Books from The Feminist Press at CUNY
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Shalom India Housing Society
By Esther DavidSet in India, these tales are of Hindus and Muslims and . . . Jews? Oy vay!
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In the Name of Friendship: A Novel
By Marilyn FrenchSet in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts, this wise novel is a group portrait of four disparate women who forge life-altering friendships despite personalities that vary as greatly as their vocations and ages.
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Dream Homes: From Cairo to Katrina, an Exile's Journey
By Joyce ZonanaThrough travels that ranged from Cairo to Oklahoma and finally New Orleans in the shadow of Katrina, and including an evocative exploration of the way food varies from culture to culture, this is a “frank, spirited memoir of identity from ...
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Beijing Comrades: A Novel
By Bei TongBut when their loyalties are tested, Handong is left questioning his secrets, his choices, and his very identity . . . Beijing Comrades is the story of a tumultuous love affair set against the sociopolitical unrest of late-eighties China.
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Changes: A Love Story
By Ama Ata AidooWitty and compelling, Aidoo’s novel, according to Manthia Diawara, “inaugurates a new realist style in African literature.” In an afterword to this edition, Tuzyline Jita Allan “places Aidoo’s work in a historical context and ...
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Not So Quiet...: Stepdaughters of War
By Helen Zenna SmithPraised by the Chicago Sun-Times for its “furious, indignant power,” this story offers a rare, funny, bitter, and feminist look at war.
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Taking Our Place in History: The Girls Write Now 2020 Anthology
By Girls Write NowVICTORIA GAO Taking our place in history means making contributions to solve societal problems and being accountable for one's ... She enjoyed contributing to the greater good and working with people who shared her interest in ecology.
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Training School for Negro Girls
By Camille AckerThis flawlessly executed work reinvigorates the short fiction genre.” —BUST “Equal parts funny, poignant, stirring and heartbreaking . . . This book is our collective coming-of-age story—and it’s about time.
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Arid Dreams: Stories
By Duanwad PimwanaThis is an exciting debut.” —Publishers Weekly “A deep and thoughtful exploration of human psyches and the dreams of ordinary Thais in an ever-changing socio-economic environment.” —Bangkok Post “An exacting look at the moments ...
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Ghostbelly
By Elizabeth HeinemanGhostbelly is Elizabeth Heineman’s personal account of a home birth that goes tragically wrong—ending in a stillbirth—and the harrowing process of grief and questioning that follows.
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Lion Woman's Legacy: An Armenian-American Memoir
By Arlene Voski AvakianInspired by her passionate feminism and strengthened by a loving lesbian relationship, Avakian recollects and re-examines her personal history and the story of her courageous grandmother, revealing a legacy of radical politics, fierce ...
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Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq
By RiverbendHer book “offers quick takes on events as they occur, from a perspective too often overlooked, ignored or suppressed” (Publishers Weekly). “Riverbend is bright and opinionated, true, but like all voices of dissent worth remembering, ...
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Now, Voyager
By Olive Higgins ProutyWe have the stars!” The film Now, Voyager concludes with these famous words, which reaffirmed Bette Davis’s own stardom and changed the way Americans smoked cigarettes. But few fans of this rich story know its source.
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Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered
By Ruth Klüger... before the remaining Birkenau inmates were gassed. Her book goes on to describe a gutsy escape from the forced STILL ALIVE march of the last war weeks, two years 9 still alive TEXT MECH 2/4/03 3:38 PM Page 9 Foreword Going on Living.
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But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies
By Barbara Smith, Patricia Bell-Scott, AkashaAs the first comprehensive collection of Black feminist scholarship, But Some of Us Are Brave was recognized by Audre Lorde as “the beginning of a new era, where the ‘women’ in women’s studies will no longer mean ‘white.’” ...
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The Riot Grrrl Collection
By Lisa DarmsThe Riot Grrrl Collection reproduces a sampling of the original zines, posters, and printed matter for the first time since their initial distribution in the 1980s and ’90s, and includes an original essay by Johanna Fateman and an ...
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A Clear Spring
By Barbara WilsonThere were two other cars parked next to Roadie 789 in the lot by the wetlands . All of them had on the same radio station — not very loud ... Mow and Dad were obviously code words , Willa decided . Roadie 789 got out of his truck .
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The Crooked Line
By Ismat ChughtaiWhy is the 'Better than all the world' Hindustan still sheltered from the tangles of the swastika? Every nation in the world has looked at Hindustan lovingly, everyone was inspired by a concern for improving and developing it.
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The Dragon and the Doctor: Second Edition
By Barbara DanishA dragon with a very sore tail finds a helpful doctor and introduces her to her friends.
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Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams: Making Peace in Northern Ireland
By Bettina LingA new multicultural biography series for young readers that focuses on major achievements by women from around the world.