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2 Forthcoming Titles 14 Recently Published 17 Backlist Highlights 24 Rights & Permissions We Were Witches Ariel Gore
Ariel’s a teen mom, aspiring writer, and femi- SEPTEMBER 2017 SEPTEMBER 2017 nist witch trying to get a college education in the early nineties during the first Bush “ We Were Witches seizes the shame and hurt internalized by young women and turns it into magic art and poetry. Her writing is a diamond pentacle carved into a living heart, transforming singular experience administration. into universal knowledge.” We We re —SUSIE BRIGHT, Big Sex Little Death
We Were Witches Basically she’s screwed. Ariel’s a teen mom, aspiring writer, and feminist witch trying to get a college education Witches during the first Bush administration. Ariel Gore is a journalist, memoirist, novel- Basically, she’s screwed. ist, and teacher. She is the founding editor/
ARIEL GORE is a journalist, memoirist, novelist, and teacher. She is the founding editor/publisher of Hip Mama, an Alternative Press Award– publisher of Hip Mama, an Alternative Press winning publication covering the culture and politics of motherhood. Atlas of the Human Heart was a 2004 finalist for the Oregon Book Award, Award-winning publication covering the cul- Portland Queer: Tales of the Rose City won a Lambda Literary Award in 2010, and The End of Eve won a 2014 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award. Ariel Gore ture and politics of motherhood.
WE WERE WITCHES A NOVEL BY ARIEL GORE Amethyst Editions is a modern, queer imprint ISBN 978-1-55861-433-8 pbk E-ISBN 978-1-936932-02-3 $18.95 pbk • PAGES: 296 • SIZE: 5.5 x 8 in. PUBLICATION DATE: September 2017 curated for the Feminist Press by Michelle Tea. A NOTE TO REVIEWERS: These are uncorrected proofs. Please do not quote from this text without checking with the publisher. For all inquiries please contact: Wren Hanks, email: [email protected]; phone: (212) 817–7927
Amethyst Editions is a modern, queer imprint curated by Michelle Tea. a novel by ariel gore
“We Were Witches seizes the shame and hurt internalized by young women and turns it into magic art and poetry.” —Susie Bright
September 2017 • $18.95 • 978-1-55861-433-8 • 296 pages • Rights: World
forthcoming titles 2 Go Home! Edited by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan Foreword by Viet Thanh Nguyen
This literary collection presented by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop features new, emerging, and established Asian and Asian American writers imagining what “home” looks like in the twenty-first century. Both urgent and meditative, Go Home! showcases fiction, memoir, and poetry from a diverse array of voices, including Alexander Chee on scarred bodies, Kimiko Hahn on gustatory memory, and Amitava Kumar on the art of writing immigrant narratives. With a foreword by Viet Thanh Nguyen.
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is the author of the novel Harmless Like You. Her short work has appeared in Granta, the Guardian, Guer- nica, Apogee, and the White Review, among others.
March 2018 • $18.95 • 978-1-936932-01-6 • 200 pages • Rights: World
3 forthcoming titles Radical Reproductive Justice Edited by Loretta Ross, Lynn Roberts, Erika Derkas, Whitney Peoples, and Pamela Bridgewater
This anthology assembles two decades of work initiated by SisterSong Women of Color Health Collective, who created the human rights–based term “reproductive justice” to move beyond polarized pro-choice/pro-life debates. Rooted in Black feminism and built on intersecting identities, this revolutionary framework asserts a woman’s right to have children, not have children, and to parent and provide for the children they have.
Human and women’s rights activist Loretta Ross cofounded and served as National Coor- dinator of SisterSong, a network that orga- nizes women of color in the reproductive justice movement.
Lynn Roberts has a PhD in Human Services Studies from Cornell University.
Erika Derkas is a professor of sociology and women’s studies at New Mexico Highlands University.
Whitney Peoples is visiting assistant professor in the department of Multicultural Women’s and Gender Studies at Texas Woman’s Uni- versity.
Pamela Bridgewater was an activist lawyer and legal scholar specializing in issues related to reproduction, sexuality, identity, poverty and women’s health. She passed away in 2014.
October 2017 • $29.95 • 978-1-55861-437-6 • 500 pages • Rights: World
forthcoming titles 4 The Restless Gerty Dambury Translated by Judith G. Miller
Structured like a Creole quadrille, this lyrical novel is a rich ethnography bearing witness to police violence in French Guadeloupe. Narra- tors both living and dead recount the racial and class stratification that led to a protest- turned-massacre in 1967. While Dambury’s English debut is a memorial to a largely for- gotten atrocity, it is also a celebration of the vibrancy and resilience of Guadeloupeans.
Gerty Dambury is a theater director, novelist, and poet from Guadeloupe. She won the Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe et Tout-Monde in 2015 for her play Le Rêve de William Alexander Brown. This is her first work to be translated into English.
Judith G. Miller is currently serving as Dean of Arts and Humanities at NYU-Abu Dhabi. Her latest publications have included translations and editions: Mother Folly: A (Psychoanalyti- cal) Tale by Françoise Davoine and In and Out of Africa: The Theatre of Koffi Kwahulé.
January 2018 • $16.95 • 978-1-55861-446-8 • 220 pages • Rights: World x French
5 forthcoming titles THE ILIAC CREST Cristina Rivera Garza Translated by Sarah Booker
On a dark and stormy night, two mysterious women invade an unnamed narrator’s house, where they proceed to ruthlessly question their host’s gender and identity. The increas- ingly frantic protagonist fails to defend his supposed masculinity and eventually finds himself in a sanatorium. A Gothic tale of destabilized male-female binaries and sub- verted literary tropes, this is the Mexican novel’s first English publication.
Cristina Rivera Garza is an award-winning author, translator, and critic. She is the only two-time winner of the International Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize (2001; 2009). She received her PhD in 2012 in Latin Amer- ican history from the University of Houston, where she is currently Distinguished Profes- sor in Hispanic Studies.
Sarah Booker is an English-to-Spanish trans- lator and PhD candidate at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research revolves around contemporary Latin Ameri- can narratives and translation studies.
October 2017 • $16.95 • 978-1-55861-435-2 • 200 pages • Rights: World English
forthcoming titles 6 Though I Get Home YZ Chin
Rampant corruption, detentions without trial, and a government crackdown on dissent and artistic freedom form the backdrop of this debut collection of Malay short stories. Fea- turing a myriad of characters fighting against fate in their own ways, these stories delve into personal motivations amid challenging Though and ever changing circumstances. Though I Get Home is the inaugural win- I Get ner of the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize started by the Feminist Press in conjunction Home with TAYO Literary Magazine.
YZ Chin is a software engineer by day and a writer by night. Born and raised in Taiping, yz Chin Malaysia, she now lives in New York.
The Louise Meriwether First Book Prize is awarded to the best debut work by women and nonbinary writers of color in order to continue Meriwether’s legacy and diversify the literary canon.
April 2018 • $17.95 • 200 pages • Rights: World
7 forthcoming titles How Mamas Love Their Babies Juniper Fitzgerald Illustrated by Elise Peterson
Illustrating different ways that mothers pro- vide for their children—including dancing at a strip club—this children’s book is the first to depict a sex-worker parent. By introduc- ing and normalizing the idea of bodily labor, it provides an expanded notion of working mothers overall, and challenges the idea that only some types of work result in good or appropriate parenting.
Juniper Fitzgerald is a mother, former sex worker, and PhD.
Elise Peterson is a writer, visual artist, and a longtime arts educator living and working in New York.
January 2018 • $16.95 • 978-1-936932-00-9 • 36 pages • Rights: World
forthcoming titles 8 THE HUNTER MAIDEN Edited by Ethel Johnston Phelps I Introduction by Renée Watson Illustrated by Suki Boynton
In volume four of Feminist Folktales, a diverse cast of female protagonists prove themselves in handling adversity and injus- tice. These heroines lend their daring and determination to everything from battling evil wizards in Russia to outsmarting tricky demons in South Africa.
A classic best seller from the Feminist Press is reissued as a newly illustrated, four-volume series. Bringing readers tales from China, Sudan, Norway, and Peru, this series features stories with women as their central charac- ters—decisive heroes of extraordinary courage, wit, and achievement. These timeless stories remind us that girls everywhere have been the heroes of their own stories for centuries.
October 2017 • $14.95 • 978-1-55861-434-5 • 200 pages • Rights: World
Feminist Folktales series PHELPS PHELPS KAMALA FEMINIST FOLKTALES FROM AROUND THE WORLD FEMINIST FOLKTALES FROM AROUND THE WORLD ETHEL JOHNSTON PHELPS ETHEL JOHNSTON PHELPS
Introduction by GAYLE FORMAN | With illustrations by SUKI BOYNTON KAMALA Introduction by KATE SCHATZ | With illustrations by SUKI BOYNTON
What might we dream of after reading these tales?
In Kamala, the second volume in A classic best seller from the Feminist the Feminist Folktales series, stories Press is reissued in a newly illustrated, from countries such as India, Peru, four-volume series. In Tatterhood, tales China, and Ireland follow clever, from Japan, Norway, Scotland, and Sudan outspoken heroines—demonstrating feature decisive heroines of extraordinary how the courage and power of women courage, wit, and achievement—reminding hold our world together. us that girls everywhere have always been the heroes of their own stories.
“Who stole these fierce, “In these stories, girls might actually bawdy stories from the mouths of see themselves. Who they are. mothers and transformed the strong And who they dream of becoming.” girls into damsels in distress? Who cast —GAyle FormAn, If I Stay the spell . . . and how do we break it? With books like this, obviously!” —Kate Schatz, VOL. I Rad American Women A–Z VOL. II
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TATTERHOOD KAMALA SEA GIRL July 2016 October 2016 August 2017 Rights: World x Portuguese Rights: World x Portuguese Rights: World
9 forthcoming titles THE ORDINARY TERRIBLE THINGS SERIES Anastasia Higginbotham
Ordinary Terrible Things is a feminist children’s books series that deals with common child- hood crises and how children themselves find their own way to cope and grow. Exceptional in its child-centered portrayal, this series is an invaluable tool for families, therapeutic profes- sionals, and educators struggling to address common and complex experiences.
DIVORCE IS THE WORST Kids are told “it’s for the best”—and one day, it may be. But right now, divorce is the worst. With honesty and humor, Anastasia Higgin- botham beautifully conveys the challenge of staying whole when your entire world, and the people in it, split apart.
April 2015 • $16.95 978-1-55861-880-0 • 64 pages Rights: World
DEATH IS STUPID “She’s in a better place now,” adults say again and again. But it doesn’t seem better, it seems stupid. Grandma isn’t here any- more. This forthright exploration of grief and mourning recognizes the anger and confusion that a child feels around death while offering possibilities for celebrating life and love.
April 2016 • $16.95 978-1-55861-925-8 • 64 pages Rights: World
FORTHCOMING TITLES 10 THE ORDINARY TERRIBLE THINGS SERIES TELL ME ABOUT SEX, GRANDMA Anastasia Higginbotham Anastasia Higginbotham
Patiently explaining lessons your parents redacted, this book stresses consent, sex positivity, and the right to be curious about your body. Grandma reminds readers that sex is not marriage or reproduction, and doesn’t look the same for everyone—but instead, it’s your own to discover, explore, and share if you choose.
Anastasia Higginbotham’s essays have app- eared in Ms., Bitch, Glamour, The Women’s Review of Books, and in the anthologies Lis- ten Up, 33 Things Every Girl Should Know About Women’s History, and Yes Means Yes. “I love that it’s Grandma giving advice. Some Native Americans say the very young and the very old understand each other best, because each is closest to the unknown.” —Gloria Steinem
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April 2017 • $17.95 • 978-1-55861-419-2 • 64 pages • Rights: World
11 forthcoming titles SINCE I LAID MY BURDEN DOWN Brontez Purnell
Home for his uncle’s funeral, DeShawn pon- ders family, church, and his lifelong quest for love from the men in his life. This raw, funny novella traces a queer black man’s sexual and artistic awakenings as he stumbles— often painfully, sometimes joyously—down memory lane.
Brontez Purnell has been publishing, perform- ing, and curating in the Bay Area for over ten years. He is author of the cult zine Fag School, frontman for his band The Younger Lovers, and founder and choreographer of the since i laid Brontez Purnell Dance Company.
my burden Amethyst Editions is a modern, queer imprint down curated for the Feminist Press by Michelle Tea. A NOVEL
“Brontez Purnell is foul-mouthed and evil. Be warned: this book will make you cackle out loud like you’ve got the Devil inside you then it will break your heart. Be careful where you read it. BUT DO READ IT.” —Justin Vivian Bond
June 2017 • $17.95 • 978-1-55861-431-4 • 208 pages • Rights: World
FORTHCOMING TITLES 12 AUGUST Romina Paula Translated by Jennifer Croft
Traveling home to Patagonia to scatter her friend’s ashes, a young woman grapples with her generation’s wasted potential and her own choices in an increasingly globalized Argentina. Told as a frank confession to a lost confidante, August is a self-deprecating examination of grief, romance, and the bitter- sweetness of moving on.
Romina Paula is an Argentine playwright, novel- ist, director, and actor. Her three novels, ¿Vos me querés a mí?, Agosto, and Acá todavía, have enjoyed extraordinary popularity and critical acclaim. This is her first book to be translated into English.
Jennifer Croft is the recipient of Fulbright, PEN, and National Endowment for the Arts grants, as well as the Michael Henry Heim Prize. Her translations from Polish, Span- “Paula’s English-language debut is almost ish, and Ukrainian have appeared in the New impossible to put down: moody, atmo- York Times, n+1, Electric Literature, BOMB, spheric, at times cinematic, her novel is Guernica, the New Republic, and elsewhere. indicative of a fresh and fiery talent.” She is a founding editor of the Buenos Aires Review. —Kirkus Reviews
April 2017 • $16.95 • 978-1-55861-430-7 • 208 pages • Rights: World English
13 forthcoming TITLES FOLLOW ME INTO THE DARK Felicia C. Sullivan
Follow Me into the Dark traces the unravel- ing of a family marred by perverse intergen- erational abuse. Kate is a young baker whose mother is dying of cancer. Gillian is an over- sexed hyperintellectual who looks like Kate and is sleeping with Kate’s stepfather. Jonah is Gillian’s odd but devoted stepbrother, who increasingly matches the description of the “Doll Collector,” a menacing serial killer. With Kate flailing in her mourning and beating back unwelcome memories, snippets of her family legacy are revealed just as the Doll Collector’s body count grows.
Felicia C. Sullivan is the award-winning author of the critically acclaimed memoir The Sky Isn’t Visible from Here (Algonquin/ Harper Perennial) and the founder of the now defunct but highly regarded literary journal “An original, spellbinding, and horrifying Small Spiral Notebook. She maintains the read.” —Kirkus Reviews popular lifestyle blog love.life.eat.
March 2017 • $16.95 • 978-1-55861-945-6 • 320 pages • Rights: World English
RECENTLY PUBLISHED 14 BLACK WAVE Michelle Tea
It’s San Francisco in 1999. The environ- ment is crashing, animals are nearly extinct, and drug-addled writer Michelle has alien- ated most of her friends and lovers with her drama. Determined to shed that skin, she heads to LA to write a screenplay. With the world sliding into chaos, Michelle endeavors to make sense of her life, struggling to cast herself as a universal hero in her screenplay while squatting in an abandoned bookstore.
Michelle Tea is a critically acclaimed author, poet, and literary arts organizer whose work explores queer culture, feminism, prostitu- tion, race, and class.
Amethyst Editions is a modern, queer imprint curated for the Feminist Press by Michelle Tea.
“AN APOCALYPTIC FANTASIA.”—New York Times
“Fearless. Black Wave threatens to take everything and everybody down. So destabilizing and palpable is this bad fairy tale come true. It shook me up.” —Eileen Myles, I Must Be Living Twice “A keen portrait of a subculture, an instant classic in life-writing, a go-for-broke exemplar of queer feminist imagination, and a contribution to crucial, ongoing conversations about whose stories matter, Black Wave is a rollicking triumph.” —Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts “Michelle Tea has the smarts and the laughs, the sharpness and the love, the grit and the skin and the ink she needs to see us even through the end of the world.” —Daniel Handler, We Are Pirates
September 2016 • $18.95 • 978-1-55861-939-5 • 344 pages • Rights: World x UK (And Other Stories)
15 recently PUBLISHED THE CRUNK FEMINIST COLLECTION Edited by Brittney C. Cooper, Susana M. Morris, and Robin M. Boylorn
“A classic tome of feminist writing that speaks to many generations to come.” —Gwendolyn D. Pough, Check It While I Wreck It
Unapologetic and necessary, this collection of pop culture criticism takes on beauty parlor politics, prison abolition, and Rihanna. The Crunk Feminist Collective blog, now with an annual readership of nearly one million, fosters dia- logue for critical homegirls stuck between loving hip hop and “ratchet culture,” while hating patriarchy and sexism.
January 2017 • $24.95 • 978-1-55861-943-2 • 335 pages • Rights: World
AVIE’S DREAMS: An Afro-Feminist Coloring Book Makeda Lewis
“The intersection of my femininity and blackness is fascinating. Avie’s Dre A m s I carry so many colors in my skin, so much weight in my hips, infinite voices in my throat. How could I not love myself?”
Makeda Lewis is an Atlanta-based artist.
mA ke DA Part activity book, part surrealist poem, Avie’s Dreams
lewis takes an interactive and wildly introspective approach to Afro-feminist self-discovery and girlhood. A young dreamer wanders through a personal mythology of isbn 978-155861-938-8 $13.95 Us Avie’s DreAms women warriors, tropical flowers, and sea creatures.
An Afro-f eminist Coloring Book by Makeda Lewis Exploring images of futurism, gender dynamics, and death and rebirth, this adult coloring book follows Avie as she writes her own radical coming-of-age tale.
September 2016 • $13.95 • 978-1-55861-938-8 • 64 pages • Rights: World
RECENTLY PUBLISHED 16 THE DOULAS Edited by Mary Mahoney and Lauren Mitchell Foreword by Loretta Ross I Afterword by Dr. Willie Parker
While more feminist activism has migrated online, doulas remain focused on life’s physically intimate relationships: between caregivers and patients, parents and pregnancy, individuals and their own bodies. Weaving together personal narratives, medical experience, and political investigation, The Doulas is the essential guide to this growing social movement.
$19.95 • 978-1-55861-941-8 • 336 pages • Rights: World
BEIJING COMRADES bei tong eijing Comrades tells the story of Handong, an arrogant businessman, and his obsessive, tumul- Btuous relationship with Lan Yu, a working-class bei tong Bei Tong I Translated by Scott E. Myers student. Together the two men navigate the uncharted terrain of a same-sex relationship in Beijing on the brink TRANSLATED BY SCOTT E. MYERS of the Tian’anmen Square protests. First posted pseudon- ymously on the Internet in the nineties, Beijing Comrades is among mainland China’s earliest and most influential contemporary gay novels. Provocative and controver- sial, the story quickly gained a cult following because of Beijing Comrades tells the story of Handong, an arrogant businessman, its depiction of gay sexuality and portrayal of the socio-
political unrest of late-eighties Beijing. This is the first beijing comrades English-language translation of Beijing Comrades. and his obsessive, tumultuous relationship with Lan Yu, a working-class “Scott E. Myers’s translation of this landmark work of Chinese queer fiction is a pure joy on a literary level. A must-read for understanding sexual diversity beyond the West.” —FRAN MARTIN, author of Backward Glances student. Together the two men navigate the uncharted terrain of a same- “A melancholic parable in which desire and self-interest reconfigure revolutionary ideals and unbridled investments in a neoliberal new world order.” beijing —DAVID L. ENG, author of The Feeling of Kinship sex relationship in Beijing on the brink of the Tiananmen Square protests. “Candid and courageous. An exploration of the conjunction of love, money, and politics in a pivotal moment in comrades postsocialist China.” —SHELDON LU, author of Chinese Modernity and Global Biopolitics a novel
ISBN 978-155861-907-4 $16.95 US “A story of forbidden love in all the most classic, wonderful, and devastating ways.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review)
$16.95 • 978-1-55861-907-4 • 312 pages • Rights: World English
THE COSMOPOLITANS
“Vivid and moving. Novels about the past that can celebrate it with intelligence rather than nostalgia are rare and are themselves to be celebrated.” Sarah Schulman —SAMUEL R. DELANY, author of Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders
“A deep, smart, and satisfying novel.” —RABIH ALAMEDDINE, author of An Unnecessary Woman “This novel is book club gold—weighty dilemmas, A gay black man and straight white woman build an intimate friendship as unforgettable characters, and a roller-coaster plot!” —TAYARI JONES, author of Silver Sparrow
“The psychological insights Schulman shares with artful simplicity will shatter your heart. A masterpiece.” outsiders in 1950s Greenwich Village. Based on Balzac’s Cousin Bette, the —MICHELLE TEA, author of How to Grow Up novel portrays the corrosive influence of oppressive systems on individual SARAH SCHULMAN reenwich Village, 1958. Earl, a black, gay actor, and Bette, a white secretary, have been neighbors for thirty years, forming a deep bond lives and relationships. It explores the pain of family shunning, representa- as refugees from small-minded hometowns. But when Hortense, a wealthy young actress with links to Bette’s painful past, shows up, Earl and Bette’s hard-won assumptions are shaken to the core. The Cosmopolitans is a beautifully written, page-turning novel about friendship, tions of people of color, and class dynamics. Glove, and revenge set in the disappeared world of 1950s New York.
ISBN 978-155861-904-3 $15.95 US a novel by SARAH SCHULMAN
$15.95 • 978-1-55861-904-3 • 352 pages • Rights: World x Ukrainian x Russian
urning a perceptive eye on her own life, Ana Castillo lyrically BLACK DOVE: Mamá, Mi’jo, and Me excavates her family’s surprising migration story, recalls her
childhood as an intellectually spirited rebel, and recounts ana castillo ther against-all-odds journey to become a writer and activist. But when faced with the challenges of parenting, including her son’s sudden imprisonment, she must examine her identity as single, Ana Castillo brown, and feminist—in a world of mother blaming, racial profiling, and anti-immigration rhetoric. In these smart, poignant essays, Castillo explores some of America’s most urgent social injustices through the idiosyncratic lens of motherhood and family history. Black Dove is a testament
to the necessity, and the power, of becoming the narrator of one’s | own life. black dove In this collection of essays, many published for the first time, Ana Castillo “A high-wire act.” —KIRKUS
“This exquisite memoir is full of compassion and maternal love.” examines what it means to be a single, brown, feminist parent in a world —NBC NEWS
“Órale! Castillo teaches us how to become the Latina sister outsider we all dream of being.” —ILEANA JIMÉNEZ, founder of Feminist Teacher of mass incarceration, racial profiling, and police brutality. Weaving inter- “Ana Castillo is an American treasure. Compassionate, fearless, and flat-out brilliant—she is the writer we need as we navigate the challenges of our ever-changing world.” —TAYARI JONES, author of Silver Sparrow generational stories from Mexico City to Chicago, Castillo narrates some of
ANA CASTILLO is the author of several books of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, including Massacre of the Dreamers, So Far from ana castillo God, and the Lambda Award–winning Give It to Me. America’s most urgent social injustices through the oft-neglected lens of ISBN 978-155861-923-4 $16.95 US black dove mamá, mi’jo, and me motherhood.
$16.95 • 978-1-55861-923-4 • 296 pages • Rights: World 17 BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS “HIGH VOLTAGE—FULL OF YOUTH, DETERMINATION, AND POWER.”—EMILY BAZELON THE FEMINIST UTOPIA PROJECT: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future Edited by Alexandra Brodsky and Rachel Kauder Nalebuff
THE FEMINIST UTOPIA PROJECT In this groundbreaking collection, cutting-edge voices including Melissa FIFTY-SEVEN VISIONS OF A WILDLY BETTER FUTURE Harris-Perry, Janet Mock, and Sheila Heti invite us to imagine the world we want. Featuring essays, speculative fiction, interviews, and art, The Femi- nist Utopia Project challenges the status quo, describes affirmative visions, and exhorts us to demand a radically better future.
$19.95 • 978-1-55861-900-5 • 360 pages • Rights: World x Korean
SLUT: A Play and Guidebook for Combating Sexism and Sexual Violence Edited by Katie Cappiello and Meg McInerney Introduction by Jennifer Baumgardner
SLUT: A Play and Guidebook for Combatting Sexism and Sexual Violence offers communities and individuals concrete tools to inspire change in the attitudes and practices surrounding girls and sexuality. SLUT creates much- needed space to discuss—openly and honestly—experiences with shaming, sex, and violence, thus providing a crucial antidote to rape culture.
$18.95 • 978-1-55861-870-1 • 248 pages • Rights: World
THE FEMINIST PORN BOOK: The Politics of Producing Pleasure Edited by Tristan Taormino, Celine Parreñas Shimizu, Constance Penley, and Mireille Miller-Young
Addressing the fraught history of pornography and the rise of the antiporn movement, The Feminist Porn Book identifies the importance of porn made for and by feminists in one comprehensive collection.
$22.95 • 978-1-55861-818-3 • 328 pages • Rights: World x German x Spanish
THE MADAME CURIE COMPLEX: The Hidden History of Great Women in Science Julie Des Jardins
Why are the fields of science and technology still considered to be predomi- nantly male professions? The Madame Curie Complex moves beyond the most common explanations—lack of resources, exclusion from social net- works of men—to give historical context and unexpected revelations about women’s contributions to the sciences.
$17.95 • 978-1-55861-613-4 • 352 pages • Rights: World x Turkish
BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS 18 INTO THE GO-SLOW Bridgett M. Davis
Into the Go Slow is a novel about a family in Detroit in the aftermath of the black power movement. Angie, the youngest daughter, travels from 1980s Detroit to Lagos, Nigeria, after her estranged older sister Ella mysteriously dies there. It is on this transatlantic journey that Angie not only discovers who her sister really was, but ultimately finds herself.
$16.95 • 978-1-55861-864-0 • 320 pages • Rights: World
GIVE IT TO ME Ana Castillo
Winner of the 2014 Lambda Literary Award for best bisexual fiction, this sexy novel follows Palma, a forty-three-year-old Latina, who takes stock of her life when she reconnects with her gangster younger cousin recently released from prison.
$16.95 • 978-1-55861-850-3 • 256 pages • Rights: World x Italian
WOMEN WITHOUT MEN: A Novel of Modern Iran Shahrnush Parsipur Preface by Shirin Neshat
Drawing on elements of Islamic mysticism and recent Iranian history, this unforgettable novel depicts the interwoven stories of five women escaping the narrow confines of family and society, and imagines their future living in a world without men.
$15.95 • 978-1-55861-753-7 • 192 pages • Rights: World English
HIS OWN WHERE June Jordan Introduction by Sapphire
First published in 1971, His Own Where gained both praise (finalist for the National Book Award) and notoriety for being written entirely in Black Eng- lish. Fifteen-year-old Buddy meets Angela, whose family life is also spin- ning out of control. The two find a home in one another, learning to love while navigating Brooklyn and adolescence.
$11.95 • 978-1-55861-658-5 • 112 pages • Rights: World 19 BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS TEXTILE Orly Castel-Bloom
The Gruber family are all involved in textiles: Irad, a genius scientist, devel- ops flak jackets for soldiers; Dael, his son, serves as a sniper; Lirit, the rebellious eldest daughter, takes over her mother’s pajama factory, and Amanda, the domineering mother, undergoes invasive cosmetic surgery. Written with wit and humanity, Textile is a startling novel about contem- porary Israeli life.
$18.95 • 978-1-55861-825-1 • 160 pages • Rights: World English
Waiting: A Novel of Uganda’s Hidden War Goretti Kyomuhendo
The dynamics of individual and family, community and nation seen through the eyes of a strong girl. Kyomuhendo details a family’s struggle to survive the irrational despotism of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, which encompassed mass expulsions and a half million murders.
$13.95 • 978-1-55861-539-7 • 136 pages • Rights: World
SAVAGE COAST Muriel Rukeyser
This lyrical, avant-garde work charts Rukeyser’s political and sexual awak- ening as she witnesses the first days of the Spanish Civil War and falls in love with a German political exile who joins the first International Brigade.
$16.95 • 978-1-55861-820-6 • 352 pages • Rights: World English
DAVID’S STORY Zoë Wicomb Afterword by Dorothy Driver
Unfolding in South Africa at the moment of Nelson Mandela’s release from prison in 1991, this expansive novel explores the life and vision of David Dirkse, part of the underground world of activists, spies, and saboteurs in the liberation movement.
$18.95 • 978-1-55861-398-0 • 288 pages • Rights: World x German x Turkish BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS 20 WITCHES, MIDWIVES & NURSES (Second Edition): A History of Women Healers Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English
Witches, Midwives & Nurses, first published by the Feminist Press in 1973, is an essential book about the corruption of the medical establishment and its historic roots in witch hunts. This new edition builds on the demoniza- tion of women healers, and the political and economic monopolization of medicine.
$8.95 • 978-1-55861-661-5 • 112 pages • Rights: World x French x Japanese x Arabic
THE YELLOW WALL-PAPER Charlotte Perkins-Gilman Afterword by Elaine R. Hedges
First published in 1892, this classic women’s studies text, a Feminist Press best seller, is written as the secret journal of a woman who, failing to relish the joys of marriage and motherhood, issentenced to a country rest cure.
$6.95 • 978-155861-158-0 • 64 pages • Rights: World x Portuguese
Women Who Kill Ann Jones
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.
$15.95 • 978-1-55861-607-3 • 464 pages • Rights: World
THE NATIVE TONGUE TRILOGY Suzette Haden Elgin
First published in 1984, Elgin’s Native Tongue trilogy, which includes Native Tongue, The Judas Rose, and Earthsong, earned wide critical praise and cult status. Set in the twenty-second century, the novel reveals a dys- topian world where women are once again property, denied civil rights, and banned from public life.
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