property. In Volume 2 of the trilogy, the women have at last decided to spread the language using the Roman Catholic church. But when a handful of priests discover the plot, they move to stamp it out with their own female agent, Sister Miriam Rose. But Sister Miriam has plans of her own... { 384pp, October 2002; PB, £10.99, 1558614036:9781558614031 , Feminist Press } |
| JUGGLING : A Memoir of Work, Family, & Feminism [Jane Gould] Jane Gould recounts a life that paralleled and propelled critical struggles in the women's movement, including her groundbreaking involvement in the middle-class return to work movement and her experiences as the first permanent director of the Barnard Women's Centre. Her memoir documents the development of important ideas and social transformation while candidly revealing their impact on one woman's life and consciousness. { 272pp, January 1997; PB, £11.99, 1558611738:9781558611733 / HB, £24.99, 155861172X:9781558611726 , Feminist Press } |
| KÄTHE KOLLWITZ : Woman & Artist (Pod) [Martha Kearns] A generation after her death, Käthe Kollwitz is recognised as one of the great graphic artists of the 20th century. Kearns establishes Kollwitz's contributions with many striking, seldom-seen reproductions from private collections, assembled in one volume for the first time. { 256pp, January 1976; PB, £11.50, 0912670150:9780912670157 , Feminist Press } |
| KEEPING GENDER ON THE CHALKBOARD : Notes for a New Century of Middle School, High School & Teacher Education [Nancy Hoffman (ed)] How can we transform the culture and institutional structure of schools and teacher education programmes to ensure the intellectual, social, and economic well-being of girls and women? Despite some advances as a result of the women's movement and Title IX, much work remains to be done. The lived experiences of girls and young women, particularly those of colour, are underaddressed, as are the conditions faced by the heavily female teaching force. This volume reaches beyond the liberal conception of gender equity to explore how the insights of feminism and other challenging theory in regard to race and class can be used to create social justice strategies that work in classrooms, school, teacher education, and professional development. { 368pp, 140x215mm, August 2002; PB, £11.99, 1558612521:9781558612525 , Feminist Press } |
| LAS MUJERES : Conversations from A Hispanic Community [Nan Elsasser, Kyle MacKenzie, & Yvonne Tixier y Vigil] Three very different woman -- a Chicana, a Jew, and an Anglo-Scot -- who met at the University of Albuquerque in the 1970s, collaborate to produce an oral history of four generations of Hispanic women living in and around Albuquerque, and to consider questions about the retention and loss of ethnic identity as one becomes 'American'. The volume is filled with memorable stories of women and girls trying to live in harmony with each other and with men, while stressed about money, eager for education, and worried about the diminution of their cultural identities as they move from rural to city lives. { 192pp, December 1980; PB, £12.99, 0912670703:9780912670706 , Feminist Press } |
| LAURA [Vera Caspary] Laura Hunt was the ideal modern woman: beautiful, elegant, highly ambitious, and utterly mysterious. No man could resist her charms-not even the hardboiled NYPD detective sent to find out who turned her into a faceless corpse. As this tough cop probes the mystery of Laura's death, he becomes obsessed with her strange power. Soon he realises he's been seduced by a dead woman -- or has he? 'Laura' won lasting renown as an Academy Award-nominated 1944 film, the greatest noir romance of all time. Vera Caspary's equally haunting novel is remarkable for its stylish, hardboiled writing, its electrifying plot twists, and its darkly complex characters-including a woman who stands as the ultimate femme fatale. { 219pp, 140x215mm, March 2006; PB, £9.50, 1558615059:9781558615052 / HB, £32.99, 1558615067:9781558615069 , Feminist Press } |
| LIFE IN THE IRON MILLS & OTHER STORIES [Rebecca Harding Davis] This 1861 classic of social realism -- the first book to be reprinted by The Feminist Press in its series of rediscovered women writers -- remains a powerful evocation of what Davis herself called "thwarted, wasted lives... mighty hungers... and unawakened powers." The New York Times Book Review said of the novella: "You must read this book and let your heart be broken." With an insightful biographical essay by Tillie Olsen and two short stories never before anthologised, this expanded edition is the most complete volume available from this essential writer (1831-1910). { 248pp, January 1985; PB, £8.99, 0935312390:9780935312393 , Feminist Press } |
| LIFE PRINTS : A Memoir of Healing & Discovery [Mary Grimley Mason] When she is six, Mary Grimley is the nation's first 'poster child', dining with President Roosevelt at the Warm Springs rehabilitation centre and posing in her wheelchair for publicity shots. But a close look at photographs reveals something other than the cheerful invalid expected by the 'abled': mouth closed in a frown, eyes defiant and proud, this bold child is less than impressed with the role of 'poor crippled girl'. In this courageous memoir, Mary Grimley Mason chronicles her long journey from this childhood, and her movement beyond the limitations society has prescribed not only for the physically challenged but for women of all abilities. Specialising academically in women's autobiography, Mason is unusually well suited to narrate and interpret her own life, taking control of its representation with forthright resolve. In her frank life story, Mason recounts her struggles to stand as an independent person, and engaged scholar and an active woman. { 223pp, 140x220mm, December 2001; PB, £9.99, 1558612769:9781558612761 / HB, £13.50, 1558612378:9781558612372 , Feminist Press } |
| LIFETIME OF LABOR : The Autobiography of Alice H. Cook The work of the indefatigable Alice Hanson Cook has benefitted the lives of working people -- and especially working women -- on four continents. Her pioneering work in union organising, worker education, and equal rights for working women took her across the country and around the world, across racial, ethnic, national, and class lines, and across boundries she refused to accept as impassable. In "A Lifetime of Labor", available in paperback for the first time, Cook recounts a remarkable life that spans a century and intersects with progressive movements at home and abroad. { 354pp, 140x215mm, September 2002; PB, £10.99, 1558612572:9781558612570 / HB, £19.99, 1558611894:9781558611894 , Feminist Press } |
| LILLIAN D. WALD : Progressive Activist [Clare Coss (ed)] Including the play 'Lillian Wald: At Home on Henry Street', by Clare Coss, and selected writings by Lillian D Wald. Clare Coss' one-woman play, closely based on Wald's writing, conveys the personal moments that made her public contributions a lasting mandate for social change. Wald's speeches, letters, and leaflets are also included, highlighting her antiwar activities and deep concern for the rights of labour. An informed Introduction and notes place these documents and the events of the play in context. { 120pp, January 1989; PB, £11.50, 1558610006:9781558610002 , Feminist Press } |
| LION WOMAN'S LEGACY : An Armenian-American Memoir [Arlene Voski-Avakian] Arlene Avakian's memoir evokes the quarrels, ambition, prejudice, and courage that shaped her coming of age in a family that immigrated to the United States to escape genocide in Turkey. Inspired by her passionate feminism and strengthened within a loving lesbian relationship, Avakian records and re-examines her personal history, discovering the story of her grandmother, which brings with it a legacy of radical politics and a powerful affirmation of ethnic identity. { 304pp, January 1992; PB, £9.99, 1558610529:9781558610521 , Feminist Press } |
| LIVING IS EASY [Dorothy West] This stunning first novel by the author of The Wedding is one of only a handful of novels published by black women during the 1940s. It tells the story of Cleo Judson, daughter of southern sharecroppers and wife of 'Black Banana King' Bart Judson. Cleo seeks to recreate her original family by urging her sisters and their children to live with her, while rearing her daughter to be a member of Boston's black elite. Dorothy West (1907-1998) brings us this delightfully wry novel that challenges moral and social boundaries. { 376pp, June 2000; PB, £11.50, 1558611479:9781558611474 , Feminist Press } |
| LONG WALKS & INTIMATE TALKS [Grace Paley; Paintings by Vera B Williams] This first collaboration of two longtime feminist and antiwar activists melds word and image to create a powerful call for world peace. Paley's poems and short fiction and Williams's watercolours depict the dignity of ordinary lives from El Salvador to the Bronx, from New Hampshire to Vietnam. Scenes and stories of domestic life, solitude, and nature are interspersed with images of protest, joyous and defiant. { 80pp, January 1991; PB, £8.99, 1558610448:9781558610446 / HB, £19.99, 155861043X:9781558610439 , Feminist Press } |
| LOOKING ACROSS THE LENS : Women' Studies & Film [Diane Hope (ed)] Beginning with a reassessment of film theory from the perspectives of women's studies (Tania Modleski), feminist and postcolonial theory (Corinn Columpar), and race (Janell Hobson), the issue lays the groundwork for new approaches to film's treatment of women. Surprising results follow in essays that find pop culture feminism in The Stepford Wives and Girls Town, trace the interplay of gender and (dis)ability in The Sweet Hereafter, and identify Whoopi Goldberg in Boys on the Side as the "lesbian mammy." Interviews with women filmmakers including Susan Stern (Barbie Nation), María Navaro (Danzón), and Renee Tajima-Peña (Who Killed Vincent Chin?) take us behind the scenes of film production, and essays on the work of directors Julie Dash, Yvonne Rainer, Brigitte Roüan, of France, and Tracey Moffet of Australia show women putting film to radical new uses. The political possibilities of film come to the fore in a piece from Women Make Movies, the New York City-based distributor that offered films on Islam and the Arab world free of charge following Septemer 11. Rounded out with strategies and resources for teaching film and women's studies, this special issue shows women challenging the power of film as they look across the lens in both directions, as creators and viewers. { 332pp, 155x230mm, September 2002; PB, £11.99, 1558613994:9781558613997 , Feminist Press } |
| LOOKING BACK, MOVING FORWARD : 25 Years of Women's Studies History -- Special Anniversary Issue [Liza Fiol-Matta (ed)] This special issue -- reflective, celebratory and forward-looking -- combines some of the most thoughtful essays from Women's Studies Quarterly's 25-year history with original contributions on the current position and future of women's studies. Tracing the development of women's studies, the reprinted essays offer unique insight into the concerns, goals and achievements of women's studies at different moments in time, while preserving the passion, flavour, and tone of the moment. The new contributions examine the directions that research and teaching must take in order for women's studies to fulfill its potential as a new field -- within and outside of institutions, in the US and internationally. Throughout the issue explores women's studies' changing relationship with academe, the community at large, industrialisation, and interdisciplinary studies. This issue is essential not only for those wishing to relive, or to understand, the founding and development of women's studies, but also for those wishing to sustain, expand, challenge, and shape women's studies as it moves into the 21st century. { 459pp, 140x215mm, October 1997; PB, £11.99, 1558611711:9781558611719 , Feminist Press } |
| LUCRETIA MOTT [Dorothy Sterling] For ages 9-12. From the early years of the United States, award-winning children's book author Dorothy Sterling brings us this underacknowledged heroine who played a critical role in both the antislavery and women's rights movements. Lucretia Mott exhibited, from her earliest years, an extraordinary confidence and eloquence. She dared to speak out to all-male audiences and refused to be silenced. In her later years, Mott became a colleague to such activists as Frederick Douglass, Susan B Anthony, and Sojourner Truth. "This biography offers a clear portrait of a remarkable woman, and it gives insight into two great movements of the 19th century." -- New York Times Book Review. { 240pp, December 1992; PB, £8.99, 1558612173:9781558612174 , Feminist Press } |
| MAGDA'S DAUGHTER : A Hidden Child's Journey Home [Evi Blaikie] To survive the long shadow of the Third Reich, many Jewish children were placed in hiding, forced to keep their true identities – names, religion, places of birth, even gender – absolutely secret. Although these 'hidden children' avoided capture and murder, many of their family members did not, and their experiences marked them for life. Evi Blaikie's passionate memoir depicts a life lived in the shadow of exile. { 277pp, 155x230mm, August 2003; PB, £11.50, 1558614435:9781558614437 , Feminist Press } |
| MAIMIE PAPERS : Letters from an Ex-Prostitute [Maimie Pinzer] In 1910, a remarkable correspondence began between a wealthy and distinguished Bostonian philanthropist, Fanny Quincy Howe, and Maimie Pinzer, a Jewish prostitute living in Phila-delphia and recovering from morphine addiction developed after the loss of an eye. This book is Maimie's side of that correspondence, offering an unprecedented and still unique account of the life of a woman of the streets and of her inspiring transformation. A new afterword by Ruth Rosen traces the elusive trail of Mamie's life following the end of her correspondence, from an elegant apartment in Chicago to a new life in the glamorous Southern California of the late 1920s. { 528pp, April 1996; PB, £13.50, 1558611436:9781558611436 , Feminist Press } |
| MÁIREAD CORRIGAN & BETTY WILLIAMS : Making Peace in Northern Ireland [Sarah Buscher & Bettina Ling] Betty Williams and Máiread Corrigan, winners of the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize, proved that ordinary people, united in a common desire for peace, can transform their nation and the world. Born into hard-working families in the Catholic section of Belfast, Betty and Máiread grew up amid the suspicion and bloodshed familiar to most residents of Northern Ireland. But when the violence that had torn their country apart for decades touched their own lives, these two 'ordinary' women -- a secretary and a homemaker -- knew they had to take steps to fight for peace. The grassroots movement they led brought Catholics and Protestants together in non-violent marches and demonstrations that drew tens of thousands of people -- and showed the world that Northern Ireland was a nation yearning for peace. { 112pp, 180x235mm, May 1999; PB, £6.99, 1558612017:9781558612013 / HB, £13.50, 1558612009:9781558612006 , Feminist Press } |
| MAKING WOMEN'S HISTORY : The Essential Mary Ritter Beard [Ann J Lane (ed)] Mary Bitter Beard (1876--1958) can rightly be called the founding mother of the field of American women's history. A genuinely visionary thinker, Beard devoted her life to reconstructing women's past -- a past that had remained largely unstudied, undocumented, and unacknowledged before she began her ground-breaking work. She held a firm conviction that women had a far greater impact on history than male historians had ever recognised, and she believed that a knowledge of their own history would enable women to realise their full potential as active members of society and agents of social change. Ann Lane collects vital pieces from Mary Bitter Beard's work and accompanies each with a headnote tracing the development of Beard's thought and illuminating the contradictions as well as the perceptiveness of her work. First published as Mary Ritter Beard: A Sourcebook, the collection begins with a seventy-page critical and biographical essay that stands as the fullest account to date of the life of Mary Ritter Beard, and includes a new preface that assesses Beard's legacy and the continuing relevance of her work into the 21st century. { 252pp, 140x215mm, September 1999; PB, £9.99, 155861219X:9781558612198 , Feminist Press } |
| MAMPHELA RAMPHELE : Challenging Aprtheid in South Africa [Judith Harlan] In 1977, when Mamphela Ramphele was banned to a remote corner of South Africa, the nation's white apartheid government was inflicting some of the worst repression in its history. Yet Mamphela, like millions of black South Africans, continued protesting against the government's system of racial segregation and injustice. Years earlier, when Mamphela had decided to study medicine, many people told her that her dreams were unrealistic: after all, she was black and a girl. Mamphela proved them wrong. As a doctor, educator, and leader in the fight against apartheid, she would face hardships and suffer the loss of loved ones, but she would also see the birth of new dreams as freedom was achieved at last in South Africa. { 112pp, 175x230mm, October 1999; PB, £6.99, 1558612262:9781558612266 , Feminist Press } |
| MARGRET HOWTH [Rebecca Harding Davis] A milestone of American letters, David's first novel, Margret Howth (1862) anticipates by more than three decades the novels of naturalism and realism and introduced the working class heroine and the burgeoning industrial revolution into US fiction. Margaret, who is abandoned by her lover and works in the mills to support her parents, is kin to the passionate heroines of the Brontes, George Eliot, and Kate Chopin. { 302pp, 145x225mm, January 1990; PB, £13.50, 1558610367:9781558610361 / HB, £23.50, |