Books
Intimate Wars
Merle Hoffman's life story is riveting. A former classical pianist, a self-made millionaire, and a feminist who found her life's work providing abortions, she has been a fearless crusader for women's right to choose.
Women Without Men 2nd Edition
A modern literary masterpiece, Women Without Men creates an evocative and powerfully drawn allegory of life in contemporary Iran. This volume is the first author-approved translation of a classic work.
Zipper Mouth
Selected by Dave Eggers for Best American Nonrequired Reading. In this extraordinary debut novel, Laurie Weeks captures the freedom and longing of life on the edge in New York City.
Tango
A moving and hilarious coming-of-age story about love, sex, and attention deficit disorder. Hailed as “the greatest cabaret artist of [V’s] generation” in the New Yorker, Mx. Justin Vivian Bond makes a brilliant literary debut with this candid and hilarious novella-length memoir.
Who Is Ana Mendieta?
Who Is Ana Mendieta? is an iconoclastic cultural biography of a Cuban American feminist artist in an era on the cusp of rebellion and regression.
Complaints & Disorders (Second Edition)
The new edition of the bestselling book about the history of sexism in the medical profession.
A Life in Motion
The founder of the Feminist Press tells her life story as an activist, scholar, and publisher.
Hey, Shorty!
Hey, Shorty! shows how a small organization in Brooklyn figured out how to successfully address sexual harassment in schools and on the streets. It is a guide for students, educators, parents, and activists, and an inspiring story about getting young people to change difficult circumstances in their lives.
Wait Until Tomorrow
A mother, writer, and recovered drug addict faces her biggest life challenge.
This is the Way We Say Goodbye
This haunting collection of personal essays by explores the uneasy balance between family and self.
The Reality Shows
The highlights—and low lights—of the first ten years of the millennium are encapsulated by the searing performances of Karen Finley. From "Liza's" 9/11 show, to the channeling of Terri Schaivo, to George (W. Bush) & Martha (Stewart), and the "real" affair that spoiled the career of Govenor Elliot Spitzer, The Reality Shows is a tour de force.
The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing
In this breathless memoir, Al-Joundi tells her story of being raised in pre-war Beirut by a bohemian father who encouraged her to defy all taboos—religious, political, and sexual. When he dies in wartime, her resentment of new constraints imposed by fundamentalists fuels her sex and drug binges, and she is cast out in a shocking denouement.
Rape New York
Starting with a rape at gunpoint in her own apartment, Jana Leo's unrelenting analysis of her trauma shows the complex relationship between sexual violation, police disinterest, and the politics of gentrification and slum-lording. This laconic memoir is not only about getting clarity; it's about holding accountable the perpetrators of violence and those responsible for the circumstances of that violence.
Transforming Japan
Feminism is transforming the lives of women and men throughout Japan.
Celebrate People's History
One hundred posters designed by over eighty artists celebrate important acts of resistance—events and individuals working toward racial justice, women's rights, queer liberation, labor struggles, and innovative activism. Celebrate People's History is a creative tour through history from some of the most socially engaged artists working today. Artists include Christy Road, Nicole Schulman, Swoon, Eric Drooker, Garage Collective, and more.
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