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A Short Walk
Alice Childress
2006 Edition
A picaresque panorama, A Short Walk describes 50 years of American hisotry as viewed through the lens of a working-class black woman of irresistible charisma and candid intelligence.
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We Walk Alone
Ann Aldrich
2006 Edition
Part Kinsey-esque portraits of real people, part you-are-there reports on the scene in bars and offices and at clubs and house parties, this is a unique "cultural artifact," a compelling composite of an alienated yet amazingly self-aware community.
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Ann Bannon,***award-winning author of The Beebo Brinker Chronicles
Aldrich touched innumberable lives and gave hope to lesbians mired in a harsh and ignorant era. Read these books to learn what it was like back then, what we believed and how we made a start in the struggle against prejudice.
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We, Too, Must Love
Ann Aldrich
2006 Edition
We, Too, Must Love probes more deeply than the first book into questions of class, which lesbians had and by delineating more subtly the diversity among lesbians.
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Ann Bannon, *** award-winning author of The Beebo Brinker Chronicles
Aldrich touched innumberable lives and gave hope to lesbians mired in a harsh and ignorant era. Read these books to learn what it was like back then, what we believed and how we made a start in the struggle against prejudice.
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Born in the Big Rains
A Memoir of Somalia and Survival
Sabine Eichhorst, Fadumo Korn
2006 Edition
This powerful memoir by international anti-FGM activist Fadumo Korn portrays both her life-altering transformation after she undergoes a brutal female circumcision at the age of seven and her journey to recovery and empowerment.
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Publisher's Weekly
...this impassioned, beautifully written memoir is a testament to the possibility of wedding literary prose to sophisticated political arguments...this is a brutally honest, politically sensitive and bold addition to literature on global women's health.
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Baghdad Burning II
Girl Blog From Iraq
Riverbend
2006 Edition
Riverbend, the Iraqi blogger who received the Ulysses Prize for literary reportage, continues her dispatches from her native Baghdad.
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Starred Review - Kirkus
Baghdad Burning (2005) is a collection of blog postings by a 24-year-old, middle-class Iraqi woman who calls herself Riverbend. This sequel picks up the story in October 2004—before the world knew that Americans would re-elect George Bush. Just before the election, Riverbend prophesies that should Bush return to the White House, life would worsen not only for Iraqis, but also for Americans, whose national image is "tarnished world-wide." Indeed, much of this is devoted to Riverbend's fury... cont'd
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The Crooked Line
Ismat Chughtai
2006 Edition
Shamman is the tenth child born into a middle-class Muslim Indian Family. As India moves from its imperial past to an independent future, Shamman negotiates social, cultural, and psychological conflicts common to women in determining their own destinies.
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Susie Tharu
"This account of growing up in 1940s at the high point anti-colonial struggles draws a crooked line across received notions of nationalist politics, Muslim family life, and colonial education. Questions of sexuality--and of Islam, India, growing up female--appear in unexpected new formations in ithis setting. Chugtai has given us one of the most richly textured and original of partition novels."
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Brown Girl, Brownstones
Paule Marshall
2006 Edition
This coming-of-age story set in Brooklyn during the Depression and WWII, chronicles the struggles of Barbadian immigrants. Selina, the young heroine, forges her own identity, sexuality, and sense of values in her new country.
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Cress Delahanty
Jessamyn West
2006 Edition
Much anthologized stories form an integrated, novel-like portrait of “Cress Delahanty,” an engaging, complicated adolescent girl navigating pivotal moments of maturity between her 12th and 16th years while growing up in rural California in the 1940s.
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The New York Times
"A story of adolescence brimming with 'humor and charm...and much true wisdom.'"
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Touba and the Meaning of Night
Shahrnush Parsipur
2006 Edition
A major literary event, the publication of Touba and the Meaning of Night introduces English-speaking readers to the epic masterpiece of a great contemporary Persian writer, renowned in her native Iran and in much of Western Europe.
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Beth Baron - Author of Egypt as a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics and co-director of the Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
"Houshmand and Talattof have rendered a moving translation of Shahrnush Parsipur’s masterpiece. The tale combines realism with flights of fantasy in a tale set against the backdrop of modern Iranian history."
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Taxes Are a Woman's Issue
Reframing the Debate
Mimi Abramovitz, Sandra Morgen, With the National Council for Research on Women
2006 Edition
Commisioned by the National Council for Research on Women, this book re-envisions the current welfare system and addresses the discriminatory impact of tax and spending policies on women.
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Julianne Malveaux, Economist and Author
“The National Council for Research on Women has added an important perspective to the discourse on taxes with this publication. Their work reinforces the notion that women pay for much more than we get, and that we get much less than we deserve. Given the essential contribution, paid and unpaid, that we make to the nation's economy. Given the deficit enhancing insanity of war spending, and the systematic shredding of our nation's safety net, this critical analysis could not come at a more... cont'd
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