The Feminist Press At Cuny: 166 books
Queer Ideas
The Kessler Lectures in Lesbian & Gay Studies
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Exploring questions of sexuality and gender, this volume brings together ten core thinkers in the field of lesbian and gay studies and provides an essential introduction to this interdisciplinary field as well as the processes by which new-and queer-ideas are thought into being.The collection begins...
by Ann Aldrich, Stephanie Foote
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2015
A literary lesbian landmark that “will transport today’s readers . . . to the 1950s homosexual scene” (Marcia M. Gallo, author of Different Daughters).
Three years after the publication of her groundbreaking 1955 bestseller, We Walk Alone, Ann Aldrich expanded on her journalistic portraits...
On Shifting Ground
Muslim Women in the Global Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
“Thoughtful, highly relevant, and frequently brilliant essays on the contemporary ideas, organization, activities, and agency of Muslim women” (Nikki Keddie, author of Women in the Middle East: Past and Present).
The world has drastically changed in recent years due to armed conflict, economic...
by Karen Finley
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
The first Karen Finley book to be published since 2006, this collection of the first ten years of the millennium shows an artist engaged in the deepest political and cultural issues of her time.
Kathleen Hanna, the former lead singer of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre, is known widely to a generation...
Two Whole Cakes
How to Stop Dieting and Learn to Love Your Body
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
From the internationally renowned Fatshionista blogger, a “vulnerable, funny, whip-smart” celebration of fat acceptance and body confidence (Hanne Blank).
From Photoshopped pictures to food-shaming to the latest crop of diet fads, our culture is obsessed with weight—as in, the less of...
Bamboo Shoots After the Rain
Contemporary Stories by Women Writers of Taiwan
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1993
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 Writers of Chinese Ancestry).
This remarkable anthology introduces the short fiction of fourteen...
Among the White Moon Faces
An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1997
This “fascinating autobiography” from an award-winning Asian-American female author “reads like a novel” (The Washington Post Book World).
With insight, candor, and grace, Shirley Geok-lin Lim recalls her path from her poverty-stricken childhood in war-torn Malaysia to her new and exciting...
by Estella Portillo Trambley
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
The sole novel of beloved Chicana author Estela Portillo Trambley, Trini is the epic story of one girl's journey across borders and into womanhood. Born in the rural region of the Tarahumara (Raramuri) people in Mexico, Trini shares her family's struggle to squeeze a living out of her beautiful but...
by Monika Zgustova
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
This “exhilarating novel” of love, longing, and exile “captures the passion of a century in turmoil” (Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, author of Hiroshima in the Morning).
From the “outstanding” Czech writer Monika Zgustova, The Silent Woman depicts a twentieth-century woman’s life against a...
by Orly Castel-Bloom
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
The renowned Israeli author “once again captures the culture of modern-day Israel with provocative deadpan humor” in a novel of wealth, war, and family (Publishers Weekly).
Mandy Gruber, matriarch of a wealthy Israeli family, is beholden to her mother’s legacy and the pajama factory she...
by Tereska Torres
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
A coming of age novel set in post-war France by an author who ”launched the modern genre of the lesbian paperback” (Susan Stryker, author of Queer Pulp).
When eighteen-year-old Cecile is orphaned at the end of World War II, the curious and adventurous Catholic student finds refuge in Paris,...
The War Before
The True Life Story of Becoming a Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison & Fighting for Those Left Behind
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
An inspiring memoir from a legendary activist and political prisoner that “reminds us of the sheer joy that comes from resisting civic wrongs” (Truthout).
In 1968, Safiya Bukhari witnessed an NYPD officer harassing a Black Panther for selling the organization’s newspaper on a Harlem street...
The Loved Ones
A Modern Arabic Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2015
Ferocious, visceral descriptions . . . give a powerful sense not only of Suhaila’s world but also of the way we make and understand memories.”-BooklistOften intense and lyrical.”-Kirkus ReviewsThis winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Prize for Literature mingles memories of the past...
The Amputated Memory
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2014
.An expansive, eclectic, and innovative novel.”-Women's Review of BooksA modern-day Things Fall Apart, The Amputated Memory explores the ways in which an African woman’s memory preserves, and strategically forgets, moments in her tumultuous past as well as the cultural past of her country,...