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HAMMER!
Making Movies Out of Sex and Life
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HAMMER! is the first book by influential filmmaker Barbara Hammer, whose life and work have inspired a generation of queer, feminist, and avant-garde artists and filmmakers. The wild days of non-monogamy in the 1970s, the development of a queer aesthetic in the 1980s, the fight for visibility during the culture wars of the 1990s, her search for meaning as she contemplates mortality in the past ten years—HAMMER! includes texts from these periods, new writings, and fully contextualized film stills to create a memoir as innovative and disarming as her work has always been.
The Madame Curie Complex
The Hidden History of Women in Science
Marie Curie, Lillian Gilbreth, Rosalyn Yalow, Jane Goodall, Barbara McClintock, Rachel Carson—these awesome life stories reveal the complex negotiation of gender in science.
The War Before
The True Life Story of Becoming a Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison, & Fighting for Those Left Behind
Bukhari's journey becoming a Black revolutionary, understanding misogyny in the Panthers, converting to Islam, and founding Jericho, the advocacy group for political prisoners in the US.
Mother
Volume 37, Number 3&4, Fall/Winter 2009
Celebrity baby-bump sightings, televised debates between stay-at-home moms and working moms, LGBT moms, and men as moms—WSQ explores the cultural contradictions of the motherhood craze.
Still Brave
The Evolution of Black Women's Studies
Great thinkers and writers of our time wrestle with current ideas about race, feminism, and gender.
Women Who Kill
From Lizzie Borden to Aileen Wuornos, Women Who Kill remains the most important book on why women have killed and what their cases reveal about social prejudices and legal practices in the US. With a new introduction by the author.
From Wonso Pond
A Novel of Korea
Kang's proletarian masterpiece charts the voyages of a young woman, a woodcutter, and a law student from a Korean village to life as workers and underground activists in the port city of Inch'on.
Dreaming of Baghdad
Once part of a resistance group fighting Saddam Hussein and the Ba'ath regime, Haifa Zangana writes from the distance of time and place, and describes her embattled country and the process of remembering—and forgetting—what she once loved and feared.
The Love Children
It is the late 1960s in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Grateful Dead is playing on the radio and teenagers are wearing long hair and blue jeans. Jess Leighton, the daughter of a temperamental painter and a proto-feminist Harvard professor, is struggling to make sense of her world amid racial tensions, Vietnam War protests, and anti-government rage.
Departing at Dawn
A Novel of Argentina's Dirty War
When her boyfriend is brutally murdered by the Argentine military, Berta escapes to the provincial countryside. Often lyrical, Gloria Lisé describes a young woman's life on the run and the trauma of a generation targeted by their government.
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