Books from Feminist Press at CUNY
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Confessions of Madame Psyche: A Novel
By Dorothy BryantAs I took a plate, I noticed the little dark singer talking with Doctor Willy. I wandered until I found a room at the back of the house, near the stairway where servants were running up with platters from the basement kitchen.
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Unpunished: A Mystery
By Charlotte Perkins GilmanPossibly the world's first feminist mystery, by the author of the bestselling The Yellow Wallpaper.
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Women Composers: The Lost Tradition Found
By Diane Jezic... Johannestrasse 3 3500 Kassel Germany Hildegard Publishing Company Box 332 Bryn Mawr , PA 19010 Recital Publications PO Box 1697 Huntsville , TX 77342-1697 Appendix 5 : A Selected List of Twentieth - Century Appendix 4 237 XXXV.
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And the Spirit Moved Them: The Lost Radical History of America's First Feminists
By Helen LaKelly HuntPart historical investigation, part personal memoir, Hunt traces how her research into nineteenth-century organizing led her to become one of the most significant philanthropists in modern history.
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Moving the Mountain: Women Working for Social Change
By Ellen Cantarow, Susan Gushee O'Malley, Sharon Hartman Stromtional organizations , for community improvement , for the establishment of black schools and colleges . The struggle for education was rooted in slavery days , when slave rebellions led to laws forbidding the education of slaves and to ...
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Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body
By Megan Milks“Grandmother Shaw was my hero.” A new picture materializes, of a dignified older woman hovering over some important-looking document, bifocals slung low. “When I was your age—one century ago—I wanted with all my heart to follow in her ...
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A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader
By Frances Ellen Watkins HarperThe poetry, speeches, letters, and selected fiction of a leading nineteenth-century Black feminist writer and activist are accompanied by a biographical and critical study
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This Child's Gonna Live
By Sarah E. WrightCiting John Killens's journey back to Africa , Carmichael and Hamilton note that “ [ i ] t is absolutely essential that black people know this history [ beginning on the continent of Africa ) , that they know their roots , that they ...
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The Other Woman: Stories of Two Women and a Man
By Susan KoppelmanShe's in gigabuck mainstream now, at the funnel maw of the unceasing hose that's pumping the sight and sound and flesh and blood and sobs and laughs and dreams of reality into the world's happy head. Little Delphi is going plonk into a ...
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The Wide, Wide World
By Susan WarnerSusan Warner. passes by your house ; and after that the dear knows where it goes , for I don't . But I don't suppose it could run ... Weil , " said Ellen , " let it be Black , then ; but I don't like it . Now remember , —this is Niagara ...
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Zulu Woman: The Life Story of Christina Sibiya
By Elizabeth Gunner, Rebecca Hourwich Reyher, Christina Sibiya... the capital, at the home of the late Sir Charles Saunders, former Governor General of Zululand under Queen Victoria, and Lady Saunders, and later at the home of the then Chief Magistrate, Oswald Fynney, and Mrs. Fynney at Nongoma.
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The House of Memory: Stories by Jewish Women Writers of Latin America
By Marjorie Agosc-N, Elizabeth Horan, Roberta GordensteinGroundbreaking anthology that explores the intersections of Jewish and LAtin American cultures through the varies styles and perspective of gifted women writers.
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Fault Lines: A Memoir
By Meena AlexanderI saw her as I see her now in my mind's eye , freed from the constraints of this perishing flesh . I saw her as if for the first and last time . I do not know if I knew then what I know now , or perhaps I sensed it dimly in my child's ...
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A Lifetime of Labor: The Autobiography of Alice H. Cook
By Alice H. Cook7 One such group , the Revolutionary Policy Committee ( RFC ) , which aimed to attract left - wingers in the Socialist Party , was headed by T. J. Matthews , nominally a Socialist Party left - winger . Since the majority of the ...
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Zipper Mouth
By Laurie WeeksShower, new Calvin Klein boxers, motorcycle boots. Tonight, I guess, lipstick. I've pursued a few girls; this is the luxurious part, when the friend thing begins to shift, slippage in the electrical impulses between you, waves start to ...
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Winter's Edge
By Valerie MinerCharles Hunter ? What do you know about Hunter ? ' demanded Douglas . He's a law and order cowboy if you ask me . Too friendly with my upright son . What do you know about him ? ' Embarrassed , Ernie shrugged and looked at Chrissie .
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Life in the Iron Mills, and Other Stories
By Rebecca Harding DavisYou must read this book and let your heart be broken-New York Times Book Review "One of the earliest recognitions in American literature of the existence of the very poor.
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Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard
By Mary Ritter BeardThe only collection of work by a groundbreaking historian.
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Families as We are: Conversations from Around the World
By Perdita Huston, RICHARD C. HOLBROOKEJOSE Jose Calazans Martinez is a tall. dignified man with a thin face, deep- set eyes, and a pointed nose. At age seventy, he works in the fields each morning but admits that he s getting weak, less able to work.
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Rights and Wrongs: Women's Struggle for Legal Equality
By Rachel Rubin, Susan Cary Nicholas, Alice M. PriceOne of her best pieces was inspired by Congressman Edwin Webb , who in an antisuffrage speech gallantly announced : " I am opposed to woman suffrage , but I am not opposed to woman . " Miller dashed off an appropriate answer : O women ...