Feminist Press

"A fascinating collection from a group of courageous women who created the first publication to explore sex work in a compelling and intelligent way." -Candida Royalle$pread, an Utne Award-winning...

"Lim recounts her journey with a poet's eye for detail and a storyteller's gift for narrative."--Ms.Author: Shirley Geok-Lin LimPublisher: Feminist PressPublication Date: Sep 01, 1997Number of Pages:...

"Apocalypse Baby is more than a compelling punk, queerish spin on the noir genre. It is a choral performance that tumbles its readers into the heart of violent spectacle, with all its attendant...

A social realist exploration from Thailand's preeminent contemporary woman writer: each of her stories poses its own moral challenge, pleasurable and unsettling at once. (NPR.org) In thirteen stories...

A vibrant debut short story collection depicting the disillusionment that comes with being young and queer in Puerto Rico. The visceral, wildly imaginative stories in Bad Seed flick through...

A short story collection hailed as a "welcome and valuable addition to our growing knowledge about the inner lives and literary talents of Chinese women" (Amy Ling, author of Between Worlds: Women...

Published in 1982, But Some of Us Are Brave was the first-ever Black women's studies reader and a foundational text of contemporary feminism. Featuring writing from eminent scholars, activists,...

In a wrecked modern version of a romance novel, acclaimed French writer Virginie Despentes pokes at the simultaneous ecstasy and banality of love in an age of psychiatry and punk.Gloria lives in...

There have been no women in our part of the country whose names posterity found it worthwhile to cherish, writes Lalithambika Antherjanam (1909-1985) in Come Back, her fictional account of an Indian...

A Commonwealth Prize-winning novel of "intense power . . . examining the role of women in modern African society" by the acclaimed Ghanaian author (Publishers Weekly). Living in Ghana's capital city...

Assia Djebar, one of the most distinguished woman writers to emerge from the Arab world, wrote Children of the New World following her own involvement in the Algerian resistance to colonial French...

For porn stars, "coming out" is a process that never ends.To the uninitiated, the idea of a career in the adult film industry may come with stigma that porn performers and sex workers have long...

From prescribing the "rest cure" to diagnosing hysteria, the medical profession has consistently treated women as weak and pathological. Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English's concise history of...

New edition of "a tough, tender, bitter novel of a black girl struggling toward womanhood."Author: Louise MeriwetherPublisher: Feminist PressPublication Date: Dec 01, 2002Number of Pages: 240...

"A tremendous achievement and a huge step in the remaking of the South African novel."--J. M CoetzeeAuthor: Zo? WicombPublisher: Feminist PressPublication Date: Jul 01, 2002Number of Pages: 288...

Originally published in the 1980s, the Native Tongue trilogy is a classic dystopian tale: a testament to the power of language and women's collective action. In the stunning conclusion to the series,...

Women's history from Europe to Japan, from the fifth century to the nineteenth.Author: Marilyn FrenchPublisher: Feminist PressPublication Date: Apr 01, 2008Number of Pages: 336 pagesBinding:...

First collection of its kind--twenty scholars explode myriad stereotypes and present the most up-to-date reseach on the status of women in China.Author: Shirley MowPublisher: Feminist...

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...

A groundbreaking voice in contemporary Latin American literature, Mar?a Fernanda Ampuero's writing is "raw and savage" as she confronts machismo, inequity, and violence in this acclaimed short story...

This shimmering debut story collection intimately explores race, identity, and the pursuit of the American Dream in the Ironbound, an immigrant neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey. I'll Give You a...

A revealing memoir of a family and a "wrenching journey into deafness from the standpoint of a mother, a wife, a daughter, a philosopher, and a Jew" (Ilan Stavans, author of On Borrowed Words: A...

Clare Coss's 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...

A powerful memoir depicting the life of a "hidden child" of the Holocaust.Author: Evi BlaikiePublisher: Feminist PressPublication Date: Aug 01, 2003Number of Pages: 277 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

The remarkable autobiography of one of the founders of modern feminism.Author: Aletta JacobsPublisher: Feminist PressPublication Date: May 01, 1996Number of Pages: 272 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

A brilliantly crafted picaresque novel--sensual, harrowing, comic--of an Asian-American woman's exile.Author: Hualing NiehPublisher: Feminist PressPublication Date: Jan 01, 1997Number of Pages: 224...

From the author of Changes: these stories "of post-independence Ghana in the late 1960s are written beautifully and wisely and with great subtlety" (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi). In this short story...

This issue of the award-winning journal WSQ explores the term "nonbinary" as a theoretical framework to understand resistance and liberation.Feminist theory has long focused upon the problematic...

The captivating novel of a woman's self-realization that inspired the Bette Davis 1943 cult classic film.Author: Olive Higgins ProutyPublisher: Feminist PressPublication Date: Oct 01, 2004Number of...

A lost feminist masterwork by feminist and speculative fiction icon, Joanna Russ, about a young lesbian's coming-to-consciousness during the social upheaval of the 1970s. When Esther, a recently...