UK: Penguin Classics, 2019. First Penguin Classics Edition. Trade Paperback. Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view of female struggles for liberation. Tracing the intertwined histories of..... More
New York: Seven Stories Press, 2020. First Printing. Trade Paperback. Translated from the French by Alison L. Strayer Another masterpiece of remembering from Annie Ernaux, the Man Booker International Prize-shortlisted author of The Years. In A Girl’s Story, Annie Ernaux revisits the night fifty years earlier when she..... More
New York: Seven Stories Press, 2017. Third Printing. Trade Paperback. Winner of the 2019 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation Shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize Winner of the 2018 French-American Foundation Translation Prize Winner of the 2016 Strega European Prize Translated from the..... More
London: Penguin Classics, 2020. Catherine Dixon (art). Paperback. Written with a 'black woman's anger' and the precision of a poet, these searing pieces by the groundbreaking writer Audre Lorde are a celebration of female strength and solidarity, and a cry to speak out against those who seek to silence anyone..... More
Berkeley: Crossing Press, 2007. Revised Edition. 24th Printing. Trade Paperback. Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. “[Lorde's] works will be important to those truly interested in growing up sensitive, intelligent, and aware.”—The New..... More
London: Routledge, 2013. Third Edition. Paperback. This hugely popular A-Z guide provides a comprehensive overview of the issues which characterize post-colonialism: explaining what it is, where it is encountered and the crucial part it plays in debates about race, gender, politics, language and identity. For this third edition over..... More
New York: New York Review of Books, 2010. First Edition. Paperback. The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne is an unflinching and deeply sympathetic portrait of a woman destroyed by self and circumstance. First published in 1955, it marked Brian Moore as a major figure in English literature (he would go..... More
New York: The Modern Library, 2003. Gabrielle Bordwin (cover design). Trade Paperback. With a Foreword by Isabel Allende Celia Correas de Zapata, an internationally recognized expert in the field of Latin American fiction written by women, has collected stories by thirty-one authors from fourteen countries, translated into English by..... More
London: Scribner, 2021. Jamie Chang (tr.). Paperback. Kim Jiyoung is a girl born to a mother whose in-laws wanted a boy. Kim Jiyoung is a sister made to share a room while her brother gets one of his own. Kim Jiyoung is a female preyed upon by male..... More
Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2001. Softcover. Winner of the 2002 Berkshire Prize, presented by the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Fabricating Women examines the social institution of the seamstresses’ guild in France from the time of Louis XIV to the Revolution. In contrast with previous scholarship on..... More
London: Vintage Books, 1998. Reprint. Paperback. The luminous novel by one of the finest living Irish writers, which Brian Moore has praised as "in every sense a triumph . . . moving throughout and ending triumphantly and joyously in its own special music. " The award-winning Grace Notes is a...... More
New York: Routledge, 1989. First Trade Paperback Edition. Softcover. From Library Journal: Feminist criticism began in the 1970s with the analysis of women's writing by women; in recent years, "gender studies" has come to constitute a field in which male and female critics consider the construction, meaning, and transformation..... More
Seattle, Washington: Seal Press, 2000. Reprint. Paperback. With an introduction by Ken Cuthbertson and a foreword by Sheila McGrath Emily Hahn was a woman ahead of her time, graced with a sense of adventure and a gift for living. Born in St. Louis in 1905, she crashed the..... More
New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1990. Reprint. Paperback. Using the life stories of twenty women, psychologist Emily Hancock has identified a turning point in a women's life when a girl crystallizes a distinct and vital sense of self, which she then loses in the process of growing up, and tries to..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2013. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author. A 40th Anniversary Edition with a new introduction by Jennifer Weiner Before Hannah from Girls, Anastasia Steele from Fifty Shades of Grey, and Carrie Bradshaw from Sex and the City, there was Isadora Wing, the..... More
New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2007. Rodrigo Corral (cover design). First Edition. First Printing. Paperback. First published in 1997, Inventing Memory is about four generations of remarkable women from a Jewish-American family-their triumphs, tragedies, scandals, and love affairs-as related by Sara Solomon, the youngest of these women. While trying to..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. In this compelling evaluation of Cold War popular culture, Pulp Vietnam explores how men's adventure magazines helped shape the attitudes of young, working-class Americans, the same men who fought and served in the long and bitter war in Vietnam. The 'macho pulps'..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2013. Bryan Waterman, Jennifer Harris (eds.). First Edition. Paperback. Hannah Webster Foster's two major Early American works with a wealth of primary materials are now available in a Norton Critical Edition. Published anonymously in 1797, Hannah Webster Foster’s The Coquette grabbed American interest..... More
Hong Kong: OurselfZine, 2020. November 2020. Softcover. For queer voices in Hong Kong。 Ourself Zine interviews friends and lovers of the LGBTQ+ community on how they navigate gender and sexuality in Hong Kong - How much space do cis heterosexual couples take up on billboards, in love hotels, even..... More
Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Trade Paperback. This long-awaited work reconstructs the ways in which the meanings and uses of sex changed during that important moment of political and social configuration viewed as the birth of modernity. Isabel V. Hull analyzes the shift in..... More
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1975. Second Printing. Softcover. No. 7 in the Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology series Two papers. One by Jack Goody on the use of bridewealth and dowry in Africa and Eurasia. The other by Dr Tambiah on the same institutions but in India, Ceylong..... More
London: Bloomsbury Children's Book, 2018. Angela Barrett (illustrations). First UK Edition. Hardcover. Signed by both author and illustrator on title page, with date. "A riveting feminist retelling, filled with excitement, imagination, magic, and just the right touch of darkness." -Madeline Miller, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Circe... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009. Robert Anthony (cover design). Reprint. Paperback. In this landmark essay collection, Joan Didion brilliantly interweaves her own “bad dreams” with those of a nation confronting the dark underside of 1960s counterculture. From a jailhouse visit to Black Panther Party cofounder Huey Newton..... More
Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. What can we learn about modern Chinese history by reading a marginalized set of materials from a widely neglected period? In Republican Lens, Joan Judge retrieves and revalorizes the vital brand of commercial culture that arose in the period surrounding..... More
New York: Crown Business, 2009. First Edition (stated), Second Printing. Hardcover. The Remarkable discoveries about what drives and sustains successful women leaders. Based on five years of proprietary research, How Remarkable Women Lead speaks to you as no other book has, with its hopeful outlook and unique ideas about..... More
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