W. W. Norton & Company, January 2020. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Beautifully written and deeply researched, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. In wrestling with the question of what a......
n.p., 1909. Trade Paperback. 15 pages. Reprint of letter originally published 1894. Author argues against women's suffrage. ' Nature has made man the superior in strength, grasp of intellect, in nervous energy; wisdom and power and glory are his; yet without us he is a vain shadow...He is bound to.....
Pandora Press, 1987. Trade Paperback. 345 pages. Copious black-and-white illustrations. This is an introduction to the major events and debated in the early years of feminist art practice. An extensive collection of articles, as well as broadsheets printed in facsimile, illustrate the history and diversity of arguably the most important.....
Penguin Books, February 2021. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "One of the most important books of the current moment."--Time "A rousing call to action... It should be required reading for everyone."--Gabrielle Union, author of We're Going to Need More Wine "A brutally candid and unobstructed.....
Simon & Schuster, October 2016. Trade Paperback. * NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2016 SELECTION * BEST BOOKS OF 2016 SELECTION BY THE BOSTON GLOBE * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY * NPR * CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY * The New York Times bestselling investigation into the sexual, economic, and emotional lives of.....
Bloomsbury Publishing, March 2020. Trade Paperback. New York Times Bestseller * USA Today Bestseller * Los Angeles Times Bestseller * Publishers Weekly Bestseller The instant New York Times bestseller from the author of Reviving Ophelia--a guide to wisdom, authenticity, and bliss for women as they age--now with a new foreword.....
Picador, March 2013. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BESTSELLER A Kansas City Star Best Book of the Year Brilliant, meditative, and full of surprises, wisdom, and wonder.--Ann Lamott, author of Imperfect Birds I am leaving you all my journals, but you must promise me you won't look at them until after I'm.....
Anchor, May 2018. Trade Paperback. The award-winning, bestselling author of We Should All Be Feminists and Americanah gives us this powerful statement about feminism today--written as a letter to a friend. A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a childhood friend, a new mother who wanted.....
Simon & Schuster, June 2005. Trade Paperback. In his bestselling Wacky Chicks, irreverent social commentator and humor writer Simon Doonan introduces readers to a bracing cross section of exuberantly unconventional women: comedienne Amy Sedaris; fashion designer turned park ranger Spider Fawke; Warhol muse Brigid Berlin; Suzanne Bartsch, the woman who.....
New Press, The, March 1995. Trade Paperback. Abortion is rarely thought of as a source of literary inspiration. Here, a range of writers, including Richard Brautigan, Joan Didion and Ellen Gilchrist, present short stories and fiction excerpts that deal with this issue.
City Lights Books, 1987. Trade Paperback. 217 pages.
Autonomedia. A project of ORSSASM (Organization of Revolutionary Socialist Sisters and Some Men), 1997. First Edition. Calendar. Calendar for 1998 with 365 womyn warriors pictured for each day of the year, with an emphasis on 'unrecognized' and 'invisible.' Oblong format. 15.9 x 12 inches First edition (first printing). A near.....
Harper Paperbacks, January 2001. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' Love Song to the Nation," All About Love is a revelation about what causes a polarized society and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love.....
Vintage, February 1983. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A powerful study of the women's liberation movement in the U.S., from abolitionist days to the present, that demonstrates how it has always been hampered by the racist and classist biases of its leaders. From the widely revered and legendary political activist.....
Radical America pamphlet, 1971. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. 71 pages. reprinted from Radical America, Vol. V, No. 4, August, 1971. First edition thus. A near fine copy in illustrated wrappers (paperback).
1855? Ephemera. Elizabeth Oakes Smith (1806-1893) was a committed woman's right advocate best known for her essays 'Woman and Her Needs' published in the New York Tribune in 1850-1851. She was married to Seba Smith, humorist and writer. Holograph note, 6.4 x 1.75 inches: 'To _____, The measure of capacity.....
1928. Ephemera. Ruth Pratt (1877-1965) was the first woman elected to Congress from New York. Typed letter, 7.75 x 5.4 inches, signed, on letterhead: 7, East Sixty-first Street: 'November 13, 1928. My dear Mrs. Cogswell: Thank you so much for your letter and for your delightful invitation which I regret.....
Noyes Press, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. 109 pages. B/W illustrations. A fragment of a creation myth by Semonides, the first surviving poem in European literature to have women for its theme. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in brown cloth with bright gilt lettering on spine a near fine.....
MJF Books, January 2011. Hardcover.
University of Georgia Press, July 1995. Trade Paperback. Prisons That Could Not Hold weaves together diary entries, letters, and interviews to provide a very human portrait of the evolution of an individual activist and the development of contemporary "movement" philosophy. The centerpiece of this volume is the acclaimed Prison Notes.....
Anchor, January 2015. Trade Paperback. The highly acclaimed, provocative New York Times bestseller from the award-winning, bestselling author of Americanah In this personal, eloquently-argued essay--adapted from the much-admired TEDx talk of the same name--Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century, one rooted in.....
Haymarket Books, April 2015. Trade Paperback. This slim book--seven essays, punctuated by enigmatic, haunting paintings by Ana Teresa Fernandez--hums with power and wit.--Boston Globe The antidote to mansplaining.--The Stranger Feminist, frequently funny, unflinchingly honest and often scathing in its conclusions.--Salon Solnit tackles big themes of gender and power in these.....
Belknap Press, February 2005. Hardcover. Entries on almost five hundred women representing a wide range of fields of endeavor are featured in a collection of biographical essays that integrate each woman's personal life with her professional achievements, set in the context of historical developments.
R & M Pr, June 1991. Trade Paperback.
Atria Books, February 1993. Trade Paperback.