The Feminist Press At Cuny: 166 books

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The Feminist Utopia Project

Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future

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Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015

This “incredible addition to the feminist canon” brings together the most inspiring, creative, and courageous voices concerning modern women’s issues (Jessica Valenti, editor of Yes Means Yes). In this groundbreaking collection, more than fifty cutting-edge feminist writers—including...
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Harem Years

The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist

by Huda Shaarawi
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015

A firsthand account of the private world of a harem in colonial Cairo—by a groundbreaking Egyptian feminist who helped liberate countless women.   In this compelling memoir, Shaarawi recalls her childhood and early adult life in the seclusion of an upper-class Egyptian household, including her...
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by Florence Howe
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011

“A sharp and compelling memoir” of a feminist icon who forged positive change for herself, for women everywhere, and for the world (Rosemary G. Feal, executive director of the Modern Language Association).   Florence Howe has led an audacious life: she created a freedom school during the civil...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016

For the Crunk Feminist Collective, their academic day jobs were lacking in conversations they actually wanted-relevant, real conversations about how race and gender politics intersect with pop culture and current events. To address this void, they started a blog. Now with an annual readership of nearly...
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Tatterhood

Feminist Folktales from Around the World

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Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016

One of the Feminist Press's classic bestsellers, the stories in the original Tatterhood continue to organically generate readership and press. It is ranked #4 on Amazon for its specific category, was the subject of an 2015 op-ed in Cicada magazine, and generally remains a highly recognizable and cited...
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The Feminist Porn Book

The Politics of Producing Pleasure

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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013

“This thrilling anthology brings together scholars, producers, and fans of feminist pornography to define an emerging movement of gender and sexual visionaries.” —Lisa Duggan The Feminist Porn Book brings together for the first time writings by feminists in the adult industry and research...
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by Suzette Haden Elgin
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2019

Native Tongue is one of our most recognizable backlist titles, and has been selling well despite the fact that it has been digital-print-only for some time now. It is frequently course adopted, and we are frequently asked by booksellers and professors when it will be more widely available. Film adaptation...
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by Helen Zenna Smith, Jane Marcus
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1993

“[A] bittersweet feminist antiwar novel . . . Brilliantly written, and cleverly mixing humor with bitterness” (Library Journal). Praised by the Chicago Sun-Times for its “furious, indignant power” and winner of the Prix Severigne in France as “the novel most calculated to promote...
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Whatever Is Contained Must Be Released

My Jewish Orthodox Girlhood, My Life as a Feminist Artist

by Helène Aylon
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012

‘[A] richly evocative, captivating, and reflective memoir” of a feminist artist who broke free of the limits placed on her by family, Judaism and society (Publishers Weekly).   Growing up an Orthodox Jew in Brooklyn, Helene Aylon spent her Friday nights in a sea of extended family as the Sabbath...
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Black Dove

Mamá, Mi'jo, and Me

by Ana Castillo
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016

Growing up as the intellectually spirited daughter of a Mexican Indian immigrant family during the 1970s, Castillo defied convention as a writer and a feminist. A generation later, her mother's crooning mariachi lyrics resonate once again. Castillo-now an established Chicana novelist, playwright, and...
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But Some of Us Are Brave

Black Women's Studies

by Brittney C. Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016

Originally published in 1982, All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies is the first comprehensive collection of black feminist scholarship. Featuring contributions from Alice Walker and the Combahee River Collective, this book is vital to today's...
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Sea Girl

Feminist Folktales from Around the World

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Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017

The feminist folktales in Sea Girl upend any notion that women are doomed to be sentimental, meek, or submissive. The heroines in these classic tales lead the reader through monstrous rivers and ogres' nests, all the while outsmarting desperate sharks and hungry tigers. They courageously save families and villages, and they always choose their own fate.
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And the Spirit Moved Them

The Lost Radical History of America's First Feminists

by Helen LaKelly Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017

The New York Times–bestselling author of Getting the Love You Want sends out a ‘call for renewed feminist action, based on “the spirit and ethic of love’” (Kirkus Reviews).   A decade before the Seneca Falls Convention, black and white women joined together at the 1837 Anti-Slavery Convention...
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Valerie Solanas

The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote Scum (and Shot Andy Warhol)

by Breanne Fahs
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014

The authoritative biography of the 60s countercultural icon who wrote SCUM Manifesto, shot Andy Warhol, and made an unforgettable mark on feminist history. Valerie Solanas is one of the most polarizing figures of 1960s counterculture. A cult hero to some and vehemently denounced by others,...
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