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
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
UK: Penguin Books, 2020. Reissued Edition. 12th Printing. Paperback. Treat a loved one to this joyful, big-hearted read from Booker Prize-winning novelist Bernardine Evaristo... '[Mr Loverman is] Brokeback Mountain with ackee and saltfish and old people' Dawn French WINNER OF THE JERWOOD FICTION UNCOVERED PRIZE 2014 and FERRO..... More
UK: Penguin Books, 2020. Reprint. Paperback. This is Britain as you've never read it. This is Britain as it has never been told. From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first, Girl, Woman, Other follows a cast of twelve characters..... 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
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
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Trade Paperback. Translated by Katherine Streip During the French Revolution, hundreds of domestic and working-class women of Paris were interrogated, examined, accused, denounced, arrested, and imprisoned for their rebellious and often hostile behavior. Here, for the first..... 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: 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
Hong Kong: French Centre for Research of Contemporary China, 2020. Softcover. SPECIAL FEATURE: Re-Envisioning Gender in China: (De)Legitimizing Gazes Foreword Edito – Legible and Thus Legitimate? Reading and Blurring Gender in China, Today and Yesterday What is Obscenity? Morality and Modernity in 1920s China Knowing Male..... 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
UK: Penguin Classics, 2019. Geoff Wilkes (tr.). First Printing. Paperback. A brilliant, bestselling feminist novel from Weimar Germany, from the author of Child of All Nations 'A formidable literary talent ... Sharp yet naïve, Gilgi is utterly human' Irish Times Gilgi knows where she's going in life: she's..... 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
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. First Edition (presumed). Third Printing. Hardcover. Before Carl Linnaeus began classifying organisms, before John James Audubon drew birds from the wild, before Charles Darwin proposed his theory of evolution, there lived a 13-year-old girl named Maria Merian who loved to draw bugs. With a keen..... More
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