Basic Books: 1466 books
Literary Mama
Reading for the Maternally Inclined
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Becoming a mother takes more than the physical act of giving birth or completing an adoption: it takes birthing oneself as a mother through psychological, intellectual, and spiritual work that continues throughout life. Yet most women’s stories of personal growth after motherhood tend to remain...
Working Sex
Sex Workers Write About a Changing Industry
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2007
Being a sex worker isn’t something to write home about for most women (and men) in the $12 billion-a-year sex industry.
Prostitutes, strippers, and adult film stars put themselves, and what they do for a living, out on the street, stage, and TV screen every day, but they often keep their...
Click
When We Knew We Were Feminists
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
When did you know you were a feminist? Whether it happened at school, at work, while watching TV, or reading a book, many of us can point to a particular moment when we knew we were feminists. In Click, editors Courtney E. Martin and J. Courtney Sullivan bring us a range of women-including Jessica...
Loaded
Women and Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2007
Having an addiction can follow the path of a great relationship that goes sour: there’s the first blush of romance, the seduction (you know you want to”), and the downward spiral into either obsession or breaking free.
Jill Talbot is no stranger to addiction. Part autobiography, part...
Blended
Writers on the Stepfamily Experience
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
95 million adults have a step relationship, according to a 2011 report. That’s 95 million unexpected experiences; 95 million unique perspectives; 95 million laughs, 95 million tears, and 95 million new families.
Blended explores stepfamilies from the inside out through the perspectives of...
Drinking Diaries
Women Serve Their Stories Straight Up
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Whether you drink it or not, alcohol is likely a potent part of your life: our culture is saturated in it. Ask any woman you know to tell you a drinking story, and she’ll come up with one-in fact, she may even come up with five. With friends and with coworkers, at date night and at ladies' night,...
Hijas Americanas
Beauty, Body Image, and Growing Up Latina
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2007
In Hijas Americanas, author Rosie Molinary sheds new light on what it means to grow up Latina. Drawing upon her own experiences, as well as interviews and surveys collected from more than 500 Latina women, Molinary provides a powerful understanding of the inner conflicts and powerful triumphs of Latinas.
The...
Literary Witches
A Celebration of Magical Women Writers
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Celebrate the witchiest women writers with beautiful illustrations and imaginative vignettes.
Literary Witches draws a connection between witches and visionary writers: both are figures of formidable creativity, empowerment, and general badassery. Through poetic portraits, Taisia Kitaiskaia...
by Jessica Valenti
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2009
Double standards are nothing new. Women deal with them every day. Take the common truism that women who sleep around are sluts while men are studs. Why is it that men grow distinguished and sexily gray as they age while women just get saggy and haggard? Have you ever wondered how a young woman is...
F 'em!
Goo Goo, Gaga, and Some Thoughts on Balls
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
From Jennifer Baumgardner, one of the leading voices of Third Wave feminism, comes this provocative, thoughtful, often funny collection of essays and interviews that offers a state of the union on contemporary feminist issues.
F 'em! is a mix of old and new essays by Baumgardner, ranging in...
A Little F'd Up
Why Feminism Is Not a Dirty Word
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Young women today have a bad reputation, and for good reason: They’re sexting their classmates, they spend more time on FaceBook than they do in class, and their appetite for material possessions and reality TV is matched only by their overwhelming apathy about important social and political issues....
What Will It Take to Make A Woman President?
Conversations About Women, Leadership and Power
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
I would love for my younger fans to read What Will It Take to Make a Woman President? by Marianne Schnall. It’s a collection of interviews and essays by great women, including Maya Angelou, Gloria Steinem, and Melissa Etheridge. They will inspire you to become a better leader.” -Beyoncé
Prompted...
Get Opinionated
A Progressive's Guide to Finding Your Voice (and Taking a Little Action)
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
For those who like their politics blunt, raw, and uncompromising comes Get Opinionated-a guide to the issues you care about: environmentalism, reproductive rights and access, taxes and public wealth, GLBTQ rights, health care, the War on Terror, the War on Drugs, and the Culture Wars.
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by Rory C. Dicker
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
The complete, authoritative, and up to date history of American feminism
Updated and expanded, the second edition of A History of U.S. Feminisms is an introductory text that will be used as supplementary material for first-year women's studies students or as a brush-up text for more advanced...