Books from The Feminist Press at CUNY
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The Reality Shows
By Karen FinleyShe'd bring the soldier, captain, grunt over to her place and turn on Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter, Platoon and watch the grunt's reaction that was so very dear to her. Her first line of questioning would be, So which film gets you ...
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A Question of Choice
By Sarah WeddingtonThe justices who voted for the Roe opinion were Blackmun—who also wrote the opinion— Brennan, Burger, Douglas, Marshall, Powell, and Stewart. Justices White and Rehnquist wrote dissents. Because of his connection to the Mayo Clinic, ...
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Women Who Kill
By Ann JonesLizzie has been portrayed by actresses from Lillian Gish to Elizabeth Montgomery; she has been discussed on radio by attorney Robert Welch, actor Robert Preston, and perennial host Alistair Cooke. She dies hard, and she sprouts theories ...
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Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era
By Beatriz PreciadoEmphasizing the pornographic image's capacity to become activated in the body of the spectator, Linda Williams defined pornography as “embodied image,” an image that incorporates itself as body and captures the body at the “encounter ...
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The Doulas: Radical Care for Pregnant People
By Mary Mahoney, Lauren MitchellSArAH WeddInGTon is an attorney and lecturer from Austin Texas. She became a key figure in the reproductive rights movement when at the age of twenty-seven she successfully argued roe v. Wade, the landmark court case that gave American ...
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From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World Volume II: The Masculine Mystique from Feudalism to the...
By Marilyn FrenchNew York: William Morrow, 1984. Gillis, John. For Better, For Worse: British Marriages 1600 to the Present. ... Hafkin, Nancy J., and Edna G. Bay, eds. Women in Africa: Studies in Social and Economic Change. Stanford, Cal.
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From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World Volume III: Infernos and Paradises: The Triumph of Capitalism...
By Marilyn FrenchNew York: William Morrow, 1984. Grant, Jacqueline. “Black Women and the Church.” In Some of Us Are Brave, ed. ... Hafkin, Nancy J., and Edna G. Bay, eds. Women in Africa: Studies in Social and Economic Change. Stanford, Cal.
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From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World Volume IV: Revolutions and the Struggles for Justice in...
By Marilyn FrenchFrobel, F., J. Kreye, and O. Heinrichs. The New International Division of Labour. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. ... New York: William Morrow, 1984. Gonzalez, Nancie. “The Anthropologist as Head of Household.
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Streb: How to Become an Extreme Action Hero
By Elizabeth StrebNewman, Barnett, 73 Newman, Susannah, 33 Newton, Isaac, 104, 112, 134, 143 New York City Council, 15–16 New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, 14, 16 New York City Loft Law, 13–14 New York City Mayor's office, 16 Niagara Falls, ...
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Follow Me into the Dark
By Felicia C. Sullivan“This used to be a resort in the twenties,” I say, and with a mixture of pride and shame I recount the history of the place that indirectly killed Tim's mother. As we walk, I describe the main building, which used to be two stories high ...
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Eat My Heart Out
By Zoe PilgerWe'd been playing truth or dare at Hammerton Hall, Freddie's father's country estate. I dared Jasper to fuck Allegra with a bottle of crème de menthe. Allegra wasn't interested, but she went along with it. sebastian was furious—he ...
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Wait Until Tomorrow: A Daughter's Memoir
By Pat MacEnultyBut Bonnaroo had been worth it, worth the seven-hour drive, the heat, the money, the horrible macaroni I had tried to make on a borrowed Coleman stove, the moments of panic when the cell phones wouldn't work and I was standing in a ...
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Folly: A Novel
By Maureen BradyI. Title. PS3552.R2435 F6 1994 813',54–dc20 94–5905 CIP Cover design: Paula Martinac Cover art: Self-Portrait with Anita by Audrey Flack, 1955. Oil on canvas, 25 x 36". Collection Thalia Gouma-Peterson and Carl Peterson, Oberlin, Ohio.
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The Crunk Feminist Collection
By Brittney C. Cooper, Susana M. Morris, Robin M. BoylornI can't help but wonder what Trayvon must have thought as he was confronted for no reason by a White guy with a gun, ... In 1857 Justice Roger Taney infamously declared in the Dred Scott case that a Black man “had no rights which the ...
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David's Story
By Zoë WicombThomas claps his hands delightedly. See, this stuff is in your blood, man, comes out of our ancestor's soil. It's our heritage; it's your rightful heritage, your Griqua birthright. He shuts the box and slips it into his pocket when a ...
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You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town
By Zoë WicombThomas G. Karis and Gail M. Gerhart, introduction to Challenge and Violence, 1953–1990, vol. 3, From Protest to Challenge: A Documentary History of African Politics in South Africa, 1882–1964, ed. Thomas G. Karis and Gwendolyn M. Carter ...
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A Life in Motion
By Florence HoweWe were collecting poems about women by women, motivated in part by Amy Lowell's “The Sisters,” especially the lines, Taking us by and large, we're a queer lot We women who write poetry.... I went off to the Cape for August, ...
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Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era
By Paul B. PreciadoTo echo Donna J. Haraway's expression, it will consist of a positioned, responsible corporal political prac- tice, so that anyone wishing to be a political subject will begin by being the lab rat in her or his own laboratory.
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Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran
By Shahrnush ParsipurA modern literary masterpiece, Women Without Men creates an evocative and powerfully drawn allegory of life in contemporary Iran.
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Celebrate People's History!: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution
By Josh MacPheeCelebrate People's History includes artwork by Cristy Road, Swoon, Nicole Schulman, Christopher Cardinale, Sabrina Jones, Eric Drooker, Klutch, Carrie Moyer, Laura Whitehorn, Dan Berger, Ricardo Levins Morales, Chris Stain, and more.