Femmes Fatales

Laura

Vera Caspary

The woman who kept men spellbound—even after her death...

Mother Finds a Body

Gypsy Rose Lee

A sexy, hard-boiled murder mystery by America's most famous burlesque entertainer.

Narrating a twisted tale of a backstage double murder, Gypsy Rose Lee provides a fascinating look behind the scenes of burlesque theater—richly populated by strippers, comics, and Siggy the G-string salesman.

The Man Who Loved His Wife

Vera Caspary

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

Bedelia

Vera Caspary

A masterful psychological mystery unmasks a "Black Widow" serial killer.

Return to Lesbos

Valerie Taylor

Sapphic suburban housewife Frances seeks fulfillment and love from small-town America's queer demi-monde.

Stranger on Lesbos

Valerie Taylor

Sexy, beautiful, frustrated...a neglected housewife finds the delights and degradations of forbidden love.

The Girls in 3-B

Valerie Taylor

Three small-town girls face the hard choices of big city life in this classic 1950s pulp.

By Cecile

Tereska Torres

Her husband takes her novels and signs them as his own; she takes his lover and becomes her mistress.

Women's Barracks

Tereska Torres

The grim setting of an urban military barracks—with its freezing dorms, rationed food, and unbecoming regulation underwear—became the setting for one of the steamiest novels of its time and the first-ever "lesbian pulp."

Now, Voyager

Olive Higgins Prouty

Now, Voyager is the story of a woman who discovers love, sex, and motherhood outside of marriage; and who learns that men are, ultimately, dispensable in the quest for happiness and fulfillment.

Bunny Lake Is Missing

Evelyn Piper

In this fraught and at times freakish tale of suspense, Evelyn Piper takes us deep into the psyche of the 1950s to explore American fetishes, fallacies, and fears around motherhood and sexuality.

Skyscraper

Faith Baldwin

An exciting career in a gleaming skyscraper--intrigues with a dashing stranger--or marriage to a regular guy? What's a girl to do?

MARIAM K. CHAMBERLAIN Memorial Service May 23, 2013

RIVERBEND posts a new entry to BAGHDAD BURNING!

Readings and panel discussion for KISSING THE SWORD

Apr 30 - May 3

Book launch and panel discussion for SAVAGE COAST

May 20

Paradigm Shift Presents Mental Health Care: A Painful Legacy and Today's Crisis

May 23

FP author MONIKA ZGUSTOVA reads from GOYA'S GLASS

May 13

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FP author BARBARA HAMMER awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

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Tristan Taormino discusses THE FEMINIST PORN BOOK with Joy Behar

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Zoe Wicomb Wins Prestigious New Prize

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NOW IN NOVEMBER part of the Pulitzer Remix

NOW IN NOVEMBER is one of 85 novels participating in the Pulitizer Remix (www.pulitzerremix.com).

Selected FP Titles now available from AUDIBLE

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FP authors AMY RICHARDS and GLORIA STEINEM talk about Makers: The Women Who Make America

Mar 5

Claire Reed on CUNY TV

HELENE AYLON reads from WHATEVER IS CONTAINED MUST BE RELEASED in West Palm Beach and Kansas City

Feb 21

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Anti-Apartheid Leader Forms New Party in South Africa

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FP Receives NEA Grant!

NEA Grant will help fund the digitization of 15 Feminist Press classics, and the publication of three extraordinary literary works: Savage Coast by Muriel Rukeyser, Kissing the Sword: A Prison Memoir by Shahrnush Parsipur, and The Silent Woman by Monika Zgustova.