Búsqueda de Editorial : THE FEMINIST PRESS AT CUNY (ORM)

82 resultados

THE FEMINIST PRESS AT CUNY (ORM) Eliminar filtro Quitar filtros
  • THE NAMES OF ALL THE FLOWERS
    ebook
    THE NAMES OF ALL THE FLOWERS
    MELISSA VALENTINE
    A "poignant, painful, and gorgeous" memoir that explores siblinghood, adolescence, and grief for a family shattered by loss (Alicia Garza, cocreator, Black Lives Matter). Melissa and her older brother Junior grow up running around the disparate neighborhoods of 1990s Oakland, two of six children to a white Quaker father and a black Southern mother. But as Junior approaches adol...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • AIN'T I A DIVA?
    ebook
    AIN'T I A DIVA?
    KEVIN ALLRED
    "[Allred] interrogates Beyoncé's music and videos to explore the complicated spaces where racism, sexism, and capitalism collide." — Kirkus Reviews In 2010, Professor Kevin Allred created the university course "Politicizing Beyoncé" to both wide acclaim and controversy. He outlines his pedagogical philosophy in Ain't I a Diva?, exploring what it means to build a syllabus around...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • ARID DREAMS
    ebook
    ARID DREAMS
    DUANWAD PIMWANA
    "One of Thailand's preeminent female writers . . . Each of her stories poses its own moral challenge, pleasurable and unsettling at once . . . phenomenal." —NPR.org In thirteen stories that investigate ordinary and working-class Thailand, characters aspire for more but remain suspended in routine. They bide their time, waiting for an extraordinary event to end their stasis. A p...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • MARS
    ebook
    MARS
    ASJA BAKIC
    A debut collection of darkly humorous, feminist speculative fiction from the Balkans, "sly, uncommon stories" by "a major talent" (Jeff VanderMeer, award-winning author of Hummingbird Salamander). Mars showcases a series of unique and twisted universes, where every character is tasked with making sense of their strange reality. One woman will be freed from purgatory once she wr...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • LIVING ON THE BORDERLINES
    ebook
    LIVING ON THE BORDERLINES
    MELISSA MICHAL
    "Michal's debut is thoughtful and generous, capturing the fraught experience of being Native American in the modern U.S." — Publishers Weekly Both on and off the rez, characters contend with identity as contemporary Haudenosaunee peoples; the stories "cross bloodlines, heart lines, and cultural lines, powerfully charting what it is to be human in a world that works to divide us...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • CONFESSIONS OF MADAME PSYCHE
    ebook
    CONFESSIONS OF MADAME PSYCHE
    DOROTHY BRYANT
    "Describes a life that explores, in ways that only fine fiction can, the differences between myth and illusion, between real psychic gifts and false ones."— The Denver Post This American Book Award Winner follows the story of the young Mei-li Murrow who is dubbed "Madame Psyche" after she accidentally predicts the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Although she wins fame and for...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • THE FEMINIST UTOPIA PROJECT
    ebook
    THE FEMINIST UTOPIA PROJECT
    EDITED BY ALEXANDRA BRODSKY AND RACHEL KAUDER NALEBUFF
    This "incredible addition to the feminist canon" brings together the most inspiring, creative, and courageous voices concerning modern women's issues (Jessica Valenti, editor of  Yes Means Yes).   In this groundbreaking collection, more than fifty cutting-edge feminist writers—including Melissa Harris-Perry, Janet Mock, Sheila Heti, and Mia McKenzie—invite us to imagine a world...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • WE WALK ALONE
    ebook
    WE WALK ALONE
    ANN ALDRICH
    The 1950s queer-life groundbreaker by "a literary pioneer . . . [who] forever changed perceptions of same-sex love and desire" (Advocate.com).   Ann Aldrich flung a provocative assertion at her readers in 1955 when she opened her landmark account of lesbian life in New York City by saying this book was the "result of fifteen years of participation in society as a female homosex...

    $179.00

    Ver detalle
  • WE, TOO, MUST LOVE
    ebook
    WE, TOO, MUST LOVE
    ANN ALDRICH
    A literary lesbian landmark that "will transport today's readers . . . to the 1950s homosexual scene" ( Marcia M. Gallo, author of  Different Daughters).   Three years after the publication of her groundbreaking 1955 bestseller, We Walk Alone, Ann Aldrich expanded on her journalistic portraits of lesbian subcultures in and around New York, in We, Too, Must Love.   Inspired by t...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • STELLA DALLAS
    ebook
    STELLA DALLAS
    OLIVE HIGGINS PROUTY
    This pulp classic of motherhood and money introduced the immortal character portrayed on film by Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Midler—"a feminist gem" (Michael Bronski).   An ambitious woman from working-class roots, Stella sets her sights on marrying rich—and hits a bullseye. But her unshakable crudeness becomes too much for her husband. When he leaves her, she keeps their daught...

    $179.00

    Ver detalle
  • THÉRÈSE AND ISABELLE
    ebook
    THÉRÈSE AND ISABELLE
    VIOLETTE LEDUC
    Two French schoolgirls discover obsessive pleasures in repressed secrets in this "masterpiece on the tyranny of love" ( Independent, UK).   "Violette Leduc was Simone de Beauvoir's protege, an erotic writer to match Jean Genet and a feminist tour de force" (Rafia Zakaria, The Guardian). With this startling new translation of Leduc's hidden classic, the groundbreaking Thérèse an...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • WALKING THE PRECIPICE
    ebook
    WALKING THE PRECIPICE
    BARBARA BICK
    An "enthralling" memoir of a woman who risked her life to help a people under siege and a country caught between freedom and oppression ( Publishers Weekly—starred review).   In 1990, sixty-five-year-old activist and grandmother Barbara Bick traveled with a women's delegation to Afghanistan for what she thought would be her last great adventure. Instead, Bick forged deep friend...

    $200.00

    Ver detalle
  • SINGLE JEWISH MALE SEEKING SOUL MATE
    ebook
    SINGLE JEWISH MALE SEEKING SOUL MATE
    LETTY COTTIN POGREBIN
    This novel "unflinchingly confronts the issue of Jewish continuity in a diverse and changing America" (Anne Roiphe, author and journalist).   Feminist icon Letty Cottin Pogrebin's second novel is the story of Zach Levy, the left-leaning son of Holocaust survivors who promises his mother on her deathbed that he will marry within the tribe and raise Jewish children. When he falls...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • DAVID'S STORY
    ebook
    DAVID'S STORY
    ZOË WICOMB
    A powerful post-apartheid novel and winner of South Africa's M-Net Literary Award, hailed by J.M. Coetzee as "a tremendous achievement."   South Africa, 1991: Nelson Mandela is freed from prison, the African National Congress is now legal, and a new day dawns in Cape Town. David Dirkse, part of the underground world of activists, spies, and saboteurs in the liberation movement,...

    $274.00

    Ver detalle
  • NO SWEETNESS HERE
    ebook
    NO SWEETNESS HERE
    AMA ATA AIDOO
    From the author of Changes: these stories "of post-independence Ghana in the late 1960s are written beautifully and wisely and with great subtlety" (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi).   In this short story collection, the award-winning poet and author of Changes and Our Sister Killjoy explores postcolonial life in Ghana with her characteristic honesty, humor, and insight. A house servan...

    $200.00

    Ver detalle
  • CHANGES
    ebook
    CHANGES
    AMA ATA AIDOO
    A Commonwealth Prize–winning novel of "intense power . . . examining the role of women in modern African society" by the acclaimed Ghanaian author ( Publishers Weekly).   Living in Ghana's capital city of Accra with a postgraduate degree and a career in data analysis, Esi Sekyi is a thoroughly modern African woman. Perhaps that is why she decides to divorce her husband after en...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • WAITING
    ebook
    WAITING
    GORETTI KYOMUHENDO
    A Ugandan author's "unsettling and richly atmospheric" novel of a young African woman confronting the brutal end of Idi Amin's dictatorship ( Publishers Weekly).   Safe for years in their remote Ugandan village, thirteen-year-old Alinda and her family are suddenly faced with the terror of the self-proclaimed "Last King of Scotland" when troops of his use the local highway to es...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • $PREAD
    ebook
    $PREAD
    EDITED BY RACHEL AIMEE, ELIYANNA KAISER AND AUDACIA RAY
    "A fascinating collection from a group of courageous women who created the first publication to explore sex work in a compelling and intelligent way." —Candida Royalle   $pread, an Utne Award–winning magazine by and for sex workers, was independently published from 2005 to 2011. This collection features enduring essays about sex work around the world, first-person stories that ...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • THE RIOT GRRRL COLLECTION
    ebook
    THE RIOT GRRRL COLLECTION
    JOHANNA FATEMAN
    Archival material from the 1990s underground movement "preserves a vital history of feminism" (Ann Cvetkovich, author of  Depression: A Public Feeling).   For the past two decades, young women (and men) have found their way to feminism through Riot Grrrl. Against the backdrop of the culture wars and before the rise of the Internet or desktop publishing, the zine and music cultu...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • THE SHIPWRECKED
    ebook
    THE SHIPWRECKED
    EDITED BY FERESHTEH NOURAIE-SIMONE, TRANSLATED FROM FARSI BY FARIDOUN FARROKH AND SARA KHALILI
    A collection of short stories by Iranian women writers that capture the fear, defiance, and enduring struggle of life under an oppressive regime.   The 1979 Iranian Revolution was an event that shocked the world. After thousands of years of Persian monarchy, the Iranian people seized power and instituted a strict secular Islamic regime. The revolution sent the despised Shah int...

    $274.00

    Ver detalle
  • ICON
    ebook
    ICON
    "In this collection commissioned by Amy Scholder, nine original essays explore the specific and personal impact of cultural icons." — Publishers Weekly   Whose poster hung on your wall as a teenager? Whose record did you wear out? Whose life story could you not resist? Fascination works in mysterious ways—it can be born out of inspiration, or repulsion, or both. In these daring...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • ON SHIFTING GROUND
    ebook
    ON SHIFTING GROUND
    EDITED BY FERESHTEH NOURAIE-SIMONE
    "Thoughtful, highly relevant, and frequently brilliant essays on the contemporary ideas, organization, activities, and agency of Muslim women" (Nikki Keddie, author of  Women in the Middle East: Past and Present).   The world has drastically changed in recent years due to armed conflict, economic issues, and cultural revolutions both positive and negative. Nowhere have those ch...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • INTO THE GO-SLOW
    ebook
    INTO THE GO-SLOW
    BRIDGETT M. DAVIS
    A young black woman visits Africa on a quest for peace, meaning, and love in "a beautiful allegory at the heart of a realist novel . . . A strong book" (Chris Abani, author of The Secret History of Las Vegas).   In 1986 Detroit, twenty-one-year-old Angie is still mourning the death of her brilliant, radical sister, Ella, when she impulsively decides to pack up and go to the pla...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • SILENCES
    ebook
    SILENCES
    TILLIE OLSEN
    A landmark survey of disenfranchised literary voices and the forces that seek to silence them—from the influential activist and author of Tell Me a Riddle.   With this groundbreaking work, Olsen revolutionized the study of literature by shedding critical light on the writings of marginalized women and working-class people. From the excavated testimony of authors' letters and di...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • PISSING IN A RIVER
    ebook
    PISSING IN A RIVER
    LORRIE SPRECHER
    "An honest and genuine DIY punk-rock lesbian love story." — Kirkus Reviews   Amanda moves to London with nothing but her guitar and her collection of punk music as the soundtrack to her every move. With the company of a few friendly voices in her head, she looks for—and finds—a best friend and new lover. She forms a band, Lesbian Raincoat, and completely rewrites the story of h...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • VALERIE SOLANAS
    ebook
    VALERIE SOLANAS
    BREANNE FAHS
    The authoritative biography of the 60s countercultural icon who wrote SCUM Manifesto, shot Andy Warhol, and made an unforgettable mark on feminist history.   Valerie Solanas is one of the most polarizing figures of 1960s counterculture. A cult hero to some and vehemently denounced by others, she has been dismissed but never forgotten. Known for shooting Andy Warhol in 1968 and ...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • THE SILENT WOMAN
    ebook
    THE SILENT WOMAN
    MONIKA ZGUSTOVA
    This "exhilarating novel" of love, longing, and exile "captures the passion of a century in turmoil" (Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, author of Hiroshima in the Morning).   From the "outstanding" Czech writer Monika Zgustova, The Silent Woman depicts a twentieth-century woman's life against a backdrop of war and political turmoil (Vaclav Havel).   Sylva, half Czech and half German, is bor...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • THE MAN WHO LOVED HIS WIFE
    ebook
    THE MAN WHO LOVED HIS WIFE
    VERA CASPARY
    A husband falls into a psychological spiral in a novel by the author of Laura, "an expert at suspense and suspicion" ( The New York Times). When Fletcher marries Elaine, his second wife, nineteen years his junior, he can't imagine a more passionate union. Then an illness destroys his confidence, and all he can picture is her next affair. He keeps a secret diary of his fantasize...

    $200.00

    Ver detalle
  • A TASTE OF MOLECULES
    ebook
    A TASTE OF MOLECULES
    DIANE FRESQUEZ
    A delicious exploration of what creates the flavors we love—and why our taste buds respond to them—in a fascinating, "very pleasant and easy read" ( Flanders Today).   In this unique scientific study of food, drink, and how the human taste buds sense taste, food journalist Diane Fresquez brings readers along on a journey of gastronomic discovery.   She begins by following a Bel...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • RETURN TO LESBOS
    ebook
    RETURN TO LESBOS
    VALERIE TAYLOR
    The pulp fiction classic. "Taylor was able to creatively incorporate her radical politics with lesbian feminism and her marketable craft of storytelling."—Marcia M. Gallo, author of Different Daughters Sapphic suburban housewife Frances seeks fulfillment and love from the odd girls and twilight lovers of small-town America's queer demi-monde in this provocative novel from the a...

    $200.00

    Ver detalle

01 02 03 »