FP Classics
Our most loved backlist titles redesigned from cover to cover, ready for a new generation of feminists to enjoy.
Zoe Wicomb
"A tremendous achievement and a huge step in the remaking of the South African novel."
Rebecca Harding Davis
A revolutionary depiction of the American working poor and industrial pollution.
Dacia Maraini
An international bestseller from one of Italy's foremost women writers.
Katharine Burdekin
A post-Hitlerian dystopian classic where women, as we know them, have been eliminated.
AMETHYST EDITIONS
Amethyst Editions is a modern, queer imprint curated for the Feminist Press by Michelle Tea.
Michelle Tea
A dreamlike, dystopian meditation on sobriety, adulthood, and the obligations of storytelling.
Julián Delgado Lopera
This multilingual novel follows a Colombian teenager’s coming-of-age and coming out.
Carley Moore
A novel of sex-positive awakening and burgeoning political resistance, set in Occupy-era New York City.
Carley Moore
During the coronavirus pandemic, a queer disabled woman bikes through a locked-down NYC for the ex-girlfriend who broke her heart.
Luke Dani Blue
This debut story collection blurs fantasy and reality, excavating new meanings from our varied dysphorias.
Brontez Purnell
An uninhibited exploration of growing up gay in 1980s Alabama.
Jamika Ajalon
A portrait of young Black artists in the 1990s London underground, whose existence is threatened by the rise of state surveillance.
Ali Liebegott
A poet documents grief, loss, and life in this autobiographical novel-in-verse.
Michelle Tea
A glamorous drag queen teaches two siblings about the magic of dress up, self-expression, and imaginative storytelling.
Ariel Gore
Magick spells and inverted fairy tales combat queer scapegoating, domestic violence, and high-interest student loans.
CONTEMPORARY Classics
Great feminist books of the past fifty years don’t fade away–they become Contemporary Classics.
Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English
The Sexual Politics of Sickness
June Jordan
The only young adult book by June Jordan, rediscovered and introduced by Sapphire.
Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English
A History of Women Healers
Femmes Fatales
Femmes Fatales restores to print the best of women’s writing in the classic pulp genres of the mid-20th century. From mystery to hard-boiled noir to taboo lesbian romance, these rediscovered queens of pulp offer subversive perspectives on a turbulent era.
Evelyn Piper
A Hitchcock-like thriller about a lost child and a mother depicted as mad.
Tereska Torres
Her husband takes her novels and signs them as his own; she takes his lover and becomes her mistress.
Vera Caspary
A jealous husband frames his wife for his own suicide so she'll never love again.
Gypsy Rose Lee
A hard-boiled murder by America’s most famous burlesque entertainer.
Olive Higgins Prouty
The captivating novel that inspired the Bette Davis 1943 cult classic film.
Olive Higgins Prouty
This 1923 epic tale of motherhood inspired the Oscar-nominated 1937 movie starring Barbara Stanwyck.
Valerie Taylor
A neglected 1950’s housewife finds the delights and degradations of forbidden love.
Ordinary Terrible Things
In these stories of common childhood crises, help may come from family, counselors, teachers, or dreams—but crucially, it's the children themselves who find their way to cope and grow.
The Reuben-Rifkin Jewish Women Writers Series
A joint project with the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute. The world of modern Jewish writers; a tapestry of works from varied cultures.
Faye Moskowitz
Wise, wisecracking, occasionally heartbreaking stories of a Jewish childhood in Depression-era Michigan.
Judith Katzir
An Israeli girl's diaries addressed to Anne Frank chronicle romantic trysts with her female teacher.
Joyce Zonana
A memoir of traditions lost and found, a flooded city and the healing power of food.
Jennifer Rosner
Jennifer Rosner’s revelatory memoir explores family, silence, and what it means to be heard.
Esther David
Set in India, these tales are of Hindus and Muslims and . . . Jews? Oy vey!
Orly Castel-Bloom
A wealthy Israeli family becomes estranged as war and commerce increasingly define their lives.
Helene Aylon
My Jewish Orthodox Girlhood, My Life as a Feminist Artist
Two by two
Love. Death. Conflict. Civilization and its discontents. Do women and men tackle these enduring themes differently?
Grace Paley and Robert Nichols
A couple expresses their shared activism in a range of styles and voices.
Edith Wharton and Henry James
An Edith Wharton and Henry James pairing explores "reality" in two classic tales.
Women Writing Africa
Great women writers from a continent rich in literary lore.
Edited by Esi Sutherland Addy and Aminata Diaw
The West and the Sahel
Edited by Amandina Lihamba, Fulata L. Moyo, et al.
The Eastern Region
Women Writing Science
From biographies to novels, this series is a window on the lives of women scientists, with the goal of encouraging women to enter and stay in scientific fields.
Maryann Lesert
Torn between her family and her ambitions, an astronomer finds her way back to the stars.
Ama Ata Aidoo
A love story in a world where the working lives of women have changed, but cultural assumptions have not.