Bøger udgivet af Feminist Press at The City University of New York

A jealous husband frames his wife for his own suicide so she'll never love again.

Agnes Smedley, author of Daughter of Earth, worked in and wrote about China from 1928 to 1941. These 18 pieces—all out of print and most unavailable even in public libraries—are based on interviews with revolutionary women. They include descriptions of the massacre of feminists in the Canton commune, of the silk workers of Canton whose solidarity earns them the charge of lesbianism, and of Mother Tsai, a 60-year-old peasant who leads village women in smashing an opium den.

Who is your icon? Today's most fascinating writers reveal a private view on a public person.

An aristocratic naif colludes with the Nazis, then stands up against the Gulag in this epic of riches to rags.

In this evocative account of navigating pregnancy loss, Jessica Zucker confronts the cultural silence around miscarriages and illuminates how she built a movement from her experience, transforming trauma into human connection.

Black love is explored as a concept and tool for forming, sustaining, and fragmenting global Black communities in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

"Carefully considered, successful instances of experimental fiction" disrupt gender, genre, and queer identity in this deranged, otherworldly collection (Literary Hub).

Join nine-year-old Alejandria as she fights to save her neighborhood from gentrification!

Interweaving oral history, scholarly research, and first-person memoir, WE WERE THERE documents how the TWWA shaped and defined second wave feminism. Highlighting the essential contributions of women of colour to the movement, this historical resource will inspire activists today and tomorrow, reminding a new generation that solidarity across difference is the only way forward.

A powerful account of a Korean American daughter's exploration of food and family history to understand her mother's schizophrenia.

This lyrical memoir of late motherhood reconstructs the lost history of a Black American family, defying erasure, intergenerational trauma, and racist violence.

The Black women and nonbinary members of the writing collective Echoing Ida harness the power of media for social justice. With over five hundred articles published, their work amplifies the struggles and successes of contemporary freedom movements in America. In this anthology, the best of Echoing Ida''s writing is collected for the first time. Featuring a foreword by Michelle Duster, activist and great-granddaughter of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, the essays imagine a gender-expansive and liberated future.

Melissa s mixed-race family is torn apart when her older brother Junior is murdered as a result of gun violence. The Names of All the Flowers connects one tragic death to a collective grief for all black people who die too young. A lyrical recounting of a life lost, Melissa Valentine''s debut memoir is an intimate portrait of a family fractured by the school-to-prison pipeline and an enduring love letter to an adored older brother. It is a call for justice amid endless cycles of violence, grief, and trauma, declaring: ''we are all witness and therefore no one is spared from this loss.''

In this evocative memoir, now a foundational text in postcolonial studies, an acclaimed Indian poet explores writing, memory, and place in a post-9/11 world.

An insightful, witty novel set in early twentieth-century black Boston by the Harlem Renaissance's youngest member-reissued for a new generation of readers.

A revolutionary depiction of the American working poor and environmental degradation by a nineteenth-century proletarian feminist.

A full-color graphic history of global dissent and historical activism, celebrating the possibilities of collective resistance-with an introduction by Charlene Carruthers and a foreword by Rebecca Solnit.

By turns fantastical and familiar, this graphic short story collection with South Asian roots is immersed in questions of gender, the body, and existential conformity.

Parenting for liberation, written by activist and mother Trina Greene Brown who founded the multimedia platform of the same name, fills a critical gap in currently available resources for liberated parenting. Pairing personal stories from her successful podcast series with open-ended prompts designed to inspire reflection and creativity, the book provides guidance for those seeking to dismantle harmful narratives about the Black family, initiate difficult conversations on social issues with their children, and find community with other parents who share their struggle.

A new translation of this classic work: "Parsipur is a courageous, talented woman and...a great writer."--Marjane Satrapi

Historically and culturally, various social groups such as women and people of colour have been excluded from inheritance. More recently advances in reproductive technology have also complicated notions of inheritance and genealogy. In this issue, scholars and writers reveal the multiplicity and power relations underlying inheritance while considering the broader role of feminist and reconstructionist efforts in redefining lineages of literary and intellectual inheritance.

One of the ten best fiction books of 2018 by the New York Times en Espanol, Cockfight explores the power of the home to both create and destroy those within it. The stories shed light on the grotesque realities of family, coming of age, religion, and class struggle. A family''s maids witness a horrible cycle of abuse, a girl is auctioned off by a gang of criminals, and two sisters find themselves at the mercy of their spiteful brother. With violence masquerading as love, characters spend their lives trapped reenacting their past traumas.

The first of a new range of Drag Queen Story Hour books, authored and illustrated by a range of queer and feminist writers and artists. Each book is looked over by a sensitivity reader to ensure authentic, educational content.

Scholars examine the possibilities and limits of collective action, in the context of contemporary calls to mobilize against oppressive structures.