Feminist Press

"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:...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

An essential text documenting the foundation and rise of queer theory.The David R. Kessler Lectures, established in 1992 by CLAGS: Center for LGBTQ Studies at CUNY, represent the cutting edge of...

Reservoir Bitches is a debut collection of thirteen linked stories about Mexican women who fight, skirt, cheat, cry, kill, and lie their way to survival, from the all-powerful daughter of a cartel...

Never before published, this autobiographical novel captures the politics and passion of the Spanish Civil War.Author: Muriel RukeyserPublisher: Feminist PressPublication Date: May 07, 2013Number of...

This edition of SLUT features the play only. SLUT: The Play offers communities and individuals the real-life insight into rape and bullying culture necessary to inspire change in the attitudes and...

Songs My Mother Taught Me is the first collection of literature by Wakako Yamauchi. In her eloquent prose, Yamauchi, a Nisei (second-generation Japanese American) illuminates the neglected social and...

A definitive guide to race and gender from the pioneers of black women's studies.Author: Frances Smith FosterPublisher: Feminist PressPublication Date: Nov 01, 2009Number of Pages: 400 pagesBinding:...

Hailed as "the greatest cabaret artist of [their] generation," Mx. Justin Vivian Bond makes a brilliant literary debut with this candid and hilarious queer coming-of-age tale (The New Yorker).Bond...

Passed down through generations, these classic folk tales remind us that girls around the world have always been the heroes of their own stories.From Japan to Norway, Scotland to Sudan, Tatterhood...

This visionary book on gender and sexuality weaves together high theory and intimate memoir, with "spectacular" results--"and the gendered body will never be the same again" (Jack Halberstam). What...